Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, February 27, 2025

Episode Date: February 27, 2025

Widespread layoffs coming to DC, Zelensky arrives in Washington, Bezos makes changes at the Washington Post, and another close call. Plus, the Message of the Day, Trump is taking a risk by courting Vladimir Putin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The memo said pursuant to the president's direction, agencies should focus on the maximum elimination of functions that are not statutorily mandated while driving the highest quality, most efficient delivery of their statutorily required functions. It's worth noting that President Bill Clinton, part of his 1993 effort called reimagining government, according to a testimony from the person who ran his National Performance Review Initiative, a total of 426,000 federal jobs, 426,000 were eliminated during his presidency. Trump announced yesterday during the first full cabinet meeting that Zelensky, President

of Ukraine, will be in D.C. on Friday to sign that mineral rights deal. Trump called it a very big deal. We don't know the terms of it yet, and we don't know what Ukraine is going to be getting out of this in terms of a security guarantee. Word is that we will be getting half of Ukraine's mineral rights, up to a number that's being thrown around, $500 billion. On that war, J.D. Vance, at this cabinet meeting, said we are not going to do negotiations in public with the American media.

We're going to do it in private with the president of Russia, Ukraine, and other leaders. He went on to say that every single time our president engages in diplomacy, you guys, speaking in the media, preemptively accuse him of conceding to Russia. He hasn't conceded to anyone. He's doing the job of a diplomat, and he's the diplomat in chief as the president of the United States. A shift is happening in the media, MSNBC, making layoffs to their prime time, firing Joy Reid, among others, reorganizing their lineup. But check this out from Jeff Bezos, owner of the Washington Post. He said, we're going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars, personal liberties and free markets. This is about the opinion section.

He said, we'll cover other topics too, of course. But viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. I'm confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I'm excited for us together to fill that void. The opinion editor resigned. No, this is not the same story we did yesterday. An American Airlines plane arriving at Reagan Airport in D.C.

discontinued its landing because there was another plane departing from the same runway. This happened actually just two hours after the near miss at Chicago's Midway Airport. I'm Mike Slater from Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly with your message to the day. Next. I just mailchimp my marketing. You mailchimped your what? I mailchimped my marketing with AI to create an effective marketing campaign in minutes. No, mailchimp and way. Yes, mailchimp in way. Now I can hyper-personalize my campaigns across email and SMS.

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in charge of the federal government. Some new policies are good, others questionable. But what is absolutely fascinating is that the Democratic party opposes just about all change. The nation cannot sustain a $37 trillion debt. Everybody knows that. Spending cuts have to be made or the American economy will collapse. Therefore, some programs and personnel will have to be diminished. People will lose jobs. But every time there's a layoff or a closed program, the whaling begins. It's not fair. People will starve. Plains will crash. It's Armageddon. Now, my simple question to those people who are wailing is this. What would you do to get federal spending under control?

Rarely an answer. President Biden's solution was more taxes, fair share as he went. about bankrupting the country. The truth is that far too much tax money is wasted by corrupt bureaucrats, and that is anything but fair. So let's do something about it. Okay, people, 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. We got Anthony Roush Wall Township, New Jersey. Hey, Bill, I usually agree with you, but I cannot get on board with Trump appeasing Putin. Russia's strategy has been to target civilians and that's a clear violation of the Geneva Convention. And to side with Putin in any way

puts the rule of law in the garbage. Well, I don't think Trump's siding with Putin. As I analyzed pretty extensively, Anthony, he's trying to get a deal. And so he's not antagonizing Putin. We've got to live in a real world here. You don't get a deal with Putin? The war continues. Nothing's going to stop it.

That's it. David, at least there's a chance the war for ends with Joe Biden. There was no way. Okay, that's true. Biden, Putin wouldn't even take his call. Embarrassing. Boy, oh boy. I can imagine if I were president,

somebody didn't take my call. Uh, Fran, the U.S. has been messing in Ukraine's business for many years and that's wrong. We should get out of Ukraine's business, stop sending money and war material to Zelensky and leave them alone to solve the problem. Well, friend, that means.

That means Taiwan goes, that means Putin invades other countries. That means chaos in the world. That means the American economy craters because of chaos in the world. You want all that? You need to think a little more deeper, a little bit deeper about this. Alan, the outcome is your choice between a peace deal or Russia will own all of Ukraine. The longer the war continues, the more territory, Ukraine will lose. and half the industrial capacity or to win the fight.

Absolutely right. Ukraine can't be Russia. And that's a disadvantage, obviously, in any negotiation. 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 sign. start saving on fuel. Then you can keep fueling up on other things like adventure, memories,

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Despite losing a recent Senate race, Lincoln's popularity was growing. On February 27, Abe spoke before a crowd gathered inside the Great Hall of Manhattan's Cooper Union Building. The address focused on the biggest issue of the day, slavery. said Lincoln, quote, the sum of the whole is that of our 39 fathers who frame the original Constitution, 21, a clear majority, certainly understood that no proper division of local

from federal authority nor any part of the Constitution forbade the federal government to control slavery, unquote. Well, towards the end of his speech, Lincoln urged Republicans to elect abolitionist politicians throughout the USA and prevent the spread of slavery to new states. The address became a national sensation. Abraham Lincoln's remarks are printed and published in every major city, even in the South. He soon became a national symbol for the anti-slavery movement. Three months later, Lincoln was selected by the Republican National Convention to run as the party's presidential nominee. In November 1860, Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John Breckenridge with an electoral landslide, 180 to 72.

Lincoln carried the popular vote as well, 40 percent to 14. Abraham Lincoln's name did not appear on many ballots in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi. Louisiana and Texas. And here's something else you might not know. Cooper Union stands to this day. The iconic hall houses a private college, the Cooper Union for the advancement of science and art. Famous alumni Thomas Edison and Wonder Woman film director Patty Jenkins. Back after this. 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

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