Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News, 26th of December 2017, as we wind down this year. 

So, here's what we are we going to do this week. This is an original broadcast of the No Spin News and we're going to tell you a few things about what's going to happen early in 2018. Then tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday we've got a bunch of specials, the best of our year's venture into this new and pretty exciting venue. A lot of people seem to like it. No commercials except once in a while when we have to get somebody off the New York City set, which I'll be on next Monday... next Tuesday... will I be there Tuesday? No, I'll be there next Wednesday because of the holiday thing. But it's two on, two off. Two here, two in the city in the studio. We've done surveys with you guys and it's split down the middle. But everybody seems to like the product. 

If you think of anything, and this could really help us, to improve the product, you know, make a better viewing and listening experience for you, let me know. Because we are wide open. We can do a lot of things here. 

And 2018, you know, there's going to be some stuff coming up. I'll discuss it with you. But the big thing is Donald Trump is going to continue to be in the eye of the storm, to use a cliché that I really don't like to use. But he is. This war is not going to settle down until the economy becomes overwhelmingly good. That's the only thing that could really settle it down.

Mr. Trump, as we reported, in December, had a good month. And now he's down in Mar-a-Lago hitting the golf ball around and you know, he's got to be feeling pretty good about himself. The investigations into his Russian collusion scenario don't seem to be getting much traction. The left is... speechless might be the right word over some of his accomplishments like ISIS. You know, battling ISIS and defeating them in the last year. Barack Obama couldn't do that in eight years, he didn't even try very hard, did he? That really rankled me, by the way, you know, that ISIS... those were Nazis, or are Nazis, and Obama pretty much sat it out. I didn't like that. 

But Trump got Mattis, the secretary of defense to put in special forces and organized the cadres against ISIS and they defeated them, it's as simple as that. And you don't hear a word about that on the left. Nothing. 

The economy, we'll see. But it's not going to take long to see if the tax revisions help the U.S. economy. It's not going to take long. 

North Korea is still in play. It's a waiting game. Russia is trying to grandstand it now, just ignore them. 

So over the weekend I'm watching the financial news come in and you know, as we reported, AT&T, Boeing, Wells Fargo, NBC, Comcast, on and on and on are giving their employees bonus money because they got a tax cut in the corporate arena. I mean, even small places like the Bank of Hawaii, Aquesta financial holdings in Cornelius, North Carolina... they're giving thousand dollar bonuses to all its workers. Good, good. 

You know, you're making more money, you the corporate chieftains, give some back to the workers. 

Now, the response to this has been the Left still calling it a fraud and a scam, but they can't back it up. This is legislation that was passed. They lost, the left lost. 

Rosie O'Donnell...this is a publicity getter for Ms. O'Donnell whose career is not exactly skyrocketing. She offered two million dollars to Republican senators to vote against the tax bill. Now she's saying that the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is going to go to hell. I don't know her very well. She was on my program on Fox one time, it worked out all right. But this seems to me a lot of irrational behavior coming out of her. And this certainly is irrational. 

Look, you lost. OK. Let's see how it plays out. I know you're a socialist. I know all you guys out there who hate capitalism and there are many, many of you. You certainly participate in capitalism. Rosie O'Donnell does. But you don't like it, it's stacked against the minorities, it's white privilege, white supremacy, yeah, yeah, we got it, we heard it. But the folks don't believe it. You know, men and women who inhabit this country don't believe it. They know socialism is a disaster and they know Bernie Sanders can't run a pet store, alright, much less a federal government. He's not going to be able to do anything, it's crazy. 

You look at Cuba, you look at Venezuela, you look at Russia, you look at China, you know, when you look at these places and you know, people live in devastating surroundings. 

I remember going to Cuba last spring, beautiful country, beautiful island. Could be... if it were capitalist and not corrupt... the reason Castro got traction there was because Battista and his goons were in the palm of organized crime. If you ever want to see a really good movie about it, Godfather Part II gets right into why Cuba turned communist. But all of these years later the buildings are crumbling, some people don't have air conditioning, nothing works. 

We went to the most expensive hotel in the country on the beach, beautiful setting. They didn't even have towels. The hot water in the shower couldn't even run. I mean, it was insane. Couldn't get milk. Couldn't get milk. And this is a country that has an educated workforce, everybody has to go to school, 90 miles away from the USA. Beautiful, as I said, coastline. Gorgeous water, mountains, everything on it. Good culture. And you don't have air conditioning and can't get milk? Come on. You know, it's not even debatable anymore. 

And these kids running around San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Seattle, you know, "oh, I hate capitalism." You don't know anything. You don't know anything. I've been to 82 countries, I know it works. 

