hope for texas after all. >> this is all i want to talk about all year. >> i can tell. >> as always, thank you for being with us. start your day with fox and friends each weekday morning at 5:00 a.m . we'll see you back here tomorrow night. the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> how many of you think that bill o'reilly is the most popular guy in news? raise your hands? bill o'reilly would finish dead last if he were on the evening news. >> wow, is that true? would i be an evening news loser? we'll analyze tom brokaw's remarks with an eye on what he is not telling you. >> the men and women of the intelligence community, including the nsa consistently follow protocols designed to protect the privacy of ordinary people. >> is that true? or are we losing privacy like crazy? charles krauthammer will answer that question. ♪ show you all ♪ tonight i want to show you

all. >> charges that police in los angeles looked away from drug evidence in justin bieber's lavish home. is it legal on the case. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor is right now. ♪ ♪ hi, i'm bill o'reilly. tanks author watching us tonight. the new york news vs. the factor. that's the subject of this factor memo. >> depend on tv news for vital information. newspapers and magazines have lost of a lot of influence. internet does not provide in-depth reporting or analysis it is headline service. for better or worse. americans are dependent on national newscast for information. enter tom brokaw the former anchorman of the nbc nightly

news. mr. brokaw is a first-rate journalist but does see things through a liberal prism. recently he gave a talk here in new york city where he cited the nightly news broadcast. >> that audience is so much more substantial than most people realize. when i talk to audiences i say how many of you think of bill o'reilly is the most popular guy in news? and they will all raise their hands. i say bill o'reilly would finish dead last if he were on the evening news dead last, really me? nightly news has larger audience than cable news. how could it not. the three broadcast networks are on all television sets in america with low dial positions. fox news channel you have to pay for. and we are on channel 761 out of long island where i live. you have to hunt for us and thank god you do. also the factor is in prime time, up against the big bang theory, "american idol," football, stuff like

that. competition for viewers is brutal. at the dinner hour when the net news is on, not so brutal. nevertheless, we average here between 4 and 5 million viewers a night when you add the 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. broadcast together. now, the important stuff, we asked mr. brokaw to appear this evening. he declined. he has never been on the factor because he knows that we know that he has an agenda. and that agenda is power. since the rise of cable news, the network news has lost a lot of influence. when was the last time you saw a discussion about a nightly news story on the net? here on the factor we are the center of discussion on the internet nearly every night. in fact, the most powerful network broadcast is not the nightly news, it's "60 minutes." one cough yet network news reporters vary strong it is the -- that should alert

americans. internet news buster internet benghazi revelations were very important as opposed to michelle obama mall's fifthth birthday. they found that the first lady's celebration was given twice as much air time as benghazi story by the three networks. that's the crux of the matter. exclusion of stories the net doesn't like. without the cable news americans would not be getting vital information. i worked for cbs and abc news. i know the gate keepers there based on a variety of factors. i also know that the network news broadcasts are pretty much the same on every channel they don't provide much analysis or perspective and all three networks lean left. tom brokaw should be happy, overjoyed, thrilled, that cable news and the factor exists. he should be -- he shouldn't be running us down.

he should be be amaze dollars that we are so successful, because we provide a voice you would never hear on the network news. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. what about the power aspect of tv news? joining us from washington, charles krauthammer, author of the big best seller, things that matter. so, does this matter, charles? this topic? >> well, not as much as my book. but it still does matter. look, i think what's happened is that the keepers of the networks who, for one generation, almost two, had a total monopoly on the news. you had only three choices and they were essentially ideologically all the same. they don't like the fact that they no longer have a monopoly. i have been saying this for 10 years. pew pert murdock and roger ailes in creating fox news is to have discovered a niche audience in american broadcast news, namely half

the country. everybody knows that the network news all give it from the same perspective and what fox news has offered is a new way to look he a thus and that's why it has been so unbelievably successful. mainstream media. they no longer control the agenda. >> but it's more than that. it's a power thing. when brokaw, jennings and rather were in the chair, okay? when they were the anchormen, they had all the power. no one had any power but them. and then once in a while there would be a commentator put on there, some place. a little time not much. now there is no power at the network really. the anchormen are good and professional and all of that. they don't drive the national debate. they don't change things like jessica's law. they don't do anything like

