Bill O'Reilly addresses rumors about his Florida visit and refusal to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner, joking he will send his son as a bouncer. He claims President Trump could destroy Iranian infrastructure in 15 minutes while an economic blockade costs Iran $400–$500 million daily, fueling 200% inflation. O'Reilly highlights a power struggle between the Revolutionary Guard and government, arguing that forcing weapons inspectors in is harder than stopping executions. He speculates on gradual oil plant strikes to force negotiations without total collapse, warning radical Islamists won't reason with threats due to their belief in "72 virgins," before concluding with a lighthearted chat about his son's food preferences. [Automatically generated summary]
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The President's Dilemma00:13:54
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Simple man, that can only mean one thing on this radio program.
That is all things self proclaimed, simple man.
That means all things Bill O'Reilly, all things Bill O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
Mr. O'Reilly, is there any truth to the rumor you were down where I live in Florida and you made no attempt to see me?
That you were hanging out with very, very wealthy, rich, famous people?
Any truth to that rumor?
I texted you.
You did not text me.
I never got a text from you.
I had it, and we can put.
It must be some other Sean in your life.
No, no.
I was there.
I gave a nice talk to St. Edward's Church, the Basilica there.
And it was beautiful weather.
I have to say that.
I was in the ocean.
Well, again, I'm in D.C. now.
I'm not having a great time here.
Oh, that sucks.
You're not going to that correspondence dinner, are you?
Of course I am.
I'm the bouncer.
Are you really going?
You're really going to that thing?
You're going to the nerd prom.
The only reason I haven't been in a long time is that if anybody gets out of line, I will take care of it.
On radio since 1987, I've been on Fox 30 years.
I've never been to one White House correspondence dinner.
Fox used to insist that I go, but I always got sick the day before.
I never wanted to go, and I'll tell you why.
They don't like me.
And I don't like them.
And I say this with a high degree of confidence, Bill.
They don't like you either.
Yeah, but I like the fact they don't like me.
You're a masochist.
You can't help yourself.
Yeah, I want to annoy them.
Zago.
You mean your presence?
Yeah.
But there is something out on the social media now.
O'Reilly issues a stern warning, and it's absolutely true.
If any of these people disrespect the office of the presidency at that dinner, I will confront them.
By the way, you say that, and there's a predicate for you saying that.
And that is, unlike me, you were able to secure interviews with Barack Obama.
I'm actually deep down in my heart glad I never got one because it would be very hard for me to do because I disagree with everything the man stands for.
And I think he's a phony and a fraud, but I would have to respect the office.
And I think you were able to thread that needle as well as anybody.
Compliment, alert.
Yeah, we did three interviews with him, and they all worked out well.
And two out of the three were the live interviews before the Super Bowl, which are the hardest ones to do because he can do, Barack Obama could do nine minutes on your socks.
I mean, the guy was.
But I had a.
And they've got handlers all around them, like rapping you like eight minutes and 30 seconds in.
Somebody tried to do that, but he actually, the president himself, told the guy, get lost.
But anyway, you're right.
It's very difficult to interview a president who you just hear it with without getting into disagreeing with the office because these people, and I'm sure you noticed.
That Dan Rather and Sam Donaldson are at the head of the list, sending out a warning that they're going to, the journalists at this thing on Saturday night should forcibly, and that's the word they use forcibly, demonstrate against Donald Trump.
Well, what does that mean?
And I'll find out what it means.
Now, there's going to be U.S. Marshals.
I interviewed Jeanine Pirro last night for the long form that we do, we do it live.
She's going to be there.
Hagseth is going to be there.
Miller.
There's going to be a lot of people there that are in the Trump camp.
But I'm going to basically be on patrol, and I'm bringing my six foot five son with me.
So we're going to have quite an army there.
I have never been to one in my entire career.
I never will go.
I don't even get asked to go anymore because everybody knows the answer is no.
I'm not going.
Don't want to be around them.
All right.
Let me.
Move on to something more substantive.
This is a very unique and complicated situation that the president finds himself in.
You and I both know, and this audience knows, that the president can wipe out Iranian infrastructure, Karg Island, their entire economy.
It probably would take under 15 minutes.
That option is on the table.
The president's blockade is very successful in spite of fake news.
No ship has gotten through.
And it is costing the Iranians $400 to $500 million a day.
Their economy is breaking, 200% inflation.
