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 Tuesday, December 23rd Christmas Eve Eve. Here's what's happening today in America.

New battleships. Diplomats leave. J.D. Vance gets after it, and will you have a white Christmas?

It's all coming up, then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first,

the president announced yesterday that America is building two battleships for the Navy. He said

they will be the largest battleships in the history of the world. He was with our Secretary of war, Pete Hankseth, Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,

and also Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan at Mar-a-Lago.

He said these ships would be the fastest, biggest by far, 100 times more powerful than any

battleship ever built.

The last U.S. battleship to complete initial construction was the Iowa class USS Missouri in

1944. It was decommissioned in 1992. Trump said that these ships will be armed with the highest

level guns and missiles. They'll have hypersonic weapons, state-of-the-art electric rail guns, and even

the high-powered lasers that you've been starting to read about. He said they'll also

carry nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles currently under development. The president

said he ultimately wants to have 20 to 25 of these in our fleet. Of course, they'll be built

in the United States of America. And he said he will be involved in the design to make sure they

are aesthetically pleasing or intimidating in this

case. While all these military men were together, they of course discussed Venezuela. Russia's

foreign ministry has begun evacuating the families of diplomats from Venezuela as America pursues

its third sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean. Perhaps Russia is sensing that the end is near for Maduro.

Speaking of the military, the vice president completed a 90-minute workout with the Navy SEALs in San Diego.

Images showing Vance carrying logs, rowing in the ocean, running on the beach,

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