[0:00]First of all, Bill, how are you? We thought you died, um, but apparently not. Nope. Just like a vampire, he gonna keep driving. Who who's singing that back song? I kinda like the Monkeys. Did you get the Monkeys back together again at Yeah, yeah, we did. We did. We did. So, uh, Bill, first of all, seriously, how you feeling? I'm feeling okay. Thank you for asking. Uh, and we're launching today, uh, do it live. And here's something you'll enjoy back. Are you ready for enjoyment? I am. I'm already enjoying a lot of this. Because, uh, you know, that's one of the reasons I wanted to planet is to give you enjoyment. Yes, I do. Uh, my staff turned on me. So, uh, I run an operation. You know that BillO'Reilly.com, nose bill news, all that. And I got about 60 people working for me, a lot of people. Yeah. And, uh, so they they're hounding me. You got to do long form. They call it a podcast. A podcast to me, two guys sitting in a basement smoking pot. You know, I we don't do that here. Oh, no. Um, so, but it's long form and, uh, then they go, we have a perfect name. And I go, oh, it's gonna be like the O'Reilly factor two or something. Right? No, we'll do it live. Now, for those of you who don't know what that means, when I was 12 years old, I was anchoring inside a dish and that program is still on air. But I'm 12, and, and I got a little heated one day because the technical just A little? screwed up. I and and I launched a few F-bombs with, uh, we'll do it live. Right. Never heard that story. And then somebody in said a dish and sold it for a lot of money I understand to one of these smear websites. And then it got out and now it'll haunt me for the rest of my life. So that's what the staff demanded to call this program, which debuts today with Rob Schneider. And I have to I have to tell you, wait, you're doing it with Rob Schneider? Yeah. Oh, that's even better. That's even better. Yeah, you'll love it. Okay. So So, Bill, so Bill, here's the thing. Uh, I know that story. And I have been told for years, never by you, but by others, do not mention, we'll do it live to Bill. Do not ever mention that. So like, people have been afraid to mention that to you forever because, I don't know, thought thought you would like go, you know, ballistic on whoever mentioned it. So how do they bring this up to you? Well, you know, you figured the statute of limitations would run out when you're 12 years old. Okay. But no. So this recycles. So I just surrendered back. I just surrendered I said, okay. Okay, good for you. I love it.
[3:00]I'll be humiliated every day of my life. I love the fact. I love the fact that you're actually embracing it and just using it for humor. It's the most effective way to do it and I just love it, Bill. Um, all right, let me, let me talk to you about the, the, uh, news of the day. Right. You know Donald Trump, you know, he hates forever wars. You also have been around enough wars to know this one could be very, very, very dicey. Um, it could also hurt the economy. Um, you know that this election coming up is really important and we can't do anything to hurt the economy just on political front, let alone what it actually means to the average everyday person. How do you read this war, what we're doing, what is coming and what it's going to mean? Okay. So a big gamble by uh, President Trump. A big dice roll. Uh, and he reached a period in in time, in history, where the CIA, NSA, all of our Intel, uh, jawed with the United Nations.
