0:00

The Talking Points Memo this

0:02

evening, we're going to begin

0:04

with this amazing, and I

0:07

don't use

0:18

that word a lot, political weekend.

0:22

So we had four bills voted

0:24

on in the House, all

0:26

fairly controversial, and I just want to run them

0:28

down and tell you what happened. So

0:31

the first bill was $26.38 billion from the USA to

0:33

Israel for their security. Now

0:40

that passed 366 to 58 in the House. You

0:46

know, the House of Representatives

0:48

basically saying, okay, we understand

0:51

the Israeli situation. There are strongest ally in

0:53

the Middle East, so we are going to

0:55

allocate 26 billion plus. Then

0:59

comes Ukraine. Now this

1:01

is, yeah, it's, the

1:03

vote was pretty much the same, a

1:06

little bit less, but it's

1:08

more controversial. So we're sending $61 billion

1:11

to Ukraine, mostly weapons,

1:14

but some humanitarian aid as

1:16

well. And the

1:18

far right does not like

1:20

this, okay? The far left

1:22

doesn't like the Israeli aid, but I'm going to

1:25

name the names in a minute. All right, so

1:27

the far right does not like that expenditure, the

1:30

$61 billion going to Ukraine.

1:33

Vote was 311, yes, 112, no. Then

1:39

there was the Indo-Pacific Security Supplement

1:42

Appropriations Act, which is basically giving

1:44

nations close to China some

1:47

money to develop themselves. It's

1:50

only 8 billion, okay? But

1:53

it passed 385 to 34. And

1:56

the final one was the TikTok bill. sanctions

2:00

on Iran, freezing assets

2:02

of Russia, that

2:06

was 360 to 58. So those are the four bills

2:09

all passed. All will go to the Senate

2:11

now, Senate will pass them, and

2:13

then Biden will sign all fours. So it's

2:15

a fait accompli. Now

2:18

let's take a look at the

2:20

Ukraine bill. All right, so the

2:22

hard right in the House, Marjorie

2:24

Taylor Greene, Lauren Boberg, Chip Roy,

2:26

Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, on and

2:28

on and on. They do not

2:30

like this expenditure. They believe that

2:33

the United States should not be

2:35

funding the Ukrainian war. Okay. Now they're

2:38

perfectly, that's a

2:41

position they have the right to take and the

2:43

voters of their district will decide. As

2:45

a historian, I know this is

2:48

a foolish vote against A.E.T. Ukraine,

2:50

because it's almost exactly like

2:52

1938, when the far

2:55

right in America didn't want to bother

2:57

Hitler. Okay,

3:00

so understand that. Far

3:02

right in 1938 in America want

3:04

to be isolationist. So

3:06

what some people don't understand is that

3:09

America is the world leader, and

3:12

that's not going to change, no

3:14

matter if you don't want it or not. Now

3:16

I will understand that spending is out

3:18

of control, which is why we need

3:20

a balanced budget amendment in Congress. There's

3:23

no doubt about that. $34 trillion

3:25

debt, come on. But if

3:27

you allow Putin to win in Ukraine,

3:30

and that means control the country, all

3:32

right, you're going to pay 10 times more

3:35

than $60 billion the first year, because

3:38

Putin's just going to cause trouble in

3:40

all of the former Soviet republics, all

3:42

of them. They'll just go

3:44

in, they'll do the same thing, they'll

3:46

undermine and the world will be in

3:49

economic chaos. Everything

3:51

is intertwined today. Our economy is

3:53

good in America right now. Inflation's

3:56

terrible. Thank you, Joe Biden.

3:59

But the economy good. People are working.

4:02

You get wars everywhere. That's going

4:04

to change fast and it's going to

4:06

come to your house. But

4:09

these hard right people don't seem to understand why they

4:11

disagree with me. Okay? Okay.

4:14

So that's tolerable.

4:17

You can disagree with me, but

4:19

I'm right. Okay? I know

4:21

Putin. I know what

4:24

he wants. He wants to

4:26

destabilize the whole world and

4:28

reimpose Russian domination in

4:30

his former Soviet districts. That's

4:32

what he wants. What?

4:34

Why is he in Ukraine anyway? Hundreds of

4:37

thousands of Russians dead? Come on.

4:39

There's no reason to be there. No benefit

4:42

to you. You war

4:44

criminal. All right.

4:46

So that's that.

4:48

I just have a disagreement with these people.

4:50

I don't tie it into border security. You're

4:52

never going to get border security under Joe

4:54

Biden. No matter what they

4:56

pass. No matter what

4:59

executive order, it'll never happen.

