Democrats in Fury, Trump’s $2,000 Tariff Promise & Leland Vittert on U.S. Heroes | Nov. 5, 2025

Hey Bill O'Reilly here, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, November 10th, 2025. Stand up for your country. Another busy week. Every hour on the hour something happens, which is, you know, keeps me in business. Gets a little tedious once in a while, but I'm not going to whine about it. We're all ramping up for the holiday season, and people are spending money.

You know, I went out to L.A. on Wednesday night. The airport was packed on a Wednesday night. No holidays. I mean, it was jam-packed. Flight to LA, sold out. So Americans are doing what they always do.

They're traveling, spending money. I mean, I know some are cutting back, but boy, I gotta tell you. And everywhere I went this weekend in LA, Southern California, tons of people spending money.

American consumers drive this economy and the worldwide economy. And they need the government to be open to maximize American potential. And that is the subject of this evening talking points. So finally, after 41 days, and this was all contrived, and I'll explain it in a moment. The government is now, looks like it's going to be reopened.

There are more procedural things, but they got 60 senators to okay, opening up the government. And 10, eight Democrats, 8 Democratic senators, and if you want their names, all you gotta do is Google and it'll pop up there. And they said okay. But, you know, most Democrats wanted to keep the government closed. Because they

closed it. The Democratic Party closed it. What the Republican proposition was, well look, just extend the government spending into January because there's another rigmarole has to go in January and we'll talk about the extension of Obamacare fees. That's what it's all about, health care. And Democrats said, no you got to give everything we want now. And Trump said, blank you, we're not giving you everything you want. Government shutdown. That's it. That's it.

Now the Democrats believe they won this controversy because of the election last week. Maybe they did. The polls are back and forth, but a lot of polls say that American people blame Republicans. Okay, that's not true, but what are you going to do? So anyway, it's a complicated but interesting exercise in how corrupt our government is. It is corrupt. It's still the best government in the world as far as our freedom is concerned, but it's corrupt. So Schumer, the senator from New York, who's the

minority leader, he wanted to keep the government closed. And since it's not going to stay closed, there are left-wing Democrats who are mad at Schumer.

Roll the tape.

Breaking news. Chuck Schumer needs to be replaced as minority leader for caving to Donald Trump. Look, I may be the first and only member of Congress to say this, but someone needs to start speaking the truth. If you're not willing to fight to stop premium hikes on 20 million Americans, then what are

you willing to fight for? No no premium hikes. There is going back before COVID because during, so many people were ill, the government had to spend the money to help those people who were ill. And now by law, the spending for Obamacare

is supposed to go back to pre-COVID letter, but Democrats don't want that. Roe Conner doesn't want that. He wants to keep the COVID level spending and then add to it the ultimate goal being the national health care system is run by Washington, D.C. That's what the Democratic Party wants. Okay, now Schumer, you may remember, last March, voted to keep the government open.

He was savagely attacked by the far left. Roll the tape.

Schumer signaled he was going to fight, and then he didn't fight. Why was there such a disconnect, not even between House leadership and Senate leadership, but between what the Senate minority leader was saying and then what he ultimately did.

Because Schumer acted responsibly in March, but he got hammered so badly that he said, never again, now I'm gonna be irresponsible. And he is. And he was intimidated by the far left because Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is going to primary

Schumer and she'll beat him in New York state, unless things change. I don't think Schumer's even going to try it. He'll hang it up. I think the elections in four years or whatever. Schumer does not want to be brutalized by the far left. He's a coward.

He is, he's always been that way. He's not gonna stand up for anybody but himself. So Schumer knows the right thing to do is to keep the government open, but he's not gonna do it because he voted against it because he doesn't wanna get that grief again.

