Trump's Iran Strike Opposition, Dissecting a Questionable CNN Poll, & Eric Bolling on the Isolationism Movement Within the GOP
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Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News. Tuesday, June 24th, 2025. Stand up for your country. Well, it's 100 degrees in New York City in the suburbs and area. Some dome heat thing. I have no idea.

A lot of whining, a lot of whining about it. You guys in Texas, Arizona, 100 degrees, ah, you know. But here, it is very, very intense. So you turn on local news and about 25 out of the 30 minutes is the weather. And ABC Network News does that too. So the weatherman comes out and goes, it's hot. Yeah, we know.

and then have to drink a lot of fluids. Yowee-nuh. And then if you're on fire, you call 911. It's just so banal, word of the day banal. It's just unbelievable. Like, who doesn't know this? Anyway, I'm getting away from the news component of the day, but we have plenty of that for you.

And the political world is very hot, pardon the pun, as a subject of this evening's Talking Points memo. So these are tough days for the Democratic Party. They really don't know how to handle the Iranian bombing. OK, so most of them have kept quiet. There's no leadership. The zealots far left, of course, they don't like it because they don't like anything Trump's going to do. And that's that.

But the party has no plan B. So when you're going to criticize someone, it is responsible to have an improvement. And this is in your personal life, too. If you're going to give somebody some jazz, say, look, this might be better. Democrats have none of that for anything. They have nothing. You know, on the budget, they, oh, don't cut Medicaid. All right. Thirty seven trillion dollar debt. What are you going to do about it? Nothing. They don't have anything.

On a ride, "Oh no, no, you have to consult, oh yeah, da-da." And you look at him, "Well, what's plan B?" "Okay, how long you want to give the mullahs?" "Six months, six years, going on for decades." "No plan." All right, so I got to run down what they're saying for you and I will do some commentary on the back of it. First, our pal Senator Adam Schiff from California. Go.

So a lot of risks here for the country, which, you know, is the reason why you come to Congress in the first place. It's the reason why our Constitution says Congress has the power to declare war, not the president. Now, the woman on CNN interviewing him, Cassie Hunt, failed to say to Schiff, and this is journalism 101. I mean, this is not anything hard.

Well, that may be true in theory, but it's the War Powers Act gives a president 60 days to unilaterally use military action in situations. Did you not know that, Senator? And Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, they used bombing without any consultation to Congress whatsoever. Were you unaware of that, Congressman? But instead, Ms. Hunt just sits there

Now, I don't want to criticize her. I don't want her enough to know whether she's good or bad. But when you're doing a top flight interview undermining the president of the United States' military action, you have a responsibility to your audience to be skeptical of what you know Schiff is going to say. You know he's going to attack it. And then you say, Senator, what would you have done?

pretty precisely. We don't want any general, well, diplomacy. What would you have done? No, none of that comes. And it doesn't come because CNN doesn't want that kind of exposition. They bring on Schiff. They know Schiff is going to criticize Trump, and that's what they want. They don't want balance. They don't want two sides. Okay.

Second one is the ardent socialist, perhaps a communist. I'm not sure yet. Bernie Sanders is a communist, no doubt in my mind. He would seize your property. Warren, I'm not sure, but she's absolutely a fanatical progressive and a socialist. Here's what she says. Go.

Trump has launched the United States into another potentially endless war in the Middle East. Bombing another country is an act of war. The Constitution is clear. If there is no immediate threat to Americans, to our service members, or to the homeland, the president has no legal authority to order our troops to strike another country. None.

War with Iran will not make us safer. Well, she's reading that at a pro-abortion rally, by the way. She can't get enough abortion, Elizabeth Warren. Can't get enough, okay? But anyway, she says things that are just factually incorrect. And of course, somebody's going to mind. So there is no immediate threat to Americans. Well, I believe that a hostile nation

that as a policy of killing Jews and Americans, stated policy, okay, having an atomic bomb, a nuclear weapon, might be a threat. Now, there are a lot of people who just don't believe it because they don't want to believe it. They don't want to believe Mossad. They don't want to believe U.S. Intel. They don't, and they won't.

the UK, MI6, every intelligence agency. And they have droves of people inside Iran. OK. Say, look, these guys were really close to enriching enough uranium to make that bomb quickly. But Elizabeth Warren doesn't care about that. Wouldn't even consider it because she doesn't want to consider it. Breaks her bubble. So these are irresponsible people. Now, what did Barack Obama say about the bombing?

