Putin’s Madness, Former Congressman Gregg Harper Talks Ethics Committee Investigations, Boston vs. Justice Department, & Scott Baio on the Left’s Impact on Hollywood

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

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Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, August 20, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country. Talking Points Memo: Bill examines Putin’s latest attacks on civilians and explains what the only thing capable of stopping him is. The Democratic Party is upping its attacks on Donald Trump, Bill looks at the latest actions from the radical left. Former Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Mississippi) joins the No Spin News to discuss the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s (D-TX) remarks on the president and whether they are investigating the matter. A former Colbert staffer calls out a report claiming that Stephen Colbert hosted 176 left-leaning guests and only one Republican. How the far left is ruining the city of Boston. Actor and host of the Scott Baio’s Take on Life podcast, Scott Baio, enters the No Spin Zone to discuss the left’s takeover of the entertainment industry and how his career has been affected by being a conservative. Final Thought: Click here to read an exclusive excerpt from Bill's upcoming book, Confronting Evil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Bill O'Reilly here.
0:13.4	Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, August 20th, 2025.
0:18.0	Stand up for your country.
0:19.6	So I'm going hand-to to hand with Hurricane Aaron out here on
0:23.1	Eastern Long Island. Surf is way up. You remember a Beach Boys song, Catch a wave and you're
0:31.8	living on top of the world, sitting on top of the world. Yeah, okay, it's true, but you better know what you're doing
0:41.1	out there in that ocean, which is only about 120 yards away from me right now, out of my
0:47.0	studio here. Better know what you're doing, are you going to be in Portugal? That is big surf,
0:52.6	and it's very interesting to watch nature and all that. I like all that.
0:56.8	Anyway, that's what we are dealing with on this Wednesday. And the talking points memo is about
1:04.7	Putin's madness. Now, I made a lot of headlines all over the world by saying flat out,
1:10.7	I believe that Vladimir Putin
1:12.2	is mentally ill. And that's the reason that Trump got fooled and campaigned. I'll solve the
1:18.3	Ukraine war on day one. You remember all that. Because in the first four years of Trump's presidency,
1:26.0	Putin was at least somewhat rational. It's gone. And my book, Confronting
1:31.8	Evil comes out September 9th. You'll see almost every single one of these heinous mass
1:37.7	murderers in the book. They didn't start out absolutely insane, but that's how they ended up. And I believe that Vladimir Putin is
1:47.9	in that category. So after going to Alaska, where he was greeted as an equal by President
1:55.3	Trump, Putin has not relented one bit. Okay? So it's Wednesday on Monday.
2:03.2	He killed a bunch of people in Kharkiv, including a family with toddler, 16-year-old boy,
2:12.4	23 injured there, another southeastern attack, another 23 wounded.
2:22.8	The Ukrainian Air Force says 25 locations were hit by Russian drones and military. Ukrainian's Air Force also says that 270 drones,
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