Mark interviews streaming host Bill O’Reilly.

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🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Bill predicts Democrats will not walk out of the State of the Union Address, believing it would hurt their party’s reputation heading into the midterms. He argues it’s all about money for the Democrats, and key absences tonight could cost them financially behind the scenes. Bill and Mark also debate whether Gavin Newsom’s recent comments were racist against Black Americans: Mark thinks Sunday’s incident will hurt Newsom, while Bill disagrees.

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0:00.0	Well, Bill O'Reilly for decades, the number one TV anchor, the number one bestselling author on
0:07.1	earth, nonfiction author on earth.
0:09.0	In fact, you should get his latest book, confronting evil, powerful book.
0:12.9	And you can see his TV show, get the column.
0:15.4	Everything's at Bill O'Reilly.com.
0:17.9	Bill O'Reilly.
0:18.5	Oh, and make sure you watch the YouTube channel. He's got great stuff there. Bill O'Reilly on YouTube. Bill O'Reilly.com. Oh, and make sure you watch the YouTube channel. He's got great stuff there. Bill O'Reilly on YouTube. Bill O'Reilly, how you doing? I'm in tough, Mark. How you been? I'm good. So, State of the Union tonight, what does the president need to do? Sky. I present a positive picture of the country.
0:40.5	So Mr. Trump often dwells on the negative.
0:43.7	Obviously, he's got a Supreme Court decision he doesn't like.
0:48.0	We kind of overlooked that other than to say we believe that this is strong for the country, these tariffs,
0:56.7	and now we're going to change a little bit, but we still have this amount of money coming in
1:02.4	and, you know, overwhelm the audience with facts, but keep it essentially positive.
1:10.1	That's what he has to do.
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:12.2	Hey, Democrats have a new tradition of embarrassing themselves
1:15.3	as state of the unions with booing and stuff like that.
1:18.7	Now there's a rumor they're going to walk out tonight.
1:20.8	What do you think the Democrats will do?
1:23.1	I don't think so because the leadership doesn't want that.
1:28.4	So the real far, far left Democrats aren't even showing up at all.
1:34.2	They're having their own state of the union on the mall, which no one all attend,
1:38.9	except the bust in people who are paid.
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