Their currency is zero.
And half their workforce is now out of work.
So this is the president's dilemma.
He can wipe them out, but it will impact over 90 million people, the Iranian people.
And the president, unlike this false caricature of him, actually does have a heart.
That option is always on the table.
I spoke to him this week.
He said, Sean, I can knock him out in.
When I said 15 minutes, he said I could do it in five.
So that option is there.
Now you've got this power struggle the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and those are the guys with the guns versus the guys with the suits.
They don't even have, as the Pakistani prime minister said, they don't even have the ability to communicate.
None of them would ever dare get on a phone thinking that they're probably going to die if they do.
So the president is trying to somehow thread a needle here without ruining the economy that will not just destroy the regime, it would destroy an opportunity for the Iranian people to get out of the tyranny that sadly they've lived under 47 years.
Now, on the one hand, they acquiesced to the president's request, they didn't kill these eight women.
That tells me, okay, they kind of half want a deal.
But then to get them to bring their term sheet to the president, one that would be acceptable, no nukes, open the Strait of Hormuz, return the nuclear dust, they can't get there because of the intramural fighting.
I do not fault the president for having a humanitarian side and a compassionate side because he's right.
The option to wipe him out is there at any moment that he wants it.
I want your thoughts.
Well, he's got to move soon because the worldwide economy is being harmed.
Which is what the Iranians are hoping for, that there'll be some kind of not capitulation, but back off because of the countries that are getting hurt.
Xi weighed in for the first time this week, the Chinese leader.
That's ongoing in the background.
So I assume that shortly, and I don't have a time, that President Trump is going to have to make some moves because you just can't stalemate it with a looming recession, which is what the Muellers want.
That's how they're fighting.
And how long can you go with that?
So you're correct that he doesn't want to destroy the society, the Persian society, but I'm not sure what the options are.
I think something's got to happen soon.
Quick break more with all things self described, simple man, all things Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com as we continue.
All right, we continue now.
The one and only Bill O'Reilly showing up at Nerd Prom, the Washington or the White House correspondence dinner this weekend.
My record will remain perfect.
I have never.
I've never gone.
I'm never going.
The ideal, maybe, middle ground to me would be following the Reagan model.
When President Reagan armed the Nicaraguan freedom fighters, the Contra rebels, they were very successful.
When Reagan armed the Mujahideen in their fight with the former Soviet Union and provided them Stinger missiles, they ended up winning that war.
Russia lost that war.
The former Soviet Union lost that war.
From my sources, I've learned that it's been very difficult.
To achieve that goal because of Qud's forces, Iranian Revolutionary Guard's forces, because the Kurds are stealing whatever they can get their hands on.
So that's been somewhat complicated.
And if the Iranian people rise up against the military faction, they're just going to be mowed down.
So that makes it even more complicated.
The problem is that this is not a tough negotiation for the Qud's force, for the Revolutionary Guard.
All they have to do.
Is allow weapons inspectors in.
That's the primary goal of the Trump administration.
Just let the weapons inspectors from Austria go in on a regular basis and monitor what you are doing with your nukes and missiles.
That's not unreasonable and it's easily done, yet they won't do it.
So, again, they're going to have to be cajoled to do it.
And that's your word of the day cajoled into doing it.
Yes.
Yeah.
That's what they're working on now.
So, why?
All right.
So, try to bring me into the mindset that they would stop the planned assassination, hanging, execution of these eight women at the request of President Trump.
And then on the other hand, they have this intramural battle going on.
And they have a very difficult means of communicating not only with us, but with each other, which is what the Pakistani prime minister has been telling us.
So you're getting mixed signals left, right, and sideways on what they want to have happen.
The end result is the president can end this any day he wants.
And I don't envy this decision for him because I think I know how it's going to end.
And I think he's trying to avoid it at all costs, and he'll pursue any possible avenue to prevent what is likely to end up happening.
I don't disagree with that, but there's no downside to allowing the eight women to live.
So that's not a hard decision.
Well, if you're a radical Islamist, it is.
You've just given in to a request from the President of the United States.
That is viewed as weakness to them.
It's a death cult, Bill.
They believe convert or die.
They have no problem strapping bombs on their own kids and telling them to kill infidels and promising them 72 virgins in heaven.
But in this case, they don't want to die.
And so I don't think that was a difficult decision to make for them.
