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Foreign. Here you are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the News with Mike Slater.
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Thank you, Bill. It is Wednesday, December 17th. Merry Christmas. News is happening today in America. The American armada presidential address tonight, Trump sues BBC and more boats destroyed. That's all coming up. Then Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, the president wrote yesterday on Truth Social Venezuela is completely surrounded by, by the largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America. It will only get bigger and the shock to them will be like nothing they've ever seen before until such time as they return to the United States of America all the oil, land and other assets that they previously stole from us. The illegitimate Maduro regime is using oil from these stolen oil fields to finance themselves. Drug, terrorism, human trafficking, murder and kidnapping for the theft of our assets and many other reasons, including terrorism, drug smuggling and human trafficking. The Venezuela regiment has been designated a foreign terrorist organization. Therefore, today I'm ordering a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela. The president is speaking tonight in an address to the nation, 9 o' clock Eastern, not sure what about. He wrote on Truth Social about the address. I look forward to seeing you. It's been a great year for our country and the best is yet to come. This after the vice president gave a speech and Pennsylvania on affordability. In other J.D. vance news, Marco Rubio said, quote, if J.D. vance runs for president, he's going to be our nominee and I'll be one of the first people to support him. Susie Wiles in a Vanity Fair interview, Susie Wiles is Trump's chief of staff, said the president has no intention of violating the 22nd amendment and running again in 2028, quote, but he sure is having fun with it. Going back to news from the president, he has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against BBC over a documentary which deceptively edited the speech that the president gave on January 6. The network spliced two clips of the president speaking 50 minutes apart from each other in the same speech, making it seem like one straight sentence. So a jump cut of 50 minutes apart from each other, starting with we're going to walk down to the Capitol. They took out and we're going to cheer on our brave senators and Congress people. And they jumped to the very end of the speech where he was talking about fighting for our country and said, I'll be there with you and we will fight. Speaking of fighting, the US Military has knocked out three more boats in the eastern Pacific. The first few drug boats that we blew out of the water were in the Atlantic in the Caribbean. But later boats have been trying to find a new path in the Pacific to no avail. Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco trafficking routes and engaged in narco trafficking. Eight narco terrorists were killed. Were now at 95 and 25 different strikes. The president also declared fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. I'm Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day next.
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He did that to increase his legal options in dealing with Mexico, by far the largest exporter of fentanyl in the world. The president is now willing to use military force against drug merchants. As the world has seen, with the destruction of Venezuelan and Colombian drug boats, land action may be coming. Mexico has been a corrupt country ever since the turn of the 20th century. The drug cartels rule about a third of the nation through fear. They kill opponents and their families at will. The government in Mexico City is too weak to stand up to them. Therefore, the USA is faced with a allow hundreds of thousands of drug involved Americans to die or destroy the cartel structure. That's it. There is no other option. Fentanyl is obviously poison, cheap to make, easy to smuggle. Billions of dollars are derived from the weak people in the USA who buy it. So now the substance is a wmd and the United States is determined to eliminate it and those who profit from it. I'm Bill O'Reilly I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me billoreilly.com billorilly.com, name in town. If you wish to opine now, let's go to the mail. Eric, the media will never quit. Too many Americans hate Trump. The better he does, the more they hate him. That's true. And that's what I said. We're in the age of hatred now. David Jalupka, Laguna Beach, California. Beautiful town. As a Christian bill, does it ever flummox you? One of the most evil men on planet Vladimir Putin is also one of the world's wealthiest. Or do you find solace in the fact that he will have to spend the rest of eternity to pay for his crimes against humanity? Well, look, I don't know if he's going to hell. Maybe he'll repent, you know, not my business. My business is to tell you what, how evil he is right now. And if you read Confronting Evil, you'll see exactly how he became the wealthiest man in the world. More evil. Andrew Wilson, Parramatta, Australia. Okay, Mr. O'Reilly, thank you for your fine broadcast. I watch it on YouTube. I saw this article by Larry Kudlow. Here's a quote. Take New York and New Jersey where over the last 10 years their left wing statist policies have seen nearly 3 million people abandoned those states and that's 700 billion worth of income. How can the voting public ignore this? Andrew, I know you're discussing the anti Semitism in your own country right now and I like Australia and I hope you guys sort it out in our country here. Put a lot of ignorance, an amazing amount of it. People just don't pay attention to anything. And your stats are right. Kudlow is a brilliant man. But the regular folks voting for the far left politicians in Jersey and New York, they don't know and they don't particularly care. Everything's about them. But these states are in trouble in a moment, something you might not know. Let's face it, the US Economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war shaking the markets. 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The top secret probe began in 1947 after numerous eyewitnesses reported an unidentified flying object over Roswell, New Mexico. At the same time, pilots returning from World War II described strange aerial phenomena during raids over Europe and the Pacific. In total, the military investigated more than 15,000 sightings. Experts explained 94% of the incidents most related to atmospheric events, scientific tools like weather balloons or private aircraft. Six percent remain a mystery. On December 17, 1969, the Pentagon ended Project Blue Book. The Department of Defense issued three findings. Number one, no UFO ever posed a threat to national security. Number two, there is no evidence that these sightings represented technologies beyond the modern range of scientific reason. And number three, there's no evidence these sightings were extraterrestrial incidents. Well, despite the report, claims of UFOs now called UAPs, unidentified aerial phenomena continue. Since 1995, Americans have reported more than 130,000 mysterious objects in the night sky. Most events take place in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Florida. In 2020, President Trump was asked to comment about the existence of alien visitors to our planet. Mr. Trump told reporters he had heard some, quote, very interesting things about the 1947 incident in Roswell, saying he may declassify more information on that. And here's something else you might not know. The Pentagon opened another investigation into Aliens 2022. To date, no evidence of space life has been produced. Back in a moment.
