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Bill O'Reilly - April 17th, Hour 2
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All right, Leonard Skinnard's simple man.
That can only mean one thing on this radio program, and that is all things self-proclaimed simple man, and that means all things Bill O'Reilly, all things Bill O'Reilly at Bill O'Reilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, um I'm pretty worked up today.
Uh I've been worked up for a while.
Uh in two hundred and one days we will have what I believe is an inflection point for the country, uh, the most pivotal election in our lifetime.
And we now find ourselves at at a point both on the world stage and in this country that I never thought we would get to.
I never thought we'd have a president on trial for something that happened over eight years ago, uh whose statute of limitations were run out, and and we have a local New York DA trying to use federal criminal statutes uh to go after d the the presidential candidate.
Now, I'm gonna be a very generous host today, and I'm gonna let you pick whichever topic you want to start with, but I like to get your comments on both.
How are you, by the way?
Uh the quote Kenny Loggins, I'm all right, nobody worry about me.
I'm I'm fine.
Back from By the way, no but nobody needs to worry about O'Reilly.
O'Reilly's good at taking care of O'Reilly.
Self-reliance.
We have mugs at BillO'Reilly.com that say that.
Um my God, go ahead.
So when I was over in Europe last uh week uh in Malta, very fascinating place to put a column on it.
Um I was asking people because I did have uh breakfast with the defense minister over there, and this goes right into the Israeli Iran situation.
And Malta is the smallest country in the EU.
Um, but obviously people in Europe pay attention.
And I asked him two questions.
I said, Well, what's the consensus of the among the Maltese about Joe Biden?
Um and he looked at me kind of blankly and he goes, Well, he's not really a factor here.
There's not a lot of discussion, a lot of um media on him.
I said, Well, what about Trump?
He goes divide it.
The uh Maltese liked Trump's foreign policy because there wasn't this kind of a threat.
It didn't exist in those four years, and and you can extend that to Ukraine.
Um but they don't like his stance on global warming.
Global warming is is big in Europe.
I thought that was very interesting.
So I'm not sure that Biden um even knows, and I'm not saying this in any kind of uh cheap shot way, but I'm not sure that Biden even knows the extent of the Iranian villainy.
Okay, but Bill, no hang on a second, and I I'm not I'm not interrupting you, but I really need clarification here.
Okay.
You're telling me that the president of the United States of America does not understand, because it's not a very complex thing that he must understand here.
Right.
That that the mullahs in Iran that chant death to America, death to Israel, that have been the number one state sponsor of terror that have fought proxy wars through the Hooti rebels in Yemen that have been supplying Hezbollah with rockets to fire into Israel for for how many years now?
And that literally their CUDS forces and their Iranian revolutionary guards forces not only help plan the attack on October 7th that killed 1,200 Israelis, which would be the equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans in a day based on their population size.
You're telling me that this president Does not know the danger that is Iran?
Is that what you're telling me?
I don't think he's able to calibrate it and let me point to something that happened on Monday.
Oh my God.
Do you know how scary that is?
Yeah, I'm well aware how scary it is.
So he meets with the uh prime minister of Iraq.
Now, traditionally Iraq and Iran are enemies.
They fought a war.
They hate each other.
But now the Iranians have infiltrated Iraq to the extent that the Prime Minister's got to watch his butt every day because there are Sunnis that would do him in.
And so you would think that that would be that Iraq, Prime Minister, and Biden would have a dual press conference about Iran, right?
Wouldn't you?
The attack took place Saturday, this meeting's taking place on Monday.
Wouldn't you think that they would have a joint press conference, Hannity?
I would think, yes, but Mr. O'Reilly, sir.
Right.
Anybody, anybody.
You got the Prime Minister of Iraq in the White House.
You got the press, the worldwide press sitting there, and you don't have a press conference on it.
On Saturday night, Joe Biden didn't even address the American people and has not addressed them since what happened.
Yeah, you're making my point.
He doesn't know.
And let me let me give you another one that you used on your television broadcast.
