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By: Bill O'ReillySeptember 3, 2018
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Brett Tolman:

But I just want, I just want everybody to be clear. The inspector general found no political bias motivating James Comey. He did find political bias on Peter Strzok's part and he did then speculate that Strzok slow walked the Hillary Clinton second revelation because of that bias that he wanted to put the Trump Russia collusion ahead of the Clinton e-mail for biased reasons, this is Peter Strzok. That's what Horowitz speculates. 

"In fact, he says it is a cloud. He says it is a cloud over the investigation but even more he goes further to say it was of grave concern the instant messaging and the text messages that did reveal and remember there's one line in there that I think is very key, the OIG without being able to find evidence of this, was very concerned about efforts to actually follow through with those, that line of text messaging and instant messaging that they found."

Sure, that's, that's the big thing and that's why I he has to, that's why Strzok has to be investigated for criminal behavior because there's got to be a clarification of whether Strzok said we'll stop him and then used his position to try to further that goal but I want to get back to Comey for one moment. You worked in the Justice Department, you know the culture, you know how stringent the rules are in that organization. So to say that the director of the FBI would put his whole life and career on the line by going outside the boundaries of what's acceptable for the Justice Department, you got to have a reason, why did he do it?

"You got to have a reason and keep in mind one line that he uses in there is he finds that no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges. Do you realize that when he does that, he is providing what we refer to as Brady or Giglio material, which is exculpatory evidence that comes from law enforcement when they're investigating a potential crime? So what he's doing is insulating Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted, when he says that, that information is going to be used by anybody that would try to defend Hillary Clinton on criminal charges. But at the heart of it, it actually takes away the Department of Justice's ability to bring charges. That in and of itself is worth firing Comey, which should have been done even sooner than it was done but as you indicated it is beyond the pale and anybody that's worked in the Department of Justice had an audible gasp when they saw his press conference or heard what was going on. Remember, Loretta Lynch is still in charge, she is the head of that investigation." 

And she didn't make any public statements about Comey at the time. She didn't do anything about Comey, she didn't say you're out of line pal. Comey suffered no blowback from the Department of Justice superiors. None. But I go back to the, I go back to Michael Horowitz now Horowitz has got to go next week in front of Congress. Now, he's going to go and he's going to have to stand behind his report and say we didn't find any political bias on the part of James Comey but then well why did he do it? Why did he do it? Why did he put himself in that kind of a position? Look, James Comey's reputation is shot, he's through. He sold a lot of books. All right. Probably won't be charged with anything unless Strzok is charged and then Strzok flips.

Trevor Burrus:

Now, the Left is pushing the narrative that Roe v. Wade will be overturned as soon as Kavanaugh sits in that chair I guess three hours later Roe v. Wade is out the window. That's impossible of course, correct? 

"Yes, it's impossible. You have to bring a case and it has to be well presented and these are judges, they do their job. They want to make sure the case is well presented but I don't actually think Roe is that much in danger. I said in a lot of people have said it too as that Kavanaugh is Roberts 2.0. For someone like Chief Justice Roberts he really cares about the court's image and its legitimacy. It would be very damaging if every other sudden public opinion about the Supreme Court went down to Congress's level which you know yet to find a or use a microscope to find that would be extremely damaging for the court for generations to come and overturning Roe could do that. And I think Kavanaugh is concerned about that and I know John Roberts is concerned about that. They might whittle away at Roe and say there could be some state protections but I don't see Roe being totally overturned. And it's not set up to be totally overturned yet." 

Now in order to overturn Roe v. Wade you'd have to trash the Supreme Court. That obviously okayed it, voted to have it. And you'd have to tell the nation look since 1973 whose country has been operating under a false hood, constitutionally, that involves tens of millions of women and tens of millions of aborted babies. So, I agree with you that that is not likely to happen but what will happen is the state of Texas and others will introduce laws, that will pass laws that say a woman cannot have an abortion unless her life is in danger or catastrophic illness, passed a certain time in this state. Yeah and that's what's coming. Now, the abortion zealots, the people who embrace the procedure as a tremendous positive for mankind and womanhood. They're going to see that as oppression. Will the other four liberal judges see it as oppression in your opinion? 