That would be nothing. How about Joe Biden? No, Joe didn't weigh in. How about Kamala Harris? No, he's supposed to be the leaders of the Democratic Party. So if I'm the leader of the Democratic Party, all right, number one, it would be much more competitive than it is now and much more sane. Here's what I would say. We support the president's military action against Iran because he's the commander in chief and we support our troops.

But we have reservation. But now is not the time. He has made his decision, and we're going to support the action because we are pro-American. We're not rooting for Iran. And then afterward, if we believe it was not the right thing to do, we'll certainly come forth with a better plan. If the leadership of the Democratic Party were to do that, then people would take it seriously. Who takes the Democratic Party seriously now?

other than the loons, the zealots, the hate Trumpers. Who? Nobody. It's the lowest ebb in modern times. Harry Truman, FDR, you know, there's nobody close to that. JFK, there's nobody close. Okay, finally, nobody knows about the ceasefire. It could blow up tomorrow. Trump's cursing at Israel and stuff. You know, these are volatile countries. You can't trust them.

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Please play responsibly. Must be 18 years or older to purchase, play, or claim. All right, the Mullahs are a theocracy in Israel. They know that the Jews are in danger from these people. So Trump can't control that 100%. America's a lot of power with Israel. So the ceasefire will happen, but will it hold? Nobody knows. Nobody knows. And then what happens after the ceasefire? Are there more peace talks? I don't know.

I do know this, that Iran is so weak, it can't close the Straits of Hormuz or do anything on. It can't. And when it signaled to the USA that it was going to send rockets into our bases, it actually told us, the mullahs told us before they fired them, what does that tell you? It goes, don't hurt me anymore. We'll give you a tip. We got to do this for show. And that's what they did. And that's a memo. All right. Now, let's get to some polling.

CNN poll, 1,030 adults, no registered voters, no likely voters. Democrat, 28. Republican, 28. Another party, 44. All right. What is your view of the U.S. decision to take military action in Iran? Approve, 44. Disapprove, 56. Second question, do you think the U.S. military action will make Iran more of a threat? 58. Less of a threat, 27.

How much do you trust Donald Trump to make the right decision about the U.S. use of force in Iran? Great deal, moderately 45, not much, 55. Now, I don't believe his fault. I think it's a push poll. And I called, well, I didn't call, but my producers called John McLaughlin, the Republican pollster, who is very accurate and honest. And he said the same thing.

The tip off is adult respondents, not likely voters or registered voters. So you're getting in that crew people who don't know anything. They don't know. And I'm going to back that up with another poll in a moment. And when you talk to people who don't know why something's happening or even that it is happening, you're going to get a skewed answer, which is what CNN wanted. They wanted this answer. This is easy to do.

And CNN understands that nobody's going to remember the poll from day to day, so they can do whatever they want to do. So Reuters poll, Reuters, the left-wing news service. Again, 1,139 U.S. adults, not registered voters. One question that's key, how closely, if at all, have you been following the Iran-Israel-USA situation? 67% say closely, 32%.

that we don't know anything about it now that's a lot of people okay 32 um so when you look at this stuff you have to look at it with a healthy dose of skepticism i believe based on analysis and generalized polling that most people understand the threat that iran poses okay now maybe they didn't like

the bombing, I don't know that for sure, but I think most people understood why it had to happen. And since there's no Plan B, none, you either let them get the bomb or you bomb them. There's no middle. So I think most Americans are fine with it, but I'm not positive on that. Okay, so yesterday we said that the House Ethics Committee has to call two people

who criticized the commander in chief while, while the bombing was underway. The planes were in the air. There would be Congressman Sean Kasten of Illinois and the always amusing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. You cannot undermine a military action when there are U.S. military people in the field conducting. You cannot do that.

So we called the chairman of the House Ethics Committee, Michael Guest, who was rude to us. Rude. OK? This guy's from Mississippi. And we had to call him back a number of times. He didn't pick up the phone. His guy, Jordan Downs, did. And he was arrogant and rude. And he goes, I wouldn't tell you anything. OK. You want to go that way? We'll make you a hobby, Congressman Guest. We'll make you a hobby here.

