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Bill O'Reilly - September 6th, Hour 2
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I was hoping you weren't sick last week because you were missing an action yet again, Mr. O'Reilly, a rare moment of what, vacation, fun in the sun, you out there in your swim gear and scuba diving and that stuff that you do every year with your buddies and all that stuff.
Yeah, that's me.
I'm Mr. Leisure now.
Hides in the ocean than I do with COVID.
Yeah.
But I have a question for you.
I'm still trying to figure out what Stephen A. Smith was objecting to on your television program last night.
I like Stephen A.
I know a pal of yours and I know him pretty well.
He's an honest man.
But he was objecting to what?
I don't know at the end of it.
Now, the reason we went down that line of questioning is because he had said that he wanted Gavin Newsom.
Now, a lot of people, I think, want to get rid of Joe Biden.
You and I have discussed this.
I think Democrats, I think the first canary in the coal mine was Maureen Dowd writing a column that I could have written.
And that was, well, she's only two years behind me, but, and that was excoriating Joe and Jill Biden, excoriating them for not recognizing their grandchild.
Then there was two weeks before Labor Day, the New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, in one weekend, started talking about the Joe Biden, Hunter Biden.
Well, let's just call it bribery and money laundering scandal allegations that I've gone into great depth and detail.
So there is a wing within the Democratic Party that does not want him to run.
And if, in fact, Joe ends up not running, it'll be the Democrats that push him out, Bill, not people like me and you.
Well, look, the intelligentsia in the Democratic Party knows worse things are coming on the bribery allegations.
So the word in Washington, and I'm sure you've heard it, is that House oversight and judiciary committees are going to reconvene and then put more evidence out there.
And so it's going to be a drip, drip, drip.
And then you combine that with Biden's inability.
Every day on billoreilly.com's no spin news, we list his schedule.
And every day he's got nothing on his schedule.
You know what he did today?
He read a speech that someone else wrote about some kind of thing that doesn't matter to anyone.
And that was all he did all day.
But Stephen A. Smith, last night, you were running down California saying it doesn't work.
Okay?
And it doesn't.
If you look at Allied Van Lines today, they came out with a report that says California is leading the league, actually second to Illinois, on people leaving the state.
Now, why would you leave a state that has the best weather in the country, that's beautiful from top to bottom?
All right, why would you leave?
Because of progressive policies, and Governor Newsom is the head of that.
So I don't know what, you know, and you pointed it out to Smith, and he kind of agreed with all the points you were making.
Taxed up to here, Californians can't buy stuff, gas more than five bucks a gallon, the attorney general attacking the Chino school district because they voted to alert parents if their kids wanted to trans.
And so the California Attorney General suing the school district.
The parents don't have a right to know if their kid wants to change their gender.
This is California.
And this is what Gavin Newsom's going to run on, San Francisco, Los Angeles.
You know, mass disorder.
And so Smith didn't push back on you when you pointed all that out, but he was, I don't know what, but he was kind of like, oh, well, well, you know.
But then he was saying, but I would still vote for him.
And that's what I was as puzzled as you were.
I mean, because he went issue by issue and said, yeah, no, I don't agree with that.
I don't agree with that.
I agree with you.
And yet he still would vote for somebody that supports these policies.
Now, Gavin, on a personal level, you know, I'll use Trump's favorite phrase.
I mean, he's out of central casting for a politician.
And you know what?
He's personable.
However, when you get into the depth of the policies, he represents that hardcore, left-wing, radical, climate alarmist religious cult, you know, redistribution of wealth side of the Democratic Party, which is now the dominant force within that party.
Unless it's his wealth.
He doesn't want to redistribute that, and neither does Nancy Pelosi.
Look, Gavin Newsom is the governor who told everybody they couldn't go to restaurants and then went to the French laundry in the wine country, okay?
I mean, the guy is going to get slaughtered.
Trump would beat him, I believe, and Trump would beat Kamala also.
So the Democrats know that.
Yes, Governor Newsom could raise money, a lot of money, Hollywood money, Geffen money, Soros money.
We'd come in and back him, so he'd be able to do that.
