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This was a great, great show today.

The biggest show?

Hell, no, not the biggest show, but it was a good show.

For this show, yeah, for this show, it's a good podcast.

Yeah, for this show, it's a pretty good podcast.

I mean, you could listen to Joe Rogan if you wanted a great show.

Sure, he does a great show.

But I mean, you're already here.

Yeah, you're already.

You don't want to.

I mean, how many times are you going to click?

You can't be a slave to your phone.

It's a great show.

Jim Jordan is with us.

We tell you the truth about the vaccine mandates and the passports and what they're really leading to.

Bill O'Reilly.

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Jim Jordan is on.

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There's actually a lot of great messages, too.

If you want something positive going into Thanksgiving, a couple of things that I think you will appreciate,

especially I want you to take to heart that we need to believe science.

The science of Thanksgiving.

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Mr.

Bill O'Reilly, welcome to the program.

I would have bet that you were going to talk about the Rittenhouse trial today as the big story of the week.

Maybe you do, but now that we have the Build Back Better bill passing, what's the biggest story of the week?

Well, that is,

it's pretty stunning that no

Democrats in the House of Representatives don't understand

how corrosive this bill will be for the future of the country.

It doesn't have anything to do with ideology.

All it has to do with is economics.

So

I had a guy named Graham Allison.

Do you know who he is?

Graham Allison.

I know the name.

All right.

He's the best expert on China in the country.

He's a dean at the Kennedy School of Harvard.

Wear back.

I have a degree.

I know.

I know.

There you go.

I know.

I know.

And I said to him, Dean, look,

China is not going to cooperate in any of the green technology.

They're just not going to do it.

All right?

And they're going to spew as much gunk into the air as they want, and nobody's going to be able to stop them.

Isn't that true?

And he said, yeah,

it's true.

Okay.

Now, if you look at this bill, this $2 trillion

thing,

about 40% of all the money the federal government hopes to spend the next 10 years goes to green stuff.

Now, I don't have any objection to research and development.

I think that's good.

That if you want to get electric cars that people can afford and work, okay.

And solar panels and windmills and okay, as long as it works, as long as it's affordable for the folks.

But to just dump money into theoretical,

well, we're going to clean up the planet and save everybody, is just garbage.

It's garbage.

And the second thing is, again, I'm directed at the Democrats who vote for this bill because not one Republican did.

Do you not understand there's no oversight here?

That no one is watching the blanking money?

Do you not understand when you send hundreds of billions of dollars from Washington to the individual states, that some of those states are going to use that money poorly.

Where's the setup?

Where's the responsibility for making sure that the money is spent to help the American people?

Where is that?

Is that a hard thing?

It's not in there.

There's no new

committee or new agency to watch where the build back

better money goes.

So what do you think is going to happen with the build back better money?

Haiti, one word.

So

you've got these people.

This is what rankles me the most.

They get elected to Congress.

They're supposed to be representing their districts.

In the districts, there are human beings living.

Do you think they really care?

What they care about is getting re-elected to Congress.

And Pelosi goes around saying, you better do this.

You don't do this.

We're primering you.

We're bringing somebody in to kick you out.

And they go, oh, don't do that.

I'll do whatever you want.

And that's where we are.

So this is wildly unpopular.

Have you found the poll yet on Build Back Better in West Virginia?

It's wildly unpopular.

I don't have the numbers in West Virginia.

It goes to the Senate next.

Mansion and Cinema are the only ones that are a chance of voting against it.

Do they?

It depends how far they whittle it down.

See, what Mansion and Cinema are going to do is go in on the $2 trillion, get it down to 1.5,

and then declare victory.

That's what I think is going to happen.

But it's not, Bill, as you know, it's not the money as much as it is the...

This is a software bill.

This has all of the tools they need to shut down the oil and gas and coal industry.

It has everything.

It's not the money.

It's the software.

No, but Manchin and Cinema, in order to vote for the bill, because they're so publicly skeptical of it, they need a justification to vote for it.

And so the justification is going to be, well, we

got...

the thing down from $2 trillion to $1.5 trillion.

