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Simple Man, there can only mean one thing on this radio program, and that is all things simple man.
All things simple man means all things Bill O'Reilly, all things Bill O'Reilly of BillO'Reilly.com.
Uh Mr. O'Reilly Serg, how are you?
You know, I'm fine because uh confronting the president's had yesterday streaking up the Amazon rankings, and uh large part of that's thanks to you for reading the book and things about it.
So thank you.
Uh I will tell you that it was, and you've done a lot of good books over the years, maybe the most informative of all in terms of just sheer historic knowledge confronting the presidents, no spin assessments from Washington to Biden.
And there what's amazing about it too is people don't realize every single president in their own way has just unique characteristics and styles and foibbles and and issues and and how they went about their business.
I I I guess you don't become president if you don't have this dynamic, you know, leadership personality, and and that's kind of what I walked away with is you know, I I think the the smartest, most creative people in the world could also be the oddest people in the world.
Does that make sense?
It's like their blessing is their curse.
A lot of those presidents were defiable.
I mean, John Quincy Adams every morning gets up, takes a stroll over the Potomac River from the White House and jumps in naked.
And all people, hey, isn't that the president naked in the water there?
Yeah.
Yeah, hey, how you doing, everyone?
I don't know if he signed autographs naked, but he every every morning.
I mean, and people don't know that presidents, all of them were human beings.
Some of them were good human beings, some of them were not.
And that's the beauty of the book.
It's also relevant to today.
I got a flood of mail about the debate as you did, I'm sure.
And a lot of doom and gloom for people who support Donald Trump.
I said, Look, read the chapter in confronting the presidents about Ronald Reagan.
Reagan got waxed.
I mean hammered by Walter Mondale in the first debate in 1984.
I'm running a clip of it on the No Spin News tonight.
And he looks discombobulated, and everybody went, it's over, it's over.
So history is a way of repeating itself.
Final point I'm going to make on this is the immortal Warren Harding.
The Kamala Harris campaign is identical to what Warren, a Republican, did in 1920.
Identical.
Not answering any questions.
Basically campaigning from afar.
Nobody knows.
And Harding, of course, turned out to be one of the worst presidents we've ever seen.
You gotta know people before you vote for them.
But the Harris campaign does not want that to happen, and that was on display last night.
You know what's amazing to me?
She wouldn't answer the the question on late-term abortion, any restrictions at all.
She lied about mandatory gun buyback.
There's 31 lies we've been able to chronicle, she told last night.
Trump isn't into you know Project 2025.
That that's a flat out lie.
Um that Trump is not going to sign a national abortion ban.
Uh I did not say that I I denounce uh banning banning fracking.
She never said it.
We had a lot of issues that came out just in the last 48 hours that she supports taxpayer-funded sex change surgery for illegals, but also for convicted felons.
He wants federal drug possession for personal use, which would decriminalize crack heroin, cocaine, And fentanyl, uh, and uh, you know, on our website, abortion up to the last minute, and a pathway to citizenship, which is amnesty.
No border wall, decriminalize the illegal immigration, housing, health care, education, sex change surgery, driver's licenses in Minnesota, etc.
Um, and you know, like for example, when this issue comes up about Donald Trump and I I'd not seen confirmed reports about this issue of dogs, but I've read about it.
I just I've not confirmed it.
We made calls ourselves to the police department, etc.
etc.
Um, but you know, what about all the dead Americans?
What about all the Americans raped?
What about the high cost to Americans?
What about all the drugs in the country?
I just think on that particular issue there was a better argument to be made.
Uh it didn't come up one time, Bill O'Reilly, that she co-sponsored the Green New Deal, $93 trillion would eliminate the filibuster to do it with Bernie Sanders, uh, eliminating private health sh health care uh insurance, uh, government health care for all.
Um you can't say radical Islamic terrorism or illegal alien.
It's kind of meaningful today on 9-1101 because we were attacked on this day, you know, going back to 2001, and we remember that day well.
We were both in New York at the time.
I was smart enough to leave.
You're crazy enough to stay there.
And none of these things, we don't have any answers to anything.
We haven't moved the ball one inch on her.
And that to me is a a grave disservice to the American people.
And I will tell you the biggest loser by far last night was ABC.
We have discussed in the past that we both knew Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw and Tim Russard.
Russard and Jennings in particular, I got along great with.
You work for Jennings.
This guy was pretty amazing.
He was a special guy, curious, smart.
He used to come into the radio studio.
He he came in once having read my book, highlighted every freaking page of my book, Bill, and and I'd get a call from Tim Russard asking my views on topics because he was curious how conservatives saw things.
