Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, May 2, 2025

Episode Date: May 2, 2025

Waltz out as National Security Advisor, big movement in Ukraine, Trump commencement address, and Kilmar protective order. Plus, the Message of the Day, Bill’s interview with President Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Speed slow after 35 gigabytes of networks busy. Taxes and fees extra. See mintmobile.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 Friday. May 2nd, 2025. Here's this happening today in America. Cabinet shakeup. Big movement in Ukraine, Trump commencement address, and Kilmar protective order. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first,

Mike Walts is the first member of the cabinet, although national security advisors, not technically in the cabinet. but first, top official in the Trump administration to be moved. He will be the new ambassador to the United Nations. The Senate does have to confirm that, ultimately. Elise Daphonic was Trump's first pick to be ambassador to the U.N., but there was a question if the Republicans would win that seat back in a special election. So she kept her house seat. Waltz will move over there, and Marco Rubio will serve as the national security advisor

and also remain the Secretary of State. Big news out of Ukraine, the day after the United States and Ukraine signed, a mineral rights agreement, which gives a 50-50 deal between Ukraine and America on their rare earth metals and other natural resources. According to Trump's special envoy in Ukraine, that's retired General Keith Kellogg, he said Ukraine has now agreed to concede land held by Russia for peace. Kiev has also agreed to 22 concrete terms. General Kellogg said people don't understand how violent this war has been. When you combine the Ukrainian and Russian soldiers killed and wounded? He said we're at 1.2 million people. That's an unheard of

number. We only had in eight years of war in Vietnam, 68,000 killed. Trump spoke yesterday at the Alabama graduation commencement ceremony. He told the story how in the 1940s the owner of Levittown, the company came in and made a huge offer to buy the company, and the owner took the deal. And he went with his trophy wife and moved to the south of France and lived the life a luxury. He said about 10, 15 years went by and they sold him back to the company and he started building again and lost everything. Trump said it was a sad story and he saw him once at a party and said, how are you? And he said, not well, Donald. What happened? Trump said. Son, I lost my momentum. It was one of the pieces of advice to the graduates. Keep your momentum.

He also told people, you got to be an outsider if you want to fix a broken system. Kilmar Abrego-Garcia We have an update here A second protective order This of course is the Maryland man Who's now in the El Salvador prison This is a different protective order than the one from 2021

And this one his wife accuses him Of physical abuse threatening her She said she has a recording Where he says that even if he kills her Nobody can do anything to him She said at this point I'm afraid to be close to him I have multiple videos and photos

Of how violent he can be And the bruises he has left me. I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly with your message of the day. Next. Meet the most capable CRV Honda has ever dreamed up. The all-new CRV trail sport hybrid. With all-terrain tires and available enhanced traction control, it's built for wherever the day takes you. Heated front seats and a heated steering wheel, ideal for winter drives and crisp early starts. And with generous cargo space, it's ready for big gear and even bigger getaways.

CRV Trail Sport Hybrid. Learn more at honda.com slash CRV. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. On this Friday, I hope you saw the town hall on News Nation and the CW Network, or heard it, on 100 radio stations across the country, with President Trump on Wednesday evening. It was so much different than the other interviews the president does. on the networks. And the reason is that I know him for 35 years. I booked the interview for News Nation. And I know how to ask him questions to get the maximum amount of information. So, for example, Terry Moran, a very fine correspondent for ABC News, interviewed the president on Tuesday.

Moran made a mistake of getting bogged down in the Garcia-Al Salvador department thing. Donald Trump is never going to admit anything in that case. The Justice Department is trying to assemble evidence that Mr. Garcia, who was a resident of Maryland illegally, was attached or associated to MS-13. That's the story. So he got booted and perhaps, not. not in a justified way, and the Supreme Court got involved, but now the case is being adjudicated. Well, Moran didn't even know that.

He spent all his time on it, and Trump is just going, no, no, no, no, yes, no, yes, no. And I just wasted the whole interview. So if you didn't see my interview with the president, which was about the tariffs and a lot of things that are important, Bill O'Reilly.com has it. Okay? Okay, so go there. Let me know what you think. 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.

Let's go to the mail. We got Robin Z. The town hall last night was excellent, Bill. I wanted to ask why so little has said about your point to buy American. The news is full of worry about tariffs, even Amazon listing tariff costs. Let's talk about stopping buying from China. Support your country and buy American. You know, I don't know why it's easy. China is our enemy right now. I hope that subsides, but I'm not buying.

I'm not. Michael Beyer, Dyer, Indiana. Bill, been with you since. 2008. You're the only one on our watch now. Didn't really understand a trillion-dollar going-out tariff comments you made. It's not hard, Michael. We trade with countries around the world. They send us their stuff. We send them our stuff. But most of those countries make it very expensive through VAT taxes, tariffs, regulations for American products to get into Dusseldorf or Kyoto or wherever.

Okay? The result is $1 trillion of American money going out more than coming in. every year got it like a little you're never going to have a perfect trade balance ever would you've got to close that up

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offered a $100,000 reward for the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The announcement began one of the biggest manhunts in U.S. history. Here is the story. The Civil War ended in the spring of 1865 when Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. Six days later, President Abraham Lincoln was shot dead by Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Boot. Vice President Andrew Johnson was immediately sworn into office. Believing the plot against Lincoln was part of a larger conspiracy, Johnson, offered $100,000

for the capture of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis and his cohorts. That's the moderate equivalent of almost $2 million. Hoping to obtain the bounty, thousands of Union soldiers dispersed across the South, Davis went into hiding. On May 9th, the 56-year-old rebel leader and his family were found on a farm in some. southern Georgia. Desperate, the Confederate president put on his wife's clothing ran towards a muddy creek. There, he was detained by northern soldiers, who were not eligible for the cash bounty because of their active service. They didn't get any money. Jefferson Davis was then transported to Fort Monroe in Virginia, where he remained a prisoner for two

years. Though he was indicted for prison, Davis never went to trial. At the time, the federal government was focused on reconstruction. Fearing another Southern rebellion, Jefferson Davis was released in 1867. He relocated to the Mississippi coast, where he wrote two memoirs about the Civil War. There he died on December 6, 1889, at the age of 81. And here's something. something else you might not know. Though Davis was stripped of his nationality, he eventually got it back. He became a U.S. citizen again in 1978. That's when Congress passed a resolution to posthumously restore Davis' citizenship.

President Jimmy Carter signed the bill stating, quote, it is time to put the division of the Civil War behind us. Back after this. This podcast is brought to you by Carvana. Buying a car shouldn't eat up your week. That's why Carvana made it convenient. Car buying that fits around your life, not the other way around. You can get pre-qualified for an auto loan in just a couple of minutes

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