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All things self-proclaimed, simple man, which means all things Bill O'Reilly, all things Bill O'Reilly at Bill O'Reilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, uh happy new year.
Great to talk to you.
Uh I'm sure you agree with me that our prayers are with the people of California, although it is frustrating that the state has done nothing to lessen the likelihood of these wildfires because of their extreme environmental policies.
Um, you know, uh and and this isn't a time for politics, but however, you ought to be able to clear out the brush.
The LA mayor shouldn't have cut 17 million dollars of the firefighters' budget, um, scores of broken hydrants in Los Angeles, we've discovered, and it could be a lot of this could be prevented if in fact if they would get rid of the overgrowth in California forests, um, which which makes this all the more likely.
In it in much of California, landowner that undertakes to start a controlled burn on their property has to jump through a series of hoops proving that they have the expertise to do so, but they should be doing it as a state and and lives and property would be saved, Bill.
Well, I don't think there's any question the state of California's derelict and protecting its citizens from natural disasters.
Did you know that uh the state approved five um water plants?
Um a number of years ago, we're trying to track down exactly when that happened.
Um and none of them have been built.
And why that's important is that uh California's always in uh, particularly Southern California, always in the state of drought.
And if you have water plants uh that um hoard water, you can much easier irrigate the land and and keep the dry brush from overwhelming the topography.
I was out there a week ago.
I was in almost exactly the place where these fires are, very near Pacific Palisades.
Very calm out there.
Um it was no problem, nobody was anticipating this.
And what the unbelievable thing about it is, this just happened about 24 hours ago.
It's not that this is an ongoing, it just the fire started and the ferocious winds just whipped it into a uh catastrophe.
But that's the that's the other part of this.
They know that they regularly have Santa Ana winds.
I lived in California for five years.
I'm very familiar with it.
Um I I saw these fires up close and personal.
I remember going back and visiting years later in an entire neighborhood very close to where I had lived, was burned to the ground.
It was a pretty affluent neighborhood, not the part that I lived in, but I mean, everything was destroyed.
You see, you know, the Pacific uh palisades being destroyed, and they do nothing, they they don't take the necessary steps.
Back then they were talking about desalinization plants uh uh plants because they didn't have enough water because you rightly point out that they have they're constantly in a state of drought, so that's a big problem.
Then they have all the brush, but you're not allowed to clear the brush because you're clearing the natural habitat of this snake or or that lizard.
It's insane.
And as a result, these wire wildfires now are very predictable, but I would argue some of them at least would be very preventable if they take common sense measures.
Um and I think that most people would agree with that.
The Getty Museum, which is a big attraction of Los Angeles, uh did clear the brush in uh in a very dramatic way.
I don't know whether they got a waiver or not from the city, but they did it.
And that prevented uh the Getty Museum from being overwhelmed by the flames.
Um what you're saying is absolutely you can't prevent the fires.
What you can prevent is the catastrophe, the rapid spread.
And um, you know, but the environmentalists control California, and as you said, they'll come up with snail darters or this little fish, that, and and then you get nothing done.
So while I'm on vacation, I see a headline Bill O'Reilly summoned to Mar-a-Lago.
That was the exact headline.
I'm sure you saw the article yourself.
Uh, in your latest column, you discuss a trip that you made down to Mar-a-Lago.
Uh, how much would you like to reveal about that trip?
So I'm I'm on vacation.
Uh, we left the day after Christmas for California, went to Yosemite, uh, Monterey Carmel, down to LA.
And um, very soon after I left New York, I um got a request from President Trump, hey, you gotta come down to Mar-a-Lago.
Didn't say why.
All right.
Now I'm not buying a membership, that's like 125,000, right?
I so I'm not doing that.
And I didn't know why, but when the president of the United States says he wants to see you, you you go.
And then go.
That's correct.
Yeah, you go.
And you don't say, why?
You just say, okay.
That's what being a patriot is all about.
So anyway, uh, I diverted uh coming back from uh LA to New York, I went to LA to Miami, and by the way, nope, don't do that.
There's no nonstop flights from LA into Palm Beach.
But it's like Mad Max on I 95 in South Florida.