So Donald Trump, you know, he's a hyper capitalist and he believes that this tax reform and his basic overall approach is going to turn the country into an economic machine. We almost have full employment now. That's what the Trump administration is. All right. That's what it is. If it works, he might get reelected. If it doesn't, he's never going to get reelected. So that's the way it is. 

Now, the left wants to take him down and there's only two avenues to do that. The first is the Russian collusion deal. They're hoping, the left is, that special prosecutor or special counsel Mueller, Robert Mueller, comes up with an obstruction of an investigation charge against Trump. It's pretty much what it's going to be if anything. Now, if that happens, and that's a big if, then there would be a move for impeachment. But as long as Republicans hold the House, that's not going to happen. 

What do I expect Mueller to do? Mueller's got to wrap it up pretty soon. You can't continue this ad infinitum, to infinity. You've got to wrap it up. I guess he could do something like, you know, because you fired Comey, but now we know that Comey was running around with FBI agents who were in the tank, who weren't doing an honest investigation. And that's what House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is looking at now. So he's going to write a report next year alleging corruption at the FBI. So Nunes is going after the FBI and the FBI is the agency that investigated the Russian collusion. You can see what a mess this is. And it's never going to be cut and dry, and that's the way it is. 

I don't believe that James Comey was conducting an honest investigation. I do not. You know, so if I were the president and I came to that conclusion, I'd fire him too. Wouldn't you? I don't think Comey is an honest man. And there were a lot of guys in the FBI who were rooting for Hillary Clinton and they were doing things that they shouldn't have been doing instead of trying to find the facts. 

Let's see what else we have here. Top story of 2017 according to the star... no no... let's see, where is this coming from? It's the top story coming from where... you know, each news agency has... on, this is the top sports story, the protests...I'm still not seeing where it's coming from. OK look. 

That was the top sports story, the NFL protest, because it economically disadvantaged the league and it teed off a lot of people. We went over and over and over it. There's no new wrinkle. Maybe two dozen NFL players continue to disrespect the flag and the national anthem, that's all. Not many. Some owners like Jerry Jones in Dallas said, look, you better not do that. And you know, they get the message. Some teams like the San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, they're more radical teams, they reflect the community in which they live. But it is a fascinating story. Absolutely fascinating story. 

Now here's my favorite story that you may have missed over the break. A Newsweek article... now Newsweek went out of business, it used to be a magazine that was respected. Then it became a far-left magazine, then it went bankrupt. Now it's online. Alright, so Newsweek posts an article on Christmas Eve featuring three university professors alleging that Donald Trump is using Christmas to advance white nationalism much like the Nazis did in 1930s Germany. 

According to these professors, when President Trump promises that his supporters will say Merry Christmas, that is a quote "dog whistle" for white identity politics. Now, this cliché, dog whistle, this means that it's kind of a secret code because only a dog with great hearing can hear it, the rest of us miss it. But it's code. So Donald Trump says, I think Merry Christmas should be said across the land, I'm behind Merry Christmas. It's a message to the White Nationalists according to these loons. 

Now, let's correct the record. It was me, your humble correspondent, who first brought up the Merry Christmas controversy about 10 years ago when certain stores were threatening their employees with termination if they used the words Merry Christmas to customers. Remember that? We exposed said stores, the stores' businesses went down, the store stopped doing that. Then we had a debate over Merry Christmas, why it's appropriate, federal holiday, signed into law by Ulysses Grant, everybody gets off, everything stops because of Christmas so why wouldn't you say Merry Christmas? It's not anything offensive. It's a nice greeting. 

So a new poll out is out and says 66 percent of Americans like Merry Christmas, that's what they want to be confronted with. And 28 percent like Happy Holidays, which I always thought was kind of a nothing, happy holidays. All right.

You got three holidays. Got Hanukkah. How hard is it to say happy Hanukkah? You've got Christmas. Merry Christmas, that's good. You've got new year. Happy New Year. Now, I guess if you want to bunch them all together you can say happy holidays, but you know, it just seems to be a nothing, a big nothing. 

So anyway, getting back to these professors. One of them, Joe Perry, he teaches at Georgia State, all right, and he alleges the far right is using the war on Christmas to warn people against multiculturalism. Mr. Perry says that "Donald Trump is employing tactics used by the Nazis to encourage anti-Semitism. The Nazis rewrote Christmas carols and politicized the holiday to promote exclusion and fascism," and that's what Trump is doing according to professor Perry. OK. 

