Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, January 23, 2025

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

ICE arrests begin, House votes to pass The Laken Riley Act, Trump threatens Russia, and Thune promises votes on nominees. Plus, the Message of the Day, on the pardon of the J6ers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It is Thursday, January 23rd, 2025. Five, here's what's happening today in America, home and to work. First Bill passes Trump to Russia and get them to the floor. It's all coming up, then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day, but first, ICE arrested 308 illegal immigrants, including attempted murderers and child molesters, all on Trump's first full day in office. Authorities in Seattle arrested a Mexican man who was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor. In Miami, ICE arrested six illegal aliens from Guatemala, who had

Rap sheets including battery, child abuse, fraud, resisting arrest, DWI, trespassing and vandalism. In Boston, ICE arrested at least eight illegal immigrants, including a Haitian gang member with 18 arrests who shouted F. Trump, Biden forever, as he was hauled away. Amazing that the Democrats couldn't even get themselves to deport these people. In similar news, the House voted to pass the Lake and Riley Act. So it went from the House to the Senate, they made a few good changes, went back to the House again, and they passed it. 263 to 156, 46 Democrats voted in favor as well. The bill requires Homeland Security to detain illegal immigrants who are charged with certain crimes, including theft and burglary. There's another part of the bill that gives state attorney generals the right to sue federal officials, including the Secretary of Homeland Security and the U.S. Attorney General, if they do not enforce the Act's provisions.

The president wrote on truth, social, I'm not looking to hurt Russia. I love the Russian people. I always had a very good relationship with President Putin. And this despite the radical left's Russia, Russia, Russia hoax, we must never forget that Russia helped us win the Second World War, losing almost 60 million lives in the process. All of that being said, I'm going to do Russia, whose economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big favor.

Settle now and stop this ridiculous war. Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the Senate Republicans are ready to hold the Senate open nights, weekends, and recesses, whatever it takes to confirm Donald Trump's nominees. So far, only Marco Rubio for Secretary of State, the only one who's made it through. He was specifically referring to John Radcliffe, who would be, will be, the head of the CIA. He made it through the Intel Committee 14 to 3, but he's being held up by the Democrats. They could only hold it off about a week or so. Thune did get Pete Hegseth, scheduled for a vote Friday at worst Saturday morning. My sources in D.C. are telling me that Pete Haxeth has the votes.

No reason to hold this up any longer. We don't have a secretary of defense right now. So let's get this done. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast. Politics by Faith, the great Bill O'Reilly. He has your message of the day. Next. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress.

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The primary threat that was used was overcharging these people. Federal prosecutors often told defendants that unless they pleaded guilty to a specific charge, they would have more crimes added. Many protesters caved, facing decades in prison, enormous ongoing legal expenses. It literally costs millions of dollars to fight federal prosecutors because the cases can drag on for years. If one enters a guilty plea, the financial ordeal ends. So the Biden administration literally terrorized some rioters into admitting guilt. Is that justice? President Trump doesn't believe it is, therefore he issued departments.

Now, I would like to see the president explain why. some violent people got out. I think that's important. But equal justice does not include threats from federal prosecutors. And that is what happened in the J6 case. 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 jillian concierge member jillian has a direct access to me my team will help jillian if she gets into trouble bill so happy to see the january six pardons these people have been through enough even the violent people julian alice i appreciate your clarification of the january six attack o're

the imprisonment is, et cetera. But I'm still not fully clear why some people are actually thrown in jail, because they committed crimes. And in some cases, they were flight risks, and in other cases, they couldn't make the bail. When you commit a crime in this country, you're in, Jillian, you're in trouble. So keep that in mind. That's Alice, I'm sorry.

Ron Forsterner, Cedar Hills, Utah. I agree with your assessment, O'Reilly of the Pardons, and I would not let the violent ones out either. I do believe we have a right to know about the January 6th committee and what really happened there. So do I. Especially if anybody on that January 6th committee that tried every way possible to hang Donald Trump figuratively, destroyed evidence. You've got to take a hard look at that. and I hope Pam Bondi is up for it. Kevin McDaniel, Las Vegas,

your coverage analysis of the pard's by Trump and Biden was fair. Good. However, there remains at least one answer question. Do the FBI have insiders on the ground at the Capitol? Yes, they did. They had informers in the crowd, gathering evidence, as any federal agency would. I'm not, I don't know exactly what they did,

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