I mean, really, it's insane.
So I would my son and I are watching these cars go 120.
I thought it was in Germany on the Audubon.
It was crazy.
So we go up to uh Mar-a-Lago, and uh I'd been there before, and I know the drill.
And uh we arrived at 730 last Thursday, and uh he's got a good staff, he's always had a good staff, uh, Donald Trump.
And a young guy comes and says, President like to see you, okay.
So uh my son and I uh go over to the office, which is uh almost attached to the main residence, and we go and I'm ushered into a room, and there is a cabinet meeting underway.
And I went, whoa.
So next to me is Stephen Miller, and then there's Navarro, there's Lutnik, and three guys I didn't know, and the president is behind his desk, and I write all about this in a column that you refer to, you can reference it on Bill O'Reilly.com.
But the gist of the meeting was worldwide uh about tariffs and about Panama and about Greenland, um, and about Gaza and China, and it was just unbelievably fascinating for a journalist historian to hear the back and forth.
And then uh President Trump asked me my opinion, which, you know, I will I'm very shy about giving my opinion, Hannity, you know that.
Very shy.
I mean, that demure, shy, those are adjectives that immediately come to mind.
That's right.
And everyone knows.
But I gave him my opinion because I am a patriot and when asked by a president.
And it was very interesting to see um how in command Donald Trump was.
Bill, here's a fact.
Most people, we have known both known him for about 30 years, the two of us, independently.
Most people do not understand Donald Trump.
They have no idea how smart he is, how funny he is, how generous he is, how witty he is.
Um they don't understand his psychology.
Everything is a negotiation, and they don't understand when for example, he says he's gonna put tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
He's the that that is the beginning of the negotiation.
I don't think he's negotiating when he says they'll be held to pay if the hostages aren't released.
I think he means that.
What really offended me uh uh the corrupt media coverage of the press conference yesterday was the headline, Trump doesn't rule out military action against Panama.
And you and I understand that he always opens a negotiation and has, if you read the United States or Trump, the best book on Trump, and has since he was a young man in real estate.
Always opens with a hand grenade.
Boom.
The most outrageous thing he can say to throw off the other side.
Now Canada is not gonna become the 51st state.
U.S. Marines are not gonna go into Panama.
None of that will happen.
But if you step back and you understand But if Panama wants three billion dollars in repair assistance from the U.S., there's gonna be changes.
Otherwise one change, and I actually said this in the cabinet meeting, is that a contract, a new contract has to be written whereby our shipping, U.S. shipping gets a substantial discount going through that canal.
And it's our priority considering we are largely responsible for all the engineering and the Panama Canal wouldn't exist but for the United States.
That's true.
Jimmy Carter giving it away was a debacle of monumental proportions, and God rest his soul.
Um he was a much better post president um than he was a president in my view.
He did a lot of great work after his presidency, uh Habitat for Humanity, but uh this was the worst deal ever that I can think of in the modern era of a president giving away that canal that wouldn't exist but for us.
It got us nowhere.
It got us Noriega.
We had a Bush had to go in and get him.
Uh he was a drug dealer.
I mean, it it was insane.
But Carter was not a good president.
But anyway, now we have two Chinese companies providing security for the canal.
That can't happen.
It has to stop.
Can't happen.
It has to, and and Trump said it very well.
He said this was a gift, and it was a gift from the United States.
And you're abusing the gift.
And that has to change, and if it doesn't change, then I would imagine that there'll be severe consequences for Panama.
And I'm not talking about an invasion.
No.
But the press wants to scare everybody, that's what they do.
So irresponsible, it's so dishonest.
And in the Greenland thing, I mean, that that's an easy negotiation with Copenhagen.
Uh, my message of the day on Bill O'Reilly.com is about King Frederick the Tenth.
You know, it it's a kingdom, Denmark.
And uh, King Fred, who make a deal in a minute, because it'll be good for Denmark, because they're never gonna harvest the fossil fuels and the lithium underneath that uh permafrost, and we can.
But the big part of that deal is once we get in there, don't you we may not even need them, Bill, because they're good uh they do have autonomy, they do have their own parliament, and they might vote for their own independence, and if they do, they can then align with the United States any way they want.