That is non existent today.
Well, I'll give you a couple of examples of ABC in a moment because they did it very shrewdly, um, tilted toward uh the vice president.
But Donald Trump had to know all this was coming, and he won the first 30 minutes of the debate because his policies are much stronger than her non-policies.
She doesn't have any policies.
And he was right to say you're Joe Biden, because she has not repudiated or done anything to say that the Biden administration was wrong doing anything.
But she wants the a new way forward.
Well, why do you want a new way forward if everything was great under Joe Biden?
Is that that's a simple question?
But what Donald Trump got lost was about 32 minutes into the debate when the baiting started.
All right.
So number one, he took the bait, and ABC News ambushed him.
They knew they were going to ask about Haitians allegedly eating dogs and cats in Ohio.
Because they called the city manager before the debate even started.
So they knew they were going to throw that at Trump, hoping he would look bad on his answer, and he did.
All right, you don't you don't get into that.
All right.
That is not important.
It's ridiculous.
Even if it happened, you can't win it.
So he just would have said, look, I don't know anything about this, and uh, you know, you got a serious question for me about maybe America.
But wasn't there a better answer?
Lake and Riley, Jocelyn Nungarry, Rachel Moran, the dozens of dead Americans, the the dozens of raped Americans, the the hundreds of Americans, the victims of violent crime by illegals, the high cost of it, known terrorists in the country.
There were much better answers, and he didn't even bring up fentanyl.
Trump didn't even bring it up.
So that was number one.
He gets ambushed on that.
Number two is this gigantic softball toward the end, and this was very well disguised, Sanny.
But you and I have been in this business, I think, since Moses was running around uh the Sinai Desert.
So what ABC decided to do was throw a massive softball at Vice President Harris.
And the softball came in a quote that Trump made that if he is re-elected, he's going to investigate the 2020 election and punish anyone convicted of fraud.
ABC framed that and threw it at Harris, knowing that Harris would wail on this, that he won't accept the uh vote, that it's his narcissist, that he's this, that he's that, and Trump just fell for it.
And Trump spent three or four minutes trying to relitigate the 2020 election, which is a total waste of time, and does not make him look good and doesn't get him one vote.
So when you analyze the debate, those who were going to vote for Trump are still going to vote for him.
I don't think he lost one vote.
Same thing with Harris.
But those few in the middle that will tilt it in the independence, they're coming away with more confidence about Harris just by the way she looked, not what she said.
If you uh analyze as I have all of her answers, none of them make any sense.
How are you?
They're also just well rehearsed.
I mean, she just spent hours rehearsing.
She was holed up for days on end in a room, and I felt there was a lot of uh she was contrived.
I felt that at many, many times that she was rehearsed and you know, and then the lies that she told.
And I also thought there was something very bizarre, and that was her facial expressions were bizarre to me.
Well, she was doing what high school kids do.
But when you're asked a question, how would you get a ceasefire in Gaza?
And your answer is we're working round the clock.
You know she does it no.
And that's the crux of why I cannot vote for Kamala Harris.
Not anything to do with party.
I uh I know she is a radical progressive, and that's another good reason to read confronting the presidents, because when I say that Kamala Harris is by far the most radical left candidate in United States history, worse than Eugene Depth, a self-proclaimed socialist.
Okay.
That's it.
That's saying a lot, Mr. O'Reilly.
Right.
So I can't vote for somebody, but she, I don't believe the vice president even understands the issues.
She doesn't even understand them, much less have a solution.
Because all she keeps blathering about is the open border is Trump's fault.
Inflation is Trump's fault.
But what Trump failed to do vividly was to say she has nothing.
All she does is blame my administration when real wages were up for everyone, and inflation was 1.4% when I left.
He talks too much, Hannity.
He's like you and me.
He talks too much.
Keep it pithy.
Just keep it.
But by the way, that cracks me up.
He's like you and me, Hannity.
He talks too much.
We talk for a living, Bill.
That's what we do.
Okay.
Well, we're compensated, and he's trying to be president.
Now, let's advance the story.
Okay.
Donald Trump should have a press conference tomorrow and talk about the debate.
Because Harris is never going to do that.
He should get out there and say, Look, I'll answer any question you have on the debate.
Anything you want.
That gets him a little bit of momentum and gets the spotlight back on him.
Takes any momentum away from her because she's afraid to do press conferences and one-on-one interviews.
So you do that tomorrow.
All right, number one.
Number two, if there is an opportunity for a second debate, do it.
Because, as I said, Reagan came back under the tutelage of the guy who hired both me and you, Roger Ales.
