The Media's Shift on Iran, NATO’s Anti- U.S. Response & Out-of-Control Gas Prices | April 6, 2026

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Bill O'Reilly here.

Welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, April 6, 2026. Stand Up For Your Country. Big press conference today with President Trump. I'll run it down very quickly if you want more information. It's all over the place. What I do is read Smart News and the Wall Street Journal. They're pretty good. The rest of them are just, you're not

going to get honest information from them but those two zero in on and the smart life the smart news thing the reason that's good is because it does give you left and right okay it goes both ways so you get a good cross-section so the president of course talked about the miraculous rescue of the two US airmen over the weekend in Iran. Amazing operation and everybody involved should be very proud. The situation is that in any war there will be risk to the U.S. military in any kind of

conflict. But this one went our way. Then the president pivoted. He didn't say a lot of new stuff. It was the usual grievance, nobody's helping us. Some new names were put in there though.

Australia, Japan, South Korea, not helping with Iran. In addition to NATO, we're going to get to that in a moment. That's disturbing. Some Gulf states are helping us, but they had the vested interest of being right there next to Iran. And with the oil flow kind of stopped up, it's worth their while to throw in with the USA. But we haven't gotten much help from around the world, which is kind of startling.

The highlight, if you will,

of the presser was when Donald Trump said this, go.

the Iran nuclear deal was a road to a nuclear weapon, a big one, unlimited legally. I terminated it without even much thought. It was so easy. I terminated that and then the B two bombers. And I did one other thing. I had killed Sam Suleimani, who was an evil genius. And the reason I did it, I heard he was going to knock out five of our military bases.

OK, I write about that in Killing the Killers. President Trump really believes that. And I'm not casting any aspersions on his beliefs. But he believes that he was designated by maybe a higher power to come in and stop this madness with Iran. Now the people who don't like the president don't believe it and both sides believe what they want But I'm not in that soup bowl. So I know that the Iranians feverishly want to get a nuclear weapon.

If they did not, they would have allowed inspectors in. I'm a simple man. That's a simple analysis. If you're not hell-bent on getting your nuclear arsenal, why not let them in? So they can say, you've already suffered an air intrusion on your main nuke base and you're now starting it up again You say okay, we're gonna stop Iran doesn't need to develop a nuclear weapon

It doesn't need to So this is all logic that I'm bringing to my analysis So you've got a country that's tottering, may go under, yet you're still refusing to allow the inspectors in to look at the nukes. Now, the president reiterated that the end of Tuesday, tomorrow, if he doesn't have some kind of deal with Iran that involves nukes, that he'll bomb their electrical grid, take

them out, they won't have any communications. I believe that that might be extended. The Tuesday deadline might be extended, perhaps for a week. Not a bad thing. Not a bad thing. It shows the world, we're not warmongers here, we want to get this done. But the key component is in his mind, the President of the United States believes he

is doing the right thing for the world. The world largely is rejecting that. All right, so that's what happened today. Now the Talking Points memo is the new nickname Trump's War. So I assume and we will report tomorrow on this that the usual Trump haters will diminish the press conference today. And I have my producers

looking for the sound and we'll go over that. And there are people actively hoping Iran beats the United States in this conflict and we'll go over that. And there are people actively hoping Iran beats the United States in this conflict. And we will spotlight those people tomorrow. Okay. The strategy from the hate Trump media is to say we are not winning. Okay, this is hurting every American, higher gas prices, whatever it may be, wrecking the economy, the whole world's against us,

on and on, you've heard it, okay? And I don't believe it's gonna stop. All right, it'll just accelerate up. And then if we finally get a deal, which I think we will I'm praying we will Then it'll be yeah, but Yeah, but it's not the deal that he said you see what's going on here. I mean everybody does and

Now the latest is the New York Times headlines, Trump revels in threats to commit war crimes in Iran. So now we got the New York Times accusing the president not only of committing the war crimes, but revels, wants to. So what are we talking about here? Well we're talking about this, quote, 100 legal experts and lawyers, according to the

New York Times, and you could get 100 legal experts and lawyers say anything. Okay? So the conduct of the war and rhetoric of U.S. officials raises serious concerns about violations of international humanitarian law, including potential war crimes. They pointed out the very act of the United States attacking Iran, violation of the UN Charter.

