jonnah goldburg and bill schulz. did i say that? i am greg gutfeld. caution. on. tonight: "roll call." >> anete ♪ mouseketeers we want to say hello. >> bill: the death of anete funicello raises an interesting question was america a better nation back in the 1950s and 1960's than it is today. we will analyze with crowley and colmes. >> karma it costs us over $100,000. it is sleek, it is sentous. the car is broken. it doesn't move. >> bill: the u.s.a. is kiss another $200 million good by as yet another government boondoggle collapses, the fisker car. john stossel has the facts. >> i'm celebrating the fact

that margaret thatcher is dead. >> bill: once again, vicious behavior on the far left. >> maggie, imaginey, maggie, dead, dead, dead. >> bill: some goons are glad lady thatcher is no longer on this earth. >> that woman made my youth a misery. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. ♪ snet >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the u.s.a. and mickey mouse, that is is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. the death of 70-year-old anete funicello yesterday a red flag to the baby boom generation. anete gained fame at age 13 much as one of the leading members of the iconic mickey mouse club. >> "roll call." >> anete. >> mouseketeers we want to say

hello and for all of you to see us every day you are okay ♪ so welcome to our mouse club. >> bill: 50 years after it debuted it is still etched deeply in the memories of many americans. the question tonight though is this: were we back in the 1950s and early 1960's a better country, a better people than we are today? there is no question that for minority americans things were generally awful back then. if you don't believe me read my book killing kennedy where i document that in vivid detail so on the civil rights issue. america is much improved today. on the economic realm, the unemployment rate 4.5% in the 1950s, very low, even though the high school dropout rate back then was 27%. very high. today only 7% of americans do not complete high school. poverty rate in 1959, 232%. today is 15%. per capita income 17659 when adjusted for today's inflation

2012 per capita income $43,700. you can see americans have more income today but the big ticket items like homes take a lot more money. on social issues in 1959, only 5% of american babies are born out of wedlock. 5%. abortion very rare. today, about 41%. that's a shocking turn of events. 1950s drug use was rare. although the alcoholism rate is about the same as it is today. another interesting category innocence. in the 50s and 60's, premarital sex and explicit behavior even in the media was kept kind of quiet as anete funicello demonstrated social interaction was kind of innocent. ♪ take a blanket made for two now ♪ add a boy and a girl ♪ that's the game for me and you now ♪ yeah, let's give it a whirl. ♪ beach blanket

♪ a beach blanket bingo ♪ beach blanket bingo ♪ that's the name of the game. >> bill: they never got wet.no. but the 50s were wholesome, especially by today's anything goes standards. american baby boomers tend to glorify their youth, we all know that even the tour belent late 60's and early 1970s, there was a different attitude in america after world war ii. white america was unified and standards were very similar that unification made it easier for society to function. it was respect for teachers, for cops, for clerics. now that's gone. the mantra today being where's mine? and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction with us our barack and hard place duo monica crowley and alan colmes who was himself

a mouseketeer. >> i didn't wear my hat today i'm sorry about that. >> bill: it doesn't matter. you say? >> it's hard to come up with exact metrics i know you are going to have some about how do you deal with a general theory you have that things were just better back then. >> bill: i didn't say they were better. did i say anywhere in my talking points memo they were better? >> you are you not suggesting things are better back then. >> bill: i don't suggest. say. one by one. 5% out-of-wedlock birth compared to 41%. >> i don't know that 5% was an accurate number because i don't think people told the truth back then about that stuff. >> bill: we're going by the u.s. government. >> people were not. >> bill: let's assume it was legitimate. >> people were not talking about that kind of stuff. people would not say. >> bill: colmes, just b.s. it's just b.s. let's stop the b.s. right now. that's the government number. let's deal with it 5%, 41%. what's the better thing? >> well, obviously 5% is better but you are not listening to my point that people did it and

they swept fund the rug back then. >> bill: i don't want any b.s. >> that's not b.s. >> you don't know who was sweeping. >> people are more open about those kind of things now. people would not talk about it. >> bill: either born in a marital situation or you are not. what do you say. >> talking about time frames here. point to the late to mid 1960's. linden johnson with the great society. the development of the massive welfare state and the massive government spending that goes along with it. >> bill: didn't that have to happen? >> that is the culture of dependency. that didn't happen to happen there were conservatives beary goldwater arguing the other way. >> bill: barry got his butt kicked big time in the 1964 election. if you suddenly say to millions of african-americans and other minorities, all right, we're going to let you have full citizenship, all right, after decades of deprivation, you don't think the government has a responsibility to develop social programs to help those people? >> that was part of how it was

