Bill O’Reilly, author of Confronting the Presidents, No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden, joins us to discuss the last 13 days of the election. Why is Michelle Obama getting involved? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| That could only mean one thing on this radio program, and that means all things simple man. | |
| That means all things Bill O'Reilly. | |
| That means all things at billo'reilly.com. | |
| We welcome back to the program, All Things Bill O'Reilly, and congratulations again, number one bestseller. | |
| He just released his new book. | |
| It's called Confronting the Presidents, No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden. | |
| Well, it's like perpetual Election Day. | |
| I'm not a big lover of voting early, Mr. O'Reilly, in the sense that I would rather have Election Day be a national holiday. | |
| I would prefer that we have paper ballots. | |
| By the way, Kamala Harris had that. | |
| I'm almost done. | |
| I would prefer proof of citizenship, voter ID. | |
| I would prefer chain of custody for anyone that mails it a ballot, like the military, the sick, the elderly, the infirmed, updated voter rolls, partisan observers in every precinct in the country get to watch the voting, not interfere with the voting, but watch the voting all day and the vote counting all night. | |
| You declare a winner at the end of the night. | |
| We all go home, and I think it would lend itself to more integrity in the system and more confidence in the results. | |
| Am I wrong? | |
| No, and it's not hard to do any of that. | |
| You'd have to have a very sophisticated and easy to perform absentee ballot for those who are out of town or who are infirmed, age, things like that. | |
| You know, this election is almost exactly the way it was in 1960. | |
| And thanks for mentioning Confronting the President. | |
| It's number 13, if you can believe it, on Amazon today. | |
| I mean, a book has been out seven weeks. | |
| But anyway, JFK versus Nixon in 1960 was the closest popular vote in history. | |
| And there was solid evidence that in Chicago, the mayor Daly ginned it up for JFK at the behest of Kennedy's father, Joseph Kennedy, who had extensive interest in Chicago. | |
| And the second person invited to the White House after JFK took office was Mayor Daly. | |
| And Nixon, and nobody knows this, stepped aside. | |
| He knew that he got jobbed in Illinois and in West Virginia. | |
| Nixon knew that. | |
| He did it for the best interest of the country. | |
| And it ended up working out well for him because he was a two-term president. | |
| Yeah, but people don't. | |
| Well, elected for two terms, put it that way. | |
| So the point is that in 64 years, we have not upgraded our election system in this country. | |
| And Congress got to pay attention to it after this election and the new session begins. | |
| Let's get your no-spin take on where you see things today. | |
| All momentum seems to have dramatically shifted to Donald Trump, but I warned people we were told we were going to have a red wave in 2022. | |
| I'm telling people not to let any poll or any commentary of anybody at any time impact you or affect you. | |
| I am telling people that you must assume, especially if you're in Georgia, if you're in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona, Nevada, that your vote might be the deciding vote in this election. | |
| I look at the betting markets. | |
| I look at real clear politics. | |
| I look at the average. | |
| I look at every poll that comes out the second it comes out. | |
| I can tell you numbers where we were in 2020 versus today. | |
| Joe Biden was up by nearly nine points in the general election. | |
| Kamala is up by about one. | |
| And Hillary was up by about 6.5 in 2016. | |
| And Donald Trump right now, real clear politics average, is up in every swing state, not by a lot, but he's up in every swing state. | |
| And he was down an average of nearly five points around this time in 2020. | |
| What do you make of that? | |
| Should we make anything of it or just not pay attention to it and go vote? | |
| Well, I think Trump will win. | |
| It's not a prediction, an opinion. | |
| I'll make my prediction on Halloween, which is fitting enough. | |
| And the reason I think Trump will win is because his voter support is more fervid at the RVID. | |
| The MIGA people and the Republican Party are fearful of Harris and what the progressives will bring. | |
| It'll be worse than Joe Biden. | |
| So Trump's support is locked down hard, whereas Harris's support is soft. | |
| Nobody clamoring around for Kamala Harris. | |
| I was in Vermont over the weekend. | |
