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Bill O'Reilly - November 7th, Hour 2

 Bill O’Reilly, Author of the upcoming book, Confronting the Presidents, No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden. Today he joins to break down yesterday’s events regarding the vote on Mayorkas and the border bill by the DemocratsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right, Leonard Skinner, Simple Man.
That can only mean one thing on this radio program, all things self-proclaimed simple man.
That means all things Bill O'Reilly, all things Bill O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how is it you're getting all this promotion?
You have a book that's not coming out until September.
Why am I reading about your next book?
Now, I'm interested in the title, Confronting the Presidents.
But I mean, you know, I don't know how you do this.
You have this uncanny ability to get all this press, and this book isn't coming out for eight months.
This is ridiculous.
Well, it's a sensational book to confront presidents.
Of course it is.
He wrote it.
Sure is leaking out little things like, just give you one, Hannity.
George Washington's mother didn't like him.
That's a big detail.
I've got...
Maybe he did tell a lie.
And then we explain why.
I mean, George Washington and his mom, they needed Dr. Phil.
They could not have.
By the way, don't you love Dr. Phil as an aside?
He was on the other night.
Yep.
I just, he's straight talking, you know, common sense, no holds barred.
You cheated on your wife.
You're a jackass.
And this is the result.
And you're surprised?
I mean, I just love the way him, Dr. Laura, they're all good.
Well, George needed him with his mom.
He needed to get some data.
He might have been impacted by all this.
So reading some of your take, and you've been talking about the Senate border bill like everybody else.
Now it's dead on arrival, as it should be.
What bothers me is I learned last night, I had it confirmed by two senators publicly and others privately that there was a concerted effort that my name in particular was mentioned, that they did not want anybody in the conference to leak what was in the bill to people like me.
Now, I don't think it really has anything to do with me, Bill.
I think it has to do with them not wanting the American people for as long as possible to know what was in the bill, which ended up being worse than what we thought originally it was going to be.
And that bothers me because they're like, they know that their party doesn't want this, but they feel like they're going to shove it down our throat and do it in the dark of night.
And they didn't get away with it, but they tried to do it.
That infuriates me.
Yeah, of course they wouldn't want it leaked to you because you have a huge TV and radio audience and you kind of put it out there.
But my take on this bill is different than everybody else's.
And, you know, that's what we do in the no-spin zone.
Number one, Chuck Schumer was the architect of this bill.
He was the driving force behind it.
I mean, they throw out Langford and they throw out Blumenthal, all these other sentences.
They had really no power.
It was all Charles Schumer from New York.
The reason that Schumer, who couldn't care less about migration, and his record shows it, wanted it was to give Joe Biden cover.
And everybody knows that.
I'm not saying anything you don't know.
Because it's a disaster when 70% of the American people don't support your policy of open borders.
So Schumer stepped in and said, look, we're going to get a bill.
It's going to be 370 pages long.
Nobody's going to understand it.
It's going to be impossible to implement it, by the way.
But we're going to throw it out there like we Democrats are reasonable because we know the Republicans aren't going to sign on.
We know they're not going to do it.
And that's what we want out of this bill.
We don't want a control of the border.
We don't want immigration law enforced.
We want the Republican Party on the defensive.
So that's what Schumer's vision was.
Unfortunately, the turtle, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, goes along.
And in my message of the day on billoreilly.com, McConnell has got to step down.
He's 82.
No senators respect him anymore.
He doesn't know what he's doing.
And he really hurts his own party.
My opinion, but he got to get out of it.
Oh, by the way, Ted Cruz has been very vocal about it.
JD Vance has been vocal about it.
Others are becoming more vocal about it.
Rand Paul was one of the people that publicly told me, I said, you heard my name mentioned specifically.
He said, yes, I heard your name mentioned specifically that they didn't want you to get this information.
Now, Bill, it has nothing to do with me.
We've been around this business a long time.
That has to do with the folks.
I'll use your term.
They didn't want the folks knowing what's in the bill.
And you know what?
I find it will improve any American's life.
Bill, I've been saying on my shows, and I've said it to you, that among the 10 million, and by the way, we set a record pace this year, already this year, over a million, this fiscal year, over a million Joe Biden unvetted illegal immigrants already in the country.
You know, last year alone, 36,000 communist Chinese at our southern border, you know, over 12,000 Russians, thousands of Afghanis, Egyptians, Syrians, and even Iranians, Bill, are coming to our southern border.
