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1:03

Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to

1:05

the O'Reilly Update. Coming up next,

1:08

the news with Mike Slater. Thank

1:10

you, Bill. It is Friday, August 25th, 2023. Here's

1:14

what's happening today

1:15

in America. Donald Trump surrenders

1:18

in Georgia. House Republicans investigate

1:21

the Atlanta district attorney. Young

1:23

Americans prefer pets to children.

1:26

And a record number of Americans plan on traveling

1:29

this Labor Day. That's all coming up. And

1:31

then I will be here with your message of the day. But

1:33

first, Donald Trump taken into custody

1:36

in Atlanta last night. The

1:38

former president charged along with 18 co-defendants

1:41

for allegedly trying to overturn the 2020

1:44

election results. If I may sidebar

1:46

here, of

1:49

all the groups of indictments, I think this

1:51

one's the most ridiculous. But

1:53

also the one that's most likely to actually

1:55

have him end up in jail because

1:58

it's the easiest to to. Find

2:00

someone guilty of Rico charges

2:03

and there's no pardon. The president

2:05

and the governor can't pardon.

2:07

There's like a five person panel in Georgia

2:09

that issues the pardons.

2:11

The DA there filing paperwork to start the trial

2:13

no later than it's October.

2:15

In total, Trump has been charged with 91 federal and

2:18

state charges in four separate cases. And

2:20

if convicted, he faces a maximum prison sentence

2:23

of 717 years.

2:25

Also the death penalty. They're not talking about that,

2:28

but one of the charges in DC,

2:31

conspiracy against rights. If someone dies

2:33

in the commission of that crime, then they're eligible for

2:35

the death penalty.

2:36

The house judiciary committee is probing Fulton

2:39

County district attorney Fannie Willis regarding

2:41

her motivations for prosecuting Donald Trump.

2:43

Jim Jordan said in the letter, quote, it is noteworthy

2:46

that just four days before the indictment, you

2:48

launched a new campaign fundraising website

2:51

that highlighted your investigation into president

2:53

Trump.

2:54

Additionally, the four women on the special

2:56

grand jury bragged about her excitement at

2:58

the prospect of getting to swear him

3:01

in that woman. She was a

3:03

sudden specialist. She was so giddy about it. I

3:05

thought that would be so cool. A

3:07

survey from consumer affairs finds 50% of young

3:10

folks would rather have pets than their own children.

3:13

Two thirds refuse to take part in daily activities

3:15

without their pets. Millennials

3:18

spend more on the family pet than

3:20

any other generation.

3:22

On average, young owners burn $250 a month on

3:24

pets,

3:25

on cats and dogs.

3:28

That's $3,000 a year on toys and treats. Labor

3:32

day travel up 44% compared to last year.

3:36

Survey from AAA finds a record number

3:38

of Americans will hit the road for the holiday weekend.

3:41

On average, the typical family spends eight hours

3:43

in the car. The top road trips for 2023 Key

3:46

West, Florida, the Grand

3:48

Canyon,

3:49

Orchard Beach, Maine, Montauk,

3:52

Long Island, and the number one destination is

3:54

September Yosemite National

3:56

Park.

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I'm Mike Slater filling in for Bill O'Reilly. And

4:51

now it's time for the O'Reilly Update message of the day. In

4:53

the Library of Congress, there are the

4:56

last two known copies of a book.

4:59

One of them is in such bad shape you're not even allowed to touch it.

5:01

The other one you can hold

5:03

in your hands.

5:04

It's called Come Out Fighting,

5:06

the epic tale of the 761st Tank Battalion, 1942-1945. It

5:12

tells the story of the first black tank

5:15

battalion to fight in World War II.

5:18

Stories that I find

5:20

so mind-blowingly inspirational

5:23

are stories of black regiments

5:25

in World War II, the Tuskegee Airmen,

5:28

the Japanese 442nd in World War II. I'm

5:31

sure there's others that I'm not aware of,

5:33

but the idea that, let's just focus

5:35

on the Japanese 442nd. Their

5:38

families are interned in America.

5:42

And instead of being bitter and resentful, they

5:44

join the military and

5:47

attack and defeat Japan. That's

5:50

unbelievable. And for

5:53

the black regiments, I

5:55

once talked to the first black city council

5:57

member in San Diego. He served in World War II. came

6:00

home, got off the train, could not

6:02

eat at the restaurants,

6:04

and could not stay at the hotels downtown

6:07

while wearing his uniform. And

6:09

you know what he did? He whined

6:11

and complained and wowed his me for

6:13

the rest of his life. No, he worked hard

6:15

and one day became a city councilman.

6:18

The idea that these men

6:19

in the 761st Tank Battalion

6:22

lived in a segregated country and still fought

6:25

for that country that was actively discriminating

6:27

against them, it's unbelievable. And

6:30

then there's people today who complain about

6:32

racism and how well I can even. Give me a break.

6:35

The story goes that in 1944, General

6:38

Patton was leading a charge towards Germany,

6:41

but he was running out of tanks. So

6:43

he sent for the 761st.

6:45

So he met with these men. He said,

6:47

everyone has their eyes on you

6:49

and is expecting great things from you.

