Hey BillOReilly.com Premium Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, December 30th, 2019. Fight for Your Freedom.

I hope everybody had a nice Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and you thought about your circumstance in America a little bit. I'm going to get to that and a final thought. It's important. It's important that we have perspective about life and we can do a lot of good if we do discipline ourselves. Think about what's really going on, not only with ourselves, but the people that we love around us. A very important thing.

Now, this week, it's going to be a little truncated. Word of the day, truncated. I am going to do this broadcast, going to do another broadcast tomorrow. Then we're going to open everything up on New Year's Day, so that everybody can see it, not just Premium and Concierge members. The reason we're doing this is that there is a lot of discussion about this broadcast, but you know how people are, they don't want to pull a trigger. It's not a lot of money. I mean, it's certainly worth it if you want information and we're going to have the best election coverage in the world right here. I want to put it out there so you can tell your friends and family members, hey, look, you can go watch O'Reilly bloviate for free this weekend, the first weekend of 2020. Then if you're bored, you can discuss what we say and do. I mean, I want you guys to not only be observers, but I want you to be discussers. You know, so if somebody isn't a member and then you can say, what did you think? What are the good points? What are the bad points? That kind of thing. It's fun. It's fun, and a lot of people are off this week, they'll have some time to do that.

So, that's what we're gonna do and then Monday, January 6th, we will resume with a heavy emphasis on the election of 2020, perhaps the most important election in our lifetime, and I don't say that with any hyperbole. I mean, I've been through it all. I can't see anything more important and we'll get that to you, why it's so important over the coming months.

The final thing is that I have a brand new column on our resolutions, New Year's resolutions, that I'm suggesting to some powerful people. I got a kick out of writing that. I think you'll like to read it. Write me a note. I'll review the column tomorrow. Okay, we will do a little bit of that.

All right. So the the lead story tonight is Donald Trump, the president of the United States. What's he doing? He has been kind of quiet the last 10 days or so, which is good. It's Christmas time. You know, uncharacteristically quiet for the president. He is still Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Still there. He is going to go down to Miami on a Friday to speak to some evangelicals. He had a little brouhaha with the evangelical magazine that doesn't like him and all that. Next week, he'll be back in campaign mode. He is going Ames, Iowa, Toledo, Ohio. You're going to see two events a week from the president till next November.

He has tweeted a few things on Christmas Day, at 3:32 p.m., he tweeted, "2019 Holiday retail sales up three point four percent from last year, the biggest number in U.S. history. Congratulations, America." OK. You know, it's a little pat himself on the backs. All right. About an hour and a half later, he tweets, "Governor Gavin Newsom has done a really bad job on taking care of the homeless in California. If he can't fix the problem, the federal government will get involved." OK. I don't know about Christmas Day for that, but obviously the president's looking to put a hit on California, as he should. California is not helping its own citizens, much less the country. My opinion. There was one more tweet on the 28th. "So sad to see New York City and the state of New York falling apart. All they want to do is investigate me. Governor Cuomo has lost control and his mind. Very bad for the homeless and all." So New York, California, obviously, are the two biggest states aligned against Donald Trump and he is not taking it lightly.

The final thing on the president is that the impeachment is ill defined right now. So all of the pinheads in Congress come back on Monday, all right, a week from today they pile into Washington, the senators and the congresspeople. Then I guess the Democrats will figure out if they're going to give the articles of impeachment to the Senate or not. You know, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell already has a plan if they don't and I don't know what that plan is, nobody knows. But if Nancy Pelosi doesn't hand over the articles of impeachment, which she might not because she's got her own plot. McConnell is going to do something, either dismiss it, suspend it. He's not going to just let it drift. So next week, we'll get a little bit more illumination on that. What else is going on?

Joe Biden. The polls say that he is solidifying his frontrunner status, which is good for my prediction made eight months ago that he would be the nominee. He's ahead, well ahead in the national polls. Now, Biden, if there is a trial in the Senate, Republican senators are going to want to call him and testify in front of the nation and try to embarrass the former vice president. Here's how he replies. Go.

"The reason I wouldn't is because it's all designed to deal with Trump doing what he's done his whole life, trying to take the focus off him. This is all about a diversion and we play his game all the time. He's done it his whole career."