But that's not what is at issue.
The government today and the king is a part of it, and the king is a descendant from Gorm the old.
Did you know that?
I did know that, yes.
Gorm the old, 10th century.
Now, I know Goram would have made that deal with Trump.
I know that.
So by the way, and the people of Greenland are not happy with Denmark.
They feel like they're treated like second and third class citizens, and that there's a level of racism when they make a uh visits to Denmark.
There's only about fifty-eight thousand people on this island of about one point three eight million acres.
If we're a country, it would be the fifth largest country on the planet.
But I heard a rumor that um because Don Jr. went there, they already made a deal.
If he leaves immediately, Denmark will give uh Trump anything he wants.
You think that's true?
I think it's a possibility.
I do.
I think things are gonna change.
I think the world order is gonna change.
I think I think everything already has changed.
Um I think things will change in the Middle East.
I think we'll see an end to war in Europe.
I do believe that in spite of the sabotage of of Joe Biden with you know, by trying to sell off the wall of pennies on the dollar, which really hurts the American people, him trying to ban fracking and drilling and putting a moratorium on such.
I don't believe any of this will stand, and I believe Donald Trump's agenda will move forward, and if he is able to achieve what he set out to what he's setting out to achieve, I think he has the chance to be the most transformational President in a hundred, hundred plus years.
Okay, well, we'll s I don't want to say we'll see, because that's ridiculous, but certainly the potential is there.
Now, here's my beef today.
Well, you if we cut two trillion dollars in spending, if we if we deported illegal immigrants, if we secured our borders, if we became the most energy energy dominant country on earth, if we rebuild our military for the next generation of weaponry and become the baddest military on the face of the earth, you don't think that's transformative?
Of course it is.
And if it happens, then President Trump will go down on history as one of the great presidents.
But here's my beef today, Hannity.
You ready for my beef?
We got 20 seconds.
Go.
So Biden is uh going to Italy.
You know how much it costs the taxpayer about 15 million dollars.
Hamel is going to Asia and around the world.
Why?
They're grifters.
They're using the taxpayer money and take long vacations.
It's outrageous.
It's outrageous.
Uh all things simple man, Bill O'Reilly.
Happy New Year, my friend.
And uh if you get summoned to Palm Beach, you may want to stop by, you know, and and catch up with your buddy Hannity next time.
He didn't even give me a call.
Unbelievable.
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Um I still can't get over the environmental regulations that have prevented California.
And I And I don't like to talk about politics in the middle of a tragedy because my prayers really are with the people of the Pacific Palisades and and anybody impacted in California.
I talked to two friends of mine out there yesterday, and they both had to evacu evacuate their homes.
I gotta get an update how things went for them.
Um they just wanted to get out with their life.
We have residents uh furious at the LA mayor, Karen Bass.
Uh she happens to be in Ghana.
Why she's seventy, four hundred miles away, I don't know.
Uh, but a lot of people in LA are furious.
Uh we also discovered firehouse.com that LA firefighters are at their wit's end after finding scores of broken fire hydrants as they struggle to gain control over one of the worst or worst wildfires in their city's history.
You have the mayor slashing LA firefighter uh uh budgeting by seventeen million dollars.
That was only months before the city now is up in flames.
The LA fire department had its budget cut by a staggering seventeen point six million dollars this financial year.
And this California wild fire problem, which we have gone into great specificity in detail about a lot of this it would be preventable if they would do controlled burns, if they would clear out a lot of a lot of the material that is uh burned, that they'd create areas where they'd cut down trees and barriers.
There's all sorts of you know, fire safety, fire management, forestry.
It's a it's a science if they actually would follow it, but they don't because they give into the environmental extremists.
There's only four months ago, Donald Trump was in California speaking about the need for California to send more water downstate to prevent uh fires.
Now it's interesting that years ago they they did fund five water plants for this very purpose, and none of them were built.
And somebody needs to be held responsible for that.
Listen.
It's cleaned out and protected.
We've got to take care of the floors, you know, the floors of the forest for sure.
Very important.
You look at other countries where they do it differently, and and it's uh whole different story.
