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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 Friday, January 9, 2026. Here's what's happening today in America. ICE agent info, JD has his back, trouble in Iran and the War Powers Act. It's all coming up. Then Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, the ICE agent who shot and killed the woman who drove a vehicle into him is part of a specially trained tactical unit called the icero. That's Enforcement and Removal Operations, Special Response Team. This group provides high risk operational support for all immigration enforcement actions and they receive special advanced training in tactical operations, firearms, defensive tactics and crowd control. Congressman Daniel Godlin called ICE untrained thugs. That's not true about any ICE agent, but certainly not this guy. This same ICE agent back in June was dragged by a car a hundred yards, also in Minnesota, suffered serious injuries. Stitches in his hand, 20 stitches in his arm. A jury in Salt Lake found that illegal alien who he was trying to detain guilty of assault on a federal officer with a dangerous and deadly weapon, the car causing bodily injury. Our vice president, having none of the media spin in the White House press briefing room, he took to the podium, quoted a CNN headline which said outrage after ICE officer kills US Citizen. The vice president said, what that headline leaves out is that the woman was there to interfere with a legitimate law enforcement operation in the United States of America. What that headline leaves out is that the woman is part of a broader left wing network to attack, to dox, to assault, and to make it impossible for our ICE officers to do their job. If the media wants to tell the truth, they ought to tell the truth, that a group of left wing radicals have been working tirelessly, sometimes using domestic terror techniques to try to make it impossible for the president of the United States to do what the American people elected him to do, which is to enforce our immigration laws. The regime in Iran is in serious trouble. These protests lately seem different than ones in the past. We'll see. We're now over 12 days into them. Evidence of a government building totally inflames many people chanting Long live the Shah, a reference to the exiled son of the former shah and a reference to the last time the Iranian people were free back in 1979. Inflation's at 40% in Iran right now. Protesters changed the name of a street in Tehran to Donald Trump Street. The Senate passed a War Resolutions act limiting the president's power to further engage in Venezuela. That's a bit late. It needed 51 votes to pass. It got 52. Even if it passes the House, the president's not going to sign it, obviously. And it doesn't have a veto proof majority in the Senate. Five Senate Republicans voted in favor of it. I'm Mike Slater. I have a podcast, Politics by Faith. You can listen to it anywhere you listen to your podcast. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day next.
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Time now for the O'Reilly update. Message of the Day on this Friday. One of the most important things for every human being to know is that persuasion is very difficult. People believe what they want to believe. And many human beings, no matter what evidence you give them, no matter how you frame whatever you're talking about, if they don't want to believe it, they're not going to believe it. And the converse is true. They want to believe there is a Martian living next door. That is what they will believe. Now, the best example of this is what happened in Minneapolis with the ICE shooting. Within minutes, people formed an opinion of what actually went down. The left wingers, of course, the woman involved who was killed was totally innocent, had no deficit of conduct, and the ICE agents are fascist murderers. On the other side, the people who believe that immigration law should be upheld were saying, oh, the woman was breaking the law. It was partially her fault what happened to her. And the government is well within its rights to control illegal immigration. So that was within minutes before any evidence, before any tape, whatever. And I don't think anybody's mind was changed by anything, should not have been. You cannot make a determination on a shooting from television videotape. You would need an enhanced, very, very methodical presentation, which is what would happen in a court of law. 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, go to the mail. Robert Parsh in Scottsdale, Arizona. Bill, my nature is to give the benefit of the doubt to law enforcement. But after watching the videos multiple times, I have difficulty understanding the actions of the ICE agent. In addition, troubled by most of the questions you pose in today's message. When the officer fight his weapon, he seems clearly be on the side of the vehicle and not in danger of being run over. Can't make that determination, Bob. You need an enhanced video frame by frame, slowed down. You'd have to have that. You can't just watch these things on television. All right. So if there is any kind of inquiry, that's what they'll do. They'll have the video and they'll enhance it huge. And then frame by frame, you'll see. Then you could probably make a determination, but you'd have to have the officer's testimony, too, what he was seeing and thinking from his vantage point. Now, they did that in the George Floyd case. Remember that? That happened in Minneapolis. That's what they did. That's what the jury saw, saw the tape, the cop on, on Floyd, heard the police explanation and the police got convicted. That's what has to happen, not people watching TV at home. Greg Jensen, Rockford, Illinois. I watch you on News Nation with Cuomo and Stephen A. Smith. You're correct. I have 35 years in law enforcement. I retired the rank of lieutenant. There have been many circumstances where a vehicle was driven towards an officer and the driver was shot. A vehicle is considered a deadly weapon when it is driven towards someone intentionally, and that's a key word, intentionally. And we'll never know what was in the mind of the woman. I think she panicked, but that's just an opinion. But that officer was 10ft away from a big vehicle that was moving in a moment. Something YOU might not know. Now the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. It is finally playoff season for college football. What began way back when as kind of a lark to celebrate school spirit, has now turned into one of the most popular leagues in America. Here's the story behind college football. The first intercollegiate game took place in 1869 between Rutgers and Princeton. The rules back then were closer to rugby than what we know as traditional football today. The National Collegiate athletic Association, or NCAA, began regulating the sport in the early 1950s. The games were broadcast on radio and television, so big money was flowing into the colleges. Soon there were nearly 800 college teams. Now the college game rivals the NFL in both attendance and TV viewership. In some states, universities dominate the professional clubs. Alabama, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, Texas, Oregon and Florida, just to name a few. The NCAA has a lucrative contract with the major networks for playoffs and the championship games. In total, elite college teams can generate more than $100 million a year for their respective schools. But does all that success help the young players? Not really. The students are held to few academic standards today. A report from the Los Angeles Times finds college athletes on average receive lower grades than their non competitive classmates. When I was playing college football, we had to hit a grade average or we could not play. That is gone. Today, less than 1% of college players go on to the pros. Most take jobs in physical therapy, coaching, those kinds of fields. And here's something else you might not know. For the first time, college athletes are getting paid. After a landmark ruling last summer. Students can earn money in two ways, endorsements for their name and likeness or direct revenue sharing with the university. Today, the highest player in college football is Arch Manning. 21 year old sire of the Manning family, earned $7 million for playing college football. Back after this. Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly update. I am Bill O'Reilly. No spin, just facts. And always looking out for you.