Bill O'Reilly critiques White House security failures in the Butler and Trump International Hotel shootings, arguing insufficient perimeter sweeps allowed access. He condemns Jimmy Kimmel's roast jokes about a "dead president" as hate speech protected by Disney while conservative voices are silenced. O'Reilly contrasts modern media panic with Johnny Carson's dignity during Reagan's attempt attempt, accusing progressives of spreading conspiracy theories about Russian plots and staged events. The segment concludes by highlighting deep cultural flashpoints regarding open borders, sanctuary cities, and the stark divide between Republican law enforcement priorities and Democratic funding for undocumented immigrants' gender transition procedures. [Automatically generated summary]
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Protecting Our President00:14:59
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Mr. O'Reilly was there on Saturday night at the White House Correspondence Dinner.
How many of these dinners have you been to over the years?
And why is it you don't see the wisdom of my perfect record, which is having never gone to one?
I've been to five of them.
First one I took Donald Trump to, that started the whole fracas.
Second, as a.
You're taking credit now for Donald Trump's political career.
I love that.
Well, I'm taking credit for having him sit there with me in front of Barack Obama, who then launched the news monologue, as absolutely because I took Mr. Trump to the dinner.
Take us back to that time.
How did.
How did Trump respond in real time when you were there and Obama did that?
It was like glass.
No reaction, no facial reaction, because he knew everybody was looking at him and all the cameras were on him.
So he didn't want to show any emotion or anything like that.
That's the way he is, and you know that.
The reason I go, my son wanted to go.
He's a political science major and he wanted to see it.
So, of course, I'm a good dad.
So I hauled him in there and he wound up under the table licking the carpet.
What did Bill O'Reilly do in that moment?
Because Dana White said, Oh, I stood up the whole time.
I wanted to take it all in.
This was awesome.
That's what he said.
Well, I did the same thing as Mr. White.
But I was in a very advantageous position at the back of the room.
I had just come in.
And so I heard the gunshots, and they were loud.
And then everybody hit the floor when the Secret Service stormed in.
And that was only about 30 seconds after the gunshots.
But from my vantage point, and I had a good one, you would have had to, any shooter would have had to come down an escalator to get into the ballroom.
And that were manned top and bottom by Secret Service and U.S. Marshals.
So that would never happen.
The guy had no chance to come close to President Trump.
We say that, but a lot of innocent people in that room could have gotten hurt, Bill, including yourself.
And here's the problem I have.
Trust me on this.
I'm a seasoned reporter, as you know.
Oh, okay.
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, Bill is a seasoned reporter, as we all know.
Right.
Here's my observation, though.
I don't care if it's Butler, I don't care if it's Trump International, I don't care if it's Saturday night.
There are three common failures in each example, and that is they're not sweeping, securing, and holding the entire area where a president is going to be.
You know, for example, Trump International, that's an area known as paparazzi around those golf holes, and paparazzi would hide in the bushes.
They never swept the area, Bill, and the president was playing golf there that day.
I met with Steve Witkoff that morning.
I went to breakfast.
He was asking me to play that day.
An hour and a half later, I get a phone call that there was a shooting.
If you look at Butler, how does a guy get on a roof 130 yards away from a president with a long rifle?
If you look at this, The perimeter was far too close to the actual venue.
We're not sweeping.
We're not securing.
We're not holding.
The perimeter is not out far enough.
And they didn't check everybody in that hotel to make sure they did not have a weapon.
We are failing spectacularly, and it's the same thing every time.
And there's only so many lives any one person or this country will have before a disaster strikes.
Well, let me tell you, your audience, what I. Just say it.
Hannity's right.
His analysis is dead on.
Okay.
So the guy checks into the hotel a day before the event.
All right.
And he's got a bag and he's got his armaments in the bag.
And he goes up to his room and he writes this stupid manifesto, whatever it is.
Then he comes down a back stairway, not an elevator, and he gets into the lobby of the hotel where there are 3,000 people checked into that hotel.
There were 2,000 visitors to the ballroom, 3,000 in the hotel itself.
That's a lot of folks, 5,000.
Now, when I got in there, I would say that security was a little bit light in the sense that they were trying to usher people down into the ballroom quickly.