| I did not see one, and that's one of the most liberal, if not the most liberal state in the Union. | |
| I didn't see any signs for Harris walls. | |
| None. | |
| I saw a few Trumps, but nobody's running around going, we got to have Kamala. | |
| She's a terrible candidate, performed very poorly on the trail. | |
| That's what I think the decider is going to be. | |
| The other analysis I have for you today is if the Hispanic polling number holds and Trump gets 50% or more of the Hispanic American vote, he wins. | |
| It's a dramatic turnaround, and it's all economic based because generally speaking, Hispanic Americans are working hard for a living, and they know they have less money now than they had four years ago. | |
| So the wins are at Donald Trump's back. | |
| Now, the hatred now level, you can see it, and I predicted this. | |
| I think you did too, if I remember. | |
| I predicted it in January this year, my first day back from vacation. | |
| My long vacation is always around Christmas. | |
| I said, let me tell you what this election is going to be reduced to by the time we get to November. | |
| It's going to be January 6th, democracy in peril. | |
| It's going to be Donald Trump is evil. | |
| He's going to be a racist, sexist, homophobe, xenophobe, Islamophobe, transphobe that wants dirty air and water and wants to take Granny and Grandpa's Social Security and Medicare and throw them off the cliff. | |
| And all of my predictions have come true. | |
| But let's get specific today. | |
| So the hate this week is Hitler. | |
| And there's nobody who can tell you more. | |
| Well, it's Hitler. | |
| The trifecta actually was in the Atlantic. | |
| It was Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. | |
| Okay, but Hitler is the main attraction. | |
| And it's all over the place because John Kelly, former chief of staff to Trump, said that Trump admired Hitler's generals or some such. | |
| Okay, so number one, Kelly hates Donald Trump. | |
| Everybody knows that. | |
| Kelly will admit it. | |
| He hates him. | |
| Doesn't want him to win. | |
| Number two. | |
| By the way, it's not new that he said this. | |
| He said this before. | |
| Okay, but there's no context to the conversation. | |
| So I'm on News Nation this morning, and a guy named Richard Goodstein, I believe his name is, Democrat, comes on and he's railing about Hitler. | |
| So after he leaves, and I challenge Goodstein in a debate, he'll never do it. | |
| I said to the anchor, what's the context of the Hitler remark by General Kelly? | |
| Silence. | |
| Nobody knows what the context is. | |
| Was it a discussion about the effectiveness of the Wehrmacht during World War II? | |
| Was that the discussion? | |
| What was the discussion? | |
| No one knows. | |
| Okay. | |
| Number two, who witnessed this beside Kelly? | |
| No one. | |
| Okay. | |
| So you're in territory where the haters, the Trump haters, take whatever they can get and throw it out as fact. | |
| But even worse than that is the Atlantic magazine. | |
| Now, this is a guy named Jeffrey Goldberg, who's the editor-in-chief of that magazine. | |
| He's the guy that said that Trump in 2020 put forth that American soldiers killed in Europe were suckers and losers. | |
| Now, that story has been debunked by everybody in the room at the time Goldberg quoted it, an anonymous source, of course, including John Bolton, who despises Trump. | |
| Everybody debunked it. | |
| So Goldberg comes out today and says that Trump quoted Trump saying, how can an effing Mexican's funeral cost $60,000? | |
| All right. | |
| Now, you don't get more vile than this. | |
| This is as low as you can go. | |
| The victim's sister, all right? | |
| The victim was murdered. | |
| She was an Army private. | |
| The victim's sister comes out and says, that's not true. | |
| Donald Trump. | |
| Let me add some more perspective to this. | |
| Because you never said that about my sister. | |
| In fact, I voted for Trump today. | |
| The woman's Myra Guin. | |
| Correct. | |
| Now, once you have that level of hatred and it's spouted over corporate media, you have to hold the corporate media accountable. | |
| But, Bill, they're in the tank, and this is where I was going. | |
| They're in the tank. | |
| They've been in the tank. | |
| They are an extension of the press office of Kamala Harris. | |
| We have a corrupt, abusively biased news media. | |
| They're all talk show hosts that claim to be journalists. | |
| They give opinion like we give opinion, and they claim to be holier than now. | |
| Now, this is, for example, you mentioned John Kelly or General Kelly. | |
| General Kelly, you know, there have been serious allegations about Kamala Harris's husband. | |
