Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, January 13, 2026

Episode Date: January 13, 2026

Iran sanctions, suing Trump, Oregon voter fraud, and Facebook’s new president. Plus, the Message of the Day, why the AP remains a problem for the White House. 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, January 13th, 20206. Here's what's happening today in America. Iran sanctions. Suing Trump, Oregon voter fraud, and Facebook's new president. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day.

But first, Trump announced a trade embargo against Iran and a tariff on anyone doing business with Iran. He wrote, effective immediately, any country doing business with the Islamic of Republic of Iran will pay a tariff of 25% on any and all business being done with the United States of America. This order is final and conclusive. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Worth noting the Supreme Court was expected to rule last Friday on the president's power to issue these tariffs. They didn't issue a ruling, but it might come this week. The president's team has presented Trump with a list of options. He said, we're looking at some very strong options. I'm getting an hourly report. And we're going to make a determination very soon.

The Iranian parliament speaker vowed that U.S. forces would be burned by the fire of Iran's defenders. Quote, in the name of millions of Iranian women and men, I say to the delusional and arrogant president of United States, we are your opponent. We are the nation of Imam Hussein. We are waiting. We stand facing you. The state of Minnesota and the city of Minneapolis are suing the Trump administration, arguing that all this federal ICE enforcement is a, quote, federal invasion. They're asking a court to stop the crackdown. The state of Illinois and city of Chicago just did the same. Homeland Security said if these elected officials had done their sworn duty to protect the people of Minnesota to root out fraud and get criminals off the street, we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place. There are 2,000 federal agents in Minnesota already. Another 1,000 are expected to be deployed.

Oregon election officials are set to begin removing hundreds of thousands of inactive voters from their registration roles. The Secretary of State outlined two new directives. In total, 800,000 inactive voters will be removed from the rolls. That's 20% of Oregon's voter rolls. Meta has named a new president and vice chairman of Facebook. She's a former Trump administration advisor, Dina Powell McCormick. She was the U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for strategy to President Trump. She's married to U.S. Senator Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania.

Trump said the move was a great choice by. met as CEO Mark Zuckerberg and noted that Powell McCormick had served the Trump administration with strength and distinction. Facebook last year appointed UFC Ultimate Fighting Championships CEO Dana White, another Trump ally, to their board. Don't forget, President Trump was once banned from Facebook. And now Zuckerberg eats dinner at Mar-a-Lago and names Trump allies to the board of Facebook and even now the president of Facebook. Things change quickly. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day.

Next. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. On this Tuesday, the Associated Press is really becoming a problem. The Worldwide News Agency sends thousands of stories to newspapers around the world, most of which print them with little scrutiny. AP executives will tell you they play it straight, seeking facts, rejecting spin. That is not true. The reality is the Associated Press wants to make the Trump administration look bad,

not by directly attacking the president, but by story selection and deep skepticism. You may remember the AP was kicked out of the White House last year for slanting its coverage. They sued. But so far, the AP is still looking through the window. And here's a vivid example of why. After Border Patrol agents shot two criminal suspects in Portland, Oregon last week, the government issued a statement saying the pair is suspected of a local shooting and are members of a violent Venezuelan gang. That is true, but the AP would not accept reality and sent out a hard news report that said, quote, evidence has been cast on the administration's characterization of what prompted the shooting. shootings. Clearly, the Associated Press sought to undermine the Trump administration in this case.

And that is shameful. 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. Okay, YouTube address. It's free. Please sign up. YouTube.com slash Bill O'Reilly. Got my Minnesota commentary on there we'll have a new one for you tomorrow that's a good deal it really is it doesn't cost you anything and we have a far different approach to youtube than we do for our program here all right let's go to the mail we got robert a concierge member robert gets direct access to me and big insurance policy for him concierge membership bill o'relly dot com robert says i've been a law enforcement since 1979 i've seen good and bad policing but i've never

policing police refused to back up another law enforcement officer. It's too bad the Minnesota police would not do their jobs and protect ICE. That's true. I think that was horrible. You never saw the New York, the local cops in these confrontations. Robert Lynn, Atlanta, hate it, but this was a bad shooting. I've talked to several of my retired colleagues, and the consensus is shooting was bad. I wore a uniform for decades in a big city. It doesn't mean I'm sagacious, but people say I have good judgment. De-escalation would have stopped this.

Bad shooting, I don't think is fair. Because, as I said last week, you'd have to break down a video and get in a mind of the officer before you can make that determination. Seth, longtime listener, read all your books. Confronting Evil was excellent. I'm having my 11-year-old read Confronting the Presidents. He loves the cursing parents. Andrew Jackson had a parrot.

Very funny story. You said today that the shooting in Minneapolis happened because the Biden's immigration policy, I disagree. Well, I do acknowledge his reckless border policy set the stage. I believe this happened because of the extreme and irresponsible language the left is using. Okay, but it's a stair step. Okay, none of this would be in play. The rebellion would not be going on without Biden's dereliction of duty. I have to make these points in a broad way.

In a moment, something you might not know. Now, the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might, not know. 193 years ago today, President Andrew Jackson wrote a letter to his incoming vice president, Martin Van Buren. In it, he expressed concern over South Carolina's defiance of federal law. Less than three decades later, that state would secede from the Union. Here's the story behind the so-called nullification crisis. The fiasco began in 1992 when South Carolina declared national tariffs on foreign goods as null and unconstitutional. Designed to protect northern factories, southern officials claim the duties unfairly targeted their residents that imported many products from Great Britain.

In early 1833, South Carolina was poised to dispatch armed guards to prevent the collection of terrorists throughout the state. Two weeks before the deadline, Andrew Jackson dispatched an ominous letter to Van Buren, warning of a potential civil war, should South Carolina take the action. wrote Jackson, quote, was this to be permitted? The government would lose the confidence of its citizens, and it would induce disunion everywhere. No, my friend, the crisis must now be met with firmness, our citizens protected, unquote.

Well, the crisis was resolved peacefully in March 1833. Southern lawmakers drafted a reduced tariff arrangement that pacified South Carolina while allowing the federal government to stand on its principles. On May 1, 1833, President Jackson wrote another prescient letter to members of his cabinet, quote, The tariff issue was only a pretext and disunion and Southern Confederacy, the real object. The next pretext will be the issue of sloth. slavery. And of course, that came true. Here's something else you might not know. Today, many places in the union are refusing to comply with federal immigration law. That is a rebellion. That is something that is going to have to be dealt with. Back in a moment. Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly

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