And that's the truth, That's absolutely true. Now, Schumer didn't really care about, in my opinion, that could be wrong, socializing medicine in this country. He cares about himself, as I said. That's it. It's all under his power. But the real far-left liberals, they want that socialized medicine. Let me just give you one Startling fact and our friends in Canada Can confirm this there about 40 million Canadians? There are three hundred and forty three million Americans

So like Sweden and like other European countries Ottawa runs the health care system and it tells the doctors doctors what they're going to make, and the nurses, and the drug companies, and sets all the prices. Well, if you want a knee replacement or any kind of what they call elective surgery, you've got to wait a long time in Canada, sometimes

more than a year. You'll be limping around if you need a knee. So many Canadians come to the United States. There's also a shortage of surgeons in Canada. Do you know that? Because why spend all that money going to medical school and all that time and then you get out and you're making, you know, okay money, but you're not making American doctor money So if that the Canadian system were brought down here

And I was talking to Howie Mandel about that He's a Canadian Mandel and I was on his podcast a little I think it's going to be out tomorrow But it will get will signal you that when it comes out and I was talking to him I say Howie the American health healthcare system will collapse because many, perhaps most doctors, particularly in Los Angeles, New York, the big cities, they're not gonna go into the government-run system.

They'll go to concierge service and they'll charge whatever they wanna charge and the Constitution allows them to do that. Government's not gonna be able to force them. So you have two tiers. The wealthy people like O'Reilly and Howie Mandel,

we can buy the concierge service and get our knees replaced anytime we want. But the regular folks can't. They'll get much less care. They'll get physician physicians assistance instead of doctors because there will be a shortage of doctors if the government runs it. So all

it is, I'm sorry to be complicated, but everybody, all of us watching me, listening to me, you're all going to have to go into the health care system even if you're healthy now, nothing will go wrong. Just know what you're doing. And that's the memo. So Donald Trump, under severe pressure for high prices, particularly on food, says that

he wants to give everybody $2,000 unless you're rich. I've got to raise the rich people $2,000. Fine. I don't want $2,000. I don't want $2 from000. Fine. I don't want $2,000. I don't want $2 from the federal government. I don't want anything other than what I paid into, which is Social Security and Medicare. I don't want that because I paid it. It's my money. But do I want President Trump giving me $2,000?

No. I don't. Give it to somebody who needs it. I don't need it. So how is this going to happen? How is everybody going to get a $2,000 check from the federal government? Well, nobody knows. So maybe the president will define it, but that caught a lot of people by surprise. He said it just yesterday.

And I wouldn't be surprised if it happens. He said he's going to use tariff money, give everybody a lot of money, a lot of relief. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens. He says he's gonna use tariff money, give everybody a lot of money, a lot of relief. I wouldn't be surprised. It's vote buying, no doubt. But many Americans are suffering. They're broke.

So we'll watch it. It's not gonna be easy and Congress may have to pass this. Not gonna be easy. The cost of everything still rising and many of us are relying on credit cards to cover essentials. If that debt is piling up you're not alone. Americans now owe more than 1 trillion dollars in credit card debt. You may have thought about calling American Financing, but hesitated because you don't

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Veterans Day is tomorrow. No mail delivery. Federal holiday. Should be. I mean, millions of Americans have died for their country since the Revolutionary War. And I am participating in a special on NewsNation. It will run 10 p.m. tomorrow night, Tuesday, on America's greatest warriors and some who were not that great, who everybody thinks were good. Roll tape.

It's the mid-1800s. The colonies have been liberated by George Washington and the young nation has been strengthened by Andrew Jackson. But now the Civil War calls on new heroes to keep a fractured union intact. General Ulysses S. Grant came from humble beginnings and rose to lead the Union Army against the rebellious South.

His willingness to make hard decisions led him first to victory, then to the White House.

He was a hero of the Civil War. Without Grant, it might have been a stalemate because McClellan, who was the first commander, he was a coward and his troops did not respect him. And then Lincoln went through three, four guys and they were terrible and finally drags Grant who's out in the hinterlands because this guy would at least will fight. So we analyze all the big generals all throughout history and yes in some surprises. So joining us now from New York City is Leland Vitter,

the correspondent on the special. And of course, the author of the book, Born Lucky, big bestseller, dedicated father, grateful son, my journey with autism. And anything surprised you about the special, Leland?