So we're heroes, and you should like us.

That's a calculation.

Now Manchin himself, if I were him, this is what I would do.

I would jump parties right now and I'd vote against that bill because this bill,

this overarch bill, changes the government forever.

Forever.

And we become a nanny state.

which is what the progressives want.

Now you can revoke part of it next year when Americans will be suffering terribly economically this time next year, and they'll throw the Democrats out in a lot of places.

But the nanny state with all of this money is now going to be so firmly entrenched,

telling you what to do, when to do it, and then for

a large part of the population, giving them money, buying their votes, so they don't have to go out and really be self-reliant at all.

Aaron Powell, so the economy, I think, is going to be in such bad shape.

And with this Build Back Better bill, the sugar in it is all of the programs where they're giving people money.

And the Republicans are going to be voting on they killed the country, they did this, and we're going to reverse what they're doing.

And the Democrats will be able to stand on, they want to take away your child care.

They want to take away your subsidies.

They want to take away all of these things that you need now more than ever.

And I think they'll get a lot of people to vote that way.

Sure, they always have.

But there are more people who want to earn their own way

and who see

that they don't maybe understand it the way some people do, but they see this is not good.

Not good for them, not good for their families, even if they're getting a little bit more in the child care arena or the home, whatever it may be,

they see it.

But the real clincher is: when people suffer, when people are in trouble financially, all the other theoretical garbage goes out the window.

And that's what's going to happen to the working people of this country.

And then, when these onerous taxation rates come in, that's going to just wipe out any kind of development, any kind of hiring, expansion,

done.

And then all of the taxes that the corporation is going to pay, more taxes, that'll pass on to the consumer.

So you're going to have a triple whip on people.

You're going to have inflation, which you have now.

All right.

Then you're going to have higher pricing on top of the inflation because the corporation is going to pass it along.

And then you're going to have fewer jobs because the expansion

of stagflation

is worse than that.

Worse than that.

You're heading into an area, and again, this is by design.

The progressive economists know this.

They want to run the economy from Washington,

the entire economy.

If you break down the capitalistic system and people are desperate,

that's how that can be accomplished.

It's the only way it can be accomplished.

Bill, I can't wait to hear your analysis on the Rittenhouse trial.

We're now in day four of jury deliberation.

The schools have been closed around the courthouse in Kenosha.

And last night, NBC has been barred from the courtroom because a producer was stopped by police for following the van used to transport the jury.

This NBC News, MSNBC News producer, James Morrison,

was running a stoplight while attempting to follow the van used to bring jury members to the courtroom.

He was trying to photograph all of the jurors.

This is insane.

That's the end of NBC News.

I mean, it was over a couple of years ago, but it's over.

I mean, it's forget it.

CNN over.

ABC CBS hanging on, but

you just can't run a news agency that irresponsibly.

You just can't.

And every day I see it.

I see these people hating, getting paid to hate, to foster, you know, oh, Rittenhouse guilty.

Yeah, he's guilty.

So,

you know, if they don't find him guilty, we're going to burn down a town.

It's okay with us.

It's okay with MSNBC.

We want that to happen.

I mean, come on, you know, these

moguls who run these companies are so corrupt and they're so damaging to this nation.

But the majority of people have not

really

become angered with them.

They're still protected, like Disney.

So Disney is the absolute worst.

And if you understand them across the board, They're now demanding if you want to take your five-year-old on a Disney cruise, he has got to be vaccinated.

All right, so you've got to terrorize your five-year-old if you want to go on.

They pay these women on the view to just spew hatred

all day, every day.

They pay them to do it.

And then you look at this, these are powerful companies.

And most Americans aren't putting it together.

When they do, there's going to be a tremendous backlash.

So the backlash has to come in two ways.

It has to come political next November, and then it has to come social.

Now back to Rittenhouse.

It's one or two jurors

that will not vote to acquit.

One or two.

And it'll be a mistrial.

But I think this judge is going to put enough in to make it very hard for the prosecution to come back and put him on trial again.

Now, what does that mean?

So the judge can nullify.

The judge can

a mistrial

with prejudice or without prejudice.