When he's sitting next to the Prime Minister of Iraq, he can't even summarize what they talked about ten minutes earlier.
He's got to read it off a card.
And by the way, when he reads they they actually put in big letters pause.
Right.
Did you see the moment when he reads pause?
And we reported on the No Spit News, my TV broadcast.
But when you put the puzzle together, and the evidence is overwhelming, there is the President of the United States, and he's there visible, and he cannot assimilate information.
So Blinken and Sullivan, the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, are in charge.
They are making the decisions.
Now I do not believe that they have told Netanyahu you cannot uh respond to Iran.
I believe what they have told him is give us a heads up on the response, make it something that is not gonna start World War III, because that's gonna boomerang back on you.
You're the first target in the Muslim world.
And they use the word proportionally.
I think that's what's in play.
Biden's not going to go out and tell Iran, tell Israel don't reply to Iran.
He's not gonna do that.
If he were gonna do that, he would have said uh when a Egypt, uh Egypt, when Israel killed the seven revolutionary guard members two weeks ago, which prompted this attack by Iran on Israel.
He would have said something that he said nothing.
But for our purposes here in the United States, it is beyond any reasonable doubt, Hannity, that we have a president who does is incapable of understanding complicated situations.
He cannot understand them.
Let me ask you a follow-up question.
Israel says they will will retaliate against Iran, uh, and there are a lot of risks for them to do so.
Uh I don't think they have any option, Bill, because this had never happened before, and if they don't respond, they're only inviting further aggression.
And I think the only thing people in a lot of these countries, these bully countries, these countries that are sympathetic and support terrorism and the radical ideology underlying their their terrorism.
Uh they only understand strength, Bill.
And here's the saddest part to me, and maybe the lowest point of Biden's presidency, and there are a lot of low points in my mind, and that is that Joe Biden has now abandoned the war on terrorism, both in Israel's battle against Hamas and Hezbollah, they're fighting a two front war.
Most people are not aware of the the Northern Front, Lebanon and Hezbollah.
And now they are going to have to go it alone with Iran.
And I will tell you that Bill O'Reilly to hear our president not support them is to me it is so beneath it is such an ab he's abdicating the role of the United States as the leader of the free world.
I'm not saying to send troops, Bill.
I'm not even saying to send money.
The Israelis just want to buy weapons from us, and we ought to give them that and the moral support and approval to that and the our message should be clear and unambiguous.
Go win your war on terrorism.
Because if 40,000 Americans died in one day in this country, I think America would fight like it's never fought before, and if they didn't fight, well whoever was president would be out within when probably within weeks.
Look, Biden is not going to take a leadership role in this, and it's not gonna happen.
So we ought to be in the real world here.
The Israelis, there are many different ways they can respond to this attack.
All right.
And Mossad is is a pretty effective intelligence agency, and the CIA is helping Israel.
Americans should know that.
The American intelligence agencies, the CIA, the NSA, they're helping.
They knew this attack was coming days before the Israelis were prepared for it.
Uh Bill, my my sources told me on Thursday of last week that it was likely Friday, but it may be Saturday.
And you reported that.
And that's true.
Um so we're the United States is supporting Israel, but you're not gonna get a leadership profile from Joe Biden.
Well, slow down a second.
They are not supporting Israel's uh versus the need to respond and retaliate.
Well, if Israel doesn't retaliate, Bill, you have now basically given a green light for more of these attacks by by the number one state sponsor of terror.
Israel needs to hit them hard.
I I see two options that I would put on the table.
Number one, they'd probably need the U.S. help, and that would be the bunker buster bombs that would be necessary to take out the nuclear sites.
If the world doesn't take out those sites before they get nuclear weapons, my prediction is they will get them and they will use them because their ideology will compel them to do so, convert or die.
Number two, and probably the best option that Israel can do on their own is to take out their their financial resources, which would be their refineries, knock them out.
That they can do on their own without any help from the U.S. You have to be cautious here.
I and I'm not gonna say no, you're wrong, but I I I think you ha we don't have you and me, enough data to really make a um singular judgment on what should happen.