that. correct? >> they know a there has been frag then station, people go to other sources of news far more than they did, which is why the ratings of the evening news on 00 net is so disastrously lower than it was a generation ago. apart from that i think they also have the sneaking knowledge, which they don't want to acknowledge, because it is sort of against their own pride of the quality of some of the cable news. bret baier, cut out the second half hour, look at the hard news stuff in the first half hour is, i would say, the best on television. it goes into the wees, it isn't afraid to do stuff that is not that unpopular. the stuff that was done on healthcare reform long before anyone else reported it and which now everybody has discovered like the

cancellation of policies, the inflation of the premiums all of that was reported months and on fox. ideological not true. superior in their coverage, which is also not true. that is quite a blow so i can understand their reaction. >> brokaw is out of the game now. he is retired. he does some special stuff for nbc. here is the bottom line on this: charles krauthammer and bill o'reilly would in never be able to appear on the nightly news on nit of of -- on any of the networks. i didn't believe we would. maybe now that we are so successful maybe we would. certainly when we were working our way up, there is no way. so, why doesn't he celebrate that? more word in the market place? >> that is where i find it kind of odd. people lament oh in the old

days where we all could rely in a source of news. when the old days it came from one ideological perspective. why don't they celebrated the fact that in a democracy you know how the level of pluralism that you never had before and why don't you say it's a great thing. let everybody speak as mao would speak let a thousand flowers bloom. mao would be the right kind of source for in kind of news. and why not celebrate that here are people who control the game that no locker control it and they are not that happy about it. >> that's human nature. >> they are not good losers. >> the network news does have a substantial audience and we respect what they do most of the time we are going to hold charles over about spying and your privacy. that should be interesting. did police in los angeles look the other way when they raided justin bieber's home

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. continuing now with charles krauthammer once again joins us from washington. last week president obama said. this. >> the men and women of the intelligence community, including the nsa protocols designed to protect the privacy of ordinary people. they are not abusing authorities in order to listen to your private phone calls or read your emails. >> so do you believe that, charles? >> i would say that it is generally true. i'm not sure it's 100% true people are human. you often had v. a bad apple. we know about snowden. snowden is the guy who uncovered the keys to the kingdom. misused information and one way or 00 other helped it get into the hands of the chinese and the russian secret services. so, we know that there can be bad apples there.

i would just say though, been around for 10 years. i haven't heard of any egregious cases of someone having their stuff listened in to we know what happens. eastern europe, places like cuba. when they listen in, there are consequences. they call you and you lose your job. your kids are harassed. there is all kinds of stuff. is there a single case of that? not that i know of. >> here is what worries me, and you brought it up. you get a rogue guy like snowden, all right, who is hired by the nsa. national security agency. he works for another firm and he comes in and he is tech savvy, he knows how to do hack into wherever he wants to hack into. if the nsa is compiling all this data. he couldn't possibly look at it all but they compile it. text, emails, whatever. maybe they have phone call

transcriptions, a guy like snowden can go in there and he can say i want to get o'reilly or i want to get krauthammer, all right? and i want to -- i'm going to zero this on -- try to find out if their numbers, say they got our phone numbers if they have anything stored. if they do i'm going to hack in and get it that worries me, charles. >> and it worries me, too. you know what i also worry about? a second 9/11. i worry about a chemical attack. i worry about a nuclear attack. you have to weigh these. i would rather run the risk of that happening and you have to admit it is, let's not pretend. let's be honest about this. if you collect all this information, there is a chance of abuse. absolutely. >> okay. there is very little evidence of abuse in 10 years. i believe in the good faith of people who are there. also on evidence of the last 10 years there have been a lot of breaches. almost all of them

