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Bill O'Reilly, here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.
Mike Slater (0:09)
Thank you, Bill. It is Tuesday, December 9, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Relief for farmers, Crockett for Senate, maybe another Supreme Court win and a contraband attempt. It's all coming up. Then Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, the president announced yesterday with the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, that the administration will use $11 billion of tariff revenue to aid our nation's farmers. This was during a Cabinet roundtable with farmers along with Scott Besant. The president said, I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US Will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we've received in tariffs. This relief will provide much needed certainty to farmers as they get this year's harvest to market and look ahead to next year's crops. And it will help them continue their efforts to to lower food prices for American families. Brooke Rollins said the money will move by February 28th of next year. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who ran for Congress with one voice and now has a very different voice, said she will run for Senate in Texas. Former Congressman Colin Allred said he will not run for the Senate. Instead, he's going to run for Congress again. The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, wrote on Twitter, Jasmine Crockett is about to learn the hard way that most Texans are very different from her district or her base and her values. She'll get pummeled for her progressive socialist agenda and get crushed by the Republican nominee. The Texas political cemetery is filled with blowhards like her who have no idea what it's like to run statewide, looking forward to watching the circus and keeping the US Senate red. On the bright side for her, maybe she'll end up with a job. On the View. The Supreme Court had oral arguments yesterday. Looks like you never know for sure, but it looks like they're ready to give the president another victory in the court. This was about the dismissal of Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter. There's been a 90 year precedent where presidents don't fire people on independent agencies in the executive branch, but it's the executive branch and the president's head of the executive branch. The solicitor general, who's the head lawyer for the government, said the text and structure of the Constitution confer on the president the exclusive and illimitable power to remove executive officers. As a result of that, Humphreys this precedent should be overruled. He called this 1935 precedent, a decaying husk. A prison in South Carolina received an unwanted package, well, unwanted from the guard's perspective, brought via drone. People would toss or even catapult packages of cell phones, drugs and other illicit things over the perimeter of the fence. So they raised the fence and they added netting over the top as well. Even flying a drone near a prison in South Carolina is a misdemeanor. Could get you 30 days in jail and dropping contraband in a prison could get you 10 years. But it was worth the risk for these people. They dropped a raw steak, crab legs, old based seasoning and a carton of cigarettes. The guards got it first. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly, he has your message of the day next.