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, April 8th, 2025. Here's this happening today in America. Talks with Iran. China retaliates. Supreme Court win. And 80 years later, that's all coming up.

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

But first, while sitting next to the prime minister of Israel, President Trump said the

U.S. is engaging in, quote, direct talks with Iran over its nuclear program.

He said, we're having direct talks with Iran, and they've started.

It'll go on Saturday.

We have a very big

meeting and we'll see what can happen. He went on and said, and I think everybody agrees that

doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious. And the obvious is not something that I want

to be involved with, or frankly that Israel wants to be involved with if they can avoid it.

It's believed that China accounts for 70% of the world's rare earth

minerals at the moment. They controlled 90% just a decade ago, but other places around the world

have ramped up their production. China said they will be retaliating against President Trump's

tariffs against China by cutting off exports of rare earth metals to the United States. Beijing announced

specifically tighter controls to protect its national interests. Now, South Korea is very dependent

on these rare earth metals for their electronic manufacturing. The South Korean trade minister

said that they believe the government and private stockpiles are sufficient to last for six

months on two of the seven restricted earth metals coming out of China. They believe the government and private stockpiles are sufficient to last for six months

on two of the seven restricted earth metals coming out of China, while manufacturing

processes can be adjusted to reduce the consumption of the other needed rare earth metals.

Trump has threatened to hit China with another 50% tariff increase if they don't withdraw

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