But I can't tell you, outside of New York, Illinois, Maryland, and maybe Massachusetts, who would rally around Gavin Newsom.
Now, it is a problem because Donald Trump's personal approval rating is in the 30s, but he governed well.
And if he just puts his record up against Newsom's record, I mean, I don't know how Stephen A. could pull the lever for Newsom.
I just don't know.
How do you analyze, for example, the Daily Caller today, and clearly this was leaked by supporters of Kamala Harris suggesting that if Gavin Newsom gets in this race, if Joe Biden is not going to be the candidate, that somehow there is racist undertones to that.
What's your reaction?
That sounds to me like they feel threatened.
The Harris people feel threatened by Gavin Newsome.
I think there's only seven Harris people left.
And then you're at the top of the fan club, Bill?
Yeah, but what else does she have?
By the way, Bill, I just want to take this moment and have a moment from our vice president, Kamala Harris.
She talks often in word salads, and she's a wordsmith.
And I call it Kamala Harris's wisdom of the day.
And I again want to thank the Secretary for your work.
This issue of transportation is fundamentally about just making sure that people have the ability to get where they need to go.
It's that basic.
And as the name suggests, community banks are in the community.
The significance of the passage of time.
So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs.
And there is such great significance to the passage of time.
Mr. O'Reilly, why do I always feel like I'm back in kindergarten when I'm getting lectured by the vice president?
Remember the sitcom Laugh In?
Were you old enough to watch it?
Oh, yeah, Goldie Hahn, absolutely.
Okay.
So Kamala Harris could perfectly be a character in that show.
She just pops up like one of the cast members and just says this stuff and then pops down again.
It doesn't make any sense because she doesn't really understand how to speak in public.
Now, I don't really hold that against her.
I don't.
I mean, she's not a good public speaker.
But the thing that really bothered me about her, and remember, she is a Democratic machine candidate, a progressive candidate in California, who came into the Senate because the machine wanted her there.
She checked the boxes off.
She isn't a woman of accomplishment.
She didn't do anything in the Senate.
She did some pretty good stuff as the Attorney General of the state.
She was kind of tough on crime, but now, you know, just like Biden has thrown all his principles over the side, she's thrown out over the side.
But the border thing was really outrageous because Biden didn't want any part of it, so he appointed her and she just ran for the hills.
And it's a very, I'm a simple man.
I mean, you play the simple man song every time I'm on.
If this is what the public service is, when there's a difficult issue, I'm going to run away.
Why would I vote for that person?
Why would anybody vote for that?
So why do you think the Harris people are preemptively attacking Gavin?
You haven't addressed that.
I mean, because this did not just show up in the media today, that if Gavin challenges her, if Joe's not able to run, and that chatter is getting louder every day, clearly they're threatened by Gavin.
Why is she so threatened by Gavin Newsom?
Because there's nobody else.
If RFK Jr.
were a threat, they'd put the same mantle on him.
So if tomorrow Joe Biden doesn't announce his can't run for health reasons, which is how it's going to go down, then Kamala Harris would be next in line if you were looking at a traditional campaign, but you're not.
So she'll be primaried all day long, Kamala Harris.
That's why Biden isn't going to announce he's not going to run until the very last minute.
And because they don't want to create chaos this early in the Democratic precincts.
So it's because it's all about anti-Trump.
The Democratic Party's platform is Trump is the devil.
That's it.
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All right, so now let's talk about Trump.
Um, you had the hearing going on earlier today, televised in Georgia, first televised hearing.
You know, there were interesting moments as you as you watch this, and I thought some of the defense attorneys were very powerful in some of the arguments that they made.
However, it is Fulton County, Georgia.
You know, I lived in Georgia for four years.
I think the venue, the jurisdiction in New York and D.C., and certainly Fulton County, Georgia, are not favorable towards any Republican or any conservative or anybody, certainly with the last name Trump.
I'm not sure Donald Trump, I don't believe he can get a fair trial in those three venues at least.
So, the question is: if we have four trials that take place next year, criminal trials, and let's assume three of them come back guilty, Bill O'Reilly.
