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Bill O'Reilly - March 6th, Hour 2
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the iconic Leonard Skinner, all things, that would be Simple Man, an iconic song, I guess, for an iconic big personality.
All things self-proclaimed Simple Man, that would be all things Bill O'Reilly, all things Bill O'Reilly at billo'reilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, welcome back to the program.
You got a, I think I picked the perfect, the perfect introduction music just for you and by my friends at Leonard Skinner.
How you doing?
Happy to be in the Sunshine State.
Did you go to Mar-a-Lago last night for the big party?
You know, I was not invited, and I caught the traffic jam going to Mar-a-Lago.
Oh, so you are going there.
Yeah, it was like the traffic is backed up to Jacksonville because they had the big victory party at Mar-a-Lago, and I was stuck in that, but I did not go to the event.
We've both been there.
I've been there mostly for work.
And it's a beautiful place.
By the way, Bill, you can have it.
Probably if you offered $19 million, you'd be able to get 20-some odd acres on the inner coastal and on the ocean, even though right down the block from there, there is an empty two-acre lot for $200 million.
But no, Mar-a-Lago is only worth $18 million.
It's an amazing deal, according to Judge Ngoran in New York.
Can you believe in a case like that that was based on, quote, suspect valuations, which, by the way, had a disclaimer in every contract, which no bank or no insurance company ever complained about?
They, of course, have their own fiduciary responsibility if they're going to lend hundreds of millions of dollars or insure hundreds of millions of dollars to come up with their own numbers.
This is an insane case, and now you got about a half a billion dollar fine.
You're canceled forever in New York.
How nuts is this?
This is insane.
That property is worth close to a billion dollars, if not more.
The word I use is dangerous.
So this is a dangerous play, and it shows the American people that the abuse of power can be leveled at them.
I mean, yeah, we all know Donald Trump and the left in New York and California, et cetera, hates him.
But if you can bring this kind of horror to an individual American, you can do it to anyone.
And remember, just to defend himself, it's $50 million.
And most Americans don't have that.
They aren't close to that.
So if somebody abuses their power, an elected official, and comes after you because they don't like you or your property is where they want to seize it or whatever, this is dangerous.
But I think what's going to happen is they'll get this in the federal realm, the Trump lawyers, and a lot of it will be thrown out.
The fine will be definitely.
Well, the fine certain is going to be at the minimum is going to be reduced and reduced significantly because this is all unprecedented.
Bill, there's no victim here.
There was a disclaimer.
Don't use our numbers.
Come up with your own numbers.
You have nobody complaining.
Everybody got paid back.
There's no victim in this.
And yet you had an AG that ran on a platform to destroy one organization, one family, one man.
And I guess she fulfilled her campaign promise.
And that'll be what the courts take a look at, the selective prosecution, because it's never been done before.
So just like the ballot question, where both you and I predicted that the Supreme Court would overthrow the Colorado in Maine, and then at the last minute, the Illinois person.
Just like that, the New York case will be scrutinized.
And I don't know if it's going to be thrown out entirely, but it'll be a shadow of what they wanted it to be.
Let's get your big picture overview.
And then I have very specific questions I want to ask you about last night.
And now what is, I guess, I guess what will be the longest presidential campaign in the history of the modern presidency, something you've written a lot about.
Let's talk about last night.
What are your big takeaways?
Well, I think Trump did himself a favor by not being bombastic in his victory speech, number one.
I think that if he can keep that measured tone, he will get more votes.
All right.
One by one, I'm going to say whether I agree.
Check, I agree.
Okay.
The second thing is that the press made a big thing out of Nikki Haley, who was never a big thing, ever.
And I don't say that to disparage Nikki Haley.
I'm glad she ran.
It's not healthy for the country for people to run unopposed.
And I thought she conducted herself most of the time in a very professional way.
And now Nikki Haley will have to endorse Donald Trump if she wants to run for president again in 28, which she does.
So that'll come.
You know, she hinted at it today in her concession speech by saying, well, now it's time for Donald Trump to step up and show us what he has.
And that'll open a door for her in a couple of weeks to say, yeah, yeah, I've seen enough.