OK. So he's saying he won't answer a subpoena from the Senate. Then he says, wait a minute, I might. Put the tweet up there, I will read it. So he got a lot of heat for that, saying he wouldn't answer a subpoena, then he said, "I want to clarify something I said yesterday. In my 40 years in public life, I have always complied with a lawful orders in my eight years as V.P.. My office on like Donald Trump, Mike Pence cooperated with legitimate congressional oversight requests." unquote.

OK, so he doesn't know what to do. Biden doesn't know what to do. He certainly knows it would be a huge mistake for him to show up in a Senate hearing on impeachment, because the Republican senators would tear him to pieces and he doesn't have any defense. He said what he said to the Ukrainian government, either you fire the prosecutor or you don't get a billion dollars in loans. He said it, it's on tape and he's proud of it. It's not like he said oh I made a mistake. He know  that his son pulled millions of dollars out of that country for nothing. So he'd get killed if he goes into the Senate.

So Joe Biden should do what President Trump is doing, exactly the same executive privilege. I'm not coming in because if I do, I may have to answer questions that are private and were conversations that I had with President Obama, for example. I'm not going to answer those questions. I'm not going to come in and do that. All they want to do is trap me and make me look bad. So if Biden, and I don't think he'll ever in a million years go to the Senate, he'd be crazy to do that. They will destroy him. But, you know, he's doing little dance now.

The other thing is the Christmas card, do we have the Christmas card? I don't know. Yeah. Throw it on up there. All right. So the Christmas card comes out, the Biden family, and no Hunter. Hunter is not here. You know, it's a tough situation. So Hunter is gone, out of the Christmas card.

Betting odds. So you're not allowed to bet on a presidential race in America, it's illegal, but in England you can. So the betting odds are Biden gets nomination, 33 percent. Sanders 21 percent. Warren 18. Buttigieg 13. Sanders and Warren have no chance to get the nomination, Buttigieg is coming up. So let me tell you what's going on here. The real power within the Democratic Party is The New York Times, and to a lesser extent, The Washington Post. Those people are calling the shots within the party. Nancy Pelosi is the mouthpiece in the House, but she's not the real powerbroker behind the philosophy of the Democratic Party, The New York Times is right. The New York Times works and they hide it, but they work with the democratic structure in Washington on K Street. There are groups there that coordinate Democratic activity, Democratic Party activity, The New York Times works with them. The New York Times basically said, look, we don't like Joe Biden. We don't believe he can beat Trump because he's befuddled and he's not nearly radical left enough for The New York Times. He's not even close for that. The New York Times does know that Warren and Sanders cannot win because minority voters will not support them, they can't win. So they don't think Biden can win, they know Sanders and Warren can't win. Who's left? Buttigieg.

So now you see Buttigieg come up in the polls and get favorable media coverage and I mean favorable media coverage. All right. This is all by design, no accident. Buttigieg is a bright guy and he's articulate. All right, he's got energy, he is 38 years old. New York Times says even if he doesn't make it this time, we got our eye on this guy because he's pretty far left. Now, his latest, Buttigieg, is that he wants to decriminalize drug activity. OK. He doesn't want to have drug use be a crime. Roll it.

"If you think about the adverse impact on a child, we have kids in South Bend who've grown up with the incarceration of a parent as one of their first experiences, that makes them dramatically more likely to wind up themselves having an encounter with the criminal legal system. So, I've always been skeptical of mass incarceration, but the idea that you can criminalize addiction or the idea that incarceration is the right way to handle possession, I think has been disproven by the American experience over the course of my lifetime."

All right. So, Buttigieg, sounds logical, right? All the liberals are going, oh, yes, that's right. That's right, but it makes no sense at all policy wise. Number one, children of addicted parents are abused just by the circumstance of their parents being inebriated most of the time. All right, so he's saying, well, if you put the kids, mom and dad in prison, then the kid, his life is up, like they have a good life with their parents out of prison, shooting up heroin and methamphetamine. I mean, this is insane. Seventy five percent of all child abuse and neglect in America is caused by drug addicted parents. Seventy five percent. All right, so that, you throw that right out and of course, the Des Moines Register people, oh, yes. Right. Right. They know nothing and that's the state of American journalism. So that's number one.

