Bill O’Reilly on Radical Politics, State Debt, and Global Instability
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All right, Leonard Skynyrd, Simple Man.
That can only mean one thing as we kick off 2026 on this radio program, and that is all things self-proclaimed.
Simple man, that means all things Bill O'Reilly.
All things O'Reilly at billo'reilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly, sir, happy new year to you.
I hope you had a good vacation, a little time off with the urchins.
How was it?
Everything went smoothly.
There were no arrests, which is always, you know.
The one I'm most worried about is you getting arrested.
Yeah, well, that's obviously that's the big one.
Everybody behaved, even me.
Thank you for asking.
I wish you a happy new year, and I'm happy to be on the Hannity Radio broadcast in 2026.
Well, we're glad to have you.
Before I get to all that is going on around the globe, and there's a lot, start this new year off without ribbing you about your new mayor in New York City, and that Zoron Kami Marks's Mamdani.
You know, he appointed a new director for the city office to protect tenants.
This woman has called for the seizure of all private property, private property, including any kind, especially home ownership.
She says it's a weapon of white supremacy.
The police are just the state sanctions to murder with impunity.
She goes on to say, quote, seize private property.
It's important for white people to feel defeated.
She wants to impoverish the white middle class, said we will transition from treating property as an individual good to a collective good.
Whites especially will be impacted.
I had Bill de Blasio, the former mayor, Comrade de Blasio, as we affectionately call him, on the program last night.
He didn't want to address this, but there's a word that comes to mind when you designate or delineate certain policies based on race.
What word would that be, Mr. O'Reilly?
That will be the word of the day.
Yeah, it's communist, but that's not anything new.
No, it's racist.
I mean, if you said, if you said we're going to impoverish the Asian American middle class, the Hispanic American middle class, the African American middle class, wouldn't that be racist?
Yeah, okay.
But the goal of Mandani is not just to take white people's assets.
It's take anybody who's well off.
I mean, if people of color who are wealthy in New York City don't think they're going to get hammered, they will.
But I saw your interview with de Blasio.
It was instructive about that interview is that he would not answer any direct questions.
And that is his style.
So you can ask him a question, do you think that Mandami's a communist?
He will not answer.
He'll launch into some kind of rehearse thing that he has.
Now, you remember when I was on Fox that this had been going on for decades, and I would come in and get pretty nasty with these guests.
You're a much nicer guy than I am.
But I would say, holy, he's not answering.
Is there a reason you're not answering?
And I do that to you.
Well, Bill, I went back three separate times to get an answer on it.
He ducked and dodged and weaved.
I mean, you got to give me an A-plus for attempting to get an answer.
No doubt about it.
And there are two ways to reveal people.
You can be polite as you were, and he wouldn't answer.
Or you can be boarish like me and hit him right and say, look, I'm asking you a question.
You won't answer it.
That's disrespectful to my audience.
And so why are you doing it?
All right.
Let me give you another example of this, though.
You know, billionaire Larry Ellison.
He has now officially severed his ties to San Francisco and what's known as Billionaire's Row.
He has purchased property down here in Florida.
I believe he'll be moving his headquarters down here because they're about to institute a 5% billionaires tax out there.
Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, the world's second richest man, he's left California because of this tax.
What happens to states like New York and California as they now move in this radical direction?
Well, they grow more debt.
So that's what's happened in New York.
The debt is staggering.
And Newsom, who's running for president, I don't know how he's going to explain that kind of debt to the American people when he inherited a surplus from Jerry Brown.
So they don't care whether billionaires leave the state, Newsom and Hoko in New York.
They don't care because it doesn't matter to them how much money the state owes.
They'll just keep racking it up, racking it up, racking it up, and hope that they'll be out of office when everything collapses.
So that's what they're doing, and it's obvious.
I wanted to say one thing, though, about your show last night, which was good on television.
You had Rezi Bablavi, the son of the Shah, of Iran, because Iran's tottering now, and that's all connected to Venezuela and the Trump foreign policy.
I haven't seen Bablavi in a while, but you know, I wrote Confronting Evil, and I told him I covered a book.
