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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 Wednesday, March 4, 2026. Here's what's happening today in America. British betrayal risk insurance guarantees Supreme Court win and the big Texas primaries. It's all coming up. And Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day of a first, the UK Refused to allow us to to use our military bases that are on UK Soil. There's one in England and the other is the island Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, which happens to have a direct path to Iran without going over any other country. This is on UK Land, but they are our bases and they refuse to allow us to launch any planes from our bases to attack Iran. That's insane. The Labor Party prime minister did this because he did not want to lose any more Muslim voters in England. Now, Spain was even more actively against what we did. They forced our military aircraft off two military bases in Spain. They were logistical supporter craft this after their socialist government openly condemned the strikes in Iran. The president in the Oval Office said we are going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don't want anything to do with Spain, by the way. I'm not happy with the UK Either. Spain is the only NATO ally, by the way, who has not increased their NATO spending to 5%. The President on social media said the US government is going to provide risk insurance and guarantees for all maritime trade, especially energy, traveling around Iran. He said the US Navy would provide escorts through the Strait of Hormuz if necessary. One fifth of the world's oil passes through this strait. Shipping in this region has come to a near standstill because insurance costs are now so high. The United States Supreme Court blocked California schools from hiding students gender transitions from their parents. It is state law that schools are not allowed to tell parents if their own child is transitioning while at school. But the Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 in favor of sanity. The court said the right protected by these precedents includes the right not to be shut out of participation in decisions regarding their children's mental health. Texas had their first round of primaries yesterday. In the Republican Senate side, John Cornyn, the incumbent, and Ken Paxton will go to the runoff. The runoff is May 26th. Cornyn got 42% of the vote, Paxton 41. Wesley Hunt only got 13. On the Democratic side, it's going to be James Talarico over Jasmine Crockett. Unfortunately, Crockett would have been way more fun. Tyler Rico won 53 to 46, but Crockett is claiming that Republicans cheated, which clearly isn't true because if Republicans cheated, we would have had her win. Big surprise. Congressman Dan Crenshaw lost his primary overwhelmingly in North Carolina. Michael Watley won the Republican side and Roy Cooper won on the Democrats. That will be the showdown in November. I'm Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by faith. 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 Wednesday, it was a bit shocking to hear Kamala Harris urging Americans to oppose the military action against Iran. As vice president, she watched as the Biden administration appease the mullahs and help finance Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis by unfreezing Iranian money to the tune of $16 billion. The Biden policy fell dismally and led to October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel and that disrupted the entire Middle East. The subsequent war against Hamas by Israel resulted in massive death in Gaza. So you might think Kamala Harris was would be a bit more circumspect when it comes to Iran. But like the Biden open border debacle, Kamala sees no evil. Former Secretary of State John Kerry also failed to stop Iran's nuclear quest. He carried out President Obama's appeasement policy. At least Kerry is not undermining the US Military campaign now as Harris is. You don't have to be a war monger to understand that the fanatical leadership in Iran was never going to cease its terror activities. Therefore, a choice had to be made. Let them continue to kill innocent people or stop them. That's the choice. Kamala, I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You you can reach me billoriley.com billoriley.com name in town if you wish to opine. Okay, go to the mail. We got Wendy on the message board. Wendy can talk with all the other premium members on billorilly.com probably half the country is not old enough to understand what Iran was like prior to 1979. It isn't taught in schools. Absolutely true. The Iranian women were free to dress in Western attire, go to university, have jobs, then it were stuffed into burkas. As you always say, Bill, the USA is a noble nation. It's way past time for the Iranian people to be released from the hold of the evil mullahs. Okay, that's a good letter from Wendy. Well thought out, Michael. The U.S. has turned the Middle east into a playground for Islamic fundamentalists. Let's hope history doesn't repeat itself. Well, I'm going to, I'm going to challenge you on that. We haven't turned the Middle east into that. It was there long before the United States had anything to do with the Middle East. So Harry Truman, President Truman was the one who okayed the state of Israel. And then that's when it really got intense. But before that, there was Islamic nationalism all day long there. And we have not done that. We react to it, but that's not our making. Iman Malandi, Tucson, Arizona. BILLION message of the day. You state that clear thinking Americans understand terror killers should have no quarter. True. But I was reading in today's segment of the Daily Signal that 32 million people watch the State of the Union across 50 networks. That's only 10% of the U.S. population. How many clear thinking interested in where Americans are there? Well, okay, 32 million watched it on television. But then social media dominates now. So you wouldn't believe how many millions of people watch me. And they're not watching me on no spin news. And we have a very healthy audience on no spin news. Okay, but they're watching me on social media. That's where the action is. In a moment, something you might not know. Now the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. 21 years ago this morning, one of the most famous entertainers in America was released from federal prison in West Virginia. Despite that, she remains a global celebrity to this day. Here is the story of Martha Stewart. Ms. Stewart rose to fame as a best selling author of books on cooking and decorating. Her lifestyle brand expanded to tv, magazines and online. Martha became the first female billionaire in 1999 when her company, Martha Stewart Living, went public. Her legal troubles began two years later when she sold a stake in a pharmaceutical company. The stock price plummeted. The next day, the strange timing started. A federal investigation over allegations of insider trading. A highly publicized trial ensued. Martha Stewart was found guilty on charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice, not insider training. She was sentenced to five months in prison, two years of probation. The media mogul was released from federal prisoners on March 4, 2005. Six months later, she sat down with David Letterman.
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It was pretty horrifying, right? And yet I'm pretty strong. I found out how strong I was during this whole ordeal and mentally strong and also physically strong. So I did not allow myself to get depressed. I did not allow myself to get down too much. I faced what I had to face. I lived through it with actually sort of flying colors.
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Despite some negative press, Martha Stewart rebounded. She kept her company intact, wrote a book, debuted two new television programs within 12 months. And here's something else you might not know. Ms. Stewart remains one of the most successful women in the United States of America. Under the advice of her close friend, rapper Snoop Dogg, she recently launched her own marijuana business, a line of cannabis candy called Martha Stewart's Wellness Berry Medley gummies. Today, the 84 year old's net worth is valued at about $600 million. No doubt that's pretty high. Pardon the pun. Back in a moment. Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly update. I am Bill O'Reilly. No spin, just facts. And always looking out for you.