| One that he may have slapped a woman, and she contemporaneously told three people at the time, the media, the Me Too group, they've ignored it. | |
| We know the story about the previous marriage, the nanny, and having a child with the nanny. | |
| You know, serious allegations. | |
| There are first-hand accounts all over the internet that we've not discussed and I'm not going to discuss now because I can't verify them about Tim Walz. | |
| And I'm playing fair. | |
| Now, there was a question in an interview in May, May 18th, to be specific, 2018, of General Kelly with NPR. | |
| And NPR asked the question, there's been reporting about derogatory words that you used to describe the president. | |
| I know you've denied it. | |
| How would you describe your relationship? | |
| John Kelly then said, the president and I have a very close relationship. | |
| And my view is to speak truth to power. | |
| I always give my opinion on everything. | |
| He always listens. | |
| Sometimes he takes the opinion, sometimes he doesn't. | |
| The good thing about the president is he does listen to people. | |
| And generally speaking, we'll have a group in there of a spectrum, if you will. | |
| So if it's taxes, you'll have someone who thinks very liberally about taxes and someone who is an arch conservative and then a sprinkling of everybody in the middle. | |
| And then he further goes on to praise Trump and said he's very, very smart. | |
| He's a smart guy. | |
| I mean, super smart. | |
| But I think it wouldn't surprise you to know that he's very strong. | |
| He's very strong in terms of trade, taxes, business. | |
| He's a quick study on everything else. | |
| He's a very bright guy. | |
| Now he's comparing him to Hitler. | |
| Now, the fact that the media runs with this, but they ignore very real, serious allegations about Kamala's husband is to me the perfect example of bias. | |
| And their closing argument in this campaign is he's Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini. | |
| Right. | |
| He's evil, and democracy's in peril, although the Washington Post poll shows that more people think she's a threat to democracy, not him. | |
| Let me ask you a question on your show. | |
| Am I allowed to do that? | |
| Is it going to be a cupcake question or a hard one? | |
| It's going to be an opinion question. | |
| Are you ready? | |
| I'm always ready. | |
| All right. | |
| Do you think that there's all this over-the-top stuff is going to hurt Harris? | |
| All right, quick break, right back more with all things simple man Bill O'Reilly and allthings O'Reilly at PillO'Reilly.com. | |
| We'll also get to your calls next half hour, toll-free. | |
| It's 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program. | |
| Senate candidate now surging in Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick, will join us at the top of the next hour as we continue. | |
| Election Day is today and for the next 13 days. | |
| And go to Hannity.com for information about registration, early voting when it starts and stops, and the Kamala files and the Walls files, all as a public service as we continue. | |
| Can we continue now? | |
| All Things Simple Man Bill O'Reilly, allthingsO'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com. | |
| If she can't run on this, which is if she can't answer the question, she can't say the borders are more secure, that our towns and cities are safer because they have tackled crime rather than defund dismantled Nobel laws, that the cost of groceries, that inflation was transitory, has come back down and people can afford groceries, but they can't. | |
| And people don't like paying a buck, buck 50 more a gallon for gasoline, and that the world is not a safer place. | |
| We have a war in Europe, war in the Middle East. | |
| And she can't run on, are you better off than you were four years ago? | |
| And 79% of Americans think we're heading in the wrong direction. | |
| That is a prescription for an electoral disaster. | |
| Well, let me inject some emotion into your analysis. | |
| So I don't believe that most Americans go down the list that you and I go down because we do this for a living. | |
| We know what these people have said on the record, both Trump. | |
| I'll tell you what, this is worth holding you over for. | |
| Rather than me shortening your answer and rushing you, which I know you don't like, well, we'll remind people of your question, my answer, and then we'll let you give your answer. | |
| How about that on the other side? | |
| Sounds swell. | |
| Thanks for having me. | |
| Sounds swell. | |
| You sound like you're 90 years old. | |
| Sounds swell. | |
| You should say, no, that's cool. | |
