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Bill O'Reilly
Foreign 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 Wednesday, April 2, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Election results, death penalty sought, longest filibuster and Val Kilmer passes away. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, in the former Matt Gaetz congressional seat in the panhandle of Florida, Jimmy Petronas, the Republican won by 15 points. And in the seat that Democrats spent more money on, outspending the Republican 10 to 1, Randy Fine won his congressional seat, used to be held by Mike Waltz, by 14 points. The Democrats spent $20 million on those races. But in Wisconsin, the Democrat won the supreme court race by 10 points. 600,000 people who voted for Trump just a couple months ago did not vote for the Trump endorsed candidate for judge. We'll see how much damage the now progressive Supreme Court can do redistricting the lines for the 2026 midterm elections. Wisconsinites did, however, pass their voter ID amendment by 25 points. That doesn't make any sense. Why would people vote overwhelmingly to support voter ID but then vote for the judge who's against voter id? The attorney general, Pam Bondi has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for the, quote, premeditated cold blooded assassination of the United Healthcare CEO. One of the federal charges against the murderer is murder through use of a firearm makes him eligible for the death penalty if convicted. The accused murderer has become a sort of an icon for many on the left of the vigilante justice that they seek against. Well, here's his lawyer. The lawyer said by doing this, they're defending the broken, immoral and murderous healthcare industry that continues to terrorize the American people as if it was therefore justified to kill this CEO. Senator Cory Booker spoke on the Senate floor for 25 hours and five minutes. That breaks the record. Strom Thurmond had the previous record of a continuous speech back in 1957, 24 hours and 18 minutes. Now, this was not done to block a specific piece of legislation. So it's not technically a filibuster, but the Senate couldn't do anything while, while he was talking. So it's just a general just arguing against Trump. He wasn't allowed to eat anything, could not sit down and could not move from this one little square behind his desk. It was totally pointless other than just to rally the the faithful actor Val Kilmer has died. Iceman and Top gun, Batman, Jim Morrison. On his website, Kilmer said he led a magical life. For more than half a century, I've been honing my art, no matter the medium, be it literature, movies, poetry, painting, music or tracking exotic and beautiful wildlife. He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014 and died of pneumonia yesterday. He was 65. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly with your message of the day next.
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Josh Hammer
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 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
Time now for the O'Reilly update. Message of the day on this Wednesday. The American media loves the gotcha game, where a reporter embarrasses a public official with a line of questioning. That pursuit has been in place since then. CBS White House correspondent Dan Rather tortured Richard Nixon in the late 1960s. Throughout my career, I've asked very tough questions to the powerful in both parties, but gotcha wasn't my goal. Simply put, I wanted to see how much the interview subject actually knew and how accurately they could articulate their position. Today, much of the press is on a mission to expose President Trump and his administrators as incompetent, even dangerous. In that pursuit. They are trying to weave a storyline that undocumented foreign nationals are being treated unfairly or even persecuted by the Trump administration. Well, in order to sell that narrative, you have to cite examples of cruel behavior. But in any massive deportation, tough things aren't going to occur. However, the press is openly seeking negative stuff to blunt actions about foreign criminals that is literally unbelievable. That's how much they hate Trump. It is not difficult to find sob stories anywhere, but trying to undermine a policy that is beneficial is wrong. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me billorilly.com, billoriley.com name in town. If you wish to opine now, let's go to the mail. Walter Magura, Shelton, Connecticut, Bill Putin attacked Ukraine. One reason he said he did that was because he felt Russia was threatened by Ukraine. Trump feels threatened by Greenland's proximity to the US and is threatening to take over that country. Is there a common thread here? Walter, it's a good question, but you make a huge mistake. Trump isn't threatened by Greenland. They would never, 50,000 people up there. What are they going to do? He wants that huge island as an American base and he wants to harvest the minerals below the permafrost. Now he going about in a pretty bellicose way by demanding that Greenland, I don't know, become a protectorate, whatever it may be. I discussed this with the president eye to eye, man to man. I said, look, you can make a deal with Denmark. The king over there will make a deal with you. But for some reason, Donald Trump wants control over Greenland. If he makes a deal, a mineral deal, with our military bases, and we already have military people up there, as you saw when J.D. vance visited last week. I don't know why you would need more than that. Anyway, it looks to you and to people all over the world that there is an equivalency with Putin invading Ukraine. Ukraine's no threat to Putin. Even if Ukraine were in NATO, what difference does it make? Poland's in NATO. Poland's on the border of Russia. You already got a NATO, big NATO country on your board. What's the Ukraine? What is that? It makes no sense. Putin is the evil. As I tell you in my upcoming book, confronting Evil in a moment, something you might not know, like a bull.
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Josh Hammer
In 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
Now, the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. 33 years ago today, one of America's most notorious gangsters was convicted of murder. The verdict ended a reign of mob violence that spanned more than a decade. Here is the story of John Gotti. The so called dapper don was born October 1940 in the Bronx, New York, the grandson of Italian immigrants. The family of 15 moved to Brooklyn where John joined a local gang known as the Rockaway Boys. Dropping out of high school at the age of 16. In 1974, Gotti was arrested for killing a man who murdered the nephew of Mafia boss Carlo Gambino. Gotti was sentenced to four years in prison in 1985, 11 years later, John Gotti seized control of the Gambino family by killing then boss Paul Castellano outside a Manhattan steakhouse. Sparks. The FBI then began using wiretaps on Gotti. His crew was soon charged with racketeering and conspiracy. However, John Gotti's gang avoided conviction by bribing, threatening and intimidating some jury members in their trials. After one acquittal, the foreman was convicted of accepting huge amounts of cash to vote not guilty on John Gotti. In December 1990, Gotti and his cohorts were arrested on a slew of additional charges. This time, John's longtime partner, Sammy the Bull Gravano, had made a deal with the FBI to reduce his own prison sentence. Gravano turned on the dapper Don. On April 2, 1992, jury found John Gotti guilty on 13 counts, including murder, and he was sentenced to life without parole. There he died from throat cancer at the age of 61. And here's something else you might not know. While other Mafia bosses shunned the spotlight, John Gotti embraced it. He was often seen carousing with politicians, mobsters, actors, including the Godfather himself, Marlon Brando. But everybody should have known what a heinous individual John Gotti really was. Back after this.
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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 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 thumped 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.
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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.