Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, March 31, 2026

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This Tuesday, March 31, 2026.

Here's his happening today in America, getting back to the moon, get back to work, biggest

loser county, and another museum heist.

It's all coming up.

Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day.

But first, Artemis II will take the first trip around the moon.

In over 50 years, as soon as Wednesday, the four-person crew will launch from NASA's

Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a 10-day journey.

The trip will lead the way for future Artemis missions that would eventually, potentially,

sea astronauts, step foot of the moon, and then build a permanent lunar base.

It's a 685,000-mile journey that's 27 times around the Earth.

April 1st is the first opportunity to launch between 624 and 824 PM Eastern.

At that time, there's an 80% chance of favorable conditions.

Day 5 will be the lunar flyby, and the spacecraft will pass within 4,700 miles beyond the far

side of the moon, and that would be further than any human has ever traveled into deep space.

This is the first crewed Orion mission, an uncrewed Orion was tested during Artemis I

in November back in 2022.

The space launch system is 32 stories tall.

They were ready to take off back in February, but it was grounded by hydrogen fuel leaks.

The president is encouraged in Congress to cut short its two-week recess and get back

to work to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid the shutdown.

This would include Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been spotted, gallivanting around

Disney World.

The president signed an executive order giving TSA workers a paycheck, some received their

first paycheck in over a month.

The White House press secretary said the president just can't keep signing presidential

memorandums and proclamations every time Congress fails to do its job.

And every time Democrats are holding our entire country hostage, picking and choosing which

programs and agencies they want to fund, just because they don't like this administration's

policies, that's not how it's supposed to work.

The county that saw the largest decline in population of any county last year, Los Angeles

County, nearly 54,000 people moved out of LA County.

This is a trend, of course, in 2020.

LA County was estimated to have more than 10 million residents, and now only 9.7 million.

There was another museum heist this time in Italy.

Four masked thieves stole three masterpieces from Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse, the three paintings

valued over 10 million dollars.

This just a couple months after that heist in the Louvre in broad daylight in Paris.

These thieves broke through a main door and stole the three paintings they were in and

out in just three minutes.

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Time now for the O'Reilly update, message of the day.

On this Tuesday, Pope Leo is a good man, a peacemaker, a person who teaches compassion and respect

for human dignity.

But his holiness is also not a fact-based theologian.

Quoted to the group minority rights, Iran is among the top ten countries in the world

that persecute Christians.

Not that there are many of them there, perhaps 300,000 out of a population of 90 million.

The Iranian government considers followers of Christ to be infidels.

They are closely scrutinized, sometimes harmed.

Exactly who is coming to their aid?

Well, that would be America.

Yet the Pope is clear in his disdain for the war in Iran.

He says, Jesus rejects those with quote, blood on their hands.

Yet I, as a loyal Catholic believed in Nazarene, would honor those people who protect the

persecuted.

Would I be wrong?

Over to you, Pope Leo.

It all Hitler and Joseph Stalin murdered hundreds of thousands of Christian clergy.

The Allies had a wage brutal war to stop that madness.

Blood flowed.

My book confronting evil documents that.

Everything we all should think about, sometimes justice requires force.

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We got Liz.

Come here, you remember?

You might consider this program on Bill O'Reilly.com if Liz gets into any turbulence in her life,

we will help Liz.

It's a direct line to me.

Liz says effective immediately, all Americans should stop filing and paying income taxes.

I already said no, not people to investigate.

I'll lose that's the ticket to a terrible life.

You don't pay taxes, they're going to find you.

May not be right away.

Don't do it.

That's the worst advice.

You know, don't do it.

Ms. Pisani, Hendersonville, North Carolina, I'm a regular guy.

Police officer work a lot of overtime.

Other than your broadcast seems impossible to get reliable, factual information, do you

see the mainstream media coming back?

No.

It's done.

And when Trump leaves office in, you know, less than three years, then it'll be total collapse.

The cable network news on television collapse, because there won't be anybody to hate.

William Jordan, Chester, New York, Abell, regarding the national debt, how much is too much

nobody in the media ever tells us what the breaking point is because nobody knows.

You got a $39 trillion debt, but investors still buy U.S. savings bonds and we float a whole

bunch of debt to pay our bills.

Nobody knows when that's going to come to an end, possible to say.

In a moment, something you might not know.

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Now the O'Reilly update brings you something you might not know.

58 years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek reelection.

That decision, surprise, congressional leaders, the general public, even members of his own

cabinet.

Here is the story.

In November 1963, Vice President Johnson was sworn into office aboard Air Force One.

Just hours after the assassination of President Kennedy.

One year later, he easily defeated Republican Barry Goldwater in the general election.

During his first full term, the USA struggled at home and abroad.

The inflation rate reached 6 percent, the highest level in two decades.

Overseas, the War of Vietnam, spiraled out of control.

Under Johnson, a number of U.S. soldiers surged from 50,000 to a half million.

By 1968, nearly 40,000 Americans had been killed in South East Asia.

Johnson's approval rating, which peaked at 80 percent after the assassination of JFK,

plummeted by 50 points.

In Washington, his position was shaky to say the least.

In March 31, 1968, LBJ addressed the nation.

I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term

as your president.

But let men everywhere know, however, that a strong, and a confident, and a vigilant

America stands ready tonight to seek an honorable peace.

In November, America elected Republican Richard Nixon to serve as the 37th president of the

United States.

Johnson then returned to Texas.

I have a smoker throughout his life.

He suffered a fatal heart attack, January 1973.

He died instantly inside his bedroom at the age of 64.

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