O'Reilly on the Durham Report - May 17th, Hour 2

Published May 18, 2023, 1:46 AM

 Bill O’Reilly, author of Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity, has a new book out in September, Killing the Witches, The Horror of Salem, today gives us his take on the Durham Report. 

All right, Leonard skinnered, simple man. All things, simple man are all things Bill O'Reilly at Bill O'Reilly dot com, where O'Reilly lives, breathes and dies, Mister O'Reilly.

Sir, and dies. Do you know something I don't know?

Don't worry. I'd be very nice. I'd say very nice things about you, because I know a lot of good things. So here's my word of the day. To use an O'Reilly phrase, and it's called common sense. Bill. You know what's missing in this country? Common simple sense. It's common sense to control your border. It's common sense with all the wealth of energy resources, we have natural resources to be energy independent and energy dominant. It's common sense, Bill that schools ought to focus on reading, writing, math, science, history, and computers and let parents do the value instilling at home and kids at school. You know they ought not be educating kids, you know, on issues that parents find contradicting of their own values. Another one is, you know, we need to have safety and security, Bill, law and order if we want to as a country be able to pursue happiness. Have every American pursue happiness. These are simple things. Balancing our budget, living within our means, not robbing from future generations. And lastly, having a mean, tough military, not a woke military with now transgender people doing the recruiting, and talk about, you know, turning our weapons of war into electric vehicles. What are we going to put charging stations on the battlefield? This is common sense. This is not Republican Democrat, conservative liberal. And what's missing, Bill is common sense. Thoughts.

What's the enemy of common sense? Sanity?

Insanity? That's it?

Emotion?

Okay, fair answer.

Emotion is the enemy of common sense. And everybody listening to us knows that when you get angry, when you get distraught despair, then you lose the ability to think clearly. Common sense is simply the ability to think clearly. And when you get emotional and when you are in some kind of psychic pain, that goes out the window and you make mistakes. So the country is making mistakes. Obviously, if you look at America from the time it's signed on in seventeen seventy six to today, we are in a down cycle. And we're in a down cycle because we cannot agree on what kind of a country we want. We can't agree on that. So you've got this powerful media driven movement to change traditional America in every way. You are in a position now to say our traditions worked. And again I come at this from a historical not an ideological party viewpoint. Our traditions worked. And if you look at America and how we were in terrible situations Civil war, terrible Great depression, access powers attacking, declaring war on US, World War two, these were unbelievably catastrophic occurrences. But we got out of it because the population was united in the sense that we're going to right the wrong that's gone now. And because the politicians have polarized and the media has chosen a side. The people who deliver information and have chosen a side, and that is the progressive side. So if you're on our side, you're good. If you're not, you're evil. And so the American people, particularly younger people, who don't have the frame of reference anymore to understand what happened in a Great depression of World War two, they don't know. They then are easily manipulated, and that's why you're seeing this crazy stuff that we're dealing with.

So I watch, for example, you know all that's going on. We got this Durham Report a little late, but it is devastating bill about a systemic abuse of power in some of our formerly greatest institutions, our FBI, for example, and then we see then you fast forward to the twenty twenty election, and you learn that the FBI had Hunter's laptop in December of twenty nineteen. They verified it in the spring of twenty twenty. But then FBI agents were in the MoU leading up to the twenty twenty presidential election, meeting with big tech companies warning them they may be victims of a misinformation campaign that may be about Hunter or Joe Biden. Hence they were pre bunking what they knew was inevitably going to come out because Rudy Giuliani had a copy. Now we know that the fifty one or the dirty fifty one, as Miranda Devine calls them, former Intel officials. We know that John Brennan testified it was purely political the reason he signed onto that document. And then the revelation that active CIA members were involved in recruiting some of these former Intel agents. That to me is corruption. That is you know, I don't know if you like the term deep state, but these are people that are entrusted with power that are abusing that power, and the response from the mob. The media is a collective yawn.

First of net CNN died even covered last night, even mentioned it. Suppression. It's not apathy on a part of the media. It's suppression. That's what happens in Cuba and Russia and China. They suppress the news that doesn't help the state of communism or socialism whatever. So the importance of the Durham Report, and this is why it's kind of heartbreaking. If you and I were to walk out and go shopping at Roosevelt Field on Long Island tonight, the biggest mall in Nasau County.