inadvertent and they all go to the fisa court and they get corrected. you have got to make a decision, bill. if you don't collect the dots you can't connect the dots. >> one more question and i only have 60 seconds. i got it look, it is a decision about personal privacy vs. national security. >> right. >> the president gives a speech and he says i'm cleaning up a lot of the stuff. do you believe him? >> well, i believe that he and the people under him, the people who run the nsa, in the nsa are of good faith. they're not lying there is a possibility of a rogue agent or of mistakes and this is a human factor. you have got to accept it you have got to make a fundamental decision. i believe i would rather air on -- err on the side of security, given the risk of weapons with mass destruction. with terror around the world that we see exploding every single day in towns all around the world. given that, i'm willing to take the very small risk

my privacy. but it's a real one. i can see -- and i respect those who would go the other way. it's an argument we have to have. >> i don't think the president did anything fundamental here it was kind of smoke and mirrors. he is going to keep everything intact. >> i agree. >> directly ahead, terror threats against the olympics in russia. high drama over there we will take a look at it then outrageous story out of massachusetts. the federal court says the taxpayers have to fund a sex change operation for a convicted wife murderer. those reports after these

impact segment tonight, the winter olympics begin on february 6th in sochi, russia. there have been a number of threats made by muslim terrorists. joining us now from washington to assess the situation, fox news strategic analyst

lt. colonel ralph peters. how worried are you, colonel? >> bill, i'm not worried at all because i'm not going to the olympics. if i were going, i would be very concerned. because the terrorists from the region, and there are a lot of these terrorists, he they are going to do everything they can to hit these olympics, embarrass putin and they full well the terrorists only have to score one single goal to get the gold medal for propaganda. >> you know putin's credibility is on the line. in russia there is no due process. the russian secret police will come in and shoot you right in the head. and i understand is he actually doing this now. they are rounding up all these people if they can find them. >> they have to. putting the olympics olympics in sochi in this terrorist heartland was an act of incredible huber russ and

arrogance. he may get his come upance. i don't want violence at the olympics. olympics really are special. if there is a problem at the olympics, despite the truly massive security the 40,000 security officers, special operations forces, 1500 square mile exclusions. if there still is a terrorist attack or successful attacks, it's going to be putin is remembered for. >> putin saying he has a ring of steel around the olympic festivities. russians aren't cooperating with us very much in trying to hunt down. why wouldn't the russians cooperate with the u.s.a. on that? >> well, one is pride. putin's personal pride. he calls the shots. two is they don't really want to share at love information about how bad things are and three, you

know. the re-set just didn't work, bill. they don't trust us at all. and, again, we would like to see things in terms of institutions and international relations. this really comes down to one guy's power and pride that's vladimir putin. this is ultimately for the auto billion plus dollars spent for all the tacky construction, this is a one-man show and that man is vladimir putin. >> you know, i don't like him as a human being. i think is he a kill canner. i certainly don't like the way he is running his country. but, as i said in the beginning of the interview, everything is on the line for putin. he is as ruthless as they come. his guys are going to -- if there was one person on earth who is going to try to prevent this, it will be putin. >> yeah. >> it's already a bloody olympics. and there is going to be, as you said, there are going to be a lot more summary executions. >> you bet. >> we won't even hear about

most of them. >> they will jews use -- they will just use it to clean out all the people they want to get rid of. >> in that area the russians have been fighting islamic extremism for over 200. this is going to be ugly. >> karzai talking about ugly. the president of afghanistan, i test speeds him now -- despise him now because is he hurting his own country. now he is demanding that the u.s. stop air strikes against the taliban. he knows that if he continues this way the taliban will take over. and where will karzai go, colonel? >> well, probably dubai. his family owns some property there. but, one of the other gulf states. >> right. >> i don't think the west is going to welcome him. you know, karzai lives in an incredible bubble. much more so than even president obama. vastly more so. he is surrounded now by increasingly by iranian --

pro-iranian advisors. he thinks he can cut a deal with the taliban. he defied his own loya jirga the tribal gathering who desperately want us to stay. he trashes us all the time. he has been doing it for years. and president obama back in the 2008 presidential election let him get away with stealing it president obama bet on karzai now president obama doesn't know what to do. >> by all accounts, he dessurprises karzai not as much as as i do because we have lost some men and spent so much money over there trying to keep the afghans free. >> we are begging them to let us stay. give you all the billions of dollars you want. >> keep a residual force there karzai is making it as difficult as humanly possible. if it ever went south. his butt would be the first one on private plane getting out of there with all the his money in switzerland. plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. stossel on global warming and how much we are spending to combat it? then did police in southern