sold, bill but that wasn't the total intent. >> bill: i will say the same thing to you i said to colmes, do you not think the federal government had a responsibility to people who are down trodden for decades to send some money to help them? >> sure, of course. but as with every government project, it's never limited to what its stated intent is, bill. so, of course. >> bill: i'm not buying that as an erosion of values. >> great society two things number one like i said the massive expansion of the dependency state all the statistics including unwed mothers. incentive was to break down the traditional family. unwed mothers divorce rate skyrocketing, fatherless families all because it was being encouraged starting in the 1960s with the great society. >> bill: i don't see it as a top counsel. i think the erosion came just from personal more ray. >> that leads me to the other point which is the counter cultural revolution that fed into all of this the breakdown of the family. >> bill: are you going to sit there, colmes, and tell me that

we weren't a more self-reliant nation in the 50s and 60's than we are now? are you going to sit there and tell me that? >> self-reliant? >> bill: yeah. people came back from war world 2 having defeated two hell laborrish enemies and relied on themselves. you know what? i'm going to make my way. i don't need lbj or barack obama. i'm going to do it on my own. >> more people not able to do it on their own. >> bill: not able to. >> let me finish. horrible recession. >> bill: the recession. >> worse economic time since the depression and you are talking about the 50s right after world war ii there was an economic boom. the war created a big economic boom. it came as a much better time economically. >> bill: he got elected because economy was wobbly and cut taxes to stimulate it. react to this stat. the population increased from 1959 to now by 59%. workers on disability, americans workers on disability has increased 640%. more injuries today, colmes? are there more injuries today than there were in 1959?

>> i don't know why that number would exist. >> bill: stay in. >> come on, this goes back to our original point here. whether you have that government went through the great society. reagan did his best to try to reign that in. barack obama turns it around and puts it on steroids. the incentive is to go away from the self-sufficient society based on individual freedom to one that is -- >> bill: i think people just conning. 640%. >> this didn't start with barack obama what you are talking about. welfare, the welfare program in this country was geared toward building incentives so that women would have more and more children out of wedlock because they would get more money. >> women have children just to get more money from the government? you are kidding me. >> bill: i have got to go. let me be clear because colmes thinks i'm suggesting. i'm not saying that the 1950s and 1960's are better than today i'm saying we are a different country. the reason we are a different country is that people are no longer self-reliant or respectful or respectful.

>> respect for authorities. >> bill: they want what they want and if they don't earn it they feel they are entitled to it anyway. >> you think most americans just want stuff? >> bill: i think many americans, not most, but many if they don't earn it they think they should get it anyway. you know what, colmes? frankie and anete earned every buck they made. that's right. >> i love frankie and anete but that america doesn't exist anymore. >> bill: they never would have let you on that beach, colmes. tomorrow, president obama announces his controversial new budget. we'll get a preview from ed henry and james rosen. later, is it legal on the family of trayvon martin winning a major civil lawsuit. we're coming right back.

>> bill: impact segment tonight, as you may know, there is a budget chaos in washington going on. countries running a huge deficit and has a 17 trillion-dollar debt. a few politicians seem to know

what to do. tomorrow, president obama will finally announce his budgetary vision which includes a massive tax increase over the next decade. joining us now from washington with a preview, ace reporters james rosen and ed henry. all right, henry, what's the president going to say tomorrow? >> well, i think the biggest thing they have leaked out what's significant is what they keep focusing on ahead of this is that he is going to cut some social security benefits. what's important is that they're trying to put out the political message here at the white house. fellow democrats by social security some leg here and wants to get republicans to support tax increases. >> do we he have any idea what form that would take lay out the options. you could raise the social security age. >> bill: rich guy, you are not going to get the benefit if you are over a certain economic he

is going to do something different, which is this washington term called chained cpi. what it really means in plain english is that they are going to change the way inflation is calculated. that will consult in a cut to government benefits. various government benefits but primarily social security. >> bill: for now my mothers and others get adjusted inflationary increase every year in their social security government is going to take away oso you won't get as much increase. >> you have liberal groups outside the white house today protesting. this. >> bill: we're going to let rosen handle those people. all right, now, so that is the headline then. is he going to come up and say look, i want 700, $600 billion in tax raises but over 10 years it's not going to hurt that: that's what he is going to say. in return you republicans i will bring down the cpi index social security. is that it? they are all going to be? >> that's the thrust of it. and i think what's going to be