5:01

He's got to go by in order

5:03

for there to be border security

5:06

and immigration law enforced. He's

5:08

not going to do it. All

5:10

right. Israel. So it's

5:13

the same crew. The hard

5:15

right bigs, bobergates, telegreen, Roy,

5:17

same crew. But they're

5:19

joined by the squad, the far left

5:21

nuts. Okay. Kaseo, tortez, Omar,

5:24

Tlaib, Presley, Bowman, Bush. The

5:26

same. They just don't like

5:28

Israel. Okay. They don't

5:30

like America and they attach America

5:33

to Israel and vice-versa. So

5:36

they don't want any money going over there. I'm

5:39

going to use one sound bite. I debated on

5:41

doing this, but I'm going to do it. This

5:43

is Congresswoman Green. Go.

5:47

Last Monday was tax day, April

5:49

15th, and Washington betrayed the American

5:51

people by sending $93 billion

5:54

to support foreign wars while doing

5:57

nothing, absolutely nothing to secure our

5:59

border. That is a complete betrayal.

6:03

I, you know, I don't know what to

6:05

say. Okay. I want border

6:07

security. You want border security, not going to

6:09

happen under Biden. The two are not intertwined.

6:12

You're not going to blackmail Biden over Ukraine.

6:14

He's not going to enforce the border, no

6:17

matter what you do. And

6:19

again, to alleviate massive

6:21

problems in the world, down the

6:24

road, you've got to blunt

6:27

Putin here. Now they say, well, what's the end game?

6:29

There is no end game. All right.

6:31

It's a matter of if

6:33

Trump is reelected in

6:36

November, Trump will get

6:38

Putin to the table. They will make

6:40

some kind of an agreement, which will

6:42

probably be Putin keeps some

6:45

Don boss in some areas, but

6:48

if Biden wins, Putin will just keep going.

6:51

That that's pretty much where it is. Okay.

6:56

That's the memo. So

6:59

Michael Douglas, Kirk Douglas's son, I know, or I

7:01

knew Kirk Douglas. I

7:04

corresponded with him and I know Michael Douglas and I

7:06

liked him. I

7:09

liked him very respectful

7:11

and intelligent and all that,

7:14

but they're fervent

7:16

liberals, both of them, the late Kurt

7:18

and Michael Douglas, they understand who survive

7:20

in Hollywood. You

7:23

have to be a fervent liberal. You really

7:25

can't survive in that industry, the

7:27

entertainment industry, if you're not. So

7:31

Douglas goes on CNN and says this, go. So

7:34

you and Biden are about the same age. What do you, do

7:36

you think, you know, are you one of those people who wished he had bowed

7:40

out, let the field choose somebody else? How

7:44

do you, how do you think about that? Well,

7:46

I think, I think that I walk

7:49

a little similar to him. And the people

7:51

that I've talked to and everybody that I

7:53

have say he's the sharpest at

7:56

times. He's

8:00

fine. We all have an issue of memories

8:03

as we get older. We forget names Something

8:06

he's overcome a stunner in

8:09

his life Sharp

8:12

is attack. Okay. Number one.