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>> this is not a debate. the scientific consensus is absolutely clear not debatable. climate change is real. it is caused by human activity. >> in the united states, the evidence of climate change is really all around us. from increasing temperatures, to record flooding, to super storm sandy. >> all right. this thursday evening on the fox business channel, john stossel will analyze the global warming controversy and here he is what's the headline of your show? >> some of what they say is true. assuming man is doing, this there is nothing we can do about it. >> let's walk through it what is truth. >> global warming. climate changes, always has, always will. >> how do we know the globe is warming? >> in the last 15 years it hant done much. but in the long-term trend coming out of what they call the little ice age, the

globe was gradually been warming. >> over what period of time, do you remember? >> no. >> okay. so, the data assembled because they do have worldwide temperatures every year shows there is a slight rise of temperature in planet earth, right? >> good serious climatologist is concerned that man is going to make it worse with the greenhouse gas production. even that's not certain. you hear the left and it is certain. what are they basing their assertions on? >> scientists who they like says yes, look at numbers, models predict great warming. >> now, $100 billion a s. a lot of money. a lot of money. what are we spending it on? >> waste. this is the part that gets me. yes, the globe is warming. maybe man is playing a part. is it a crisis? no. can we do anything about it?

no. we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to do stuff about it. >> what are we spending money on? >> giving money to companies like solyndra, first solar. >> research and development to get away from fossil fuel. >> we have something free market. alternative form of energy. >> the stuff hasn't worked on a mass level so far. now, the reason that i believe that i'm agreeing with you for the second week in a row which makes you very nervous. >> me, too. who is the greatest polluter on earth, who? >> the chinese. >> that's right. see, stossel, actually has the stuff together now. the chinese are the greatest polluters on bound. >> they have wealth. >> they are bound by no treaty, by no compulsory anything, so if you go to shanghai, you can hardly breathe. they are dumping everything in the water. so, even if we spent

3 trillion they are not going to play along. >> they build a coal plant every week we ban new coal plants. don't confuse the black skies over global gas that's real pollution. we should have rules against soot. >> we should have rules against all of that. >> carbon dioxide don't have to have a rule against you believe yaghtd. >> i take more n than i express out. >> oxygen you are blowing greenhouse gas out. >> you are punishing the american taxpayer, you, the federal government, while you know that across the pacific ocean whatever we do is going to be offset if it were true that it was man causing this by those people. >> totally. we are punishing poor people the most. >> how? >> because when the price of gas goes up, when it costs more to heat their house, it hurts them the most. >> all right. john stossel thursday night, everyone. when we come right back, is it legal on a very provocative story police in los angeles gave pop star justin bieber a big break on

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tmz, the los angeles sheriff deputies saw drugs and drug paraphernalia all over justin bieber's home when the cops raided it on another matter. now, l.a. county sheriff's department denies the report. with us now attorneys and fox news analyst kimberly guilfoyle and lis wiehl. wiehl, you actually talked to a cop who was in bieber's house? >> not just a cop. the cop that was in charge. lt. thompson. he said i was the third guy in the house and that means that everybody is coming in at the same time. he said tmz reported two big cookie jars pull of pot. pot everywhere. bongs everywhere. all of this stuff, codeine, something called zurup. codeine a cough syrup that's a prescription. all of those things illegal. i was there. i walked through the house. the most bizarre thing was a basketball hoop in the middle of his living room. i didn't see any drugs at all there was one person who was arrested. a little za. >> some friend of his.

