Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, August 12, 2025

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

Trump’s DC takeover, facing 20 years, trade deadline extended, and a sound of history is no longer. Plus, Bill’s Message of the Day, Bernie Sanders’ “fighting oligarchs” tour. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, August 12th, 2025. Here's this happening today in America. Section 740. Facing 20 years, trade deadline extended, and a sound of history is no longer. That's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, here's the background to this. The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power over. Washington, D.C. It's Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17. This section gives the Congress the power to find a piece of land and govern over it. Fast forward to 1973. Congress allowed D.C. to elect its own mayor and counsel, but Congress only gave up some of their powers. And even in that, section 740 is the Emergency Powers Act, where the president can bypass all local control and take this constitutional power back entirely. Or as the president put it, I'm announcing an action to rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor.

And worse, as an example of being tough on crime, a California man faces 20 years in prison for allegedly striking a border agent with a piece of cinder block. Maybe you've seen videos of these anti-ice agents intentionally chipping away at a cinder block to get pieces and throwing at ice. Jacob Daniel Tadasas, a 30-year-old resident of Paramount California, threw a rock and hit an ice agent in the shin. The U.S. attorney of that region said we will not stand by while our brave federal agents and officers get hurt. If you injure an officer enforcing immigration law, you may serve 20 years in a federal prison cell.

It's just not worth it. More than two dozen suspects have been charged with assaulting federal agents in recent weeks just in California and Oregon alone. Just hours before the deadline was to go into effect, President Trump signed an executive order extending the United States and China trade truce for another 90. days. The deadline now will expire on November 9th. Before this truce, the trade tariff on Chinese imports entering into America was 145%. After more than 30 years, this sound is no longer. Ah, what a beautiful sound. After 30 years, AOL is hanging up on Dial-Up Internet. How is that still a thing?

163,000 households were using Dial-Up Internet in 2023. America Online, the internet provider of the early 90s, changed his name to AOL in 2006. And now Dial-Up is officially a dinosaur. I'm Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. You can download it anywhere you listen to podcast. Bill O'Reilly has your message today.

Next. I'm Piers Morgan, the host of the Piers Morgan Uncensored Podcast. We do big interviews and we do big debates about whatever's getting people talking. We make news, we make noise, and we make a little bit of trouble too. Come and see what all the fuss is about. You can listen to Piers Morgan Unsensored on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, wherever you get your podcasts. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, Message of the Day.

This Tuesday, this summer, socialist Bernie Sanders is spending time away from his Lake Champlain, DACA, in order to visit the country with his fighting oligarchs tour. I thought Bruce Springsteen might open for the senator, but apparently Bruce is confused by the oligarch thing, because there aren't any in New Jersey. The tour should have been called Burn Baby Burn, because the 84-year-old is on fire all the time. show him a crowd and his inner Godzilla appears, fire breathing stomping around. To save you some gas money, here's what the burn and love guy wants with apologies to Elvis, who also never saw an oligarch in Tupelo. Free health care for 350 million people, free college for anyone who can get there, free daycare for all the tikes, government subsidized housing, food, public transportation,

in urban areas. Guaranteed employment with a minimum wage of $17 an hour. No mention of free spa treatments, but give the Vermonter time. Sanders well knows this is all Don Quixote stuff because no country could come close to affording it. Unless that is a totalitarian government seized private property and ran the entire economy, which is what Carl or Bernie really wants. One wonders the intellectual capacity of those Americans showing up to hear his nuttiness. But Bernie continues to draw crowds. Maybe because it's free. 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. Now let's go to the mail. Jim Edmiston, Loveland, Colorado. you mentioned on your talking points

that Putin has been named a war criminal. Cannot leave Russia. Could he be arrested at the meeting with Trump? So I dealt with this in the talking points tonight. Jim, you've got to live in a real world, man. So that would start World War III if U.S. authorities or anybody else

arrested Putin in Alaska. You've got to be here and present in the world. Norman. Norman says the office of presidency is perfect for a man like Trump. Because there's so many interesting problems going around, he challenges them. The high-energy machine thrives up making deals, the more the better. He'd be bored without it.

That's the way God made them. Can't argue with that. I mean, obviously, you're going to have people that don't want to be president, but he done more than any other president except FDR, we've gone over this. And FDR had to because the country was on the edge of rebellion when he took over in the Great Depression. Donna. I pray President Trump is reading your message of the day, Bill. You have your finger on the pulse of America around the gold. Your decades of experience and knowledge precludes any advisor in the Trump administration. I don't know about that. I know a lot. Too much for my own good, Donna. But I'm working really hard, and you guys need to know that, to get you solid information from primary sources. That means that I'm on the phone. phone, I'm on the dopey text and email, and people don't lie to me because they know they'll be held to pay. So they either say, I can't tell you, O'Reilly, or here it is.

Now I will give them attribution, obviously. I'm not going to attribute anything to them they don't want. This is what they call deep background. Boy, I'm working hard on it. on them, we're way ahead. So that is a great reason to come, a premium or concert, is remember to bill O'Reilly.com. In a moment, something you might not know. Summer is Tim's ice latte season. It's also hike season, pool season, picnic season, and yeah, I'm down season. So drink it up with Tim's ice lattes, now whipped for a smooth taste. Order yours on the Tim's app today at participating restaurants in Canada for a limited time. Now, the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know.

86 years ago today, one of the most successful films of all time debuted in Wisconsin. The movie featured a teenage girl, a tin man, cowardly lion, scarecrow, and a three-year-old Scottish terrier named Toto. Here's the story behind the Wizard of Oz. The original book was published in the year in 1900. author L. Frank Baum thought the story would sell a few thousand copies. It quickly became the best-selling children's book in history. The characters were drawn from Baum's own childhood. He frequently had nightmares of menacing scarecrows and man-eating lions. In addition, the author's niece, Dorothy, became ill and died from congestion of the brain before her first birthday. Bound,

compiled his personal trauma into the story. He settled on a name Oz as a reference to the newly formed nation of Australia. By the 1930s, two million copies of his book were sold in the USA alone. Executives at MGM then bought the rights to the Wizard after watching Walt Disney's Snow White. The film starring Judy Garland premiered August 12th. 1939 at the Strand Theater in rural Wisconsin. It is regarded as one of the finest movies ever made. It's ranked as one of the top five features of all time,

alongside Citizen Kane and Casa Blanca. And here's something else you might not know. MGM selected the small town near Milwaukee for the premiere to gauge the audience's reaction. Executives stood in the back of the theater to see of certain scenes, including the infamous flying monkeys and wicked witch were too scary for children. But the crowd loved the Wizard of Oz.

And knowing they had a hit, the film had a second premiere in Hollywood and Times Square, New York, three days later. It is now run on television all the time as the residuals pour in. Elfrank Bomb did not have another follow-up to. the wizard, but he will go down in history nonetheless. Back after this. 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 stories 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 Experts. Check us out on Spotify, and Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts, also on our YouTube channel, at President's Daily Brief. Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly Update. I am Bill O'Reilly. For more news and honest analysis, please go to Bill O'Reilly.com. No spin, just facts, and always looking out for you.

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