Mark interviews streaming host Bill O’Reilly.

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Bill provides behind-the-scenes insights into Trump’s reasoning in attacking Iran. O’Reilly suggests the President wants to be seen as a peacemaker rather than someone who favors violent conflict. Mark and Bill also consider who might MC for the upcoming White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Bill gives his take on the future of CNN after its acquisition by Paramount.

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0:00.0	Simone. 710 W.O.R. Well, Bill O'Reilly, of course, the number one TV anchor for decades,
0:07.3	the number one bestselling nonfiction author on Earth. You can get his latest book,
0:12.2	Confronting Evil. It's a big bestseller. You can watch his TV show, get the columns,
0:17.1	everything at Bill O'Reilly.com. Hey, also watch his YouTube channel.
0:21.4	A lot of great stuff there.
0:22.8	Bill O'Reilly on YouTube and make sure you subscribe there.
0:26.1	Bill O'Reilly, how you doing?
0:28.4	Hanging tough here, busy week, as you know.
0:31.8	Yeah.
0:33.5	Hey, of course, the Democrats going nuts over Iran.
0:36.4	He didn't get congressional approval. He didn't do this. He didn't do that. But when Obama did the Libya, they had just the opposite position. So should we just expect this from Democrats?
0:47.2	Yeah. I mean, there's a pull out today that 5941 against the Iran action.
0:54.6	When you add in almost 90% of Democrats will oppose anything that Donald Trump does,
1:00.9	and then you have some isolationists on the far right, poll makes sense.
1:07.2	But the Trump administration doesn't care about polling numbers at this point
1:11.8	they sense weakness in iran they sense that the uh...
1:15.8	persian people were ready to uh... change their government and that's what
1:20.5	uh... ignited the action it's an optional action
1:24.7	they didn't have to do it now
1:26.4	the trump people uh... but they felt that they had a good chance
1:31.0	to overthrow the Mullers because of the Persian dissatisfaction with that government.
1:37.1	Yeah.
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