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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 Friday, September 5, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. RFK Jr. Turns the tables. Alligator Alcatraz still open, Big tech dinner and no tax on tips recipients. It's all coming up. And Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, Congress is back from vacation, so there's a hearing with RFK Jr. Head of health and Human Services. In one noteworthy moment, the senator from Oregon, Wieden, said, I hope you tell the American people how many preventable child deaths are an acceptable sacrifice for enacting an agenda that I think is fundamentally cruel and defies common sense. RFK Jr responded. Senator, you've sat in that chair for 25 years while chronic disease in our children went up 76%. And you said nothing. Today, for the first time in 20 years, we've learned that infant mortality increased in our country. And it isn't because I came in here. It's because of what happened in the Biden administration, which we're going to end. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Alligator Alcatraz can stay open. The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, said the media was giddy that somehow Alligator Alcatraz was shutting down. And we told him it wasn't true. There have been illegal aliens continuing to be there and being removed and returned to their home country. But they ran with the narrative because some leftist judge ruled implausibly that somehow Florida wasn't allowed to use our own property to help the federal government in this important mission. The reason it was maybe being shut down is because environmental groups and an Indian tribe argued that the project threatened sensitive wetlands and bypassed federal environmental impact studies. Trump had a big dinner last night with the tech titans. Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook of Apple, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, OpenAI founder Sam Altman, along with the founders of Google, Oracle, the CEO of Blue Origin Micron Technology, Tibco Scale AI. Also, Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4. He was going to be the head of NASA. And also David Sachs, the venture capitalist who is the White House czar on AI and cryptocurrency. Elon will not be there, but someone from his team will be there in his stead. Part of the one big beautiful bill included, of course, no tax on tips. Well, within 90 days of the bill passing, the Treasury Department had to make a list of the jobs that will be included in this no tax on tips. Only jobs that have historically been tipped professions. So, you know, everyone just can't start getting paid in tips all of a sudden. The deduction is up to $25,000 a year. There's 68 jobs. I don't have time to list them all, but the list includes everyone who works in the food industry, bartenders, waitstaff, etc. People in entertainment, ushers, lobby attendance, entertainers, performers. Also plumbers and electricians, locksmiths, masseuses, people in hair and tailors and golf caddies and parking attendants, 68 jobs in total. Mike Slider, Bill O'Reilly, an excellent tipper with your message of the day next.
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Time now for the O'Reilly update. Message of the Day on this Friday, the Epstein story. Beyond tedious hearsay speculation, due process denial and conspiracies galore, essentially a waste of time unless vivid new evidence emerges, and I do not believe it will, Jeffrey Epstein killed himself and the world is a better place. His compatriot Ghislaine Maxwell should serve out her full 20 year sentence. If the victims of these two need any help, society should provide it. But this story has taken a sinister political turn as the anti Trump cadres are desperate to tie the president to Epstein in a criminal way. That is the goal. Get Trump. The president knows this and his contention that the situation is being used to fog his accomplishments in office is true. However, the Trump opposition will never acknowledge anything positive from the administration. Epstein is just a convenience and no amount of release paperwork in that case will ever be enough. So that's the truth of the media driven hysteria over Epstein. The denizens of Old Salem would love this. Guilty of what? Of being you. Tough world for Donald Trump. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me billorilly.com, billoriley.com, name in town. If you wish to opine now, let's go to the mail. Paul, just how the country would be if the Democratic Party didn't exist today. Just think how the country would be. It would be greater than ever. No, if there were no Democratic Party and it was just Republicans, the Republicans would run wild and unrestrained. They would be looking out for you. Too much power. Jim Ross, Frisco, Texas, with President Trump being sued for everything, why were no lawsuits brought against the Biden administration for the Southern invasion? Other harmful action? Well, Texas sued him. Got a lot of Texas action there. New Mexico is a blue state. Arizona is flux. California is a blue state. So you did have the Texas action. You didn't have the judges. You know, the cherry picking of the judges like you have now. Nick Nuzzalino, Millstone Township, New Jersey. My question is, Democratic judges are pushing back on Trump for sending troops to Chicago, Louisiana, or elsewhere as overstepping his authority. In the beginning of fascism, was U.S. grant unlawful in sending federal troops to the south to destroy the kkk? Ah, you read Confronting the Presidents. No, Grant was well within his constitutional rights because the Ku Klux Klan was a terrorist organization. See, that's the designation. I believe the drug gangs are terrorists. Joe Milligan, Gillian, Ohio, President Trump says we have the most oil of anyone in the planet. So why doesn't Modi buy oil from us and not Russia? Because Russia probably made him a better deal. And the president of India doesn't really care whether Putin slaughters Ukrainians. That's the bottom line. He does not care. Modi, what did he reveal himself? Huh? In a moment, Something you might not know.
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Olivia loves a challenge. It's why she lifts heavy weights and likes complicated recipes. But for booking her trip to Paris, Olivia chose the easy way with Expedia, she bundled her flight with a hotel to save more. Of course, she still climbed all 674 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower. You were made to take the easy route. We were made to easily package your trip. Expedia made to travel flight inclusive packages are atoll protected.
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Now the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know. It is officially back to school time in America as millions of students are returning to classrooms across the usa. Here's some background of our nation's public school and education system, which is not good. The American school year typically begins in September. That tradition dates back to the 19th century when rural children helped their families reap the autumn harvest. The calendar was codified by Congress in 1945. After World War II, the American Education platform spread to Canada, Italy, Spain, Greece, Ireland, the U.K. germany and France. Today, more than 50 million children in the USA attend a public school. 5 million others private schools. 2 million are homeschooled. However, many countries around the world differ from us. In Japan, the school year starts in April. Children in the land of the rising sun get just five weeks of summer vacation. South Korea and China have the shortest annual breaks. Kids there attend class for 11 months of the year. In the Southern Hemisphere, folks enjoy vacation in December and January. Shockingly, there are some countries that have no public education at all. Somalia offers only Islamic instruction. Afghanistan bans all girls from schools. Yemen leaves schooling to families. And here's something else you might not know. While Americans spend more money on education than any other nation, the results are dismal. The average student costs US taxpayers $16,000 a year to educate. That figure explodes to 32,000 in New York City, where truancy is out of control. The result is 31% of American high school seniors are proficient in English, 26% in science, 22% in math. By comparison, 90% of students in China learn computer programming, advanced mathematics, speak a second language language. Back after this. 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 you.