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, March 17th, 2025. Here's this happening today in America.

Houthi struck. TDA deported. Astronauts rescued and brackets picked. It's all coming up.

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

in President Trump's first term, he named the Houthis in Yemen a terrorist organization. In 2021,

Joe Biden, one of his first things he did in office, was to remove them from the terror list.

In short, because he thought that the Houthis would use the money that they would now have available to them to help feed starving people in their country.

They didn't.

They used the money to nearly shut down the entire Red Sea and disturb international shipping in a dramatic way.

95% of ships that went through the Suez Canal instead

started going around the southern tip of Africa. I can add up to two weeks of transit time,

a lot of money. According to the chief Pentagon spokesman, the Houthis have attacked

U.S. warships 174 times, one coming within a mile of one of our destroyers, and commercial

vessels 145 times in just

the last year and a half. Trump said to all Houthi terrorists, your time is up, and your attacks

must stop starting today. If they don't, hell will rain down upon you like nothing you have ever

seen before. Then he said to Iran, support for the Houthi terrorists must end immediately.

Donald Trump also invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, which allows for the expedited removal

of Venezuelan illegal aliens who are suspected to be members of the gang Tren de Aragua.

The Democrats argued to Trump in a letter that a migration is not technically an invasion.

They said if courts have consistently held an invasion under the Constitution requires, quote,

armed hostility from another political entity intended to overthrow the government.

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