And what the Shah of Iran did to get overthrown is exactly 100% what the Mothers are doing now.
It's the same thing 50 years later.
So I do expect that there might, I shouldn't say might, I expect there will be a regime change in Iran.
And that's going to be an enormous story for the entire world.
Let me now go to international affairs because there is a lot happening.
Obviously, Nicolas Maduro has been taken to the U.S. Obviously, there is a period of transition going on as we speak.
The president announced last night as I was coming on the air that Venezuela has agreed to turn over between 30 and 50 million barrels of high-quality sanctioned oil to the U.S.
That oil will be sold at market prices.
It will benefit the people of Venezuela.
It will benefit the people of America.
And the president will be in charge of that aspect of it.
They're calling it now the Donro Doctrine.
And that is he's no longer going to allow the influence of Iran and Russia and China in our hemisphere.
I believe Cuba, by every measure, obviously the people there are scared and nervous.
The lifeblood of their economy, like every economy, is energy.
And they got all of their energy from Venezuela.
Those supplies will now be cut off.
You mentioned Iran, and clearly Iran is on the brink right now.
Two cities in western Iran now have been effectively taken over, and people are accelerating and celebrating on the streets.
And even police are laying down arms, and they're all now chanting death to Khamani.
And I think it's only a matter of time before that happens.
And then, of course, U.S. forces overnight dramatically seized the Russian flag oil tanker, which was basically a Venezuelan oil tanker that was being protected by Putin and Russia.
And it was a joint operation with Great Britain.
So there's a lot happening around the globe.
And I think that by the end of this year, we may see a very different map of the world.
Yeah, let's hope it goes down peacefully.
We don't want a lot of casualties around.
This is what I know.
So I have recommended to President Trump myself in person and also on the air that he form a rapid response.
The way just a listener note: Bill O'Reilly does name-drop a lot.
Keep going, sir.
All right.
But you know that I have, so there's no doubt about it.
Well, so have I, but I don't talk about it like you do.
But go ahead.
But I'm talking about it in the context of a news story, Hannah.
This isn't just idle chatter.
If you think you're getting a cupcake interview at the start of the year, you're out of your mind.
All right, I'm just telling you why I'm saying what I'm saying.
So the Chavez-Maduro regimes, and this is never reported on most of the media, seized, seized billions of dollars worth of American infrastructure because we built their oil industry down there.
We seized it with no payback.
So Trump's absolutely right in taking as much money as he wants to pay that debt.
And if he had a rapid response team, just go out and say that, what I've just said in less than 30 seconds, it would crystallize and make it much more difficult for the Charlatans and the liars to attack President Trump.
Do I have a point?
You have a great point, actually.
And I think at the heart of all of this now, and I think there's going to be a domino effect here.
I think that Venezuela, look, I interviewed Maria Corino Machado, who won 92% of the vote in 2023 as the leader of the opposition in Venezuela.
Over 92%, Bill.
That's a big number.
And she stayed there.
She stayed in Venezuela until she went to pick up the Nobel Peace Prize, which she dedicated to Donald Trump and said to me on the air on Monday and yesterday on this radio program that she wants to give to Donald Trump.
I believe they will have over time, stability has to be reached, of course, first, free and fair elections.
And I do believe she'll be one of the closest allies to the United States.
And I think then a net result of all of this is I think Cuba is on the brink of falling.
I think that's good for our safety and security in our hemisphere.
And I think that the Iranians now, and in large part, I think you can thank Donald Trump for taking out their nuclear capabilities.
They don't have access to any money either because of Trump's sanctions.
I think all three of these countries, like dominoes, are going to fall probably sooner than later.
Am I wrong?
Well, it's hard to predict if that'll absolutely happen, but my message.
Well, go out on a limb.
The odds are pretty high they will, right?
Yeah, if you were gambling, it would be.
Look, here's my message today on billorilly.com addresses your question.
And I run down all three countries.
Okay, so Venezuela, it's likely not happen there.
It's the military will kind of run it for a year.
Then they'll have free elections.
And I like this.
