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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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Thank you, Bill. It is Wednesday, December 24, Christmas Eve. Here's what's happening today in America. Court denied, wages garnished, the Patriot Games and a Ben Sasse diagnosis. It's all coming up. Then Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, the Supreme Court has denied President Trump's request to lift a lower court injunction that was against his deployment of National Guard troops in Chicago. It was an unsigned order. The court just said that the president has, quote, failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois. 6 to 3 vote Trump only wanted to send 300 Illinois National Guard members to Chicago to help federal law enforcement officers, immigration agents and protect federal property. This all is about section 12406 of the Federal code. It says the president can deploy members of the National Guard when he is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States. The Trump administration said regular forces means federal law enforcement, dhs, ice. But the court said that regular forces mean active duty military, which means because the president has not legally deployed the regular military to support law enforcement, he then has no basis to deploy the National Guard to support law enforcement. The Department of Education says that millions of student loan borrowers who are severely delinquent will see wage garnishments in January. It's about 5 million Americans are severely delinquent. It means they haven't paid their debt in at least nine months, 270 days. When the loan officially enters default, it becomes eligible for mandatory collections. The president outlined the Patriot games for the 250th anniversary of America, a four day athletic event featuring the greatest high school athletes, one man, one woman, competing from each state and territory. The president said I promise there will be no men playing in women's sports. You're not going to see that. It's also going to be a UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House. The president said all of this is just the beginning. 2026 will be a celebration of America like no other, honoring our nation in all its glory. The former senator from Nebraska and more recently former president of University of Florida Ben Sasse announced that he's been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. He's 53. He said last week I was diagnosed with metastasized stage 4 pancreatic cancer and am going to die. Advanced pancreatic cancer is nasty stuff. It's a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week, too. We all do. I'm blessed with amazing siblings, half a dozen buddies that are genuine brothers, as one of them put it. Sure, you're on the clock, but we're all on the clock. Death is a wicked thief and the bastard pursues us all. And on receiving his diagnosis just before Christmas, he said, as a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts towards the hope of what's to come. Bill O'Reilly with your message of the day next.
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I'm Mike Slater from Politics by Faith. Fill in for Bill O'Reilly, something you might not know. Philip Van Doren Stern, he had a dream one night back in 1938 and he woke up and he had the entire story. He waited five years before he put it down on paper and then he tried to sell it to magazines. No one took it. No one liked it. So he decided to do what I guess is their version of self publishing today and printed out 200 copies of of A short story and sent them out as Christmas cards to friends. A few months later, Philip got a call. He told his wife, hold me up. I can't believe it. Somehow the Christmas card made it to film director Frank Capra, who loved the story and knew the perfect person to play the lead character. You may have seen a trailer just the other day came out for a biopic for Jimmy Stewart. Jimmy Stewart was a World War II bomber pilot. Flew 20 missions when the filming began. This was Jimmy Stewart's first movie role since the war, five years after he got home. When you watch the movie It's a Wonderful Life again this year, pay attention to the scene when he's in the bar. Martinis before he goes over to the bridge. That's not acting. Jimmy Stewart said he was scared to death of this movie. But he said when he first read the story, he said it hit him like a ton of bricks and he wasn't able to stop thinking about him. He had to do it. Van Capra said it was the greatest story I'd been looking for all my life. Jimmy Stewart wrote a Christmas card to Philip said, thank you for giving us this idea, which I think is the best one that anyone has had for a long time. Frank Capra said It's a Wonderful Life is the greatest movie he's ever made. I saw It's a Wonderful Life for the first time just two years ago. I've seen it three times this month already. We've got another one planned for this weekend because the in laws are here and they've never seen it. You know, when it first came out, it was not a success. And it's only known today because in 1974 the Distribution Company made a clerical error and the movie lost its copyright and it went into the public domain. So TV stations played it all night long because it was free. That's the only reason it's so beloved today. Watch it again, or maybe for the first time this Christmas and reject the Potter's vilification of America. You'll see it everywhere. Let's pray for and work for more. Bailey Building and Loan. I'm Mike Slater. More coming up.
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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.