Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, May 8, 2025

Episode Date: May 8, 2025

Houthis pause attacks on US ships, Pakistan vows to respond to Indian attack, a new surgeon general, and no new Pope. Plus, the Message of the Day, why the media falls for every provocative Trump statement. 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 Thursday, May 8th, 2025. Here's this happening today in America. Houthis pause. Nuclear powers fight. A new surge in general, and not yet a new Pope.

It's all coming up, then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, the Houthis have confirmed that they've reached an agreement with the United States to pause their attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea in exchange for us stopping our attacks on them. The Iranian foreign ministry is trying to distance themselves from the Houthis insisting they had nothing to do with a missile attack on the main airport in Israel.

The Prime Minister of Israel vowed to retaliate against both the Houthis and Iran at a time and place of our choosing. Trump did write back March 17th. Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon from this point forward as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of Iran.

And Iran will be held responsible and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire. Pakistan has vowed retaliation as India launched missiles into their nation, into Pakistan, on Wednesday. Pakistan called this an active war. Worth noting, both of these nations have nuclear weapons. This attack from India is in response to a terrorist attack in India that killed 26 people, mostly a tourist. But it was in a disputed region between the two nations. Pakistan says that the latest attack from India killed 31 people. 57 injuries, and six separate strikes.

Trump said, I get along with both. I know both very well, and I want to see them work it out. I want to see them stop. They've gone tit for tat, so hopefully they can stop now. Trump's new pick for U.S. Surgeon General is Dr. Casey Means. He said her academic achievement, together with her life's work, are absolutely outstanding. Dr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of the finest surgeon generals in United States history. She's very impressive.

If you don't know her, she dropped out of Stanford medical school during her surgical residency because she couldn't stand to be a part of a system that doesn't treat root causes of disease. Casey and her brother, Callie, have been close advisors to RFK Jr. During his presidential campaign, interestingly, the Surgeon General is a commissioned officer in the U.S. Public Health Service Commission Corps, one of the eight uniformed services of the United States, and by law holds the rank of vice admiral. the conclave voting taking place in the Sistine Chapel. They keep voting until someone gets two-thirds of the votes.

If there's no winter after three days, the balloting is suspended for 24 hours. But since 1831, it's never lasted longer than four days. Each round of balloting is signaled by smoke from this stove pipe on top of the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke means inconclusive vote. White smoke signifies a new pope, has been chosen with the ringing of the bells of St. Peter's Basilica. I'm Mike Slater from Politics by Faith, Bill O'Reilly with your message of the day. Next. This episode is brought to you by San Pellegrino Chau.

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happening invading panama no occupying greenland don't think so making gaza into miami doesn't look like it. Do you sense a pattern here? An incredibly foolish media falling for every single provocative thing, Mr. Trump says. The latest is obeying the Constitution. Apparently, Kristen Welker of NBC News is very concerned. Mr. Trump will ignore it. Here's what she said on Sunday, quote, don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president? to which Mr. Trump replied, quote, I don't know. I have to respond again by saying I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are obviously going to follow what the Supreme Court says, unquote.

Okay, but the media headline was misleading. It simply said Trump doesn't know if he has to follow the Constitution. The discussion was about due process for undocumented migrants, The Supreme Court will have to make some big rulings on that shortly. So the president's answer was not a repudiation of the law, was it? You wouldn't know that by listening to the corrupt corporate media. 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. Bill Aegeanello, Dublin, Ohio. Bill growing old and having little money is very difficult, as we said yesterday. Like you, I was taught as an early age to save 10% of what I made. Discipline required to save is one thing, but not touching what you save is even more problematic.

What most people do not understand is how money left on touch compounds over time. See, you get interest, then you leave it there and get more and more and more amounts of capitalism. Bill Sheel, Bill, you stated that President Trump hasn't done anything about insurance rights. Keep in mind almost all insurance is regulated by the states. True but not true. So the big insurance companies, they cross state lines. State farm, all state, liberty, all these, the little gecko guy. Once you cross state lines, the Commerce Department takes over. If I think that all the states and the Fed should look at price gouging for insurance rates and look at it hard and institute big fines because we're getting gouged, no doubt in my mind.

George Anderson, Freeland, Maryland, on what grounds is Harvard suing the federal government? That the president has no authority to stop money, tax money, from going to Harvard and other private institutions. Congress regulates that. That is the basis of the lawsuit. Brad Padgett, Laurel, Montana. Long time listened to a recent new premium member. Thank you, Brett. My question, do you think the Confederation of States will ever happen?

No. It's way too difficult. You need billions of dollars to get that together. Nobody's going to do it. Not in my lifetime. In a moment. Something you might not know. I'm

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update brings you something you might. Not no. Another budget battle looming in Congress, predictably, Democrats are trying to scare the public by claiming Republicans want to slash spending on Medicare and Medicaid. Despite the blather, President Trump has promised to protect the entitlement system. However, to be fair, significant changes must be made to ensure these programs are solvent in the future. Here are the facts. America's welfare state drastically increased in July 1965 as part of President Johnson's Great Society program. Medicare was

designed to provide government subsidized health insurance for senior citizens. At the time, nearly all workers obtained coverage through their jobs. Those who retired, however, were immediately booted from the program. Medicaid gives free health care to low-income families, the sick, disabled, and those unable to find work. It is administered by the states but gets federal tax dollars. Now, during the first year, the entire budget for both Medicare and Medicaid was about $1.3 billion, the modern equivalent of $12 billion. enrollment, 25 million Americans. 60 years later, the system has spiraled out of control. 2019 combined spending on Medicare and Medicaid topped $1.4 trillion. More than 150 million

Americans are enrolled in either program, nearly half of the U.S. population. In 2024, taxpayer spent $1.8 trillion on the public health care system. an increase of 30% in five years under President Joe Biden. The mounting cost is a result of two things. First, Americans are living longer. When OBJ started the entitlement programs, the average life expectancy in the USA was 66 years. That figure has risen to 81.

Secondly, fraud. Department of Health and Human Services estimates 15% of all health care payments are bogus. That's $300 billion in fraudulent waste. Can the system continue that way? No. Back after this. Ryan Reynolds here from MintMobil. With the price of just about everything going up,

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