Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News. Thursday, October 10th, 2020. For stand up for your country. Well, if the election were held tomorrow, Donald Trump would win. That's according to internal polling. And I believe it. But it's still close. It wouldn't be a landslide or anything like that. But he would win if it were held tomorrow. But it won't be. So anything could happen. Both campaigns, however, are shifting strategies based on the reality that I just told you. So. Other news agencies aren't going to report this, but there's changes going on in both camps, and I'm going to get into that very specifically tonight, which is why you're here. And we always appreciate you watching and listening to the No Spin News. But first of all, let's go to storm politics. We touched on this yesterday and it is a subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo.

So Hurricane Milton is gone. Thank God. The consensus is it wasn't as bad as the media hype it up to be. You never know about these things. But the combination of Helene and Milton, millions of Americans are suffering, got hurt, and we should all try to help them in any way we can. Right. That's what good people do. Now the political parties are blaming each other and we all know that's going to happen. Doesn't particularly disturb me. I went over it last night in great detail with you. Who is doing what to whom and what was true and what wasn't true. Just a brief recap. Category three hit Siesta Key, Florida. I spent some time in Siesta Key, beautiful place outside of Sarasota, got whacked. It's a barrier island and the storm surge was up big all over Florida, extending as far north as South Carolina. I got a friend down there who says, you know, his house on the water and they're getting big tides down there. And every time now, about nine people I shouldn't say about we have nine people dead at our time. That's going to go up a little bit. But the storm, as I said, it's not as bad as expected. And this is the consensus. But we'll have a guest who's going to put it on perspective in a moment.

Tropicana Field, that's the Rays, Tampa Bay. Bruce got blown off the place and not because they're winning the World Series, Milton blew the roof off the place. That's pretty interesting. And both campaigns are not only blaming, but trying to capitalize. Governor said is is good in these situations. I think he's out there. He speaks in ways that everybody understands. He's very specific. He's organized. And I don't think there's any two sides to that story. DeSantis objects to Kamala Harris, as you would expect. Trying to inject herself into the hurricane relief, which she is. There's no doubt that the Democrats want to try to put themselves on the side of the angels here. I think Harris made a big mistake saying that DeSantis would not take her call public option and lambasted the governor. See DeSantis says I didn't get a call. I don't know what's true. I don't. I know it's chaos, but I think Harris made a mistake in doing that. And then as we played last night, Joe Biden came out and said, I know the Senate is doing a great job. That made Harris look really small. Now, is that going to be a big thing going forward? Probably not. But it's on the record. So last night I was on News Nation and Chris Cuomo was down in the middle of the storm and they interrupted their coverage to bring me on to talk a little bit about the political ramifications. Go.

"The truth is, you know, really on both sides, the truth doesn't really matter anymore. With the election three and a half weeks away. So don't expect any truth telling from anybody. But it's fascinating on this level. So today, the Biden White House announced that no longer will Joe Biden be in charge of the hurricane relief. Now it's Kamala Harris who's going to call the shots.".

And where is Kamala Harris? In Las Vegas. The Democrats, they got no points out of this. I don't know if the Trump people got any points DeSantis did, but he's not really allied with Trump anymore. But the Democrats got zero points out of this whole thing. Summing up, We feel bad for our friends and our fellow citizens in Florida and in the Carolinas and Georgia. Helene, Milton was, you know, I do say prayers for people like that. I know we live in a secular country, but that's pretty much all I can do. Nature did this. All right. You know, no person was to blame. That's the memo.

Let's bring in my personal weatherman. Yes, I have a personal weatherman. Can you believe that? And I have to because I go so many places and do so many things. And the guy you're looking at is Joe Bastardi. He's in Pennsylvania. He's a big shot in the weather world. He hosts a show called The Wise Guys of Weather on radio stations across the country. And okay, Bastardi. So give it to me straight. Did the media overhyped melt it?

"Well, I don't think so. I think that it did what a storm of that nature is supposed to do as for... One of the problems is that the SAP perception scale is very much outdated. We've been using what we call a power and impact scale bill, which just doesn't take into account the wind at the center, but how far out the wind goes and how strong it is away from the center. So what you had with Milton was you had you had Category three damage in a relatively small area but you have a wide spread area, Florida with category one and two damage and that piles up. So the metric is Hurricane Ian a couple of years ago. Right. How much damage was done to Florida. This went through the eye, and hit further south, but came through the I-4 corridor and came off the Florida East Coast. So we'll have something to compare it to as far as how bad it was. Well, this, I hear this after every storm. You see it. Was worse than what they said or whatever. I just have to concern myself. What do we tell our clients? What am I telling the public? And what did I do in front of my Heavenly Father rather than pay attention to all this other stuff that goes on."