I was with the president of Finland and he said we have uh much different we're a forest nation.
He called it a forest nation.
And they spent a lot of time on drinking and cleaning and doing things, and they don't have any problem.
And when it is, it's a very small problem.
So uh I know everybody's looking at that to that end, and uh it's gonna work out.
You have so much water and all those fields that are right now barren, the farmers would have all the water they needed, and you could revert water up into the hills where you have all the dead forests where the forests are so brittle.
Because no no places like California.
I go to Austria.
The head of Austria tells me, you know, we have trees that are much more flammable than what you have in California.
We never have forest floods because they maintain their forests.
And you have all that water that could be used to as water what they call water flow, where the war war you know, where the land would be damp.
And you'd stop many of these horrible fires that are costing billions and billions of dollars by the federal government, etc.
So one thing I'm gonna do for California, vote for me, California.
I'm gonna give you safety.
I'm gonna give you a great border, and I'm gonna give you more water than almost anybody has and by the way, he's not wrong on the wal water part.
I mean, many of you may remember that years ago I went out to the what was it, San Joaquin Valley, and they would not allow water to be given to farmers, and I'd walk through, you know, literally thousands and thousands of acres of farms were pretty much shut down because of a government policy to protect this little what looked like a minnow fish uh called the Delta Smelt,
and they cared more about the Delta smelt and their environmental agenda than they did about farmers and their ability to to make a living and prov provide food for people.
It's it's insanity.
But that's you know, that's what they're doing.
Uh all right, let's get to our busy, busy phones.
Uh let us say hi to Chris.
He's in the great state of Texas.
God bless Texas.
Happy New Year, Chris.
How are you?
Happy New Year, sir.
Yeah, I've got a Texas related question when it comes to Biden sabotaging this wall and selling his for five cents on a dollar.
I don't understand why no one in the state of Texas in the county at the county level made an attempt to purchase these things to secure them.
And I know that you can do that if if you join the uh there's a federal website to register to uh put things out to bid.
And I I I know I was in law enforcement, and I know my my contacts back in New Jersey are still involved in that.
And it's it's a pretty simple thing.
Listen, it's a very simple thing.
This is only vindictiveness.
This is this is pettiness.
This is this is not gonna it's not something that really will personally hurt Donald Trump.
This will hurt the American people by trying to put limitations, moratoriums on drilling and fracking.
That's not gonna hurt Donald Trump.
Donald Trump will be able to overcome that, most likely first with an executive order.
It may take court litigation action later.
It may take legislation in the end, but he's he's going to drill and he's going to make this country energy dominant.
He's not going to give up.
But this is vindictive pettiness.
It really really shows you, you know, want to talk about undermining democracy.
They know what the Trump agenda is.
They know what the American people voted for, and they just want to undermine it every step of the way.
And selling off portions of the wall, knowing that Donald Trump would buy new wall to build.
Yeah, it'll cost six times what it cost, you know, however many years ago, six years ago, whenever he bought it.
But, you know, that that Joe's hurting the American people by trying to put a moratorium on energy, he's hurting all of you because you'll pay more for energy.
The more energy produced, supply demand crisscross dictate the price, and you reduce the supply, it increases the cost.
It's that simple because the demand will remain constant.
So I just think that that's on Joe.
It it really shows what an angry, bitter, resentful, petty person that he is, and frankly has been the whole time, and and why he's one of the worst presidents in history.
Um back to our phones.
Thank you for the call, Chris.
Uh Wayne in Pennsylvania.
What's up, Wayne?
How are you?
We love our friends in the Commonwealth.
What's going on?
Hey, happy New Year, Sean, and uh congratulations.
Um Thank you.
Happy New Year to you too, my friend.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Hey, I'd like to make a few points what I've learned uh during the past presidential cycle with both the Democrats and the Republicans.
And before I do that, I'd like to make a confession, Sean.
Um back in 1975, I saw Led Zeppelin at Madison Square Garden.
Sean, I didn't know I was attending the neo-Nazi rally at the time.
Well, you are you are not.
But but a statement like that, that's what the Democrats were doing with Trump.
