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Bill O'Reilly (0:00)
Foreign. Here you are listening to the weekend edition of the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater.
Mike Slater (0:10)
Thanks, Bill. Here's what's happening this week in America. No end in sight. Armed conflict with cartels, Yom Kippur attack and the Nobel Peace Prize will soon be announced. That's all coming up. Then Bill's gonna be here with your message of the day. But first, no end in sight to the shutdown. Senator Thune said, I realized that my Democrat colleagues are facing pressure from members of their far left base, but they are playing a losing game here. Seems like the longer this goes on, the more people are aware that a lot of their money is going to illegal aliens for healthcare. But the Democrats seem to think they're winning this PR battle. Meanwhile, I talked to Doug Burgum, the interior secretary yesterday. He made the point that when Barack Obama was president during a shutdown in 2013, he erected a fence around the World War II memorial. There's no fence there. It's an open air memorial. But Obama, to hurt people, put a fence around the memorial to keep them out. Doug Burgum said they're doing the opposite. They're doing everything they can to keep as much open as possible for as long as they can, moving money around so as to not hurt the American people. The president issued a memo that the US Is now engaged in a formal armed conflict with drug cartels. This notice was sent to several congressional committees. Last month, the US Military carried out three strikes against drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean. Many congressmen have been worried about the due process protections of these people. But the memo says based upon the cumulative effects of these hostile acts against the citizens and interests of the United States, the president determined that the United States is in a non international armed conflict with these designated terrorist organizations. On the first day of Yom Kippur, several people in England were hit by a car and stabbed by a knifeman. The murderer was shot dead at the scene. The police commended the synagogue for locking the building, locking the doors quickly preventing the murderer from getting inside. He was found trying to stab his way through a window when the police arrived. Two people were killed. Three are in serious condition. The murderer is Jihad. That's his real name. Jihad Al Shami, 35 year old Syrian who's now a British citizen. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 10th in Oslo. Several world leaders have nominated Donald Trump. The leaders of Gabon, Rwanda, Cambodia, Pakistan, Israel, Armenia, Azerbaijan, pretty good list. But one historian who wrote a book on the Nobel Peace Prize said It's completely unthinkable that Trump will win it. He said the Nobel Peace Prize is about defending multilateral cooperation, for example, in the UN And Trump breaks with that principle. He follows his own path unilaterally. So he achieved peace, but just not the right way. I'm Mike Slider from the podcast Politics by faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day next.