And that was the flaw.
But this guy could never have gotten to the ballroom.
And everybody should just understand that.
Now, I'm not associating this with Butler or the.
Okay, Bill, stand back, though.
What if it was 20 guys, Bill, rushing that ballroom?
They might have gotten in the room.
And if they would have gotten in the room, they would have been able to injure, hurt, kill a lot of people.
Yeah.
The perimeter was not far enough away.
They did not sweep, secure, and hold.
And it has to be a far greater distance than 60 or 70 yards.
It just does.
Well, they're not going to have big events anymore.
And I'm hoping this ballroom, which holds 1,700, and that's big enough for any presidential thing any president will want to have.
I hope that goes through.
There's no reason why it shouldn't go through.
It's paid for by private funds.
What are you doing here?
This is, again, ridiculous politics.
That would protect all presidents.
So that's what will be the solution to this problem.
But anyway, the guy, what we're waiting for is who shot whom.
That's not vitally important, but it's a piece of information I don't have.
And the guy will never see the light of day again.
He'll never be out of the penitentiary again.
Well, tell that to John Hinckley, who's out free right now.
Yeah.
The guy that shot Reagan.
Hinckley was a different cat than this guy because Hinckley was really, could barely speak.
This guy writes out a manifesto.
This guy wanted, and if you read the manifesto, all right, it takes exact sentences from the hate media.
Exactly, word for word.
Well, it's a point that we've been making.
I totally agree with you, but I think you're wrong in your analysis to assume that this guy may one day not be set free.
There's no way.
The guy's ever going to be out.
And what about his family's lives are ruined, too?
And he had to know if he's walking around that hotel, say in the morning, he had to know there's no way he's going to get through.
Had to.
All right, quick break.
Right back.
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Let me move on.
You've been critical of, you know, I'm not sure what's supposed to be funny when you make quote jokes about a dead president and a widowed first lady, which is what Jimmy Kimmel did.
And I want to get your take on this.
You've had some pretty harsh commentary about it.
It was a pretend roast.
I said, Our first lady Melania is here.
Look at her, so beautiful.
Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.
Which obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they're together.
It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than I am.
It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination, and they know that.
I've been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular, but I understand that the first lady had a stressful experience over the weekend, and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house.
All right.
It was a joke about a dead president and about a widowed first lady.
I don't think that's a joke, Bill.
I don't think that that even matters because the record shows that Jimmy Kimmel is in business for one reason and one reason only that is to hate the president of the United States.
He is a hater.
Now, if you had a conservative pundit host, All right.
And he had a forum every night where he was going after Barack Obama or Joe Biden or any Democrat in the vitriolic way that Kimmel is.
Disney would fire that person in 30 seconds.
Okay.
That would never, ever be permitted by anybody in the corporate media.
All right.
And I'm not using bad behavior to point to other bad behavior.
I'm telling you, this is the reality of the situation.
Kimmel is a hater.
Okay.
That's what he does, that's what he's in business to do.
And everybody knows it.
Yet Disney keeps him on the air when it would not keep others of a different political persuasion on the air.
So you tell me.
No, Bill, I can tell you my entire life there's been one effort after another effort after another effort.
You know because you've seen it, you've witnessed it, you've watched it to silence me, to get me fired, to get me boycotted, to get me silenced.
I've been through this for thousands.
For three plus decades, as have you, Mr. O'Reilly.
Yes.
And so, because you and me are what they call primary sources of this kind of behavior, we understand it.
And that's why.
Well, to be honest, I would never say that about Joe Biden or Barack Obama.
As a matter of fact, when Barack Obama was president, I often said, we have got to protect our president.
We've got to protect elected officials.
It has nothing to do with politics.
We've got to have.
As a matter of fact, I've got a clip of it, Mr. O'Reilly.
Would you like me to prove it to you?
Let me prove this to you.
We have three incidents.
We have the fence jumper made it much further into the White House, even past the stairs going up to the residence, which is scary.
We have the second incident in 2011, six shots fired at the White House, and it took them four days to determine that they thought it had nothing related to do with the White House, which I disagree with.
And then a guy with a gun got.
On an elevator with the President of the United States.