>> 20-year-old rap his or her lives in the residence. >> this guy had drugs? in this guy. >> he had drugs. evidence says he didn't see anything. no flushing of toilets or anything like that? we weren't there. >> but he was. >> he was. you have to believe the officer when he says that but, remember, it would be embarrassing if the l.a. deputies saw it and didn't do anything about it. my question for you. guilfoyle. >> yes, o'reilly. >> you have a warrant, for something different. >> vandalism. bieber allegedly threw some eggs at somebody. they wanted to get some tape. that was the warrant specifically. the cops walk in and see illegal drugs are they allowed to take those drugs and catalog them. >> it's plain view doctrine. if it's immediately in plain sight and obvious it's illegally substance and illegal paraphernalia then you could. if i'm walking by and looking for surveillance equipment to see if there is anything on there about vandalizing mr. schwarzenegger house next door. next to it i see in a clear cookie jar marijuana or what

i believe to be main or narcotics or anything like that, then i can. >> then i can what. >> seize it and take it in and inventory it. >> do you make an arrest on it? >> if there was someone in the proximity. they did in this case with little za because he was arrested. >> the lt. was quoting plain view to me. he knows the law. >> i believe the lt.. we are not there, we are not going to make may any acquisition. -- accusations warrant for another matter but if they see it out in the open they can can take action. >> say you smell drugs in the house but you don't see anything out. you go back to a judge and say smell a lot of the drugs and get a warrant particular to those facts. >> plain view. >> we covered this story before, absolute outrage, convicted murderer wants a sex change operation inside prison. is he serving life, all right? >> yeah. >> guilfoyle, the federal appeals court -- >> -- u.s.,. >> yes, the taxpayer has to pay for this guy's operation to the tune of, what?

how much is it going to cost. >> u.s. court of appeals. this could be up to 700,000. >> 700,000? >> >> legal fees. >> michelle's legal fees. that's just the legal fees, forget about even performing the operation. they said this is cruel and unusual punishment to deny michelle. she is in jail in a men's correctional facility for murdering his wife cheryl because she caught him in her clothes. okay? this is the kind of nice individual that we're dealing with. >> medically necessary for him to have this operation it will go to the supreme court. >> this is so insane. >> that's the problem. >> this is a murderer. >> right. >> i don't care whether he wants a sex change operation. i don't care. >> here is the crazy thing about it, he is a murderer. he is going to get a tax-free, paid for taxpayers operation of someone who was not a murderer on the outside wanted to get would have to pay their own money for. >> of course the relatives of cheryl, his murdered

wife. >> only in prison. >> this is why america is going crazy. these federal judges, this is not in the constitution. this -- this guy would have been hung from a tree right in front of jefferson, madison and frankly. >> we are not advocating. >> i'm saying when the constitution was being forged, he, whatever his name is, would have been hung from a tree. that's what would have happened to him. >> okay cruel and unusual punishment. >> it's not enough that the state has paid for all of the drugs and treatment for this person that wasn't enough. >> we have got it this is insane. >> right. >> new york city biker update. this is a guy. >> right. >> family and suv. he surrounded this summer, last summer, all these motor cycle guys, he tries to get out of there, he runs one of them over. now, the driver is suing the nypd for what? >> he filed a notice of claim to sue for negligent hiring of these undercover cops. >> how many undercover cops are on the scene. >> four undercover cops on

the scene. >> in the motorcycle gang? >> in the motorcycle gang but one actually barbed in the back window. >> they have been charged these guys. >> one of them has been charged. >> so there were four cops can on the scene. >> three cops that were in the. >> immediate vicinity. >> and they didn't protected him? >> they didn't protect him. they are going to say we are undercover cops. >> i know what he they're going to say wiehl. i want to make the guy's case. he is saying. >> he is saying that the nypd failed in their duty to protect him and nypd from vicious beating from a lawless gang'. >> then he will have to settle. >> the city should settle even though it's hard to prove negligent hiring. this is such an egregious case. >> walk away with a couple hundred thousand. >> don't you think he should. >> i love the nypd. my grandfather was a member. but, in this case. >> i love the nypd too. >> in this case i think the phi is right. >> you know why? these officers bring down disfavor on the other officers. >> even if you are undercover you have got to protect the person.

