Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, September 19th, 2017, launch day for Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence.

I's been a long day for me. I was on the Today Show, you may have heard, it's all over the place. We have it posted on BillOReilly.com. OK interview. I mean, I understand that Matt Lauer has got to kind of ask questions that his, you know, audience I guess, I don't know, but I didn't mind. And then we got the point across about the book, which we'll talk about a little bit later.

But the big story today is Donald Trump's speech before the United Nations. Forty-one minutes. He read it, which is good. You know what, tough to ad lib in front of the U.N. Remember, most of them don't speak English, you've got the little thing in the ear, the translator is telling them what the president is saying. Some translators are better than others. 

193 countries there. I've been, in my life, to 82 countries. I was looking at the map trying to... which ones did I miss? I thought I was in most places in the world, but no. I still have a long way to go to go to all of them. 

All right here are the highlights of the president's speech. He told North Korea that he would destroy the entire country if they attacked anybody. 

OK. So here's the quote. 

"Unless North Korea backs down, we'll have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime." Rocket man being Kim Jong Un. All right.

So this is an attempt to marginalize him, diminish him in the eyes of the world. You know, some people don't really follow it too much but pretty strong on North Korea. Then Iran, hinting that the Iranian nuke deal might not be carried forward. I don't believe that. I think that President Trump will carry it forward. 

But he's giving Iran a little jazz, outlaw nation, terrorist supporter, worst deal America ever made, that's a slap at President Obama, of course.

And then, this was the most interesting part of the speech for me. Trump lays into Cuba and Venezuela, two nations that really don't have anything to do with the state of the world right now. He could have easily ignored them and got into Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. You know, so who cares about Cuba and Venezuela? I mean, in the grand scheme of things. Nobody. 

The point he was making is that communism and socialism don't work anywhere. So he's was kind of a Cold War vibe and making the point that these are disasters and that he's going to take action against Venezuela. He's revoked the detente with Cuba because they don't work, they persecute their people, and communism and socialism are the worst. 

He paused, did the president, and I think he was looking for some applause. Nothing. Stone silence. And it just occurred to me that how many nations in the world still think that socialism is a viable option? 

You know, I don't expect them to give him a standing O. But it was really... and Trump didn't go back on the script right away, he let it hang. I think he might have been surprised. 

And finally, nationalism. Nationalism is when you put your country ahead of everybody else. And of course, Donald Trump does that. But it was an interesting twist. Instead of saying to the world, "well, the United States is the best country and you're all second," he said, "the United States, we're going to impose nationalism and look out for ourselves. But you should do the same thing. You should do the same thing. Wherever you are, the leadership of your country should put your country first." 

So it took the edge off it a little bit. He did complain that America pays 22 percent of the United Nations budget. It's true, we do, but we are the controlling force of good in the world. I know some Americans don't believe that, but that's the truth. And we support the United Nations, UNICEF, health, world health organization, because we want the world to be stable and safe and in some places peaceful. 

So, it is if you look at 193 countries and one country is carrying 22 percent of the burden. He's right. But there's a reason we do it. 

All right, so that was it for the Trump speech. I want to bring in a good guest. Stewart Patrick, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, but he's the author of an interesting book if you're into foreign affairs called The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America With the World. 

((Interview with Stewart Patrick))

A few other things happening today. 

If I could figure out how to disconnect all this stuff that I have in my office, then you wouldn't have to hear this phone ring, but I can't because if I disconnect one thing everything blows up, the whole thing blows up. All right. So I tried. But then the lights went out. The roof falls in. The dog runs away. All right. Let me get back to the news. 

Paul Manafort, I've told you time and time and time again is in a very precarious place on the Russian stuff. All right. Very precarious. So today the left-wing media is running wild with Manafort and Mueller is after him and this, that, and the other thing. I don't know and the media doesn't know. They make this up. They make it up. But I will tell you, I'm not going to be surprised if Paul Manafort gets in trouble here. All right. On the Russian interference with the election, I will not be surprised. I don't know if he's guilty. I don't know what he did. I'm going to give him the presumption of innocence. But that's what that's all about. 