I can't remember which one means they cannot come back.

That's with prejudice.

With prejudice.

And then the other is mistrial and you can go do it again.

You think you'll go with prejudice?

Yes.

The judge clearly knows that Rittenhouse is not guilty.

Remember, it's a simple concept.

In order to convict someone of a crime, you have to have evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Now, in this case,

it's not even close.

So, if I'm in that jury room with that person, I'm going, you don't have a reasonable doubt

when a guy puts a gun in his face, face,

that's not a reasonable doubt.

But you have people, you know, people bring in their emotional damage

to the courtroom, the jurors.

They're just regular people like everybody else.

And people have their prejudices and biases, and they bring them in.

And, you know, the hope is that everybody can

present a case that people say, well, maybe it's not perfect, but I think this is the right thing to do.

Here, I'm not a Ridenhouse fan.

His parents were...

Oh.

Yeah, I know.

Yeah, I mean, lift a kid out of the house with a gun.

I mean, I can say that's craziness.

Craziness.

I got an 18-year-old.

I mean, there's no way.

I know.

I have a 17-year-old, and there is no way.

Right.

I would be down there breaking him up by the scruff of his neck, going,

What the heck are you thinking?

Mine would be locked in the basement.

Yeah.

There's a little slit I could put food through.

Right.

Yeah, I got it.

I got it.

But the kid himself doesn't know what he's doing.

All right.

He's just

a nair-do-well, whatever.

Okay.

So,

so let me let me change the subject.

Uh, how long does this go on, do you think?

Uh, they got to get out of it

by Monday.

Monday.

Um, let me switch the subject to uh Ron DeSantis, because I know you're going on tour with Donald Trump, and that starts when?

December 11th.

11th.

Coming up.

Christmas gifts.

And you said

this is not a

history tour.

And you're trying to get after

you.

Trying to get after the history.

Let me ask you one history question, and that is, I would like you to ask the president about

what happened at the beginning of COVID with Fauci

and why he didn't get rid of Fauci.

You know, I've already asked him that, and if you can go to billoriley.com, you can see the answer.

But I'll probably, you know, I want to ask exactly the same question because a lot of people watched that interview I did with Trump a month ago.

Let's say I didn't watch it.

What?

Let's say I didn't watch it.

Yeah, you obviously didn't, Peck, because you're talking about Right.

And what

did you accumulate knowledge?

Give me an idea of what the answer might have been.

The answer was that Fauci didn't have a lot of sway, and that if Trump had fired him, it would have been a firestorm that would have prevented Trump

from doing what he wanted to do.

But here's an interesting point.

Everybody knows now that the Russian collusion thing was a tremendous political scandal, right?

I mean, if you you don't know that, then you don't know anything.

There was a worse scandal, Beck,

and that is that the things that Donald Trump did in office

were never reported on.

So that's why I put this two together.

And here's a good example.

Yesterday, Kamala Harris goes on with Little Georgie on Good Morning America.

a man I despise because he's so corrupt, it's like dripping out of his mouth.

And she says to him, oh, we can't turn the border around quickly.

Oh, we can't do this because of the previous administration.

And he doesn't say a blanking word.

And I will tell you, you can turn the border around overnight.

Overnight, you can turn it around.

Bill, thank you so much.

If you would like to see the Bill O'Reilly tour with Bill O'Reilly, just go to billoilly.com.

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Late last week, it was revealed that the National School Boards Association coordinated with the White House before sending their official letter to the Biden administration, which requested federal monitoring of parents allegedly threatening school administrators and characterized parents as domestic terrorists.

Well, the nonprofit Parents Defending Education obtained, through public records request, a memo written in October in which the NSBA, the School Board Association president, said they had been actively engaged with the White House, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security

submitting their letter to President Biden.

According to an email from Chip Slavin, the NSBA's executive director, the White House advised the NSBA to include in its official letter details of specific threats.

So before sending the letter to President Biden, the School Board Association revised it to include 24 reports from local news outlets detailing threats that parents allegedly had made against school board members around the country.