6:52

Most of all, your race is looking

6:54

forward to you. Don't let them down.

6:57

And damn you, don't let me down. These

7:00

men saw 180 days straight on the front lines. One

7:06

German officer was captured by these men and

7:09

he said such bravery I've never

7:11

before seen. Why do

7:13

we need to know this story? This

7:15

is why I love history so much. You can look to

7:17

these great men who did great things

7:20

and it makes you want to be better.

7:24

One of the men in this tank battalion. They were

7:26

real people. He said

7:28

later in his life, they said,

7:30

we weren't qualified to do this and

7:33

we set out to prove different than

7:36

we did. We proved it.

7:39

That's what we lost in America.

7:42

That is what we've lost. We've lost the,

7:44

I'm going to prove you wrong perseverance.

7:49

Instead it's, Oh, you say I can't

7:51

do it. Okay. Instead

7:54

we fall over, we

7:56

keel over and do everything we can

7:58

to prove other people right about. us instead

8:01

of standing up and doing everything we can to

8:03

prove people wrong.

8:07

We used to be the people who could do great things.

8:10

And when people said there's no way that

8:13

made us work even harder, maybe there's nothing

8:15

sweeter in life than

8:17

proving people wrong. How

8:20

can we get away from this? I can't even attitude

8:23

and get back to the, oh yeah, attitude

8:26

again. Everything was said at the debate

8:29

along these lines. And I want to talk about

8:31

that next. We better figure this out. Otherwise China's

8:33

going to say we can't defend ourselves and

8:36

we'll say,

8:37

you're right. We'll

8:38

talk about the debate moment and what we can

8:40

do about this next.

8:44

Welcome to the Sean Spicer

8:46

show. There is a huge election

8:49

coming up

8:51

and man, is it going to be wild.

8:54

There's so much at stake. We can hold

8:56

the house, take back the Senate and recapture

8:59

the white house. President Biden's approval

9:01

rating dropping like a rock. Here's what

9:03

you need to know. The left has total

9:06

control of corporate media, government

9:08

bureaucracy, big tech, and oh

9:10

boy, do they know how to wield power.

9:12

They impeach me. They indict me. There's

9:15

more to do. So let's finish

9:17

the job.

9:17

I know how the system works

9:20

and how to use it. I've spent decades

9:22

in public service and the media. I'm

9:25

going to give you a front row seat free

9:27

of charge and take you inside

9:29

the race for the nomination like no one

9:31

else can.

9:32

Don't want to miss an episode. You can get it on YouTube,

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iTunes or Spotify. Plus you

9:39

can catch me every night at six o'clock on the

9:41

first TV.

9:44

Mike Slater Filner for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for

9:46

something you might not know. Many of our founding

9:48

fathers by the end of their life had

9:51

great despair

9:53

about the future of the country

9:56

they created.

9:57

They truly believe that this was an experiment. They're

10:00

like, well, we'll see.

10:03

And where they were hopeful at first, cautiously

10:05

optimistic, many were in downright

10:08

despair near the end of their life. John

10:11

Adams says, there's so much venality

10:14

and corruption, so much adverse in ambition,

10:17

such a rage for profit

10:19

and commerce among all ranks

10:22

and degrees of men,

10:23

that I sometimes doubt whether there is

10:25

public virtue enough to support

10:28

a republic. There's

10:30

a really interesting moment in the debate where

10:32

Mike Pence and Vivek were going at it.

10:35

And Pence said, it's morning in America. We

10:37

just need a government as good as her people.

10:40

And Vivek said, it's not morning in America.

10:43

We live in a dark moment. Where

10:46

do you stand on that? There seems

10:48

to be two schools of thought. We'll

10:51

call option A the Pence option, that

10:53

the American people are good and patriotic

10:56

and God fearing and frustrated

10:58

because our government doesn't match the goodness

11:01

of the wonderful American people.

11:03

Things are great and looking up. And

11:06

then there's option B,

11:07

the Vivek option, that

11:09

there are too many people in America who are bad

11:11

and hate this country and hate God. And

11:14

our government is a perfect reflection of

11:17

who we are, unfortunately.

11:20

And it's not morning in America. It's

11:23

the middle of the night. And nothing

11:25

good happens at 2 AM.

11:27

And it's going to get worse

11:28

before it gets better.

11:31

Are you more in

11:32

the Pence or the Vivek camp?

11:37

When I do get discouraged, this

11:39

is the truth that I always go back to. Sometimes

11:43

things have to hit rock bottom before

11:46

they can get better. John

11:48

Quincy Adams in 1814, he said, human

11:51

nature cannot bear prosperity.

11:54

It inevitably intoxicates

11:57

individuals and nations. Advert.

12:00

Adversity is the great reformer.

12:02

Affliction is the purifying furnace.

12:05

Prosperity has thrown our dear America into an

12:07

easy trance for 30 years, this is 1814.

12:10

The dear delights of riches and luxury have drowned

12:12

all her intellectual and physical

12:15

energies.

12:16

So maybe we need that rock bottom before the

12:18

best of us can rise back to

12:21

the surface and make America great

12:24

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