Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, May 14, 2019

Episode Date: May 14, 2019

The Attorney General appoints a US attorney to examine the origins of the Russia-Trump investigation, President Trump says the US-China trade agreement was 95% done before talks collapsed, New York’s Bill de Blasio mocked at his ‘Green New Deal’ rally inside Trump Tower, Representative Rashida Tlaib under fire for another controversial comment regarding the Holocaust, and the Supreme Court hands a huge defeat to Apple. Plus, Bill's Message of the Day: did the American media kill itself? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here, Tuesday, May 14th, 2019. You are listening to the O'Reilly Update, and here's what's happening today in America. Attorney General Barr appointing a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia-Trump collusion investigation. President Trump says the U.S.-China trade agreement was 95 percent done before talks collapsed. New York's Mayor de Blasio mocked. at his Green New Deal rally inside Trump Tower. Congresswoman Talib under fire for another controversial comment regarding the Holocaust. And the Supreme Court hands a huge defeat to Apple. Also coming up, my message of the day is the press dead. But first, Attorney General Barr has appointed a top investigator to probe the origins of the Russia-Trump collusion allegations to determine

whether American intelligence agencies acted in a, quote, lawful and appropriate manner when secretly surveilling the Trump campaign during the 2016 race for the White House. President Trump not backing down from his threats to impose stiff penalties on China, saying his administration may add an additional bunch of tariffs on more than $325 billion worth of Chinese goods. The president telling reporters, the U.S.-China trade deal was 95 percent. done before Beijing abruptly walked away from the negotiation. New York City Mayor de Blasio mocked at his climate change protest inside Trump Tower on Monday, dozens of demonstrators chanting

Trump 2020 and worst mayor ever as de Blasio stood beneath the golden escalator used by Donald Trump who announced his 2016 campaign for the White House. Controversial Congresswoman Rashida Talib once again, under fire for making a series of insensitive remarks regarding the Holocaust, the far-left legislator telling a podcast that she gets a, quote, calming feeling when thinking that her ancestors helped Jews in Palestine. But her message was garbled. President Trump weighing in on the controversy saying, can you imagine what would happen if I ever said what she said? The Supreme Court handed a major defeat to computer giant Apple this week. Court decided users can now sue the company over their app stores inflated prices. Ruling the software included on every iPhone

sold across the world constitutes a monopoly. Judge Brett Kavanaugh sided with the liberal judges on the court pending the official opinion for the 5-4 decision. Coming up, my message of the day. Hey, Bill O'Reilly here, I'm excited to announce the first ever cruise through history taking place next spring. The cruise will definitely be different, great food and activities, of course, but we'll also take you back in time to the foundations of our faith, our freedom, and human progress. It's the opportunity to share your values, your beliefs, and the things you hold dear, with the ones you hold dear. The cruise will sail the Mediterranean out of Venice, Italy. There are four different options, but basically the cruise will begin in Venice, then sail to the eastern Mediterranean,

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Please visit come-sailaway.com to learn more. some sailaway.com for all the details. Time now for the O'Reilly update message of the day. Did the American press kill itself with all the hatred towards President Trump and promoting PC madness? Columnist Victor David Hanson says yes, and I agree with him to some extent. Hansen writes, quote, journalism is now dead. Reporters today believe their coverage serves higher agendas of. social justice, identity politics, equality, and diversity. To the degree a story is expanded,

praised, or ignored depends on its supposed utility to the effort to fundamentally transform the country into something unlike its founding. In other words, Hansen is saying the press is not interested in finding out the truth any longer, but is interested and invested in changing America, which many a journalist believe is flawed. Case in point, getting rid of Donald Trump. Now, when I was studying for a master's degree in broadcast journalism at Boston University in the mid-1970s, the dictum there was to get the facts that lead to the truth of all. stories. And we were taught and directed to do that. And when we handed in papers or articles we had been assigned and the facts did not stand up, we got a bad grade. The first actual news story I

covered was forced busing into South Boston. It was a horrendous situation. The federal government ruled that integration must be done at the point of a gun, that black children had to be put on buses from far away and take it into white neighborhoods where they would attend classes. It was unfair to all the children. The African American kids were frightened. Their faces, masks of fear as I stood there and watched them get off the bus to the insults of white people who did not want them in their neighborhood. It was a horrendous story. I covered the story in a factual way. I did not inject one side or the other. I did not put favoritism. I did not make any comments about what was obviously wrong. That was not my job. My job was to report the news,

and I did. I still have that article I wrote, and I am very proud of it. Then I began my career. I worked my way up from starting in Scranton, Pennsylvania, all the way up to CBS News and ABC News on the national level. I saw a lot of things there, and I have written about them in various books. But my job was to report the facts, and that's what I did. And I was a hard worker, therefore I got promoted up, up, up, and finally took over the position of commentator, I was allowed to give my opinion. Now I am writing a book called The United States of Trump. It is a history book. It is a factual book. There are no anonymous sources in the book. And it was a horrendous undertaking because most of the stuff written about Donald Trump is

untrue. So, the press in America is on life support, if not dead already. And it's their own fall. For more commentary, please go to Bill O'Reilly.com, where you can see me every night. We'll be back in a moment with something you might not know about college. My friend Glenn Beck launched real estate agentsitrust.com for a very simple reason to help you sell your home for top dollar as quickly as possible. His team quickly realized there are three keys to success. One, selling or buying a home is very complicated process. and difficult to navigate. So choose agents with a long track record of success. No part-time or inexperienced agents in their network. Two, market value for your home cannot be calculated

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and continue through high school, but with rising costs, a booming job market and far-left activists dominating some campuses, what is the real state of college life in America today? On Monday, actress Felicity Huffman pleaded guilty to a scheme that involved years of cheating on her daughter's school exams and even staging a mental illness to gain more time. to take standardized tests. The actress also paid $15,000 to a person who cheated for her daughter, so the girl could get into a better college. Felicity Huffman now faces four months in prison for her crime. She'll be sentenced in a few weeks. The widening scandal includes at least 50 American parents who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to place their children in colleges

where they should not have been admitted. The scheme went so far as to digitally put images of kids onto high school athletic teams for sports they never even played. How have we gotten to this point? Well, statistics show that 70% of high school students enroll in full-time college within months of graduation. That number was just 45% back in 1960 and was far less for women than men. Cost is another major factor contributing to the hysteria surrounding campus life. The average price of tuition in America in 2019 for a private college, $34,000. For public colleges, it's more than $10,000. In 1960, the median price to attend law school was just $475 per year.

The issue has become a campaign theme. Candidates like Bernie Sanders calling for debt-free tuition and a student loan forgiveness program. That's certainly an attractive offer for young voters, saddle with thousands of dollars in debt. Years ago, a college degree was a first-class ticket to the American middle class. Now, millions of families are deciding of a four-year degree is the right choice for their children. The pressure, the price, the far-left campus culture that dominates college life, many Americans are now asking themselves, is it really worth it? We'll be right back, but first.

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