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Saving Israel - February 6th, Hour 2
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Listen, let me, I want to get into the Democrats.
They've doubled down on two really dumb issues, which I am perfectly fine with.
Because if they want to fight the deportation of people, we have known terrorists, cartel members, gang members, murderers, rapists in this country, and their Jamie Raskins of the world are saying that this is not a big deal and so on and so forth and minimize it.
And if they want to fight for the rights of those illegal immigrant criminals, I'm fine with that.
The other big issue that they seem to be doubling down on, with the exception of Ram Rambo, Deadfish Emmanuel, and David Axarod, they're two people that are not stupid.
And they're saying, let all this foreign U.S. aid go.
But I'm sure, Bill O'Reilly, that you're perfectly happy, you know, paying out billions and hundreds of billions of dollars, you know, for HIV research on transgenders and millions to the COVID lab in China and a Serbian LGBTQ group.
All of this money seems to be going to woke causes, Green New Deal causes, the advancement of trans causes, DEI, abortion.
I mean, I'm sure you have no problem with the $20 million of taxpayer money being spent on a Sesame Street show in Iraq or $56 million to boost Egyptian and Tunisia tourism or $40 million to build schools in Jordan and $11 million to tell the Vietnamese how to stop burning trash and $45 million for DEI scholarships in Burma.
And then, of course, we're paying for DEI musicals in Ireland, electric vehicles in Vietnam, transgender operas in Colombia, a transgender comic book in Peru, millions for a DEI project in Serbia.
And I can go on, Bill, for the next hour, and you wouldn't get a word in.
I'm going to stop there, but you get the point.
But the Democrats, they seem to say this is a constitutional crisis that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are going to gut and cut and turn over every nickel of taxpayer money so we don't waste this money anymore.
If the Republican Party was smart, and that's a big if, they would turn this campaign into the Democratic Party does not respect you, the working American.
Because none of the money that you just mentioned, the absurdity of the situation is apparent, but very little of it actually got to where it was supposed to go.
One word, Haiti.
How many billions of dollars over the last 25 years the United States, both private and public funding, sent to that island?
You know who runs the island?
Drug gangs.
It is the worst place in the world.
It's so bad that they're now shooting at airlines.
Americans can't even land there, American planes, in Port-au-Prince, because gangbangers shoot at the planes when they're taxiing in.
Bill, you are not even beginning to describe how bad it is because I've been to Haiti.
I went with Franklin Graham.
We went to give out Christmas boxes to the children in Haiti, and we flew over the entire country in a helicopter.
And I've never seen such poverty and devastation in my life.
You want to cry.
And you're right.
All that money spent and nothing's been done.
And it's been stolen.
So in any kind of a fair government, you respect the taxpayer.
You respect that person.
And therefore, you set up a system to watch where the expenditures go.
The Democratic Party doesn't care at all about that.
They want to spend and spend and spend.
And they don't care if the money's stolen.
Joe Biden didn't even know all of the things that you just read off, U.S. aid, in 24, by the way.
This is not past.
This is now.
Biden didn't know anything about it because he doesn't care about it.
They didn't give him a list and say, gee, Mr. President, should we send $10 million to Myanmar from some DEI project?
Now, if you know anything about Myanmar, and I do, the government will shoot you in the head if you're woke.
Okay?
There are no woke people in Myanmar.
So if there's a DEI project, it's a fake.
It's a phony.
It doesn't happen.
It's a dictatorship there.
Why are Democrats?
First of all, they hid this from the American people.
You and I spend hours and hours every day doing research.
Hours.
And we have people that assist us in doing that research because we want to be the most informed people we can be on the air.
And people like Joni Ernst, she has been trying to get the specifics of this spending for U.S. aid for years.
And they label it in obscure ways that hide how radical the agenda has been and how woke and green and trans and DEI and abortion related and LGBTQ related.
Again, none of this is going to the American people and we're talking about billions of dollars at a time where $40 trillion in debt, Bill.
And now they got exposed because Elon got the computers.
And now we know exactly where the money went.
In all the years we've been doing this, we had no idea this was happening, did we?
What party is Joni Ernst in?
Republican.
Yes.
So what the Republican Party should do is coalesce around the theme that the Democratic Party does not respect you.
And not just Republicans, but everybody.
Everybody who files a tax return is there are insulting you.
You worked hard for that money.
You are a patriot because you pay your taxes in the hope that your government will be responsible and use the tax money for the good of Americans and people abroad.
But they don't.
And when you uncover it, Joni Erst uncovers it, Sean Hannity uncovers it.
They attack you for doing that.
If the Republican Party would rally around that theme, it would win in the midterms.
