Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, March 17, 2025

Episode Date: March 17, 2025

America strikes the Houthis, TDA deported, astronauts rescued, and brackets picked. Plus, the Message of the Day, the EU’s relationship with the United States.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It is Monday, March 17th, 2025. Here's this happening today in America. Houthi struck. TDA deported. Astronauts rescued and brackets picked. It's all coming up, then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, in President Trump's first term, he named the Houthis in Yemen, a terrorist organization. And 2021, Joe Biden, one of his first things he did in office, was to remove them from the terror list.

And short, because he thought that the Houthis would use the money that they would now have available to them to help feed starving people in their country. They didn't. They used the money to nearly shut down the entire Red Sea and disturb international shipping in a dramatic way. 95% of ships that went through the Suez Canal instead started going around the southern tip of Africa. I can add up to two weeks of transit time, a lot of money. According to the Chief Pentagon spokesman, the Houthis have attacked U.S. warships 174 times, one coming within a mile of one of our destroyers, and commercial vessels 145 times in just the last year and a half.

Trump said to all Houthi terrorists, your time is up, and your attacks must stop starting today. If they don't, hell will rain down upon you like nothing you have ever seen before. Then he said to Iran, support for the Houthi terrorists. must end immediately. Donald Trump also invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, which allows for the expedited removal of Venezuelan illegal aliens who are suspected to be members of the gang Tren de Aragua. The Democrats argued to Trump in a letter that a migration is not technically an invasion. They said if courts have consistently held an invasion under the Constitution requires, quote, armed hostility from another political entity intended to overthrow the

government. That has not stopped the Trump administration. Two NASA astronauts were supposed to go on a 10-day mission to the International Space Station. But when the Boeing Starliner had so many problems with it, they decided to return the vessel back to Earth without the astronauts on it. They've been up in the International Space Station for nine months. Stranded. President Trump called Elon, of course, the head of space X to go rescue them. Elon says that Biden did not call him and SpaceX sooner because he thinks Biden didn't want to give a win to Elon, a Trump supporter. Selection Sunday was yesterday for March Madness. The number one seeds are Auburn, Duke, Houston, and Florida. The SEC has a tournament record 14 bids. The first games kick off Tuesday.

The first round officially begins this Thursday. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast, Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message today. Next. This MailChimp-Ferific jingle is brought to you by MailChimp. MailChimp, Your Marketing with AI and more. Advanced automations to connect to your store. MailChimp, Your Marketing and booster clicks. Multi-channel campaigns now with SMS. That's lit.

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On this Monday, I'm thinking about America's relationship with Europe. That is the kind of boring guy I am. Now, President Trump says he wants the EU to prosper, but he also wants fair trade deals with our closest allies. Last week, the president hosted

the leader of Ireland in the Oval Office. Mr. Trump softly chided his Irish counterpart, who took the jabs in good nature. Predictably, the Democrats used a friendly meeting to attack Trump's foreign policy. But here are a few examples of America's trade imbalance with Europe. Ireland, 80 billion. That means the Republic gets 80 billion more U.S. dollars than we get euros from it. France, 15 billion, Austria, 11 billion, Italy, 40 billion, Sweden 9 billion, Germany, 80 billion. So we're getting hos across the board.

And everybody knows that, but some people don't care. Then there's national defense. Americans spend $820 billion a year on the military. That's all taxpayer money, and it protects the EU. But over in Europe, Belgium spends 2% on its military, and Donald Trump wants 5% minimum from all European nations. Does that seem unreasonable to you? 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.

Douglas Shuffling, Richland, Washington. I know very little about the procedures. regarding auto pen. How does the signature via auto pen different from a forgery? Because it has to be okay. Government has to put the document in the auto pen. It's not a forgery. And it started with Harry Truman. The presidents are overwhelmed with kind of so I can't sign all day so that artificial pen is used. Nothing wrong with it unless you're doing it for high legislation like executive orders. Then there's something wrong with it. Susan, would it be due process in front of a Soros immigration judge? Then he's back on our streets. You're talking about the Columbia Palestinian sympathizer. You can't go Soros judge because then the whole legal system

collapses. There are plenty of bad judges. But you can't say, no, we're not going to do due process because there are bad judges. Then we have no system. Andrea Maizel, Dix Hills in New York on Long Island. Thanks for the info about Germany annexing Austria. My relatives were all killed in World War II. They did not flee Austria when they could have. My dad was fighting against them. This is difficult for us as my father fought his uncles.

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He was kidnapped by pagans as a teenager and taken to Ireland as a slave. He escaped and returned to Ireland years later as a priest, converting the Celtic people to Christianity. During his lifetime, Patrick established monasteries, churches, religious schools. After his death, folklore said that St. Patrick drove the snake. into the sea. One problem. There never were any snakes in Ireland if you don't count the politicians. Others say that Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity. St. Pat's festivities were mostly religious until the 18th century, when immigrants to the USA brought the legend of St. Patrick here. Boston held its first parade honoring the

Saint in 1737. Wow. For the next two centuries, Irish emigration spread, creating large communities in England, the USA, Australia, Canada, South Africa. Today, folks around the world celebrate the holiday in various ways. Since 1962, Chicago uses non-toxic food coloring to turn River Green. McDonald's offers this shamrock shake everywhere. Even the sale of Lucky Charmed cereal jumps 50% in March. And here's something else you might not know. Many people associate the feast of St. Patrick with alcohol.

But that wasn't always true. In Ireland, St. Patrick's Day was viewed as a significant religious event until the 1970s. Many towns had laws restricting the sale of booze during the holiday. Pubs were closed across the island, which wasn't very festive, if you know what I mean. Well, today is a great day for the Irish, but don't sully it by drinking like a camel. Back in a moment. The best coast just got better. Introducing Quantum of the Seas sailing from L.A. this fall.

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