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Mike Slater
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Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly, here. You are listening to the weekend edition of the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.
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Mike Slater
Thanks, Bill. Here's what's happening this week 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 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. It's 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. 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 Slater from the podcast Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day next.
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Bill O'Reilly
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While we watched the situation and reported it with precision, not speculation, Mr. Biden then assumed office. I had little confidence in his ability and I stated that I was proved correct. Second worst president ever in my estimation. But along the way, I was not rooting for President Biden to fail. I wanted him to bring down prices, to get a cease fire in Ukraine to seal the southern border. My stance was as an American to root for the president to solve problems. Of course, Joe Biden let me down big time today in the corrupt media. Many want President Trump to fail at everything. Deporting migrant criminals, uncovering wasteful spending, getting Putin to stop killing people. Angry partisans are hammering Donald Trump on every single issue. They want things in America to get worse so he will suffer. I believe that's anti American. No question in my mind. Those haters are rooting against their own country. And that is the Truth. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me, bill@billorilly.com billorilly.com name in town if you wish to opine now, let's go to the mail. Eugene Doring, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Hey, Bill, please explain to me why universities are getting huge subsidies from the federal government. Because they do research, medical research, AI research, research, research, research. Federal government wants it. That is the apparatus, our university system. That's why they get the endowments. Rhonda Gabrielson, St. George, Utah I have been to St. George. I was helicoptered out of the Grand Canyon on a rafting trip right into St. George. Boy, was that fun. Some of my family members are convinced that ICE is kidnapping people who have not violated the law. They claim ICE is showing up without uniforms in unmarked vehicles and deporting immigrants without due process. Well, that happens. Then they can sue the federal government. Families could sue, but I haven't seen evidence of that in Mass. I'm sure it happens, but I don't think that's a policy. Matt Margulis, Spearfish, S.D. i've been to Spearfish in the Black Hills. Hey, Bill, can you explain the difference between DEI and affirmative action? Yeah, I can. Affirmative action was outlawed by the Supreme Court. You cannot base college admissions or hirings on skin color or gender. So the people who want affirmative action said, okay, we'll call it dei. We'll do the racial prevalence under that banner. So it's not affirmative action. We're not. We're doing dei. Same thing. All right. Preference, preference, preference. In a moment, something you might not know. Now the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. 161 years ago, the U.S. senate passed the 13th amendment to the Constitution. The vote was the first step towards the elimination of slavery in America. Here is the story. Before the Revolutionary War, involuntary servitude was permitted in all 13 colonies. Over time, the Union became bitterly divided between free and slave states. Civil war began in April 1861. President Abraham Lincoln soon issued the Emancipation Proclamation, but the order only applied to the Confederacy. The policy did not free blacks living in Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware. Sensing the war's end, Congress quickly moved to vanquish slavery before the Southern states were forced to rejoin the Union. On April 8, 1864, the Senate passed a resolution. The legislation was comprised of just 32 neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to its jurisdiction. The final vote was 38 in favor of six opposed. Those who rejected the resolution were Democrats from Kentucky, Indiana, California, and Delaware. The proposal then passed the House. 11956 the amendment was ratified by a majority of the states, took effect Dec. 6, 1865. For the first time in U.S. history, it was illegal to own, buy or sell human beings. And here's something else you might not know. It would take another two amendments to completely eradicate slavery. The 14th Amendment, passed four years later, gave full citizenship and equal protection to black Americans, including former slaves. The 15th Amendment prohibits states from denying voting rights based on skin color. However, persecution against African Americans lasted another century. It was the Civil Rights act of 1964 that legally ended racial segregation. And so the United States has evolved into a nation that does respect freedom for all. Back after this. Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly update. I am Bill O'Reilly. For more news and honest analysis, please go to billoreilly.com no spin, just facts. And always looking out for.