I agree with that, but let me ask you this.
Can you explain the other side of it?
Why would Democrats, they have thousands of people show up and Schumer screaming and Elizabeth Warren screaming and every Democrat is saying this is creating a constitutional crisis because Elon Musk was not elected as Elizabeth Warren was screaming.
And, well, no, he wasn't, but nor was Pam Bondi and nor was Kash Patel and nor was any of the president's picks.
They get appointed by the president and he was tasked with finding waste, fraud, and abuse, and he found it.
I think he did the country a great service by doing this.
And the Democrats are, they're calling it a constitutional crisis when it has nothing to do with the American people, as you say.
They're not respecting the hard-earned tax money of the working folks, to use your term, in this country, the people that make this country great.
You don't even have to try to figure out why the Democrats are acting this way.
They are.
Trump has a perfect right to appoint anyone he wants to go in and analyze any situation he wants.
That's all the must thing is.
He said, hey, Elon, let's go in and take a look at the books, find out if our tax dollars are being wasted.
And Elon goes, okay.
And you object to that?
It's like Gaza.
All right, so your interview with Netanyahu last night.
We got to liven Netanyahu up.
You and I, we have to take him out.
He needs to get livened up a little bit.
So Trump is, and I talked to Trump himself about this three weeks ago.
He floated the idea by me.
And what he's basically saying, and then overarch, is that this situation in Gaza is hopeless.
Because you can't improve a situation when you don't have electricity and running water.
And the only people who could make that happen is the West in alliance with the Arab countries.
So that you move out the 2.2 Palestinians to safe places.
You rebuild Gaza so that they have jobs when they can walk back in in hotels on the Mediterranean, whatever it may be.
And that's the only solution to these people.
If you don't do that, it's never going to get better.
You and I both know why Egypt, Jordan, the Saudis have never wanted to absorb a relatively small population of 2 million people, the Palestinians, is because from the moment that they are born, they're being indoctrinated to hate the Jews.
I mean, you've shown it, I'm sure, over the years.
I've shown people the cartoons that are variantly anti-Semitic or, you know, the school books for young children.
Well, if you have six Jews and you kill three, how many Jews left are there to kill?
I mean, it's insane.
And they don't want that radicalized element.
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Now, I do have an update from a source of mine that I trust that is impeccable is while initially rejecting Trump's ideas like the Saudis and the Qataris, et cetera, they now are very open to it.
And what they're open to is they see the possibility of all that Ocean Front property becoming, you know, very profitable for them.
So I think there's going to be more developments, just like I know there's going to be an announcement soon on Panama, and there's going to be an announcement soon on Greenland.
There you go, Bill O'Reilly.
You heard it from Sean Hannity first.
When you hear it, just remember this.
I've already written it down, Hannity, in cursive, too.
But my point is that what Trump put forth is the only solution.
But many, many people don't want a solution there.
So when you hear the United Nations chiefs say, hey, what Donald Trump just said is ethnic cleansing, Ocasio-Cortez, who doesn't even know what ethnic cleansing is, said it too.
You know.
Ethnic cleansing.
He talked about rebuilding a beautiful city for them.
What is she talking about?
But that's what they say because they don't want to solve the problem.
It's like the Democrats with U.S. aid.
They don't want to have responsible spending.
But why is that, Bill?
Is there anti-Semitism in the halls of Congress, Bill?
I don't know.
Maybe there are one or two Congress people who are anti-Semitic, but it's certainly not a prevailing thing.
I think members of the squad have been exposed as anti-Semitic.
Yeah, all right.
That's a different debate for a different day.
I'll give you the last word.
All right, the last word is that if we had a responsible media in this country, which we do not, Trump's campaign to limit wasteful spending would be applauded.
And his vision to try to help the Gazan people would be applauded as well if we had an honest media.
We do not.
That's the last word.
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By the way, I do owe you a breakfast.
I forgot all about it.
I owe you a breakfast.
What a good.
I humbly apologize.
I literally slept in.
Four hours.
Yeah, right.
I'm sure when, you know, but you could have called me.
I would have gotten up and met you.
Anyway, Mr. O'Reilly, we appreciate you.
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I want to go to Prime Minister Ned Ninyahu two days ago, spend time with President Trump at the White House.
And we did have a pretty wide-ranging interview last night.
The only interview that he's done since he's arrived here on U.S. soil.
I'm not sure exactly when he goes back.
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First, once again, my condolences after all your country has been through.
The equivalent of 40,000 dead Americans a day in a single day and murder and rape and kidnapping and torture and beheading.
And now, you know, a four, five, six, seven front war.
It's been rough for Israel.
