Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, August 15, 2025

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

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Bill O'Reilly here, and I'm warming up. Stand by for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition. On this Friday, I am wishing President Trump good luck in his attempt to get a ceasefire and a manageable situation in Ukraine. With more than a million people, dead, wounded, displaced. That seems to be a noble goal. But you wouldn't know it by watching America. television news or European television news or reading the newspapers.

No, no, no, no, no. The fact that Trump is going to meet with Putin in Alaska has all kinds of negative consequences. You've heard them. Oh, we're enabling Putin. Oh, we're showing weakness. Oh, Trump will be bamboozled. You know, all of this nonsense. Nobody knows how this is going to work out.

Putin's a psychopath, and I will spell that out vividly in my new book, Confronting Evil. But you've got to try, that's the responsibility of any president. And what about this scenario? Can you imagine Kamala Harris going up against Vladimir Putin? Putin was so disrespectful to Joe Biden, he wouldn't even take his phone calls. Trump has got the guy going to Anchorage. Kamala Harris doing that negotiation, how do you think that would work out? Maybe that's a cheap shot.

I'm sorry if you feel that way. But just look at the state of those two people, Harris and Trump. Back in a moment. Hey, Mike Baker here, host of the President's Daily Brief podcast. If you want straight talk on national security, foreign policy, and the biggest global story. going on of the day. This is the show for you. We publish twice a day, Monday through Friday, once in the morning, again in the afternoon. And on the weekend, we go longer with the PDB's Situation Report with excellent guests, including national security insiders and foreign policy

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