By the way, when's the last time you went shopping at the Roosevelt Field shopping mall? Because I haven't been there since I'm a kid.

I looked at the stores, but I was having dinner there. But anyway, if you and I were to go there and then stop random people, particularly under fifty years old, and say, hey, what do you think about the Durham Report.

They won't know what we're talking about.

Well, they no blanket idea none how.

But how do Americans do they not see the crime that is now in every big city, in small town across America that has bought into, defund, dismantle nobail, do they not see the fentanyl coming across the border, the heroine, the opioids. Do they not see the insanity that we have people on the terror watch list, some that they're catching, but some that are getting away and creating terror cells in this country. And again I go back to my Word of the Day bill. It's simple, basic, fundamental common sense. And I can add to that that we really don't seem to have a president that that is very aware of anything at this point, which scares me even more.

Yeah, well that is frightening. I mean, you got a chief executive who doesn't know and can't cannot retain information. I mean, that's the key to it. But going back to the Durham Report, the danger here is this that the United States has invested power and money into the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And if you read my book Killing the Mob, the Federal Bureau of Investigation did a very good job in dismantling organized crime. It still exists, but it's not nearly what it was in the fifties and sixties. Good job wiping out the Klan. Good job containing World War two spies, FBI Japanese spies. Good job in the Cold War. They were effective. The FBI very effective. Okay. In fact, after nine to eleven countries, individual countries requested American FBI offices to open, which they did. We have FBI in I think it's seventy countries around the world now, So you have this agency that is effective in fighting crime and saboteur sabotage. But now, because of leadership call me McCabe, Peterson, Truck, Weissman, Andrew Weissman, the whole crew, they decided to use their power to interfere with the presidential election. That's what they did. That is against every constitutional tenant we have. But here's the real shame of it. None of them will be held accountable in a court of law, none of them.

That is the real shame of it. You know, Bill, think of the twenty twenty election. The FBI could have verified Hunter Biden's laptop. They got it in December twenty nineteen. How many days do you think it would take them to verify authenticate that that laptop was very real.

They could have said easily that Hunter Biden's laptop implicated Joe Biden in a still undefined and I think you would have to put that in because the laptop is hearsay. In a court of law, you have to prove what Hunter Biden wrote in it, because he might have been on crack when he wrote. Nobody knows, but they could have easily said, we have this laptop the son of the presidential candidate, all right is saying that his father might have been involved in a nefarious activity with foreign powers, and we're looking into it. We're investigating that. They certainly could have said that. Now, the press would have gone nuts if they did that. You know that they would have done crazy. Oh, you're unverified, you're spreading rumors. And that's why the FBI did not do it. They feared the New York Times in a Washington Post. They feared that if Biden won the election, which he did, they'd all be fired. Christopher Ray would have been fired, everyone, the CIA chief would have been fired. So they decided to come down on the side of Biden, hoping that he would win and they keep their jobs.

And they did all right quick break with simple man Bill O'Reilly on the other side, eight hundred and nine four one Seawn our number if you want to be a part of the program, will hit the phones as well as we continue Bad for America CBSTV, and it's the news.

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This is the Sean Hannity Show. Hey, I've shared the importance of every school having a Knox Entry access system that quickly gets law enforcement into locked doors when needed. Now, tragically, the importance continues. Eighteen US school shootings have occurred from January through March. Now, many schools have a Knox Entry system, but the statistics illustrate the need and importance for all schools to provide law enforcement with quick access to locked doors. And I can learn more about Knox Entry when you go to school entry dot com. Do it today's school entry dot com. All right, we continue with all things simple man, Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly or Bill Oreilly dot com. Let me ask you this. I want to know how does America fix this? And I'm asking you this. I'm not looking at this through a political prism. I'm looking at this as you know, an American that sees our country deteriorating. Nothing seems to be successful. Now, the economy is a disaster, China, Russia, Iran there on the move. And you know, we America has abdicated its role as the leader of the free world. And frankly, the loan superpower, China is now trying to replace our dollar as the world's currency. And these are significant issues. And Joe Biden, apparently, according to a report I read today, is contemplating when he makes a visit to Japan for apologizing for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Maybe the Japanese should have apologized for Pearl Harbor, which started, you know, our involvement in World War Two and my father fighting four years in the Pacific.