That's where the line, I'm not going to let my opponent's youth and inexperience be an issue in this campaign.
And even Walter Mondale laughed and it was debate over.
Right.
So right now, Trump has got to step back.
Stop saying I won the debate.
He didn't win it.
He didn't lose it.
Nobody won it.
Because there was no knockout punch.
And she survived to blow the aid another day.
And you're right.
I mean, every cliche in the world, dictator on the first day, uh, good people on both sides.
Everything that's been discredited, every single thing.
She brought up.
And I thought Trump had a very good answer when she started to accuse him of being um a convicted someone or whatever.
I thought his answer there was very deliberate and disciplined.
And I was just um amazed that he couldn't bring that clarity to some of his other answers.
I mean, she baited him, Hannity with the crowd size.
Come on.
It doesn't matter.
All Trump had to say was, you wish you had crowds as big as mine.
And that's it.
That's all.
You know, so Trump is not done.
But this did not help him last night.
Well, a lot's gonna happen between now and election day.
We're 55 days away, but the what's the problem is is that early voting's beginning in some states.
Uh for example, we were in Pennsylvania last night.
Uh, we were looking all over for you, O'Reilly.
You weren't there.
I looked everywhere.
I wanted to see Bill O'Reilly in the spin room and and say this is the no spin area in the spin room, but it didn't exist.
And um, but you know, six days from voting in Pennsylvania.
Right, listen to this.
You like this.
So I'm promoting confronting the presidents, right?
And of course, ABC NBC and CBS have blackballed me and not only me, but Mark Levin.
Everybody else who has a best-selling book, who's a non who's not a liberal.
Okay.
Blackballed my last book, too, but I didn't need them, and neither do you, and neither does Mark.
But people should know how deeply ingrained these corporations are in shutting out any kind of counterpoint of view.
I I gotta roll.
Listen, the book is phenomenal.
It's out today.
It's confronting the presidents.
No spin assessments from Washington and Biden.
We'll talk more about it in the days to come.
Uh, all things simple man, Bill O'Reilly of Bill O'Reilly.com.
Thank you, sir.
Thanks for having me, Sean.
Appreciate it.
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Well, it is it goes back a lot of years.
911.
And uh, you know, um this radio program syndicated it the day before.
We never talk about it.
We never celebrate it.
We we just I I just don't feel it's appropriate.
But the second day in the syndication, this radio program had to broadcast from Long Island, New York.
Because I was the city was shut down after the worst terror attack on American soil.
We lost two thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven of our fellow Americans.
Many others have died since from 9-11 related illnesses, which are very, very real.
And, you know, I wish this would have come up in last night's debate.
We need the courage to never say radical Islamic terrorism or illegal alien.
And meanwhile, radical Islamic terrorists attacked us and killed our fellow citizens.
And none of us that were around will ever forget that day.
And you know exactly where you are when you heard about it and you were watching it.
Everybody watched it.
Everybody has those memories seared into their brain.
And you know, just like October 7th, you know, for the equivalent of 40,000 Israelis killed on October 7th.
But the problem is we've forgotten.
Terra Warley.
Americans do not yet have the distance of history.
But our responsibility to history is already clear.
To answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.
I hear people say we don't need this war.
We protest this war, and it's not a war athletes that's laughter.
I say there's some things worth fighting for.
We are very grateful and thankful that we live in a country where there's freedom of speech, that people who are either for or against a war can speak out.
What about our freedom?
Everything has went black.
And this piece of ground.
Everything came down.
We didn't get to keep them back and down.
Glass up popping.
People got hurt.
They say we don't realize the mess we're getting in.
Oh, there it goes.
There it goes.
There it goes.
Let me ask you this, my friend.
Have you forgotten?
Oh my god.
Oh, the next building is just flew up.
Oh my god!
Another plane just flew in.
The explosion is incredible.
Have you forgotten?
I saw this plane come out of nowhere and just scream right into the side of the twin tower, exploding through the other side.
There's been an act of war declared upon America by terrorists.
You forgot.
I can hear you.
The rest of the world hears you.
And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten?
When those times fail, have you forgotten?
I'm gonna die right now.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I'm gonna die right now.
Man, man, man, say your prayers.
I'm gonna die.
It's so hot now.
I'm pretty clear.
Have you forgotten?
The dozens of residents that are sitting on the hills behind the Pentagon, almost like they're waiting for the Fourth of July fireworks, but instead they're staring dumbfounded at what's what looks like a war zone.
I mean, see bodies flying out of the sky, and you can't do nothing about it.
