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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 Monday, February 16th, 2026. Here's this happening today in America.

All-time Rubio speech strikes in Syria, a glove found, and Holman on masks. That's all coming up.

Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, our Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave an all-time speech at the Munich Security Conference

this weekend. I recommend reading all of it. This is a military and national defense

security conference, but the speech was about what it is in life that's worth defending.

It's hard to pick out a key quote. All of it was excellent, but this is a good setup.

National security is not merely a series of technical questions.

How much we spend on defense or where or how we deploy it?

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