I'm going to endorse Trump.
Just like the turtle did, Mitch McConnell, who despised him.
Hang on to.
You call Mitch McConnell the turtle.
Why?
Yeah, I don't like him.
You know, it all has to be.
I don't like him either, but I mean, it's frustrating.
But he's stepping down finally, and I'm not sure who's going to replace him.
Well, he can't be as bad as he is.
And it's personal for me because of Kate's Law.
He harpooned Kate's law single-handedly.
Whereas most of the senators, even on the Democratic side, would have voted for it if he had put it up for a standalone vote, and he refused to do it.
And that would have saved thousands of lives if Kate's law was in play right now.
But anyway, I think that now Donald Trump has to reevaluate how he goes after Joe Biden.
So it's obvious that, and I said this on News Nation last night, I thought some of the liberal commentators were going to have a heart attack when I said that Joe Biden is the second worst president in our history.
And as you know, I've just finished writing my book, Confronting the Presidents, which will be out September 10th.
And I evaluated every single president.
And there's no, I have the evidence to back up that he's the second worst president ever.
And by the way, you don't even have Jimmy Carter as number one, do you?
No, it's James Buchanan that totally booted the Civil War.
And where do you see how bad he was?
What number is Carter in there?
Carter's in the bottom 10, but you got guys like Warren Harding and Herbert Hoover.
I mean, really, really bad Benjamin Harrison.
Awful, awful.
It's such a fun book to read because we have so much new stuff in there.
You're going to go, no, that's impossible.
But there it is.
But anyway, when I said that, the liberal commentators on News Nation, and it's a pretty divided crew, they have conservatives and they have liberals, and their heads snapped back because they haven't come to the reality.
You've been doing that your whole adult career.
Keep going.
The left in this country has not come to accept the fact that Joe Biden is a certified disaster for America.
He is a disaster.
And because he has created the problem, whereas Herbert Hoover walked into the depression, couldn't solve it, couldn't even improve it.
Biden created the open border.
He created inflation by slapping regulations on the fuel industry.
He created overseas chaos by the Afghan withdrawal and failing to step up and tell Putin, hey, you go in there and we're going to punish you like you've never been punished.
Biden didn't do anything overseas at all.
He's received to the state to be the weakest president in our lifetime.
And that's Biden.
It's not circumstance.
Well, then, this dovetails perfectly into my next question for you is there are Super Tuesday states with the option for voters of, quote, uncommitted or no preference on the Democratic presidential ballot.
In North Carolina, 12.7% of Democratic voters chose that.
9.4% in Massachusetts, 18.9% in Minnesota, 8.1% in Colorado, 6% in Alabama, 7.9% in Tennessee, and Iowa, 3.9%.
Now, my question is simple.
Do you read anything into that?
Because I do.
Well, they're hoping that Biden doesn't make it, that they'll take him off the ticket.
And if he boots Thursday night's State of the Union address, if he can't get through that.
But, Bill, we got to stop right here.
This is very important.
The State of the Union address is a layup address.
In other words, you don't have to work very hard.
Now, I know he's been hiding out now for a week preparing this.
They waited to the longest possible period of time.
It's the latest date of president's ever given one.
So he's been practicing like a good little Joe.
And here's why it's so easy.
You read one or two lines and they applaud.
Another two lines and they applaud.
As long as he can stay awake, which I'm sure plenty of Excederian extra strength with caffeine in it or something else, perhaps, as long as he stays awake, I think he'll be okay.
That's the easiest speech any president will ever deliver.
I'm sure you agree with that.
Well, I think they're going to keep it short.
That too.
The time that goes over an hour, I don't foresee that.
But, you know, you're talking to a guy.
You're talking about a guy, for example, who really has a, if he is tired, if he is tired, and yeah, they're wresting him up.
You're absolutely right.
He hasn't worked all week to Camp David for four days.
He's reading it over and over and over and over again.
But if he's tired and he fobs out, that's the end.
That is the end.
And that's what people will be looking for.
Now, in the past, he stepped up sometimes to read the teleprompter, giant letters.
