Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, January 8, 2026

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

ICE agent attacked, Tankers seized, Greenland on the table, and eat real food. Plus, the Message of the Day, Donald Trump’s greatest hits album. 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 Thursday, January 8th, 2026. Here's this happening today in America. Ice agent attacked. Tankers seized. Greenland on the table and eat real food. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, an ice agent shot and killed a woman who allegedly, quote, weaponized her vehicle Wednesday morning in Minneapolis. NBC News reported that a group of people began trying to block ICE agents as they were carrying out targeted operations in Minneapolis. And in the course of this, a woman allegedly used her vehicle to attack agents. Homeland Security posted on Twitter, today ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers. One of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them, an act of domestic terrorism.

the president wrote on truth social the woman screaming was obviously a professional agitator and the woman driving the car was very disorderly obstructing and resisting who then violently willfully and viciously ran over the ice officer who seems to have shot her in self-defense based on the attached clip it's hard to believe he's alive but is now recovering in the hospital the woman who died was 37 years old from colorado the u.s seized two oil tankers linked to Venezuela, including a Russian-flagged oil tanker, formerly known as the Bella 1 that's been tracked by the U.S. military since December. The operation was carried out by the U.S. Coast Guard and other military assets.

Russian military vessels were in the area, as this happened. The U.S. yesterday also seized another tanker in the Caribbean. Our Secretary of War said the blockade of sanctioned and illicit Venezuelan oil remains in full effect. Stephen Miller said the only maritime energy transport allowed will be that consistent with American law and national security. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told lawmakers during a classified briefing that the U.S. is seeking to purchase Greenland.

He then told reporters, that's always been the president's intent from the very beginning. This is not new. He talked about it in his first term, and he's not the first U.S. president who has examined or looked at how we could acquire Greenland. We actually made a bid for Greenland back in 1946. It would have been $1.4 billion in today's money. RFK Jr. and Health and Human Services released new dietary guidelines, a new inverted food pyramid. The main encouragement is to limit or eliminate highly processed food and refined carbohydrates.

The largest part of the pyramid, it's no longer the base of the pyramid because it's upside down, but the largest part of the pyramid has a picture of a rib eye and a chicken and broccoli, carrots, and peas. And in big bold letters above the whole thing, eat real food. I'm Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. You can download that anywhere you listen to podcast. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day. Next. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. On this Thursday, Donald Trump has issued a greatest hits album that may hit number one with a bullet. I realize that's a terrible pun, but the world is definitely awaiting what regime will next sing a swan song. Another absolutely brutal play on word, sorry. It is likely to be Iran. The current Ayatollah is rumored to be checking out the Moscow political asylum situation

that Syrian villain Assad embraced. Putin loves bad people and seems to be recruiting them to live in Russia where the current temperature is 2 degrees. That is beard freezing territory, Imam. The Persian people seem to have had it with their government. government, which will execute you for attending the junior prom. The national pastime in Iran is throwing gay people off buildings, as described in my book confronting evil.

Over in Cuba, the communist government there is very shaky because no one has any money and now cheap Venezuela and oil is gone. Yes, like the Persians, Cubans have put up with brutal conditions for decades, but President Trump's aggressive foreign policy is emboldening the persecuted. Greenland is not at that level, so I don't expect a change of government there. Let's leave those people alone. Send Copenhagen some let-it-snow hoodies in return for military-based leases. All of this foreign turmoil is confusing, the anti-Trump brigades, because it's hard to sympathize

with drug merchants, communists, and terrorist regimes. Senator Chuck Schumer's trying, but it's a heavy lift. You might want to just hum along, Chuck. 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. John, CNN has done a good job providing fair and balanced reporting on the Venezuelan situation. I disagree. Now, during the day, they're reporters, and there aren't any reporters on. on the ground in Venezuela, it's too dangerous. They weren't bad. But prime time, what CNN does is this is the con.

It books guests far more anti-Trump than pro-Trump on every issue. So they bring in a bunch of guests. Oh, we don't have a plan afterward. Oh, they did this. Oh, they did that. They're stealing the oil. And then there's one guy.

Oh, no, no, no. So like 5 to 1, 6 to 1. And then the host, all of them in prime time, every one of them. They're all anti-Trump on CNN. So can they possibly be fair? They're just a deck of stack to use a cliche. But I appreciate, John. We just have a gentleman's disagreement there.

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President Trump. The power that it's changed okay it really i don't know if he quite understands that now but i'm working in a moment something you might not know now the o'reilly update brings you something you might not know three years ago today president biden finally toured the southern border after months of mounting pressure it was his first trip as commander-in-chief here's the story on mr baii Biden's border disaster. On its first day in office, Joe Biden, the 46th president, issued a proclamation.

It was called the termination of emergency along the southern border. The order reversed all restrictions imposed during Donald Trump's first term. That decision became catastrophic. In 2020, Trump's last first term year, just 400,000 people breached the border. In 21, first year under Biden, that figure exploded to 1.6 million, then increased the 2.5 million. Today, between 2019 forward, the amount of deadly fentanyl seized in Texas tripled to 25,000 pounds. The number of child sex slaves also increased 300% on Biden's watch. As a result, Joe Biden's poll numbers cratered.

In December of 2022, just 35% of the public approved of his entire job performance. That figure fell to 25% for his handling of the border. To show up some support, the White House prepared a photo op on January 7, 2023. The president toured El Paso. Three hours later, he bolted at. out of there, going to Mexico City to meet with then President Obrador. In the end, nothing changed. It got worse. So ultimately, the voters had their say. In November 24, Donald Trump vanquished the Democrats in both a popular and electoral vote, carried every swing state,

and the hapless Kamala Harris simply could not defend Biden's border policy. That decision to open the southern border may be the worst mistake in presidential history. Beginning in his second term, Donald Trump, has now closed the border, but the migrant crisis is still underway. Back in a moment. Every family has a story. Now you can discover the chapters you've never read at an amazing low price. With an Ancestry membership, you can start building your family tree and easily search and add the historical records you uncover.

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