So here's what I said about the ethics committee. Go. The House Ethics Committee have got to call Congressman Sean Kasten and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. While our military people were in the air, they called for the impeachment of the commander in chief. OK, they got to go up before the ethics committee. And I'm going to make sure that happens. OK, so now we have a conundrum.

Because the head of the Ethics Committee, citing confidentiality, that's a bunch of bull. All right, so I can't talk to you. Yeah, you can. I don't know what game you're playing, Mr. Guest, but we're going to watch you now. You're on our scope. I'm going to try to get somebody else on the committee to come in here and explain this. I do believe that we're going to have to call these two people in front of the Ethics Committee, but...

I was disappointed with this guy Guest. If you're in his district in Mississippi, you might give him a call. This is ridiculous. It's totally absurd. Trump's in The Hague. That's in Holland, the Netherlands. NATO summit. Good news for the president. The NATO nations, with the exception of Spain, raising their defense spending to 5% from 2%, which is what Trump has wanted since 2016. He finally got it.

finally got it a lot of that's because of ukraine zielinski is at this meeting uh we don't have anything right now concrete we're obviously following it now um the opposition to uh trump's iranian uh decision didn't always come from the left there were uh some conservative people who didn't like it and they're isolationist people um one of them is eric bowling i think i think it

Because I can't quite make out Bolling's point of view. Roll the tape. Let's be honest. So MAGA kind of has always believed that Trump was not going to be involved in foreign wars. This is a bit of a, well, a certain faction of MAGA believes that this is a tough pill to swallow, that we're actually bombing another country. Especially because could it lead to World War III? Okay, so joining us now is the effervescent...

Eric Bolling from West Palm Beach, where he's tanned, locked and loaded. He never been out and never been out for the year. And thank God. Thank God for that. He does a program bowling on Real America's Voice. So, Bolling, are you for or against the bombing? Just yes or no. Yes, I'm for or against the bombing. Let me explain. If I may, I was against the bombing because I hate the idea of an American pilot flying

In harm's way. I don't like soldiers. At first you were against it. I was. And let me further explain that I was against it because we had complete, or not we, I'm sorry. I correct myself because Trump did the same thing prior to the bombing. Israel had complete control of the airspace over Tehran, over the whole country of Iran.

They were getting things done. I loved what they were doing. They were relentless. People were saying, okay, you know, you made your point in Israel. No, no, no. They were going to finish the job. Now, did they have the 200 mile into the side of the mountain bunker busters? They didn't at the time. And then my side or this side of my brain would say, okay, well, sell it to them. Sell Israel the bunker buster bomb. Sell them in the mop, MOP. Train a pilot. I don't care if it takes a month. Train the pilot how to fly it.

How's this? Get a dual citizen, Israeli-American pilot to fly it over, drop the bomb, and we wouldn't have our fingerprints on it. None of that would ever happen in any way at all because we are the only people in the world that have that technology. We're going to hand it off to Israel. And there's not going to be any pilots that are not under the supervision of the Pentagon. Never, ever going to happen.

Now that the bombing has happened. Yes, yes. Now I look back at so far and we're, what, 36 hours out, and it looks like a surgical strike that was precision. As Pete Hegseth tells us, it obliterated the nuclear capabilities. We all know that. Are you for it or against it now? I don't know.

If it goes no further, Bill, I'm absolutely for it. And I think it's going to go no further because what Trump said this morning before getting on Air Force One, Marine One, and saying Israel and Iran, they don't know what the F they're doing, use the word. And I think he told the world that was wanted down and we're done. And it was magical. It was almost spiritual. I think back to the day Trump was shot in the ear in Butler, Pennsylvania. Bill, just bear with me one second.

One inch either way. Now, I'm not just saying one inch towards his head would have killed the would-be next president, but one inch away from his ear. And yes, it would have been an assassination attempt, but it wouldn't have the massive implications it does. But if you believe in God, if you believe in a higher power, if you believe in a spirit, whatever you believe in, there's a reason he got hit in the ear and not taken out and not missed him completely. And this may be the reason, because what he did in the last 36 hours made the world a safer place. Okay.

So now you've evolved on that, but you're still essentially an isolationist and you don't support U.S. funding Zelensky in Ukraine. Or am I wrong on that? No, you're 100 percent right. You're 100 percent. You don't want any money going to Ukraine, right?