So I'm the president at Georgia State University and the other guy is at Washington State, Richard King, alright so I'm the president of that. So I call these guys in, these professors, and I say, hey look, I understand your opinion, I understand you have a right to your opinion, but it's kind of crazy, and we expect our professors here at Washington State University and Georgia State University to kind of be well respected intellectually, not speaking to a crowd of loons who would believe anything the far left says, we really don't want that here. We want multiculturalism on the intellectual level. That when you put something out there, it's logical, it's framed with facts, you have no facts here, there's no facts in these opinions, it's just pulling it right out of the sky. So for your own well-being, me as the president, I'm not impressed with this kind of intellectual presentation. All right, you represent the university. I'm not impressed. I don't think this is helping us, in fact, I know it's not. It's hurting us. We're becoming branded by this kind of fanaticism. So stop it, with all due respect. 

Now, would those professors listen to me? Probably not. They're probably so far gone that, you know, they live in a land where they are praised for being crazy. The land of the loons. But I, as president of the university, I'd certainly say it, absolutely. Ok. 

Anything else here that caught my eye over the Christmas break... A government website in Canada says Santa Claus is going to move to the South Pole to escape global warming. It's cold in Canada. Cold up there. 

That's about it. You guys didn't miss anything. There's not really much going on. 

The North Korean guy tried to rattle some sabers but nobody's taking him seriously. 

Russia. Putin. I love Putin...Putin, I'll broker a conference between the USA and North Korea, this is Putin, we'll be the mediators, Russia. Number one, Putin, you should be worried about North Korea because they're destabilizing the eastern part of your country. That's number one. So you should be on our side because if they get nukes, it's bad for you. Got it? Number two, why would we have you mediate anything. You're looking out for us. 

OK, let's get to the mail. 

Betty Waits. Cleburne, Texas. 

"Thank you for your clear-headed analysis, it's a breath of fresh air, and you're now part of my breakfast routine." Good, Betty, I'm glad you're listening to us. "My question is, since the Democrats are desperate to defeat Trump and anything the Republicans propose, is there anything the Democrats can do to sabotage the tax bill?" 

No, it's law. The only thing you can do is win back the House and the Senate and then they can vote on a new tax reform. But now it's there for at least a year. That's what it is. 

Ramona Nelson. Huntingdon, Tennessee. 

"I'm puzzled about what the liberals are thinking they could use against President Trump and call for impeachment. I don't agree with everything he's done, he can ton down the tweets and be more careful about his words, but I don't see what the grounds for impeachment would be."

There are no grounds for impeachment. All right. So if Mueller comes up with something, then the left will try to mobilize. But, you know, we'll see. But right now, all it is is just blather. 

Jacquelyn Banuelos. Mission Viejo, California. 

"I don't want to hear any criticism of President Trump spending Christmas in Mar-a-Lago. President Obama's trips to Hawaii cost taxpayers 35 million over eight years." 

More than that. I think it was more than that. They were expensive trips. Mar-a-Lago is not an expensive trip, he just trips on down to Palm Beach, he's got his compound already there, it's got to be secured, but it's a fraction of what President Obama did. 

Fred Tallarico. Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York. Hell's Kitchen is not as bad as it used to be, Fred. So you know, we know you live in Hell's Kitchen but it would probably be now... not purgatory, I don't think it's that bad. It's upgraded. They've gentrified it. It's in a good location in Manhattan toward the River, toward the Hudson River in midtown. All right. 

"Bill, take your country back." I'm sorry I missed saying that, Fred, thank you. Take your country back. "Miss you on TV, love the podcast. I have always appreciated your honest and straightforward news. I've read all the killing books and now diving into Killing England. I gave a PM gift to a friend, great gift idea. Question: Will President Trump include congressional term limits in his next campaign?" 

No. I don't think so. Trump needs all the help he can get with Congress people and when he's telling them, you know what, I'm going to cut off your job after 12 years in the Senate and maybe 10 years in the House, that's not the road to success for Donald Trump. I do think term limits are a good idea, myself. Some of these guys, you know, they make a living forever in there and you don't want that. 

Maryann Chausse. Federal Way, Washington. 

"I'm so happy to have the podcast, I haven't missed one." Very good, Maryann, thank you. "I'm curious about Medicare, which I never hear mentioned anywhere. My question is: do I have to have Medicare?"

Well, you pay for it. You know, they take money out of your check to fund your Medicare enrollment. Do you have to have it? No. No, the Obamacare mandate to have health insurance is gone, but Medicare, you know, Maryann goes on to say, "I'm on Social Security and 200 dollars is deducted every month before I get my check. I don't want Medicare. I could use the extra 200 bucks." 

You have to pay the Medicare tax. You've got to do that. You've got to pay Social Security tax. So you're entitled to getting the program when you reach a certain age. So why wouldn't you get it? Medicare is pretty good, pretty good to have, Maryann. So anyway, I don't think they force you. You do have to enroll. You do have to get a card. But if I were you, I would enroll. 

Larry Boylan. Prosser, Washington. 

