WEBVTT - Craig T. Nelson - January 24th, Hour 2 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:04.880 I let it skin A simple man that can only 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:08.000 mean one thing on this radio program. That means all 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:11.320 things self proclaimed simple man. That means all things Bill O'Reilly, 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:15.640 all things bell O'reillybilloreilly dot com, mister O'Reilly, there's no 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.160 shortage of news. I for the first time, I'm gulping 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.480 water every hour of every day just to keep up 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:27.480 with the news. However, when Donald Trump yesterday signed an 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:32.599 order to declassify the files on JFK, RFK and the 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.760 MLK assassinations, I kind of thought of you. I mean, 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:39.239 because you're working on a book now killing Hannity, and 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:41.560 you have your whole Killing series, which is the best 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:45.479 selling in history. But I've got to imagine that this 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.800 is right up your ally, and I'm sure you're pretty 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:48.479 excited about it. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.480 Yeah, we're looking forward to seeing what they have, particularly 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:58.480 in the James Lray MLK junior assassination. How he got 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:04.399 from Memphis to London. This guy's a drifter, youn't have 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.200 any access to money, and all of a sudden he's 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.840 on a worldwide man hunt, goes to Canada, that goes 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:12.000 to Angle and how to get there? 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.840 So I had no no, I think a lot of 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.080 questions are going to be answered. I think one of 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:20.360 the things the American people want to know is whether 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.200 or not there was any involvement with anybody within our 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.120 own government. I believe you know, that's been a theory. 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.880 It's been many have called it a conspiracy theory. I 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.800 have no knowledge of any of that, but I think 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:34.720 the American people do have a right to know, and 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.760 I think the time is coming. I'm glad the president 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:37.880 is going to be transparent. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.360 I agree one hundred percent there is involvement in the 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:46.760 jfk assassination. And if you read my book Killing Kennedy, 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.480 which was the second book after Killing Lincoln, you'll see 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.600 there was a man named George de Moor and Shield, 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:58.600 who real shadowy figure, who was a close friend of 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.960 Lee Harvey Oswald. Irnshield did work for the CIA. That's 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.040 not a theory, it's not a conspiracy. It's a fact 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.320 and I established that way back in the nineteen seventies 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:13.520 when I was a local reporter in Dallas, and to 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.520 this day that has been able to find. I do 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.800 not expect it to be part of what is released 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.680 by the government because the CIA will hold back stuff. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:24.320 They always do. 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:27.480 I don't know if they're going to be able to 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.560 Donald Trump. Bassetti's releasing all of it. Let's see if 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.200 that happens. But you're right about the process. The process 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:37.040 is that the CIA. Yeah, we'll try and redact certain information. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:42.400 Keep in mind one name, George de moorin Shield. If 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.440 that game is not in the papers that is released 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.440 that the president has ordered released, then you're not getting 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:50.120 the full story. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.680 So I've been to the Grassy Knoll, I have been 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:59.000 to the bank Depository. I've read all about the magic bullet. 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:03.720 I don't believe it's it's I don't believe it's scientifically possible. 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:07.600 What say you, mister O'Reilly in terms of what you 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:08.640 think really. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.359 Happened, Well, we've debunked all of that in killing Kennedy 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.760 by getting the actual documents that the FBI put together 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.799 on the week after the assassination. What happened was JFK 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.600 was killed taking a Parkland hospital in Dallas, pronounced dead. 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:30.520 The local jurisdiction had power, not the FEDS, and the 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:35.080 locals were not up to it, and so as president 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.520 the new president LBJ ordered the FBI to go in 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.600 and they immediately did took the investigation over and they 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:47.040 kept voluminous notes. We had them all the first publication 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.480 ever get them. So there's no doubt in my mind. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.920 Lee Harvey Oswell pull the trigger, killed JFK from the 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:57.680 book depository. He ordered the gun, was found prints on 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.520 the gun. He fled, He killed the police officer. You 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.320 wouldn't do that if you were some patsy okay. 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.560 And why was he Why was he killed? Is it 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.720 who he knew or who might have been involved in 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:10.560 a conspiracy. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:15.040 No, Jack Ruby had terminal cancer, He loved JFK. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:17.120 He went in and. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.520 He shot Lee Corbioswoll And he had access because all 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.680 the cops in Dallas worked with Jack Ruby. They were 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:27.680 all involved with his strip club and all that. So 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.920 when I lay it out, you'll see how it makes perfect. Say, 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.640 we also got the ballistics report, and we got the 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.680 autopsy report, all of that. 