How does that impact the people that always decide elections?
And those are the independent voters in the country.
Well, the independent voters now say they don't want Biden.
Only 18% of independent voters believe America's on the right track.
This is the Wall Street Journal poll of the weekend: 18%.
Some of those voters hate Trump, the independents.
There's no doubt about it.
But I think that when it comes down to a guy who ran the government efficiently, as Trump did, and if you, you know, I know people, oh no, he didn't, but real wages is it, Hannity.
The only stat that matters economically is this: under Biden, real wages have fallen 5%.
Under Trump, real wages have risen 9%.
That's a 14% swing.
That's all that matters.
Did you notice minority voters are down nearly a whopping 20% in their support for Joe Biden?
Yeah, because everybody's hurting because of the gas and the food and on and on and on and on.
But I believe that if Trump's lawyers are efficient, they will be able to file appeals for a long time and to tie this up, and it'll ultimately go to the Supreme Court.
See, I don't think these trials should take place during an election year.
Look at the timeline that we have here.
They wanted to start the Washington, D.C. case on January 2nd.
Georgia first proposed March 4th, the day before Super Tuesday.
Now the D.C. case, they're pushing for March 4th, the day before Super Tuesday.
Political, everybody knows.
How is that not election interference by simultaneously forcing a candidate, the number one candidate, when they had two and a half years to file these charges and never did a thing?
Right.
That's an excellent point.
And that's what his lawyers are going to have to do in their filings in the federal courts.
Federal courts don't want to interfere in local cases or state cases.
That's historic.
But now when you say, look, this is election interference, it's blatant, then you can get up to the Supreme Court in a way it's comprised.
The Supreme Court would probably be sympathetic to Trump.
So that's what I think the likely outhood of all of this is going to be, outcome of all of this is going to be.
It's going to go to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court's going to rule on a lot of these motions to either dismiss or delay.
And I think Trump's got a pretty strong hand there.
And in Georgia, it's so outrageous.
I told you this before.
159 counties, only one county, Fulton, has lodged this complaint against Trump.
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All right, let's say hi to Kathy in the free state of Florida.
Kathy, hi, how are you?
glad you called.
We're good.
We're here in Central Florida.
And I'm very not happy that my governor wants to debate Gavin Newsom, who really has not been a good governor of his state.
Why should my governor waste his time debating that person?
I just, I don't.
Listen, as the person that's going to host this debate, I couldn't disagree with you more.
Let me see if I can convince you, okay?
You know, we always talk about the states being the experiment for what works best and what would work best nationally, et cetera.
You can compare and contrast on every major issue of our time.
Taxes, immigration, where, you know, California is a sanctuary state, regulation.
All of these things come into play and impact all of our lives.
So to take two of the biggest states, leading governors that have such opposing and diametrically different viewpoints and letting them debate these issues, I think is great for the American people to hear that.
That's my take on it.
And Governor DeSantis will explain what he has done in Florida, why it's worked, why he won a record reelection by a million and a half votes in 2018.
I think he won by 33,000, 35,000 votes.
The reason he was re-elected with that level of confidence is because the people of Florida like the job that he did.
Why are so many people moving to Florida and why are so many people leaving California?
You know, why is it that they have these homeless issues?
Why is it that they have massive illegal immigrant problems in California?
But it's not a sanctuary state where you live in Florida.
You don't see a benefit to that?
No, I understand what you're saying.
I've been a resident since 1970.
And what Governor DeSantis has put in place, these are little dwedling trees that need to root.
Everything that he has put in place is amazing.
And I'm very proud and very happy to have voted for him.
But we need to make sure if he's not here, who's going to make sure that continues?
Because we have all those other people from the Northeast and from California who are coming to Florida who want the benefits of Florida, but also want to not take care of Florida as we have.
Well, let me tell you something.
You have a very real, legitimate concern.
And if people are going to be leaving New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and Michigan and they're going to head to Florida, Texas, Tennessee, the Carolinas, don't bring the stupid policies that ruined your state with you.
Don't bother coming.
You're ready to destroy, help destroy one state with those policies.
Don't destroy other states with those policies.