I mean, you know, the letters couldn't get me bigger.
I hope that I have a little sympathy for that because I'm blind.
I need.
I can't read.
If a prompter's too far away, I can't see the letters at all.
They're all jumbled.
But anyway, I have a little sympathy in that department.
I'm just too stubborn to get contacts.
I don't use the prompter anymore.
I used to use it, but I don't use it anymore.
And it's worked much better for me.
But I hope that.
You want to laugh?
You know what?
The hardest job on my TV show is being my teleprompter operator.
You want to know why?
Because I never stick to the script.
And I have signals when I'm going off script.
And then they have to try to figure out when I want to pick up.
And then if I don't pick up, I just go because I do three hours of radio unscripted every day.
It's the hardest job on my show.
Very stressful.
You know, though, you know what you want to say.
Joe Biden doesn't.
That's the difference.
He doesn't know.
He can't remember what the speech is all about.
He just has to recite it.
There's a difference.
You're cracking me up.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Because I know a lot of Republicans listen to the Hannah Radio program.
I hope the Republicans in the House do not interrupt him and do not heckle him.
That would be kind of what they do.
I mean, that's happened on both sides of the aisle.
I mean, I think to ask that that tradition goes away would be a little much, Bill.
I'm telling you, if they can shut up, that would help the Republican Party because you have to respect the process.
The worst thing that Nancy Pelosi ever did in her entire career was tear up.
But that's very different than the hissing and the clapping and the sitting when others are clapping.
One side claps, the other side doesn't clap.
Occasionally, if he says something, both sides agree with, everybody stands up.
I don't mind that.
I mean, and if you even want to hiss a little bit, okay.
But if you yell stuff out, like, remember, you lie to Barack Obama, that did not help.
That did not help.
You can say you lie in the interviews afterward.
You can do all that.
But I'd like to see some decorum because it is a tradition of the United States.
Do you remember?
Was it Justice Alito?
I think it was Alito that said not true, and you could read his lips.
He didn't say it out loud during an Obama State of the Union.
You can do that.
You can make faces.
You can make faces.
You can wear a clown nose, but you can't heckle.
All right, I got it.
Because it's not going to help your party.
You know, look, you know, and I know how vital this vote in November is.
This is which way is the country going?
Are we going to return to tradition and fairness, or are we going the progressive route to blow up what we have been successful with for 250 years?
That's what the progressives want.
All right, Bill O'Reilly, allthingso'rely, billoreilly.com, 800-941-Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
I don't know what happened to Liberal Joe.
Well, I have my theories.
I think Liberal Joe realized that if he wanted a career in television, he needed to be an MSDNC, quote, Republican, which means you're a radical leftist, because he's just gone off the deep end.
He was actually out there today saying to people, F you, he said this, F you, if you can't handle the truth, this version of Biden intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.
I'm not making this up.
Listen.
You know, I don't know if people knew this or not.
Biden used to be a hothead.
Sometimes that Irishman would get in front of the reasoning.
Sometimes he would say things he didn't want to say.
This is, and I don't really, you know what?
I don't really care.
Start your tape right now because I'm about to tell you the truth.
And F you, if you can't handle the truth.
This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.
Not a close second.
And I've known him for years.
The Brzezinskis have known him for 50 years.
If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it.
Okay, Joe, you keep believing that truth if you really want.
So, Joe, Liberal Joe, would have you believe, and let's remind you that this Joe Biden is intellectually, analytically, the best Biden ever.
This guy.
The political coverage.
Looks some of the political players and some of the.
Let me ask a rhetorical question.
No, anyways.
I mean, poor liberal Joe.
By the way, if we were woke, Linda, your last name, McLaughlin, I mean, I'm 100% Irish, my four grandparents coming from Ireland.
I mean, if we were woke, man, we'd be offended by that attack against Irish tempers, wouldn't we?
We're not.
I'm not offended.
I'm just being clear.
I'm not a Brzezinski.
You know, I haven't known the Bidens my whole life, but I have to say, if the benchmark for really understanding the quality of someone's mental acuity is a Brzezinski, I don't know.
