Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, April 8, 2025

Episode Date: April 8, 2025

Talks with Iran, China retaliates, Supreme Court win, and 80 years later. Plus, the Message of the Day, organized protests across America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ships Registry Bahamas. Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It is Tuesday, April 8th, 2025. Here's this happening today in America. Talks with Iran. China retaliates. Supreme Court win. And 80 years later, that's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, while sitting next to the Prime Minister of Israel, President Trump said the U.S. is engaging in, quote, direct talks with Iran over its nuclear program. He said we're having direct talks with Iran and they've started. It'll go on Saturday. We have a very big meeting and we'll see what can happen. He went on and said, and I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious.

And the obvious is not something that I want to be involved with or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it. It's believed that China accounts for 70% of the world's rare earth minerals at the moment. They controlled 90% just a decade ago, but other places. around the world have ramped up their production. China said they will be retaliating against President Trump's tariffs against China by cutting off exports of rare earth metals to the United States. Beijing announced specifically tighter controls to protect its national interests. South Korea is very dependent on these rare earth metals for their electronic manufacturing. The South Korean trade minister said that they believe the government and private stockpiles

are sufficient to last for six months on two of the seven restricted earth metals coming out of China, while manufacturing processes can be adjusted to reduce the consumption of the other needed rare earth metals. Trump has threatened to hit China with another 50% tariff increase if they don't withdraw their countermeasures. That would be a total of 104% tariff on China. In a five to four decision, the Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to enforce the deportation of gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. But only in this case, it's like a half win. The Supreme Court found that the migrants improperly challenged their deportations in Washington, D.C., they should

have challenged them in Texas where they were being held. The court did not rule in any broader sense, and they didn't address the question of whether the Trump administration improperly categorized the Venezuelans as deportable under the Enemy Aliens Act. So it's a little win, but a win's a win. A 100-year-old World War II veteran traveled from Bristol, Connecticut to Iwo Jima to mark 80 years since he fought in that battle. Joseph Caminiti, 100 years old, goes to the gym every day. He joined Pete Hegsseth and other military officials to Iwo Jima for that 80th anniversary. It's believed that there are three living survivors to that 36-day battle where 6,800 Americans were killed and 20,000 Japanese were killed. The mayor of Joseph Caminiti's

town said he's as humble as could be and doesn't believe he's done anything amazing. I'm Mike Slater from Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly with your message of the day. Next. This episode is brought to you by San Pellegrino Chau. A new kind of flavor of sparkling water. The kind made with real fruit juice, a pinch of Sicilian salt,

and the sparkle of the Italian sun. With no added sugar and just 10 or less calories per can, enjoy with love from Italy. By San Pellegrino Chau now. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. On this Tuesday, over the weekend, thousands of protesters vented anti-Trump feelings coast to coast. These were not organic demonstrations, but organized displays. You can tell by the professionally printed signs and t-shirts, which had to be in motion

before the stock market pullback that began last Wednesday. These demonstrations were not about tariffs. now there is nothing wrong with peaceful protest in fact it's a strength of a robust free society but i'm not certain exactly what the angst is at this point in history putting aside the hate trump people and the hardcore socialist what exactly is the disenchantment elon musk has been vilified for uncovering wasteful spending and bloated government hiring why you don't like that the nation owes 36 trillion. We have to stop adding to the debt. If you don't understand that, the word nitwit applies directly to you. Then we have Americans objecting to deportations. Apparently,

they believe tens of thousands of undocumented folks each should have their day in court, impossible, absurd, anarchy driven. Let's be honest about that. What else? Trying to get peace in Ukraine and Gaza? Attempting to stop fentanyl? You oppose that? So right now, I'm extremely dubious about the righteousness of the anti-Trump protests. Feels wrong to me. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me. Bill at bill o'Reilly.com. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, name in town, if you wish to opine. All right, let's go to the mail, Gary Galloan, Winnipeg, Canada. What effect what President Trump's tariff has on Americans who live payday to payday?

Only if the job market shrinks. So if you live payday to payday, you don't have any money to buy stocks. So the stock market fluctuations aren't going to affect you. But if the big companies get pounded and people stop buying their paper, then they're going to be layoffs. that's down a road and that's how they would be affected Gary Bob Morrow, Baldwin, New York is it true that countries are actually

raising their tariffs to counter the terrorists in the USA? Of course it's true. China. Big, big, big, big. Raise it up there like 60%. Steve Anding, Brookhaven, Mississippi. Bill, thanks for all you do. Most of all giving us the truth. My question,

why does there have to be any tariffs? I don't understand why that is happening. Because smaller countries believe they are overwhelmed by America, which is huge. It can produce much more stuff than they can. That's why they're a terrorist. But the EU says maybe we don't need them. I hope that's right. I really do. Storm, a concierge member. Thank you, Storm. I hope you're enjoying it. Our country has experienced a repeat of Reagan's first year in office cleaning up a mess led by Jimmy Carter. I remember how bad it was for Reagan. I'm having to deal with high interest rates, high industrial unemployment, taxes, along with major foreign policy mess.

I don't think Biden caused his trade war because every other president, after World War II, nobody dealt with it. So I'm not putting this on Biden. Warren DiDio, Pueblo, Colorado, I understand that reciprocal tariffs. I do not understand why he's imposing baseline tariffs. Well, it's a price of admission to get your stuff to America. This is by far the most lucrative market in the world, and Donald Trump says you ought to pay to get into it. That's why.

Now, I'm not saying that's good or bad. We've got to bring down a debt, and that's for sure, and that's one way to do it. In a moment, something you might not know. Did you know that at Chevron you can fuel up on unbeatable mileage and savings? With Chevron rewards, you'll get 25 cents off per gallon on your next five visits, All you have to do is download the Chevron app and join to start saving on fuel. Then you can keep fueling up on other things like adventure, memories, vacations, daycations, quality time, and so many other possibilities.

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Civil War began in April 1861. President Abraham Lincoln soon issued the Emancipation Proclamation. But the order only applied to the Confederacy. The policy did not free blacks living in Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware. Sensing the war's end, Congress quickly moved to vanquish slavery before the southern states were forced to rejoin the Union. On April 8, 1864, the Senate passed a resolution. The legislation was comprised of just 32 words. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to its jurisdiction. The final vote was 38 in favor, six opposed. Those who rejected the resolution were Democrats from Kentucky, Indiana, California, and Delaware. The proposal then passed the House 119 to 56.

The amendment was ratified by a majority of the states took effect December 6th, 1865. For the first time in U.S. history, it was illegal to own, buy, or sell human beings. And here's something else you might not know. It would take another two amendments to completely eradicate slavery. The 14th Amendment passed four years later, gave full citizenship and equal protection, to black Americans, including former slaves. The 15th Amendment prohibits states from denying voting rights based on skin color.

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