"Oh definitely Ginsburg will and definitely Sotomayor will. Breyer might be a possibility to understand that you can have reasonable rules about abortion. You know the Supreme Court created this abortion problem in Roe, they've made it the case that we have to have legalized abortion and you can't do much to change it. If you look at Europe, most of Europe Ireland had its thing, with most of Europe they have what would be sort of broadly acceptable restrictions on abortion that intuitively people don't like where, say like well definitely not in the third trimester but you know maybe in the first trimester and try and work out the middle and like that's not very allowed under current Supreme Court precedent, it's so highly charged and so it would be, it would be good if the Supreme Court looked at some of these and we had sensible abortion laws that made sense to a lot of people and didn't produce extremism and that's important thing right, Roe produced extremism on both sides by drawing this line in the sand and saying legislators can't do anything about it. So you're going to have the, 'you should have an abortion up until an hour until you get...' because if they're afraid that if they say no you can have an hour that someone else is going to say what about two hours? What about a week? What about two weeks and then you whittle it down that way. And the same works on the pro-life side. It's not very constructive to have a national dialogue in that way, and the Supreme Court and Roe didn't help it. It's a Constitutionally problematic opinion. I myself am mostly pro-life but I think forces should be generally legal in a lot of circumstances. But again, those kinds of opinions, those levelheaded opinions don't really come out in the abortion debate." 

Lanny Davis:

Now the system is being overwhelmed, everybody knows the system is being overwhelmed. So Trump's solution is big border wall. All right. And criminalize the act of entering illegally which would discourage people from overwhelming the United States resources. I don't think that's a crazy thing to want. And all the polls show that most Americans agree with me. 

"I don't believe the wall will accomplish the goal. It's 30 40 50 billion dollars that will not accomplish the goal that..." 

It did in the San Diego sector, it did in the San Diego sector, it knocked it down tremendously when they put that big wall in. 

"Show me the data, let's get facts. I don't know whether that's true but I think we need border security and enforcement of the laws." 

All you've got to do is just look it up, when you get off the air and you'll see the wall in the San Diego sector, it's moved everybody to Imperial County and Arizona because they can't get through the wall. 

"One reason that people who favor border security who do not favor spending 40 50 billion as B dollars on the wall, is that it can be easily evaded, avoided, dug under, and what happened in San Diego you need to check." 

All right, I disagree I think the wall, you've been in Israel and you've seen how effective that wall is to keep terrorists out. And I mean you know the data, is the data, the Israelis built the wall at great expense but it saved thousands of lives in Israel. 

"Not those number of miles, certainly Israeli intelligence people will tell you that the actual wall itself, without electronic and aerial surveillance in many other things they have done would not have prevented terrorists from coming into Israel." 

It's 100 percent, in Israel, they support the wall because it's worked, so. 

"It is several, several miles and didn't cost 50 billion dollars but I think you will hear them say that no the wall alone would not be sufficient."

What is your solution to stop the millions of people who want to come here and in Western Europe because now that the German government is going to fall because of the migrant situation? What is your solution? 

"I don't have one." 

At least you're honest. At least you're honest. 

"It is a problem and I find the concern by people that is not about race color, and who say that 30 percent of the country are immigrants when it's 100 percent, now I here you correcting that. I think we have a we should not mention the color of people's skin, the origins of where they come from, whether they are Muslims, Christians or Jews we have a problem of illegal immigration we need border security." 

I haven't mentioned it one time here, other than to say you know that the dark left, OK which is funding all of this stuff, all the protest all of that. They want, the white supremacists like me and the white privileged like you or whatever... 

"You're not a white supremacist." 

I appreciate that Lanny.

"You're a tolerant good man." 

I just want everybody to understand... 

"You're not a supremacist, you're not a white supremacist." 

The 30 percent, the 30 percent figure that I used is from the U.S. Census and that is foreign born immigrants. People who were born on foreign soil. 30 percent of our population is made up of them and their families. That's a very generous immigration, very generous immigration from the USA. 

"You are not saying an accurate statement, one hundred percent of America are immigrants, if you're talking about a time period over the last number of years, we've added 30 percent immigration. Maybe you would be right but the way you say it is silly because all of us are immigrants. Every single American is an immigrant, some of them are white, some of them are brown, some of them are yellow. We all moved in and displaced the native Americans." 

Very good, Lanny.

Reva Goujon:

Putin and the mullahs. Does Putin help Iran? 

So, Russia and Iran have a very complicated relationship let's say there's no love lost between these two powers. They are geopolitical competitors in many respects. They're even energy competitors but there's a strategic alignment between them especially when US hostility toward Iran is on the rise as we see now and so Russia tries to leverage its relationship with Iran as it attempts to strike a grand bargain with the United States and so that's where Russia can play either a more constructive role, as you can see right now, it's saying look I have a Syria proposal I can contain Iranian activity in Syria. Let's see what that can get us or it can play a spoiler role which is the more traditional Russian role where it can create more complications through things like defense sales through its military enforcement and Iranian activity in Syria and so on." 