Out of the 24, 16 were only tense verbal exchanges between parents and school board members.

No threats of any physical violence.

The other correspondence reveals that some members of the NSBA's board of directors were not consulted in the decision to use language like labeling parents domestic terrorists.

Nicole Niley, president of Parents Defending Education, who obtained the correspondence, now believes that the school board association's president and executive executive director acted on their own without the board's approval in producing the letter for Biden.

Some school board members speculated that the executive director, Chip Slavin, was trying to use the NSBA letter to Biden to position himself for a job in the Biden administration.

In an email thread among several NSBA board members, one board member wrote, if the NSBA leadership were truly concerned about safety, it would not have been accompanied by a press release and media interviews.

They made it about the school board

and not safety.

Now, there's an update on this.

Jim Jordan, the most conservative member of Congress, I believe,

is joining us now.

He had a whistleblower

contact him, and he released this earlier this week.

We wanted to get his thoughts on that.

Jim Jordan, the author of the book, Do What You Said You Would Do, which comes out, I think, next week.

Jim, welcome.

I'm going to be with you, Glenn.

Thanks for all you're doing.

You bet.

Thank you.

Yeah, this,

I mean, so I think the timeline is so critical.

Remember that the School Board Association was working with the White House before they ever sent the letter.

They sent the letter between the date of the letter being sent, the 29th, and then

the 4th of October when Merrick Garland does his memo.

The Justice Department is communicating with the counterterrorism division at the FBI.

We have that from testimony given in the Intel Committee.

So they're putting this together.

Then on October 20th, this email goes out from the counterterrorism division to FBI agents around the country.

The very next day, Merrick Garland testifies in front of our committee and says to Republicans, we are not treating parents as domestic terrorists, when in fact, the day before and two weeks before, they were doing just that.

So Merrick Garland needs to come back in front of the committee and tell us why he misled us during that committee.

Did he not know?

I don't think that can be the answer.

I think he misled us from the get-go.

And the idea is they're treating parents as domestic terrorist.

It just is a threat tag, a terrorist tag, a label put on parents.

The real question I want to ask him is, what's the number?

How many parents now have this label on them?

Remember, Glenn, a few years back, you were right in the middle of this when the IRS was putting the bolo be on the lookout list and listeners to your program and all were being labeled and key terms.

So this targeting stuff has got to stop.

Let's hope the Democrats are going to call him back in, but I'm not going to be able to do that.

I don't think they will.

I don't think they will.

I mean, he is,

I didn't think the Justice Department could get worse, but it has.

And it is losing the respect of almost all Americans now,

except those who want to retain power in Washington, I think.

Yeah.

The one thing I'm starting to wonder is, was the letter just a pretext?

In other words,

we kind of assumed a few weeks ago that, oh, the school board association sends this letter.

It's from a left-wing political group.

So the White House tells the Justice Department to go along with it.

I'm wondering now if it went the other direction.

I'm wondering now, was it the White House who said to the school board association, give us the pretext?

You send the letter to us.

We want to stop parents from showing up.

protesting this racist hate America curriculum.

We want to stop that.

And what happened?

So it started from the government encouraging the school board association to give them the pretext, to give them the letter so that they could then follow through with this.

The only problem with from the Biden administration is it backfired because parents says, no, no, no, no, you're not chilling our speech.

We're going to stand up and fight for our kids.

And it backfired on them.

I think that's how this whole thing played out.

So help me out with the, let me switch subjects, with the Build Back Better bill.

I was happy to see all of the Republicans standing in lockstep

against this.

But what do people need to know?

What this bill is, I've been saying this is a software bill, not a hardware bill.

Don't worry about the money.

It is about that, but it's more about the operation of

the Green New Deal and everything else, the parts that remain to make this thing into a machine that just grinds people and businesses up.

No, I think that's exactly right.

The spinning level is obnoxious.

It's bad enough.

But what's scarier is the policy in it.

This Green New Deal,

this policy that's going to make our energy problem that much worse, the tax increases that are coming into it, and all the big government.

I mean, this is, I said this the other day, but I believe it.