Do you think they're coming here because they like America and they want a better opportunity for themselves or their family?
Or are the odds much higher that Joe Biden has allowed sleeper cells in our country that are planning and plotting and scheming an attack against all of us?
Yeah, if you're going to bet the over-under, you're going to bet the over on that.
I don't like to speculate about potential violence, but it's a dangerous situation when you have an open border.
Bill, I'm not speculating about potential violence here.
Democrats have been trying to say if Republicans don't support this bill, they're not supporting national security.
And meanwhile, they have turned a blind eye to what we have witnessed with our own eyes for three years.
And mathematically, you can't tell me people from countries that are the home of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, the number one state sponsor of terror, their proxy, our top, number one and number two geopolitical foes, that they're coming here, Bill, because they want to hang out with Bill O'Reilly.
Well, look, they're not.
Everybody knows that at this point who's paying attention that an open border leads not only to national security problems, but to narcotics problems, to fiscal problems.
The unintended consequences are staggering.
So that's why Schumer has to try to blur all that and blame the Republicans.
And that's what this is all about.
And if you want a really vivid example of this, the migrants who attacked the two police officers in New York City, all 14 of them, are all open border people.
And New York City reports that migrant gangs are operating now in the Bronx and other places, violent gangs.
So that's low-level terrorism, but it's still terrorism.
So it's actually happening before people's eyes.
And of course, New York, which you just left, run by the far left, progressives, let these guys go even after they arrested them for attacking the cops when all New York City had to do, Alvin Bragg, the DA of Manhattan, was turn them over to ICE.
That's all they had to do.
That's all they had to do.
But let me play you, Kathy Hochul, going back, inviting all these illegal immigrants.
By the way, into your state, Bill, not my state, your state.
Listen.
We want people to come here, despite where they came from or despite the circumstances that drove them to this country, into this state.
We say you are welcome here.
We are welcome with open arms and we'll work to keep you safe.
We'll not only house you, but we'll protect you.
Yeah, that's great.
Highest tax state in the union, New York.
Hundreds of thousands of people leaving.
I think you were, what, 832,000?
I was too late.
I should have left years ago, but yeah, I've been threatening it a long time.
By the way, I've got a spare room, O'Reilly.
If you want out, I will give you asylum in Florida.
Asylum at the Hannity residence.
Hey, until you're able to get your own place, I'll put you up.
I'll take care of you.
Excellent.
I might take you up on that for spring break.
That's coming up.
Oh, great.
Hanging out with O'Reilly at spring break.
No, thank you.
I can think of better things to do with my time.
No, you can't.
It would be.
I actually can, but go ahead.
But anyway, I appreciate the offer.
But look, at this point, I say to people, if we don't, we, the American people, I don't care what party you're in, but if you don't understand what's happening now, you really are hurting yourself and your family.
That's where it is now.
That's how bad it is.
So you've got to basically stop with I hate Trump or I hate Biden or I hate this one or I hate that one.
You have to step back and say, if this continues, these policies continue, not only the open border, but the attack on the fossil fuel industry, the retreat abroad, all of the, if they continue, it's going to be you and your family that are going to pay the price.
And that's the alarm that Paul Revere O'Reilly is sounding right now.
All right, we continue now with all things simple man Bill O'Reilly, allthings O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
When you actually break down the numbers, there were no new jobs, full-time jobs created in the last month.
They tried to blow that up as the biggest thing that ever happened.
Here's the reality.
We have 62% of Americans that live paycheck to paycheck.
Credit card debt jumped a whopping 14.5% from a year ago.
Auto debt climbed $1.61 trillion, up $12 billion on a quarterly basis and $55 billion annually.
And then you want to talk about the worst part is credit card delinquencies.
They're surging more than 50% in 2023.
Total consumer debt now has swelled to $17.5 trillion.
And the typical rate on credit cards is in many cases over 21%.
That's crazy.
That's real people that cannot afford the day-to-day necessities because of Biden's economic policies.
But they keep telling us Bidenomics is so great, Bill.
It's not great for the folks.
But, you know, here's my question.
With all of that, and you add into that the essentials of life, food and fuel and all that, up 17% since Biden's been in office, which is a huge number because that comes right out of your wallet every day.
Okay, with all that, Trump should be up 20 points.
Okay, he should be up 20.
And the American people still are in a fog about what is really happening.