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Correct. Okay, correct. So if we pull out back and Putin takes the whole country, which is what he wants to do, then you know China goes to Taiwan, takes that. Is that okay with you? I mean...

Is it okay? I think a smart president would beef up our chip capacity, chip producing capacity in the United States, because frankly, Taiwan, the best interest to us in Taiwan is their ability to produce Silicon Valley type chips. If we can up our game with NVIDIA and the other chip makers, even Taiwan Semiconductor for that matter, I think it's none of our business if China takes Taiwan. So you let Taiwan go, you let Ukraine go.

Why would they stop then? Why wouldn't Putin then go to Moldova? Why wouldn't China then move into South Korea and help the nut in North Korea destabilize that?

So in isolation is basically saying, look, you know that that's that's it. You don't know. May have have eyes on the prize with other countries in Europe. There's no guarantee of anything other than my eyewitness report when I was in China. And I can tell you the 100 percent certainty if Putin's allowed to take over Ukraine, then China will march into Taiwan.

That's what will happen, 100%. So if you're okay with that. How will that affect you, Bill O'Reilly? How it will affect is it causes chaos in the world. It destabilizes the entire world. It's a chaotic world. It's a crazy world. Hey, when you have two totalitarian regimes expanding and taking over foreign countries, invading and taking over, you do not have a safe world.

You cannot hide in Idaho. And worldwide economy will just be battered. And you think it's bad now, the conflicts? Where do you see the chaos that those totalitarian nations will cause if not restrain? And this is history bowling. And you can't argue history with me because I'll, you know, I'll dissolve you into pudding.

But it's history. All right. Isolationism has never worked, particularly in a society now that's intertwined planet wide. I don't necessarily think I'm a total isolationist. I'm a anti-war, America first human being. But America is not going to be first.

China will be first. We still are part of NATO. And I've never said remove us all from NATO. But you don't want military action. Well, if you really don't want Putin to take Ukraine, put him in NATO. And then you've opened yourself a whole new can of worms. Put Putin in NATO? Putin's not going to go into NATO. Put Ukraine in NATO. Put Ukraine in NATO. Allow Ukraine to enter NATO. Then you must defend them. That would give justification.

If you allowed Ukraine into NATO, that would heighten Putin's justification to the Russian people, to the only people that can stop him at this point. All right. So now you have you're an isolationist. Bannon is Steve Bannon. Tucker Carlson is.

How big do you think that constituency is within the Republican Party, the isolationist movement? How big is it? I think it was huge until Trump decided to go forth with this. Like, I think a lot of we, many of us, I call Steve Bannon the true north of the original gangster MAGA crew. He was the original don of that. And I think until Trump actually went forward in Iran with the bombing,

That split people. Then they put people like Tucker. I think Tucker was more the hardliner against it. And Steve and the Hannity and Mark Levin were very much, very much pushing for Trump to go ahead. But where are we now? Now, where are we in your opinion? I think there's a there's a there's a split in MAGA that needs to be 50 50 split.

Maybe 60/40 in favor of what Trump did, maybe 70/30 in favor of the action. But you don't know? Alright, because I don't know either. I mean, I suspect that most Republicans

support Trump in this action. Now, if it goes south and all of these other things happen, unintended consequences, which Iran is too weak to really make anything happen. But say something crazy did happen, then you would get more people, more would come over to the isolationist movement.

All right. Last word. I mean, they're too weak to do anything aggressive. They're not too weak to, you know, to fortify and finance their sleeper cells and their Houthis and their Hamas and Hezbollahs and attack us internally on a smaller basis, which is going to feel really bad too. But that's not because of the bombing. They're already here. They just made a big bust. It might be.

They just made a big bust in Connecticut. They got 11 of the 12 of the 2 million Iranians who are in this country, which is great. Biden let them all in. He want ice around. Biden let them all in. So they're already here. They don't need an excuse. OK, they're here and they're not here to get a job at 7-Eleven. Last question for you. The.

Final word on this isn't going to be until Trump leaves office. OK, because it's not like Iran. They may go away and the army may overthrow them all. So let's hope. But Putin, he's a psychotic. I mean, you're reading my book now, I know, Confronting Evil. And when you see how psychotic that man is, that we need a strong leader now.