Mass incarceration for drug use does not happen. It doesn't happen. All the statistics say the same thing, drug addicts, unless they sell, which many of them do to get money to buy their own drugs, but if you're just a heroin addict, they don't put you in jail for more than 24, 48 hours while they process you. You're not in a state penitentiary or a federal penitentiary. That doesn't happen. Oh the mass incarceration, they put drug dealers in jail, people who sell poison to children, they go to prison, but not under Pete Buttigieg. Because once you start to say, oh, no, you can possess narcotics, then every pusher in the world will go, okay. Fine. It's for my own use and you're dealing on the corner, cop comes, no, no, no. This is mine. That is mine. Even drug use gets diminished, drug sale I should say, gets diminished.

So, everybody will walk around stoned with all the heroin and methamphetamine and crack and cocaine they want and Buttigieg says we are not going to deal with you. So, the cold truth for you liberal people out there is this, that hard drugs have destroyed minority communities all over the country. Since the beginning of the 1960s. They are the fact, they are the driving force of poverty. If you're addicted, you cannot work and your children are abused pretty much. Then all the dead people that the pushers are selling drugs to. So, this Buttigieg, he's Mr. Politically Correct, this guy. But he has no solution to the narcotics problem in America. None. He doesn't know how to solve it. Just let them go. Let them go. Let them run around it and do what they want to do. Mass incarceration. Their kids are punished if their parents go to prison. Come on. It is just, and the incompetence of the press is just staggering. They never challenge any of this.

Alright. Buttigieg also had a Christmas tweet. Let's throw that on up. "Today, I join millions around the world in celebrating the arrival of divinity on Earth, who came into this world not in riches, but in poverty, not as a citizen, but as a refugee. No matter where or how we celebrate, Merry Christmas." Well, that's not true. Jesus was a citizen. His father, Joseph, was mandated by the Romans, who occupied Palestine, to go to his birthplace to register for the census. Jesus was not a refugee. So, Buttigieg doesn't know anything.

Now, it's a small point and I appreciate Buttigieg saying Merry Christmas because most of his peers in the Democratic Party will not do that, Buttgieg seems to be a sincere Christian, and a sincere anything for a politician is good, I don't care what religion you are, if you're sincere about it, that's good. But, you know, Jesus is a refugee? Come on. Give me a break, will you? You don't know anything. If you went to church, Pete, on Christmas Day, you saw the gospel, which explained why Joseph had to go to Bethlehem, because he's a descendant of David.

Okay, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Now, she is not an important person in this country. She is a media created person. She has attached herself now to Bernie Sanders, okay? Miss Ocasio-Cortez, I believe is a communist, not a socialist. She is a communist, but I could be wrong. She's certainly a socialist. She had a couple of interesting soundbites that I want to play you, not because she said them, but because this is a belief system held by the left in America. Roll number one.

"What we are living in right now, it's not an advanced society. A society that allows people. It is fascism what we have. What we're evolving into as well."

All right. So, it's now we're fascism, America's fascist. OK. This is just stupid and it is embarrassing that a sitting congressperson would be running around saying that, however, this is not unusual in the far left precincts. It is not. Here's sound bite number two. Go.

"This is reality. We only talk about raising taxes when it comes to taking care of our kids and saving our planet and establishing health care. It is an ultimate  hypocrisy. So, I'm here to say and to tell you when someone asks you, how are we going to pay for it? The question is not that. The question is not how are we going to pay for it? The question is, how do we want to pay for it?"

That's interesting. How do we want to pay for it? So Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders and Warren want to seize the private property of affluent Americans to pay for their war on global warming and their mandate that every American child be supported by the federal government, not their parents, but the federal government pays all the bills for the kid. But in order to do that, you have to seize assets and when you seize assets, you're a communist, because private property no longer exists. That's what they did, Soviet Union, China has walked back from that a little bit, but it's still a communist country. But the best example is Cuba. Best example. You can't own anything in Cuba, all right, the government owns it. They give you, they dole out whatever. That's what Ocasio-Cortez wants. That's what she's telling the dopey people that have no blanking clue what she's talking about.