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.160 But I will be looking at the By the way, 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:43.640 if the autopsy photos of JFK are online and available, 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.560 I don't think they ever should have been made available 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:49.320 that they are. They're so gruesome and it's so sad, 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.680 and you see all his brain matter hanging out. I mean, 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:57.520 it's terrible to look at I had a conversation off 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.440 the record. Well it wasn't off the record, it was 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.919 a conversation, a private conversation, and he's already made a 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:08.160 public I'm not disclosing anything new, but RFK actually has 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.599 taken the time to really study the assassination of his father, 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:18.560 and that's RFK Jr. And an RFK was the one assassinated. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.880 What's so interesting is he went to the prison to 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:26.560 see the so called assassin, Sir hands. Sir Hand, he 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:30.960 is convinced that was not the assassin after meeting with 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.880 him and all the other evidence he's accumulated over the years. 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:34.839 What's your reaction to that? 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:41.120 It's bull There were seven eye witnesses to shooting. Sir 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:46.080 Anserin admitted to it. Prince on a gun. You know, look, 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.000 people believe what they want to believe. And I feel 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.440 terrible for the Kennedy family. You and I both know 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:54.560 members of that family, and I have not made it 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.800 a crusade to go against Bobby Kennedy Junior's theory. I 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.039 actually noted it in one of my books, but it's 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:06.800 both Sir Hanshar did it. He is still in prison. 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.320 He'll be in prison forever and he should be. 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.920 All right, let's move on to some other issues here, 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.599 Donald Trump. You know, forget about that first hundred days. 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.760 Let's look at the first hundred hours. I don't think 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.720 in our lifetime we've ever seen anybody move at the 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.760 speed of light that he's moving at on a variety 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.719 of issues successfully. And when I spend time with him, 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.800 and we both have known him thirty plus years, when 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.360 I spend time with him, it is very obvious. And 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:41.279 I asked him about this. I he is the most 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.840 relaxed I've ever seen him. Number one, He's the most 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.400 dialed in I've ever seen him. Number two, And he's 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:51.760 the most committed I've ever seen him. And the commitment 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.320 is to the agenda, the promises that he made to 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:58.080 the American people, and a desire to accomplish all of 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.960 it and more and exceed expectations. That's what I walked 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.560 away from after that interview with Donald Trump. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:10.280 I saw the interview. I use the word ferocity, so 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.840 you're absolutely right, not in the modern times, but in 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.400 any times. It's never been a president walks in the 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:21.200 White House and operates at warp speed the way mister 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.200 Trump is doing. Never and it's not even close. There's 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:28.920 no close second to it. Usually it's deliberations, it's meetings, 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:33.680 it's sorting out, it's deliberating, it's ruminating. There's none of that. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:36.360 Two mistakes he made this week. 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:40.400 One going to that prayer service because that woman's a nut. 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.120 The bishop, that episcopal and everybody knew it. Why why 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:45.640 that'd be like going over well, but you. 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.320 Could not have anticipated she would go down that road. 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.880 Though, come on, if I disagree one hundred percent, she 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.200 is an absolute left wing loon. That would be like 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.120 going to a service by al Sharpnon. 0:07:57.680 --> 0:07:58.080 Okay. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.920 I mean it's time after time, the time at this woman, 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.120 and she's not subtle about it anyway. 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.560 By the way, you took a lot of heat years 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.280 ago for having lunch with ol Sharfton. I took a 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.000 lot of heat for debating ow Sharton. 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:12.280 I tried to forge day tent with that guy, but 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.360 he's a grifter. I gave him twenty five thousand dollars 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.800 because he ran out of money on Thanksgiving to feed 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.760 his folks up in Harlem. I never made that public, 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.680 but we gave him twenty five so he could buy 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:27.560 turkeys and food and distributed under the banner of his 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.600 National Action Committee, and I did it out of charity, 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.280 and that guy turned around and knifed me in the back. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:38.480 He's an awful, disgusting human being. And that would be 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.120 like Trump walking inverse service with him. Because this bishop, 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:46.480 this episcopal bishop, is absolute disgrace what she did, the 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.200 disrespect she showed, and the absolute lives the way she 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.160 presented the merciful thing when both you and I know 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.319 that hundreds of thousands of Americans so I did because 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.240 of the open border. Did she mention that? Nope, she did. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.520 You know what, Bill, I think I'm the only one 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:04.559 on TV, and I don't know if you've done it. