The O'Reilly Update, February 27, 2026

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, February 27th, 2026. Here's what's happening today in America. Agents fired, Clinton deposed, snowball fight assault, and a Cuban infiltration. That's all coming up and Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, at least 10 FBI employees who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into President Trump's retention of classified documents after he left the White House in 2021, they were fired. If you remember, there were two federal investigations into the then former President Trump, one about overturning the election and another about classified documents. That's the Mar-a-Lago raid. The agents that were fired were involved in that classified documents case. Smith's investigations, the two of them, were the first federal criminal indictments against a former president in U.S. history. The classified documents charges were dismissed by a federal judge on the grounds that Smith was unlawfully appointed and then Smith dropped the election charges after the president won the 2024 race. Hillary Clinton appeared before House lawmakers in New York testifying under oath as a part of a congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Two days of closed door depositions from the House Oversight Committee. Yesterday was Hillary, today is Bill. This is being done in Chappaqua, New York, where they live. This will be the first time that a former president has been forced to testify before Congress. Some drama on day one. This is a closed door testimony, but Congresswoman Lauren Boebert took a picture of Hillary and her lawyers up there, and the lawyers asked that the whole thing be stopped because no one's allowed to take pictures. Flight logs for Epstein's private jet show that the former president traveled on the Epstein plane for trips to the Virgin Islands, Portugal, Siberia, Japan, and China. Bill claims that these trips were only ever related to his charitable work. A video made the rounds the other day of people throwing snowballs at New York police officers during the blizzard on Monday. One man was arrested, Guzmane Koulabaly. He's 27 years old. He was arrested for assaulting a police officer. He was previously arrested less than three weeks ago for attempted robbery in the subway. When the mayor was asked if anyone should be charged for this, he said, I've seen the videos of the snowball fight. I think that it was a snowball fight. We know a little more about the boat that the Cuban military stopped killed four people on the boat injured six others According to Axios at least one of the people on board was a U citizen The others were either on a K visa or legal permanent residence of America Cuba said that the people on the boat were armed with guns and bombs and body armor and that they attacked the Cuban boat first and also, quote, intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes. Marco Rubio, our Secretary of State, said that Washington had nothing to do with this boat in any way and will respond accordingly after investigating. I'm Mike Slater. I have a podcast called Politics by Faith. You can listen to it anywhere you download podcasts. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day. Next. Time now for the O'Reilly Update message of the day. On this Friday, we are using caution about an NPR report that infers the Justice Department is covering up Epstein story allegations against President Trump. The story is foggy to say the least. The gist of it seems to be the FBI interviewed a woman who says the president assaulted her at the age of 13. The first interview on that is public, and the accuser apparently makes no mention of Donald Trump. The subsequent interviews are being withheld by the Justice Department because the information is apparently not verified. In addition, the woman sued the Epstein estate and settled for money. No mention of Donald Trump in that suit. Now, the people reporting the alleged cover-up all have an anti-Trump bias. In addition, the Biden Justice Department had the FBI reports and kept them classified. If the alleged victim had any credibility whatsoever, surely the Biden people would have gone public. So skepticism should be in play here. It is absolutely wrong and extremely damaging to the country to make public dubious allegations. Trial by mob must be avoided. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me, Bill at Bill O'Reilly dot com, Bill at Bill O'Reilly dot com. Name in town if you wish to opine. Now let's go to the mail. Frederick concierge member and his AP stand for Associated Propaganda Apparently laws must be passed to require that news agencies report the truth There isn a law that would be constitutional because everything would be oh no it true You know, First Amendment, subjective. Objective truth is we wouldn't have so many lawsuits. Let's put it that way. OK, it's beyond a reasonable doubt. So that'll never happen. Surge, I'm happy to hear you calling out these news outlets like the AP when they lie to us. They have deservedly lost our trust. Be hard to earn it back. They'll never earn it back. The AP is shot, finished, done. NPR, PBS, Washington Post, the Network News, never coming back. They did it to themselves. Don Hal Haney, Kent Washington. Bill, you said on your program on Ash Wednesday that St. Paul started the Catholic Church. Really? I always heard the church was started by Jesus Christ. Don, I'm going to be nice to you. Jesus Christ was Jesus of Nazareth. Christ came later. okay Jesus of Nazareth was a Jew he died a Jew he had 12 apostles 11 after Judas hung himself they went out to preach one of the people that heard the message was Saint Paul who was in modern-day Syria. He structured what the Catholic Church would become. That's the way the history breaks down. You might want to check out everybody for Easter season, Killing Jesus. In a moment, something you might not know. Now the O'Reilly Update brings you something you might not know. 166 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most important speeches in American history. Here is the story behind the Cooper Union address. Early 1860, the former congressman from Illinois was invited to address a Republican conference in New York City Despite losing a recent Senate race Abraham Lincoln popularity was growing On February 27th Abe spoke before a crowd gathered inside the Great Hall of Manhattan Cooper Union building The address focused on the biggest issue facing the bitterly divided nation, slavery. Said Lincoln, quote, The sum of the whole is that of our 39 fathers who framed the original Constitution, 21, a clear majority, certainly understood that no proper division of local from federal authority nor any part of the Constitution forbade the federal government from controlling slavery in federal territories. territories, unquote, which means that when states were not yet ratified, the feds could say no slavery there. Towards the end of the speech, he urged Republicans to elect anti-slavery politicians throughout the USA and prevent the spread of slavery to new states. The address became a national sensation. Abraham Lincoln's remarks were printed and published in every major city, even in the South. He soon became a national symbol for the anti-slavery movement. Three months later, Lincoln was selected by the Republican National Convention to run as the party's presidential nominee. In November 1860, Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat candidate John Breckenridge with an electoral landslide 180 to 72. Abe also carried the popular vote by an even larger margin, even though Lincoln's name did not appear on many ballots. And here's something else you might not know. The Cooper Union building stands to this day. The iconic hall houses a private college. Back after this. Thank you for listening to the O'Reilly Update. I am Bill O'Reilly. No spin, just facts, and always looking out for you.