There's no evidence Mr. Trump was acting to defend his country against an imminent threat. So either these people don't believe that Iran has or wants a nuclear weapon, or I don't know what plan B would be. So if you have a nuclear weapon and you're pledged to kill Jews and Americans and you've state-sponsored terrorism for almost 50 years,

it's not hard to do the math here, is it, New York Times? I mean, this is just almost laughable, what they're throwing out there. But now it's war crimes. So let's go back into history. The only reason Japan surrendered to the United States in 1945 was because we dropped the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

We firebombed Tokyo. We firebombed Dresden, Germany. We the United States killed what a million civilians? Probably more from the sky. That was the only way to defeat these fascist countries that launched the war. It is true, Iran did not launch any war. However, the nuclear weapon component dwarfs anything that Hitler or Tojo had. We all getting this? So, a few nuts will accuse Truman and Winston Churchill of war crimes, but these are crazy

people. You had to end it. Trump wants to end it by saying to Iran, you've got to give up the nukes. Well, I can give you the facts. Okay. So when you are examining what's really happening, if you care to be fair, that rhymes, you've got to take all this into account. Trump haters, whatever he does, that's NATO, Okay, they're not gonna like it

Whatever he does and I go like it Japan South Korea. That's kind of startling Australia Not helping Kind of startling. I mean, it's so far away that they're not going to be affected by any nuke that Iran might use I understand but, but come on. If the whole world, again, I don't want to be repetitive, but if the whole world allied with the United States, Iran couldn't exist. And that's a memo.

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He is a senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute, which is a think tank dedicated to defending human dignity. So tell me about this Spain helping Iran thing.

Well, you know, the Middle East Forum'slev Alvarez, a former special forces soldier who is fluent in Spanish, has exposed a great deal of Spanish industry, which was shipping military grade steel and other technology to Iran to a company that was manufacturing Iranian drones. This is at the same time as you said, Bill, that the Spaniards were denying the United States access to some of the bases. And it's at the same time that the Spanish government was also boycotting all Israeli

goods and leading the brain pack, arguing that Israel really has no right to exist, that it's a terrorist state. I mean, it really is unbelievable that a Spanish ally, one that was with us just a couple decades ago, I mean, a NATO ally, one that was so with us just a couple decades ago has made such a turn.

And it has because it's a socialist government? Is that what's behind this?

In Spain's case, yes. But also the Spanish prime minister was elected. And as you said, he comes from a socialist background. He was elected because among Spain's center right, there was a corruption scandal. As soon as he got into office, however, his wife became the focus of a corruption scandal. So I suspect in Spain's case, part of its ideology, part of its distraction. And then if we want to look more broadly, you're talking about South Korea, which today is also a very leftist regime, and other countries, Australia. We are like Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels.

And so many of these other countries are the little Pushins who simply want to tie us down without view to the greater threat that looms over the horizon, Bill. But they believe the greater threat is Trump. And Trump even said it today, this is all about Greenland. That's why NATO hates him and won't cooperate, which I think there's some truth to that. Well NATO certainly resents Donald Trump. Look, if we want to look at Donald Trump's first term, one of Donald Trump's signature achievements was actually getting NATO to pay up. But NATO doesn't necessarily like

having to pay up. And certainly, its politicians don't like having to explain to a public that doesn't understand that has been shielded from these threats for so long. When it comes to Iran, you know that Iranians have conducted assassinations on French soil, on German soil, on Spanish soil, on British soil. I mean, this notion that Iranians have conducted assassinations on French soil, on German soil, on Spanish soil, on British soil. I mean, this notion that Iran doesn't pose a grave and growing threat is absolutely insane.

And this notion that we hear that imminence, that Donald Trump violated imminence, is simply backward when it actually comes to the roots of imminence in international law?

Well, you've got everybody aligned, including the Catholic Church, that's putting a more immoral label on the action against Donald Trump. And usually the church stays out of stuff like this, but they haven't this time around. So I'm wondering if this is more about migration into Europe because these governments fear, particularly Spain, it's going to legalize, what, a couple of hundred thousand people mostly from North Africa.