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.800 On Bill O'Reilly dot com. I would scroll the names 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.599 of every American murdered, and it's not just Lake and 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.440 Riley and Rachel Morin and Joscelyn and Hungary, but there 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:18.760 are hundreds of them, and the Americans raped, including children 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.840 and victims of other violent crimes. And we have terrorists, 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.040 cartel members, and gang members in our country. And for 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.120 her to make that lecture in front of the President 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.800 was beyond despicable and repulsive. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:34.040 Where's the mercy there? But I'm glad it happened so 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:38.520 Americans can see it, and I was mistake number one minor, 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.720 And then I would have done the judge. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.880 Reviewing the violence against the cops at JAY six. That's 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.360 the way I would have handled that, because there's some 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.680 bad people there that got part and so you and 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.160 know what, I know what. Everybody knows it now. I 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.520 understand why the President did it, and I don't think 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:01.000 it's going to haunt them politically. I think people will 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:06.040 forget about it mostly. But you know, both you and 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:08.640 I have something in common. Hey, I hate to admit it, 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.080 but we want public servants to do the right thing. 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:14.560 Would that be an accurate statement? 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.760 Very accurate? Of course. I want them to serve the 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:20.320 people of this country, the people that make the country great. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.160 Sometimes you don't you and I don't see the right thing. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.280 You know, we disagree on it, but we both want 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:30.120 to do the right thing, and we want our public 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.080 servants to do it as well. I don't think letting 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.520 some really bad people out of jail at cop Tac 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.199 cops the right thing. Simple. I'm a simple man. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.720 The argument and the answer that the President gave because 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.240 I did ask him that question was actually pretty interesting 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.160 and profound. And if you look at it through the 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.679 prism of how much time they spent in jail, how 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.360 much time they were sentenced to jail compared to other people. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.680 For example, go back to the summer of twenty twenty 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.320 five hundred and seventy four Riot's Bill, and they were 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.880 all riots. They were labeled as riots. You had dozens 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.920 of dead Americans, thousands of cops pelted with bricks, rocks, bottles, 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.960 molotov cocktails, and you had billions of property damage. We 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.840 had all of the evidence in the world, videotaped evidence 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:19.120 of the people that were responsible. How many bill how 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.040 many people do you think Bill were held accountable? And 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.960 what about the vice president at the time or running 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.640 for vice president, Kamala Harris saying the rioters won't stop, 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.160 the rioters shouldn't stop, and we're not going to stop. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:36.000 And nobody ever investigated any of that bill. You do 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.240 need equal justice and equal application of our laws. They 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.120 did pay a price, a very dear price for their 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:44.800 actions that day. Those people that were violent, there were 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.840 a whole bunch of other people that did absolutely nothing. 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.480 Maybe the worst thing they did was walk into the 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.040 Capitol and took videos, and those people did not deserve 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:55.760 to be treated the way they were treated. And by 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:57.920 the way, a lot of the information on J six 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.880 was not told the American people. We know for a 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.559 fact that five people testified and our witnesses that Donald 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.680 Trump called up and was willing to call up ten 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:11.120 thousand Guard troops. We know in writing Muriel Bowser, who 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.800 had the authority, denied in writing those troops. We know 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.240 that the Capitol Police Chief Son was begging for troops. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.960 We know that Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the Sergeant of Arms, 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.760 they didn't do a darn thing. So if Donald Trump 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.319 really wanted an insurrection, I doubt he would have approved 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:28.960 ten thousand National Guard troops. 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.880 No sane person or fair on a person believes that 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.319 President Trump wanted that to happen. But again, you come 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.880 back to the right thing. And I think, you know, 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.560 when I talked and I talked to a lot of 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.040 police officers about this, and I see, who did you 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.240 think about it that because they're on the front line, 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:48.719 and about eighty percent of them said no. I think 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.560 we would have liked to have more definition on those 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.400 people before they get to part And and I think that 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.120 would have been the right thing to do. But again, look, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:13:01.120 it's emotional. Donald Trump made a promise, and what I'd 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.520 like to see him follow up on is there was 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:09.520 prosecutorial misconduct directed at some people who got into this 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:14.480 fracas and got punished far beyond their crime. I'd like 0:13:14.520 --> 0:13:18.079 to see some of that uncovered, because we, as you said, 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:20.120 we don't know that. I had a guy on last 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.840 night on the No Spin News who said, look, I 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:27.160 was just a photographer. I was just taking pictures and 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.599 I was in the group. I never stepped foot in 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.480 the Capitol. I was on a property and they made me, 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.440 you know, under threat of felony, sign a flea for 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.800 a misdemeanor and now I have this on my jacket 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.400 and it was ridiculous. That's the kind of stuff that 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.120 we should go back and look at because the prosecutors 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:47.760 who did that should be hell accountable. 