| That sounds good. | |
| No problem. | |
| I'm helping you out, O'Reilly. | |
| I'm getting a little street smarter. | |
| Anyway, more with Bill O'Reilly. | |
| His book, number one, New York Times confronting the presidents. | |
| We carried over Bill O'Reilly, allthings O'Reilly of BillO'Reilly.com, and his book is now number one New York Times list confronting the presidents. | |
| I want to ask you: so, you wanted to ask me a question. | |
| I'll give a short summation of what my answer was, and then you are going to give me your answer to the question you asked me. | |
| But bring up the question again. | |
| All right, the question was: do you think all this over-the-top hatred, Hitler accusing Trump of saying bad things about Mexicans? | |
| Will that hurt Kamala Harris in a backlash? | |
| The answer to your question is I believe it will, because she can't focus on the fundamental issues that impact people's daily lives, and that is border security, safety and security in your town and city, bread and butter issues, the high cost of everything you buy in every store you go to, the inflation, the economy, paying a buck, buck fifty more a gallon, and the lack of stability in the world. | |
| It's not a safer place since they've been in office. | |
| So the answer is if she's not focused on that, she has no good closing argument, and calling Donald Trump names backfires. | |
| She isn't calling him the names, but her surrogates are. | |
| Oh, no, she called him a fascist on Charlemagne and the God. | |
| She said that's appropriate. | |
| But, you know, he called her a communist. | |
| So that's just standard. | |
| How would you describe the Green New Deal? | |
| $93 trillion, Bill? | |
| Well, I would say that Kamala Harris is a Bernie Sanders socialist. | |
| That's what I would say. | |
| I think that's accurate, and I could back it up. | |
| But the important point is this. | |
| Most Americans don't follow politics like Hannity and O'Reilly. | |
| This is what we do for a living. | |
| But they do pick up themes. | |
| And the theme in the Harris campaign, from her on down, is we hate Trump. | |
| Not that we dislike him. | |
| Not that we feel our policies are better than his. | |
| None of that. | |
| We hate his guts. | |
| And we are willing to say anything, including invoking one of the most heinous, evil people ever to walk the planet, and flat out state that Donald Trump is like or admires Adolf Hitler. | |
| That's vile. | |
| V-I-L-E, vile. | |
| And I think that most Americans, even at this polarized point in our country, I believe they don't like hatred. | |
| And that's why I think Harris will hurt herself. | |
| I think it's a great analysis. | |
| You know, at the end of the day, historically, what drives elections are peace and prosperity. | |
| And under Harris and Biden, we have war in Europe. | |
| We have war in the Middle East. | |
| And they clearly don't know how to deal with some of our top geopolitical foes, certainly not from a position of strength, Iran being the number one example. | |
| They've allowed the Iranians to get rich. | |
| That has fomented these proxy wars and even direct attacks, ballistic missiles being fired by Iran into Israel. | |
| They have shown weakness in terms of supporting Israel's right to defend themselves against radical Islamic terrorists that killed, in terms of their population size, what would be the equivalent of 40,000 Americans in a day. | |
| They have no moral clarity, and they seem to have no way out. | |
| And to me, you're reminded every time you go to the grocery store that things are not better than they were four years ago, reminded every time you fill up your gas tank, people, I think, are going to vote with their wallets, their pocketbooks, and they see the devastation of illegal immigration. | |
| And I just think they see defund, dismantle, no bail laws. | |
| None of it works, Bill. | |
| And if it's not working, they're going to want change. | |
| That's what my hope is. | |
| I don't have a crystal ball. | |
| I am cautiously optimistic, but I have a sense of urgency that everybody better take this seriously if they don't want to wake up and she's the next president. | |
| Well, I think that most Americans do not like the way this campaign is being run on both sides. | |
| But the elevation of hatred by the Democrats is now at the highest level since the Civil War. | |
| And I think that'll play against the Democrats, not only in the presidential, but also in the congressional races as well. | |
| You're basically saying Liz Cheney's not going to get her over the top. | |
| And Barack Obama scolding African-American men as being sexist isn't going to help. | |