If Biden apologizes for the dropping of the Adam bombs, he's finished. He can't even if he runs, he'll lose because that'll anger every American senior citizen. I wouldn't be talking to you because my father was on a destroyer heading to Japan for the invasion and his destroyer would have been sunk by Tomi Kenzie pilots. And if you don't believe me, just read Killing the Rising Sun. Every single thing is in there. The United States had to do that, it would have been far more people killed in an invasion of Japan. Than with the atomic bombs, dropped far more casualties. So if Biden was that stupid, I don't believe he will be that stupid. But God knows that would be good thing for the country, Hannity, because that would eliminate him from any kind of content in twenty twenty four. Every single American over the age of fifty would have to know that's insane. But you know, your question is we are at a crossroads in this country, and I'm not. Your question is can we reverse it? Okay? Can we reverse this? And it we take a tremendously strong Abraham Lincoln esque president to do that. So I think we're gonna meander.

All right, give me three top candidates. I've got thirty seconds.

What was it? What was the question?

Three top candidates that that you see that would be most able to get us on the right track.

I can't answer in thirty seconds. They're going to write a column for Bill O'Reilly dot Com Sunday called Fear the Walking Trump.

Wow, that should be interesting. I think you can name them, but I think you're staying apolitical, that's what I think.

Well, it's some truth.

There's some truth to that. I know you well enough, yeah, in.

That calm, I'm going to tell you that that Donald Trump could win.

I think so too. The things are that bad and America. Look, Winston Churchill was despised in Great Britain, but after Neville Chamberlain in peace in our time, they needed somebody that was a warrior, blood, toil, tears and sweat. I should get an eight plus on my history report, mister Professor Bill O'Reilly all things O'Reilly at Bill O'Reilly dot com. Sir, always a pleasure to have you. Appreciate you being will Us Charles in the Free State of Florida. Charles, How are you glad you called? Sir?

Hey Sean, thanks for taking my call. Appreciate that great state with the Santis super super for sure. I was calling regarding the Durham Report, the Horwitz Report, depending Comer Report, the pending Jim Jordan Report. You know what I'm reported out. I think all these reports they're going nowhere, and the only thing that is going to produce is another report. Every time that we think that we have this, you know, the smoking gun, it blows up and back on our face. Yesterday I heard two people, Nikki Haley won you know. She said that people need to be held accountable, and in the same breath she goes, but we need to look forward. Then I hear Lindsey Graham. He gives a complete pass. He wants Merritt Garland and Christopher Ray to anyone whose lives were completely disrupted, upended, ruined. She wants Merrick Garland and Christopher Ray to call up and apologize.

Okay, that does not cut it. Christopher Ray, frankly, he had every opportunity to clean up what once was and should again be the world's premier law enforcement agency. He's had his opportunity. Oh well, we instituted this change and that change. Okay, Well it didn't work out that well because the FBI was still involved in elections in twenty twenty. We know because we had FBI officials meeting weekly with big tech companies and the lead up to the twenty twenty election, and due to testimony in the then Attorney general now Senator Schmid case of Missouri that they were pre bunking any stories about Hunter and Joe So and oh, you're probably going to be the victim of a disinformation campaign. What was the result of that? The result of that was the FBI putting cinderblocks on the twenty twenty election by pre bunking what was a blockbuster story that I believe would have changed dramatically the outcome of the twenty twenty election. They had no business being involved. None of these people are being held accountable. A higher loyalty with James, Jim James, call mey, a higher loyalty. Are you kidding me? He couldn't have done more damage to this great agency than he did, and again he should have been held accountable. McCabe struck Page and then of course they're willing accomplices. We can't let the medium mob off the hook here either. You know, I spent three years digging down deep. We created a great ensemble cast on this show. It included Greg Jarrett and Sarah Carter and John Solomon and Catherine Herridge at the time, and we were breaking story after story, first vindicated in the Horowitz Report, vindicated again this week, and collectively, the mob, the media, they must be fine with this. But I can't imagine that if the FBI under Donald Trump were pre bunking a story that was similar and one of the Trump kids had a laptop like Hunters and was involved in all these foreign business dealings with our adversaries. I think they'd be paying a hell of a lot more attention than they're paying to it now. The sad truth is is right now in America, equal justice under the law is dead. Equal application of our laws is dead. There is no accountability. There is a dual justice system. I wish it were and so, but it's so and so. You know, unless and until we clean house, and if that means the Republican's got to step up, defund these agencies and start anew with a very specific, stated purpose and oversight that will make sure that this kind of thing can happen again. You know what it's it's just going to keep happening in the future. You know, who knows what they'll plan for twenty twenty four. But I agree with you, this is beyond serious anyway. Eight hundred and ninety four one, Sean, you want to be a part of the program, Don and Michigan, Don High, How are you glad you called.