But the unbelievably hard decision is how you force them to let the weapons inspectors in, because that is a loss of face for them.
They would lose credibility in the Arab world, particularly among the Wahhabists.
Now, I think it'll happen.
You think it'll happen, but we don't know how it's going to happen, which is frustrating.
I'm not frustrated.
I want to be hopeful.
I'm hoping for the best, but I'm anticipating the worst.
Does that sound reasonable?
Yeah, but the worst is dead civilians in the sand.
And then you're going to see the upcry against Trump.
And he knows that.
Because, look, when you have all of Europe sitting this out, and I mentioned China, remember that's coming up pretty fast, that summit in Beijing.
And then you have people like Senator Murphy in Connecticut.
I mean, how horrible is that?
I did a lot on it yesterday and the night before that.
Horrible.
Yeah.
I mean, this is a guy, I don't know what's the matter with the people of Connecticut.
This guy hates Trump more than he hates the Moas.
He would rather have Trump lose than the Moas win.
That's what it's about with this guy.
Bill, there are three groups of Americans that want that the Democratic Party, the legacy media mob, and these weirdo isolationists that would have no problem handing off a nuclear armed Iran to their kids and grandkids.
And they are all meaningless voices to me.
Because they lack all reason, all common sense.
Mr. O'Reilly, good luck at Nerd Prom.
Have fun.
I've never been there, never will be there.
Hitting Them in the Economy00:14:38
And I'm sure you'll miss me.
Make your presence known.
And send my best regards to all the jackasses you'll run into.
All right, if you get a text from me, man, you ought to come up because I might need some martial arts guy.
I can send my sensei.
I mean, you can hire him, he'll come.
I'm not going.
I mean, you're basically begging me to go and defend you.
Even if your pal is getting beat up by Jake Powell.
That might be the only reason I would go if you really did need protection.
I would go there and I'd kick some ass for you.
There you go.
That's why we're going.
All right.
Bill O'Reilly, all things Bill O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
All right.
Now, this is a very special person we're going to put on first.
Then we'll get to your calls.
800 941 Sean.
So today is Take Your Child to Work Day.
Is that what they call it, Linda?
Take Your Children to Work Day?
Something like that.
Transnational Take Your Kid to Work Day.
Okay.
And I noticed that there.
It was one question to Hakeem Jeffries by some fake news CNN reporter, and it was to Hakeem Jeffries Why is the Democratic Party so miserably unpopular?
The kid was like 10 years old.
It was great.
So you brought your youngest son, Liam, and it seems like it was yesterday when Liam was born, with you to work today.
Is that correct?
It is indeed.
Liam, can you hear me?
Yes.
How old are you now, Liam?
10.
Wow.
You're getting big, and you love football.
You're really good at football.
Yeah.
Now, you know what it means to cross the plane in football, right?
Oh, forget.
To cross the goal line, right?
That means you get a touchdown, right?
Yeah.
If you kick a field goal, how many points is that?
Three.
And if you kick an extra point, how many points do you get for that kick?
One.
Okay.
And if you get a touchdown, how many points do you get?
Six.
Do you know that your mom does not know any of this, or at least a year ago, was not able to answer any of those questions?
Did you know that?
Yeah.
Yeah, pretty bad, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And yet she goes to most of your football games, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And what grade are you in now, Liam?
Fifth.
Fifth grade?
Wow, you're getting big.
You're getting big.
Do you like school?
Kind of.
Okay, that's a fair answer.
Kind of, but not kind of.
You like being with your friends, but you don't like the school part, right?
Yeah, pretty much.
And you like lunch period and you like gym and nothing else.
Yeah, that's about it.
Yeah.
Yeah, you and I are exactly alike.
I was exactly like you when I was your age.
All right, so.
By the way, at home, who's, you know, if you're going to get in trouble, would you rather get in trouble by dad or mom?
Mom.
Really?
Yeah.
If you want junk food, who are you going to go to?
Dad or mom?
Dad.
Who's funnier, dad or mom?
Probably dad.
What?
Wow.
That is fake news, bro.
Will you please leave this?
Stop pressuring your child.
You got to drive home with mom.
You better be careful.
Why are you threatening your child?
It's unfair.
It's good.
It's good for them to grow up with a little fear.
A number of years ago, you probably don't remember, you were on this program, and up to that point in your life, you had not tasted McDonald's French fries.
