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Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly, here. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.
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Mike Slater
Thank you, Bill. It is Thursday, July 17, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Shifty Schiff, fentanyl bill, a new third country and letter drafted. That's all coming up. Then Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, the senator from California, Adam Schiff has been referred to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution regarding mortgage documents. The Director of the U.S. federal Housing Finance Agency sent a letter to the attorney general, Pam Bondi, citing alleged misconduct by Schiff, who owns homes in California and Maryland. The accusation is that the senator falsified bank documents and property records to acquire more favorable loan terms impacting payments from 2003 to 2019 for his home in Potomac, Maryland. A memo from the Fannie Mae financial crimes investigations concluded that Schiff engaged in a sustained pattern of possible occupancy misrepresentation on five Fannie Mae loans. President Trump signed a bill into law yesterday. The goal is to stop the illicit flow of fentanyl into the United States. The bill is called the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act. It will reschedule the opioid as a Schedule 1 drug which could result in harsher penalties for those convicted of fentanyl related offenses. The Biden administration backed this bill, but it stalled in the previous Democratic controlled Senate. This administration is so dedicated to deporting illegal aliens to what are called third countries, which means it's not here and not the country that they're a citizen of, but a third country. They're so dedicated that this administration's just making up countries. We've sent illegals to South Sudan, Rwanda, El Salvador, of course, and now Eswatini. Never heard of that. It's previously known as Swaziland. I think I've heard of that. It's right next to South Africa and Mozambique. Five men from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos are now in Eswatini. DHS said these individuals were so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back. These men have been terrorizing American communities and they're now off of American soil. The New York Times is reporting that President Trump drafted a letter to fire the chairman of the Fed and asked Republicans if he should send it. He waived a copy of a draft letter firing Jerome Powell at a meeting in the Oval Office with about a dozen House Republicans. Trump's team has highlighted Powell's leadership over the renovation of Federal Reserve Office buildings, which are now $3 billion worth, over budget by 700 million and cost as much as the palace of Versailles cost adjusting for inflation. I'm Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly, here's your message of the.
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Bill O'Reilly
Now for the O'Reilly update. Message of the Day on this Thursday. Here's an interesting question. Which ideology has more fanatical loons, left or right? There's no polling data on it because most people won't admit they hold extreme views. The bubbles they live in prevent rational assessment. Anyway, I think there are more far left folks in America than far right. I could be wrong, but with many enormous cities controlled by ardent leftists, the demographics are on my side. Both political extremes are very vocal and nutty messages are easily carried on social media. The fanatical Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is one of the most famous liberal politicians in the usa. The equally fervent Marjorie Taylor Greene is working towards that status. On the conservative side, it was fascinating to see Ms. Greene try to block President Trump's arms deal with NATO. Why, Marge? Why do you want to help the psychopathic Putin? Greene's congressional colleagues shut her down. But come on. The far right, Senator Barry Goldwater believed that extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. But here's my can defend liberty without being an ideological loon. Just ask George Washington. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You you can reach me bill o'reilly.com bill@billoriley.com name in town if you wish to opine. Now let's go to the mail. We got John on the message board. Now if you're a premium or concierge, remember you get to go on a message board and talk to other premium concierge. Remember, it's a lot of fun and you learn stuff. John says a 75 year old third generation California who lives in the Bay Area. I'm embarrassed that I'm from here. Quality of life used to be great, but now it isn't. The only good thing is the weather. After liberal loons took over and made it a one party state, that I understand what you're saying, but the liberal loons didn't make it a one party state. The voters did. Very responsible. MICHAEL CONCIERGE Member thank you, Michael. People of California who want to leave, can't they own a home? They can't abandon it, lose the equity. Where can they find someone crazy enough to buy their property? You can sell your home in California now. I don't know. Each real estate district is different, but you can move the house if you want to get out. There are hundreds of thousands of people getting out. LARRY CONCIERGE Remember President Trump being played by Putin seems to be a fair description to me. Okay, Janet, if sanctioning the banks in Russia was a favorable thing to do, President Trump would have done it already. He knows when the time is right. So we have the people that will, you know, whatever President Trump does is fine. And the people, you know, it isn't fine. And that's the way it should be. That's the way it should be. LORRAINE I've read on different platforms about Federal government collected 70 billion in tax revenue this June because of new tariffs, 27 billion. But you want, but I'm glad you wrote Lorraine to me. You want the number? We'll give you the number. Not 70, 27. A lot of money. In a moment, something you might not know.
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Bill O'Reilly
Now the O'Reilly update brings us something you might not know. Six years ago today, a judge in New York City sentenced one of the most dangerous men in the world to life in prison. The evil career of Mexico's top drug dealer was finally over. Here is the story of el Chapo. Born 1957 to a family of middle class farmers, Joaquin Guzman, dubbed El Chapo because of his short height. The name is Mexican slang for shorty. He began selling pot in the 1970s, then cocaine, then heroin. By the 80s, El Chapo controlled the Sinaloa cartel, named after the Mexican state of his birth. Under El Chapo, the organization controlled the largest drug smuggling operation in the Western Hemisphere. At its height, Guzman's gang generated $40 billion in annual revenue. To maintain control, the network committed an estimated 40,000 murders every year. The drug dealer was finally arrested in 1993, but he escaped in 2001. That's not difficult in corrupt Mexico. After 15 years on the run, El Chapo was finally detained. Fearing another escape, he was extradited to the United States to face charges of drug trafficking, money laundering, kidnapping, extortion and murder. On July 17, 2019, Guzman was sentenced to life in prison. He was also ordered to pay $12 billion in damages to the US government. We do not believe that payment was ever made. The 68 year old smuggler remains incarcerated at a federal supermax prison in Colorado. He will never be released. And here's something else you might not know. Today, there are 25 different drug cartels in Mexico. In total, they make $100 billion a year peddling narcotics, human trafficking, extortion, kidnapping. The result, five of the most 10 dangerous cities in the world are found in Mexico. We chronicle the rise and fall of El Chapo in my upcoming book, Confronting Evil, out September 9th. Back in a moment.
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Mike Slater
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Bill O'Reilly
Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly Update. I am Bill O'Reilly. No spin, just facts. And always looking out for you.