You know, like she married Joe Scarborough.
I'm not sure that I'm putting any weight on her.
Period.
End of sentence.
Just, you know.
This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically, is the best Biden ever.
That's like the lie being told by the White House press secretary.
I think it was Corinne Jean-Pierre.
She's another one.
He gets more done in an hour than most people get done in a day.
She also thinks that Nordstream is a shopping mall.
I mean, you know, that's what she thinks it is.
She's like, let's go buy a dress.
I'm like, no, okay.
You mean like totally, like it's not?
I didn't like like know that.
Anyway, more done in an hour than the average person does in a day.
I'd like to see if Joe can handle one hour of your day or my day because my day is pretty full.
He can't even handle steps.
I mean, my God.
He's using the baby steps.
He doesn't use the big boy steps anymore to get up on Air Force One.
It's like the lie.
The border is secure for three years.
The border is secure.
The border is closed.
The border's secure.
The border's closed.
The border's secure.
No.
I'll be honest with you.
The thing that makes me the most angry about Joe Biden, aside from all the weird touching and sniffing of small people and small jokes.
That's weird.
That's really gross.
That's super gross.
But putting all of that disgustingness aside is how he always lies about how his son died and where his son died.
I'm like, this is something that you lie about?
I just don't get it.
I really don't.
He does it to military families in an effort to get them.
I mean, it is bizarre.
And then Robert Herr's report, he couldn't remember within years when his son passed.
He didn't remember if he was even vice president.
Was I still vice president in 2009?
But also, he never once spoke to Hunter, his brother, or anybody for that matter about their foreign business deals.
I want you, every American needs to know that lie.
All right, let's get to our.
It's bizarre beyond.
Good thing we're not woke.
We'd be very angry.
Our Irish tempers would be coming out right now if we were woke.
All right, let's get to our phones.
Let's say hi to Cy in Mississippi.
Cy, how are you?
Glad you called.
Thanks for being with us.
Hey, Sean, thank you so much for taking the phone call.
I have a question about Nikki Haley, but just before I ask that question, I do know you have some training in martial arts.
I want to know exactly what needs to happen for us to get you and Mark Zuckerberg in the octagon.
Is that possible?
That happens somehow.
I think he is, I've actually seen videos of him, and I've got to tell you, I think he's pretty talented.
I think he's actually serious about his commitment.
I think it's Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
I do an eclectic blend of mixed martial arts.
The martial arts I do is very, very different.
I am not looking to be an artist.
And follow me on this.
Mine is an eclectic blend of crop magaw, Kenpo, Japanese jiu-jitsu, boxing, situational street fighting.
We train with blade sticks and phony firearms, obviously phony knives, but we do self-defense.
Basically, I train in situational self-defense that's coupled with a very, very rigorous workout, including a lot of, I lift weights.
I do a lot of push-ups and sit-ups and core work.
And so it's very, very different.
The way that I fight is the dirtiest street fighting you'd ever see in your life.
I fight to break, blind, and kill.
If God forbid I ever have to defend myself.
So I'm not officially an artist.
And so the way I'm trained, and by the way, I'm not ducking your question.
I would not be able to fight within the rules of the octagon, for example.
It's not how I'm trained.
It's not what I do.
Now, a saying of my sensei has always been, you fight the way you train.
If he thinks that I'm phoning it in, he gets pissed and I get yelled at.
And then he pushes me harder.
Or, you know, he'll just start beating the crap out of me until I step up my game.
And then we have, for example, days we call Keeping It Real and we have Pain Day, but Keeping It Real Day is all throughout the hour and a half session I have.
I mean, he's going to put me in headlocks.
He's going to come up and surprise me from behind.
He's going to tackle me.
He's going to do all sorts of things.
And I have to fight my way out of it.
And this guy has 11 or 12 black belts of multiple degrees.
He's a trained killer.
He really is.
So I'm not sure it would be compatible, but I am impressed at his skill.
I really am.
What I have seen is that the guy's got skills.
Well, it evens out because Mark Zuckerberg himself is not an artist, and he's never really ever had to play by any rules whatsoever.