And you were fairly you were fairly accurate in your assessment. Now, Florida is in the danger zone and so is Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast. This is not ever going to stop. These hurricanes have been going on since Ponce de Leon showed up in Florida looking for the fountain of youth. And he got wind in his face and said, yeah, maybe it's not here. Would that discourage you? The storms that we have every year for moving down to Florida or the Southeast?

"Well, you went through a long hurricane drought in Florida. We haven't had a major hurricane that southeast Florida, for instance, Miami or West Palm Beach since 1992 with with Hurricane Andrew. New England is an unbelievable Long Island. New England's in an unbelievable hurricane drought. We used to have one every 6 or 7 years. We haven't had one since 1991. That's amazing to think about that. So what happens is you see this cyclical nature of this, 2020 was a hurricane season like this. 2005, the Congregation of Tracks was around the Gulf of Mexico. Our December 7th forecast weather belt, I put it on Twitter, said a hurricane season from hell was going to occur in 2024 centered where you see it now, that's I don't have a crystal ball. I just look at weather patterns and how they evolve. So this hurricane season so far is no surprise. But you have to remember that while one area is getting it there, large areas that aren't getting anything at all. We're at record low levels in the Pacific Ocean in a lot of places. For instance, and I just brought up New England, where you live, in Long Island. It's amazing. I thought Audrey was going to try to be the hurricane, and it fell apart a few years ago."

Yeah, Joe was at my house when that was coming in, but we had Sandy, which was terrible.

"That was in New Jersey." 

No, that hit New York. Joe I mean, it caused a lot of that. But look, I have one more question for you because and so far you've been very factual and you're very accurate and that's why you're my personal weatherman. Are the storms that we are seeing here in the United States more ferocious than they used to be?

They get just as strong at the center and they get stronger. They may get stronger faster because they're approaching the coast in a certain way, which causes the air to converge more toward the center. But they're smaller. They're much smaller than they used to be. Carla, for instance, Dan Rather broke, as you know, into the media business with Carla. That gave him hurricane force winds to all the Texas coast. Harvey also a Category 4, 100 miles wide. Betsy versus Ida, 1944, hurricane, a 500 mile wide diameter of hurricanes. So what happens is ...it depends. It's Steve Carlton when he was thrown 100 miles an hour or when he had the wicked slider? Either way, it depends."

But there's no, you know, a lot of these people hype that we're now super storm territory. Are we done now? Excited for the hurricane season this year?

"No, I don't believe so. We've been telling our clients they'll be one more attempt coming out, probably coming out of the western Caribbean the last week of October, first week of November. Then we'll close it. What's fascinating is that a late hurricane season like this usually means cold in December in the run up to Christmas. So that might be interesting. There's a reason for that, we won't get into it until I have to tell you you're going to get a foot of snow at your house."

Yeah. Please, please call me. All right. Joe Bastardi everybody. Appreciate you. Thanks. Good to see you. All right. Schedules. President Biden gets a briefing on the storm today. Kamala Harris, as I mentioned, is in Vegas doing a Univision town hall. And Donald Trump, Detroit in front of the economic club giving a speech there. Kamala Harris since July 21st when Biden said about running again has raised more than $1 billion. I mean, that's just staggering. More than $1 billion. Because of the hate Trump brigades. I mean, it's easy to mobilize money. The Trump people, about half of that. And it's more than enough to do whatever Trump wants to do. He can buy the ads. He can, and the Trump strategy is to withhold a lot of the television ads until the last two weeks. That's the campaign strategy. Harris is is out there now. Has to be. Harris, because still she has gotten traction. Who is this woman? Who is this person? So she's she's spending but $1 billion, my God, since July 21st. Overall in this election cycle, including House and Senate. $16 billion going to be spent way too much. I mean, that gives the rest of the world the perception that you can buy your way into power in America. And a lot of countries, you can buy your way into power. No doubt about it. But here we used to be we could not do that. But since the Supreme Court has ruled that campaign donations fall under First Amendment, you have the freedom to do that. But you can only there are limits that you can give to people, but they get around that by the political action committees, which are unlimited. Hello, Mark Zuckerberg. Last time around. Zuckerberg this time around says he's not going to do, flood the counties in the swing states with money, says he's not. Lot of people watching that this time around. Okay.