Because you do agree that if if Israel does not retaliate that you are emboldening without unintended consequences that make the situation even worse.
So China gets most of its oil from Iran.
You bomb the Iranian refineries, then you got a problem with China.
Okay?
And that has to be taken into consideration.
So I don't know.
I mean, I'm more of a Trump person in retaliation.
Now, what does that mean?
So if you read killing the killers, because I'm I think I researched this as thoroughly as anybody in the world.
Trump did does not, did not want war at a high level overseas.
You would agree with that, right?
I'd agree, but he also wiped out the caliphate.
No, I did it and he did it in very short order.
And he was very effective in dismantling ISIS.
But he didn't want nation against nation.
And he to this day says if I were president, you wouldn't have Ukraine.
Putin wouldn't have done that.
That's what Trump says.
And Trump is very clear, he doesn't want nation against nation in a war circumstance.
Well, what Trump did very effectively and quietly, Unusual for Trump was that he brought in a number of military options to destroy a fairly sophisticated operation.
ISIS.
He killed them all, all the leadership.
And again, killing the killers is the book to read if you want to know how he did it.
That option exists today.
You can pretty much assassinate every major Iranian leader.
Sound like Putin.
All right.
The Iranians are vulnerable to that.
Putin's not.
You never see him.
He's way he's not visible.
He controls everything around him.
Iran doesn't.
Let me tell you what I do know too, and I've got to run after those.
Well, you and I could talk about this all day.
Right.
Is Saudi Arabia, Jordan, uh, the Emirates, uh, Egypt.
They all want Iran knocked out.
Because that was the beauty that Trump was able to pull off, and very few people knew it, that he created an alliance between all of these countries against Iranian hegemony in the region.
Right.
And none of them want Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
All right.
Uh all things simple man, Bill O'Reilly, BillO'Reilly.com.
Uh, welcome back.
Glad you had a good vacation, sir.
Thanks for having me.
Appreciate it.
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Now, when cool stuff does occasionally happen in Washington, and somebody steps up and just utterly destroys somebody.
Oh, there's a little hope in the world.
Such a moment came yesterday with uh Senator Josh Hawley uh going right after Jennifer Granholm over presiding over institutionalized corruption within her department, and then right to her face calls on her to reside.
listen but on the board of directors at proterra you made millions cnn reports and stock options at proterra then you you promoted proterra stock and proterra products as energy secretary was Was that one of the stocks that you sold?
This is so uh I mean, really.
Was that one of the stocks?
So yes, really.
No, you were presiding over institutionalized corruption in your energy department.
You have violated the stock act nine separate times.
You have been referred by the inspector general for violations of the Hatch Act.
It is institutionalized corruption that you are now the face of.
And here's what I'm trying to figure out.
I just want to know who really runs the energy department.
Is it you or is it the mega corporations whose stock that you own that you're making profits in?
Oh my goodness.
Or maybe it's the foreign billionaires who fund your conferences.
Let's try something else.
Do you know the names of the foreign billionaires who fund the conferences you go to?
Since you don't know the socks, do you know the names of the foreign billionaires?
This is unbelievable to me.
Let me help you.
Mr. Chairman, one of them is weiss, a Swiss billionaire who has used various dark money front groups.
I do not know what you funnel various dark money front groups to funnel foreign money into American politics.
He has used the Burger Action Fund, 20 million dollars that then sent money to the Fund for a Better Future, that Vincent sent money to the climate power group that has funded conferences you've attended.
Do you know who this is?
Do you think it's a good idea to attend conferences?
No idea by foreign billionaires?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
You don't know the stocks, you don't know the billionaires, you would take no responsibility.
Meanwhile, your energy department, executives in your energy department, are trading stocks and in companies that they have direct oversight over, and you were to Secretary.
All I have to say is this record is just deplorable.
It is despicable.
It is outrageous that hundreds of officers in the energy department are trading sears.
It is outrageous that you misled us.
It is outrageous that you are continuing to mislead us, and it is outrageous.
You're going to conferences and events funded by foreign billionaires using dark money to try to influence our politics.