8:14

That's hearsay. There's a no Biden Number

8:16

two, apparently he's not watching the news Michael

8:19

Douglas isn't but really this is what he

8:22

wants to believe we go back to people

8:24

believe what they want to believe All

8:26

right, and the people who

8:28

are supporting Biden they want to believe

8:30

that he's right on top of everything

8:33

He's got no cognitive problems. It's

8:35

fairyland We

8:37

get it. You have eyes and you

8:39

see the president United States on the

8:41

road You know, I wrote

8:43

a column Called

8:46

zone of comfort and I said

8:48

one of the senses in a calm was Biden

8:50

needs a cheat sheet just to wish

8:52

you a nice day He said

8:55

the men cannot articulate anything sharp

8:57

is attack. What kind of attack

8:59

is that Michael? But

9:03

I don't hold it against them. I'm not mad at

9:05

him People believe what

9:07

they want to believe that's

9:09

it. I got I can go back to

9:11

Ukraine The hard right is never

9:14

gonna believe That

9:16

allowing Putin to take over that

9:18

country will lead to Chaos

9:21

in the world. They won't believe it no

9:24

matter what you do no matter how many

9:26

historical lessons you put up there Joining

9:29

us now is an evangelical. All right, but he's

9:31

also already a talk show host and he's got

9:34

a new book out Twilight's

9:36

last gleaming can America be saved? I've

9:39

known Todd storms Dot-com for

9:42

a long time. I just

9:44

recently met the dot-com, but I've known Todd

9:46

as a human being for I hope He

9:49

joins us from Memphis, Tennessee All

9:51

right, so you might expect

9:54

with Donald Trump's flamboyant life multiple

9:57

marriages You

10:00

know, he runs around, does what he wants,

10:02

as I said. But evangelicals might look

10:04

askance at him. Why is

10:06

that not happening? It's

10:10

a great question. And Bill, I

10:12

remember back in 2015 when then

10:16

Mr. Trump had

10:18

invited all of these evangelicals to come

10:20

to New York City there at the

10:22

Marriott Marquee in Times Square. And I

10:24

was there in that meeting when it

10:26

was basically an opportunity for some of

10:28

these big religious leaders to ask some

10:30

pretty pointed questions of Donald Trump. And

10:32

look, it was clear that he's

10:35

not a holy roller. He

10:37

is certainly not a Southern Baptist. But

10:39

it seemed like he was able

10:41

to really hit those issues that

10:43

impact a lot of evangelical voters

10:45

like myself. And look, it

10:47

was a matter of faith for a lot

10:49

of these evangelicals to step out and cast

10:51

their vote for him back in 2016. And

10:55

I'll be darned, Bill, if he didn't

10:57

deliver on pretty much all of the

10:59

promises he made to the evangelical community,

11:01

standing up for the big issues like

11:03

religious liberty, like the culture

11:05

war issues that you really brought to

11:07

the forefront of the nation's conscience with

11:10

the going back to the war on

11:12

Christmas. OK, so

11:14

Trump governed

11:16

in a fairly conservative manner,

11:19

socially speaking. That's true.

11:23

So that's enough to override his

11:25

private life? I

11:28

think so. And the reason why,

11:30

and you mentioned earlier on, I happen

11:32

to be a Baptist and like you,

11:34

I'm a center saved by grace. And

11:37

I think we've all seen that in our lives. I

11:39

mean, we know the president's not perfect. But

11:42

going back to the issues of governance,

11:44

you know, when you look at our founding documents and

11:46

I write about this in Twilight's Last Gleaming, our

11:49

foundational freedom in this country is freedom

11:51

of religion. Everything else is built on

11:53

top of that of that freedom. And

11:56

I think we've seen that freedom come under assault

11:58

for many years now. And I

12:00

was very happy to see the president coming

12:03

into office and really helping to shore up

12:05

and bringing to the table a lot

12:08

of the evangelical leaders, like

12:10

Pastor Robert Jeffress or Tony Perkins

12:12

from Family Research Council. That

12:14

really said a lot to me because

12:16

these men were giving President Trump good

12:18

and wise and biblical counsel. All

12:21

right, but he's doing that because he knows

12:23

that they're going to get him votes.

12:26

I don't want to be cynical about it, but

12:28

I know Pastor Jeffress very well. And,

12:30

you know, Trump went out of his way to bolster

12:33

him in Dallas. And there

12:36

was a reason why. But when

12:38

in the next few

12:41

weeks we're going to hear Stormy Daniels,

12:44

you don't get much. I

12:47

don't even know what word to use here. But

12:50

you don't get much more

12:54

dubious than

12:56

Miss Daniels. And another one

12:58

is going to come in from Playboy and

13:02

they're going to describe stuff that's going

13:05

to be pretty shocking

13:08

to religious based people. And

13:11

how do you think the reaction is going to go down? Well,

13:15

I think, you know, I think a lot of

13:17

evangelicals have seen a lot of that fornication on

13:19

TV. And look,

13:22

I think there is there is something to

13:24

that as far as this

13:26

is an issue for some people. But

13:28

I think by and large, Bill, I

13:31

think the average American voters are going to dismiss

13:33

all of this. They see

13:35

it as nasty, ugly politics. They

13:38

see it as smears. And at the end of

13:40

the day, I go back to something President Trump

13:42

said a couple of weeks ago. He was catching

13:44

a lot of heat for promoting the God bless

13:46

the USA Bible, this special

13:49

gift Bible. And I

13:51

think the problem was not necessarily promoting this

13:53

Bible, which had been in existence for a

13:55

couple of years. But it

13:57

was what he said afterwards where he said that if we

13:59

really want to do this, we're going to do it. to

14:01

make America great. We've got to get back to church. We've

14:03

got to get back to praying, and we've got to get

14:05

back to reading the Bible. And I thought that was really

14:08

quite unique and interesting. Come

14:10

on, anybody can say that.

14:13

Sure. You know, politicians are

14:15

politicians. I'm not demeaning what

14:17

he said, what Trump said,

14:20

but that's easy to say.

14:23

Now, the final question is what I'm going to

14:25

do tomorrow is Biden

14:28

Catholic abortion. Okay.

14:33

So evangelicals, 100%

14:35

are pro-life. Is that

14:38

correct? That's correct. Okay.

14:40

So you can't be an evangelical

14:43

if you believe in abortion. That

14:46

would seem to override a Stormy

14:48

Daniels. To me, if I were

14:51

an evangelical, I'm not. The

14:54

abortion is so much more serious

14:57

than any kind of thing

15:00

that Trump may or may not have done

15:02

with Ms. Daniels. But

15:05

the press is never going to frame it that

15:07

way ever in a million years. Will they do

15:09

that? No.

15:12

And I think that's a, look, that's a fair assessment.

15:14

I, and again, I'm with you. I'm not going to

15:16

judge another man's, you know,

15:18

relationship of God, but you look

15:20

at president Biden and you wonder how

15:22

in the world can this man profess

15:24

to be a practicing Catholic and then

15:27

stand in sheer opposition to the pro-life

15:29

movement? I did more than that, Todd.

15:31

He promotes it. Yes.