But I think that Congress has got to take a tough look at this campaign financing situation because when you have this kind of money. All right. And guys like George Soros and on on the Trump side, you got a guy named Timothy Mellon from the Mellon Fortune banking fortune, has donated 125 million himself, to Donald Trump's campaign, 125 million. One guy. I don't know. I think that tops Soros and the Hollywood crew, which are pumping money like crazy into Kamala Harris. So there's no shortage of money. Everybody's going to be able to get their message out. And money corrupts, by the way. It always corrupts and corrodes people. And I think Congress has got to really take a look at this entire voting process that we have here. You know, some states are totally out of control. They just will not control their voting procedures. You know, we still have states that are going to count votes two weeks after November 5th. No. No. All votes should be cast by November 5th. That is not hard, Congress. You can pass a law that says that. Mail in votes, you're never going to get away. Never. Can't force people to go to the poll. But deadlines and vote count deadlines. Yes, you can do it. You should do it. Supreme Court's not going interfere with that. Because whoever loses, you know what's going to happen in this election. They're not going to go, yeah, I lost, they're not.

Okay. Trump's not going to debate. And I know I know this very, very well, this story. So this is the reason you watch me and listen to me on a radio. So Donald Trump is not a guy who's afraid. Not him. Trust me. Not afraid. In fact, he's too cocky, too self-confident. And I'm a little bit like that myself, so I know it. So Fox News says Hey will put on debate October 24th Thursday and invites Harrison Trump. Harris didn't say anything in the past. Harris says, I'm not going anywhere near Fox News. And who can blame her? Who can blame it? All right. Fox News does not like Kamala Harris in prime time. The rest of the day, it's wishy washy. Okay. But Trump says, no, not going to do the debate. Harris Remember. Harris and say anything hasn't said a word. And here's what Trump put out. Quote,.

"It is very late in the process. Voting has already begun. There will be no rematch. Besides Kamala said clearly yesterday that she would not do anything different than Joe Biden. So there is nothing to debate.".

Unquote. Now. Trump didn't do 60 Minutes. You know that. All right. Kamala didn't benefit from 60 Minutes. Did not help her. So now, in the beginning I said Trump should do 60 Minutes. He should do a second debate. I'd still do it. If I were Trump, I would do it. But. I could be, I could be being foolish. The Trump believes he has it locked. And he's not going to allow other people to intrude on what he wants to do. It's not that he's afraid. He doesn't trust anybody. By the way, Donald Trump doesn't trust any me, me included. All right. Does not trust anyone. And we get debate that all day long. I'm going to write a Sunday column about that, about the mindset of Harris and Trump. And so you might want to read that. We'll drop it Sunday morning. But Trump's vision is he is ahead and he's not going to let anybody do or push him into anything he doesn't want to do. We'll see. I mean, obviously, he's making all the calls. Kamala Harris is not making the calls. This is a huge difference in the campaigns. Trump makes all of them 100%. There is nobody on his campaign staff who can tell him what to do. No one. Does he listen to anybody? It depends what day it is. Harris is totally dependent on other people telling her what to do. That's why when she went on The View, she was unprepared for Sunny Hostin's question, would you do anything differently? They didn't rehearse it with her and she totally booted it and gave Trump a gift. Like, No, I can't think of anything. Are you kidding me, lady? If you do Afghanistan again, you do open border again. Are you absolutely, this is insane. Harris, Harris was so Lulled. Because here are the six women or how many, and they love her. And she thought cupcake after cupcake. And that's what happened. Hostin wasn't trying to get her, Hostin just threw something off the top of her head. Yeah, that's a good question. Should be, a seven year old could have answered it. So, yeah, well, we'd always like to do things better, Sunny, right. A seven year old child could have said that. But Harris was overconfident, because she thought she had it locked and she didn't. She can't think on her feet because they tell her what to do and say. Every, everything. There is nothing spontaneous about Kamala Harris and there never has been. She is a machine politician, a Democratic machine politician from San Francisco. From the time she entered public service, she was told what to do, what to say and when to say it. Never deviated from that. You'll never get a spontaneous answer from her about anything. Is she a zombie? I mean, I'd say, yeah, maybe that's unfair. I don't know her. I do know that she could not possibly do an interview with me. Because I would ask for fact based questions she just couldn't answer. And I'm not getting old middle class upbringing. I'm not going to do that, that's not going to happen with me. And if you doubt it, just Google me and Barack Obama, me and George W Bush being Donald Trump. And see. You got to know if you're coming in the no spin zone.

