Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, March 3, 2025

Episode Date: March 3, 2025

Emergency summit over Ukraine, more DOGE cuts, increased lumber production, and news from the Oscars. Plus, the Message of the Day, Jon Stewart cuts his hand on air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Number one, based on publicly available data on competitors' customers. Plans vary. SMS available as ad-on. Visit MailChimp.com. 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 Monday, March 3rd, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Emergency Summit, one week deadline, more lumber, and the Oscar winners. That's all coming up, then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, an emergency summit of European leaders gathered this weekend to work on a ceasefire with Ukraine and Russia.

This, of course, came after the, what I think was an incredible meeting with Zelensky and Trump and J.D. Vance didn't go well for Zelenskyy. That's not my assessment. By the way, you can look at the face of the Ukrainian ambassador to America and see how she thought it was going. But now Europe's taking the lead. Great. The Prime Minister of England, who was meeting with Trump in the Oval Office last week, said, we've now agreed that the United Kingdom, along with France and possibly one or two others, will work with Ukraine on a plan to stop the fighting. and then we'll discuss that plan with the United States. Awesome. The prime minister said he does not trust Vladimir Putin, but he does trust Trump. Quote, do I believe Donald Trump when he says he wants lasting peace? The answer to that is yes. Much was made of a Norwegian oil company that said they're so embarrassed and horrified by what happened

in the Oval Office on Friday that they're no longer going to refuel American Navy vessels in their Norwegian ports. A Doge update, the Social Security Administration, says it plans to cut seven thousand jobs and reduce the number of its regional offices from 10 to 4. Meanwhile, many federal employees received a second email demanding that they list five things that they accomplished at work this last week. Something I've talked about for 11 years now. Since 1980, all federal retirement paperwork is done by hand in an underground limestone mine outside of Pittsburgh. 28,000 filing cabinets. Some federal employees have a palette full of boxes with their paperwork.

And when you retired, all has to be done by hand, and it can take months. Well, the co-founder of Airbnb was tasked with speeding up this process. They were given a deadline of one week. Just the other day, they processed a federal retiree, not in months, but in two days. And they accomplished this task under deadline. Trump on Sunday signed a pair of executive orders to increase domestic lumber production. One of the goals here is to decrease the cost of building houses. It may also be a dig at Canada, as we import.

$12 billion worth of wood into America from Canada, which is 30% of our wood supply. In Oscars News, the movie of the year was Anora, a movie that I did not see, but no one saw. It only made $16 million in ticket sales. Lowest domestic ticket sale and Best Picture History. Won five awards. The Brutalist won three awards, Wicked and Dune Part 2, each received two. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith Bill O'Reilly with your message today. Next.

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on this monday did you see john stewart almost amputating his hand the other night on television whoa that was an amazing display now as some of you know i know stewart pretty well uh did his program a number of times he did mine we actually broke the record for internet downloads when we did the rumble in the air-conditioned auditorium years ago. It was basically debate between Stewart and myself. Well, Stuart only does one night for Comedy Central these days, and he was railing about corporate America and how they're not fair, and everybody knows that. You don't have to be a conservative or liberal.

Corporate America is not fair. They're in business to make money, and that's what they do. do. And Stewart has a pharmaceutical companies because they'd affect directly our health in his sites. So he gets really worked up that the American government has not been able to negotiate fair drug prices with the pharmaceutical companies. And he slams his mug, of which I have three on the desk and he cuts his hand and is bleeding on camera. And the audience, he makes a joke in the audience last, but I didn't think it was funny. I think you've got to be careful with that kind of passion. But I hope Stewart's okay. 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. Uh, no, Hosmer, Huntsville, Alabama. Last week, you said Congress is the only party could shut down a government agency. Looks to me like US AID has been basically shut down by Trump. No. He fired everybody, but that agency still exists. Okay. But 2000 hit the pavement. Now he can do that, but he can't just wipe out the agency. Jeffrey Brown, Benita Springs, Florida. Can you explain O'Reilly what is the far, right in european politics you know it's anti-migrant and sympathy for dictators that's pretty much the

dual thing in europe for the fra right groups sympathy for dictators anti-migration dr mark belladino hardy's from new jersey i'm loving your youtube bonus videos o'reyley um their excellent new edition doctor we're trying to get to a million subs by uh easter so check it out uh david concierge remember i respect stephen a smith not so much for his politics but his articulation of um other things um he is a clear voice like uh former congressman harrow ford junior i think so i stephen a and i we have a good rapport back and forth respectful he's funny um that's why i put the show together. Get the big show I'll tell you about in a moment. Jason Hunt, Scott's Dale, Arizona. In addition to your invaluable news analysis bill, I follow several independent journalists

on YouTube. Most all of them have credited the 2024 election cycle with driving an audience of people looking for honesty. I believe there is a large audience for that. And that's why your three Americans tour appeals to me. It's a big experiment. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see if people want a diversity of viewpoints in a form like that we'll see in a moment something you might not know the best coast just got better introducing quantum of the seas sailing from LA this fall conquer next level thrills on the boldest ship in the west like flow rider surf sessions bumper cars and soaring 300 feet above sea level on the north star plus more than 15 dining options on board, all between discoveries in Ensenada and even overnights in Cabo.

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Captured sailors were ransomed back to the U.S. government at exorbitant rates. Some were executed. After signing a peace treaty with London, President James Madison vowed to eliminate the pirate threat. In February 1815, he petitioned Congress to act, reading, quote, hostile operations on the part of the United States being now terminated by peace with Great Britain, which opens a prospect of an active and valuable trade of their citizens within the range of the Algerian cruisers. I recommend to Congress the expediency of an act declaring the existence of a state of war between the United States and Algiers.

Congress authorized that act on March 3, 1815. A 10-ship squadron was dispatched to the Mediterranean Sea. An even larger force was sent one week later. The flotilla obliterated the pirates, blew them right out. out of the water. On June 19th, Algiers accepted the Americans' terms for peace. The agreement stated that in return for captured Algerian ships, the United States would no longer pay tribute and would enjoy full shipping rights.

Additionally, Algiers would free all enslaved Americans. And here's something else you might not know. the Barbary pirates stopped harassing U.S. ships, they continued to target European vessels. The situation became so severe. France and England invaded North Africa in the mid-19th century, taking control of Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Egypt. The French occupation of Algeria lasted until the 1960s. Back in a moment. This episode is brought to you by San Pellegrino Chau. A new kind of flavor of sparkling water.

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