Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, January 18, 2025

Episode Date: January 18, 2025

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Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thanks, Bill. Here's what's happening this week in America. Confirm them already. Enaguration no-shows, Rubio's replacement, and chopsticks in the air. It's all coming up, then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, Attorney General's in 20 states are urging the U.S. Senate to quickly confirm Donald Trump's nominees for Attorney General, Secretary of Homeland Security, and FBI director.

That's Pam Bondi, Christy Noam, and Cash Patel. Pam Bondi's hearing was on Wednesday. Noam's confirmation hearing is today. Cash Patel will be formally nominated on Monday and probably confirmation hearings next week. The Democrats are indeed going to use whatever procedural delays they can use to push back the final vote on Pete Hegeseth until Wednesday or Thursday of next week. Politico framed this as Republicans want. to ram through Pete Higgsett's vote on Monday.

They want to ram it through. If the Democrats push this back for no reason at all, then we'll be without a Secretary of Defense for a couple of days. Well, just sour grapes in Capitol Hill. Nancy Pelosi will be joining Michelle Obama and not attending the inauguration. She's been to 11 presidential inaugurations in her lifetime, dating back to JFK in 1961. But this one's just too much for her to handle.

Who will be there? Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg. The net worth of these three individuals is $885 billion, joined by the CEO of Google, who also donated a million dollars to the inauguration fund. Worth noting about Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and current owner of the Washington Post, they changed the mission statement of the Washington Post to Democracy Dies in Darkness back in 2017 to go against Trump. They changed it.

Rividing storytelling for all of America. Bezos has talked about appealing to more conservatives and people not just on the urban coasts. Chief Justice Roberts will swear in the president, as is customary. Marco Rubio's had a great hearing to be Secretary of State. He will be confirmed, which means Ron DeSantis gets to pick who his replacement will be in the Senate. And he's made his decision, the current Florida Attorney General, Ashley Moody. DeSantis said he wanted somebody that's going to work with the president to deliver on the mandate he earned from the American people. Speaking of Elon, SpaceX once again launched its super heavy rocket poster and caught it as it was landing back on its launch pad, caught by two giant metal arms that Elon calls chopsticks.

Elon posted a video of Mr. Miyagi catching flies with chopsticks next to a picture of his rocket landing back down to Earth. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast, Politics by Faith. The Great Bill O'Reilly has your message to the day. Next. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver. Theroux, the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold.

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Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. Now that the lunatic asylum of California liberal politics has been exposed by the wildfire disaster, honest Americans face some introspection. It's clear the United States has descended into ideological tribalism. And that is hurting all of us. For example, the primary reason the African continent has never generally prospered is the overwhelming presence of ancient hatreds, tribes, failing to put aside differences for the great of good of a strong, fair country.

And it's not just Africa. I was struck by Congresswoman Maxine Waters' statement that the real problem facing natural disasters in Los Angeles, is that wealthy Americans don't pay their fair share in taxes. A stunning opinion that reflects a completely incomprehensible mindset. For the Democratic Congresswoman, efficiency and problem solving simply don't exist. Her far left political tribe wants to punish the affluent far more than providing realistic protections for all. On the right, Exclusionary policies also exist. At this point in our history, powerful food and drug companies are badly hurting Americans

by peddling massive amounts of sugar and charging big money for medicine. There is little conservative outcry. Simple truth, problems need to be addressed. But tribes seek power, not solutions. 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, the mayor. Ronald, concierge member, Ronald gets direct access to me. My team is his team. First priority for the Trump administration, my opinion should be to repair the damage done to our country by the Biden and Obama administrations

and then try to eliminate the two-tier justice system. I don't think you're ever going to eliminate corruption in the justice system. system. It's just too deeply entrenched. I don't think that's possible anymore. I hate to say it. Dan, I agree with your assessments bill. However, no amount of preparation would have prevented the fire. Correct. Fire would have happened, but nothing is bad. If they had, you know, a reservoir in Pacific Palisades was down and not operating for a year. What? If they had that water, they could have knocked this thing down a lot sooner.

They didn't have it. That's the point. They were derelict, they being the politicians, in their duty. John, concierge member, your presentation about the Trump-Nusome-L.A. fire situation needs to be seen by all Americans.

You owe it O'Reilly to cause that to happen. So, what am I supposed to do? force the networks to run my commentary? They don't want any part of me. This presentation is

so far beyond what they do. They don't want to let their viewers know what we're doing here. I mean, come on. It's not even the same universe. What we give you every night and what they give you,

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