This has got to change.
And frankly, you should go.
Another great moment from yesterday, Merrick Garland.
Now they're having all these meetings, for example, they had uh Mayorchus in, they have Merrick Garland in.
This is all about funding at this point, and and every department wants their quote fair share.
Uh Senator Kennedy, probably one of my favorite senators, uh, because he's so damn smart and funny at the same time, but uh he's asking Mer Merrick Garland a question, and he won't answer Senator Kennedy's question about why the DOJ let the statute of limitations run out on Hunter Biden so he couldn't be prosecuted.
He won't answer that question.
Listen.
Mr. Hunter Biden did not pay taxes on one million dollars in two thousand fourteen and two thousand fifteen.
And he deducted payments from his income tax for personal expenses when he did file for hookers, for Lamborghini, for strip clubs, for sex clubs, for porn website memberships.
Why did the Department of Justice let the statute of limitations run?
As you well know, Senator.
So you can't prosecute?
As you well know, Senator, that investigation is being conducted by um uh Mr. Weiss, who was appointed by President Trump uh to be the U.S. attorney in Delaware.
Much of the investigation they're talking about occurred during the previous administration under Mr. Weiss.
I mean, every once in a while you gotta give props.
Props to Josh Hawley, props to uh Senator Kennedy for doing the right thing.
All right, eight hundred nine four one Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Uh let's say hi to Barbara, our friend in Maryland.
Barbara, hi, how are you?
Uh it's been a while.
Welcome back.
Glad you called.
Thanks for taking my call, Sean.
It has been a while.
Your lines are so busy.
It's hard getting good.
You you miss me, though, so you keep trying.
I do appreciate it.
You've been a friend of this program for a long time, although occasionally you've been wrong.
Only occasionally.
Well, I tell you what, I think you're right today about um what's happening with Israel.
And um as far as our president not being not knowing, it's called dementia.
I think it's time that people just face the fact about that.
Something needs to be done about him before he gets us all killed.
Um I just I was surprised the day after um Iran launched all of those missiles at Israel.
Into Israel, what they were trying to do.
I was surprised the next day that their Navy wasn't demolished, their Air Force demolished, and the oil refineries burning.
That would have been decisive.
And it would have stopped all the speculation about, oh, don't respond.
I'm getting so sick of this weak approach to to the situation.
I don't think you can be opposed that way, Sean.
I think they need to take the bull by the horse and should have done it already.
Well, I I I look I don't I think Israel needs time.
I think it it probably has been a little bit of a shock that that Joe Biden and the United States of America abandon the war on terrorism in and they did it for pure political expediency and ambition.
Uh I bet that is beyond disappointing.
I mean, did you ever did you ever have a close friend just kind of stab you in the back and and it kind of takes your breath away and you never expected it, but it happens?
Yeah, um we've all experienced that, right?
I mean this is this this has now happened on a pretty spectacular level.
I mean, the Fact that we have a president of the United States that doesn't have the moral clarity to understand that number one, Israel needs to win its war.
It's not our war.
It's their war.
They they acknowledge that.
They've never asked for one boot on the ground.
They're not asking for anything other than our support.
And our support would come in the form of helping them build up their ammunition.
And even if we sell it to them, uh I mean, they certainly need to be able to defend themselves.
And from a moral standpoint, you would think that that's not a a hard decision for an American president, the so-called leader of the free world.
Uh this president has abdicated that role.
And I don't think it should be a tough moral quandary or a dilemma for the United States president to to say that Israel has every right to respond to the 300 quote missile attacks that they were able to fight back on on Saturday night.
That's a no-brainer too.
But based on the history of radical appeasement of Obama and Biden in the in Obama's term as president, and Biden literally helping to m make the Iranian mullahs rich again.
Uh, I guess we really shouldn't be surprised that he will not support Israel and their right to defend their country against an unprovoked attack.
You know, this is the number one state sponsor of terror.
They have been promoting all of Israel's enemies.
They have been arming all of Israel's enemies.
