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star moms have it harder than working moms. see you tomorrow night at 7 p.m. eastern. good night. the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> the obamacare web site stumbling on deadline day. >> the obamacare web site goes down again as the deadline closes in. tonight, we'll tell you the real story behind national healthcare. [siren] >> albuquerque cops shoot a homeless man dead. the 23rd person to die that way. all hell is breaking loose. we'll have a special report. >> and the movie noah a huge hit despite some people saying it is sacrilegious. also tonight, watters on the loose in philadelphia. >> how many senators are there in the united states? >> i'm so bad at this stuff.
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>> caution. you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. paragraph ♪ ♪ hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the truth about obamacare and global warming. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. tonight is the deadline to sign up for obamacare but it's really not. there is no deadline. the rollout of the affordable healthcare law complete chaos. so sign up when you want, just tell the irs you had trouble with the web site, everybody does. that's all you have got to do. now, that doesn't mean mandatory national health insurance will not work eventually. it might. but, for now, nobody knows. republicans despise obamacare because it expands big government and forces people to buy insurance they may not want. democrats love it because it
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subsidizes health insurance for the poor. but there is no question that after four years the obama administration has not been able to sell the affordable healthcare law. >> i think they are cooking the books on this. people want to know the answers to that. >> if we were cooking the books, don't you think we would have cooked them in october and november? we could have saved ourselves a lot of pain. >> well, they could have saved theirselves a lot of pain by hiring private sector companies to run the machinery and sending cath leone sebelius back to kansas where she can do little harm. president obama's entire historical legacy is riding on obamacare. if it's running smoothly and costs are under control by the time he leaves office, he will get credit for courage and innovation. if it's a chaotic disaster, he will go down in history as a poor president. that's it. we, the people, have to wait. because, again, we will not know the fax for a -- facts for a while. now, on the global warming. big front page article in the "new york times" that
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says the earth is imperil, grave danger. especially for the poor who are apparently going to be harmed by man made climate change more than others a man made report says that. again, no one knows whether it's true. no one, that is, except brian williams. >> we have never been warned like this before, all of us about climate change, unless the world changes course quickly and dramatically, the fundamental systems that supports human civilization are at risk. >> uh-oh. scary lead-ins aside, you cannot destroy your economy or allow villains like putin to blackmail people with his fossil fuels while embracing some kind of phantom global warming theory even if that theory might some day be valid. give me one concrete thing that all responsible people should be rooting for. on "60 minutes" last night the report on the tesla
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electric car which is a game changer. the car runs extremely well, looks good use no, sir gas at all. that car in the next few years could be available to millions at a decent price. so, everybody on the planet should be rooting for tesla. i mean, everybody. even the traditional car companies that will have to compete. if tesla can make a clean car, the entire automotive industry can. therefore, the air would be cleaner everywhere. and our wallets thicker. so, let's get on it, people. but there will be resistance. many conservatives don't believe in global warming and oppose alternative energy. i hope you guys rethink the energy part. i completely understand that many in the green lobby are self-righteous, arrogant and dumb. but we would all be better off if clean, cheap energy becomes the norm. and that's the truth. and that's the memo. for the top story tonight how the obamacare situation
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is playing out on the very last day of signup, kind of, sort of, might be. joining us from miami the purveyor of bernard goldberg.com, mr. goldberg. now, after the wisdom i have just imparted, you better be good tonight, bernie. what say you? >> look, at this late date, bill, there are still things that we don't know but we should know. of the 6 or 7 million people that the administration tells us signed up for obamacare. how many of those people actually paid their premiums? we don't know. because if they didn't pay their premiums, they don't have health insurance and they don't count. of the 6 or 7 million people they tell us signed up, how many are in the key demographic. young and healthy. the people whose money and premiums obamacare needs if it stands any chance of survival. here is the real important one, bill. of the 6 or 7 million people they told us signed up. how many of those people already had insurance were happy with it, got cancelled, and then went into got a new plan.