[4:10]Uh, and said, look, we knocked out a lot of their nuclear capacity in June of last year. But they have satellites and are close to being able to put together 10 nuclear bombs. Okay. Ten. And so that Intel came in. and that obviously got Trump's attention. So, there was a massive discussion for months about, all right, what what do we do? Because what the Mullahs did was they decentralized their nuke making capacity. They put they spread it out rather than having it in one place. So then Massad went in and Netanyahu, uh, and I don't think the Trump administration is gonna mind me saying this, even though it hasn't been made public, but I'm a reporter. And I have the information. So Massad went and said, look, on this Saturday, the Ayatollah and 25 of his thugs are going to be in this place at this time. So what do you want to do? Now that was after three months of negotiations with the Iranians to stop their nuclear weapons program. And the last negotiation in Geneva, Switzerland, the guy, the foreign minister of Iran, walks in and says, you know what, we're not stopping. Blank you, we don't care what you say. We're not stopping in Witkoff, our chief US, uh, negotiator, had a report back to Trump. So that's the information Trump has. Number one, they're close to 10 bombs. Number two, they're all gonna be drinking tea on Saturday morning in this spot. And number three, they're saying, blank you to the US government, they're not going to stop. That's how the decision was made. Now, Hillary, everybody knows the midterms are coming up and Americans will largely vote on emotion and how they are feeling about their financial portfolio. But the president believes that he will be victorious in the next month or so. Which puts us into April, puts us into China with Xi. And he believes he's gonna have momentum after, uh, basically dismantling Iran, because that's what they're doing now. They're just wiping out his capacity to do anything, which is not easy, and that's why you're seeing the short-term pain. Now, people believe what they want to believe and the president's no exception. If it comes his way, then he becomes a great president, which he wants, his legacy. If it doesn't, then Republicans will probably lose in November. So that's where we are. Knowing what you know, Bill, after watching so many, you know, so many wars, you know, you were here, I think for the British American War. Um, after seeing so many wars fought, um, how how is this look in a pattern of wars? Does this because this it's it's I mean, it's not looking good are how are you sensing this is going to shape up? His, See, I'm not as I'm not as pessimistic as, uh, many Americans are, and of course the media wants Trump to fail. Sure. I mean, they they want Iran to win. So, So give me the give me the reason why give me the reason that makes you go, don't worry about that. Well, I wouldn't say don't worry about it. It's certainly a worry and it's a big gamble. And no other president in modern time would have done it. Nobody. Okay. So, you gotta you got a dice thrower in there, uh, running the country, but that's not a bulletin. Everybody knows that Donald Trump is a risk taker. The problem is you're taking a risk of 350 Americans, uh, million Americans and that's that's very serious. But that history has changed. But he's not a he's not a gambler. He is a he's a businessman. He will throw the dice on the table, but only when he knows the odds are in his favor. So he's not like some But the odds are in his favor. The odds are in his favor, but it just doesn't it just matters how the timeline is going to go out. Look, Iran is not gonna be able to wage offensive war. That's why Trump's going around going, we want to really. So that's a fact.
[8:53]He they will never in in I'd say decades be able to launch an offensive war against anybody. And their weaponry and everything else their infrastructure is collapsed. Now there was a hope that the Persian people would rise up as they did in 1979 and this dovetails right into my book confronting evil. Because we explain how the Shah got overthrown by these malls and the same thing could happen now, but but what you killed 30,000 people as the Mullahs did, 30,000. And people are scared over there. So it doesn't look like the regime change coming from within is going to happen. But certainly, I got to disagree with me I just agree with you on that. I think, you know, Trump has he is still bombing, um, and I from what I understand, we are now just starting to encourage them. He said, stay in your homes, it's too dangerous. And now we're now just starting to encourage them to come out. So I would say give that a week. It's very hard, look in 1945, the German people were getting pounded from every area and they still didn't rise up against Hitler because the SS would have killed them. Shot them down in the streets. So you're facing 30,000 dead in Iran. Everybody knows somebody who got killed. But let's pray that it does happen. It's possible, but it's not as possible as the victory over Iran's military mechanism. That is assured. So, so what does the country become then? Just this dictatorship that still is brutal, but it doesn't have the reach? Well, the war gaming is this. Uh, and again, I don't think I'm giving anything away.
[10:52]So, the war gaming that's coming out of the Pentagon is that Iran is going to and they may have already done this. Ask for a resumption of negotiations. Okay. And I think that will happen. And it could happen any time. And so they'll trot over to Geneva and they'll hammer out a deal where the theocracy stays there. But at a much lesser rate, that they promised to do X, Y and Z. Of course, they'll break their promises, we all know they will, but they'll be humiliated to the extent that they'll be weakened. And then Trump will go in like then is a well and basically run the show. Uh, um, and the CIA and the American Intel will will basically tell the Iranians, you can do this, but you can't do that. And they'll the sweetener will be, you know, we'll rebuild your economy, particularly your oil economy. We'll spend the money to to rebuild that infrastructure. Remember that infrastructure is being torn apart now. So the Iranian people, you know, it's gonna be like Cuba, what are we going to have to eat today? So, that is one of the likely scenarios that they the Mullahs themselves will ask to come to the table. And then Trump, of course, would say, okay, but you're going to have to, uh, seed to everything we want.