15:34

He promotes it. The

15:37

Biden-Harris ticket has made

15:40

abortion noble. That's

15:43

so far beyond the pale. I'm

15:46

just stunned. We'll get into that tomorrow.

15:49

I want to read the audience. This

15:51

is on page 251. You're wrapping up

15:53

your book, Twilight's Last Gleaming. You

15:55

say, I wrote this book so

15:57

that God-loving patriots would

16:00

no longer be silent in the face of evil.

16:04

Why do you think so many evangelicals

16:06

and other people of faith are

16:09

silent? They don't rise up.

16:11

You don't see mass demonstrations like

16:14

you do on the left. Why?

16:17

Well, many of us have jobs, so we can't take off,

16:20

to go march in the streets and burn down

16:22

things. That's not who we are. At

16:25

the heart of an evangelical Christian, there's this

16:27

idea that we are to

16:29

be peaceful, loving people, which, yes, that's what

16:31

we're called to do. But we're also called

16:34

to stand up in the face of evil.

16:37

And there's the great Dietrich Bonhoeffer, quote,

16:39

silence in the face of evil is

16:41

evil itself. I go back. I

16:43

got the title of the book from a

16:46

Ronald Reagan speech he delivered, making an observation

16:48

about our national anthem, Bill. He said, our

16:50

national anthem, it starts with a question, not

16:52

with a declaration. Is the flag still flying?

16:55

Can you still see the flag? And that's

16:57

really a question that every generation of, I

16:59

believe, God-loving patriots will have to answer for.

17:01

We've got to stand up. And I think

17:04

Christians of all denominations have

17:06

a responsibility to stand up and be

17:08

counted in the culture. All right. Well,

17:10

Todd, the book is Twilight's Last School

17:12

Evening. We recommend it. We appreciate your

17:14

time tonight. And I hope we talk

17:17

again soon. Thanks for coming on. Thanks,

17:19

Bill. OK. Now

17:22

let's go to Chicago, a very

17:24

troubled city, worse

17:27

than New York City. Not

17:29

by much. New York City is tottering.

17:32

Chicago's already fallen over the

17:34

cliff. So Chicago

17:37

owes this

17:39

year, 2024, $538 million. City

17:46

owes. OK? That's

17:48

a deficit. Can't pay. So

17:53

if all of the Chicago bonds

17:56

and all the munis and all that were called,

17:58

they'd have to go for money. bankruptcy.

18:01

So they're living on borrowed money

18:03

in Chicago. Five hundred

18:05

and thirty eight million

18:07

dollars. It's the third largest

18:09

city in the country. Population 2.7 million.

18:14

Now they announce they're

18:16

going to spend 70 million dollars,

18:20

money they don't have, to

18:23

house feed and care for migrants that

18:27

are pouring into Chicago because they know,

18:29

the migrants do, that they'll

18:31

get everything once they get in the city limits

18:33

of the migrants. They'll be housed,

18:36

you'll get food, you'll get

18:38

whatever you need medical care, education,

18:40

boom. So you say

18:42

how can this happen? How

18:44

can it happen? It happens because these

18:47

cities and states, right,

18:51

they borrow and borrow

18:53

and borrow and borrow and

18:56

then when Armageddon

18:58

and it's happening in New York City,

19:01

the city is going to go over the cliff, then

19:03

they go to the federal government for the bailout. But

19:06

either way, we the taxpayers

19:09

are paying. I bring this to your attention because

19:13

these politicians, the mayors and the governors, all of

19:15

us are doing all this in the progressive states.

19:17

They don't give a whit about you or

19:19

how much tax you pay. They

19:22

want more and more and more and more

19:24

of your money. They could pass a wealth

19:26

tax, they would tax everything you had, they

19:28

seize it. You should understand

19:30

what's happening. Campus

19:33

update. Okay, so

19:37

NYU today, the students walked

19:39

out of class

19:41

to be anti-Israel, Columbia,

19:43

Yale, on and on.

19:45

Okay, now it is

19:49

a bit confusing to some people.

19:52

They don't know why this is happening.

19:55

So I went on News Nation last

19:57

night, Leland Vitter, okay, and here's what

19:59

I said. Go. So

20:02

this is how it goes. The

20:04

far left, which manipulates

20:06

these students and runs these

20:09

protests, hates America. They

20:11

feel that the USA targets

20:15

and denigrates minorities,

20:17

particularly African-Americans. They

20:19

feel that Israel does the same

20:21

thing to Arabs. They

20:24

feel that Israel has stolen their land, has

20:27

persecuted them for centuries. They're

20:29

as evil as the patriarchy

20:32

that runs America. There's a

20:34

linkage. So the far

20:36

left, which has a database

20:38

of all their sympathizers at universities,

20:41

blasts out, this is what we're

20:43

going to do, and the lemmings

20:45

do it. So

20:47

unlike Vietnam, which was an

20:50

organic protest, and I count

20:53

myself in this crew, I was

20:56

raised in Levittown, Long

20:58

Island, New York, a working class town.