important is to get just beyond the surface that they're putting out there and see the actual details on wednesday as to whether he is going to have real spending cuts beyond that social security change. >> bill: you don't expect that, do you? real spending cuts? >> i asked jay carney that last week and he told me you are going to be shocked how much detail we he have. we will see if we are shocked in a positive or negative direction. >> bill: i think when he said that everybody giggled, didn't they? >> he basically has a list. he says there will be $100 billion in cuts to nondefense discretionary. meaning non-pentagon. >> bill: they have to state what they are going to be. they have to say -- >> -- will they have specific cuts and give us that list tomorrow? that will be important. >> bill: let's just do an odds thing. what are the odds that they do have specific cuts tomorrow? >> maybe 50/50 at best. >> i thought you would say less. so, rosen, now the left wingers who don't want any cuts and they want to take all the rich people's property to pay for everything. they are mad. right? >> well, a number of liberal

groups, bill. but not including mrs. o'reilly to whom you just referred. we are talking about moveon.org. the afl-cio. progressive change committee democracy for america. they have all warned the white house on that. ed mentioned that protest outside the gates of the white house. some of these groups have actually vowed to launch primary campaigns against any democrat who votes to approve the president's proposed use of the chained cpi. the president. >> bill: let's be honest about this for a minute. we're always honest here on the factor. that's an expression i'm using. i want to focus it a little bit more. >> i will give you more than a minute honesty. >> bill: my mom mrs. o'reilly without her son bill who helps her out big time needs that social security bump. if i wasn't here, she would need it all right? to keep paying her property taxes exorbitant in the county to stay home. she is 90. if president obama is going to take seniors and everybody else

who don't have money away then those left wing groups may have a point. >> means test medicare. you raised this concept earlier so that rich people who or people -- i shouldn't say rich people. people of a certain economic income threshold will, perhaps, not receive their medicare benefits in the same way. look, the white house and their allies on the hill are eager to play down this dispute. today we heard from congressman steny hoyer, the number two democrat in the house from maryland telling reporters that the president's plan to incorporate this chained cpi for social security, quote: is not a news flash. and jay carney, the white house press secretary said this is not ideal from the president's point of view, it does reflect one part of a balanced approach to debt reduction as he has called for. one last point here, one little point. it's really just a drop in the bucket. use of the chained cpi for social security would raise $130 billion of tax revenue for social security over the next 10 years. according to the trustee's own report. the projected short fall is

about $630 billion. >> bill: i know. it's a drop as they say. what time, ed, are we going to know about all of this tomorrow? what time? >> first thing in the morning 9:10 a.m. bottom line is all of this anger on the left just for show so the president can say look, i'm taking on the left or is there really going to be some pain in this budget? that's going to be the key. >> bill: thanks very much. directly ahead liberal guy james carville will react to the big proposed budget. and new orleans, once again, under fire for corruption. they are mad at me down there. carville will be here. later, the far left celebrating if you can believe it, the death of margaret thatcher in a disgraceful ways. >> thatcher's death? i think it's a celebration around the world. >> bill: those reports after these messages.

>> bill: unresolved problem segment tonight, is it possible, is it possible to get

america's tax and spend situation under control. joining us now from new orleans democratic vat gist james callville. what about the argument if you raise taxes in a soft economy you make the economy worse? the president is going to come in tomorrow, 600 billion in new taxes. people are going to go hey, that's not going to help us out. >> if you raise the wrong kind of tax it will. we cut the payroll tax by 2 percentage points and helped a lot. when we put it back on that hurt. that effects everybody and effects a lot of spending. i know the people at wal-mart would certainly say that. what the president is talking about is limiting deductions for wealthy americans. it may hurt a little bit but probably not that much. you are talking about 600 billion over 10 years. we have got to wait to see what his proposals are. but i think most of congress would say these are the kinds of tax increases that would probably be limited in its impact on the economy but anything could hurt. >> let's get specific here. the payroll tax was cut 2% and then it was reinstituted with the sequester. folks are paying more this year

