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Mike Slater
My name is Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. I was just talking to a friend of mine who said he hasn't been able to follow the news lately. It's been too much. It's too crazy. It's driving him crazy. And he's just checked out. If you feel that way sometimes, too, I think you'll really like our podcast Politics by Faith. We take the main story of the day and we run it through the Bible. What does the Bible say about this? It's amazing, but it's all there. And then God tells us what to do. We don't even have to figure it out. The answers are right there. He gives us the answers, Politics by Faith. Please join us over there. You can listen to it wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. Politics by Faith.
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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 is Tuesday, April 29, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Spanish Blackout, English only, F18 overboard and the take it Down Act. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message today. But first, major blackouts across Spain, millions in the dark. It's just a couple days after Spain bragged that for an entire day the entire electric grid was connected to only renewable energy, wind, solar and hydro. That was on April 16th. They were bragging about that. And now all the power's out. All of Valencia, Barcelona, Spain's entire rail network shut down. Internet service stopped. Chaos in the streets. Madrid's mayor told people to stay where you are as they try to figure out what to do with this disaster. Local officials calling on the prime minister of Spain to activate an emergency plan so soldiers can be deployed. There's videos of people walking through the subway tunnels in the dark to get free. Most phones have no signals, so it's hard to get information to anyone so anyone can know what's going on. Truckers are celebrating across the country as Trump signed an executive order that bans truckers from driving if they can't understand English signs and instructions. The order tells the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, to ensure drivers violating English proficiency rules are placed out of service, enhancing roadway safety. And you're thinking, well, how can this not already be a law? It is a law. But in 2016, Barack Obama told highway inspectors to stop pulling licenses from drivers who can't speak and understand English. And then Biden allowed migrants to get commercial driver's licenses. A prominent trucking insurance executive estimates that 40% of the truck drivers in the US are first generation immigrants and 10% of the total truck driver population doesn't speak English proficiently. An F18 Super Hornet that was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman was lost at sea during a towing incident in the hangar bay on Monday. The aircraft carrier was conducting an evasive maneuver during an incident from Houthi Fire. The Super Hornet was being loaded onto the aircraft elevator on the Truman when the strike fighter slid over the edge. Only one sailor was injured. A bipartisan bill written by Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar, also championed by the First Lady Melania, the Take It down act criminalizes the publication of ncii. This is non consensual NC intimate imagery, including AI generated imagery and requires social media and other platforms, other websites to remove flagged content within 48 hours of notice from a victim. Some people are against this bill. They're concerned about a slippery slope and they're saying that there are no penalties for false reports or bad actors, just flagging everything they see on the Internet. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith, the great Bill O'Reilly. He has your message of the day next.
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Bill O'Reilly
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Bill O'Reilly
Switch upfront payment of $45 for 3 month plan equivalent to $15 per month required intro rate first 3 months only. Then full price plan options available. Taxes and fees, extra terms@mint mobile.com now, the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. The first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term are over. While the corporate press gleefully is reporting the president's falling poll numbers, here's my no spin assessment of where we stand right now. First, the facts about the US Mexican border that was completely chaotic under President Biden, as everybody knows. In fact, border crossings in April 2024. Last year, 400,000, April, this year, 7,000, a decrease of 95% under President Trump. How about deportations of migrants here illegally? In Biden's first 100 days, 9,000 were deported. In Trump's first 100 days, 55,000. How about diversity, equity and inclusion? Well, on his first day in office, Donald Trump issued an executive order banning DEI from government agencies. The president said, quote, these illegal DEI policies threaten the safety of American men, women and children by diminishing the importance of individual merit. The federal government is charged with enforcing our civil rights laws. The purpose of this order is to ensure that it does so by ending illegal preferences and discrimination. Now, that is a widely debated topic, but here is the key to it. The Supreme Court ruled that affirmative action that is hiring and accepting Americans into universities on the basis of skin color and gender is illegal is unconstitutional. Well, the left immediately then pivoted and said, okay, we won't call it affirmative action. We'll call it dei. So you can see the deceit here. Well, the stock market is a problem for Donald Trump. It's down about 8% since he took office. And a lot of people are very angry about that. I understand. But government waste has been exposed and we have a $37 trillion debt. So we've got to start some kind of accountability in our tariff, our trades and how we spend our money. However, Donald Trump's got to explain it. And the economy has to turn around or he will be in big trouble back after this.
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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.