The other big brouhaha today was the Obamacare never ending soap opera. Now, I think I can do this so it's not boring. All right. And I know this is a little heady, this podcast, but it's important. It's important to know how this government is operating under Donald Trump.

All right so Obamacare, the Republicans have 52 senators. So the Republicans want Obamacare out of there. They don't like it. So they have come up with a plan that they think they can get 50 senators on the GOP side to vote for. They're not going to get crazy Susan Collins in Maine, and I say that with all due respect. She is a very smart woman but she is not a Republican. She's not. She likes Obamacare. And Rand Paul, never going to get him in Kentucky, he's a contrarian. He's a libertarian. All right so those two are out of the box.

So they need John McCain and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska to vote for this. 

So Lindsey Graham is a sponsor of the bill, co-sponsor of the bill along with Bill Cassidy. I don't know Cassidy, I know Graham pretty well. That means John McCain will vote for this bill because he and Graham are like that, you know they're talking. So McCain's in. So that gives him 49, 49 votes. Only need 50. If they get 50 senators, Pence will vote for it, it goes back to the House, the House will pass it. OK. 

So they're that close. So Murkowski, she's the one. Is she going to vote for it or not? If not, they've got to pick off a Democrat or two, which is what the Republicans were saying today with Claire McCaskill and other people in states that voted for Donald Trump. 

If they kill it, these Democrats, they may lose the election next year, 2018 midterms. 2018. OK. 

So what this is is the Republicans want to shift the health care system to the individual states. That's what it is. OK. They said look, we can't run it, too big a bureaucracy, too screwed up. Let the individual states, we'll give them money. You run your own healthcare show. All right. In addition, we're going to stop the mandatory you have to buy health insurance and that employers have to insure you if they have more than 40 people working for them. That's out. And we're going to put in that insurers can't charge sick people more money. Ok if you have a preexisting condition, you get what everybody else gets. It's a little problematic but the states can deal with that.

All right so what does Chuck Schumer do? He's, you know, the leading Democrat, the Senate minority leader, he comes out right away, "oh the states don't want it. We have five Republican governors don't want it." Who knows? You know, I don't know. All I'm saying to you is this, if you let the states run the health care system, they will run more efficient operations and costs will come down if you can find a way to get all the insurance companies, the Farmers, the gecko with Geico, to compete. It'll come down. I'm a simple man.

I think this will pass. This last shot on Obamacare, I think it'll pass. 

I think Murkowski in Alaska will go for this. Could be wrong. Absolutely could be wrong. 

OK. Crossing the border. This is from the Department of Homeland Security Immigration Office, says it is harder to illegally cross the southern border than it has been in 50 years. Pretty impressive, right? Hold on. That's their opinion. And they all work for President Trump. 

So let's be a little skeptical. Stats. Border arrests down 22 percent this year from last year. OK. Border arrests mean people sneaking across. Border patrol assessments, again subjective, show that 55 to 85 percent of illegal aliens crossers are apprehended or interdicted today versus 35 to 70 percent a decade ago. 

OK. All right. 

And finally, there were about 170,000 illegal crossings last year, 2016. Ninety one percent fewer than in 2000 when Bush took over from Clinton. In the year 2000, an estimated 1.8 illegal aliens successfully crossed into the USA. OK. If it's true it's a lot of progress. I think it's probably mostly true, mostly true. 

Gallup poll. 28 percent of the American public is satisfied with the U.S. being governed the way it's being governed. Doesn't mean anything but I give it to you. 71 percent are dissatisfied. A lot of it is Congress, some of it's Trump. You know, they want, they the American people want a tax break. If they get a tax break, that will go up from 28 to 38 percent will be ok with it. 

And the Emmys. Now, I told you yesterday, I watched three minutes of it and they were so smug I had to go to the game with the New York Giants losing to the Detroit Lions. The Giants did not look good. But I still watched it because I could not watch the Emmys because they were too smug. All right.

