Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, June 16, 2023

Episode Date: June 16, 2023

Kamala calls for a federal crackdown on guns, workers testing positive for drugs hit a 20 year high, belief in a higher power falls to a record low, and sharks descend on New England Plus, the message of the day, Trump promises to end birthright citizenship. 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 Friday. June 16th, 2023. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here is what's happening today in America.

Kamala Harris calls for a federal crackdown on guns. The number of workers testing positive for drugs hits a 20-year high. Belief in a higher power falls to a record low. I wonder if there's any, not just correlation, but causation there. Great white sharks descend on New England. That's all coming up and then the message of the day. But first, Vice President Kamala Harris says guns have no place in modern society. The VP said, quote, weapons of war have no place on the streets of a civil society.

Congress must pass an assault weapons ban. President Biden will sign it. Her comments come days after California governor called for a new amendment to restrict guns in America. That was the theme of yesterday's message of the day. The 28th Amendment, four things Gavin Newsom was calling for. And one of them was the end of weapons of war. AR-15, not used by the military, was designed as a civilian weapon from the beginning.

The percentage of American employees testing positive for narcotics hitting the highest level in two decades, four percent of workers failed a mandatory drug test last year that figures up 50% compared to just 2021. Many companies no longer screen for substances like marijuana even. So obviously, if they were screening for marijuana, which is used way more than it's ever been used before. Pot can be consumed legally in 18 states. New York Times had a story the other day about how kids are showing up to school high

that's vapid or eat gummies or whatever. We have more kids than ever just spending the entire day at school high. Drug and alcohol will be. abuse is responsible for 65% of all workplace injuries. A survey from Gallup finds 81% of the public believes in a higher power. It's down from 98% back in 1969. Younger liberal Americans are the least likely to profess faith in God. 32% of people under the age of 29 identify as agnostic or atheist.

The most religious group in the country, conservative baby boomers. 94% of them say religion plays a major role in their day-to-day lives. Sharks returned to New England in record numbers. Tracking software shows more than 100 Great Whites have staked out Cape Cod as their home. That's up 35% in the last 10 years. Scientists believe the booming seal population is luring predators back to beaches from Long Island to Maine. Polls show 33% of Americans refuse to swim in the ocean because of sharks. The odds of being bitten, one in four million.

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Hey, I'm Mike Slater, filling in for the great Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly update, message of the day. Donald J. Trump said that when he becomes president, the first thing he'll do is end birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is the idea that if you're an illegal immigrant and you have a kid born on American soil, That child is automatically a U.S. citizen. I'll give you a pretty egregious example. El Chapo, the Mexican drug lord. His wife snuck across the border into Los Angeles, had twins, and then went back into Mexico.

El Chapo's twins are American citizens. Donald Trump wants to end that nonsense, and of course the left does not. But this is actually a very legitimate debate to have. We're not the first people to ever talk about what's best. for our country and there are two options law of the soil and law of the blood so law of the soil says that if you're born on this soil you're a citizen law of the blood says that your citizenship no matter where you're born is determined based off the citizenship of your parents now what's interesting is it's split pretty much in the middle of the world almost every country in

our hemisphere, North and South America, is law of the soil. And almost every country in the rest of the world, Africa, Europe, and Asia is law of the blood, which means only the parents' citizenship matters no matter where the kid is born. Interesting, huh? But the deal in America is, our Constitution actually is law of the blood. The Constitution, the 14th Amendment, says all persons born or nationalized in the United States. And that's where people stop. People like, oh, look, all people born in. But they leave out the comma.

And subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. Subject to the jurisdiction thereof. I didn't make that up. It's written right there. That means your citizen. So all persons born and subject to the jurisdiction thereof. The men who wrote that amendment did not. overlook illegal immigrants.

It's not like they never thought about it before. They called these people temporary sojourners. In general, they called them people owing allegiance to any other foreign nation. Today we call them migrants. But the idea is these migrants or illegal immigrants still owe their allegiance to another nation. They are not subject to the jurisdiction of this country. They still are citizens of other countries. This is why when you become a citizen of this country, the oath you give, the very first

line is, I hereby declare that I absolutely and entirely renounce all allegiance to any foreign prince potentate state or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen. You have to renounce your allegiance no longer be a subject of theirs in order to become a citizen of ours. And now when your child is born here, the constitution says, your child can be now a citizen. So Trump doesn't need to change the Constitution. He just needs an executive order to clarify what the Constitution already says.

Now, you may be wondering, well, Slater, if the Constitution says this, why are we doing it the other way? In the 60s, the feds just stopped asking parents to prove their citizenship when they gave birth. They stopped asking. So by default, we've turned into law of the soil. But enough of that nonsense. It's time to get back to what the Constitution says. and it's not controversial. Don't let anyone call you a bigot

for wanting to get rid of birthright citizenship. It's what half the world has. Something you might not know. Coming up next. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before,

and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics of the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find it set Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Mike Slater, Philner for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know. Have you ever heard of redlining? It's one of the reasons why the Black Lives Matter people think that they deserve reparations. Because back in the 30s and 40s,

Banks drew a red line around black neighborhoods and prevented black people from getting loans to buy a house. And because black people couldn't buy a house, they lost out on generational wealth. This is the New York Times. Redlining comes from government maps that outlined areas where black residents lived and were therefore deemed risky investments. So that's not what redlining was at all. They didn't draw maps based off where black people lived.

They drew them based off of the quality of the houses, which in the 30s and 40s was based off how old the houses were. And back then, that meant houses that were built in the 1800s. So they were there for risky investments for banks. That's what it was based off of. Now, there's a kernel of truth in what these Black Lives Matter people are saying and what they're teaching your kids in school. There indeed was a majority of the black people who lived in a city lived in these redlined areas. but that doesn't mean that a majority of the people in the redlined areas were black. Does that riddle make sense?

Banks didn't redline where black people live. They redlined old neighborhoods. Yes, there were a lot of black people in these neighborhoods, but not all the people in these neighborhoods were black. In fact, wasn't even close. And now we have the numbers. What percent of the people who lived in these redline areas do you think were black? Again, this is one of the excuses, one of the justifications for reparations, for millions of dollars of reparations.

So what do you think? I mean, they want you to believe it's 100%. 100% of the people in redlined areas were black. I mean, that's what the New York Times said. So what do you think? 100%? Well, it's not 100%. Okay.

So what do you think? Black people were 95% of the residents? 90? Now, try the other way around. 82% of people living in redlined areas were white. 82% were white. Yes, a majority of the black people in the city were in the redlined areas, but that's a cry from saying that the banks drew lines around the black areas. They weren't. There were 82%

of the people. They were white. The truth is, if you were white and lived in the redlined area, you couldn't finance a house. And if you were black, you could buy a house outside of the redlined area. It all had nothing to do with race. Why do these activists push resentment so hard? Mike Slater. Filling her for Bill O'Reilly. More coming up. Power, politics and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One. Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, newsmakers and even the president of the United States.

These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast, Politics by Faith. Thank you, Bill, for letting me fill in all week. And good news, Bill will be back on Monday. Thank you.