Well maybe that's what Trump wants from Putin, he wants Putin to turn against Iran or at least not help them advance Islamic militancy throughout the Middle East, is that possible? 

"Nothing comes for, nothing comes for free. Right. So what is Russia expecting in return? And that's of course where we'd run into some issues. And plus, you know, Russia, it can claim that it can contain Iranian activity in southwest Syria but the limitations on Russia are still pretty severe here you can't necessarily control those Iranian forces on the ground to the degree that Moscow wants to in a negotiation. So you know there's still some, there's political framing and then there's the reality on the battleground and there can be a gap between those two." 

Dinesh D’Souza:

Let's go to George Soros. Now, I have reports here that this man through a variety of media sites Media Matters, these kinds of far left kooks. He gives them money through his Open Society Foundation other foundations, Soros funnels the money in, OK. To the tune of 40 billion. No, no, forty million dollars. And so Media Matters for example goes to Facebook and Google and tries to get conservatives off like you, try to get your book, your movie publicity about it, interviews with you, out. And that's what these far left people are doing and Soros is paying for it. Are you aware of that? 

"Well I've read about it and I certainly know that Soros has been hiding some of these Antifa groups that are beating up speakers on campus. This is very consistent with that picture. I mean we're living in a surreal time, Bill when honestly if John Stuart Mill that great apostle of liberty, were to show up to speak on the Berkeley campus tomorrow Antifa would be there to beat him up. So this is liberalism that is actually acting in the most illiberal way. Same with Soros, I mean to get this kind of digital censorship where essentially a live human being who has established a social media following is converted into a non-person, you have to go back to Aldous Huxley or George Orwell on the serial novels to find this kind of craziness going on." 

Yeah and Media Matters had access to the highest levels of Facebook and Google and apparently, they you know went in there and threatened them or said you better get these people off, you know it was what happened to me. I mean within an instant when I was accused of something we had people in front of Fox News with signs and we knew they were paid people were paid. And that's where the Soros money goes and sources hey I don't write them a check directly my foundation gives this organization and they can do what they want with the money you know it's a circle but it's the same snake, all right it's the same pithon, squeezing. 

"I have a sort of a Nazi word, a German word for this is was what the Germans called a recently in shooting the movie, I was in Munich, I was in Nuremberg and I began to wonder why the Germans drape the swastika flag on their balconies, why they did the Heil Hitler salute all the time, I'm thinking Hitler wasn't there, so who are you actually saluting? And then I realize that what they're doing is they're signaling their humble conformity to state doctrine. They're basically saying I'm not a troublemaker, I will sycophantically submit to whatever the state asks me to do."

Right. 

"So this kind of effort to enforce cultural conformity in its own way, it's with us today, it's called political correctness and our digital Mogul is a part of it." 

It's also called Fascism and the George Soros of the world who want, they do not want any dissent to their far left view of the world and if you do dissent and if you are not on their side they'll come after you and I know that firsthand. 

 

Bernie and Sid:

Now, if LeBron James who comes across as a fairly articulate guy, were here, do you think the point that you just raised, the good economy, more African-Americans working and earning higher wages, ISIS on the run, North Korea coming to the bargaining table, would that have any effect on LeBron James' attitude towards Trump? 

"I don't think so." 

Why wouldn't it? 

"Because the poison of hate and ignorance, Bill it's ignorance." 

But he's not ignorant. 

But he is because he believes that there's an epidemic of cop killings against young black men and you and I both know that's not true."

The stats say it is not. 

"That's right. That's ignorance. So, no I don't, but if he really believes that there's an epidemic and that Trump doesn't care he's going to still, the economy be damned screw it, I mean I hate this guy Donald Trump I'm not going to get the White House." 

Could you convince Steve Kerr, that his point of view is erroneous? 

"No." 

Politically, you couldn't convince him? 

"No, and I don't think Steve Kerr is doing this because of his players. I think Steve Kerr really believes that Donald Trump is a bad guy. See LeBron James will give the credit to Barack Obama, he got the economy going after a horrible recession, that would be his answer. Look, LeBron James don't forget when the Cavaliers play the Knicks and came into town here in New York City, Bill. They were supposed to stay at Trump's hotel. Him and JR Smith would not stay at Trump's hotel. So, this didn't just start from the beginning of the season he refused to stay in Trump's hotel here in New York." 

Not many people know this but JR Smith got lost. He couldn't find a hotel, and he wound up in Jersey and the clock ran out. 

"What a shock. It's all rooted in ignorance all rooted in a bad premise." 

I don't know if it's ignorance, as much as bitterness, as much as bitterness and it's social pressure, peer pressure of monolithic thinking, you can't get through with facts, he's a racist, he's this, he's that. 

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