Okay, so no debate for Fox. 60 Minutes. Interesting story. I'm not sure how important it is, but it's fascinating. CBS News does Face the Nation on Sunday. Face the Nation puts a promotion on for the 60 minute interview with Kamala Harris on Monday. So Sunday morning, Face the Nation does a promo for 33 seconds about the Monday interview. Roll the tape.

"But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening."

"We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end."

"Do we have a real close ally in Prime Minister Netanyahu?"

"I think, with all due respect, the better question is, do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people. And the answer to that question is yes."

All right. Comes off credible there. So on 60 Minutes, they run that question again in the body of their main interview. Go.

"But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening."

"Well, Bill. The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region."

"Do we have a real close ally in Prime Minister Netanyahu?"

"I think, with all due respect, the better question is do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people. And the answer to that question is yes."

Not a big difference, but there was a difference. She was much more halting. Okay in the 60 Minutes thing than in the promo. All right. So now there is a call from Republicans for the whole transcript of the interview to see where the edits were made. CBS didn't want to do that. Remember a reporter at Fox named Catherine Herridge? She went to CBS to be an investigative reporter. She left Fox, went to CBS. They let her go. I don't know why, but it wasn't pleasant. She says that CBS absolutely should release the transcript is what she put up on social media, as Trump campaign calls it, 60 Minutes to release full, unedited transcript of Kamala Harris interview. There is precedent. When I interviewed then-President Trump on in July 2020, CBS posted the entire transcript. So why won't they now? Why won't CBS pose the entire Kamala transcript. I don't know. So CBS getting pounded this week because they had a CBS Morning controversy about Israel. And this guy, Coates, who writes this book, it's an anti Israel book and all of that. I didn't get into it because I'm not I'm in the business of basically giving you stories that help your life, that that story is not that important. The Kamala Harris story is.

Now, one more thing. Let me explain. When you do a major interview, you have to edit it because these politicians go on and on and on, they bloviate like crazy. And people would be unconscious. Got to cut it. But you have to do it fairly. And there's no reason on earth why you don't release a transcript of the entire unedited interview. If anybody wants to see it. That just backs up that you cut it fairly. So CB is making a huge, huge mistake. CBS News And none of the news agencies on the network are what they used to be. Not even close, not even a shadow. I never worked for any of them. Anyway, I wouldn't be invited to work there, but I did work for CBS and ABC as correspondents and I was happy to do that. Wouldn't do it now. Because journalists don't run those operations anymore. They're run by corporate people who know nothing about or don't care about journalism. And that's the truth.

All right. Here's a great story you're not going to hear. So the Biden administration's biggest spending outfit in the history of this country, this fiscal year, 1.8 trillion budget deficit. That means the Biden administration one year spent $1.8 trillion more than it took in and it took in record tax revenue. So the tax revenue in a fiscal year was about $5 trillion. That's astronomical amount of tax that the government is getting from we the people and the corporations. Astronomical. They still can't balance the budget because the Democrats want entitlements across the board to buy votes. And Harris, if she's elected, that 1.8 deficit is going to double. And the economy will crash eventually. Do Americans know that now? They don't care. You go out today to any of your friends after you watch this park as you go? Do you know how much in one year the Biden administration ran up the deficit? Well, I don't know. 1.8 trillion. And then you'll get a blank look like. What does that mean? It's so serious. Now, to be fair, I don't think Trump's going to cut back spending much. I don't. Got a big opportunity. You open up Anwar, you open up all the federal land where there is oil and other energy. You get private contractors. The contract, private contracts, the contract. Give private contractors the opportunity, businesses, they sign a contract to harvest the oil. And you, the federal government, take a percentage of the profits they make and you pay down the national debt with that percentage. Now, Trump can make the deal like that. He's a deal maker. That gets them down. Okay. So we got $35 trillion debt. You can get it down in ten years the 28, 29 trillion just by doing that. That's the only way you're going to do it. You can't tax people any more. People are leaving all over the place, leaving New York, where I am, out of here, California. And if she gets elected, people are going to go overseas. They're going to bolt. And so our companies.