How's the country holding up?
Well, it's holding up remarkably because of the spirit of our people and the indomitable courage of our soldiers and the resolution of our government to roll back this tide of terror.
This murderous mass hit Hamas and hit the Iran Axis that sponsors Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and is committed to destroy Israel.
They thought we were just going to fold.
And a year and some later, they're folding.
And we're going to continue until we achieve victory over our enemies that are your enemies.
Because these people chant death to America, death to Israel.
You're the great Satan.
We're the small Satan, but we're standing in their way.
Well, we're defeating them, and our victory is your victory.
You stood with America after 9-11 on this program, on with me many, many times.
I'll never forget it.
Yesterday was historic, and you actually used the phrase that Donald Trump is the greatest friend Israel's ever had in the White House.
Explain.
It's that simple.
He's the greatest friend Israel ever had in the White House.
You know, in his first term, he recognized Jerusalem as our capital, moved the American embassy there, recognized our sovereignty over the Golan Heights, got out of the disastrous Iran deal, brokered, and we worked together on this, the historic Abraham Accords that brought peace to Israel and four Arab states.
You want more?
I mean, that's a lot.
And look what he's done in the last few days.
I mean, he's done remarkable things.
He's released the ammunition that we need to continue and march our march to victory.
He's taken action against UNRWA and these other UN agencies that hate America and hate Israel.
He's done enormous things.
And yes, he's the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.
You said that you believe peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia is not only feasible, you think it's going to happen.
And President Trump, I'll juxtapose that with what he said about Gaza and how Gaza has been basically turned into rubble.
And, you know, he talked about that America would go in, dismantle the dangerous unexploded bombs, level the site, rid the site of destroyed buildings, and create an economic development that would simply supply unlimited jobs, housing for people in the area, and really make it a place worth living in.
Is that anything you expected?
And do you share that belief?
And what do you make of American media taking that?
He's taking over Gaza.
He sounds like he's rebuilding Gaza to me.
Yeah, well, I don't think he talked about sending U.S. troops to complete the job of destroying Hamas.
That's our commitment.
That's our job, and we're absolutely committed to it.
And I also don't think he said that he's going to fund it.
He said that neighboring states, wealthy states, would do it.
But the actual idea of allowing first Gazans who want to leave to leave, I mean, what's wrong with that?
They can leave, they can then come back, they can relocate and come back, but you have to rebuild Gaza.
If you want to rebuild Gaza, you can't have, this is the first good idea that I've heard.
It's a remarkable idea.
And I think it should be really pursued, examined, pursued, and done, because I think it will create a different future for everyone.
We keep hearing that Iran is very close to nuclear capability.
I don't have the intelligence you have.
I don't know what our country's intelligence has.
But all indications are they want a nuclear weapon.
Am I leaning into something that I shouldn't lead into?
Was this sort of an emergency meeting about the state of Iran?
Well, there's no question Iran is gearing up to get nuclear weapons.
They probably would have been there 10 years ago already if we hadn't taken various actions to hold them up.
We held them up.
We slowed them down, but we haven't stopped them completely.
So, yes, they're seeking to do that.
And of course, we discussed this.
And the president said something very simple, which I said as well.
Iran must not be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
You know, it's that simple.
And it's just about all I can say about it.
Iran should not have nuclear weapons.
Well, I think it's common knowledge that most of the Arab countries have shifted from seeing Israel as their great enemy to seeing Iran as their great enemy.
They don't often say it, they often hide it, but they recognize that Israel is the one country in the Middle East that fought Iran.
We fight Iran.
Iran openly declares its goal to destroy us.
We didn't seek that conflict.
They seek it.
They openly say that they will wipe out the Jewish state.
And they openly say that their goal is not merely the Jewish state, but to conquer the Middle East and go beyond that.
And also blackmail the United States with nuclear weapons.
So in resisting this and taking action against this, we're not only doing it for our own survival, but again, for the interests of many countries in the region, the U.S. interests as well.
I think the interest of peace in the world.
You don't want a world in which the Aitollas have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them.
That's not going to produce peace.
That's going to produce the most horrible of wars.
It has to be stopped.
Do you believe, and you were pretty confident, that all the hostages that are alive will be returned?
You are competent in that?
Well, it's first of all a goal that we said.
We set three goals vis-à-vis Gaza.
One, destroy Hamas's military and governing capabilities.
Two, release all the hostages.
And three, ensure that Gaza does not pose a threat to Israel anymore.
And we're committed to achieving all three.
So far, we've decimated most of Hamas's military power, not all.
There's some left.
And we'll make sure that it's not there when this war ends, and it could end very quickly.
