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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's Tuesday, March 31, 2026. Here's what's happening today in America. Getting back to the moon, get back to work, biggest loser county and another museum heist. It's all coming up. Then. Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, Artemis 2 will take the first trip around the moon in over 50 years. As soon as Wednesday, the four person crew will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space center in Florida on a 10 day journey. The trip will lead the way for future Artemis missions that would eventually potentially see astronauts step foot on the moon and then build a permanent lunar base. It's a 685,000 mile journey. That's 27 times around the Earth. April 1st is the first opportunity to launch between 6:24 and 8:24pm Eastern. At that time, there's an 80% chance of favorable conditions. Day five will be the lunar flyby and the spacecraft will pass within 4,700 miles beyond the far side of the moon. And that would be further than any human has ever traveled into deep space. This is the first crude Orion mission. An uncrewed Orion was tested during Artemis 1 in November back in 2022. The Space Launch System is 32 stories tall. They were ready to take off back in February, but it was grounded by hydrogen fuel leaks. The president is encouraging Congress to cut short its two week recess and get back to work to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid the shutdown. This would include Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been spotted gallivanting around Disney World. The president signed an executive order giving TSA workers a paycheck. Some received their first paycheck in over a month. The White House press secretary said the president just can't keep signing presidential memorandums and proclamations every time Congress fails to do its job and every time Democrats are holding our entire country hostage picking and choosing which programs and agencies they want to fund just because they don't like this administration's policies. That's not how it's supposed to work. The county that saw the largest decline in population of any county last year, Los Angeles county, nearly 54,000 people moved out of LA County. This is a trend, of course. In 2020, LA county was estimated to have more than 10 million residents and now only 9.7 million. There was another museum heist, this time in Italy. Four masked thieves stole three masterpieces from Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse. The three paintings valued over $10 million. This is just a couple months after that heist in the Louvre. In broad daylight in Paris, these thieves broke through a main door and stole the three paintings. They were in and out in just three minutes. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast politics by faith. YouTube.com politicsbyfaith Bill O'Reilly has your message
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Time now for the O'Reilly update. Message of the day on this Tuesday. Pope Leo is a good man, a peacemaker, a person who teaches compassion and respect for human dignity. But his holiness is also not a fact based theologian. According to the group Minority Rights, Iran is Among the top 10 countries in the world that persecute Christians. Not that there are many of them there, perhaps 300,000 out of a population of 90 million. The Iranian government considers followers of Christ to be infidels. They are closely scrutinized, sometimes harmed. Exactly who is coming to their aid? Well, that would be America. Yet the pope is clear in his disdain for the war in Iran. He says Jesus rejects those with, quote, blood on their hands. Yet I, as a loyal Catholic believe the Nazarene would honor those people who protect the persecuted. Would I be wrong? Over to you, Pope Leo. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin murdered hundreds of thousands of Christian clergy. The Allies had to wage brutal war to stop that madness. Blood flowed. My book Confronting Evil documents that something we all should think about. Sometimes justice requires force. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approved the message by writing it. You can reach me billorilly.com billorilly.com name in town if you wish to opine. All right, let's go to the mail. We got Liz, concierge member. You might consider this program on billow reilly.com if Liz gets into any turbulence in her life, we will help. Liz, direct line to me. Liz says effective immediately, all Americans should stop filing and paying income taxes, IRS and enough people to investigate. Liz, that's the ticket to a terrible life. You don't pay your taxes, they're going to find you. May not be right away. Don't do it. That's the worst advice, you know, don't do it. Travis Pisani, Hendersonville, North Carolina. I'm a regular guy police officer, work a lot of overtime other than your broadcast. Seems impossible to get reliable factual information. Do you see the mainstream media coming back? No, it's done. And when Trump leaves office in, you know, less than three years. Then it'll be total collapse. Cable and network news on television collapse because there won't be anybody to hate. William Jordan, Chester, N.Y. abel, regarding the national debt, how much is too much? Nobody in the media ever tells us what the breaking point point is because nobody knows. Got a $39 trillion debt, but investors still buy US savings bonds and we float a whole bunch of debt to pay our bills. Nobody knows when that's going to come to an end. Possible to say in a moment something you might not know.
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Now the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. 58 years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek reelection. That decision surprised congressional leaders, the general public, even members of his own cabinet. Here is the story. In November 1963, Vice President Johnson was sworn into office aboard Air Force One just hours after the assassination President Kennedy. One year later, he easily defeated Republican Barry Goldwater in the general election. During his first full term, the USA struggled at home and abroad. The inflation rate reached 6%, the highest level in two decades. Overseas, the war in Vietnam spiraled out of control. Under Johnson, the number of US soldiers surged from 50,000 to a half million. By 1968, nearly 40,000Americans had been killed in Southeast Asia. Johnson's approval rating, which peaked at 80% after the assassination of JFK, plummeted by 4:50 points. In Washington, his position was shaky, to say the least. On March 31, 1968, LBJ addressed the nation. I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. But let men everywhere know, however, that a strong and a confident and a vigilant America stands ready tonight to seek an honorable peace. In November, America elected Republican Richard Nixon to Serve as the 37th President of the United States. Johnson then returned to Texas a heavy smoker throughout his life. He suffered a fatal heart attack January 1973. He died instantly inside his bedroom at the age of 64. For more fascinating stories about our nation's chief executives please check out my best selling book, confronting the Presidents. Back in a moment.
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Hey, this is Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. I would love for you to listen. We take the news of the day and we run it through the Bible. What does the Bible have to say about this? Because there's nothing new under the sun. You read the headlines, everything's all crazy. World's coming to an end. It's all in the Bible. And after every episode, hopefully you leave with a proper perspective and a biblical peace. Please join us wherever you listen to podcasts. And we also have a YouTube page as well.
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YouTube.com politicsbyfaith thank you for listening to the O'Reilly Update. I am Bill O'Reilly. No spin, just facts. And always looking out for you.