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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, May 7, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Trans band back general's cut. Oh, Canada. And ed Martin for U.S. attorney. That's all coming up. The bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, the Supreme Court is a one paragraph order ruled that the Trump administration can indeed move forward with a ban on transgender military service members. It's believed according to the pentagon, there's over 4,000 trans service members. Trans advocacy groups say the number is around 15,000. A lower court judge ruled that the policy from Trump was unsupported, dramatic and facially unfair exclusionary policy. The Supreme Court did not explain its decision, only saying that the ban from the lower court is blocked until the appeals court makes their decision. All these lawsuits have been pre planned by advocacy groups. This case was filed by seven trans service members and one trans person who wanted to join the Marines. In other military news, Secretary of Defense Pete Hexath said he is cutting the number of four star generals by 20%. He said in World War II, we had 12 million service members and only 17 four and five star generals. Today we have 2.1 million service members with 44 four star generals. So we had a ratio of one general to every 6,000 troops. Today it's one general to every 1,400 troops. The Secretary of defense said more generals than admirals does not equal more success. Trump had a press conference with the prime minister of Canada, John Carney. It was pretty amazing. 30 minutes. Trump said Canada is a very special place. And when it comes to becoming our 51st state, he said Canadians would have massive tax cuts, a free military, tremendous medical care. He said there'd be a lot of advantages for Canada. And he said as a real estate developer, when you get rid of that artificially drawn line and you look at that beautiful formation when it's all together, I said that's the way it's meant to be. He said. I feel it's much better for Canada Dream tremendously beneficial for the Canadian citizen. And the new prime minister's right there. He's sitting right there. And Carney says, as you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale. And Trump responded with a smile. Never say never. Drama in D.C. to get Ed Martin confirmed as U.S. attorney for D.C. he's got to make it through the Judiciary Committee. And he's facing trouble from Thom Tillis in North Carolina. Senator Josh Hawley says that he does expect Ed Martin to to make it through the committee and then through the entire Senate. Stay tuned. I'm Mike Slater. I host a podcast called Politics by Faith. The great Bill O'Reilly is your message of the day next.
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Certainly the politicians have noticed. My current take is that the Democrats really are not trying to solve difficult situations. They are solely interested in opposing Trump. Here are some questions to back my assertion up. What is the Democrats solution to the $37 trillion debt? To illegal drugs being smuggled in from Mexico, to ending the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, to the yearly trillion dollar trade deficit, to preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons, to the exploding cost of health care? What are the Democrats putting forth to solve any of those problems? Well, President Biden had no specific plans to improve any of those things. And it looks like his party is carrying on Joe's tradition right now. Maybe I missed the Democratic sponsored legislation on the Hill. But I doubt is much easier to oppose solutions from anybody, especially the Trump administration rather than proposing your own solutions. Right Democrats. 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. All right, let's go to the mail. Barry Weinstein, Carrie, North Carolina. O'Reilly, you should know that a president of Mexico agrees to allow the American army into her country to attack cartel. She and her family will be assassinated. We pointed that out that there is a danger to the presidente. Even ordinary Mexican citizens be shocked. Not forgetting the war we fought against them taking Texas and other claimed territories. I don't know about that, Barry. 1845 is a long time away and I think most Mexicans would be relieved that drug cartels are destroyed. That is my opinion. As far as President Sheinbaum is concerned, maybe she requests the Navy Seals guard her if her own government can't. Right. I'm sure President Trump would provide her with security in a joint military exercise. Eric Claudia Sheinbaum not strong enough and her country is too corrupt. The US Cannot protect a few honest politicians and America's drug addiction is too strong. Also, many US Politicians, business leaders are paid off by cartels. No, they're not. There are a few on the border that are paid by cartels, but that's not a big problem here. Okay, it is a big problem in Mexico. Paul delucio, Las Vegas Here's a tough love, hard truth. The cartels are not responsible for drug use deaths in the usa. The drug users are. It is willful suicide. Well, I may be true, but so what? Do you let cartels kill millions of people, gun them down, corrupt the whole country, smuggle migrants in here? No, you destroy them. Got to destroy them. That you can blame the drug addicts. And I don't have a lot of sympathy for a lot of those people either. But this is bigger than that. In a moment, something you might not know. Did you know that Fast Growing Trees is the biggest online nursery in the USA with thousands of different plants and more than 2 million happy customers. They have all the plants your yard needs, like fruit trees, privacy trees, shrubs and much more. Whatever plants you're interested in, Fast Growing Trees has you covered. Just order online, get your dream yard delivered right to your door. And this spring they have the best deals, up to half off on select plants. Plus my listeners get 15% off their first purchase when using Code Bill at checkout. That's an additional 15% off@fast growingtrees.com with code BILL@ checkout, now is the perfect time to plant that's fast growing trees dot com. Don't forget, use Code Bill to save offers valid for a limited time. Terms and conditions apply. Now the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. Eighty years ago today, Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied forces, ending the European fighting. In World War II, the capitulation stopped one of the bloodiest sagas in human history. Here is the story. By May 1945, Germany was unraveling. One week earlier, Adolf Hitler committed suicide inside his Berlin bunker. As the Allied forces advanced on all fronts to the west, American and British forces crossed into Germany from France, Belgium and Holland. In the east, the Soviets bombed Berlin by day and night. In all, the Nazis and their collaborators retained small pockets of control in Norway, Denmark, Bavaria, northern Italy. After the Fuhrer suicide, Admiral Karl Donitz assumed command of the general German government. On May 7, he signed the unconditional surrender. Nazi leadership immediately went into hiding. The country was divided among the United States, ussr, France and Great Britain. But for some Germans, the war was not over. Sensing defeat one year earlier, Hitler loyalists form an organization known as Werewolf. The plan launch a clandestine campaign against the Allied occupiers. The group, consisting of 5,000 men, did launch several attacks in June 1945, but the unit never materialized into a significant threat. Demoralized and starving, the German people welcomed the end of the war. And here's something else you might not know. The last battle in Europe actually took place 700 miles south of Berlin in then Yugoslavia. Their freedom fighters fought against the independent state of Croatia, a puppet regime created by the Nazis. The final shots of that battle were fired on May 25, two weeks after Germany surrendered. For more incredible stories about America's mission to defeat the Nazis, please check out my best selling books, Killing Patton and Killing the ss. Both hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Back in a moment.
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My name is Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. I was just talking to a friend of mine who said he hasn't been able to follow the news lately. It's been too much. It's too crazy. It's driving him crazy. And he's just checked out. If you feel that way sometimes, too, I think you'll really like our podcast Politics by Faith. We take the main story of the day and we run it through the Bible. What does the Bible say about this? It's amazing, but it's all there. And then God tells us what to do. We don't even have to figure it out. The answers are right there. He gives us the answers. Politics by Faith. Please join us over there. You can listen to it wherever you're listening to this podcast right now, politics by Faith.
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Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly update. I am Bill O'Reilly. For more news and honest analysis, please go to billoreilly.com no spin, just facts. And always looking out for.