I'm totally on board with you.
Now, for example, if I become a resident of Florida, I think you would welcome me, wouldn't you?
Right.
Well, I understand, and I know.
Well, maybe you wouldn't.
I don't know.
That was not a warm welcome, Kathy.
Pardon me?
That was not a warm welcome when I said if I came, you would welcome me.
And you didn't, you know, I just kind of brushed right over that part.
But go ahead.
No, Sean, I've been watching you since you were on with Adlin.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And I'm just saying that because that was really important.
But I've got to tell you, I need my governor to stay put, and he can run after this mess of an election this next year.
And then he can run for whatever he wants to run for.
I will vote for him then.
I want him to stay governor of the state of Florida.
I completely understand.
Look, this often comes up whenever a sitting politician, be it a senator or a governor, decides to run for president or for another office.
This is not uncommon.
People are like, wait a minute, we just elected you.
We want you to do this job, then start thinking about another job down the road.
That is not uncommon.
And in many ways, you're being so complimentary to him.
And I think rightfully so.
I think he's done a great job as the governor of Florida.
He's also very, very young.
What is he, 45, 46 years old?
And, you know, I think regardless of what happens in this primary, I think him getting his name out there is not going to be harmful to him in the end.
I know that there are many Donald Trump supporters that are angry at him for getting in the race.
Donald Trump gave me his explanation when I asked him about it in one of my interviews with him.
No need to rehash all of that.
That's kind of all on the table.
And, you know, it's just the nature of politics in a lot of ways.
But I think you're complimenting him.
I don't really feel that you're against him at all and that you would like to see him as president one day, it sounds like.
Well, I would, but not now.
But if he does, we've got to make sure if he does, we've got to make sure the state of Florida is taken care of.
We need to hear from him.
I'm not worried about Florida anymore in terms of an electoral state for Republicans.
I'm not worried about Ohio either.
I am worried about Georgia.
We've got to keep an eye on North Carolina.
I'm always going to worry about Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan and Arizona and Nevada.
You know, it looks like New Hampshire's kind of, you know, gone away from the Republican side.
It's always difficult for any Republican to win the presidency because you've got to run the table.
You have got to win every one of the swing states.
Look, look at it this way, electoral votes.
Look at, you know, immediately the Democrats start out with California, 55, 54, whatever it is, electoral votes.
Then New York, then New Jersey.
I mean, and, you know, then you can count in Minnesota, Massachusetts, Rhode Island.
I mean, there's so many states that are predictably blue that, you know, all combined, you're dealing with a lot of electoral votes to start out with.
So it's the Electoral College, which is our constitutional means of selecting president, you know, it's hard for a Republican.
They got to run the table.
It's not easy.
Let me just finish with this, because I've said this to my husband several times.
You know, the Republicans, they are like rats.
When water comes, they scurry.
The Democrats, for some reason, they're able to stay together.
The Republicans and the conservatives need to stay together and take care of this country because I'm very concerned.
Well, I agree with you.
Democrats tend to circle the wagons.
Republicans create circular firing squads.
And as we head into the September 30th deadline in terms of appropriation bills and funding the government, I have a funny feeling in the House we're about to have, you know, a first major crackup.
They have 11 governing days to get these appropriation bills done.
I don't think it's going to happen.
And I think that the probable outcome is going to end up with a motion to vacate against Speaker McCarthy.
And they're fighting each other.
And they should be united as one with an agenda that completely understands that they're going to live and die together.
They're going to succeed or fail together.
This is not something like we win and you lose.
No, the Republicans will lose if they splinter.
But we'll see what happens.
We'll see how it unfolds.
I think it's simple.
Just follow through on the promises you made.
Thank you, Kathy.
Greg in California.
Speaking of California, what's going on, Greg?
How are you?
Hey, good talking to you again, Sean.
You guys are finally, I guess, catching on to start hammering Newsome.
You know, Biden himself, I don't see, I guarantee 5% chance of him being their presidential nominee again.
And unless they can get this COVID thing going again into a COVID-type election with him like they did last time around, where they can keep hiding Biden.