Yeah, I think it could have been five segments. We spent the day at West Point, Bill, after I interviewed you. And they gave us the head of the history department at West Point to take us through the generals and the lessons learned.

And it was, I think, one of the top 10 or 15 days of my life listening to him. And our viewers are going to get a taste of that, of the very best, and to walk around the plane, the parade ground at West Point, and see the statues of Washington and Grant, of Eisenhower, of Patton, and then bring those alive on the screen is this just sort of great juxtaposition of the history we know,

and then the history that will be written by those cadets now at West Point.

Now, I didn't see the special yet, but they say it's very good. And I think it's important for Americans who really don't know a lot, in generally speaking, because public schools don't teach history anymore,

about their leadership on a battlefield, because we tend to mythologize our generals and our military now. It's not like Vietnam, where the military was, whoa, you know, they were getting hammered unfairly. But we talk a little bit about Vietnam and the poor leadership that led to that debacle.

And then, of course, we talk about the modern wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But what I took away from it was that and I'm not gonna, I don't want to give it away, but you asked me who the greatest American general was. Don't give it away. We want people to watch the special. And my answer surprised you, right?

It did. And I would say that the person at West Point who we interviewed, the head of the history department at West Point, disagrees with you, Bill. So we kind of, yeah, we adjud the head of the history department at West Point, disagrees with you, Bill. Oh! So we kind of, yeah, we adjudicate that in the special.

Oh! But I didn't get to rebut him, so you interviewed him after me.

No, you see, that's what happens when you do your interview first, sorry.

Okay. So there is a lot of stuff swirling around. Now, one of the guys that you and I kind of went up against was MacArthur, General MacArthur in World War II, who was, you know, a good general, sure, but so many deficits.

And you kind of disagreed a little with that, right?

I did, and we went to the MacArthur statue, right, at West Point, and looked at duty, honor, and country, the speech he gave. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. And went through that with this head of the history department about why MacArthur, as a soldier, has a different meaning as a general than other generals,

than Pershing and others that you and I talked about, Patton, Grant, on and on. What I think was most interesting is, and we tried to do this in the specials, we tried to find common themes between all these men. And probably what was the most common and most important theme was their ability to gain the respect of their troops.

And we pointed that out. You talked about that just now about Grant and then in the Civil War with McClellan, McClellan's problem. But that was the common characteristic. How they did that through all the different generals is totally different.

You think about somebody like Eisenhower and Patton. Couldn't be more juxtaposed. Eisenhower and MacArthur, very different personalities, but yet would become such amazing leaders.

Yeah, I mean, there's a lot in there. And I want people, again, it's on Tuesday tomorrow at 10 p.m. News Nation. So just a quick question. The book, pretty impressive, Leland. Thank you very much. I'm glad it's out and it's an excellent Christmas and holiday gift because it gives hope to so many people who have children,

not only with autism, but other learning disabilities and people, parents need to have perspective. When you did the media for the book, it was mostly friendly media. Nobody was mean to you, right?

No, I think that's what's so amazing, right, Bill, is I did everything from you and Steve Bannon all the way through Joe Scarborough for Born Lucky, talking about the story of my dad when I was diagnosed with autism, adapting me to the world rather than the world to me.

And you talk about finding a topic in America right now that Joe Scarborough and you and Steve Bannon can agree on and almost come to tears at different times talking about. It is been this story of born lucky. And you said it's a message of hope. And I appreciate Bill,

you talking about how it's been a bestseller and thank you to anybody who's come on this journey with us and bought the book. But to me, what has been most important about the reception is the emails and the letters and the phone calls and the text messages and the social media posts from hundreds, if not thousands of people I've never known, thanking me for telling them and showing them that they're not alone, thanking me and telling them that there is hope

for every parent of a kid that's having a hard time.

