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Bill O'Reilly
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's Friday, April 11, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. The SAVE act, budget framework, helicopter crash and Hollywood in China. That's all coming up. Then Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, the House passed the SAVE act, the Safeguard American voter eligibility act. 220 votes in favor, 208 against. Four Democrats joined the unified Republicans. So now it's off to the Senate. It will require 60 votes to pass the Senate, so they'll need some Democrats. The bill requires states to obtain in person documentary proof of citizenship before registering a person to vote for a federal election. If you're already registered, you don't have to do anything until the next time you you register to vote. The measure would also require states to remove non citizens from existing voting roles. Chuck Schumer said the Republican SAVE act reads more like a how to guide for voter suppression. It goes against the very foundations of our democracy. Mark my words, this will not pass the Senate. Chip Roy in the House who wrote the bill said in order to preserve this republic, we must uphold what it means to be able to vote in a U.S. election. The House also passed the budget framework. 216 to 214. They needed freedom Caucus members in the House to go with this. This is a framework. So now it moves on to the committees to achieve the cost cutting that was laid out in the framework. I spoke with a Freedom Caucus member today who said the Senate framework they passed says they only need to cut a small amount of money. But senators say, oh, no, no, we're going to cut a lot more well above what the framework says, but we'll see if they actually do that if they codify the work of Doge. Speaker Johnson said we're committed to finding at least $1.5 trillion in savings for the American people while also preserving our essential programs. Trump said this sets the stage for one of the greatest and most important signings in the history of our country. A tourist helicopter in New York City crashed into the Hudson River. It was carrying a family from Spain. Six people as five family members, including the pilot, died, including three children ages 4, 5 and 11. Video of the crash shows the helicopter crashing into the water without a tail rotor or the main rotor blade. This was the helicopter's sixth flight of the day. Also at Reagan Airport, two airplanes clipped wings on the Runway. One of the planes had two congressmen in it. In response to the 125% tariff that Trump has put on China, China announced that they will restrict the number of American films in China. This is part of their retaliation. China imports 10 Hollywood movies a year. Trump was asked about this while he was in the Oval Office. Behind the Resolute desk. He was asked, what do you think about this move from China? His response? I've heard of worse things. I'm Mike Slider from the podcast Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day next.
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Bill O'Reilly
Time now for the O'Reilly update message of the day. On this Friday, it's becoming clear President Trump's primary objective in his tariff controvers is to isolate and weaken China. If you follow the economic chess game, you know Mr. Trump has paused onerous tariffs on all countries but China. That is definitely economic warfare. Now, China is absolutely a danger to the world. It is amassing a ferocious military, using American money to fund it. Each year, the Communist government In Beijing receives 300 billion more in direct trade than the USA does. And China has to sell its stuff in America or its economy will drastically recede. Therefore, President Trump wants a far better trade deal with the Chinese, but Beijing is resistant. So the president will eventually make better trade deals with most other nations, hoping to isolate and weaken the Chinese. That is the plan anyway. However, there is danger. The totalitarians in Beijing don't really care about their own people in that they emulate Putin. China and Russia can tolerate far more individual suffering than the USA and Europe. Big advantage. Donald Trump is Obviously throwing down here using economics to weaken potential military enemies. All Americans should hope this strategy works. But in the meantime, a lot of people are panicking in America. 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. All right, let's go to the mail. We got Leslie Cluse, Edina, Minnesota. Hey, Bill, my family and I have watched you for many years. We appreciate what you do. My question, if the EU has proposed zero tariffs, why isn't President Trump in agreement with this? Because he wants to admission fee for all countries to sell in the USA and that's a 10% tariff. It's like going to Disneyland. You want to sell in the most lucrative market on the planet, you got to buy a ticket. That's what he's doing. Angela on Gappin, Chino Hills, California. Apparently the anonymous source gave CNBC the news that the tariff would be paused was correct. Ah, Angela. No, they jumped the gun by 24 hours. And in that time, a lot of things happen. So I know you're cutting CNBC a lot. Bunch of slack there, but got a report real time. Charles Concierge member Dan Abrams said Donald Trump has taken more extreme positions in his second term. I'm not certain which positions are extreme. Deportation of criminal legalities extreme? No, I wouldn't say it's extreme. But sending them to an El Salvador in prison is. And the tariffs are. Those are extreme. Pedro Santos, Santo domingo, Dominican Republic. Mr. Riley, thank you for the no spin news. I've followed you since you were at Fox. We all know there is hatred for Trump, but I can't find a core reason why. Three reasons. Number one, he's an outsider. Political outsider. Okay. The political press and DC Hate that. They don't want outsiders. Pedro, you got to go into the game. Number two, he's bombastic. A lot of people don't like that personality trait being bombastic. And Mr. Trump is. I know that because I am somewhat not as much as he is. And number three, is not woke. He's against all the woke stuff. And so there you go. You're up against the left on that one. In a moment, something you might not know.
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Now, the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. 74 years ago today, President Harry Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur for his botched command of the conflict in Korea. The dismissal caused an outcry from the American people who revered the commander for his service in World War II. Here is the story. MacArthur became a National hero while fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. In June 1950, North Korean communist forces invaded the South. President Truman intervened, deploying 50,000 U.S. soldiers. The United nations picked MacArthur to spearhead the mission because U.N. troops were involved as well. One year later, hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers stormed the Korean Peninsula. Enraged, General MacArthur wanted to bomb Beijing, even talked about using the atom bomb. His rhetoric nearly started another world war. Truman acted immediately. On April 11, 1951, the President removed MacArthur, said the commander in chief, quote, I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. I did not fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was. That's not against the law for generals. If it was, three quarters of them would be in jail, unquote, Harry Truman. And here's something else you might not know. Despite MacArthur's sacking, the general remained a national hero for the rest of his life. He worked as a senior adviser to President Eisenhower, then JFK. Douglas MacArthur died at Walter Reed Medical center on April 5, 1964. He was 84 years old. As for President Truman, he left the White House with an approval rating of just 22%, as lower than Richard Nixon after the Watergate fiasco. However, the low poll numbers have slowly improved since Truman's death in 1972. He was not a bad president. And for an honest assessment of him, please check out my best selling book, confronting the Six Months on the New York Times Bestseller list. Back after this. 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
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