And then you go down a list, you got Britain and you got France with you millions of people pouring in and it looks like the government fears those people and of course as you know Iran's a Shia nation and that's a dominant part

of Islam. You know Bill I'm really glad you asked this question because one of the things that fascinates me with regard to this current war in talking to people from the United Nations, High Commissioner for Refugees, for example, this is the first war where you've actually had a net inflow of population because so many Iranians have been crossing the border from Turkey into Iran, from Armenia into Iran, because they have such faith that

the Americans and the Israelis are bombing precisely, and therefore they don't carry risk. What's actually quite interesting when we talk about this issue of migration is, of course, number one, this year marks the 75th anniversary of the Convention on Refugees. But the other issue is that on January 1st, Barham Saleh, the former president of Iraq, took over as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. He's

the first high commissioner who is actually a refugee himself. And he has rebutted this Western European socialist embrace that all refugees are legitimate. He's basically been proposing get back to the basics that economic migrants aren't refugees. And this, more than anything else, puts the Western European approach, their back is to the ropes. I mean, simply put, they're upset that they can no longer hijack international

institutions to promote their ideology, which isn't rooted in the actual law.

But you don't have that in Japan or East or South Korea or Australia. These countries are just sitting it out, waiting for the United States to do the dirty work, it looks to me.

Well, you're absolutely right on Japan, and I'm actually surprised by Japan. South Korea, however, and Australia have both taken hard left turns. And so when we actually look at the conservatives in South Korea, they're akin to mainstream Democrats in the United States. The spectrum in South Korea, I was there quite recently, has shifted so far to the left. We need to be cognizant and calibrate our foreign policy towards the reality of what these countries

are now, rather than what they once were. But you're absolutely right, it is surprising. And again, going back to Donald Trump's first term, what he stopped is the freeloading within NATO. And now it looks like we have a much greater problem. Look, when it comes to Iran, you can kick the can down the road as far as you want. But eventually that road comes to an end. When it comes to this notion that there was

no imminence bill, let me ask you a question. If I decided I didn't like you and I purchased a gun and then I googled where you live and then I purchased ammunition and then I took an Uber to your house and then I googled where you live. And then I purchased ammunition. And then I took an Uber to your house. And then I knocked on your door and loaded the gun. At what point would I pose an imminent threat? I would argue that when I threatened to kill you, that would be the time in which I should face consequences. And the fact of the matter is that Iranians were chanting death to America every single day.

And when people say, hey, we need more diplomacy, then how come they don't question why the Russians were selling anti aircraft missiles to Iran, or the Chinese were talking about selling anti carrier killer missiles. The fact of the matter is, if you want to know why diplomacy, the window of

diplomacy closed, you got to ask the Kremlin and you got to ask Beijing. Well, they've been historically trying to destabilize the United States. And one way to do that is to prop up a rogue state. They hate Israel too, but Israel's a minor player there. Final question for you. The Iranian strategy is fairly simple.

It's a rope-a-dope, you know, use a boxing thing. We'll take all of the bombings and all of the military action because we don't believe that the United States can be able to outlast the opposition both from within and without because the press in America as you know doctor hates Trump and they're going to use every single Weapon they have to try to Delegitimize which is why Trump said today put it on Obama put the whole thing on Obama

Okay today, so I thought was interesting. And he did that to try to deflect some of this, it's Trump's fault, it's Trump's fault, it's Trump's fault. But that's what the Iranians believe, that they can outlast the United States here. How do you see that?

Well, first of all, I'm reminded of that old joke about the New York Times, that if George W. Bush walked on water, the headline would have been George Bush can't swim. And the fact of the matter is the press is what the press is. During the Cold War, we had communists, we had anti-communists, and we had anti-anti-communists in the same the same dynamic is at play today. But you're absolutely right. The Iranians are trying to wait us out. Now, the model as a historian that I look at is

1999 with the Clinton administration when we were bombing Serbia in order to compel a concession and safety for Kosovo. And what a lot of people forget is the bombing itself didn't actually change the regime in Belgrade. It didn't actually end Slobodan Milosevic's rule. That came the next year because he had so few supporters left that he was much more easily overthrown. I suspect we might be going down the Serbia path right now.

Yeah, but something's got to happen with the nukes. Trump's not going to back away from

that.

Oh, you're out, nor should he. That, look, he's the commander in chief. He's responsible. If we try to ensure international stability and security by consensus, that's never worked before. That's why the president has always been the leader of the free world. If we listen to global consensus, Berlin would have fallen back in the 1940s, 1950s. We wouldn't

default the Soviet Union. We would have. I mean, basically, it would be a whole different world. And that's what so many people on the left and so many people who are just obsessed by Trump derangement syndrome don't understand.

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