Nobody else watched either. About 11 million viewers. That's nothing. On The Factor I used to get between five and six every night on cable news. All right. Now, this is down from 2013 when it was 18 million. So it's gone from 18 to 11. And you know what, people are tired of these pompous people telling you what they think about Trump or whatever and it's always bashing the right, bashing traditional conservatives. Bash bash bash. Tired, boring, we're not watching it. That's what happened. 

Killing England, out today. All right now this is the seventh Killing book. First book that I haven't had a television program to promote so it takes a little bit more time for people to figure out what this is. 

But I got a big break. There is madness in the United States. Dallas, Texas, I worked at WFAA for two years in the 1970s. All right. This never would have happened in Dallas then or Texas or anyplace. The school board may rename schools named after George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. Why? Because those men in the eyes of the school board are offensive in some way. OK. 

This is PC madness, insanity destroying our history. There's a reason, I'll tell you the reason in a moment, and I've said it to you before. Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence is seen through the eyes of Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin. The three men that influenced the revolution the most. And then we have our villains. Benedict Arnold, amazing villain, amazing villain. All right. Banastre Tarleton, a British officer, unbelievable war criminal. All of that's in there. 

But in order for us to fight the PC far left loons, we have to do it on a local level. Everybody in Dallas should be at the next school board meeting saying, you know what, this is insanity. You're not changing the names. 

But in order to win the debate you have to know what you're talking about. You have to know who Washington was, who Jefferson was, who Franklin was, what they did and the totality of their lives. We don't sugarcoat it for you. We don't. 

Cindy Adams wrote a column in The New York Post today about what we found out on the personal side about the three men. OK. But we do show you, we show you exactly who they were. 

And in the end, I came to the conclusion, because I didn't know a lot of this stuff when Martin Dugard and I started to research, that number one, George Washington's pretty much the most courageous man I've ever seen. Jefferson was brilliant, but a very conflicted human being. And Franklin was a genius, but a hedonist to go along with it. But it was Franklin who got the French to commit on the side of the rebels and that meant defeat for England, that killed England. 

You will love this book. You'll love it. But more than that, it's necessary. Necessary for you to know this knowledge, to have it for your children to know it, so we can beat back this crazy insane far left PC brigade that wants to change everything.

White supremacy. This just popped up, right? We hadn't heard this this time last year. Now the president is a white supremacist. I'm one. Everybody who voted for Trump is a white supremacist. Why? Because the far left wants to change the Constitution of the United States. They want to knock out the electoral vote. They want to knock out capitalism. They want to knock out checks and balances. They want the federal government to have all the power and the states to have very little. 

The only way they can do that is to convince the majority of the American people that our constitution was founded by, you guessed it, white supremacists. It's a prejudicial document. It's an evil document. And this country was founded on bias against black slaves, minorities, and to this day that system is in place. 

That's the end game. And these people are making progress. Over my dead body because I'm going out... I'm so happy I wrote Killing England at this time in history. I'm so happy it's out there, but I've got to spread the word. And you've got to spread the word if you like it because we have to get people on board.

If you order the book we give you 50 percent off any of the other killing books. And they're all good. You'll like it. OK. Become a Premium Member, you re-up, you already are a Premium Member. You re-up, you get it free. It's a good investment. We're going to be around. We're going to the studios soon. Still working to get it optimum. We want to make it the best we can for you. That's coming. 

So, I'm really hoping that this book, the word gets out, because again, I don't have that big cable canon that I used to. We've got to get this word out. 

Let's go to the mail. 

Chris Wayne. Heath, Texas. 

"Bill, you let Austan Goolsbee get away with saying President Trump doesn't have diplomatic skills. Really?" 

It's kind of a cliche now, Chris, to go "really." It's like Lindsey Graham today talking about Obamacare. He said, "at the end of the day" six times. Six, Lindsey, you've got to stop. Got to stop. 

"Why didn't you ask Goolsbee about Obama, who gave Iran a pass to develop nuclear weapons and gave them over a billion dollars in cash?" 

Because the subject was Donald Trump's diplomacy not Barack Obama's. 

So is Donald Trump a diplomat? He is not. That doesn't mean he's not a good president. It doesn't mean your vote was wrong. He's not a diplomat. He speaks his mind. He tweets his mind. Diplomats don't do that. Come on.

