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 Wednesday, December 17th. Merry Christmas. There's what happening today in America.

The American Armada. Presidential address tonight. Trump sues BBC. and more boats destroyed. That's all coming up

than Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, the president wrote yesterday

on Truth Social, Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest armada ever assembled in the

history of South America. It will only get bigger. And the shock to them will be like nothing they've

ever seen before. Until such time as they return to the United States of America, all the oil, land,

and other assets that they previously stole from us.

The illegitimate Maduro regime is using oil from these stolen oil fields to finance themselves,

drug terrorism, human trafficking, murder, and kidnapping.

For the theft of our assets and many other reasons, including terrorism, drug smuggling, and human trafficking,

the Venezuela regime has been designated a foreign terrorist organization.

Therefore, today I'm ordering a total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela.

The president is speaking tonight in an address to the nation 9 o'clock Eastern.

Not sure what about.

He wrote on Truth Social about the address.

I look forward to seeing you.

It's been a great year for our country and the best is yet to come.

This after, the vice president gave a speech in Pennsylvania on affordability.

In other J.D. Vance news, Marco Rubio said, quote, if J.D. Vance runs for president,

he's going to be our nominee, and I'll be one of the first people to support him.

Susie Wiles in a Vanity Fair interview, Susie Wiles is Trump's chief of staff, said the president

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