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Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly update. I am Bill O'Reilly. No spin, just facts and always looking out for you.
This episode of The O'Reilly Update addresses major late-2025 political and geopolitical news, with a focus on President Trump's new hardline actions against Venezuela and the drug trade, his fresh legal battle with the BBC, and a historical segment on UFO investigations. The episode features a news rundown by Mike Slater, Bill O’Reilly’s “Message of the Day” analyzing the fentanyl crisis and US-Mexico relations, and listener mail where O'Reilly responds candidly to fans’ questions about Trump, Vladimir Putin, and US state policy.
[00:09–01:31]
“It will only get bigger and the shock to them will be like nothing they've ever seen before until such time as they return to the United States of America all the oil, land and other assets that they previously stole from us.” (Mike Slater reads, 00:27)
[01:31–01:50]
"It's been a great year for our country and the best is yet to come." (00:47)
[01:51–02:19]
“If J.D. Vance runs for president, he's going to be our nominee and I'll be one of the first people to support him.” (01:57)
“But he sure is having fun with it.” (02:11)
[02:20–02:52]
“The network spliced two clips of the president speaking 50 minutes apart from each other in the same speech, making it seem like one straight sentence.” (02:26)
[02:53–02:58]
“The first few drug boats…were in the Atlantic…later boats have been trying to find a new path in the Pacific to no avail.” (02:56)
[02:59–03:17], [03:58–05:08]
“President Trump has signed an executive order categorizing the narcotic fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. He did that to increase his legal options in dealing with Mexico, by far the largest exporter of fentanyl in the world.” (03:59, O’Reilly)
[04:26–05:08]
“The USA is faced with allow hundreds of thousands of drug involved Americans to die or destroy the cartel structure. That’s it. There is no other option.” (04:51, O’Reilly)
“The illegitimate Maduro regime is using oil from these stolen oil fields to finance themselves. Drug, terrorism, human trafficking, murder and kidnapping for the theft of our assets and many other reasons, including terrorism, drug smuggling and human trafficking.”
“President Trump has signed an executive order categorizing the narcotic fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction… willing to use military force against drug merchants.”
“Therefore, the USA is faced with allow hundreds of thousands of drug involved Americans to die or destroy the cartel structure. That’s it. There is no other option.”
“Well, look, I don’t know if he’s going to hell. Maybe he’ll repent, you know, not my business. My business is to tell you what, how evil he is right now.”
[06:12–08:18]
“The media will never quit. Too many Americans hate Trump. The better he does, the more they hate him. That’s true. And that’s what I said. We’re in the age of hatred now.” (O’Reilly paraphrasing mail, 06:20)
“My business is to tell you what, how evil he is right now. And if you read Confronting Evil, you’ll see exactly how he became the wealthiest man in the world. More evil.” (06:33–06:47, O’Reilly)
“An amazing amount of [ignorance]. People just don’t pay attention…But these states are in trouble.” (07:44)
[09:30–11:45]
“Since 1995, Americans have reported more than 130,000 mysterious objects in the night sky.” (10:53)
The episode uses a direct, no-nonsense style, mixing hard news, O’Reilly’s pointed opinion, and references to American conservatism and patriotism. The language is frank and the host often leans on memorable, unvarnished statements about American decline, media bias, and international threats.
This summary offers a comprehensive, timestamped guide to the episode. Whether you’re seeking news analysis, historical context, or O’Reilly’s trademark commentary, this episode delivers a packed half hour of late-2025 current affairs.