New York City. Totally chaos total. $2.3 billion just on migrant housing. $2.3 billion. They don't have it. And the feds are going to have to put money into New York City to pay these bills. And that's from the Biden open border. And Kamala Harris goes, I don't I can't think of anything I do differently. Hey, lady. You're bankrupting not only New York, but cities all across the country. Can't afford to pay. For 15 million foreign nationals. 2.3 billion. And if you go to New York City and I gotta go there tonight, it's filthy dirty. All right. It's congested all over the place. It's crime ridden. Social services have disappeared. Because the money that goes into sanitation,  they don't have any money.

All right. Taylor Swift. Smart Life. I like Taylor Swift, she's, Trump says he hates her. I don't. That's not nice. So Taylor Swift. So she's donating 5 million to help hurricane relief efforts. And she's giving the money to a nonprofit group called Feeding America. Well, good for her. Good for her. 5 million. Feeding America. To those affected by Helene and Milton. Good. Now, you. I get lots of letters from people. Good people, generous people, patriots. I want to help. And my Smart Life advice is this. Wait. And I said the same thing after 9/11. Remember the 911 charity thing and the telephone and all that where I had to go mano a mano up against that idiot George Clooney? Okay because the money donated by you wasn't getting to the victims of 9/11. Their families. Remember that? Boy, if you weren't around for that, you need to Google that thing, and I won it. But boy, was it brutal to pry the money out of these agencies like the United Way in particular, to get the money to the folks who needed it. And then I didn't get any help from these hotshot movie stars who are,  just, I can't even tell you. Not all of them. I mean, Stallone and Eastwood and those people, they were on my side. But most of them were not. Anyway. Smart Life today 2024. Wait. Let's see how this a chain unfolds. There are a number of organizations that are down there private that are setting up help. When you hear of one and you will be solicited because there's going to be a lot of fraud in this to remember, millions of dollars are going to be pumped into these areas to help folks. And whenever you have that, the fraudsters show up, people who steal the money. Go to Charity navigator.org. That's the best. They're good. And throw in the name of the charity you're interested in giving and they'll pop up. How effective these charities are. Lot of them are front loaded with huge salaries for their executives. But wait. And I know it's hard because everybody's emotional, they want to help, but it's better to be calculated to see that your hard earned donations go to where they should go. We live in an evil world here. It's an evil world. Now the fraudsters are setting up phone calls or setting up Internet stuff. They are running wild. You have to be very cautious. Smart Life. But good for Taylor Swift.

Colorado Supreme Court dismisses a lawsuit against a baker who would not make a cake for a trans celebration. Guy's name is Jack Phillips. He's been here before. He's a Christian, all right? And he doesn't want to make cakes for people that do things that don't conflict with his Christian beliefs. So. Phillips has been sued this time around. Somebody named Autumn Scardina sued him. This is a male, was born a male, wants to be a female. And she was celebrating that gender transition and wanted a cake. She knew Phillips wasn't going to bake the cake because he had been in the news for the gay weddings. So Autumn Scardina knew it wanted to go in and cause trouble. Supreme Court has thrown the case out saying that it was filed improperly. It's a technicality. Bottom line on this is if you have a belief system, a religious-based system, the marketplace cannot force you to go against your belief system. Supreme Court has ruled it.

This Day in History, October 10th, 2004. Actor Christopher Reeve dies at the age of 52. This is a very tragic story. I want to remind everybody about this. So he was one of the biggest movie stars in the world, as you probably know. As a young man, 26 years old, he gets the lead in Superman and he plays it in three films. Roll the tape.

"Excuse me, Ms.. I've got you.".

"You've got me. Who's got you?"

"I can't believe it. I just. I just cannot believe it. He got her."

So he was at a horse show in Virginia and he's 42 years old and the horse throws him. He's paralyzed. Quad. It doesn't get worse than that. You know, one of most successful actors in the world, and he's out. Done. So he uses the rest of his life to try to raise funds and to bring awareness to technology that is helping paralyzed people. No more noble cause than that. And then he dies of complications because of his paralysis, 20 years ago today, again at the age of 52. So I admire Christopher Reeve. We got a good Mail Segment and a final thought about our election coverage going forward. And I was asked a question promoting Confronting the Presidents on why are so many Americans dumb? And I answer that question in the final thought. We'll be right back.

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Okay, final thought. Let's go to the mail. Diane Bach, Thief River Falls, Minnesota. "Hey Bill, I like and appreciate the No Spin News. I am voting for Donald Trump. I hang up on pollsters. I'm pro-life. Yes, Trump is arrogant, but that's why he is effective, in my opinion." And that's fine. If you are going to vote for Donald Trump, you don't have to explain yourself. And if you vote for Kamala Harris, you don't have to explain yourself. That's your vote. You're a citizen. If you want to explain, good.