It's the accelerated march to communism now that the Democrats are on, and this bill is the big thing.

So

I hope Senator Manchin and Senator Sinema hold firm and that somehow we can stop this because you're right.

It's not the money in and of itself.

And that's bad enough because that's going to add to the already 31-year high inflation problem we have.

But it's the policy.

It's the big government.

It's all that that moves us in this left-wing communist direction.

Do we save the country, Jim?

Do we?

Yeah,

no, it's look.

I had a lady at a little town hall type meeting I was doing a few weeks ago.

She's probably in her mid-70s, and she got tears in her eyes when she said, I never thought I could see it move this fast, get this bad, this quick.

And I get it and it and I'm I'm scared.

I'm nervous too.

But, you know, the American people, they figured out a way to rally.

We're an optimistic, can-do kind of people.

And, you know, someone said to me, Glenn, that every third generation in this country has had to do something big.

You had the guys who started this place, the founders.

Then three generations later, you had Lincoln and those people who came together and ended the evil of slavery and kept the Union together.

And then three generations later, it was the greatest generation who stopped the evil of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

And now here we are three generations later.

And, you know, maybe it's our turn.

And the threat is from within in this move towards socialist communist craziness.

But we're going to have to stop it.

And we're going to have to focus on what they're doing to the First Amendment because that's what scares.

All these policy things are terrible.

But when they take away your right to speak, your right to exercise your First Amendment liberties, that is fundamental.

and that is what we have to stand up.

And

that's why they went after the school board so much.

They didn't want these moms and dads standing up and exercising their First Amendment rights and speaking out against this craziness.

And it backfired.

So that's what encourages me.

We're going to get there, but it ain't going to be easy because nothing worth doing

ever is.

Well, I appreciate you standing up and tell all your colleagues today, thank you.

And

just let us know who the senators are.

I think we know.

But who the senators on our side are that

might flip on this.

This is a game-changing bill.

This is fundamental transformation.

This is it.

This is it.

Yep.

Glenn, thank you.

Thanks for your leadership, and we appreciate it.

Yeah, thank you.

One more question.

Is the TSA, they're 40%

unvaccinated.

And Monday, they have to be vaccinated or they can't go into work.

Is this going to cause a problem over the holidays?

My guess is probably so.

I mean, and 40% of truck drivers in this country probably don't have it.

I mean, at least

one of the employers in my district.

So, I mean,

there's not one thing that Joe Biden's policies have helped.

They've made everything worse.

And that's why 71% of the country think we're on the wrong track.

I mean, the real question is, who are the 29% who think we're on the right track, for goodness sake?

So, no, it's bad.

But thank goodness for the courts and what the courts have said on the vaccine.

Thank you so much, Jim.

I appreciate it.

Jim Jordan will be on one of our podcasts probably right after

this coming holiday.

His new book is Do What You Said You Would Do.

Gosh, if they did that, wouldn't they be popular?

Jim Jordan.

The best of the Glen Bank program.

So, let me talk to you a little bit about believing the science.

If you watched our special this week on COVID and the origins of COVID,

it's pretty hard to believe in science.

It's hard to believe in anything, honestly.

But that's what we're supposed to do: believe in science, believe the science

when it comes to climate change.

Do you believe the science?

Pandemic, do you believe the science?

Anything else that uses science like an infinity Trump card to shut down debate?

Do you believe that science?

You know, it used to be in God We Trust.

And the progressives tried this around the turn of the century.

And once we saw that it led to eugenics and the mass horrors all across the world in the 30s and 40s,

we kind of fell back on in God we trust, not in science we trust, but we're back.

Science,

science

as God has been sketchy since the nature of science.

You know, I mean, it's subject to new discoveries and updates.

The nature of God, however, is

He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

And I guess I'm in that category of weirdos who think there's room for God and science.

I think God must be the ultimate mathematician and the ultimate scientist because it all comes from him.

And then there's the problem of what to do when believe the science ringleaders aren't being honest about their science.

They become more of a church than anything else.

Well, that always does.

The same thing that

happened in the dark ages.