ISIS, our enemies are watching this.
We've got to protect our President.
I mean, you're talking about protecting the president of the United States of America, and it's just there's no room for error.
You've got to protect our president.
That represents the free world.
So they've got a very difficult job.
They've got to almost be perfect.
And anytime any incident happens, lately it's becoming pretty high profile.
And if we're not protecting our president, we're not protecting our leaders, we've got a big problem.
The rest of the world is watching this.
There is a minority in the progressive community, and Kimmo is part of that.
That wants President Trump to be dead.
They'll never admit it in a million years.
But if he were killed tomorrow, they're not going to be lamenting anything.
Okay?
You know it and I know it.
These are haters.
I have a letter signed by Gavin Newsom as San Francisco mayor demanding I be taken off the air.
I'm going to put the letter in a column and I'll write on Sunday on BillO'Reilly.com.
And now, of course, all the Democrats are going, oh, what are you doing asking for Kimmel to be taken off the air?
And when he did that MAGA Charlie Kirk thing, I cut him some slack, Kimmel.
I said that, nah, you know, everybody makes mistakes and this and that.
I was wrong to do that.
I should have identified.
Wait a minute, can you repeat this?
Ladies and gentlemen, in the 50 year history of Bill O'Reilly being on the air, we just made more history.
Can you please repeat that you were wrong?
I was wrong to do that because his resume as a hater is so overwhelming, so overwhelming, that I cut him slack when I shouldn't have.
And Disney.
I'll tell you what I despise about him, too.
And when he announced that his son was struggling with a health issue and he was crying on TV, I think almost any American with a heart or a conscience and a soul rallied to his side and wished him the best.
They put politics aside.
And I don't regret doing that myself.
And this guy does not give an Adam Schiff about the health of our president.
And he knows what he's doing.
He knows what he's saying.
He feels omnipotent because he knows that ABC is scared to death of him.
And unfortunately, he'll just keep doing it.
He's not going to stop.
Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
Sir, we appreciate you being with us.
Thank you.
And have a great week.
I know this is the highlight of your week.
Thank you.
Don't you wish you were with me on Saturday night?
No.
My record remains intact.
In all the years I've been in media, I've never been to a single White House correspondence dinner, and I will never shatter that record.
Bill O'Reilly, appreciate you, ma'am.
Thank you.
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Now, Linda, I don't know if you noticed what happened Saturday night almost immediately after this incident took place in Washington at the White House correspondence dinner.
Well, beyond the fact that I was talking to the president within two minutes of him arriving inside of the hold room, which was separate and apart.
Online Lies vs Real Truth00:03:24
But it started to trend on X that this is staged.
Now, where does this come from?
This is why I tell people that when you are online, it is not a real world, it is a manufactured world.
There are hundreds of millions of dollars being spent by outside entities to influence people on social media, especially young people.
Especially, by the way, it's been targeted towards pushing anti Semitism, but that's a separate issue for a separate day.
And, but it was trending on X.
That means a lot of people are buying the big lie.
And then it gets pushed by people, quote, in the media, people that should know better, people that do know better, people that don't care about the truth.
And for example, here's Joy Reid and Rosie O'Donnell.
Listen to what they say.
And then you've got this weird thing where it seems like the press was like maneuvered into a position for him to take this iconic photo.
And this iconic photo happens.
And it's like the media is being like pulled into place to go.
If there's an active shooting, everyone should be on the ground.
It's just weird.
And we're not allowed to ask those questions.
Back when I was in mainstream media, these are questions we were not allowed to ask.
It was made very clear don't ask any questions, even though there's just odd things that keep happening around Trump.
And we know that Viktor Orban, allegedly, according to Washington Post reporting, there was a plot by the Russians to stage an assassination, fake assassination for Orban.
So all of this throws in together.
You're like, when something seems too perfect, people, They don't believe in it.
And Donald Trump now again gets victimized by an alleged would be assassin in front of the perfect witnesses, the press, who are literally the only people who can match Trump's energy when it comes to centering themselves.
That's what we do in the press, right?
Instead of, you know, unless, of course, if it's a Palestinian journalist getting murdered in Gaza, then they don't center themselves at all.
But they're now part of the story.