Ed Cremine. Pilwaukee, Wisconsin, not Milwaukee. "Hey, Bill, was there ever a more loyal soldier in Trump's inner circle than Mike Pence. So now when the former VP says he cannot and will not vote for Trump, why should any American vote for Trump?" That's not what he said. No, I know what he said. Because people believe what they want to believe is exactly what Mike Pence said. This was on August 9th, 2024. "Between me and my former running mate. I cannot endorse President Trump's continuing assertion that I set aside my support and defend the Constitution. I could never vote for Kamala Harris as president of the United States or Tim Walz running mate, period." He didn't say he wasn't going to vote for Trump. He says he's not going to endorse him. Big difference. I don't know Vice President Pence is going to vote for. I don't care. What's important is that you quote accurately. I know it's hard.

Steve Birmingham, Yorba Linda, California. "Appreciate the election coverage you tell behind your reporting, Bill. I've used your material regarding the gender divisions in polling. When talking to folks, most people are clueless. That's right. Most people don't know." That's why the No Spin News is so valuable in this country. Because we do know.

Linda. Chicago. "You mentioned on your October 8th show. There are 800,000 fewer Americans on the job this year than last year, 2023. Is this due to retirements, people not working or receiving welfare?" I don't know. You won't know until the census comes out. The fact is that even with job growth in America, which is happening, 800,000 American born workers. Are not on the job. And they were a year ago. But why? That's, only the Census Bureau can find that out. I don't know when the next census is, but I think it comes up in 2 or 3 years.

David Concierge Member. "Unlike Barack Obama, President Theodore Roosevelt actually accomplished something very significant to win the Nobel Peace Prize, a treaty to end the fighting between Russia and Japan." Absolutely correct. And I assume you wrote, you read Confronting the Presidents, because we rank Teddy Roosevelt very high. Now, again, I don't rank them one, two, three, four, five. But you know how I'm feeling about them. Confronting the Presidents. But you are absolutely right.

Jonna Shiver,  Chaplain, South Carolina. "My book club is reading Killing the Witches. I'm hosting the discussion. What questions do you recommend we discuss?" You know what the big thing on killing the witches is? How that horror in Salem, Massachusetts, and, you know, if you go there in October it's bedlum. Up in Salem I mean that's the witch and Halloween and all of that but how that. Was absorbed by Benjamin Franklin, who lived in Boston as a young man. He knew what was happening and he, in his rest of his life, did not want this country to be based on theology. That's the most important part of that book. So I'm glad you guys are reading it and discussing it.

Thomas Craig, Brentwood, Tennessee. "In Confronting the Presidents, you state. Adams Jefferson was the only time that President and VP were from different parties. Weren't Lincoln and Johnson?" Excellent question. And they weren't because Tennessee had left the union and Andrew Johnson was a senator from Tennessee, but he stayed in the Senate representing the United States when his state left because we don't want to be a part of the United States anymore. And that's what the Civil War is about. So the party breakdown occurred. Johnson was just a free agent. Excellent question, Thomas.

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Okay, let's do the final thought of the day. We will be here on Monday. I was going to take Monday off to give myself a break, but I can't. Too much stuff going on. We'll be here. Now, yesterday I did a podcast. Todd Ault, and he's a business guy and a smart guy. And he asked me a very provocative question. Roll the tape.

"I know you got a lot of followers. I mean, you've been, you know, on Fox for all those years and you became really well known, like one of the most well known people in the world. I'm curious as to maybe you won't even answer this question, but is half the population stupid?"

"So now we have a handheld escapement. This is like a pipe of opium right here. Okay. It's addictive. And it was made manufactured to be addictive. So a kid gets this when he's ten or she's nine or whatever, and her whole, his or her whole life childhood is wrapped around this. All right. Everything else is not reality. This is reality. Texting, going on whatever site you want to go on. So what happened in America's past, thomas Jefferson. Constitution. Civil war, not important because it doesn't pertain to this. When you have half the population in that circumstance, which you do. Okay. The amount of knowledge they are accumulating to be a responsible citizen collapses. And that's where we are.".

And that's why I wrote Confronting the President's. Now the Ault podcast drops today. And I do recommend that you listen to it. And thank you very much for watching and listening to the No Spin News. As I said, we'll have a provocative column on the mindsets of both Trump and Harris dropping on Sunday. And we'll see you again on Monday.