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:52.079 I think you agree with him, right, I totally agree 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.000 with that, and I think getting to the bottom of 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.640 it was smart. I'd like the fact that they're going 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:02.160 to now both Comer and Jim Jor are committed to 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.040 going into the Biden family on finding out whether Joe 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.520 Biden got monies from these foreign business deals. We know 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.200 he lied when he said he never talked to his 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.600 son and his brother or anybody for that matter. We 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.240 know that money, according to Hunter's laptop, went to Joe. 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:21.400 And they've given up their Fifth Amendment rights. They can't 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.520 plead the Fifth and they'll have to testify. And similarly, 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.080 all the JA six committee members and doctor Fauci, they 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:29.960 all need to come up and testify as well, and 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.120 they don't have the Fifth Amendment right that they had 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.240 having gotten and accepted a pardon. Mister Riley, it's great 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.200 to have you. Hope you are having a great new year. 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.560 We wish you the very best, and thank you for 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:43.040 being with us. 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:43.600 Thanks. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.680 You know, I'm not the biggest fan of everybody in Hollywood. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.440 There are a lot of people that I know, and 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:51.600 a lot of people I respect, and a lot of 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.000 people that I like. And there are even people that 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:59.160 have different political views than me. They're very talented, gifted people, 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.680 and I just like talented people. I don't really care 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:07.480 what your politics are, but anyway, so one such person 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.480 is going to join us in a minute, Craig T. Nelson, 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:11.920 and he's got a new movie. We want to tell 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.920 you about whenever I see a good movie, Whenever I 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:16.760 know there's a good movie out there, I want to 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.880 support it. Because there's so few good movies that we 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.520 can all see, that your family can see, that you 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.280 want to see, that you want to spend your limited 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:29.400 time watching. I mean, it just doesn't exist. But anyway, 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.520 I happen to be a fan of his, and I 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.400 think he's done a great job. I mean, when you 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.880 look at his resume, it's pretty amazing. He's worked with 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:43.000 Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, He's worked with Matthew McConaughey, 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:49.840 Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, Let's see, Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Affleck, 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:54.200 Kevin Costner. I mean, and Ryan Reynolds is hardly anybody 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.120 hasn't worked with Sarah Jessica Parker and I can go 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:01.640 on and on, and he just has had an amazing career. 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:06.280 And anyway, he has a he's an actor, writer, director, 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.400 and he's got a new movie out. He plays Buck 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:13.600 in the upcoming movie called Greening Gold. And anyway, we 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.080 welcome to the program. Craig T. Nelson, Sir, how are 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.560 you what a career you've had and it's unbelievable. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:23.400 Actually, well it's pretty amazing. Yeah, it is. Seana been variclessed. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.240 And I just want to tell you, by the way, 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.120 great job on the interview in the Oval office. And 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.480 also I wanted to tell you a remember electure night 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.400 and you came on with that kind of out of 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:40.200 the blue prediction and I was watching and I was stunned. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.720 I mean because at the time it didn't reveal any 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.880 of the information that you were sharing, and yet here 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.240 you go. It hit right, the nail was right on 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:50.600 the head. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.520 You know, you want me to tell you the secret, 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.240 I'm going to tell I can tell you the secret. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.920 The secret was is every day there's early voting, and 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.440 every day I got those numbers, and every night after 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.959 the TV show, I would study those numbers. And I 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.239 actually went on with Dana Perino and Bill Hammer at 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.320 nine am on election day morning and I said, starting 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.840 out today, Kamala has a math problem because she was 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.119 down about seven hundred thousand votes from where Joe Biden 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:22.240 was in twenty twenty in Pennsylvania, she was down forty 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:27.960 five percent in Wisconsin. She was down so low in 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.320 Georgia and North Carolina that there was no way, even 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.840 with record turnout that I thought she could come back. