The O'Reilly Update, June 26, 2025
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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, June 26, 2025. Here's what's happening today in America. Fake news, CNN. The Senate parliamentarian, FBI investigates hospitals and a secret party. It's all coming up, then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, Trump was at the NATO meeting in the Netherlands where he ripped most of the media in the room, in particular CNN, for their report that the American attack on Fordow only caused limited damage.

Trump and Marco Rubio and Hegsath said that this was from an early intelligence assessment, which CNN says was leaked to them by an anonymous source. But the assessment also said that it could have caused immense damage. CNN didn't report that. Trump said, I just want to thank our pilots. You know, they were maligned, demeaned by fake news CNN, wasting everyone's time. Nobody's watching them.

So they're wasting a lot of time, wasting my time. We've collected additional intelligence and we've also spoken to people who have seen the site and the site is obliterated. I talked to Rand Paul yesterday on the one big beautiful bill. He said that the Senate parliamentarian took out of the bill any elimination of welfare benefits for illegal aliens. She said it wasn't a monetary issue.

and only financial changes can be put in the bill, not policy. So she took it out. This unelected parliamentarian made the decision that this is not policy, and now it's gone. Rand Paul said, so we basically have an unelected person who works in the Senate who has decided that she can decide for the country that we can't eliminate welfare for illegal aliens, which to me is insane that we allow that to happen.

The FBI is investigating three children's hospitals for performing illegal genital mutilation on girls, which is outlawed by federal law.

They do it under the guise of gender-affirming care. Boston Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital Colorado, and Children's Hospital Los Angeles are the FBI's current targets. Just a few days after taking office, President Trump signed an executive order directing all federal agencies to work towards terminating the ability for children under 18 to receive irreversible medical interventions as a treatment for gender dysphoria.

Part of the effort included the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, issuing a memorandum several weeks later directing Justice Department personnel to enforce 18 U.S. Code 116, which is a federal statute that makes female genital mutilation against the law. A North Carolina landscaper was arrested for throwing a party at a house that he was working on when the owners were on vacation.

The police say he took it upon himself to invite several hundred people, charge people an entry fee. Neighbors called for noise complaints. Police said they arrived at the house. He said it was his house. Then he told police it was his grandparent's house. And then he admitted he was just the lawn guy. He told the local news that he remains confident the owners will still request his work for their lawn care. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day next.

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Time now for the O'Reilly Update message of the day. On this Thursday, President Trump is lashing out at CNN and MSNBC for saying the U.S. bombing mission was not the success the administration claims. Using anonymous sources, CNN cites intelligence analysts as the source of its dubious reporting. The truth is,

Nobody knows the extent of the damage at the Iranian uranium depot. Say that again. Iranian uranium. Say it five times. But nobody knows the damage there. Not even a president. How could he assess that situation? There are no Americans on the ground near the targets, and the Iranians themselves can't go underground for fear the earth will collapse on them.

They wouldn't tell the truth anyway, even if they were down there, which they're not. Satellite pictures show huge surface damage and mountain cave-ins. Looks devastating, but there's no scorecard. So the CNN report is unreliable, no surprise. The merchants of malice in the media don't care what's actually true. They make their money hating or approving of Donald Trump.

It's also tedious and it never ends. The odds are the U.S. bombing did inflict tremendous damage on Iran's nuke program. Otherwise, the mullahs would be gloating. They're not. They're frightened. So that is the truth. The nuke damage will someday be assessed. But don't count on the American media to report on that accurately or honestly.

I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me, Bill at BillOReilly.com, Bill at BillOReilly.com, name in town if you wish to opine. Let's go to the mail. We have Robert D. Benedetto, Augusta, Georgia. Tell me if I'm wrong, Bill, about the ceasefire. I know it's impossible to predict, but I'd like to know what your gut feeling is. Mine's telling me

that terrorists like lepers cannot change their spots. I believe President Trump is a peacemaker and is hopeful, but he's fooling himself. That kind of analysis gets us nowhere. I don't have gut, okay? I go on probability. The probability is that, yeah, there'll be some ceasefire violations, but I think that the initial foray against Iran was extremely successful.

in downgrading that terror nation. There will be a lot of unintended consequences to come. I'm not speculating specifically.

But at this point, it looks like a victory for the USA. Doug Halbert, Mesa, Arizona. As the drum of Republican isolationists gets louder and louder, I think we can take a lesson from 1938-41. It feels like we're watching a rerun of pre-December 7th, 41. Do we really want to wait for Pearl Harbor to wake us up? Look, there was a very strong isolationist movement, particularly against Germany. Japan wasn't the threat that Hitler was.

Because Hitler, you could see in '39, he's going into Poland, you could see it. Japan was kind of quiet and caught us by surprise. But isolationism never works as our analysis proves, ever. Particularly in this kind of a world where economic disruption will affect every American. In a moment, something you might not know.

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Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. The United States is home to some of the most diverse landscapes found anywhere on the planet. But one of the Earth's most treacherous places is in South Florida. And we're not talking Miami. We are talking the Everglades. The tropical wetland, 8,000 square miles of rivers, marshes, floodplains, beaches.

European settlers, then Americans, tried to drain that swamp for 500 years before giving up. The region is home to 400 species of birds, 100 reptiles, 50 mammals, and of course a few human beings. Just 400 people live inside Everglades National Park. The folks reside in elevated houses to avoid floods and dangerous creatures.

There are more than two dozen species in the Everglades that can kill you. Alligators, saltwater crocodiles, sharks, feral pigs, poisonous snakes, spiders, panthers, and hundreds of hungry black bears. To tame the creatures, thousands of bounty hunters stalk the swamp.

Florida pays the trappers $15 an hour and $75 for each yard of snake skin. And here's something else you might not know. The most dangerous animal found in the Everglades arrived sometime in the late 20th century, the Burmese python.

Researchers believe there are half a million pythons living in the glades, some more than 20 feet long. It all started when idiots who had a python as a pet dumped the snake in the Everglades, and that happened more than once, so they mated. But today, a new threat is emerging in the glades. Serpents have mated with another species, forming a deadly predator.

so-called hybrid pythons, taking over. The animals, a combination of Burmese and Indian pythons, are growing in numbers. The snake is faster, heavier, more lethal than its cousin. They can suffocate a human being in two minutes, devour an entire deer in an hour. Back after this.

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