Bill O'Reilly grills Geraldo Rivera over his CNN bookings

The short teaser for their midterm debate on We'll Do It LIVE! has so far drawn more than twice the audience of the full episode.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 99,178 views a day, 8.3 times a normal first day on this channel (12,013).

Bill O'Reilly Grills Geraldo Rivera on His CNN Bookings | We'll Do It LIVE!

Geraldo Rivera has been turning up on CNN, and Bill O'Reilly wanted to know why. The exchange, cut into a short clip titled "Bill O'Reilly Grills Geraldo Rivera on His CNN Bookings | We'll Do It LIVE!", passed 85,000 views in its first 17 hours. A Short on this channel usually ends its whole first day near 12,000.

The two men go back a long way. Both spent years as Fox News regulars, and Rivera left the network in 2023 after a stint on The Five. The show's name borrows the line O'Reilly made famous long before either of them had a YouTube channel.

The clip was a trailer. Its one-line description promised the episode at 6 PM ET, and the full hour arrived as "We'll Do It LIVE! — The Great Midterm Elections Debate." Its description has Rivera making the case for voting for Democratic candidates while O'Reilly goes after what he calls the extreme left in the party. The chapters run from media bias and political alliances to taxes, urban crime and border security, ending with election predictions. So far the full debate trails its own teaser by a wide margin.

The comment section moved even faster than the views. The clip gathered nearly five times as many comments in 17 hours as a Short here usually collects in a full day. Much of the talk reaches back through Rivera's long career, and one moment keeps coming up: the 1986 live special in which he opened Al Capone's vault. One viewer remembers staying up as a kid to see what was inside.

The debate shared Thursday with plenty else from O'Reilly, including a warning titled "FRANCE IS BANKRUPT!" and an October 7 episode with NewsBusters' Tim Graham on politics in late-night comedy.

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The numbers

A short teaser running far past what this channel's Shorts usually do, with a comment section busier still.

the video's first day

usual first day here

12,013

this video

99,178

subscribers

1,120,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

601,741,977

views per day

492,162

typical day: 313,785

the video

views

85,299

likes

1,964

comments

246

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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1,220,000

The Daily Signal

1,210,000

DeVory Darkins

1,140,000

Bill O'Reilly

1,120,000

Heather Cox Richardson

1,100,000

Rogan Shorts

1,050,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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