Second, we've released so far about 70%, more than that, actually, of the live hostages, which nobody believed we would do.
And we're committed to getting everyone out, both the living hostages and unfortunately also the dead hostages, which Hamas also keeps.
They're that cruel.
They're so monstrous.
They actually keep bodies as hostages, too.
It's just incredible.
So yes, we intend to commit to do that.
I won't talk here how we intend to do it, but it's something that is in my mind.
It's also on the President's mind.
We don't leave it.
My last question to you, back to Donald Trump.
When Donald Trump, before he got into office and he said all hell will break loose in the region if those hostages are not released, how important were those words, in your view, to getting this deal done to get the hostages back?
I think he used his influence, which is global.
I think he used it with great effect to help us complete this release.
And I'm sure that working together will achieve great things.
We intend to, we're changing the Middle East.
Israel has already done so in the last year.
We've really changed the Middle East.
It was basically an Iranian pond.
They can do anything in it.
And we, in many ways, single-handedly, but with some American air defense support, which I appreciate.
I don't, and some other help that I appreciate as well.
But Trump's entry into the White House gives enormous, enormous backing to those who wish to see Iran's aggression rolled back, Iran never having a nuclear weapon.
And that affects the entire region.
It elevates the spirit of Israelis.
It elevates the spirit of all those who want to see a different Middle East, a prosperous and peaceful Middle East.
I think it changes the global equation.
It definitely changes the equation in the Middle East.
All right, that was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
And, you know, after his meeting two days ago with President Trump at the White House, it is interesting.
He's the only world leader so far to meet with the president in the Oval Office in Washington since he's taken office.
Is there any urgency that we don't know about as it relates to Iran?
I would not be surprised.
All right, let's get to our busy phones as we say hi to Neil.
He's in Texas.
God bless Texas.
Neil, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Yeah, thanks, Sean.
So I've been listening to the program, and you've been talking some about the U.S. AIDS.
And I'm just wondering, so when I look at that, it looks like our lawmakers have got their fingerprints all over this stuff.
Some of them holding positions in those organizations.
And I'm just wondering what you think will end up happening with some of this.
Is this the sanitizing agent that's going to actually clean the swamp here?
It's just the beginning.
I mean, we're talking about, you know, hundreds of billions of dollars that have been spent waste, fraud, and abuse to foreign countries.
But all of this, it just shows you how radicalized this Democratic Party has become because all of this money, you know, as we look deeper and deeper every day and we get more examples, it all has to do with the Green New Deal and the woke agenda and the DEI agenda and transgenderism, LGBTQ, in foreign countries.
And meanwhile, Americans are suffering and our government does nothing.
And if Democrats want to fight and die on this hill, I'm all for it because all they're doing is exposing themselves to be as radicalized as I've been trying to tell people.
This is not your old Democratic Party.
It's not the party of working men and women anymore.
It's a party of coastal elites and radicalism.
Well, the other thing I'm wondering is, so you've got this program.
How many other programs do they have that have a similar personality that need to be exposed also?
I mean, is this just one of 100 or is this all-encompassing?
Or it's incredible.
I think we're going to find it in every single aspect of government.
I don't think it will be everywhere.
Well, here's the other thing that gets me thinking is we knew about the whatever it was, $2,500 toilet and the $500 spoon and these things.
Our lawmakers have known about this for years and years.
Well, they have and they haven't.
I mean, I'm frustrated because I do research all day, every day.
And I have a team that works with me that does research also.
And we've never found this.
Joni Ernst of Iowa said he's been trying to get this information for years.
And what they, you know, they've been very sneaky because they don't identify what the money's being spent on.
And now that we've gotten deep into the weeds and we got into the computer files, thanks to Elon Musk, and I know Elon has taken a hit, you know, and the media hates him.
Elon has done the country a great service.
He's going to save our children and grandchildren a fortune.
And we're going to get this country's economy back on track and we're going to stop all this waste, fraud, and abuse.
World changing.
So the other question is, I had a program, a programming idea for you.
But I was thinking, what if you had, you took a day, a show, and you gave people two minutes and said, okay, you've got two minutes in front of Trump, give the idea, ask question, whatever.
If then possibly on one of your interviews with Donald Trump, you could present all this to him and let him react to the basic synergy of the company, of the country, and their ideas and everything that the public had here has going.
I've done many town halls with him where he takes questions.
I'll do more.
I have a couple of things planned that, you know, in the future that I think you're going to like.
And just stay tuned, okay?
But I appreciate you being with us.
800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, when we come back, Jillian Michaels will join us and we'll talk more about, you know, no men and women's sports that the president signed yesterday.
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