The church says, believe me, because I say so, even though it's it's not provable or against common sense, and it just creates tribalism and division.

And eventually, the scientists, whether they're part of a religion or their religion is science,

they fail in the end.

And just like it happened in the 30s, we go back to saying, let's listen to common sense.

Let's use actual scientific measurements.

Let's prove things out as much as we can.

And then in God, we trust.

But I want to tell you: there is a science that Americans can believe in fully without prejudice, without feeling like you're compromising any personal beliefs.

Believe in science this next week.

Science tells us there is something that lowers blood pressure, improves sleep, It improves your immune system.

It reduces the risk for anxiety and depression.

It'll help you exercise more, eat better, drink and smoke less.

Well, that's crazy.

It has been linked to a significant reduction in stress hormones.

Now, if I said this and then I said, may cause impotence, and I sold it to you in a pill, it'd be heralded as a miracle drug.

I think people might be a little worried about it.

They'd be like, wait a minute, wait a minute.

I'm not going to, it's a brave new world.

Recent years, studies have verified all of these health benefits and more for this miracle cure.

So what is it?

Well, I'd like to introduce

my team, not from Pfizer.

They're going to...

They're going to talk about and show you this miracle pill.

It's called the science of thanksgiving.

And it's not the holiday,

but it's the frequent practice of gratitude.

See, this is the problem we have in America.

Nobody's grateful.

Nobody's grateful.

We are.

Can you imagine what we look like to the rest of the world right now?

The rest of the world is buying into our bull crap that we deserve it.

And why?

Because they think we're a bunch of rich, spoiled snots.

Cry babies.

Do you know how many people would would build a raft, literally,

and cross dangerous waters to get here, cross deserts to get here, come from around the world and pay off really sketchy people to get into our country that don't have ill intent.

And we're sitting here complaining, we have no gratitude.

Our forefathers understood the benefits of gratitude instinctively.

They didn't have the scientific data to back it up.

George Washington and Abraham Lincoln knew the benefits, both personally and nationally, of gratitude, which is why both of those men made their Thanksgiving proclamations.

You know, I tried to get the Senate to pass

Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving proclamation

of prayer, humiliation, and fasting for Thanksgiving.

It is, today is the anniversary of Gettysburg.

Don't know if you know that.

Today is the anniversary of Gettysburg

when all those dead

were laying there.

It took weeks, Washington, or it took weeks for Lincoln to get there.

When Lincoln gave his Gettysburg address this day,

they still had, after weeks, bodies all over the field.

And he

stood up

and gave a little speech.

Somebody else spoke for almost two hours.

I don't even know who it was.

He spoke for just a few minutes.

He thought the speech was so inconsequential, a New York newspaper man said, Hey, Mr.

Lincoln, can I get a copy of that speech?

He handed him the original that he writes that he wrote on the train here.

He didn't think anything of it.

Neither did the guy who published it, the journalist, he just took it, copied it, and then threw that letter away, threw that speech away.

But that proclamation

that Congress would not pass today, I asked them,

they wouldn't introduce it and it wouldn't get passed today.

And I said, I don't want to change the verbiage.

Just

put it up again.

It's the Thanksgiving proclamation from Abraham Lincoln.

No one would do it.

We have a problem with Thanksgiving, with gratitude.

By the way, when that

was passed in the Senate

and it was signed by Abraham Lincoln, it was the turning point in the war.

Yes, we have inflation.

Yes, we have supply chain issues.

Yes, pandemic policy nightmares, government overreach.

Our leaders seem bent on destroying the very fabric of our nation.

And yet there's still a chance because the glass is still more than half full.

We still enjoy more freedom than most people.

And we still have the opportunity to be heard.

May I suggest

that we should try something next week, just for a week.

Let's believe in science.

Let's believe in the science of Thanksgiving.

Maybe we even, at our Thanksgiving table, read the proclamation from 1863 from Abraham Lincoln,

even though our government doesn't believe it.

We still believe in God, and I think God still believes in us.

He's just waiting for us to be grateful.

And when we're grateful, maybe

we can heal the wounds of this great nation and restore it as soon as may be consistent with divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.