NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo and Bill O’Reilly threw down in a heated debate as Cuomo dismissed accusations of a “cover-up” in former President Joe Biden’s administration.
O’Reilly joined Cuomo on Tuesday to discuss Original Sin, the new book from CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’s Alex Thompson, which includes explosive reporting on Biden’s White House and efforts officials took to spin the then-president’s decline. The book also contains several instances that sparked concern among Biden’s team, including him not recognizing George Clooney at a fundraiser in 2024.
O’Reilly made his feelings about the book and Tapper clear from the get-go.
“I despise him and I have for decades,” O’Reilly said of Tapper, which Cuomo quickly made clear he disagreed with.
O’Reilly argued the book from Tapper is purely “mercenary” and motivated by money.
Cuomo then clashed with O’Reilly after accusing him of being too friendly to President Donald Trump, saying he could count on one hand the times O’Reilly’s gone after the sitting president on his show.
“Oh baloney, that’s a lie!” O’Reilly said.
The former Fox News host would go on to be more surprised by Cuomo’s take on Biden, literally dropping his jaw in shock at one point.
“He didn’t
“Nah, I’ve talked to him about his immigration policies. They were all the same ideas. You know, he believes that there’s an openness to this country and that we need new blood, and he was worried about the left flank,” Cuomo said.
The former CNN host argued Biden had “good days and lot of bad days,” but he denied there was an active “cover-up” or that someone other than Biden was running the government behind the scenes.
The volume level got turned up a notch after O’Reilly extended the discussion to Biden’s recent cancer diagnosis, demanding to know if he was tested while in office.
“We need to find out if a PSA test was given to President Biden in February of ’24. Why? If it was not, why not?” O’Reilly said, noting the last one on record was 2014.
“Why do I care?” Cuomo asked, adding that prostate cancer is not “debilitating.”
“You don’t think the American people have a right to know their president—” O’Reilly began.
“Now?!” Cuomo asked. “This is what
“THEN!” O’Reilly shouted, accusing Cuomo of switching topics with his dig against the homeland security secretary.
“Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country,” Noem said at a Senate hearing when asked to define habeas corpus. In reality, it is what protects citizens from unlawful detention and allows them to ask courts to intervene and review their cases.
Cuomo argued Noem is a far more pressing threat than any old news about Biden.
“I have never heard you like this. You don’t think the American public has a right to know if a sitting president is cancer? Are you blanking kidding me?” O’Reilly asked after Cuomo disputed the notion that Americans would have a “right” to know about Biden’s cancer tests.
“You’re saying they have a right. They absolutely do not have a right because we only get what they want to tell us. That’s all we get. We have no right to it,” Cuomo said, accusing Trump of lying about his weight as an example.
“You are so desperately wrong,” O’Reilly said.
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