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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, August 12, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Section 740 facing 20 years, trade deadline extended and a sound of history is no longer. That's all coming up, and Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, here's the background to this. The U.S. constitution gives Congress the power over Washington, D.C. it's Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17. This section gives the Congress the power to find a piece of land and govern over it. Fast forward to 1973. Congress allowed D.C. to elect its own mayor and council, but Congress only gave up some of their powers. And even in that, section 740 is the emergency Powers act, where the president can bypass all local control and take this constitutional power back entirely. Or as the president put it, I'm announcing an action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor, and worse. As an example of being tough on crime. A California man faces 20 years in prison for allegedly striking a border agent with a piece of cinder block. Maybe you've seen videos of these anti ICE agents intentionally chipping away at a cinder block to get pieces and throwing at ice. Jacob Daniel Tarazas, a 30 year old resident of Paramount, California, threw a rock and hit an ICE agent in the shin. The U.S. attorney of that region said, we will not stand by while our brave federal agents and officers get hurt. If you injure an officer enforcing immigration law, you may serve 20 years in a federal prison cell. It's just not worth it. More than two dozen suspects have been charged with assaulting federal agents in recent weeks just in California and Oregon alone. Just hours before the deadline was to go into effect, President Trump signed an executive order extending the United States and China trade truce for another 90 days. The deadline now will expire on November 9th. Before this truce, the trade tariff on Chinese imports entering into America was 145% after more than 30 years, this sound is no longer. Ah, what a beautiful sound. After 30 years, AOL is hanging up on Dial Up Internet. How is that still a thing? 163, 000 households were using dial up Internet in 2023. America Online, the Internet provider of the early 90s, changed his name to AOL in 2006. And now dial up is officially a dinosaur. I'm Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. You can download it anywhere you listen to podcasts. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day next.
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Piers Morgan
I'm Piers Morgan, the host of the Piers Morgan Uncensored podcast. We do big interviews and we do big debates about whatever's getting people talking about. We make news, we make noise, and we make a little bit of trouble too. Come and see what all the fuss is about. You can listen to Piers Morgan uncensored on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Bill O'Reilly
Time now for the O'Reilly update. Message of the day on this Tuesday. This summer, socialist Bernie Sanders is spending time away from from his Lake Champlain dacha in order to visit the country with his Fighting Oligarchs tour. I thought Bruce Springsteen might open for the senator, but apparently Bruce is confused by the oligarch thing because there aren't any in New Jersey. The tour should have been called Burn Baby burn because the 84 year old is on fire all the time. Show him a crowd and his inner Godzilla appears, fire breathing, stomping around to save you some gas money. Here's what the Burnin Love guy wants, with apologies to Elvis, who also never saw an oligarch in Tupelo, free health care for 350 million people, free college for anyone who can get there, free daycare for all the tykes, government subsidized housing, food, public transportation in urban areas, guaranteed employment with a minimum wage of $17 an hour. No mention of free spa treatments, but give the Vermonter time. Sanders well knows this is all Don Quixote stuff because no country could come close to affording it. Unless that is a totalitarian government seized private property and ran the entire economy, which is what Carl, er, Bernie really wants. One wonders the intellectual capacity of those Americans showing up to hear his nuttiness. But Bernie continues to draw crowds, maybe because it's free. 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. Jim Edmiston, Loveland, Colorado. Hey, Bill, you mentioned on your talking points that Putin has been named a war criminal, cannot leave Russia. Could he be arrested at the meeting with Trump? So I dealt with this in the talking points tonight, Jim, you got to live in a real world, man. So that would start World War iii. If U. S. Authorities or anybody else arrested Putin in Alaska. You got to be here and present in the world, Norman. Norman says the office of the presidency is perfect for a man like Trump because there's so many interesting problems going around. He challenges them. The high energy machine thrives off making deals. The more the better. He'd be bored without it. That's the way God made him. Can't argue with that. I mean, obviously you're going to have people that don't want him to be president, but he done more than any other president except fdr. We've gone over this. And FDR had to because the country was on the edge of rebellion when he took over in the Great Depression. Donna, I pray President Trump is reading your message of the day. Bill, you have your finger on the pulse of America around the globe. Your decades of experience and knowledge precludes any advisor in the Trump administration. I don't know about that. I know a lot, too much for my own good, Donna. But I'm working really hard, and you guys need to know that to get you solid information from primary sources. That means that I'm on the phone, I'm on the dopey text and email, and people don't lie to me because they know they'll be held to pay. So they either say, I can't tell you, O'Reilly, or here it is. Now, I will give them attribution. Obviously, I'm not going to attribute anything to them they don't want. This is for what they call deep background. Boy. I'm working hard on it, you know, and we're way ahead. So that is a great reason to come. A premium or concert. Remember to billowilly.com in a moment, something you might not know.
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Mike Baker
Hey, Mike Baker here, host of the President's Daily Brief podcast. If you want straight talk on national security, foreign policy and the biggest global stories going on the day, this is the show for you. We publish twice a day, Monday through Friday, once in the morning, again in the afternoon, and on the weekend, we go longer with the PDB Situation Report with excellent guests including national security insiders and foreign policy experts. Check us out on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. Also on our YouTube channel at President's Daily Brief.
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Bill O'Reilly
Now the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. 86 years ago today, one of the most successful films of all time debuted in Wisconsin. The movie featured a teenage girl, a Tin Man, Cowardly lion, scarecrow and a three year old Scottish terrier named Toto. Here is the story behind the wizard of Oz. The original book was published in the year 1900. Author L. Frank Baum thought the story would sell a few thousand copies. It quickly became the best selling children's book in history. The characters are drawn from Baum's own childhood. He frequently had nightmares of menacing scarecrows and man eating lions. In addition, the author's niece Dorothy became ill and died from congestion of the brain before her first birthday. Baucompiled his personal trauma into the story. He settled on the name Oz as a reference to the newly formed nation of Australia. By the 1930s, 2 million copies of his book were sold in the USA alone. Executives at MGM then bought the rights to the wizard after watching Walt Disney's Snow White. The film starring Judy Garland premiered August 12, 1939 at the Strand Theater in rural Wisconsin. It is regarded as one of the finest movies ever made. It's ranked as one of the top five features of all time alongside Citizen Kane and Casablanca. And here's something else you might not know. MGM selected the small town near Milwaukee for the premiere to gauge the audience's reaction. Executives stood in the back of the theater to see if certain scenes, including the infamous flying monkeys and wicked witch, were too scary for children. But the crowd loved the wizard of Oz and knowing they had a hit, the film had a second premiere in Hollywood and Times Square, New York three days later. It is now run on television all the time as the residuals pour in. L. Frank Baum did not have another follow up to the wizard, but he will go down in history nonetheless. 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 billoriley. Com. No spin, just facts. And always looking out for you.