Yeah, that's the key to it. All right, the book is Born Lucky, and I will see you at 9 p.m. Eastern tonight for the Leland Vittert Program on News Nation, all right? So I'm sure you saw the Bill Maher stuff with me, and we're gonna run a little bit of that in about two minutes here

But that was a little bit of it tonight. Yeah, that was that was a pretty interesting Back and forth. All right, Leland. We'll see you tonight. Thanks taking the time. American homeowners the FBI Has been warning all of us about a type of real estate fraud called title theft. The target? Your equity. With just a forged signature, ownership can be transferred out of your name and without protection in place you are facing an emotional and

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Roll it.

Bill, thoughts on Jews?

I don't want to make it awkward that I'm here.

No, but all my business people are Jewish, so I can, and they do a great job. How white are they? One of them's up there right now. We have a personal connection, perspective from O'Reilly, and I know you're looking forward to that more

Number one you've been doing this show for about 23 years, right? Yeah, did you invite Fuentes on a program? No, why that's a bridge too far for me. Okay, that's a true. That's a troll. He's not sincere It's just gross. Like I said, I didn't want to talk about him tonight He's the guy who runs on the field where the camera doesn't show. Because he broke through, because you have to talk about him. So you didn't invite him on a program. I don't live in that world.

I didn't invite him on my program. You can get somebody like him at Speaker's Corner in London anytime you want. They're wanting a round with wine. Okay, so why would you have him and waste all of these nice people's time? Why? That's number one.

So to say, well, everybody-

The answer is because the Republican establishment never met something so far right that they won't, at least some of them, take it seriously. See, the Republican establishment couldn't care less about this guy. Well, they could this week. No. They don't care about him.

They are embarrassed by him. Okay and again I will do an extensive analysis on what I just said on YouTube this week. The second one was that Mar has alienated some liberals really and you were disenchanted and correct me if I'm wrong, which I very rarely am, so you probably won't have to do that. You're disenchanted with the far left wing of the Democratic Party, okay? Because you believe that it's poisoned the well

for everybody else, like the congressman here. Am I correct?

Because they never meant anything

that was counterintuitive that they didn't love. Right, so they wanna put trans people in here and they wanna do this, and it just dilutes the message that the Democratic Party has traditionally had that we're for the workers. We want to improve the lives of the backbone of the country.

Now you're into all this fringe garbage that Americans don't want. I think that's your posture. I wouldn't put it that way, but go ahead.

Okay.

But you might want to rethink because that's a good way to put it.

Well, I'm still on the air and you're not, but go ahead.

Oh!

I expected that. So we did a town hall on News Nation two weeks ago from Kennedy Center, 23 million people watched, 23 million, okay? You can add up all the HBOs you want, you're not gonna come close. Just wanna correct the record.

All right, so there you go. And it's a pretty good joust back and forth. I knew he was going to try to get in one of those, so I was ready for it. The final one is politics in general.

Go.

What about Gavin Newsom? Now, I mentioned in the monologue.

He has hair like you. You guys have the same hair.

I... He has hair like you. You guys have the same hair. I wish.

It's a slicked back thing. I mean, you both do have great hair.

I wish someone would come up to me and say, Gavin?

No, you don't, Mark. I do.

You want to be Gavin Newsom? I want to look like him.

You really? You want to look like him?

Oh, he, he, he.

Look, you're in decent shape for an 83-year-old man. He's wrecked the state. Not enough. Well, okay. I know it doesn't matter, but. He didn't wreck it, but yes, I agree, he's too far left for my taste, and he's not going to be president unless he moves to the Senate. When you're a pal.

But he's a politician, and I think he has that ability to. And now he looks like he's the front runner.

Is he not the front runner for the Democratic nomination as of now?

No.

No, no. No?

No.

Wes Moore. Wes Moore, isn't he? The governor of Maryland. Okay, so we posted a bunch of stuff on BillOReilly.com that I'm trying to play for you, that's entertaining. You know, I watch the Mars Show. I would say I watch 50% of the time. Most people are intimidated by him, you know, because he's up there, he's been doing it a long time, but you know me.

So anyway, it was a very interesting experience. I've known him for a long time. And that is it. I hope you enjoyed the program. We have, as I said, a top, very busy week. We're on it all.

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