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Mike Slater
Foreign.
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Bill O'Reilly
Here you are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the News with Mike Slater.
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Mike Slater
Thank you, Bill. It is Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Liberation Day. Le Pen banned the same standard and the torpedo bat. That's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, Trump will announce his reciprocal tariffs on Wednesday, what he is calling Liberation Day. This will be the first Rose Garden event of his second term. Our press secretary said that the president will be announcing a tariff plan that will roll back the unfair trade practices that have been ripping off our country for decades. He's doing this in the best interest of the American worker, surely. The president will highlight the 50% tariff from the European Union on American dairy, the 300% tariff that Canada has on American butter and cheese, the 700% tariff from Japan on our rice, and 100% tariff from India on our agricultural products. Trump's point is reciprocal, right? You got a big tariff on us. Now we're going to put one on you. You want to lower your tariff, we'll lower ours. Hopefully, they'll all go to zero. A Paris court found that the leader of the political party called National Rally Marine Le Pen will be ineligible to run for public office for five years. That includes the upcoming presidential race. She was found guilty of embezzlement of European Union funds. The there's also a four year prison sentence with this as well, but it will probably just be probation with an electronic monitor. Also a hundred thousand euro fine. She's appealing, but the ban from public office goes into effect immediately. Le Pen was the front runner in the upcoming 2027 presidential election in France. And depending on the potential opponents, she's recording between 34 and 37% support. Her closest rival, only 21% support. Now she's unable to even run for office. Pete Hegseth has directed the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force to develop plans to distinguish combat arms occupations from non combat arms occupations in order to identify which positions require, quote, heightened entry level and sustained physical fitness. He said these roles, which are critical to our military's mission success, demand exceptional physical capabilities. And the standards for them must reflect that rigor. He said all combat roles are open to men and women, but they must meet the same high standard. The New York Yankees on Saturday against The brewers hit nine home runs, 16 hits. They started the game with three straight home runs and then yesterday they won 12 to three. One reason might be their newly designed bat the bat is shaped where more wood is placed lower in the barrel. It looks like a bowling pin. Now, the league only stipulates that bats can be no longer than 42 inches or thicker than than 2.61 inches. The Yankees recently hired a former MIT physicist genius. He invented this new torpedo bat. We'll see if this is still allowed moving forward. I'm Mike Slater from Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly with your message of the day. Next.
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Bill O'Reilly
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Josh Hammer
May I retort?
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Bill O'Reilly
Sure.
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Mike Slater
Hold on.
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Josh Hammer
I got him.
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Bill O'Reilly
Hold on. So there was no choir practice on the stage, people agreeing with everything. And the mixed audience was respectful, perhaps mesmerized because this is so rare. Intense issues deliver with good humor and insight, no partisan blather I don't know where the three Americans concept will lead. I do know it's an important display. Honest, robust debate laced with panache is very much needed in America, and the three Americans delivered it. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me billorilly.com billorilly.com name in town if you wish to opine now, let's go to the mail. Gary? Bill, I do not agree with you about your comments on the midterm elections. There's no way the Democrats will succeed no matter what the state of the USA is in. Gary, you know, people believe what they want to believe. Do the head count in the House, do the head count in the Senate. Razor thin economy goes down. Hello, Democrats. You don't have to believe it if you don't want, but the numbers are the numbers, Ronald. As for me, Hillary Clinton's irrelevant. Anyone who thinks what she has to say is meaningful, important, doesn't have a grasp on the real world. Okay. I wrote my column, he said, she said. Hillary Clinton did a guest editorial in New York Times and I analyzed it. She might be irrelevant, but she got a big platform. Kathy Desenroth, Elkhart, Indiana. This is concerning your message of the day on Vladimir Putin. Why should we send troops into Poland, expose ourselves to a war? Europe should be handling the problem. Kathy, you could be an isolationist if you want, but Europe can't stand up to Putin. Putin will do exactly what he wants to do. If you're okay with that, world will be in turmoil. Diane Williams, Wilmington, North Carolina. Nice town. I have a liberal friend who's an accountant. He told me his wealthy clients did better than his poor clients in regards to the last Trump tax cuts. Of course they did. They have more money, so the cuts are across the board. If you have more money and taxes are cut across the board, you're going to do better than somebody who doesn't have any money. Come on. It's all about fairness and stimulating the economy. In a moment, something you might not.
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Josh Hammer
Know, like a bull in a china shop, Donald Trump came in to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. but with his bold reform and rejuvenation agend agenda comes so many legal questions nationwide. Injunctions, Are they constitutional? What's the deal with birthright citizenship? What about the administrative state? Can he actually clean the deep state and end the politicization of the federal bureaucracy? I'm Josh Hammer, host of America on Trial with Josh Hammer. Subscribe to America on Trial with Josh Hammer for your daily updates on all of these questions and more.
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Bill O'Reilly
Now, the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. 41 years ago today, one of America's most popular singers was gunned down by his own father. The slang ended a 25 year career that pioneered Motown music. Here is the story of Marvin Gaye. Born April 2, 1939, in Washington, D.C. young Marvin began performing at a local church. He soon recorded songs with Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, the Supremes. In 1971, Gaye was getting red hot in the music industry with the big hit what's Going On? Talk to me so you can see. Marvin Gay's anti war anthem hit number one. For the next decade, the singer released I Want you got to give it up. Let's get it on. All big hits. Despite his successful career, Marvin Gaye struggled with substance abuse and depression. After a tour, he moved in with his parents in Los Angeles. There, he and his father fell into a pattern of violence. On April 1, 1984, Gay tried to stop his father from beating up his mother. After that quarrel, Marvin Gaye Sr. 70 years old, retrieved a.38 caliber revolver, walked toward his son, fired the weapon twice. The singer died instantly, just one day shy of his 45th birthday. And here's something else you might not know. Marvin Gaye Sr. Pleaded no contest to the murder. He admitted it. He said he fired the shot, but he thought the gun was loaded with blanks. Not plausible. However, the judge took pity on Marvin Gaye Sr. He gave him six years in prison and then suspended that sentence. So in the end, Marvin Gaye Sr. Who murdered his son, served no prison time at all. Back after this, like a bull in.
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Josh Hammer
A china shop, Donald Trump came in to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. but with his bold reform and rejuvenation agenda comes so many legal questions nationwide. Injunctions, are they constitutional? What's the deal with birthright citizenship? What about the administrative state? Can he actually clean the deep state and end the politicization of the federal bureaucracy? I'm Josh Hammer, host of America on Trial with Josh Hammer. Subscribe to America on Trial with Josh Hammer for your daily updates on all of these questions and more.
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Bill O'Reilly
Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly update. I am Bill O'Reilly. No spin, just facts. And always looking out for you.
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Mike Slater
Hey, I'm Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. We have a very simple mission. We take the news of the day and we filter it through a biblical worldview. So here's the big story of the day. What does the Bible say about it and how, how can we apply it? It's amazing. There's nothing new under the sun. The Bible has something to say about everything that's going on today. So basically, we thump the Bible over on Politics by Faith. I think we ought to keep MAGA going. And I think the way to take it beyond just a political victory into a true rebuilding and awakening and revival in America is to make sure that this is all grounded in biblical principles. And that's what we do on the podcast Politics by Faith. And you can subscribe to Politics by Faith wherever you're listening to the show right now.