21:03

And when we

21:05

all graduated from high school, some

21:07

of us went to college, I did, but

21:11

most of the men at

21:14

18 got drafted and

21:17

went to Vietnam. And came

21:19

back and told me exactly what

21:21

was going on there. And

21:23

I knew these guys since I'm five, six

21:25

years old, and I saw one commit suicide,

21:27

and a bunch of them get addicted to heroin, and

21:30

their lives are shattered. Nobody came

21:32

back in Levittown and said,

21:34

this is great, we're doing the right thing. Nobody.

21:38

So that's how I formulated my view. This

21:41

is Israel-Gazza thing,

21:44

totally apart from

21:46

that. The protests are not even close.

21:49

One was a real negative experience the

21:52

United States was going through that was

21:54

killing tens of thousands

21:56

of young men. The other is a

22:00

situations going on for 2,000 years

22:03

that these college students have no blank include about

22:05

and don't care. It's like a big social

22:07

thing for them there and being

22:09

manipulated and that is the story. We

22:12

got an eye on it all these

22:14

protesters being arrested nothing gonna happen

22:16

to them and that's part of the problem.

22:18

I said look

22:20

I'm president of Columbia or

22:22

NYU or Yale you

22:24

think that happens on those campuses? I'm

22:26

president? You think it happens? Very

22:30

simple. You can protest here's as

22:32

we set aside this place for you to

22:34

go. You can protest between

22:36

nine and eight at night so you

22:38

don't disrupt the campus or disturb the

22:41

neighborhood surrounding. You

22:43

go off that place we gave you

22:45

you're expelled. You don't

22:47

stop at the hour we

22:49

designate you're expelled. That's

22:52

it. You

22:54

think those campus things are continue

22:57

and then once you're expelled you're not entitled to be

22:59

on the grounds of the university

23:01

so the security removes you and all

23:03

your stuff in your

23:05

dorm room is put in a box.

23:09

That's put it into it right?

23:12

Yes. Not hard. Joining

23:16

us now from Washington is John

23:19

McLaughlin. We've had him on before.

23:21

He's a pollster. He's worked with

23:23

Donald Trump since 2011. He's advised

23:25

him and he's been

23:29

Trump's pollster for eight

23:31

years. Wow. Yeah I think you're the

23:34

one of the longest-running Trump guys. They

23:36

usually Trump throws you into

23:38

the Potomac or you know

23:40

how he is. You have survived with

23:42

him. So we just gave the Marist

23:44

poll numbers and it looks like there's

23:46

a shift nationally and Biden

23:48

is kind of just creeping ahead by

23:50

a little. It's still within the margin

23:52

of error. But what do

23:54

you trip that to? Well

23:57

first of all we have

23:59

a poll. that Trump in March

24:01

was up 49-43 nationally. We

24:04

do a thousand likely voters. In April,

24:06

as of Friday, we posted Trump

24:08

was up 49-45. So Biden went

24:10

up two points and he got

24:12

him from undecideds and the

24:15

undecideds went down a little. Well, we still

24:17

have them up, but it's apples to oranges. That

24:21

Marist poll that you're talking about was

24:23

not likely voters. It was done among

24:25

1192 adults and

24:31

then they screened the adults for

24:33

registered voters. So when you think

24:35

of the universe in the United States, you

24:37

have 260 million eligible adults

24:40

who could vote and you

24:42

have only 160 million came

24:44

out in the last presidential race, which was a

24:46

record compared to 139 million in 2016. So they're

24:52

coming down from a much bigger universe and

24:54

they also, when you go through it, when

24:56

you look at, they have a

24:58

little higher level of college graduates.

25:01

They also have, what's interesting is they have

25:04

Biden's disapproval much lower than the other polls

25:06

like 1551, depending on the universe

25:09

of registered voters. I

25:11

don't put much credence in the Marist polling. They're

25:13

associated with NPR and we

25:16

know what NPR is now. I don't think

25:18

this poll was taken in conjunction with them,

25:20

but I'm not, I don't

25:22

think this is a solid poll historically figured,

25:24

but NBC came out over the weekend. With

25:27

it pretty much the same and I

25:30

don't know whether we are seeing a trend

25:33

away from Trump, perhaps because of

25:35

his trial. Do you see

25:37

any trends developing? By

25:40

the way, I'll give you, I'll give you the

25:42

one last point on that. They also, the Marist

25:45

poll said they asked who they voted

25:47

for in 2020 because we modeled our poll for

25:49

the turnout of the 160 million in the actual

25:51

race, but then they don't tell you

25:53

in the demographics what vote they had. So

25:55

they may have a lot more Biden voters

25:57

than the actual 4% that they voted for.