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back of the book segment tonight. we continue our reporting on legalizing marijuana. we want to know what you think. the new bill o'reilly.com poll question is very simple because i'm a simple man y'all know that. should pot be legal in the u.s.a.? yes or no. bill o'reilly.com. now, there is no question that liberal americans tend to see drugs in a more

benign way. however, the other day lefty chris matthews disagreed with president obama that pot is no different than alcohol. >> i don't think he is right on this one. because i think people have addictive personalities and some people react to freedom differently than others. i think dope, marijuana, makes it sort of vague out and lose interest in tomorrow, two weeks from now, two months from now where are you headed? i do believe that. >> with us now fox news analyst allen colmes and monica crowley. so, generally speaking and i could be wrong on this, i don't think so. the left is more accepting of legalization not only pot but all drugs, right? >> i would agree with that as a general proposition. i too want to clarify that there is some people on the other side, on the libertarian right like john stossel who believes the legalization not just pot but other things. make clear that it's not just those on the left. >> not just. >> as a general proposition it is true. i would point to two things. one is sort of the general

permissiveness that we have seen since the counter cultural revolution. >> isn't that personal freedom rather than permissiveness? isn't that what the left is preaching personal freedom. >> it was freedom but also stick it to the man it was timothy lehry. sort of the hippy movement it was about turn on, tune out, drop out, that whole premise. which was pushed by the anti-junction different with something going on now. the democrats and president obama are really using the youth over obamacare which now the young kids. >> come back offered them pot. >> yes. >> entitlement. >> this is the way they do it. >> loading the millennials by the nsa. domestic surveillance. >> that makes sense to me. it's a wedge issue. >> as a way to get to them. >> puts the democratic party back in the youth zone again. >> more and more independents seem to want to have legalization as you pointed out the strain of libertarian, conservatives want to do it.

more people on the left are going -- this is not a left right. this is libertarian vs. non-libertarian. >> conservative people are very hesitant to legalize drugs and marijuana. now, my whole thing is the kids. that's where i come from it. you know, if colmes wants to smoke pot in his basement are m less willing to legalize drugs. if combs wants to smoke pot in his because as he often does -- >> that's not me. >> i'd never be seen in your basement. >> no way i'm going in colmes' basement. >> that's right, he smokes the dope with me. >> every drug rehappen counselor i've spoken to tells me all the youth cases they see began with marijuana, why send the message that it's okay? >> that's a critical point. >> i don't see the need for america to do this. >> it is not a gateway drug. >> that's just cherry picking,

it's just like global warming, other studies show the opposite. >> what i'm doing is i'm neutralizing, you can get one study, i can get another. >> forget all the studies. >> forget all the studies at this juncture? >> if you legalize it, you make it easier and faster for kids to gain access to it, if it is a gateway drug, which i believe it is. >> you have studies, colmes has studies. >> not only easier and faster, let's be honest, in some neighborhoods you can get pot as easy as alcohol if you're a kid. the message of acceptance, this is what permeates into the children. >> if you're going to make the argument, why should we have legal guns. we keep getting into the hands of toddlers, every day there's a story about a 3-year-old that gets a gun. if we're going to make it easier

for kids to get their hands on it -- >> guns are a defensive -- drugs are. >> i want to pick on this, as a society we have a legal, ethical and moral obligation to do what we can to keep these things out of the hands of kids. >> we do. and we're not doing nearly enough. >> these drugs are so contaminated, so much stronger. keith richards said i would never tell anybody to touch any drug now. in the '60s and '70s when we were doing heroin, coke and pot, it was a lot purer, so you're putting a purer substance into your system. it was a lot weaker than what it is today. >> i don't know if he's a posterboy for what we want to do here. have you seen the man lately? here's miller's line about keith richards. he looks like a wallet that talks. >> you can't live in a childproof society. and the fact is, you don't make

laws based on what kids might get their hands on. legalization doesn't mean legalization for kids. it would continue to be illegal for kids as it is now. >> draconian sentences on anybody that sends it to you, would you do that? >> not draconian. >> no, no. >> prevent kids from getting jobs. >> i'm glad you're not my camp counselor, okay? and i was not in your basement, and i would never want to be -- >> ien wot want to be your camp. if you were my camp counselor, you would be set on fire. okay, you're a lovely man, factor tip of the day. a website that will make your leisure time better. [ coughs, sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is.

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