They've been coordinating attacks, including the attacks on October 7th that took the lives of twelve hundred Israelis and and hundreds others taken hostage, many of those killed, others raped, uh many still being held today.
Uh this should not be a moment of moral ambiguity.
This should be a moment of moral clarity.
What is our aim?
Victory.
Victory at all costs against the monstrous tyranny.
You know, all I have to offer is blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
That's all we need to do.
And we ought to be supporting, you know, Joe Biden has basically now emboldened terrorism in the form of Hamas and in the form of Iran.
And that is a an embarrassing but yet sad, pathetic moment for the world and for this country.
And that is why what happens in 201 days is gonna freaking matter.
I hope people are paying attention.
All right, we love you, Barbara.
God bless you.
I think I left your speech speechless.
All right, quick break, right back to the phones, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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Uh Dave in New Joyce.
Dave, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Good afternoon, Sean.
Thank you for taking my call.
Uh bet.
What's on your mind?
Uh the reason I called is uh President Trump's current uh court case in Manhattan.
Uh on yesterday morning, driving to work, uh I listened to CBS News, uh radio, the the recap out of New York City, and they re You ought to be listening to our flagship, the all-new AM seven ten WOR.
You'll get a lot more truth and information from them.
I understand that, but I also listen to mainstream media because I like to hear what they report and more importantly what they often don't report.
And that's really what I'm calling about.
Um they reported that the judge threatened to put President Trump in jail if he was not in court and t in instead uh decided to attend a Supreme Court case in uh Washington next Thursday.
And while it's it's an it's i it's repulsive, isn't it?
Yeah, it's important to most Americans, but I don't think that's something that the average Joe like I can relate to, because I don't have skin in the game in regards to the Supreme Court.
Yes.
I think well, you you're okay, you describe yourself as an average Joe.
I kind of consider myself the same thing, okay.
Uh my my job I do publicly, your job, you work just as hard in whatever field of endeavor you're in privately.
I think the average Joe can understand this.
It makes sense that okay, that's a Supreme Court case.
Uh there's a conflict, and certainly the president should have a right to be there for oral arguments.
Uh just like he should.
It shouldn't be a question about whether or not he can attend his son Barron's high school graduation.
Right.
Well, and and and that's the thing I want to talk about is because they did not report on the fact that the judge threatened President Trump with jail again if he chose to attend his son's high school graduation.
And that I believe is something that most Americans can relate to.
By the way, did they mention on this broadcast that the judge donated a Joe Biden?
Did they mention that based on the law in New York that the judge should have recused himself?
I've I've read the law many times.
I won't re regurgitate that here.
Did they mention that either?
Well, of course the rhetorical questions, and you know the answer to that, of course not.
But my point is, Sean, that most Americans can relate to a a high school graduation, whether you were the graduate or you have a child or level and graduating.
And that's a once in a lifetime event.
It cannot be rec recreated or relived.
And for the judge to threaten the president like that, that's unconscionable.
And I think most Americans, regardless of their political persuasion, would relate to that.
What I'm asking what I'm proposing is that people like me who listen to you, we know this.
We've heard about it.
But there are millions of Americans who are not aware of it because they listen to mainstream media.
So I'm suggesting because you do great montages of the mainstream media's talking points, the Democrat talking points, and they parrot the same words.
So any republican or Trump supporter that has a broadcast on mainstream, whether it be T V, radio, podcast, regardless of the topic, that they work into it, what this judge threatened the president with.
Because if that word gets out to the vast public, the millions of Americans who haven't heard it, I'm sure it will sway some some votes.
I'll add one thing to what you're saying, and what you're saying is very smart.
Uh and the one thing that I would add to it is that while all of the other people that will be involved in this case and testifying in this case are out there all over T V. This president doesn't have his freedom of speech rights.
He's been muzzled.
He's been silenced.
He's been threatened with jail if he dares talk about the case.
That's unfair too.
Uh you make too much sense to actually ever be an elected official, but I'd say you'd be a good one if you ever tried.
Dave, New Jersey, thank you for listening to AM 710, WOR.
We appreciate it, okay?
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