26:00

that these other polls have like NBC and stuff. But

26:02

the core of the problem right now is

26:05

Trump went up, we won

26:07

a record historic primary in March,

26:10

where Trump certainly

26:13

got some benefit from that where

26:15

his numbers, he often kids and says, he's

26:19

better numbers than Washington or Lincoln. Well,

26:21

he had better numbers than Ronald Reagan

26:23

and better results than Ronald Reagan. And

26:25

it was historic primary victory the way

26:28

he won Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South

26:30

Carolina and sealed the nomination wasn't

26:32

even close. So we got a little

26:34

bump out of that. And he was

26:37

playing aggressive offense against Joe Biden all

26:39

that time, all through the primaries. Now,

26:42

okay, we won the primaries, we got the

26:45

nomination. What happens? They

26:47

put us in court. They're tying Donald Trump.

26:49

And by the way, 66% of all

26:51

voters in

26:53

my poll that we released Friday say

26:56

that politics played a role in the

26:58

Trump indictments. Another 56% say Biden played

27:00

a role. They

27:04

get it. They know that Colangelo,

27:06

who's doing the prosecution for Bragg,

27:08

was the number three guy in

27:11

the Biden administration justice department. And

27:14

they sent him to

27:16

Bragg to bring this indictment of Trump.

27:19

Well, I don't think there's any question

27:21

about the unfairness of this,

27:23

but the question for you and for Trump

27:26

is the ill-informed

27:28

American, and

27:30

there are, you know, tens of

27:32

millions, they kind of

27:34

go with the flow. And if they see

27:38

a trend developing toward Biden, that's

27:40

gonna help Biden. Last

27:42

word. Well, what they're

27:44

doing is this is a strategy. It's

27:47

not an accident. Four indictments, they want

27:49

four convictions. They wanna put Trump in

27:51

jail. And what's in

27:53

the immediate happening right now is

27:56

they're taking Trump off message. Trump cannot

27:58

campaign around the country. talk

28:00

about inflation, talk about the border, talk

28:02

about rising crime, talk about these endless

28:05

wars that Biden's getting us into. So

28:07

we don't have the campaign we had a

28:10

month ago. We are bogged

28:12

down by the Biden supporters

28:14

and Biden's henchmen. So

28:16

that's what's going on. We need Trump to

28:18

get back on the stump and

28:20

go back to the battleground states to win

28:23

this. But first, he's got to defend his

28:25

freedom, defend his integrity from people that are

28:27

trying to put him in jail. Yeah, the

28:29

whole thing is unprecedented. John, we're going to check in

28:31

with you like once a month. I hope you don't

28:34

mind and we'll make the time for us. In

28:37

September, that's when it really kicks in. Summer

28:39

is going to be in. And I think something big is going

28:42

to happen. As I said, I don't know what it is. So,

28:44

John, thanks very much. You're a good guy. You

28:46

always help us out. And we really appreciate it. Thank

28:49

you, Bill. Thanks for the opportunity. All right.

28:52

Let's move ahead now to a

28:54

story broken by Politico. I don't entirely

28:57

trust that website. But

28:59

they say that a group of

29:01

anti-Trump pundits that you

29:03

see on television and in

29:06

the newspapers meet weekly to

29:09

discuss how to attack Trump. And

29:12

here are the attendees, according to

29:14

Politico. CNN Jeffrey

29:16

Toobin and Eli Haneg,

29:19

I guess he says his name. George

29:22

Conway. MSNBC's Andrew Weissman.

29:25

Barbara McQuaid and Joyce White

29:28

Vance. Washington

29:30

Post's Jennifer Rubin. Harvard's

29:33

Lawrence Tribe. And the

29:35

bulwarks, Bill Crystal.

29:39

Isn't that an interesting name there?

29:41

Okay. So these are all Trump

29:43

haters. And apparently they get together

29:45

on Zoom or something every week

29:47

to coordinate their coverage. Now,

29:50

this is against every journalistic rule in the

29:53

world. Let's go to California,

29:55

where the madness is

29:57

worse than any state. The

30:00

latest is that

30:02

crime is so bad in California

30:04

all over the state that

30:07

there is a proposed ballot

30:09

measure to put

30:13

a vote up in November

30:16

that would strengthen laws

30:18

against criminals. They

30:21

need 900,000 Californians to

30:23

sign a petition.

30:25

They have the signatures. Now it goes

30:28

into they have to verify the signatures.

30:31

They will get it on the

30:33

ballot. So

30:36

this ballot measure says

30:38

that if

30:40

you are a drug addict or

30:42

need mental health treatment, it

30:45

will be provided by the state of

30:47

California. For

30:50

that, if you're seeking treatment, you should be able

30:52

to get it. And then

30:54

fentanyl is added because it's not

30:56

in there now to the list of dangerous drugs

30:58

that you can be punished, but you're not punishing

31:01

California if you sell drugs. They don't punish you.