than they were last year. unemployment rate didn't drop. spending consumer spending didn't do anything there. nothing happened. it was just like people got the extra money but nothing really happened to him. you know what? because gas prices went up and that evaporated and took all the money away from the folks. number two, if you knock out deductions for affluent people what do you think is going to happen to the home industry? if you can't deduct your home mortgage what do you think is going to happen? boom,going to totally collapse, is it not? >> first of all limiting deductions to 28% and only applies to upper income americans. >> bill: who do you think is buying all the big properties? >> it's not going to have a huge effect at all, you know, most people are not going to be affected by this at all. and to the extent that upper income people are, it's just limited to 28%. now, by the way, this recovery is much better recovery in terms of private sector employment than the bush recovery ever was. and i think that these kinds of things really help. >> bill: i don't know what you are talking about because if you had the same amount of

people looking for jobs as there were in 2009, the unemployment rate would be 14%. come on. >> again, we haven't -- the private sector job growth here is much stronger than it was. >> bill: james, 14% unemployment rate same amount of people looking for work. can you say whatever you want. >> i'm using just like you were using with alan i'm using the government figures. >> bill: i'm using the government stats too. 14% is what it would be. >> this is a much more vigorous job market than under bush. >> bill: mad at me because ran tape showed corruption of jail. the mayor admitted yesterday the jail is still out of control and the sheriff is a moron or whatever it may be. why are you guys down there giving me heat? i'm telling the truth. >> people down here like you. >> bill: i like them. i like new orleans. >> why don't you -- the factor come down here. >> bill: i was down there, james. i was down there for four days.

>> come down here and talk to everybody. >> bill: i talked to everybody when i was down. >> there we are very proud of the progress we have done here. we have done wonderful things here. we would love to you have come back and spend time with the mayor and everybody. >> bill: i have taken a lot of time there and i went all over the place and i talked to you will at folks. the only time when i was with the fat cats was you at the nfl party when you were scarfing down free oysters. >> i love free oysters and free beer, too. i want you to come down and see us. i want to take you around. i'm proud of my city, sure. >> bill: yeah, sure. i will wind up down face down in the bio. highest murder rate in the country new orleans. okay? highest. >> how about this in the fifth best top five for entrepreneurs most improved public school system in the country. one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. one of the most honest local governments in the country. >> bill: all right. employment rate 8.6. >> we want you to experience it. >> bill: i'm not trying to badger the city. i like the city. you are putting happy face on

something that doesn't happen. highest unemployment rate. poverty rate is higher than the rest of the country. >> we do have a problem our crime rate is not any higher than you would expect maybe lower than a city by demographics. best improved school system here. we have all kind of great things that have happened here in the city. i want you to come and we are proud of our city. we want to take time and show it to you. >> bill: i love the city. i had a great time when i was down there. the stats are the stats. you have the got the highest murder rate and much higher poverty rate. you have got some problems. >> what about the entrepreneurs and job growth in this city? what about the fact that our school system has improved so much. >> bill: all of that is swell, james. all of it is good but you have got major problems. you should run for mayor. >> we do have problems. we admit that and we are trying to involve them and working on them. we want you to come down and see them and showcase our problems and showcase our strengths. we love our city. >> bill: i'm getting all kinds of grief. >> i'm not giving you grief. we want you down here. >> bill: plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this

evening. another incredible waste of taxpayer money as the fisker car -- causing joy among radical left people we show you what's going on there. we hope you stay tuned to those reports.

>> bill: stossel matter segment tonight. as part of obama's green energy programs the fisker automotive program got approval for

$529 million from loans from the energy department. apparently close to 200 million of that has already been paid. fisker makes a luxury electric car the problem is it doesn't work very well. >> this is "consumer reports" fisker karma it costs us over $100,000. that's right we bought this car from a dealer. this is not a press car. it's an electric car that also has a gasoline engine much like a chevy volt. and it looks awesome. it is lo. it is sleek. it is sentous. it's also broken. right here in the middle of our driveway. the car doesn't go in gear. it doesn't move. the dealer has to come with a flatbed and take it away. and hopefully they can fix it. >> bill: i don't know whether the government paid for the tow truck or not. here to explain further is john stossel. this is another in a long line. i have got them all and we are going to read them tonight. government boondoggle. they don't know what they're doing. lend money to anybody if it sounds good and we are getting fleeced. >> we are getting fleeced.

you overstated it. they don't lend money to anybody who sounds good because there are a million people applying. they make an effort to find the best ones. the people that have cronies in government get the loans and government can't even count votes accurately. they are not capable of deciding what the new technology. >> bill: lose 200 million on this fisker deal. >> friday they fired 75% of the workforce. >> bill: now there is a company called emre. it got $119 million stimulus grant. they filed for bankruptcy. does anybody know what they do? >> i don't. >> bill: some kind of green company. then there is a 123 systems. they went bankrupt. and they lost 142 million taxpayer dollars. again, some green company that does something nobody understands. tesla motors, all right. they got -- they have net losses, tesla motors and this is another electric car, right? >> yeah.

