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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 Monday, March 3, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Emergency summit, one week deadline, more lumber and the Oscar winners. That's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, an emergency summit of European leaders gathered this weekend to work on a ceasefire with Ukraine and Russia. This, of course, came after the what I think was an incredible meeting with Zelensky and Trump and J.D. vance didn't go well for Zelensky. That's not my assessment, by the way. You can look at the face of the Ukrainian ambassador to America and see how she thought it was going. But now Europe's taking the lead. Great. The prime minister of England, who was meeting with Trump in the Oval Office last week said, we've now agreed that the United Kingdom, along with France and possibly one or two others, will work with Ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting. And then we'll discuss that plan with the United States. Awesome. The prime minister said he does not trust Vladimir Putin, but he does trust Trump. Quote, do I believe Donald Trump when he says he wants lasting peace? The answer to that is yes. Much was made of a Norwegian oil company that said they're so embarrassed and horrified by what happened in the Oval Office on Friday that they are no longer going to refuel American Navy vessels in their Norwegian ports. A Doge update. The Social Security Administration says it plans to cut 7,000 jobs and reduce the number of its regional offices from 10 to 4. Meanwhile, many federal employees received a second email demanding that they list five things that they accomplished at work this last week, something I've talked about for 11 years now. Since 1980, all federal retirement paperwork is done by hand in an underground limestone mine outside of Pittsburgh, 28,000 filing cabinets. Some federal employees have a pallet full of boxes with their paperwork. And when you retire, it all has to be done by hand and it could take months. Well, the co founder of Airbnb was tasked with speeding up this process. They were given a deadline of one week. Just the other day, they processed a federal retiree not in months, but in two days. And they accomplished this task under deadline. Trump on Sunday signed a pair of executive orders to increase domestic lumber production. One of the goals here is to decrease the cost of building houses. It may also be a dig at Canada as we imported $12 billion worth of wood into America from Canada, which is 30% of our wood Supply. In Oscars news, the movie of the year was Anora, a movie that I did not see, but no one saw. It only made $16 million in ticket sales, lowest domestic ticket sale in best Picture History, won five awards. The Brutalist won three awards. Wicked and Dune Part 2 each received two. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly with your message today. Next.
