Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, August 19, 2023

Episode Date: August 19, 2023

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Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the weekend edition of the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. Here's what's happening this week in America. GOP debate coming up. Questions for Maui. 30-year interest rates highest in 21 years.

And SoCal braces for a potential hurricane. It's all coming up. Then Bill will be here with your message of the day. But first, the first GOP primary debate coming up this Wednesday night. In order to get on the stage, you need 1% in a couple different polls, 1% support. You need 40,000 donors and you have to sign a pledge committed to support the ultimate GOP nominee. Trump has not done that last thing. The debate goers right now are Ron DeSantis, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Chris Christie, Doug Bergam, and Mike Pence.

There's been a rumor that if Trump does not go to the debate, will offer some counter-programming. Instead, Trump also has to show up in Georgia to be arraigned any time before Friday. More questions about the sirens in Maui that were never used. The state has 400 emergency sirens across the state. It's the largest integrated emergency siren network in the world. And it alerts residents to tsunamis and wildfires. There's 80 of these sirens in Maui and in the area around Lahaina. They were not used on August 8th.

Authorities say the sirens. Irons were not used because they were broken. Some say they weren't activated, and some were worried that it would send people into higher ground, thinking people think it was a tsunami and they'd go higher ground, but that's where the fires actually were. There was a thought to use the mobile phone alert, but if you remember back in 2018, residents of Hawaii got an alert on their phone, ballistic missile threat, imbound to Hawaii, seek immediate shelter.

This is not a drill. So they don't have a great record with that. 30-year fixed rates went up to 7.09%, the highest they've been in 21 years. When the Fed started raising rates, the 30-year average was 4.45%. In 1995, the interest rates were 7.8% a bit higher than they are now, but the average house was $150,000. Today, the average house is $420,000. That's a difference in payment of $700 to $2,000. Back in 1995, your house was about 31% of your income.

Today, with average income and average house, it's 49% of one's income. Southern California, on high alert, Hurricane Hillary, category two on Thursday. It's going to hit the coast of Mexico, work its way up to Southern California. San Diego, the southernmost city in California, has only had one hurricane in recent memory back in 1858. I'm Mike Slater for the podcast, Politics by Faith. Hope you have a wonderful weekend. The great Bill O'Reilly is here with your message of the day. Hey, next.

Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to turn into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. Since less than 20% of American adults now consume corporate media, the perception of Donald Trump has evolved into a street corner issue.

By that I mean that folks are forming opinions about Trump's legal problems by what they are told by friends and family rather than what the say anything for profit news organizations put out. This is not a positive development because false information streaks through casual conversations and everybody knows that. And there is no longer a fair press to correct the record. So most Americans live in a days of misinformation and ideological propaganda. That is the truth. More truth. Donald Trump was far too casual with the rules, and that is causing him in the Republican Party tremendous grief. I mean, come on, just send the blanken documents back to the National Archives, right?

Who gives a fig? Same thing with the election stuff. State your opinion and then do everything you can legally to write what you think was wrong. I said a few days after the 2020 vote, That Attorney General Barr should have appointed a special prosecutor to look into fraud allegations, that Rudy Giuliani wasn't close to being enough. But as always, Donald Trump marches to that different drummer. And here we are. 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. dot com name in town if you wish to opine okay let's go to the mail michael long uh lees summit missouri how did your grand juries get chosen how does it work okay regular folks get a summons 23 people in whatever area whatever county on the grand jury takes 12 to indict and that's how it goes getting a little mail you got to show up do your duty steve webb st george utah in the documents with Donald Trump, will he be able to subpoena Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Barack Obama to

discuss their classified documents? Yeah, they won't come into the courtroom, but the judge should allow a deposition to the three men. Absolutely. Mike Johnson, Atlanta, I'm worried that Michelle Obama is going to run. I agree with you regarding she would be a shoe in. If she does, she would absolutely crush Trump. Right now, it looks that way. Joyce Smith, Burnett, Texas, he said yesterday Michelle Obama would win the election if she ends up the nominee for the Democrats, what are your facts behind that opinion? Polling ahead of everybody and her book sales, astronomical book sales, nobody comes close. And the people are buying Michelle Obama's book, a lot of them aren't reading it.

They're just buying it because it helps her. Thomas Concierge member, and we urge everybody to check out the concierge membership. Thomas says, Bill, you always say there was no election. fraud. Right away, Thomas, you are misreporting what I said. I clearly stated on a number of occasions there was fraud. What there isn't is evidence that it would have turned the election in Trump's favor. Okay. Do I honestly believe Joe Biden received 80 million votes? I don't know. But if he didn't, I was ready to look at all the information that came in and nothing has risen. Every journalist will tell you that.

In a moment, something you might not know. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the worlds of politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post

wrapped up in one snappy show. Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast, Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. 87 years ago, 20,000 Americans gathered in Kentucky to see a convicted murderer hanged in the town square. It would be the last public execution in U.S. history. Here is the story. The practice of hanging criminals dates back to ancient Greece.

It was considered a more humane method of execution than stoning or beheading. In the 16th century, hanging became the maximum punishment in England. The procedure was then exported to the British colonies in the new world. As I write in my upcoming book, Killing the Witches, 19 human beings were hanged in Salem for the crime of witchcraft. In the summer of 1936, a man named Rainy, Bethea confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old woman. The case became a national scandal. Rainey was black, the victim White, the local sheriff, a woman. After a

speedy trial, it took the jury just four minutes to return with a verdict, and the sentence was death by hanging. On August 14th, Rainey was given his final meal, fried chicken, pork chops, mashed potatoes, cucumbers, cornbread, lemon pie, and ice cream. He was then walked into the town square and hanged before thousands of cheering spectators. Despite some condemnation from the public, it was a new technology that brought executions indoors. Electricity. Throughout the 1920s and 30s prisons replaced the noose with electric chairs. The chair was the default method of capital punishment in America until the states began using gas and lethal injections. And here's something else you might not know. Just one state in the union still allows prisoners on death

row to choose hanging as their ultimate punishment. That state is New Hampshire. While criminals can opt to hang from the neck until dead in the Granite State, it is still carried out in private, as it should be. Executions are not spectator sports. Back after this. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand. new podcast, Podforce One. Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, lawmakers, and even the president of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world.

Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. want to miss an episode. That is the weekend edition of the O'Reilly Update. No spin, just facts. We are always looking out for you.