You know what his biggest problem is?
The condition that he has, according to every medical expert I've spoken to, is, again, if he's in significant cognitive decline, I don't think there's any question about it.
I'm not a doctor, but that's my observation on a day-to-day basis.
It's pretty obvious.
It's transparent.
It's clear.
But such conditions are degenerative.
They don't get better.
They only get worse.
And yesterday, when he walked out of the ceremony when he was given the Medal of Honor to a Vietnam veteran, I'm like, this guy is so out to lunch now.
What we've seen in Maui, his recent speeches, the enormous amount of vacation that has been going on.
I am telling you, it is way off, way off.
And he's not up to the job to be our president, period, end of sentence.
No, he's not.
But they're going to try and keep him going as long as they can until the last minute when they bring in their dark knight, Newsom.
You know, he's been a total failure, Newsom, in California with previous and current positions.
And that's what Democrats seem to like, as a person that has failed up.
The only thing that could make him a better choice for them was if he was mentally deficient or he died a couple of months before the election, like in California, where they elected a guy that was dead for several months.
And the one thing about the debate with him and Newsome and DeSantis will be it's not going to help DeSantis much, I see, but Newsom is looking at this as a presidential level debate on a national scale that gives him more exposure to keep going, working along until they do call him in to take over and be their nominee.
Well, I don't think if in fact this happens and we're beginning to see signs that it may be unfolding, here will be the biggest tip off.
If the mainstream media mob and Democrats start to sound like Sean Hannity when it comes to Joe Biden lying about the foreign business dealings and his involvement with his son and his brother and many others and meeting oligarchs and tens of millions of dollars and firing a prosecutor, the decision results and the enrichment of his family.
When they start to sound even a little bit like me, I promise you that is the Democrats pushing him out.
And then it might get to the point where it's in his best interest to give a speech saying, you know, in light of my age and, you know, my health is not what it used to be, I'm going to be stepping aside for the good of the country.
If you hear that speech, you will know it is the Democrats.
I'll say it this way.
In New York State, it was not the Republicans that pushed Governor Cuomo out.
It was the Democrats.
If the Democrats and their willing accomplices in the media mob determine that Joe can't win or they believe he can't win, then they will start sounding like me about his cognitive state and about the Joe Biden bribery, money laundering scandal allegations.
They will be, listen, all their research is done for them.
They'll start taking monologues of this radio show and my TV show, and they'll start sounding like me, even on little things.
And once that starts happening, that means they've decided he's going to go.
And if they decide that, he will go.
I can promise you that.
Okay?
Keeping them for any reason unless they can get this COVID thing rolling again that they're adamantly trying to do with the masking and the voting, the way they handled the voting last time and keeping them hidden from going, actually going out and campaigning or doing anything that can't be recorded and edited.
The American people, and this is what I loved about JD Vance was on TV with us last night.
You know, the Right to Breathe Act, that's what he's calling it, that we ought not be told by a bunch of phony bureaucrats that are not doctors, that don't follow the science or only follow it when it's convenient to their political point of view, telling all of us what we should do.
My advice is make these determinations with the consultation of your doctor, okay?
Medical professionals that know your medical history and know your current medical condition.
I stand by that.
Anyway, appreciate the call, Greg.
Thank you.
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All right, up next, by the way, we're going to hear from John Solomon.
If you didn't watch Hannity last night, and you know, we have James Comer talking about how they've been obstructed left, right, and sideways by the FBI, DHS, and Democrats, and of course, the media blackout.
All things Joe and Hunter Biden.
Let me play that for you as we head into John.
I can tell you from my experience over the past nine months leading this investigation of Biden's all the influence peddling schemes that we've been obstructed at every turn, not only by the Biden attorneys, but also by the Department of Justice, by Homeland Security.
Now, we've been obstructed by the media.
We've been obstructed by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, the FBI, and the list goes on and on.
But we're still able to produce evidence, new evidence, every week that no one knew beforehand.
And I believe all this evidence that we've gathered, we're finally starting to piece it together and put together a timeline.
And what we're finding is very concerning about the current president of the United States.
All right, quick break right back.
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