Yeah.
Because your mom makes air fried french fries, right?
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
And then finally, I made it so that you could have McDonald's french fries.
And I asked you about it on the air.
And we have the tape of it.
And when I asked you, I said, well, which french fries do you like better?
You said, oh, by far, McDonald's.
Do you remember that?
Yup.
If you have a choice today, what do you prefer?
McDonald's or mom's french fries?
Mom's french fries.
Oh, we have put it to bed.
At the very beginning, we said, You've got to tell the truth.
Don't worry about your mom's feelings.
You really do like McDonald's fries better.
Be honest.
No, I like mom's french fries better.
This is a good day.
This is a victorious day.
National Take Your Kid to Work Day.
What's happened is, in the interceding five years, you have indoctrinated this poor young man into believing that air fried french fries taste better than McDonald's french fries, and they don't.
Listen, he's a son of football playing, toxic masculinity, conservative.
Child who happens to like air fried French fries.
Apparently not, because no toxic masculinity guy is going to choose air fried French fries over McDonald's French fries.
They're pretty good at the point in you.
Have you ever been to Wendy's, Liam?
Yup.
Whose French fries do you like better, mom's or Wendy's?
Mom's, mom's, mom's.
Is your mom sitting there in front of you?
I am not even sitting next to him.
I'm in a different position so I can talk on the mic at the same time.
I'm not buying it.
I think that's fake news, CNN, MSDNC news.
I'm not buying it for a second.
All right.
How scary is your mom when she gets mad?
10 being the scariest on a scale of 1 to 10.
Usually, like a six or a five.
When she's really mad.
Eight.
Eight and a half.
When she's really, really mad.
Nine and a half.
Seems like a sliding scale here.
Now, do you think your mom says words that are funny like coffee, sauce, talk, New York?
You think she has a little bit of an accent?
Yeah, definitely.
Definitely.
Yeah.
All right, Liam.
Enjoy your day.
You're a great young man.
We're very proud of you.
We're proud of your football.
You're going to do great things with your life.
I can tell you that.
Thank you.
And there's no way I'm going to believe that you like mom's french fries better than McDonald's.
You want to revise and extend your remarks on that?
Nope.
It's holding strong.
You know what I'm going to do for you, Sean?
Have you ever had a quarter pounder with cheese?
I was in the middle of a sentence.
There's a sentence.
Is this thing on?
Is it working?
Hello?
No, it's not.
I'm going to send you air fried french fries via FedEx.
I'm going to send the ones I make for you.
Wait, wait.
I can't hear it over all the talking.
That's normal.
Have you ever tried a McDonald's quarter pounder with cheese?
Yes.
Do you like it?
No.
Oh, boy.
That's my boy.
Raising him right.
Raising this kid.
Did your mom ever give you a kale shake?
I don't think so.
That would be a no.
A green shake.
That's the one thing I haven't mastered.
None of my kids are good greens eaters, except for Olivia.
The boys just will not eat the greens.
What about an orange shake?
Has your mom ever given you an orange shake?
Does OJ count?
Yeah, I mean, did she make one at home?
I don't think so.
No, I don't think so.
I don't think I ever have.
I told him I'm going to make them pina coladas one of these days.
Virgin pina coladas.
Next time I see you, Liam, we're going to McDonald's together, okay?
Promise.
Deal?
Yup.
Do you remember one day when your mom came home and she had all of those choo-choo trains for you?
Like she gave you like 40 choo-choo trains?
Not really.
You don't remember getting a whole bunch of choo-choo trains at once?
He was like three.
He was a baby, baby.
You were young then.
Baby, baby.
Yeah.
All right, Liam, have a great day with your mama today, okay?
Okay.
And always be a good boy.
Listen to your mom and dad.
And your Uncle Sean, really, you should listen to him the most.
That's my advice.
Eat more McDonald's and steak and eggs.
Yeah.
All right, back to our busy phones.
Toll free.
It's 800 941 Sean.
Bill, Nevada, next Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Yeah, how are you doing, Sean?
Thanks for taking my call.
Thank you.
What's going on?
Well, I just noticed in the recent weeks that people and commentators are kind of grappling and wrestling with is this a justified war?
And I think it's more than justified.
I mean, I think it's righteous.
I think that America.
Is on the morally correct side of a holy war.
