Correspondents' Dinner CHAOS: Bill Describes the Scene, the Media's Shooting Reaction, & Rep. Mike Lawler on Political Violence in America

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, April 27, 2026. Stand Up for Your Country. Talking Points Memo: Bill recaps his experience at Saturday’s White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, and the media’s poor coverage of the situation. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) joins the No Spin News to share his experience at the dinner and social media’s political influence in fueling division in our politics. King Charles III and Queen Camilla of Britain to visit the United States in hopes of mending relations. How members of Congress responded to the recent indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Final Thought: Watch the latest We’ll Do It LIVE! episode with Jeanine Pirro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News from Monday, April 27, 2026, stand up for your country. Well, what did I do this weekend? If you traveled to
0:27.0	bill o'reilly.com, you know. And that is the place where any breaking news is. So if you want to
0:34.5	waste your time, and we'll prove it to you tonight, if you want to waste your time, and we'll prove it to you tonight, if you want to waste your time, watching cable news and the others, it's up to you.
0:46.3	Okay? But you're not going to get the story. I was right in the middle of this thing on Saturday night, and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo.
1:00.1	So let me set the stage for you.
1:03.2	2,000 people in the ballroom at the Washington Hilton.
1:07.9	That's where Ronald Reagan almost lost his life.
1:11.1	I wrote a book, Killing Reagan,
1:12.5	some of you might have read it.
1:15.5	It's about my fifth correspondence dinner,
1:19.4	the first one I took Donald Trump.
1:22.3	And that's where all of this stuff
1:24.2	between Obama and Trump, where it happened.
1:28.3	Okay?
1:29.3	And so over the years, I know the drill.
1:33.3	And I was never uneasy in that ballroom.
1:37.3	And this year, I would not have gone, but my son said,
1:43.3	please take me, because he's a political science major obviously
1:47.6	wants to see what's going on so we went and sat at the news nation table and for
1:54.8	some reason I was in the back of the ball room I think I was coming back from the men's room. And all of a sudden,
2:07.2	I hear four shots loud. So I'm in the back of the ballroom. There's a door that was open,
2:16.5	and then there's an escalator that takes you up to the main floor of the floor of the ballroom, there's a door that was open, and then there's an escalator that
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