| And Bill Clinton saying Lake and Riley would be alive if they would vet illegal immigrants. | |
| That's not going to help. | |
| And Gretchen Whitmer mocking communion is not going to help. | |
| Is that what you're saying? | |
| That's pretty much it, but there's a lot more to it. | |
| It's all psychological, but that's what wins elections and loses elections. | |
| People's psychology when they go into the voting booth. | |
| You know why last week was such a good week for Trump based on what you're telling me is he had fun at McDonald's. | |
| It was clear he was having fun. | |
| He had fun at the Al Smith dinner. | |
| It was obvious he was having fun. | |
| But you know, he's fun. | |
| Blame for E. coli. | |
| You know, they're going to blame him for that. | |
| Yeah, I know. | |
| All right. | |
| All things simple, man, Bill O'Reilly. | |
| Congrats, number one, New York Times bestseller confronting the presidents. | |
| AllthingsO'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com. | |
| Appreciate it, Bill. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Grab me in. | |
| Bye. | |
| 800-941-Sean. | |
| If you want to be a part of the program, let us say hi to Eric. | |
| He's in my free state of Florida. | |
| Eric, how are you? | |
| Glad you called, sir. | |
| Oh, thank you. | |
| Thank you so much, Sean, for taking the call. | |
| I just wanted to say that as a man, I feel offended by the Harris campaign urging me to man up and vote for Kamala. | |
| Real men don't think with somebody else's brains. | |
| We think with our own brains. | |
| And my brain tells me that there are literally millions of brilliant pro-America black women who could someday be president. | |
| Women like Harris Faulkner or Condoleezza Rice have presidential potential, in my opinion. | |
| I don't think Kamala does. | |
| I mean, I've watched her speak on TV for four years, and I've seen nothing but poverty of thought, word salads, and a glaring lack of preparation before the TV cameras. | |
| That speaks of laziness, and I refuse to vote for a lazy person. | |
| That's my opinion. | |
| Her taking off yesterday was beyond bizarre to me with 14 days to go. | |
| I don't think she's intellectually up to the job. | |
| I don't think that our guiding ideological political philosophy is aligned with the American people. | |
| She is as radical and extreme a candidate that has ever run for this office. | |
| This closing argument that Trump is Hitler and Stalin and Mussolini is what it is. | |
| I think Bill characterized it very well by saying it is just contempt and outright hatred. | |
| And it's not a vision for the future. | |
| And Donald Trump is saying we're going to make America great again. | |
| And the Washington Post is saying, you better minimize your expectations of what the American dream is going to look like. | |
| And the idea that you're going to have a nice house and a safe neighborhood with good schools and a backyard. | |
| Yeah, forget about that. | |
| You should start thinking about a townhouse. | |
| I don't think most people's first house or dream of a house is a townhouse. | |
| I happen to live in a town. | |
| I might buy a house again. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I keep vacillating back and forth. | |
| I said yesterday I wouldn't, but you know what? | |
| I probably will. | |
| But you know what? | |
| I look at this and I'm like, we're better than this. | |
| We can be so wealthy just with energy alone. | |
| And yet she wants to eliminate fracking. | |
| I'll end it. | |
| And offshore drilling. | |
| She wants to eliminate the greatest wealth-producing economic system ever designed by man. | |
| That's called capitalism. | |
| That's what the new Green Deal would eliminate. | |
| Cradle to grave, womb to the tomb, always ends the same way. | |
| Socialism, as I called it, is history of failure. | |
| You can argue this is even outright Marxism, redistribution. | |
| But whatever you call it, whatever name it takes on, whatever manifestation it takes on, it always ends the same way. | |
| I wrote a chapter about this in my book in 2020, Live Free or Die, American the World on the Brink. | |
| I had no idea how right I'd be. | |
| It's even worse now. | |
| And socialism and its history of failure. | |
| You know, all these lofty promises that never get fulfilled. | |
| You end up with more poverty in the end and a loss of freedom. | |
| You give up your freedom in the name of false security. | |
| Why people trust the government to do anything right at this point? | |
| I don't know. | |
| They haven't earned our trust. | |
| Anyway, appreciate you being with us. | |
| All right, Mo the liberal in New York. | |