No, he's actually been to real matches, and I've watched him.
I've watched him in real matches where you have a referee and it's controlled, et cetera, et cetera.
Like you would not be able to do what I, like I do, for example, we practice a lot of targeted strikes.
There are certain parts of the body that I'm going to aim for.
And if I hit you, I probably have won the fight right then and there.
And many of those strikes would not be allowed in the octagon.
Quick example.
Parts of Mark Zuckerberg's body I'd love for you to strike at.
Anyway, I'm just giving you an honest answer.
That's not how I drain.
That's not what I do it for.
I would love to watch it.
But that being said, Nikki Haley, I'm a lifelong conservative Republican, and I came away with no lesser feelings of her after all this.
Actually, a lot of respect for the gut she showed.
And I know this is a crystal ball way down the road question for you, but I just want to say, ask you, if you would have put your finger on it.
Her reason for staying in so long, do you feel that God willing, if Trump gets back in the White House, that in down the road 2028, she has put herself in a position to leapfrog DeSantis and any other candidates and positioned herself to where she could be the one the torch is actually passed to?
Because I didn't feel that the campaign between her and Trump was malicious in any way, really.
They had to do the normal jabbing, but I just feel that that might have been her reasoning for it.
And if it turns out to be true, and that actually does come to fruition, would you consider that one of the more brilliant political moves that you've seen in quite a long time?
My answer to you is no.
And I say this, again, I mean, it's sort of like anybody that gets in the octagon, anybody, there's a certain respect in martial arts.
I'll use your initial point to make this point.
And that is anybody that is willing to put themselves out there, whether they win or lose, I just have a lot of respect for.
If you get in a boxing ring and you're a boxer, I have a lot of respect, even if you get your ass kicked.
If you get in the octagon and you don't win and you try your hardest and maybe you're tapping out, maybe you get knocked out.
I don't know.
You're putting yourself in harm's way and there's no guarantees at all.
The other guy's trying to kill you and knock you out and beat you.
I just have respect for people that get in the arena.
So I give her credit there.
If I was advising her going into South Carolina after a third place finish in Iowa, losing by double digits in New Hampshire, losing 2-1 in Nevada to none of the above, I would have looked at the polls, which were showing that she was going to lose by around 20 plus points, which she did.
Her home state, I thought that was devastating for her.
And I think that she was relying on the never-Trumper community, and I think that's who was funding her.
I'd like to know where all the money came from and Democrats to keep this going for as long as possible.
I think she hurt herself with that base.
Whether the Republican establishment wants to acknowledge this or not, they are no longer in charge.
That there is a more populist, working-class party that has emerged.
I think the reason that polls are now showing that working-class Americans, minorities in huge numbers, African Americans, Hispanic Americans that have been disappointed by the Democratic Party for decades, especially in blue states, that there is hopefully a shift beginning to emerge demographically.
And I think that there is an opportunity in this election for Republicans to get the highest numbers they've ever received from the minority community.
That means African Americans, Hispanic Americans, young people are leaving Biden in droves, and they've got to be careful with suburban women.
And that means the issue of abortion, which I've discussed politically.
So we'll see what happens.
I hope that answers your question, but I don't think she made a good move.
If I was her campaign manager, I'd say, okay, the handwriting's on the wall.
It's going to be an open primary in four years.
Come back in four years and maybe even partner with Trump, get a big position in his administration.
But I think that that ship has sailed.
And I think tactically, strategically, I think she made a mistake.
But anyway, I hope that answers your question, my friend.
I am glad you called.
I always love talking martial arts.
Linda, you know, Sensei.
Is my description of my training 100% accurate?
You've watched us.
You know, we've put on demonstrations for you.
Yeah, Glenn's a serious dude.
I mean, he takes everything very seriously, and he's a great trainer.
He's a good dude.
Yeah, he'll be with us in Chicago the whole time.
He should be with us always.
I think we're going to have the entire dojo with me.
I think everybody's showing up.
They're a little nervous.
They're like, Hannity, no way.
No, you don't have a choice.
This is what he told me.
We will be there by your side the entire time.
A word from the 46th president of the United States.
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