Bev Atz. Wallingford, Pennsylvania. 

"My Aunt Emily turns 95 this week and she's reading Killing the Rising Sun. I got it for her when becoming a Premium Member. She would really like to read Old School. So of course, I'm giving that for her birthday."

You know, Aunt Emily, happy birthday. Happy birthday. 

We don't respect in this country our elders enough. But Bev does. You know, it's her Aunt, not her Mom. So treat senior citizens with kindness, please. 

I've got a lot of touts but I don't want to do the touts now, I want to do the hard stuff first. OK. 

Lanny Rathert. Wentzville, Missouri. 

"Bill, I agree 100 percent on what you said about the thugs that are causing all the problems here in St. Louis. They need to be prosecuted to the fullest." 

It's the only way we can stop destructive protest. OK. I don't mind anybody protesting peacefully. The St. Louis people, fine. But don't start hurting people or destroying property. If you wear a mask, go into any city, you should be immediately arrested. Immediately arrested. Cannot have that in this age of terror. 

And Lanny also says he's read 150 pages of Killing England already and he can't put it down. So that's a good thing.

"The killing series. I want my 15-year-old and my 9 year old to start reading them." 

Might be a little bit too much for the 9-year-old. 15 definitely can read them. "Where should I start?" Killing Lincoln. Killing Lincoln. 

I would read Killing Lincoln, then Killing England, because you've got the Civil War, the Revolutionary War. Then I go to Patton. That's World War II Europe, then Killing the Rising Sun, World War II Japan. And then Jesus is a perennial. If you're a Christian or Jew and you want to know about Jesus, Killing Jesus. And then modern politics, Killing Reagan. So, we're covering the field. 

OK. Alice in Meaford, Ontario, Canada thinks that "last night's podcast was the best ever" because I addressed the Emmys, which, and Alice says, "I also watched three minutes and found it disgusting. Trump bashing has to stop. It's becoming boring and undeserving. The smug entertainers should educate themselves and follow closely what the president is doing, not listening to others to give false opinions." 

But that will never happen because as we said, Alice, this is an industry. And in order to work in the entertainment industry it's all about connections. And if you agree with the politics of the left, many, many jobs are more available to you. 

All right. Ethel in Decatur, Georgia.

"Isn't there a difference between assembling together and rioting?" Of course, there is. "I would hardly call what's going on in St. Louis protected by the First Amendment." 

Sure it is because most of the demonstrators in St. Louis were peaceful, but it's that hardcore cadre that buses in with the masks and the weapons and they hide inside the peaceful protesters who should turn on them. That's the solution to it. 

Marcus Barry. 

"As a proud Scot, I'm really looking forward to Killing England. I'm getting fed up with the tweets that Donald Trump is sending out. His latest attempt at humor by tweeting out a golf shot knocking over a picture of Hillary Rodham Clinton is just silly." 

OK, but you've got to understand, Marcus over there in Scotland, the president plays to his base and they despise Hillary Clinton. I thought it was harmless. I thought it was harmless. Compared to what Hillary Clinton is trying to do to Donald Trump, not even in the same hemisphere. 

Terry Pearson. Virginia Beach. 

"My husband and I are in countdown until we see you and Miller in Baltimore on Friday night." 

We will be there at the Royal Farms Arena, Friday night, Miller and I will be there. Aha. If I had stopped the sentence with Miller and I, I would have been wrong. But I said we'll be there. 

And it's going to be a very special thing that takes place in that show. So we want everybody in the Mid-Atlantic area to hustle on over the Royal Farms Arena, 7:30 Friday night to see Dennis Miller and yours truly. 

Well, thank you for coming, Terry, by the way. 

Michael Chune. Dayton, Ohio. 

"I want to thank you for all you do for the folks. I have been watching you on my 58 in big screen TV while on my exercise bike using the Google ChromeCast device. I beam it to the device from my laptop. No app needed. I just purchased the audio of Killing England." 

I have no idea what that means. I think you're exercising and watching me while you're doing that. I think that's what this is. The Google ChromeCast device. I can't even unplug my phone. You've got to pray for me.

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