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.080 So I felt really good about it, but I did 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:40.119 not want to communicate that to this audience, because you know, 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.800 at the end of the day turnout on election day 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.199 that's still going to be you know, sixty percent of 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.720 the votes, so you can't take anything for granted. But 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.080 I felt pretty confident going into that day, and that 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:52.119 by that time at night, I'd been checking in all 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:55.320 day with Democratic strongholds and they were not seeing the 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.199 record turnout that they would have needed to win. I 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.720 appreciate you noticing that. It's amazing actually how many people 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.200 told me they saw it. But I want to talk 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.320 about you. You've had such an amazing career, and I 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.920 want to talk about this new movie because I love 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:14.320 the Premisol whole thing. You star as Buck, a fourth 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:18.200 generation dairy farmer, and I love dairy farmer. I love farmers, 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:22.240 I love truckers, I love ranchers. And we don't think 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.399 a lot about it, but they feed us and they 0:18:24.520 --> 0:18:27.840 make sure that our refrigerators are full every day, and 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.280 we don't. We don't give them enough credit. But this 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:35.440 is an independent film, Green and Gold, and anyway, it's 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:40.199 you're facing foreclosure, which is not an uncommon situation for 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:46.280 people that own farms. You wager everything you have on 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.600 the Green Bay Packers and a Hail Mary to save 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.359 this little chunk of dirt, this farm, and anyway, it's 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:57.040 an amazing story, but it's really rooted in real life 0:18:57.040 --> 0:19:00.200 for far too many small farmers in this country. 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:04.360 It's you know, my family farm goes back to eighteen sixty. 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.960 They're still in South Dakota, the Nelson farm, and they 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:11.520 went from sixty acres to two hundred, you know, twenty 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.639 two hundred acres, but twenty two hundred, not all of it, 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.159 but it is there, some of us rented. But the 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.960 beauty of that is to me, Sean, the beauty of 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.239 who the these people are is in there is in 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.720 their heart, their tenacity and their hope, if you will, 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:32.360 resiliency and their optimism. I mean, they are truly. I 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:34.760 was just talking to the man that runs a farm 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:38.879 last night, Bob Nelson, and we were talking, and the 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:42.200 gift that I get when I'm speaking to him or 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.280 other family members that are farming, is this kind of 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:51.680 heartfelt truthfulness. There's a there's a beauty about them. There's 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.359 no facade, there's none of this dancing around an issue. 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:57.840 There right in the middle of it, there's seven days 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:00.800 a week. They work hard there. The mark are very 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.800 very small, as you know, but there are people of 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:10.160 the Lion, and they're Americans, and it's just a wonderful 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:15.600 glimpse into I think what the referendum was in our 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:21.159 political year this year. America does have a resiliency and 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:26.720 a hope and an expectation. That is why this country 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:27.359 is so great. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:32.080 One of the things that really really frustrated me, disappointed 0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:36.240 me is after Hurricane Helene, and it was a very 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:39.280 underreported story. We spent a lot of time talking about 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:41.080 it on this show, a lot of time talking about 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:45.360 it on TV, especially in areas in South Carolina Tennessee, 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:50.040 but more specifically in the northwestern part of North Carolina. 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:53.639 They got devastated by Hurricane Helene and parts of my 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.399 home state of Florida as well, and then they that 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:58.760 got followed up by Hurricane Milton and a lot of 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.960 property damage. My understanding is, I think you live out 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:07.600 in California, you've been watching these wildfires. It is inexplicable 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:10.440 to me that the science of forestry is not practiced 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:15.119 out there. It's inexplicable and unexcusable that hydrants don't have 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:19.760 water in them, that reservoirs are empty. The finger pointing 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:23.000 has been on a magnitude that I can't even believe. 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:26.840 And it seems that anybody that says, Okay, we're going 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.640 to help the people of California, but they've they've got 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:33.199 to prevent this from happening again is somehow an evil person. 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:37.600 It's not. We're trying to prevent future tragedies that are predictable. 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:42.480 Santa Ana winds are predictable, and wildfires in California are predictable, 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:43.440 aren't they. 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:45.480 Well yeah, I mean we've did through quite a few. 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:51.520 They're probably more recent and more frequent than ever because 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:55.320 of the climate. But also the as you mentioned, I mean, 0:21:55.840 --> 0:22:00.639 the management, the budget cuts and forest management and what 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:03.399 needs to be done to protect you. And also you 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:06.479 know you've got the devastation, Sean, when you see it 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:12.120 is absolutely incomprehensible. I mean, it's just on a scale 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:14.600 you wouldn't believe I think it. But is it The 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:17.800 reclamation that rebuild is up to two hundred and fifty 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:19.880 billion somehow, I mean. 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:23.399 It's an insane amount of money. And for the people 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:25.719