And it's a holy war, by the way, that people have chosen to forget or pretend it doesn't exist anymore, but it very much does.
And I think that, you know, whether or not people want to admit it, that's, I mean, it's freedom versus bondage, too.
I think that's really the core of the conflict.
Listen, it's an ideological war in the sense that you have radical Islamists that believe in convert or die, that think they are on, if there's a holy war, it's on their side.
They think God is compelling them to kill innocent men, women, and children, and will reward them with 72 virgins in heaven.
You can't have a rational discussion with madness.
That is madness.
And, you know, I spoke to a couple of people that, with the highest degree of clearance, and I just asked them one question without them revealing anything to me.
And they all say the same thing.
Sean, the president had no choice.
That's it.
And that's what Steve Witkoff told me on this radio program and on TV.
The president had no choice here.
And for those that would be willing to live in a world with a nuclear armed Iran for our children and grandchildren, I have nothing to say to stupid.
I just don't have no patience for them.
Say one more thing.
All right, Bill.
Appreciate the call.
Kevin, Texas.
God bless Texas.
What's up, Kevin?
Hi, Sean.
How are you?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Braiding the needle is exactly what I wanted to ask you about because I think the one thing that President Trump cannot do is to turn 92 million Iranians into 92 million Iranian refugees, right?
Iran has to remain habitable.
I won't ask you how you think it's going to end because you said you think you know, but if that were the case, where would they go?
I just don't think.
I think it has to remain a habitable country.
Look, I'm hoping for a negotiated settlement.
That would work, but one that meets the president's conditions.
Otherwise, it's not going to work in the long run.
I'm hopeful we can get somewhere at that point.
However, I'm a realist.
I think the odds are lower.
And I think their radicalism, their indoctrination will, in the end, probably prevent them from doing the smart thing for themselves.
They don't care about the people in their country already.
They've been oppressing them for 47 years.
And so I have hope.
However, realistically, I'm expecting the worst.
I'm hoping for the best, expecting the worst.
So here's my fear.
If the Democrat Party gets back into power, that they would invite, and it's probably going to sound terrible, they would invite these refugees here because the only country that has immigration laws that we apparently don't enforce.
We're not taking in 90 million people, but there would be a worldwide need for massive humanitarian assistance, especially in the short term, probably longer than we'd all like, Effort if they can replace the radicals that have been in power and they're totally wiped out, there probably would be a new formation of government, and we probably would aid and abet in the rebuilding of their economy through their oil industry.
And, you know, with the best, brightest, smartest minds from around the world, that probably can be done fairly expeditiously.
It would not be the best case scenario, but probably a very possible one.
I think there's no doubt about it.
Kevin, appreciate you, man.
Thank you.
800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
Let's say hi to Dave in Maryland.
Dave, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hi, Sean.
I just want to express we're at a standstill with this blockade.
And the original thing that Trump said was to take out all the oil fields.
And then he realized we can't do that because they have no economy then.
So he went to the bridges and the electric plants.
And then they line their children and mothers along the bridges and electric plants.
We can't announce what we're going to do.
These people won't negotiate.
And we got like a tenth of their nuclear that we want to hand to us and have inspectors.
Here's my idea.
We simply don't announce anything and we bomb five oil plants.
We take them out.
And then in three or two days, we don't let them know which ones.
They'll be put all the women and children on the bridges they want.
And then we're going to buy, in two or three days, we're going to take out five more oil plants.
They have 150 operating oil plants currently, and they have 200 that aren't operating because they're broke and they can't open them.
You have to hit them in their economy.
The next couple of days, you're going to hit five more.
So now you've knocked out 15 of their oil production, 15 oil areas.
Now 10% of their revenues are gone.
So what my suggestion is, you simply say then, are you ready to give us that uranium and have the inspectors?
You don't tell them this is a deal and you have five days.
They don't care.
I mean, what you'll simply do then is restart the process.
You'll bomb five more, and there's 150 of them.
You can do them anywhere, and Israel can help or anybody else that wants to.
We take out five more, and then another three to two days, we take out five more.
Now we're up to 20% of your oil capacity, and that's, you know, what, two and a half, three weeks we can do it.
And then they generally go.
No, actually, we could do that in about 20 minutes total.
Well, true.
That's true.
But the gradual, it'll make them think.
Listen, I like your idea.
I think you'd be sending message after message after message without wiping it out at once.