You tell me.
There's no words to describe what's going on out there.
Have you forgotten?
America's a nation full of good fortune.
With so much to be grateful for.
But we are not spared from suffering.
And every generation.
The world has produced enemies of human freedom.
They have attacked America.
Because we are freedom's home and defender.
Have you forgotten?
And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time.
USA!
All right, that was Darrell Worley, Have You Forgotten?
And it was just, you know, it seems like yesterday, but you know, now we have eleven million unvetted Harris Biden illegal immigrants in the country.
We see the murders they've committed.
We see the rapes they've committed, these these violent criminals.
We see all of the other violent crimes.
We see the high cost of society.
And we know that we have people with terror ties that they have allowed into this country, but we don't know where they are.
We know where a lot of them are from, they know where they're from, but they won't tell us because they don't want that exposed before the election.
But we know we have people with terror ties from Iran and Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan.
Uh, we have people from tens and tens of thousands from China and Russia and Venezuela.
You think they're all coming here because they want a better life?
No.
Matt Gates is with us.
Matt Gates was part of President Trump's uh uh debate prep team leading into last night.
Uh I had a chance to speak with them as well.
Uh Matt, appreciate you being back with us.
Uh it's great to be with you, and and particularly on such a solemn day.
Uh, your connection with uh New Yorkers is one that that is well well studied and and thought through.
Uh and also, you know, we sit here with radical Islamic terrorism still on the march, Sean, and while in two thousand one it was Al Qaeda, now it's Iran.
And Iran is richer and stronger as a consequence of the policies of the Biden Harris administration.
And Iran had been brought to its knees functionally by the Trump administration.
They were poorer, they were less capable, and President Trump was taking their leading operatives off the battlefield so Americans would not be attacked.
It's a shame to see the regression that Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have allowed.
I think President Trump did a terrific job in the debate last night, and I think there's something that the talking heads in the media didn't really pick up.
Kamala Harris, by virtue of doing no interviews and having no detailed policy briefings, and not really laying out her vision on the economy, she had a very high bar to clear because people are very concerned about the current state of affairs.
And with President Trump, he he doesn't have the same burden because people have really latent nostalgia, positive nostalgia about the Trump economy.
They knew they were richer, they knew they had better 401ks, prospect of growing a business, retiring early, having more equity in uh your assets and in your home.
And now, under Kamala Harris, people are diminished in their hopes and in their opportunities.
And she did not clear that bar.
She did not she was talking about things like the Central Park Five and whether people left early at Trump rallies to try to get under President Trump's skin, but at the same time, she really missed the opportunity to convince the American people that she could lead the nation out of the economic doldrums we're in now while her hands are currently on the wheel as the sitting vice president of the United States.
That's why you're seeing President Trump getting clear numbers for having won the debate on the economy.
That was the debate strategy.
The persuadable voters in this election are going to vote on the economy.
They're going to vote on the border.
President Trump kept the pressure on those points last night.
I thought he did a terrific job.
All right, quick break more with Florida Congressman Matt Gates on the other side.
Our polsters coming up, Mac uh Towery and Robert Cahaley as well.
800 nine four one Sean.
We'll get your calls reaction to the debate last night and much more, as we are only fifty-five days out of election day, early voting six days away in Pennsylvania.
Ballots going out now as we speak in other states as we continue.
Best election coverage available on your radio dial.
Up next, our final roundup and information overload hour.
And we continue with Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz.
He was part of Donald Trump's debate prep team.
You know, let me ask you this.
What frustrates me coming out of last night, and there is frustration, I will tell you the biggest loser was ABC uh Disney.
And and I gotta tell you something.
I mean, as woke as they have become as a company and corporation, and now just just outright hostility towards conservative candidates, um I I I I can foresee conservatives saying that they're done with Disney.
Um I have no interest in Disney at all.
What uh whatsoever?
Um, and it's you know, I'm at the point where this is like, okay, enough is enough already, but you know, how is it that we can get through a ninety-minute debate and it doesn't come up that one candidate supports taxpayer-funded sex change surgery for illegals and and convicts, as well as free housing, health care, education, college education if you're in Minneapolis, legal driver's licenses, and a path to citizenship and decriminalizing what they did.
How is it that you can have a candidate that supports uh federal drug possession for personal use, which would decriminalize crack heroin cocaine fentanyl?