>> bill: $523 million in losses. in losses. >> i mean solar trucks. >> 465 million bucks from the government. >> solar trust got 2 billion from the government. >> bill: what's sole la trust? what do they do. >> one of these solar power companies. bankrupt. >> bill: to the sun bankrupt? >> yes. >> abound solar loveland, colorado based. they are out of here. right? the taxpayer on the hook for 68 million. that's chump change. we can go on and on ladies and gentlemen. don't you think there comes a point where the federal government has to be held accountable? responsible for wasting in money that we earned? >> of course. but if they have the right to spend it, they are going to keep doing that. only when government is smaller and you let the market make these decisions will you get results. why would you invest in a car company if the stossel car company was getting a big loan? you would say well i'm not going to develop my technology because i have an advantage.

it kills what might be good innovation. >> bill: i'm more interested in i know by constitution the government has a right to tax. but shouldn't there be some kind if you waste the money irresponsibly we can indict you? shouldn't there be something? >> they would all be indicted. >> bill: good. indict them all. there is not that many of them. we can do it. set up kangaroos courts. hanging courts. >> let's limit their power because the bureaucrats. >> bill: how do you do that? they have the right to tax. >> tax they waste the money. >> they don't have the right to spend more than they tax. >> bill: you are saying you want a constitutional budget balanced amendment? >> no. that would never pass. they would slime around. raise taxes to balance the budget. >> bill: there is no solution? >> the solution is for them to spend less to do fewer things. >> bill: okay. but the people have voted in the big spenders and the small spenders lost. >> they always lose. it's a fatal conceit that they

can do it better. >> bill: john stossel, everybody, there he is when we come right back update on the jodi arias trial and a judge threatening a fox news reporter with jail. legal is next.

>> bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly in the is it legal segment tonight, the criminal trial in the travon martin murder case should begin in june down in florida. that will be a zoo. as you will remember, security watch guy george zimmerman charged with murdering 17-year-old martin when the two collided on the grounds of a condo complex outside of orlando. the family of travon martin sued that complex and apparently has settled the case for a million bucks or more. joining us now from los angeles annahita in for kimbler live guilfoyle tonight and in the studio lis wiehl author of the brand new big thriller "a matter of trust." a firearm on the cover. you can get in trouble for that

why did this homeowner's association settle for this big money. >> they made a cost-benefit analysis. they realized if they went to trial they could stand to lose many multiple millions of dollars. big high profile case. here is what would have happened. they could have gone and lost millions. they would have had had to pay attorney fees, member even both sides' attorneys fees if they lost it a million dollars was probably a good settlement for them. >> bill: do you see that the homeowner's association had any responsibility for what zimmerman did? >> maybe. >> bill: that's the crux of it? >> maybe. that's what they didn't want to -- the insurance company didn't want to take a chance. >> bill: insurance company made the call? >> exactly. >> annahita do you agree with that. >> i agree. i think clearly this was a business decision made by the hoa. bill, there are a myriad of reasons why civil litigants settle cases without going to trial. >> bill: that's why everybody sues. >> exactly. if you can get a lawyer to it on contingency which means you

don't charge unless you win. >> exactly. >> bill: everybody sues which is why the courts are chaotic everywhere because the insurance companies basically settle going you know what? we could lose and it's going to cost us a fortune to defend. so the traive martin gets the money. i am not saying they shouldn't get the money. i don't know. it's my job to point out what's going on. >> the fox news reporter, explain that, wiehl. >> yeah, jana winter. she published a report in july. in report, on foxnews.com. there she is. in that report she said they there existed a notebook by holmes. >> bill: this is the killer. >> exactly. the alleged killer.colorado. there is a notebook that's out there that he had sent to his psychiatrist. >> bill: at the university of colorado? >> exactly. so now that notebook is in play because, if that notebook comes into evidence and that has not been decided yet by the judge, if that notebook comes into evidence, that could be requesting to whether he was was criminally insane at the