And if the Venezuelan people want to elect her, I'm fine with that.
Cuba, very, very precarious right now.
But remember, we don't have the CIA presence inside Cuba that they had inside Venezuela.
CIA orchestrated all of this stuff in Venezuela.
All of Maduro's problems stem from the CIA, which made a deal with the Venezuelan military.
Why are you not confident that we do have assets on the ground in Cuba?
I would bet any amount of money we do.
A few, but not like Venezuela, because Cuba is a much tighter police state, much easier to govern, much more fanatical about their communist doctrination.
Venezuelans didn't like Maduro.
They just wanted him to get out of there so he can make some money.
I don't have any emotion tied to him.
Secret police in Cuba do have emotion tied into the post-Castro regime.
However, they don't have any money.
And once the people have a food shortage, which will come soon, they already have an energy shortage, but it's winter now, so it's not quite as hot.
But when it gets spring and summer down there and you have no air conditioning anywhere, that's going to be pretty intense.
Over in Iran, both you and I know, because we have good connections in the administration, that not only one Ayatollah, but the whole Mullah crew has already made a deal with Putin to go to join Assad in Russia and have fun.
You're going to love it up there.
It's two degrees today.
Okay?
So they're already planning to get out of there.
Now, whether they have to or not, again, is speculation, but it's going to be very difficult for them to maintain control.
And you were correct, Kennedy, and that pains me to say, because the bombing that Trump ordered last summer, destabilized the confidence in that government.
It embarrassed them.
It humiliated them.
The military, which is again in charge, okay, Ayatollah's lose the military.
They're done.
They drew back and said, you know, we can't stop this.
And yeah, it was a military, it was a new facility, but that could be a military base tomorrow.
We have been following the events out of Minneapolis.
I had Tom Holman on TV last night talking about they are flooding the zone in Minneapolis, especially in light of the Somali fraud, which is just skyrocketing through the roof.
I mean, it's unbelievable.
And in Minnesota, you had this Hampton in Lakeville.
They have now lost their Hilton branding, all, you know, tip of the hat to Hilton management for saying, no, you don't get to say no to ICE agents and American heroes and ban them from the hotel and use our name.
So they have stripped that property that is independently owned from using the Hilton name.
You know, good for them for doing that.
An anti-ICE terrorist was shot and killed in Minneapolis after trying to run over agents with her car.
The Somali fraud scandal in Minneapolis is now expanding.
There's a scathing audit, by the way, that reveals more fraud concerns inside of Minnesota's agency with fabricated documents, tons of misconduct.
There were hearings going on all day.
There are people on the ground now exposing all of this.
What is the name of that citizen journalist that exposed all of this, all these daycare centers that were, what's his name, Nick Shirley?
And now this poor guy is receiving death threats.
I hope he's staying safe.
I know he was on Riley Gaines' podcast.
But anyway, a judge cleared the way for Minnesota's welfare fraud ringleader to have to forfeit their Porsche and millions held in accounts.
And that has resulted now in a lot of boots on the ground.
And guess what?
You know, ICE, Tom Holman, they're all doing their job.
Nick Shirley, you know, God bless him, he did fire back at Tim Walz, accusing him of deflecting.
This is the reason now Tim Walz has announced that he's not running for reelection.
There were hearings on Capitol Hill today.
Let me play one exchange.
Brandon Gill, congressman from Texas, questioning Democratic witnesses over this Minnesota Somalis and the use of these welfare programs.
I mean, when you look at the numbers, they are staggering.
The number of people, the percentage of people on welfare, the percentage of people that are children that are labeled autistic, et cetera.
I mean, you're talking about billions and billions and billions of dollars.
And it's going to be far more widespread than just Minnesota.
It's going to be Ohio.
It's going to be New York.
It's going to be California.
It's going to be Illinois, and there's going to be full investigations into all of these states.
This is the tip of the iceberg in all this.
But here's Brandon Gill questioning this Democratic witness over the Somali case of the abuse of welfare programs.
Listen, Mr. Ballu, again, thank you for being here.
Let me ask you, does large-scale Somali immigration make Minnesota stronger or weaker?