How is it you have a candidate on this day in particular that won't say and wants us to have the courage not to say radical Islamic terrorism or illegal alien or supports reparations or the Green New Deal that she co-sponsored with Bernie Sanders that didn't come up,
eliminating private health insurance, Medicare for all, or government health care for all that she co-sponsored, uh, or the fact that you know, no restrictions on abortion, mandatory gun buyback, no border wall, all the reparations, all of these things, And it's like, you know, Afghanistan, the last person in the room, the highest tax increase in the history of the world, Matt.
And we didn't get to any of that last night.
How does that move the ball, do you think, in the minds of Americans?
It certainly diminishes our trust in ABC News and frankly a lot of the mainstream media because uh there is an effort to wrap Kamala Harris in bubble wrap, to not uh have any penetrating questions or any serious review of her record, which by the way, includes a record as a soft on crime DA in San Francisco, and then a soft on crime attorney general in California.
So the people who have promoted Kamala Harris were the people of San Francisco who now live in absolute squalor.
The people of California then promoted her, and now they have the most illegals, they pay the highest prices, they pay the most for energy, and they've got some of the biggest problems of crime as a consequence of those choices.
said i guess the next person the promoter was joe biden and he ended up under the bus pretty quickly Uh, as a consequence of that decision when things uh didn't look good for him in the debate.
But President Trump did a good job of tying Kamala Harris to that record.
You see, her strategy in the debate was clearly to vision cast to just sort of point to the future and use phrases like turn the page in a new way forward.
Well, you know what, Kamala?
Turning the page doesn't pay the grocery bill.
It doesn't fill up the gas tank when an American family needs to be able to get to work or go pick up your kids from school.
It doesn't help you with child care costs that are rising more and more alongside just about everything else.
And I think when President when the talking heads criticized President Trump for being angry or being frustrated, we actually viewed that as a way to connect with a lot of the economic anxieties that are being felt by the American people right now.
Like Kamala wants to talk about turning the page.
How about she just turn the page on her daily calendar and as the sitting vice president do the various things that she alleges would bring us out of this terrible Biden economy that we've all been stuck in for the last three and a half years?
So, you know, I think that what you'll hear in the media ecosystem as angry Trump really is Trump as an advocate on behalf of the American people who are angry and concerned and anxious about how things will be.
And we did get richer under Trump.
That's why I think people naturally sort of look to him as someone who can who can save us and take care of us uh in this low point that we're in.
Harris did not create that separation from Joe Biden.
That was a critical goal she had to establish in the debate.
She did not do that.
We tied her to the failed record of Joe Biden to the open borders, and like you say, the most radical policies.
If you have heard about a crazy radical left-wing policy coming out of Washington, DC, the Green New Deal, reparations, abortion up to the nine month, you name it, Kamala Harris has been one of the leading supporters of the turn left of the Democratic Party.
She is the titular head of the Venezuela wing of the Democratic Party, and would take the very policies that have destroyed Venezuela, that have destroyed California, and she would visit those on the rest of us.
That's why she must be stopped.
There's a rumor now, I did see Byron Donalds when I was in Pennsylvania yesterday in Philly, and I did see you.
And uh are you guys gonna be competing uh in in a primary for to run and be the next governor of Florida, or am I jumping ahead of myself?
I think you're jumping away ahead of yourself, Sean.
Look, uh if if uh we I just hear I just hear things on the street.
I'm just curious.
I'm allowed to ask questions.
I'm just a little talk show host.
I got you, man.
But we gotta win this thing in 2024 for President Trump, or it's not gonna matter what's what's going on in the country.
But the Republic does require strong states.
And a lot of the good ideas that have been copied to help us liberate our freedom to protect our gun rights, they have come out of states like Florida, like Texas, where you've had good executive leadership.
So it's it might be something I look at down the road, but right now my goal is to make sure that President Trump is the best candidate he can be, that we reinstitute the policies that we're working for this country, uh, and that we stop this radical agenda that would ban the gas car, ban fracking, ban border patrol and ice, uh, the very agenda that Kamala Harris has led in Washington uh for the last, I'd say, you know, uh eight years probably.
All right, Matt Gates, uh, from Vensacola, the panhandle uh congressman uh down in Florida, but in Washington today, we appreciate you being with us.
Good luck with this uh budget bill.
Are we gonna have another CR or no?
Uh unfortunately that looks like the way it's headed.
You and you and I know that the best way to budget is one agency at a time with single subject spending bills.
Take it or leave it budgeting.
It's precisely why we're thirty-seven trillion in debt, and we add a trillion dollars to the debt every hundred days.
It is unsustainable.
Appreciate your time.
Matt Gates, eight hundred-nine four one Sean, our number you want to be a part of the program.
We'll check in with our polsters.
Uh did last night's debate have any impact on the race that we can see early on.
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