They had the legacy media had the Trump rally in Madison Square Garden, and then they flashed a neo-Nazi rally back in the 30s at the Garden.
Um, calling him Hitler uh fascists.
Um But you know what?
That was ridiculous.
So one of the other points is the mental health of Biden.
Now I cannot believe Schumer just recently came out and said he saw nothing wrong with him.
And I honestly believe the reason why they had the debate that early in June is because they knew there were issues with Biden, and that was their out to just show him to the public what he really was.
Um another point with um But you know what?
There was a great column by well, those were two great columns, one by Joe Concha, who was on yesterday, and Greg Jarrett also on yesterday.
And Greg's column, 2024, the year of gaslighting, and it really was and this is why I proclaimed the death of legacy media.
I'm I'm not gonna be proven wrong on this.
Like I wasn't proven wrong on the death, you know, when I said journalism is dead.
You know, you can go back to they they lied, they covered up what was happening at the border, they covered up inflation, they covered up the economy, they covered up the high costs of gasoline, they covered up Joe's cognitive state, they lied about the state of the world, you know, they defied Supreme Court decisions.
They they did all of these things.
Then they lied about the cheap fake videos after the G7 summit.
They they lied about their policy flip-flopping.
Nobody wanted to cover the comilophiles the way we did on this program, but it did go rather viral.
You're right about the Madison Square Garden Rally was it was not an ode to Nazis, as they claimed.
Uh and and their rationale now that Kamala lost because of sexism and racism is completely out of touch.
And Sean, like you always say, you you have to unpeel the onion.
Like with COVID, they pretty much um ostracized us, canceled us because we didn't take the shot.
And so many people lost their livelihood, lost their lives, and there were cases where people were set up for major surgery, and they were turned down because they did not take the shot.
Another point that I want to make is climate change.
There's climate change every year.
It's called the four seasons.
Spring, summer, fall, and winter.
And being a resident of New Jersey uh for a period of time, we had temperature swings from anywhere from ninety-eight degrees down to 15 degrees.
So you know what?
That's a bunch of baloney about climate change.
As for the Republicans, you only won by two million votes.
That comes down to 40,000 votes per state.
Start listening to the people.
I've been trying to get in touch with my senator, my council people, and even ex-governors.
And they do not want to hear from the people.
It's always an intern or a surrogate, and you never really speak to that particular person.
So they need to listen to us, or else they'll lose in 2028.
Thank you very much, Vaughn.
Well said, Wayne.
Listen, you have a very, very great new year.
Have a happy new year.
God bless you and your family, my friend.
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Uh John in Texas.
John, God bless Texas.
What's going on?
Well, thanks for having me on.
Um, I just kind of want to say a little bit about uh uh Judge Meathead there.
Uh I think if uh uh he doesn't go through with the uh the sentencing and all.
He's just gonna say that uh yeah, we had him, but uh, you know, he's immune and you know he escaped this way.
And I think under under an appeal, uh the entire case is gonna be laid out for the whole NFC.
You're gonna see all the uh facts, the twisting of the facts in the law to achieve the end result, and uh it's gonna be out for everybody to see.
Uh and also maybe even share some of the collusion.
It's not that the left fears Trump's views, they really fear his effectiveness.
And that's why they're they're we're going after him like this.
Well, they're going they did it to win the election.
They did it to make him a convict.
He's not officially a convict until he's sentenced.
On the other hand, he does have the opportunity then to appeal the case.
I I believe in the end it will be overthrown.
Uh some breaking news today.
The president did file an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to prevent this sentencing.
I don't know if it's going to be too late.
I know people like Mark Levin and and others have been saying that they need to do this sooner, but you know what?
There's still time.
Let's see what happens.
And if the president does get sentenced, it'll be irrelevant anyway.
There's not going to be any fine, there's not going to be any imprisonment, there's not going to be anything except Democrats will say he's a convicted felon.
Well, for now, because there were so many abuses of the system and corruption involved in this case.
I can't imagine that this is not going to get overturned and probably overturned rather expeditiously.
So they'll get their sentencing, they'll get their last pound of of flesh, and after that, guess what?
Donald Trump will be the president.
It won't matter, and it won't be an issue when he leaves office.