It's so good when you don't want to watch the news about fake assassination attempts or what they're calling an assassination attempt.
Somebody.
Decided it shouldn't be a high security event with everyone in the cabinet there and the president and the vice president and the first lady and, you know, congresspeople.
Linda, I don't know how you feel about this.
This is very disturbing.
However, it is an opportunity to open people's eyes to exactly what I've been warning them about, and that is what you read online is often fake, it's often propaganda.
It is often full of lies.
It is not a real world.
It's an artificial world.
You have different groups of people that are on it.
You have the psychopaths that are naked or in their underwear and living in mommy and daddy's basement, the anonymous keyboard warriors out there.
Then you've got the people, the influencers that are being paid by outside entities, likely through shell companies, and they're paid to push an agenda.
That is another part of this.
Then you just have crazy people that will push any lie, any conspiracy theory, because they just enjoy it.
California's Political Stalker00:06:28
They don't care about truth.
So, you know, none of this surprises me, but I hope people wake up to the fact that what they're reading online is often a lie.
Well, I think yesterday we had, we took a minute and we played Johnny Carson following the attempted assassination of President Reagan.
And the difference was beyond palpable.
It was so shocking when I saw that over the weekend.
People putting up the difference between the reactions from our media, especially our late night media, versus what it was during Johnny Carson.
And I have no idea if Johnny Carson was a Republican, a Democrat, or somewhere in between.
But he was, you know, reverent to the office.
Johnny just said, I'm here to make people laugh.
This is for kicks and giggles.
Jay Leno said the same thing.
Even Conan O'Brien has said the same thing.
And these late night comics that aren't funny, that are failing spectacularly.
That have lost massive amounts of their audience.
It is simply, you know, that people have simply left them because they're so political.
What was funny, Sean, was Colbert before he was a late night talk show host when he pretended to be a late night talk show host on Comedy Central.
He was actually funny.
Then he was funny.
I mean, funny is a relative term, isn't it?
I guess, but dang.
I mean, now it's just like vitriolic every night.
And I think if we were being honest and if they could be honest for 10 whole seconds, if anybody ever dared to say that the Obamas or the Clintons or the Bidens or Kamala Harris or anybody that served in any cabinet, any administration, if they went through something like this on the left and we questioned it, they would have, I mean, it would be national news coverage back to back, wall to wall about how disgusting and horrible we were to those people.
And yet they're doing it and it's fine.
It's accepted.
Even look at how, you know, the Charlie Kirk thing.
They don't care.
The things that people wrote, they don't care.
They don't care that he's got a widow, that he's got two small children.
They don't care.
I'm glad he's dead.
He deserved it.
Why did he deserve it?
Because you didn't agree with him?
It's a weird time.
Very odd.
Assassination culture sadly is growing.
Kip in Texas.
God bless Texas.
Kip, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Oh, Sean, thank you very much for sticking my call.
What's going on?
Well, I'm frustrated.
There's a lot of issues going on, and Democrats seem to be getting away with it.
And Newsom, I mean, I can go on.
Newsom, The rhetoric that's going on, the assassinations, everything, and no one seems to be getting in prison or arrested.
I mean, the Democratic Party in general, not so much the people.
Well, I don't know.
Why would you want to arrest Newsom?
Is there one particular reason why?
I mean, we know he's incompetent.
We know he's a no show governor.
We know he's a full time podcaster, author, world traveler, Trump stalker, half.
Hannity stalker.
And he's a horrible governor.
But, you know, beyond that, I mean, I think he's doing perfectly well.
Yeah.
I just think the things they say is warranted for some kind of backlash or something.
I don't know.
But I don't want a backlash.
You know what?
The people of California now will have an opportunity.
And if I had to guess the odds of Steve Hilton having an opportunity based on their little.
Don't go primary system out there in California.
I think maybe the top two vote getters will be Republicans.
And if that happens, I believe that Steve Hilton's odds of being the next governor would be very high.
I think that would be great for California.
However, I would caution him as a friend that his ability to get a lot done will be mitigated by the fact that he's got a state assembly and state lunatics that he will have to deal with, and getting anything past them is going to be pretty hard to do.
For sure.
Yeah, I grew up in California.