Certainly stronger.
Certainly stronger.
Do you know what percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on food stamps?
No.
54%.
Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households?
Well, to be clear, a majority of the 7%.
There's a big difference between 54% and 7%, is there not?
Excuse me, sir.
Could I answer the question?
Let me move on.
We've got a lot of questions here.
What percentage of Somali-headed households in Minnesota are on Medicaid?
I don't know.
It's 73%.
Do you know what that number is for Minnesota native households?
Again, you're using the phrase Minnesota native households.
The number is 18%.
That's quite an astounding difference.
I think we would.
Can I answer the question, please?
Let me ask you one more and then we can go into that.
What percentage of Somali-headed households are on welfare in general?
I don't know.
It's 81%.
What about, let me just ask you, after 10 years of being in the United States, what percentage of Somali immigrant households continue to be on welfare?
I don't know.
The number is 78%.
So even after 10 years, 78% of Somali immigrant households continue to be on welfare.
Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households?
Again, you're using non-Somali immigrant-headed households.
If I can just answer the question, when you're using the phrase native Minnesotans, the majority of Somali Minnesotans are as Minnesotan as any of us.
They were born in the United States.
It's only 8,000 of the 108,000 in Somali.
Nevertheless, the welfare usage is astoundingly different.
Let me ask you again, does that make Minnesota stronger or weaker?
We're not talking about millions here.
We're talking about tens and tens of billions of dollars widespread fraud.
The worst part of the story is there were brave whistleblowers that were pointing all of this out to Minnesota officials in this case, including the governor, Tim Walz.
They knew all about it.
The reason I argue and speculate that they refused to act is they did not want to alienate what is a large voting base within Minnesota.
It's that simple, pure politics.
Anyway, let's get to our busy phones.
Let's say hi to Todd.
He's in Mississippi.
Todd, how are you?
Glad you called.
I'm doing fantastic, Sean.
I think the whole reason that we have the it's really a Democrat issue.
It's not a Somali issue.
What they do is they take all this money and then they send it out to all these little organizations and agencies and so forth, and then they get their kickbacks back.
I mean, where does Kamala get a billion and a half dollars to run for president?
I mean, it's like it's all just a Democrat, you know, regenerating the money from the taxpayers.
And then you asked Nancy Pelosi about it.
It's all about the children.
It's all about the children.
I mean, it's like their ideas are defunct and they know it.
The only thing they can do is raise enough money and lie about everything that they're doing.
That's the only way they can get re-elected.
So, I mean, it's like, yeah, the Somalis, yeah, I mean, but they're doing their level best to keep feeding cash.
Well, I mean, from what I can see from the outside looking in, it's pretty clear what's happening is they discovered a way to defraud the government during COVID and using the Medicaid system to defraud that.
And it became institutionalized, and people were taught how to do this.
And people were made aware of how they can make millions and millions of dollars doing so.
And in the process, it just, I mean, when you have an autism rate of 80%, when you have daycare centers that don't exist that are claiming that they're taking care of X number of kids every day and they don't even have doors that are open for kids to go there, it doesn't get, I mean, it's just outright fraud and stealing.
And who are they stealing from?
They're stealing from everyone listening to this program that pays taxes.
That's who they are stealing from.
And when it becomes that institutionalized, that money adds up very quickly.
And getting to the bottom of this is critical.
Holding people accountable is critical.
I know a lot of you are skeptical as I am that people never seem to be held accountable.
Unfortunately, in this case, I do believe accountability is coming.
I really do.
And I do believe it will go straight to the top.
But we'll see if I'm right.
I got to run.
I appreciate the call, my friend.
All right, let's get back to our busy phones, 800-941-CHANT, our number, if you want to join us.
Jerry is in New Orleans.
Jerry, hi.
How are you?
Glad you called, sir.
How are you?
I'm good, sir.
Glad you called.
Can you hear me okay?
I hear you fine.
The worst words in the English language, you know, when people are on the phone.
You know, are you there?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Hear me now?
Remember to come here?
Hear me now?
Can you hear me?