And one of the reasons is the media obviously has allied itself with Biden and the Democratic Party so that folks don't get honest information.
And that is a huge problem.
But I'm not sure that they're going to wise up by November.
I mean, that's why the thing is so close.
Look, I don't care whether you like Trump or not.
And everybody knows that Trump has his foibles.
I think that's a good word to use.
Everyone knows that.
But if you just compare how he governed to how Biden is governing, it is in a totally different universe as far as you're concerned, your family, your well-being.
But millions of American voters cannot put the demeanor factor aside.
And that's why this thing, the polls are so close.
I think you're right in your analysis.
I have seen, I think, a more disciplined Trump, except for the New Hampshire.
You know, he had a little bit of a pissed off moment because he didn't like Nikki Haley's speech.
But putting that aside, I think he has been showing much more discipline, more organization than I've ever seen out of a Trump campaign in the previous two runs that he's had.
But I think that this is the biggest obstacle he's going to have.
He's going to have to convince some of these independents that usually determine elections that in spite of maybe the fact that he fights hard, that it is in the best interest of the country to implement his policies, and it's in the best interest of the world that we have a strong American leader.
Well, if he does that, he'll win fairly handily.
I am worried about this D.C. case, you know, about January 6th conspiracy.
And I'm worried about it because I do not believe Donald Trump can get a fair trial in Washington, D.C.
It's as simple as that.
Trump made a mistake on January 6th.
He did not react quickly enough, but he didn't plan it.
He didn't encourage it.
He's never been charged with insurrection, let alone convicted of it.
And the whole notion that two cases kind of revolve around this are absurd.
But this is going to be a hell of an interesting year, Bill O'Reilly.
There are 271 days till the people get to decide, and a lot's going to happen between now and then.
My ticket down is to the Hannity Hacienda.
Is that where you're now headed down here?
You're going to be a permanent guest that never leaves?
Stay at it.
It's a major.
The Winston Churchill of media.
Anyway, we appreciate you being with us, Bill O'Reilly.
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All right.
So I know, Linda, you can verify this.
In all the years you've worked for me and all the time you've known me, I've never supported a boycott.
I've never called for a show to be canceled or a person to be fired, have I?
You have never done that.
I never done.
And I have a good reason for doing it.
And that is, number one, I believe in freedom.
And people have the freedom to choose what they listen to and what they watch.
Nobody's forcing you to listen or to watch any particular show, or nobody's forcing you to buy something you don't want to buy.
And I remember when this whole Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light controversy came up, and a lot of people, for a lot of good reasons, felt compelled that they wanted to send a message to Anheuser-Busch.
And I completely understood it.
However, there is perspective.
And one of the things I stated from day one, and correct me if I'm wrong, you are listening to this show.
You are a part of it and part of this discussion, is that I felt bad from the beginning because I knew once I saw how effective this boycott was, once I saw sales dropping precipitously for Anheuser-Busch and for Bud Light, I began to worry.
Not about Anheuser-Busch, not about the CEOs of Anheuser-Busch.
No, I was worried about the drivers that have routes that they paid a lot of money for and invested a fortune in.
I was worried about the guys that load the trucks.
I was worried about the guys that work in the factory.
And I knew that ultimately they would be the ones that pay the price and that there would be layoffs.
And with a company like Anheuser-Busch, you're dealing with a company that has high-paying career jobs.
And, you know, then when Dana White made the decision, Dana White did not have to go with Bud Light for the UFC.
He did not.
He had many options.
I've known Dana a long time.
But he sat down with the people of Anheuser-Busch and he looked at the history of the whole company.
Well, now Donald Trump has now threatened to release a list of woke companies, and he defended Anheuser-Busch.
And this is what he said.
He said, the Bud Light ad was a mistake of epic proportions.
And for that, a very big price was paid.
But not Anheuser-Busch.
They're not a woke company.
And I can give you plenty that are.
And I'm building a list and might just release it for the world to see.
He said, why not?
The radical left does it viciously, you know, to well-run conservative companies and people.
And anyway, it's very nasty.
And they play that game.
And he said, on the other hand, he pointed out the perspective.
And Dana White had made this point at the time when we put him on when he said he was partnering with Anheuser-Busch.
They spend $700 million a year working with our American farmers.
They employ 65,000 Americans, of which 1,500 are veterans, and they're a founding corporate partner of Folds of Honor, which I happen to love, a great group, which provides scholarships for families of fallen servicemen and women.
