O’Reilly: “Iran Wanted To Be Bribed, And I Believe We Did Bribe Them”

From the August 3 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor:  

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ERIC BOLLING: The worst part of this happened today around noon, Josh Earnest said, I’m quoting him, we know that Iran supports terror and Hezbollah and some of this money may be used to support them. Can you imagine a group, the administration knowing that some of the $400 million or $2 billion which eventually they will turn over, is going to support terror? 

BILL O’REILLY (HOST): Of course it is, everybody knows that. 

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O’REILLY: If you don't give them the money, you don't get the nuke deal or and you don’t get the four Americans back. Okay? So you're the president and you say, blank them. They're not getting anything. So then the nuke thing goes and Netanyahu will bomb them and a war will start. And then the four Americans hostages stay in Teheran. 

BOLLING: Yea I’m against all of that. I’m in favor of not turning over the money, I’m in favor of trying to use some foreign policy to get these four Americans back.

[CROSSTALK]

O’REILLY: We have been negotiating with this government for years and got nowhere. They wanted to be bribed and I believe we did bribe them. But you're right, it was their money. This is crazy. The Shah made a deal, the Shah, 1979, alright, made a deal, sent $400 million USA in exchange for fighters that never got to the Shah because they deposed them. So the money we kept, alright. And so is it was their money. 

Previously:

Right-Wing Media Distort WSJ Article To Claim Obama Administration Made Secret Payment To Iran

MSNBC's Steve Clemons Debunks Conspiracy Theory That Obama Made “Secret” Payment To Iran

Rush Limbaugh: Meg Whitman’s Announcement That She Will Help Clinton Is “Intra-Party Treason”