31:05

Okay. It permits judges to use

31:08

discretion to sentence drug dealers to

31:10

stay prison instead of counting jail

31:13

when they are convicted of trafficking hard

31:15

drugs in large quantities or

31:18

armed with a firearm while engaging in

31:20

drug trafficking. So right now you

31:23

can sell narcotics in California. You go to county jail for

31:25

a couple of days or whatever, and you're out and you

31:27

sell more drugs. They just stops

31:29

that. Okay. Warren

31:32

convicted hard drug dealers

31:35

and manufacturers that can be charged with murder

31:37

if they

31:39

continue to traffic in hard drugs or

31:41

if someone dies as a result of

31:43

drugs they sell. Okay.

31:45

Now you can sell fentanyl. Eighteen

31:48

people can die and you're not

31:50

charged in California. Okay.

31:53

So that is the

31:55

proposed law that people

31:58

in California could. vote on in

32:00

November. Who opposes this law?

32:03

George Soros's foundation.

32:07

Okay, so a group

32:09

called Action for Safety and Justice, which

32:12

is funded by the Tides Foundation, and

32:15

Tides is funded by George Soros, who gave

32:17

30 million dollars

32:19

to Tides, is

32:21

fighting that ballot

32:24

proposal. And

32:26

I have to say, and I've said

32:28

it before, my

32:30

definition of evil, just my definition

32:33

of evil, Soros

32:35

top the list. But

32:37

that's my opinion, my definition. Top.

32:43

Also in California, you

32:46

can buy a program

32:50

called CLEAR to

32:53

get around the long lines at the airport,

32:55

security lines, cost $189. They

32:58

do background checks on you, make sure that

33:01

you're not an al-Qaeda or a Hamas. You

33:03

get a card for $189 a year, and

33:05

you can skip the line, go to a CLEAR line,

33:10

which is shorter and faster. California

33:12

wants to outlaw this because

33:19

of equity. This

33:22

is unbelievable. Here's the quote. It's

33:27

a basic equity issue when you see people subscribe

33:30

to a concierge service being escorted in front of

33:32

people who have waited a long time to get

33:34

to front of the TSA line. Everyone

33:37

is beaten down and CLEAR

33:39

escorts a customer in front of you. I'm

33:42

sorry, it's really frustrating. Well, then

33:44

get CLEAR. But

33:47

no. The

33:49

government in Sacramento wants to

33:51

control every single thing that

33:54

California residents do. That's what this is

33:56

about. And because more white people have

33:59

CLEAR than black people and

34:01

Hispanic people, they wanted Outlaw

34:03

Clear. Okay,

34:05

a footnote. When I went

34:07

to Europe a couple of weeks ago, I had

34:09

Global Entry, which is just

34:11

like Clear. Okay, you pay a fee,

34:14

they check you out, and you get a

34:16

card for the same reason, that

34:19

you can get through customs faster.

34:21

You get security faster. They

34:24

ignored my Global Entry card.

34:27

Nobody, and I said, hey,

34:29

where's the Global Entry line? Go, we don't have

34:31

one. We don't look at that. So

34:33

if you're thinking about Global Entry, not

34:36

helping in Europe, just so

34:39

you know. San

34:41

Francisco, so one time San

34:43

Francisco was the hottest, most

34:45

lucrative real estate market in

34:48

the country. Alright, everybody wanted to go

34:50

to the city by the bay. Why? Because beautiful,

34:52

or used to be. I

34:54

love going to San Francisco, and

34:57

my last trip there was just

34:59

in under the wire before it

35:01

totally collapsed, and I took

35:04

my son, and we went

35:06

to Alcatraz and Fisherman's Wharf, and I

35:08

know San Francisco very well. Chinatown.

35:13

So it

35:15

was ridiculous to buy a house in

35:17

San Francisco. The prices

35:19

were, they peaked at 1.66

35:21

million in April 22, and for 1.66 million, you got a

35:28

two-bedroom apartment. Condo.

35:31

Not a house. Okay,

35:33

you want a house, you better bring 5-6 million. Now

35:37

it's dropped dramatically, okay? Ends

35:39

because of the crime and the homelessness, and the

35:42

far left took over. So 18% of the homes

35:44

that sold in San Francisco for

35:46

the first three months of this year, 24, okay?

35:48

18% sold

35:51

at a loss. People

35:54

lost an average of $155,000, and the market is

36:00

flooded with sales. Flooded.

36:02

People want to get out. Well, they can. Because

36:05

things are not going to get better in San Francisco. They're

36:08

not. They're going to go

36:10

worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. And

36:13

pretty soon, you're going to have so

36:15

much anarchy there. I

36:17

don't know how you can have any more than you have now,

36:20

but it's possible. When

36:24

I go to San Francisco now, I don't

36:26

stay in the city. I stay in Marin.

36:29

I go right across the Golden Gate. There's

36:31

some very nice hotels in Marin.

36:34

And I take the ferry when I have

36:36

to do business in San Francisco. Okay.

36:40

UK. So everybody

36:42

thinks England, Great Britain,

36:45

and America are simpatico

36:47

like this. Well, very,

36:50

very apart

36:56

on the migrant issue. That's

36:59

the reason Great Britain left the EU.