And there have been accusations that Trump is too soft about Putin. There have been accusations he's too soft on him. So we're never going to have a peaceful world. Last word.

I 100% agree. By the way, your book is phenomenal. This is the best book you've written. I've read, I just started, I received it yesterday. I started paging through it last night. I started reading it. I want to just have a little bit of an idea of what it's about. It's gripping. It's really, it's your best work so far. With the maybe exception of you throwing J.P. Morgan and

uh, and, and Rockefeller into the midst of the evil, with the evil people. But we'll get back to, we can talk about that another time, but it was fascinating how you take people from this man won't be alive at the end of the day or tomorrow. And then you explain why. And then you go back to the roots of the evil that's causing so much of the evil in the world. It's fantastic book. Um, where are we going from here? Uh,

I would say MAGA needs to get theirself together again, figure it out. And again, hopefully it's done. Hopefully we're finished. Hopefully, you know, nobody wants to give nukes to Iran or hopefully China doesn't give nukes to Iran. Something like that may escalate it and that would be bad. But I think right now Donald Trump has proven to the world

that you don't dispute Donald Trump. I dispute his ideas on tariffs. And so far, I'm wrong. I didn't think we should attack Iran. As of this day, right now, today, I'm probably wrong. And I hope I'm wrong forever. Okay. I'm going to do tariffs now. We won't know until the end of the year. Bowling, thanks very much, everybody. Check out Bowling, all right, on Real America's Voice. And we'll talk again soon. Thanks, everybody.

All right, so the tariff thing, we'll know to the end of the year whether this is successful or the American economy. This guy named Torsten Slocke, nice name, Torsten Slocke, S-L-O-K, works for Apollo Global Management. He was real anti-Trump tariffs when they first were announced. Here's what he said. Tariffs have been implemented in a way that has not been effective. There is now a 90% chance.

of what can be called a voluntary trade reset recession. 90% chance. Whoa. Well, this week, Mr. Slock changed his mind. Here's what he says now. This would seem to be like a victory for the world, and yet, he used $400 billion of annual revenue for the U.S. taxpayer.

Trade partners will be happy with only 10% tariffs and U.S. tax revenue will go up. Maybe the administration has outsmarted all of us, unquote. Well, he's too optimistic on the tariffs. You've got to wait. You've got to wait. Because, you know, the economy takes a while. Okay? It's all over the place. It's not like boom, boom, boom. But if it does work, then it will obviously help our debt, our deficit, and our manufacturing base.

Supreme Court lifts limits here. This story has not been covered because it's a pro-Trump story. So Supreme Court 6-3 says that Trump can send undocumented migrants anywhere in the world that Trump wants.

There was a stay on that. Judge Brian Murphy, Massachusetts, of course, the judge shopped, put a stay on it. Supreme Court said, no, sorry, Judge Murphy. The president of the United States has the power to deport people here illegally. He can send them wherever he wants to send them. That's a lot of power. I'll tell you what, Supreme Court. So nightly news on NBC, 18 seconds. CBS evening news, 13 seconds.

ABC World News didn't cover it at all because all they do is weather. And so I'm looking at this going, pretty big ruling. Nah, no coverage.

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Now, the excuse was that O'Connor said, I can't give you a sworn affidavit, which is what Comer asked for, because it would violate doctor patient privilege. Well, let Biden say, OK, go ahead. Right now. So they got to call him and they subpoenaed him. And that will be fascinating. Stay in history. June 24th, 1987.

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Then I had somebody write in. Thank you, Bill. Listen to Candace Owens got confused by her anger and unhappiness with President Trump. So I came to you. I feel much better. I just gave you the facts. That's all I do. The facts. And then we had another one. I'm irritated by the lack of reliable information. Thank goodness we have O'Reilly. We will not deceive you. So we are expanding our business as you probably figured out.

I'm a Luddite. I don't know a thing about it, but I got good people who understand the Internet. And our distribution system is very wide now. You add it all up and I'm probably reaching more people than I reached on the O'Reilly factor. It's hard to calibrate that because we're all over the world now. But it's powerful. And we're getting stronger and stronger and stronger as the mainstream media collapses. CNN may go out. That's how serious that is over there.

And then we're rising because fact-based. Facts, facts. Thank you for watching us today. I'm Bill O'Reilly. We'll see you again tomorrow.