Hey, Shan, You're a great American brother. Thanks for everything you do.

Matt Hey, thank you for joining us. Glad you checked in, Sir So.

I think Donald Trump has a has a case to file a civil rights lawsuit against these agencies. You know, in nineteen eighty three lawsuit, they definitely violated his civil rights. He was a private citizen running a campaign. And I don't know why or if he's even thinking about this. What do you think of that idea?

Look, as far as I'm concerned, he does, he should have, as should all the other innocent people that were harassed. I spoke, I'm not going to mention who. I spoke to a source that was a victim of this witch hunt, and and one of them said that they're looking into every legal possibility to hold these people accountable. I don't blame them one bit. You know, look at this guy, Papadopoulos. Look what they did to his life.

He had.

It was only two weeks in jail. Linda, you remember the day, I mean, he was saying, I might just I might not take the two weeks. I might fight this. I said, you better just take the two weeks in jail, because they'll turn it into twenty years if they can. And at that point, I didn't want to see this kid's life ruined, his and his wife's life runed. But a lot of people were unfairly targeted, damaged. You know, where were the you know, pre dawn raids in you know, undrawn thirty swat team members, CNN, fake news cameras. You know, when any Democrat gets rated? Why was mar Lago rated but not you Penn or not Biden's home or not Biden's you know, Delaware office that he had come. How come it didn't happen? How come there were no consequences but thirty three thousand deleted emails that had been subpoened. How is it Hillary Clinton was able to get you know, top officials to buy into her phony Russian misinformation dossier that she paid for that was never corroborated. What happens to the people that used that as the bulk of information to get a PFISA warrant approved. It was Andy mccab that famously said, oh, if we didn't have the dossier, there would be no approval of the PISA warrant. Okay, they used it four times. Jim Comey signed three of the four, Rosenstein signed the last one. And you would think, oh, in retrospect, they're all saying, oh, in retrospect, we wouldn't have signed it. Well, when you say it's verified, which is at the top of a PIZA application. It better be verified. Otherwise you are lying in a court of law that would put you, me and everybody listening to this show right now in jail forever. Anyway, appreciate it.

You can I say something about what Don said.

Would you like to add to Don?

I agree with you. I mean, at the end of the day, doesn't Trump have a right to just be a private citizen right now and say, oh, guess what, Since you guys were so full of Adam Schiff, I'm now going to have my say. But I think he's got to wait, right because we've got you know, we've got a biased gotus. We've got a bias DOJ, biased, FBI bias, CIA bias, White House sorels, bought and paid attorney generals. I mean, we got he doesn't see a chance in hell they get a fair trial right now. We got to get the country back on track before he can do that, you know what I'm saying.

And he'd have to file in Virginia. Yeah, where's campaign for the moon? You know?

I mean it's I just don't know where the guy gets a fair trial, honestly, and anybody who worked for him, around him, were near him, and that was Sean's point about Papadoppolos Well.

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You're a line, dog faced pony soldier, just says you are. Now you gotta be honest.

I'm gonna be honest with you.

Sean Hannity is on right now.

Why let's head back to our busy phones. Let us say well, Susan in Connecticut is making a similar point. Hey, Susan, how are you glad you call hi?

Sean?

