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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 Friday, January 16th, 2026. Here's what happening today in America.

Insurrection Act, European deployment, more

college fixing, and a Nobel transfer. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your

message of the day. But first, the president said, if the corrupt politicians in Minnesota don't

obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots

of ICE who

are only trying to do their job, I will institute the Insurrection Act, which many presidents

have done before me and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in the once

great state. Fun fact, the Insurrection Act has been invoked 30 times by 15 different presidents.

The first was the terrible tyrant Thomas Jefferson in 1807.

The last time was 1992, George H.W. Bush at the Rodney King Rides.

34 years since the last use of the Insurrection Act.

That is the longest time in American history that it has not been invoked.

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