I moved to Texas in 2006, and now I'm a Texan.
But California is just a shamble.
It's finished.
That's why people are leaving in droves.
And they have this referendum coming up in November.
Apparently, they have enough votes for it, according to what I read this week.
And that means that retroactively, if you lived in the state in January and you are successful, And you have a billion dollar company, they're going to steal 5% of your money on top of all of the money you've already paid in tax.
That's incredible.
Yeah, pretty incredible.
Anyway, my friend, appreciate you.
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All right, let's go to Dave.
He is in the United Marxist Utopia of Gavin Newsom's, California.
Dave, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Thank you, Sean.
Just trying to keep a roof over my head.
I tell you, Sean, I had to call because this hateful rhetoric that's coming from the left is beyond the pale.
And what I've been hearing, it's Downright hellacious.
And there's got to be a limit to what these politicians and public figures can say about our president in public to besmirch the man and try to kick the legs out from under him and basically incite violence.
Well, if they're inciting violence, that would go against the law.
And they're a little bit more clever than that.
But it is the never ending 24 7, Wash, rinse, repeat loop of hating Donald Trump.
And they're addicted to it.
And it really is a syndrome, Trump derangement syndrome.
And they wake up every morning.
They cannot help themselves.
They're like drug addicts.
They need a fix and they need something to hate him for.
And if there's nothing to hate him for that day, they'll just make it up.
Americans Must Wake Up00:03:59
And, you know, honestly, what it's going to take is for Americans to wake up and realize this is not a party that has ideas.
It's a party that has been extraordinarily radicalized, and it is a party that will do great damage to the country if they ever get in power.
And people are going to have to make that decision.
It's why.
You're the reason I became a Republican, and I just love your straightforward, no nonsense approach to all these topical issues.
What I would love to see is these people like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck E. Schumer and on down the line.
Let's have them stand before a Senate panel and explain to the panel and to the American public via C SPAN why they think what they've been saying is okay.
I'd love to hear it.
Well, you're asking them to do something they'll never have to do.
And I think I have a better plan, and that is win elections.
You do not have power, you do not have control if you do not win elections.
We're about to.
You know, head into a midterm election cycle.
And there's a lot that's going to happen.
And we talked about this with Mark Halpern yesterday between now and election day.
And I would argue the events that will define this midterm have not happened yet.
We have to see how Iran plays out.
We have to see how the economy recovers, gas prices recover.
But I do think the president did lay the foundation for a very strong economy.
And if we have enough runway post Iran, and Iran will come to an end, it's not going to be a forever war.
I think we'll be in good shape.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, my friend Dave in California.
Not sure why you're still living out there, but we appreciate you.
All right, quick break right back.
More of your calls coming up.
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Kevin in Maryland next on The Sean Hannity Show.
Hi.
Hi, thank you for taking my call.
What's going on?
Thank you for calling.
A quick question regarding Iran and its oil.
What are your thoughts on possibly Iran dumping their stored oil into the Gulf so they don't have to shut down their existing oil wells?
Well, there obviously would be massive ramifications environmentally, and I'm not sure that any country in the region would tolerate it.
I think at that point, any remaining regime would probably, there would be worldwide consensus to take it out because now they're destroying the entire environment, the economy of so many different countries.
It's a matter of how far they want to go.
Now, with all that said, these are people that have no problem strapping bombs on their own children, promising them virgins in heaven.
If they kill innocent men, women, and children.
So, I mean, I guess anything's possible, right?
Yeah, it's a concern.
I mean, they're desperate, so it wouldn't shock me, I guess.
Yeah, nothing they would do would shock me.
I mean, that's the problem.
No.
You know, it's sad because you would think that Americans would join together wanting the best economy, the best national security.
But these are people that want open borders, these are people that want sanctuary cities and states, these are people that would take your money and pay for taxpayer funded.
Sex change operations and free college tuition for illegals.
These are the people that won't fund the Department of Homeland Security.
These are the people that would dismantle, defund, and reimagine your police departments.
These are people that want higher taxes, not lower taxes.
So, you know, I don't think the differences, the distinctions have been any greater than they are now.
Anyway, Kevin, Marilyn, appreciate you, man.
God bless you.
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