Thanks for taking my call. I just also want to reiterate I think what happened to the former president was despicable, horrifye and outrageous, and I really wish he'd sue for money for defamation of character. Clinton Brenner, Tomy, McKay, Clapper, etc. Lincoln and Sullivan should both be losing their jobs and their security clearances. As far as I'm concerned, they've committed treason against the government. And I really think Trump needs to go after the wallets of these people because it's just outrageous. And as far as Adam Shift.

Goes, now, he's about to get a promotion, He's going to be elected senator. Mark my words. I wish I was wrong, but California's nuts and they gotta watch. He'll end up getting a promotion for being the biggest congenital liar in Congress.

I never I mean, where was this report? It didn't exist. And I really feel that again the President should sue the pants off of these people for money. I know he doesn't need the money. He could give it to the Vet tunnels to Tower thanks Jude all that. There's the kid, But I just think it's I.

Don't think it's a bad idea. I mean, all of that takes time and money. Look, but look at all the legal hurdles now that they've thrown in front of him. You know, a special counsel Marri Lago raid A twenty nine year old allegation of assault that he's dealing with and taking up on appeal. Then you got Alvin Bragg. Then you got the state of Georgia standing by. I've read that transcript out of Georgia, you know, at least ten times, and there's nothing in there that is accurately portrayed aid by the media. When you look at it in its full context. They take out you only needed to find eleven thousand some odd votes, But he had been making the case about how in this specific area, in this specific example, this is how many votes you got wrong. This is where integrity measures were were not applied properly. It's very much in context, but you know they're going to make it as hard as they possibly can. And let me add one thing here. Whether it's Trump, whether it's DeSantis, whoever the nominee is, they're going to pull the same crap against any Republican presidential candidate. They're going to attack any conservative that is a threat to their power base, because that's who they are. That's what they do, all right, Does that make sense? Give me the last word.

I also want to say, the papers and all these people who got these Pulser Prize awards for this, really, I mean they should all give them back, can give them back to people like Miranda Divine and people who were looking for the truth telling them.

I think I should be in the running with Greg Jarrett, John Solomon, Sarah Carter, and Catherine Herridge. But you know, home, I don't want to pat myself. I'm kidding. I don't want their pullit serprise, you know what. But they didn't deserve them. They were based on stories that were lies. Susan, Thank you, Vin in Texas. We got one minute, Vin, It's all yours, take it, yeah, Shan.

In twenty twenty, did you remember this, Democratic Congressman Adam Shipp was forced to release over fifty transcripts of testimony that was given in front of the House Intelligence Committee in twenty seventeen in closed hearings and under oath. Testimony under oath was given by Ship and other officials that were saying at the time on various media outlists that there was evidence in quote plain sight of collusion of Russia and the Trump campaign during the twenty sixteen in presidential camp. Under oath, every one of these officials testified they had no evidence of any collusion Adam Shipp did not want these transcriptions Fever Group release. Some of the thing people that were testifying was James Clapper, Andrew McCabe, Ben Rhodes, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, all former Obama administration directors and deputies of the various agencies. This actually happened. Do you remember that one?

I remember all of it. We covered all of it. I wish I had more time, Ben, thanks for checking in the great free state of Texas. We love our friends in Texas. Eight hundred and ninety four one, Shawn or number. You want to be a part of the program, all right, got to take a quick break when we come back. Greg Abbott just tweeted out, by the way, Texas has now busted over eighteen thousand, five hundred migrants to sanctuary cities. Isn't it a New York City is now pushing out all of the migrants, the illegal immigrants that end up in their city. Isn't it amazing that Matha's vineyed you know they could they wouldn't allow illegal immigrants to stay on that island for more than if they didn't even stay twenty four hours, they were gone. Lorie Lightweight throwing people out into the suburbs. Now Eric Adams in New York doing the same thing. Amazing. They don't seem to want to live by their own mantra and their own law breaking.

You get Muel Bowser in DC.

Yeah, because got a great point. If I was Greg Abbott and DeSantis and every other Republican governor, I'd be doing the same thing anyway. When we come back. Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council and twenty year active veteran of the Border Patrol, will join us and Senator James Langford of Oklahoma straight ahead as we continue

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