Alright, this is a terrible story here in New York City, a police officer was sucker punched, alright, by a guy that was drunk on the street and the cop is trying to get him off the street because he was bothering passers by. The man who did that is 40 year old Steven Haynes. He was arrested, charged with resisting arrest, assaulting an officer, disorderly conduct, obstruction of government administration, alcoholic beverage violation. All right. Five charges goes into court, they release him without bail. So, now in New York City, you can punch a police officer or a firefighter or any government official, you can punch them, knock them to the ground, you will not be held in confinement for doing that. That is anarchy and that is Mayor deBlasio, another communist.

In the Bronx, in New York City, guy leaves McDonald's, Juan Fresnada, alright, he walks out, he's mugged. He only has a buck on him and he is killed, the muggers kill him, they beat him to death. Multiple people who were around the killing, this is the Bronx, they saw it. Saw the attack. Nobody helped him. He is dead.

Baltimore.Six hundred thousand people live in the city of Baltimore, 600,000. This year, three hundred and forty three have been murdered, and that's as I speak to you, more will be murdered tonight. 343. Here in New York City, eight million people live in the city limits. Eight million as opposed to 600,000 from Baltimore. All right. Three hundred and six people have been murdered. So Baltimore has 37 more homicides than New York City, with six hundred thousand versus 8 million. And believe me when I tell you, another eight million live in the New York metropolitan area, that's 16 million. That's why you can't get anywhere in New York. So, Baltimore is totally out of control. All right. If you go down the mayors, alright, all far left people since 2007. That's what happens. That's what happens. It's happening in New York with deBlasio and the only reason the murder rate in New York hasn't gone sky high, even though you can punch cops without much punishment, is because of the groundwork laid by Rudy Giuliani and Bill Bratton and others. They organized the police department, 44,000 New York City police officers, so well that violent crime dropped, but it's rising now. Violent crime is rising.

Overseas, the U.S. military launched five bombings of Iran backed militia in Iraq and Syria. Here's what's going on there, real fast. So, Iran infiltrates terrorists into Syria and Iraq to cause trouble. Car bombs, things like that, just to destabilize those countries, which don't really need a lot of destabilizing, they are chaotic as it is, but Iran is behind all it is. So, now the camps where Hezbollah and others are, are being bombed by the USA. So, you know.

University of Kentucky, I believe this is in Kentucky, but it could be in Kansas. I thought it was Kentucky. It is either the University of Kentucky or the University of Kansas, I should know, but on my paper here, I have University of Kansas. All right. It is the University of Kansas, they tell me. They had of course, they just finished up, "Angry White Male Studies". "Angry White Male Studies". You got credit for it. It's in a humanities curriculum. Angry white masculinity course connects to feminism, racism, homosexuality, transgenderism and you get three credits if you do that. Now, what this course is about is to demonize all white men and to be sympathetic to others that they allegedly oppress.

Good mail segment. Really good. Final Thought. Really good Final Thought. So, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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All right. Let's go to the mail. Karen, on the message board.

"Do you know who the Republican witness is, that were denied by the House are? I've heard, but I don't have enough information to debate this.".

It never got that far because the House chairman of the committee, he's basically said, here's a witness list. They're in charge. They can do it. It really never got that far. There were rumors and this and that, but was never considered.

Mark, on a message board.

"Bill, aren't Nancy Pelosi's delays in delivering the articles of impeachment a violation of the president's Sixth Amendment rights to a speedy trial?"

It is not a criminal trial. Impeachment is not a criminal action. So there are no barriers other than the Constitution saying the House is right to do it.

Marcus Avalon. Weston, Florida. Horse Country.

"Is it possible that Nancy Pelosi is holding sending the impeachment to the Senate because she will wait until the election 2020?".

Anything's possible, but as I said at the beginning, Marcus, Senate is going to take care of it. McConnell is going to take care of it.

Joyce, one on the message board.

"Nancy Pelosi is showing exactly what Democratic Party represents she wants to control by any means possible, legal or illegal, ethical or unethical. Do you agree?".

Yes. I think the speaker wants to control and milk the impeachment process for everything she can. Yes, I think we all know that now. No fairness involved.