They've raised over $30 million.
They've given out 44,000 scholarships.
And Anheuser-Busch is a great American brand.
And he says they deserve a second chance.
And he said, what do you think?
Perhaps instead, we should be going after those companies that are looking to destroy America.
That was the rest of his post.
I just look at this from a different reason.
I think they sent a very strong message when they partnered with Dana White because nobody's going to silence Dana White.
Dana White doesn't give a flying rip what anybody in this world thinks of him or UFC, and he's got his fans and they're going nowhere.
And a lot of them support him.
Now, when he did this, a lot of fans got pretty pissed off because they're like, well, hang on a second.
What about the Dylan Mulvaney case?
And he countered with, okay, there is context and texture to a company.
In other words, you can revise and extend your remarks.
Are you seeing the whole perspective of a company when you look at this one screw-up?
And it was a screw-up.
I mean, they just, I have no idea what they were trying to do here.
I'm not sure who knew what within the company.
I know the people responsible for the ad have been fired.
And I know that Anheuser-Busch is trying their very best to get back to where they were.
But it's really going to be up to the people.
And I'm not telling people what beer to buy.
They're not an advertiser on this show.
However, I don't want those factory workers.
I don't want those delivery route guys.
I don't want the people that load those trucks.
I don't want people with high-paying career jobs, 65,000 of them that work for Anheuser-Busch.
I don't want one more of those people losing their job.
So next time I go to buy a light beer, I'm going to get Bud Light.
And it has nothing to do with Trump.
It has to do with, I care, from the beginning, this is where my area of concern has been.
Now, Linda, are you as forgiving as I am?
That's the question.
I don't know.
Probably not.
That's just my nature.
But there is context when you look at their history.
I mean, they've got a pretty impressive record.
They do, but they really, you know, this wasn't the only thing they did.
You know, they had, they sponsored pride floats.
They were in a bunch of parades.
It just wasn't this one thing.
This was like the most public, crazy thing.
And then they claimed ignorance and said they didn't know anything about it, which I'm not saying is true or untrue.
I mean, this is a humongous company.
There's a gajillion employees.
I mean, we work for huge companies.
You don't know what every employee is doing at every moment.
But I will pivot and give you this question, which is, even if, you know, folks like yourself and President Trump forgive and forget and decide, okay, let's give you a second chance, even though you abandoned, you know, some traditional American, you know, Maurys, et cetera.
Do you think if you're at a baseball game, like a group of guys, do you think they're all going to go up and get a Bud Light and stand there with a Bud Light in their hands?
I just don't think that that's a thing anymore.
I don't think they will.
I don't think there's any amount of advertising that's going to change that.
I think it's going to take time.
However, my thought from the beginning, my thoughts immediately went to, oh, no, this is going to kill high-paying career jobs for people.
And guess what?
My prediction wasn't wrong.
Now, but there are other companies filling those voids, right?
Yes, and no.
It doesn't mean that they're going to hire the guys to lose their jobs.
And here's the problem.
You have a high-paying career job.
Let's say you're making $150 a year.
Maybe you're making $200 a year on your route, whatever it is, but you paid a fortune for it.
You probably have a mortgage on it.
But, you know, all of these people have mortgages, rent to pay, college tuition.
They got to think about car payments.
They got Biden inflation to deal with.
They're barely making ends meet as it is.
And if they're out of work, you know, three months, they're probably down to the last penny.
And that's, I mean, that's where my thoughts went from the beginning.
I just, I care too much about those people to be nonchalant about just saying, okay, the management of this massive conglomerate screwed up royally and alienated and pissed off their customers and just saying, okay, well, now I don't care about this company.
I'm going to go to this beer.
Okay, that new company does well, but that doesn't mean that these other people aren't going to pay a very dear price.
But if you remember, we had a bunch of the drivers of these routes call in.
And the one thing that they said was they were as angry as the everyday American and that they were going to find a way to replace the money that they had spent on the Bud Light routes and the Anheuser-Busch routes with other products, other lines, beer lines, et cetera, so that they didn't have to work for a company that was so against everything they believed in and was so woke.
All right.
So I know a guy that has a number of routes, and he doesn't just have a route for Bud Light.
He has it for other beer companies as well.
He said it did compensate a little for the loss that they had, but it nowhere matched what the losses were.
And now, this person is actually doing very well, has invested very wisely.