"I've watched and listened to you for years, O'Reilly. One thing I don't like is your calling people Kool aid drinkers. If you got that phrase from what happened at Jonestown, it's not good. Those people were forced to drink the poisoned Kool aid, and unless I'm wrong, these people you referred to as Kool aid drinkers are dumb and stupid and that's why they drink." 

OK, Larry. Number one, I haven't used the term Kool aid drinker in two years. OK, I know it's around. I made it popular years and years and years ago. Number two, in Jonestown, Guyana, they weren't forced to drink the Kool aid, they drank it. They drank it voluntarily. There were way more adherents to James Jones than Jones had security or whatever he had. So those people could have just said, "Hey, you're a nut, we're not going to drink poison, goodbye." So let's get our facts straight. Kool aid drinker, for those of you who don't know, is someone like the Jonestown people who'll do anything they're told to do. Believe anything that's put forth. They don't think for themselves, they're not logical. 

Edward Engle. Saint Louis. 

"Why don't we identify and call out editors of the corrupt media?"

Because there are too many of them. The media is so corrupt now. I mean, I'd be here all day with thousands of them. It's really a shame. It's going to be one of the big stories of 2018, the collapse of the American media. 

Michael. Philadelphia. 

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Well, good, Mike. And we'll do those touts in a moment, but I am hoping that you've got gift cards and stuff like that, use them to re-up your premium membership or... you have to be a Premium Member to see this today, so I'm speaking to the choir. 

Drew Foster. Loveland, Ohio. 

"Became a Premium Member after you left FOX. Love the podcast. And now my new year's resolution is to get in shape. I think the premium membership can help. I exclusively listen to your podcast when working out at the gym. I hate going to the gym but I love the podcasts. So I'm getting to the gym four times a week and I listen to you when you're on the Glenn Beck program. I never felt better." 

There you go, Drew. You're combining physical strength, getting stronger, in shape, with mental. How good is that? How good is that? And the podcast for you know, 25-30 minutes. That's really all you need on a cardio workout. If you want to lift, that's a little different. But twenty-five minutes on the cardio is all you need. 

Alice Strong. Zionsville, Indiana. 

"Bill, I'm very happy with the Bill O'Reilly app I downloaded on my smart TV. You may not realize it, but this is groundbreaking. So let me tell you. I cancelled my cable subscription, I go to the app, receive your show. Better than cable, no annoying commercial, it's the wave of the future and you started it." 

Well, I didn't really start it. There's a lot of podcasts, Alice, out there. But we are certainly refining it. You know, we're certainly giving you the news of the day in a straightforward factual manner and then I'm going to analyze the news of the day. 

OK. So going forward in January, you can expect the Left to pivot away from the attacks as fait accompli, you can't do anything about it, and the women thing will rise. All right. So that'll start. But now we know there have been payments to women to say bad things about President Trump, me, others. Payments. We don't know who the payments came from yet. But a lot of them went through this lawyer on the west coast, Lisa Bloom. Fact. Once that starts to roll, a lot of press is looking into who funded that. A lot of rumor. Some pretty big people. Once that rolls, then you're going to get a whole different look at this industry, which has now taken over. 

So we're going to be patient here, methodical, report just the facts, and that's coming. You take the women out, you take the taxes out, it's Mueller and Mueller alone. What does he have, if anything? 

If Trump gets by Mueller, he sails into the next two years, then he's got to go into campaign mode for 2020. We're going to do a lot of this next week, our first week in January back, a lot of this. Stuff is going to be happening. I just want to keep you apprised. 

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So what happens to me is on Christmas I'll get a present from somebody that I wasn't expecting to get a present from. It's only kind, right, generous to reciprocate. So I'll give New Year's presents to people that...and it's not a matter, you know... maybe you'd like this, premium membership to BillOReilly.com. 

All right, easy, quick. And you get a book. You buy three of them, gift certificates, four books. Four books. Seven gifts. So we did great on that. And then stuff is marked down and you know, Premium Members get big discounts anyway. 

So, I hope you had a really nice Christmas. It's not over. You know, this week is more Christmassy stuff. You know, visit friends, give them some cookies. Always bring something. 

I've got to tell the urchins, the urchins are like...I said, you know, when you come to somebody's house, you have to bring something, a little gift, cookies, or candy, or whatever, or fruit if they're healthy people, whatever. You know, they look at you like... But anyway, this is a week to kind of relax. We're working here so we can get set up for 2018. But you know, I'm giving my staff a lot of time to have fun too. 

So I hope you do. I hope you had a great Christmas. Worked out here on Long Island. It's going to get real cold now, so everybody will be hunkering down. And don't forget the specials on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I will have a Message of the Day each morning and tweets throughout the day. 

Thanks for being Premium Members. Again, a Merry Christmas. I hope you had one. And we'll talk to you again soon.