37:01

They want to be flooded with

37:04

people from all over the world. Once you're in the

37:06

EU, there's no passport control.

37:08

Anybody can go wherever they want,

37:10

including if you're an illegal migrant.

37:12

Nobody checks you. England,

37:16

London said no. And I pulled

37:18

out. Okay. Now they

37:20

still got migrants coming all the

37:22

time. Some of these

37:24

people, these poor people are so desperate,

37:26

they go on top of the trains

37:28

through the tunnel from France

37:31

to London. They're literally on

37:33

top of the train holding

37:36

on. That's how

37:38

desperate these people are. So

37:41

England's been overwhelmed by

37:44

migrants. Here's what they've done. And this is

37:46

a story, again, not reported in the United

37:48

States. England made

37:51

a deal with the African country

37:53

of Rwanda. Remember

37:56

Rwanda was the genocide place and

37:58

all that. Okay, it's

38:00

a little bit better now. And

38:04

they gave Rwanda $300 million,

38:07

or pounds, whatever,

38:10

to take all

38:13

of the asylum seekers that find

38:15

themselves on British soil. So

38:18

if you get to Britain and

38:21

the authorities round you up, you

38:23

can't stay in Britain. You

38:25

go to Rwanda, and

38:27

that's where you wait. And

38:30

trust me, you're going to be waiting for a

38:32

long time. So

38:34

the deportation flights are

38:36

expected to begin this

38:39

summer. You put all

38:41

of the asylum people on. It's

38:43

like the wait in Mexico. But Mexico, you're

38:45

waiting just across the border. Here you're flying

38:47

1,000 miles south to

38:50

Rwanda. And

38:53

expect to be in the summer. Totally

38:56

Rwanda is going to make about $700 million out

38:58

of this. So

39:01

that's why Kildari, that's the capital of

39:03

Rwanda, is doing it. 700

39:07

million, I'm not going to get that anywhere else. So

39:09

they're going to take the migrants. I

39:11

feel desperately sorry for these people.

39:14

They have nothing. And now

39:16

they're going to get booted out

39:18

of England or Scotland or any part

39:21

of the UK, and

39:23

they're going to show up in Rwanda.

39:27

Did you know that? No. This

39:32

is the kind of stuff that should be reported. OK,

39:35

back to the USA, 25% of Americans

39:37

over the age of 50 say they

39:40

never expect to retire. They're going to

39:42

drop dead in the workplace. Most

39:45

of it's financial. And this

39:47

comes from the AARP survey of

39:49

more than 8,000 adults. So

39:53

they go, we can't retire. All

39:55

right, 25%. 70%

39:58

say we're going to retire. We can't

40:01

meet our expenses now. That's

40:04

because of Biden. Everything's

40:06

higher. So Biden goes, oh, we're

40:08

good, get ready. Bunch of lies. All

40:11

right, you just go down a list. You wanna

40:13

buy a car, it's more expensive than it was

40:15

four years ago. House, way more expensive. Insurance

40:19

on anything, way more expensive. Food,

40:21

30% more. On

40:24

and on and on and on and on.

40:26

So the older people in America, senior citizens

40:28

go, can't keep up. Our

40:32

retirement funds and our social security can't keep

40:34

up. So we gotta work. So

40:36

that's what's happening there. Now I'm surprised

40:39

the AARP is doing this because

40:42

that's a very pro-Biden outfit, very

40:44

left wing AARP. That's why we're

40:46

at AMAC. Okay,

40:49

AMAC does pretty much

40:51

the same thing that AARP, but AMAC

40:53

is traditional and leans

40:55

right where is AARP is left.

41:01

Okay, now because of this and

41:05

your computer looking

41:08

at it all day, every day, nearsightedness

41:11

myopia is booming.

41:14

By 2050, half the people on earth are

41:19

gonna be nearsighted because

41:21

of the screens. Well,

41:24

get ready. And if you wanna

41:26

buy, I just had to buy sunglasses, 400 bucks.

41:32

400 bucks. The

41:35

prescription, but come on. All

41:38

right, here's a final thought. I wrote a message of the day

41:40

and I hope you read that. It's free, let's go every morning.

41:43

I've had a phone call I have with Donald Trump in 2016. And

41:47

the phone call concerned

41:50

his, at the time, lawyer,

41:52

Michael Cohen, who's now involved

41:54

at Trump trial in New York City.

41:57

And on that phone call, I

41:59

called. Michael Cohen

42:01

a weasel. That

42:04

was eight years ago. And

42:07

I write the message of the day and

42:10

explain why. And I'm

42:13

an oracle. I told

42:16

Mr. Trump, this guy is

42:18

a weasel. You better not trust him.

42:22

That is the message of the day. Should

42:24

you want to check it

42:26

out on Bill O'Reilly.com. We

42:29

will have a new column on Sunday. We

42:31

thank you very much for watching and listening

42:33

to the No Spin News. We'll see you

42:36

again on Monday.