| It wouldn't be fair if I did an election season and didn't talk to Mo the Liberal. | |
| He's been calling the show for decades. | |
| He's a good guy deep down inside. | |
| I met Moe. | |
| He looks like a hippie. | |
| He is a hippie, but he's a cool guy, and we really like him. | |
| What's going on, Mo? | |
| Does New York miss me? | |
| Not at all, right? | |
| You never appeared much around New York, Sean. | |
| Look, everybody should know this about you. | |
| You're the hardest working man in the entertainment and news business. | |
| You never stop. | |
| I don't know how you do it, but yeah, you're also the most dangerous man in America, Sean. | |
| Do you really still believe I'm dangerous? | |
| What's dangerous about me? | |
| Actually, I don't know. | |
| You know, Sean, back in the days when everything was vituralic and the lines were drawn in the sand, it's different. | |
| But today, I don't know. | |
| You're a much more reasonable voice in terms of the things that you are concerned with. | |
| By the way, have I made a pretty compelling case about how radical Kamala is? | |
| I'm an anarchist, Sean. | |
| She's not radical enough for me. | |
| Oh, my gosh. | |
| There's no hope for you. | |
| You're never going to change. | |
| You're never going to change. | |
| Mo the liberal will always be Mo the Liberal. | |
| There's no hope for you. | |
| So you want the Green New Deal. | |
| You want the elimination of private health insurance. | |
| you even want sex change operations for illegal immigrants and and you want to agree sex change operations you know but you No, I'm asking. | |
| Do you support taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegals? | |
| For taxpayer for all health issues. | |
| All health issues. | |
| So you want taxpayers to foot the bill for people that entered this country illegally for them to have a sex change operation. | |
| You're okay with that. | |
| Sean, it's no, you just said you're okay with that. | |
| I said, no, I said I want every medical procedure that's necessary to be free. | |
| You know, I'd like to. | |
| Okay, free for illegal immigrants. | |
| And you consider that a medical procedure. | |
| So you want to support taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for illegal immigrants. | |
| Just say it. | |
| The answer is yes, is it not? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| You're trying to put words, and I'm not going to say them. | |
| No, I'm not putting words. | |
| Wait a minute. | |
| I'm not giving up. | |
| This is a simple question. | |
| Kamala Harris supports taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegal immigrants and convicts. | |
| Do you support that? | |
| Well, you know, in jail, it might just happen anyway with a shim. | |
| So I don't know what to tell you, Sean, on that. | |
| I didn't, no, no, no. | |
| You're ducking. | |
| Do you support that, Mr. Anarchist, self-proclaimed? | |
| I think the doctors should make decisions on what happens to a patient. | |
| Why can't you just say, yes, I support it, Sean? | |
| Why don't you just say what you think? | |
| Why are you hiding it? | |
| Because you obviously believe taxpayers should fund that. | |
| So why don't you just admit it? | |
| They should also fund abortion. | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| All right. | |
| Should taxpayers fund sex change operations for illegal immigrants? | |
| Do you support what Kamala supports? | |
| Hey, look, we paid a million dollars. | |
| Uh-uh, no, Mo, stop. | |
| Mo, you're making this too hard. | |
| Do you support what Kamala supports? | |
| Yes or no? | |
| It's a yes or no question. | |
| She wants I support. | |
| Will it happen? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I'm asking if you support it. | |
| Yes. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Yes. | |
| Man. | |
| No. | |
| And it's like pulling teeth to get an answer out of a liberal. | |
| Good grief. | |
| I'm sorry, Sean. | |
| I apologize. | |
| I really am so, always so happy to speak to you on the radio. | |
| You know, I don't know how we became, I don't know, friends, for God's sakes. | |
| I'm going to admit I like you. | |
| I know you're sincere in your beliefs. | |
| And I just accept the fact that you are a radical leftist that you are. | |
| I mean, I can't help you. | |
| I wish I could, but I can't. | |
| Lara to see my granddaughter. | |
| What a wonderful place you're living in. | |
| My son lives in Boca. | |
| Oh, fabulous. | |
| Well, I'm not that far away from Boca. | |
| I know where it is. | |
| And maybe one day I'll see you down here. | |
| That'd be fun. | |
| I got a roll. | |
| Mo, God bless you. |