Lee.

"If the FBI was dishonest in requesting the FISA warrant, seems to me some time that bias had to be involved.".

Sure, what other motivation is there? It's either gross incompetence at a level never before seen within the FBI or biased. One or the other. I know where I'm picking.

Stephen.

"Several weeks ago, you opined that black people can't be guilty of hate crimes because they are a minority. With the recent stabbings of Orthodox Jews in New York City by black men, are you still of the same opinion?".

It is not an opinion. It is the federal law. Not my opinion. The law protects minorities and if you are violent on minorities, then you are charged or you could be charged with a hate crime. Now, the people who attacked the Orthodox Jews, whether they are black or any color, could be charged with a hate crime. You can charge a minority group if they perpetrate the crime. But again, this isn't an opinion. This is a fact, it's a law.

Brad Burke, Rockport, Missouri.

"My small business made a profit for the first time, and I'm giving back with donations to Independence Fund and Delta Rescue.".

Two excellent charities, Independence Fund buys the track chairs. I just bought another one for wounded vet, severely wounded vet. I did that for Christmas and Delta Rescue is a new charity for us. They are humane in saving animals and you know, Holly the terror dog is well taken care of here, but animals should be protected in this country. By the way, there's a very funny tweet and you got to sign up for my tweet @BillOReilly, we got about three and a half million. We'd like to double that this year to 7 million. But that's where Holly the terror dog lives, in my Twitter thing. So, @BillOReilly to sign up. Hey, on cue, on cue the terror dog is barking. See, how could I make that happen? It's a miracle.

Michael Sullivan. Reynoldsberg, Ohio.

"Just finished the United States of Trump. One of your best books, Bill. It was very factual and objective, and I've gained a new appreciation for books written with no anonymous sources.".

Of which there are very few. So if you didn't get the United States of Trump for Christmas or Hanukkah and you want it, we got it for you. It's well worth reading, particularly in this election year. OK. We also have tons of after Christmas sales stuff in our store. So go there, stock up for birthdays, things like that or just for yourself? Reward yourself. When writing to BillOReilly.com, do not be a philistine. Philistine. Quick break, back with a Final Thought that you will want to hear.

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All right. Here's a Final Thought today, and we did a whole thing, if you missed it, I have all my Final Thoughts in a kind of a broadcast that's posted, you might want to see that. So, The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article over the break that said that negative thoughts override positive thoughts in most human beings. That's true, no doubt about it. You know, certain races like Irish people, Scandinavian people, we have a kind of a gloomier view than maybe Spanish people, but in general, negatives override positives.

Everybody in their lives are victims of injustice. None of us escape injustice and, you know, in your own life. It just sticks there. It's hard to get rid of that. But you got to put it into perspective. So, I always think of Charles Krauthammer. All right. I've had a lot of injustice heaped upon me in the last four years, a lot, but then I look at Charles Krauthammer, brilliant man. All right. Prime of his life. He dives into a pool and he's paralyzed from the neck down. My God. You know. Really? But Charles rose up, became a force in this country, obviously, he died way too young because of his affliction. But how much of an injustice is that? So whatever happened to me and you, other people, doesn't pale. Got to bring perspective.

However, there is something to be said for fighting against injustice, the rub comes when you can't. You have a bad boss. All right. The marriage is not working out and there's nothing you can do about it. If you can fight against injustice, do so, not only for yourself, but others. But what it comes down to is this, you gotta have perspective about it. So, last year or this year, we're still in it, 2019 was a great year for us. I think we're the most financially successful podcast in the country, perhaps the world, BillOReilly.com, we had a great year. Radio, my 15 minute radio summary every day, exploding and I hope you listen to some of it because we post it every day. It's exploding and more than 200 stations in less than a year. We had a great year. But in my mind, I'm replaying that injustice. I got to stop myself from doing that. It is a discipline because I am an Irish guy and you know. 

But I always say I believe that in the end, justice will be served. Perhaps not in life, but in the afterlife. I believe that and I hope I'm not disappointed. So tomorrow we'll, I'm not going to do too much of a look back in 2019, I don't believe in that. We are going to look forward to the election tomorrow. I'm going to set the stage for you. We hope to see you then.