time. >> bill: you didn't explain it very well. anahita, the judge had a gag order on the case. slapped a gag order on the case. the fox news internet reporter put in the computer that this diary or letter or whatever it may be by the alleged killer in aurora, all right, told the psychiatrist that he was going to kill somebody. judge doesn't want any of that out because it prejudices the case. wanted ms. winter to turn over who gave her that information. she said no, as any good reporter would do. all right? so did the judge do the right thing? >> well, actually, bill, it wasn't necessarily the judge that is raising this issue. it's actually the defense attorneys. and the defense attorneys are claiming that. >> if the judge does the right thing in this case he will not compel this woman to anonymous

clerld has a shield law. >> bill: what is the shield law. >> the shield law in colorado protects reporters it provides reporters with a privilege so that they don't have to release their anonymous sources the. >> bill: reveal sources. >> that's the catch, bill, unfortunately, colorado's shield's law is not absolute. there are loopholes and there is is an exception and either way i don't think that those exceptions will be met in this case. and like i said, if the judge does the right thing. >> bill: saying he is not going to put jana and jana is is not allowed to talk by the way. >> she can't talk. the judge quashed the subpoena. >> bill: i have got 30 seconds. jodi arias still going on in phoenix. >> going on. >> bill: give me when this is going to hit. >> it's probably going to nit a couple of weeks depending how long the prosecution goes on surrebuttal i don't think they will put on many witnesses. they tried their case bill in about two weeks. the defense is the one taking all the time. >> i disagree with that i

disagree with that. >> bill: unfortunately i don't have time for the disagreement. >> okay. >> bill: but you see it coming pretty quickly. you think it's going to be more drawn out, correct? >> i think it will be more drawn out, absolutely. >> bill: all right. maybe next week we will take a closer look at it ladies, thanks very much. laura ingraham on deck. celebrating the death of margaret thatcher. do you believe this is is happening? i don't believe this is happening. also jay-z and beyonce in cuba. is that legal? laura, moments away.

>> bill: back of the book segment, beyonce and jay-z flouncing around cuba and joy over the death of margaret thatcher. >> i am celebrating. i'm celebrating the fact that

margaret thatcher is dead today. i'm here to celebrate with everyone else just to everything that she stood for i'm opposed to. >> thatcher's death? i think it's a celebration around the world. millions of people. she started a legacy and that legacy was turning over public services and starting the greed for the bankers. >> that woman made my youth a sery. i think she was to blame for most of the ills in society. >> bill: all right, joining us now from washington to analyze laura ingraham. it's pathetic some people are so poisoned by ideology that they just can't say okay, look, i disagreed with her or whatever. but i'm sorry for her family. i said a prayer for her, whatever. you know, do you understand? you take a lot of calls on the radio. do you understand that? i don't understand that mind set. >> i not only understand it. i fully expected this reaction. and i think lady thatcher would have also expected it and probably, bill, she probably

would have been glad to see it if these people are still so angry about what they are angry about, she probably did what she set out to do. to lift britain out of the economic malaise that it was in. to reassert british military authority when needed. and to stand strongly with the united states against the soviet threat. she did all of those things. she was vehemently against collectism of any kind. whether it was in big corporations which she was very suspicious of or big government bureaucracy. she was a union buster. they didn't like her for that. and for that, you know, her enemies today rejoice. there is no common standing of respect for the dead among these people. that doesn't compute with them. >> bill: it was -- it took me aback because i'm trying to think back to the death of ronald reagan in america. i don't think we saw that kind of public vitriol. i mean, i'm sure there was some private stuff but i don't remember that kind of

disrespect. do you remember it back then? >> no. i was at president reagan's funeral. i worked for president reagan as a young speech writer in the white house for domestic policy at the time. and reagan, you know, transformed the country made a lot of people angry. in the end, most in america kind of gave him a nod. okay, we didn't agree with you maybe on everything. you know we had iran contra and all this stuff, you really helped us get through a difficult time. not perfect. no one is. but there was enormous amount of respect for president reagan. >> bill: i'm trying to think back through the history. i don't think we have ever seen anything like that. even when richard nixon died that we saw in london. it took me by -- >> laura: america is different. you know, america was different during reagan's time. i can't imagine that, you know, jimmy carter passes on. >> bill: no. >> people are going to say look -- >> bill: not shocked by any of that here. >> exactly. >> bill: i have got to get to senator marco rubio who doesn't really like the fact that jay-z