I hate it.
What I wanted to talk to you about was the Venezuelan brain dream that's occurred over the last 20 or so years.
Don't you think we should have a plan to repatriate these folks who know the country, know the facilities?
It's probably engineers that worked in the oil fields.
You know, the best and the brightest are the first to leave.
And they have a plan to, once we get a stable government in place, to bring these folks home to help us extract the minerals, restore the oil fields and infrastructure.
What's your thoughts?
All right.
So Chris Wright is his name.
He's the energy secretary.
And he met with all of our oil companies yesterday.
And remember, American oil companies, they built all the oil industry inside of Venezuela, going back to the 1920s.
I went through a full history of this on Monday.
And do I think that these people ought to be compensated for their losses when they nationalized the energy industry and kicked out American companies?
The only one that stayed in some capacity, but they still had everything confiscated was Chevron.
But the answer to your question is, of course, they should be compensated.
But the only way, the way out of the complicated problem of an 86% poverty rate that they currently have in Venezuela, the only way out for them is going to be oil.
The only people that are equipped to get this job done and get the job done in the right way and get it done expeditiously, that's going to be American ingenuity, American oil companies.
They're going to have to move fast.
The people of Venezuela will have to benefit.
These companies should and will be compensated for the losses of all their stolen equipment by these dictators in Venezuela.
And the American people also should profit.
I mean, that's kind of Trump 101.
They should pay for their liberation, and they will.
And I'm confident that will all happen.
Well, I'm still thinking that we need the Venezuelans that are here and abroad as a backbone to support the American oil companies employing Venezuelans to do the work.
It's going to take American ingenuity and know-how, but I think if we repatriate the best and the brightest from the Venezuelan community from around the globe, they're in Spain, they're in Europe,
that throughout the United States, that would help enrich the country faster because they'd have experienced people who have now worked in America for a period of time and will be able to easily transition into a position in Venezuela working for an American company.
Listen, there's a lot that's going to have to happen.
The sooner they get their oil industry and infrastructure up and running, the better it will be for Venezuela, for the Venezuelan people, the better it will be for American oil companies that have been robbed blind.
Oh, big oil, Hannity.
Why are you defending them?
Because they had everything stolen from them.
And I do believe in President Trump's doctrine that, you know, if we are going to liberate you and we are going to put our military at risk, that, yeah, there should be compensation for that.
And even when we spoke to Maria Karina Machado, she said she wants to be America's best friend.
And she even offered reparations for families like Lake and Riley's family killed by Trende Aragua members.
So I think a lot of good things are going to come as a result of all this.
It doesn't mean any of it is easy.
It doesn't mean that this is not without risk.
Everything is fraught with risk in life.
But if you don't do anything, nothing's going to change.
Anyway, Ray in Canada, what's up, our friend, our liberal friend Ray?
What's up, Ray?
How are you?
I see that little Justin is dating Katie Perry.
That must be exciting for the people of Canada.
How embarrassing.
Honestly.
What's embarrassing about it?
It's just, I mean, it just shows what Justin Trudeau was.
I'm far from a liberal.
I'm a conservative, but it just shows what Justin Trudeau was made of.
And thank God, good written for him.
And we have.
Well, he's not the prime minister.
Who cares what he does?
I don't care.
I wish them health and happiness.
How's that?
Absolutely.
Wish them all the best.
Just a quick question, because I haven't heard any answers.
In 1951, I think the U.S. and Denmark signed an agreement about Greenland.
And it gave the U.S. the ability to go in and set up military bases where and wherever they wanted, basically, and to start utilizing the natural resources.
They did set up 30 bases in the last 50 years, but now we're down to one.
Why do you have to buy it or take it when you have this treaty and you can do what you want to do?
Well, I can tell you that Denmark, they have not been nice to the people of Greenland.
I can tell you that part.
As a matter of fact, when people travel from Greenland to Denmark, they're not treated well.
I think if Greenland and the people of Greenland, you know, hear Trump out, and I would expect that President Trump would probably make them a financial offer they can't refuse.
I think it would be in their best interest to be in business with us.