This person his life is not going to be negatively impacted by the loss that he's suffering.
However, most route drivers, this is it for them.
They invest everything they got.
They put it all on the line and their whole livelihood is based on it.
And for them, this could be catastrophic if it goes on forever.
Now, I'm not telling people what to do.
I don't tell people what to drink.
I'm not telling people what to buy or not buy in this case.
I'm just saying I don't want any more of these hardworking men and women at Anheuser-Busch that had nothing to do with this to be victimized as a result of this.
And it's clear that Anheuser-Busch is trying to adapt and make the necessary changes to rectify the situation so it never happens.
Again, that's what I see.
And then there is context.
And I can't just ignore $30 million going to veterans causes.
I can't ignore partnering with Folds of Honor.
I just can't act like that part of their life doesn't exist.
No, listen, I think you make an excellent point.
They've done amazing things.
They are the behind-the-scenes supporters of so many philanthropic efforts that help so many causes that are completely aligned with causes that we like, by the way.
You're right.
I'm doing my best.
I'm doing my best.
But what I will say is.
By the way, it's not working.
We're going to need professional.
It is working.
It is not working.
I'm with you.
You're working with the professional.
Who?
Me?
No, not you.
I mean, not.
You are working with a professional to lower your.
To sound more American and less New York.
Okay.
If you spend years trying, I don't think you're going to do it.
My point is this.
I really think that Anheuser-Busch will come back, but I think it's going to be, and this is just my opinion, I think it's going to take five to ten years to correct the record.
And the reason why is because there'll be a whole new generation of drinkers who won't know anything about Dylan Mulvaney or who this person is or what this story was about.
It'll just be a non-issue, and they'll have a whole new audience and they'll be fine.
That's what I actually want to do.
Audiences, we need quite an audience fixed.
But don't you agree with me?
Let me tell you, teacher.
Here's another little problem that I'm just going to say.
You know, if you're a light beer drinker, can you really, in a taste test, tell the difference between Bud Light, Coors Light, and I don't know, Miller-like, can you really tell the difference?
I can't.
I mean, I drink teeter.
I don't drink that much beer, so.
Yeah.
Have you ever had a beer?
You probably have not.
I'll be honest with you.
If I drink a beer, I drink a real beer like Achilles, like something that matters.
I don't drink these light beers.
Okay.
So you like those special beers.
You know, if you're old and, you know, have to watch a weight like me, you don't have that light beer.
Lucky me.
I would just like to get to a point where the bleeding stops and the firing stops and that people's incomes stabilize and that they don't have to bear the burden and pay the price because of stupid management that was running the company or marketing people that are out of touch with who their customer base is.
By the way, and all these companies have this.
That's why I'm in favor of literally moving HR departments out of the way and just putting in the golden rule saying if you apply this to how you deal with people, you're going to be okay.
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We have, let's see, I don't know who's in Pennsylvania.
That didn't show up on my screen.
It says, oh.
Anyway, Frank is in Pennsylvania.
Hey, Frank, how are you?
You're in Linda's home state.
Yeah, great.
Love the show.
I'm glad that you call out whether it's a Republican or Democrat.
You'll tell the truth, and I like that about you.
I wanted to talk about the border a little bit.
I think the Senate shouldn't even have even entered into these negotiations about the border because the one guy that can fix it, he doesn't need anyone's help.
He can just put the policies back in place and the previous administration.
I compare it to when you let all these people in free.
When I was younger, I'm 61.
When I was younger, when you worked for something, you appreciated it more.
Well, now you're letting these people into this country that don't have to work to get here.
You're just letting them in for free, so they don't appreciate what they're getting.
Listen, I agree with you.
I've been pointing out, and most people probably don't know this, but you can buy citizenship in countries all over the globe.
And you know what?
You can buy your way into a lot of countries.
And unfortunately, there are a lot of people that have done that because they're sick and tired of America's system of tax confiscation.
And it's sad to see people that feel that the country is not even capable of making a great comeback.
I believe in America.
I think we can.
I don't know what it's going to take to wake people up, but they better wake up sooner than later.
But I'm looking at all of this.
But your general premise that they should not have touched this is dead on accurate.
They absolutely should not have gone near this bill.
And they did.
Anyway, good call, my friend.
Appreciate it.
Hope you're having a good time in Pennsylvania.
We're going to be looking at Pennsylvania very closely in 271 days.
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