and beyonce are in cuba. roll it. >> cuba is not a zoo. where you pay an admission ticket and you go in and you get to watch people living in cages to see how they are suffering. cuba is not a field trip. i don't take that stuff lightly. you just went to cuba to fulfill your curiosity which i could have told you about if you would have come and seen me for five minutes. you left thousands of dollars in the hand in a government people that you feel sorry for. you say? >> look, he is right about that. why are people surprised about. this the rules don't apply to liberals. okay? president obama believes he has a special admission. you have talked about it, bill, of transforming the country. and the rules don't apply to his people. right? he says i'm not going to meet with lobbyists. so his people meet with them oftentimes across the street at the coffee street across the street from the white house so they don't sign into the log. right? if you are a friend of obama mass, you used to be fob friend

of bill. now you are foo friend of obamas. hang out in the room for photo. go to cuba and see the way the folks live in the enlightened world? you do it. you get the permission. everybody is scratching each other's backs and this is a pattern among especially leftist whether it's penn going to see hugo chavez or del toro filming in havana in his film or going bake to jane fonda in vietnam. >> bill: i don't think it's that level. >> inherently -- i'm not saying jay-z and beyonce are i'm just saying it's the fascination. >> bill: i would love to know what they think about cuba or why they went there in the first place which you will never get that from them. >> bill, they are not political so he face at this cats but the people that talk to them about politics they probably hear, well, we need to get. >> bill: maybe they will -- >> they are emissaries to break down the boycott of cuba. that's why. >> bill: got to run. thank you, laura.

in a moment factor tip of the day some people in new orleans angry with me. the tip straight ahead.

>> doctor tip of the day. people in new orleans angry with me as i told you. we'll have more in a moment. first, congregations to us. the audio of "killing kennedy" has been nominated for best sound book of the year. we find out in may if we win. the audio was the nation's top seller in 2012. also we continue with mothers and father's day promotions coming up. please get signed book orders into billoreilly.com now because it takes me a while to sign all the books and we will ascribe them for your folks. check it out. the mail, paul wood, england, watch the factor factor all the time but never e-mailed, but i want to thank you and bernie the balanced way you covered the death of margaret thatcher. in canada, whatever the left wing lo, ns say, there are millions of people in eastern europe who said a quiet prayer

for her who helped bring down the soviet union. in denver, how can you support the removal of ward churchill from the university of colorado? not the removal of father shaver from george washington u? aren't both free speech issues? well, it's a fair question, although i suspect you're trolling the left wing web sites. churchill is a teacher who was presenting false information and scenarios to his students and the public. the university dismissed him for academic dereliction, upheld by the courts. father shave service a chaplain who is preaching the tenets of his church and doesn't represent the university. so that's the difference and there is a big difference. in milwaukee, wisconsin, bill, do you agree with what the priests are saying about gays? i have no opinion on what he's saying, other than under religious freedom, the father has a right to say what he wants. i leave the theological

questions to the theologians and they differ on homosexuality, according to each faith and sect and religion. father benedict from vermont, you do a better job impending the catholic church than many bishops. i don't think so, father, most americans are getting what's up here. i don't think that's going to happen. we're on it. brandon sims, florida, i am gay. and oppose the removal of father shaver. susan, arkansas, my husband and i have premium tinges to see you and miller in kansas city. i think you will enjoy meeting me. by the way, you got your tinges, they're sold out. the only venues are are westbury long island and the matinee in spoke can, washington. finally, the tip of the day, as

we accurately reported last week, there is corruption in the new orleans jail, even the mayor of the city admits it. but that didn't stop some people in louisiana from sending me dopey letters like this. quote, i'm outraged over the erroneous attacks on new orleans stated by bill o'reilly and geraldo rivera on april 5. that kind of stupid stuff comes from a group called citizens for one greater new orleans. the letter writer didn't watch the program. he or she is a zombie who just does what that group tells him to do. two ladies run the pressure group. laura politz and ruthy greerson. i have a tip for them and every other american who participates in this kind of pressure nonsense. knock it off. new orleans has problems. we reported them accurately. be honest. pressure groups don't help fix what needs to be fixed. factor tip of the day.

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