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Chris Hansen
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Mike Slater
Here you are listening to the O'Reilly update.
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Bill O'Reilly
Coming up next, the News with Mike Slater.
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Mike Slater
Thank you, Bill. It is Friday, January 2, 2026. Here's what's happening today in America. Fraud paused, new immigration rules, deadly fire in Switzerland, and a foreigner takes over New York City. It's all coming up. And Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, the Trump administration is pausing child care funding to all states after allegations of fraud and daycare centers in Minnesota. The officials say the official HHS says funds will be released only when states prove they are being spent legitimately. HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said those suspected of fraudulent activity have to provide the HHS with additional records that include attendance records, licensing, inspection and monitoring reports, complaints and investigations. One daycare that we'll talk about in the next segment. This is a Somali run daycare in Minneapolis. Claims that someone broke into their daycare and gosh, golly, wouldn't you know it stole all of their employment records and enrollment and attendance records and checkbooks. Minneapolis police have disputed the Somali's claims of the Nomas daycare center. New immigration rules went into effect yesterday. People from seven countries will not be able to travel to the United States for any reason. Burkina Faso, Laos, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Syria. The White House says these restrictions are for national security and public safety reasons. Immigration activists say the ban targets African and Muslim countries, which is so ridiculous because there are many more Muslim countries or countries that have way more Muslims than the ones even on this list. We also have H1B reforms. There is now a weighted system to prioritize individuals who make a very high wage. Not for instance, in California. I saw the other day a gym coach at a local elementary school who was on an H1B visa. H1B visa started in 1990 for foreigners with specialty occupations requiring a highly specialized knowledge. It's not what they become today. Around 40 people were killed and 115 injured on New Year's Day when a fire ripped through a bar in a resort town in the Swiss Alps. The Swiss president said the fire is one of the worst tragedies that our country has experienced. 1:30am local time, they say possibility of a terrorist attack has been ruled out. 42ambulances, 13 helicopters, 3 disaster trucks race to the scene. The communist Muslim Ugandan Zoran Mamdani has been sworn in as the mayor of New York City, the first mayor to ever swear in on the Quran. One of Zoran's first appointments was to the commissioner of the FDNY the first openly gay commissioner of the New York Fire Department. One noteworthy point about her, the new commissioner of the fire department has never been a firefighter. She was the chief of ems. I'm Mike Slater. Your Message of the day, the latest with the Somali fraud next.
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Chris Hansen
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Mike Slater
Mike Slater filling it for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly update. Message of the day. This Somali fraud story is so wonderful because it's not going anywhere and it gets better and better every day. First of all, the media lamestream doesn't know what to do. NPR headline what to know about Nick Shirley, the YouTuber alleging daycare fraud in Minnesota or the intercept right wing YouTuber behind viral Minnesota fraud video has long anti immigrant history. The media is not interested in investigating the fraud. They're using their time and talents to to investigate the person who uncovered the fraud. And by the way, the uncovering of the fraud was just knocking on the door of the daycares or even driving to them and seeing they were locked with blacked out windows and no one inside. For a long time, the legacy media has only seen their job as defending Democrats because it's all a giant money laundering operation. Free money from the feds goes to the state government, which then in this case gets to the Somalis who then give a percentage of it back to the Democrats running for office again so they can stay in power. Everyone gets rich and in the end, you can't afford daycare because you're not in a protected class. And your daycare isn't giving kickbacks to the politicians so they're not getting funneled millions of dollars. I think this is the most important point so far beyond just Somali daycares. Saw a video of a woman from Brazil and she was describing what they call in Brazil the Brazilian way. And it's this idea that after years and years of a corrupt society, people have learned that the only way to get anything done, the only way of getting ahead is through corruption and looking for shortcuts. This leads to a broken society. The American way has always been hard work. We get stuff done and we've we're able to get stuff done because we work hard. No shortcuts. Hard work, integrity, honor. But as more and more people get away with fraud and get ahead with fraud, one of two things are going to happen. Either we crack down on all of it and reclaim the mantle of here's how you succeed in America by doing good things the right way, or we don't take this opportunity and more and more people will decide, I don't want to be a chump. And then more and more people will start stealing, start being corrupt, start looking for shortcuts, because why bother doing it the old fashioned American way when that's not what works anymore? Here's how I think about it. Imagine you're in line at the grocery store and you got a cart full of groceries and everyone's in line with you. Got a bunch of people in line waiting to pay. And then someone just walks out with a cart of groceries without paying. And everyone says, oh, whoa, hey, hey, we got that person just walked out without paying. What if the manager says, ah, yeah, that's okay. Well, then a couple other people are gonna say, well, I'm not paying. I'm out of here, too. And then 10 people walk out with a cart full of groceries without paying. And then once 10 people do, 20 more people say, like, I'm not, I'm not gonna be a chump. I'm out of here, too. At what point, let me put it like this, what percentage of people would need to walk out of the grocery store without paying and without consequence before you walk out of the grocery store without paying? 10%, 20%, 50%. If 50% of the people walk out without paying, is that when you decide to walk out to, you're the last one. You'll be the only one who doesn't pay. Good for you. It's not most people. There's a line, and it's way lower than we'd like to think. The way smaller percentage. Before most people say, I'm not a chump, I'm going to do it that way. And the Somali way is not anything we need to be imitating here in America. Coming up next, if you want to keep your New Year's resolution, I'll tell you how to do it. I'm Mike Slater filling in for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know about, keeping your New Year's resolution. Is this something you do? You do this? Does anyone do this? It's still a thing. I don't. Not a big resolution guy. Like, if I want to change something in my life, I'll just do it now. I don't need to wait till January 1, but we should make them. This is the great Samuel Johnson. This is coming to the end of 1775 with 1776 on the horizon. He wrote in his diary. When I look back on resolutions of improvement which have year after year been made and broken either by negligence, forgetfulness, vicious idleness, casual interruption or morbid infirmity. When I find that so much of my life had been stolen unprofitably away and that I just I can describe by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I try yet to resolve again? I try because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. It's good to make resolutions even if you don't keep them. It's good to try now if you do want to keep them. I think this is the key. This is from James Clear's very famous book Atomic Habits. That of three concentric circles on the outside circle is outcome. This would be a goal like I want to lose 20 pounds. The next inner circle is process. Well, how would you lose £20? Well, I need to work out five days a week. An outcome goal is not going to work ever. A process goal maybe, but you got to go one circle in and the inner circle is identity. That's what you need to change. Who am I? What kind of person am I? Well, I'm the person. I'm the kind of person who never misses a workout. I'm a healthy eater. It's who I am. What would a person who never misses a workout do right now? Would they sit on the couch and have another piece of pie? No. A person who works out would go work out, change identity. The process follows and the outcome will come. So it's not I'm going to read a hundred books. It's not even I'm going to read ten pages every night. It's I'm a person who loves to read and I read all the time. And if you tell yourself that you're that kind of person and work every day to become that kind of person, then you will read 10 pages every day and you will read 100 books and your resolution will be kept. Here's to a new you and a new year. Mike Slater. More coming up after this.
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Bill O'Reilly
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Mike Slater
Thank you Bill for letting me fill in this week. Thank you for listening. I hope you have a wonderful new year. Wonderful weekend. Spread the word.