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the estimate is low. you mean, we went through all of, this we went through all of this just to sign up a few more million people? there has to be an easier way to eliminate the preexisting condition problem and the lifetime cap problem than going through all of this. >> as we pointed out in the beginning, congress could have targeted the health insurance industry. >> exactly. >> saying this is what you do and don't do. and could have opened up competition to all companies cross all state lines and that would have driven down premium prices and protected the people. bernie, you know, you are usually a pretty savvy guy, a pretty cynical guy, a pretty mean guy. >> whoa, whoa. >> well, all right. so, it doesn't matter how many people signed up for it. it doesn't matter how many people paid their premium or how many people 12 years old
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are are getting insurance. because it's all a reuse. you know it's ruse. they are hoping we give up. get sick and tired of obamacare and quit hearing about it we will give up. democrats can control the healthcare industry which is what the bottom line is from washington. this is just an intermediate step for full government seizure of the medical industry. and they are never going to give you the truth. they are never going to give you stats and never give you anything because that's where we are right now. they are hoping hillary gets elected and hillary takes it the next step up. we will call the shots on the health care industry. we will decide what you get and don't get. what doctor you can see. we will do what britain does. then there will be other thing for the rich people, they can buy their health insurance like they do in great britain. but that's what they want, bernie, the whole thing is a ruse. >> it is what they want. but wishful thinking isn't going to change it the only
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way this is going to be changed is if the republicans hold the house and they will, if they win the senate in big enough numbers so to have a big majority and if they some day soon wisconsin the white house. i'm not putting any money on that trifecta. absent that unless the republicans get together behind one plan. they have dozens of plans out there get together behind one plan. this inevitable tidal wave we keep hearing about in november isn't going to be so inevitable. they will pick up seeds but not inevitable tidal wave unless they have alternative, okay? that's important. otherwise this thing that you are describing is going to happen otherwise. >> well, we just gave the republicans their platform, bernie. all they have to do is watch this, get a transcript of the show and that's the platform. this isn't hard it's hard to execute it because we have
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325 million people in this country. not hard to basically put forth a program that makes sense. but i will tell you this: barack obama, as i said, his whole presidential legacy is on this thing. and he is going to veto anything even, you know, republicans get the senate. is he going to veto anything. it's all looking ahead. >> that's why you need the white house, too. >> so between now and 2016, you are going to have this chaotic obamacare. that's it. in 16. that's when the americans future on healthcare will be told. bernie goldberg, everybody. there he is. next on the rundown once again. a tea party person is attacked by an nbc property. >> stick to the facts. talk about fact, logic and reason. how dare you personally attack me and what i believe in. >> oh, some angst. we'll analyze what happened there in just a few moments. it says here that a won's sex drive
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in the impact segment tonight, when you watch tv news it's important to understand what the program or the network wants to accomplish when it brings you certain stories. last week we told you that the news coverage about the missing airliner was driven by just one thing, ratings okay the political side certain networks loathe the tea party, for example. bashing it has become sport. recently a tea party person jennifer and on msnbc. >> it's not like you care about people on medicaid or that's the thing that got you into politics. i don't understand why not be honest about it. >> but. >> why not just be honest about it. >> you know nothing about me. you have no idea. >> we talked before. >> stick to the facts. talk about facts, logic and reason. how dare you personally attack me. >> all right, all right, all
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right. i'm not personally attacking, jennifer. >> just because you can't win. >> with all due respect to ms. stephan know, she is not going to win going on that channel. virtually no one watches it. they are not going to support her position those who do. joining us is juan williams. mary katharine ham is under the weather. juan sent her a fruit basket and she'll be back, i hope, next week. it's clear to me that the democratic party is looking again, again, to elevate the tea party up to the point uses it to scare voters this coming november. i mean, the tea party is the tea party. it's there. it has its influence in certain places but it's leveled off. there isn't anything new in the tea party. yet, they want to bring in people like ms. stefano. attack them. make them into some kind of big frightening entity for political reasons. i don't understand why anybody doesn't get that juan. >> i think you have got it right. i mean, if you look at the
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numbers. you look at gallup, you look at pew. their unfavorability if you want to put it that way is about 50%, bill. so, and people who identify with the tea party all-time low in the 20's what you you get here from msnbc is they had explosive tv. basically they brought her on to beat her up think are not -- living piñata. she didn't have facts and expose her for a fraud it was nothing. >> people can accuse me sometimes of doing the same thing. we will bring in somebody and have a robust debate as you know, i will do it with you. if you have a good point and if you, you know, make a passionate argument, i will say, you know, yeah, i will give you credit where i can. i won't if i don't think your argument is strong. >> that's true. >> over there the agenda is not to listen to ms. stefano. they could care less. she could have come on and said i'm going to give every
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single person $1,000 after the show. they wouldn't have heard that how can we get out and embarrass her. this is what we want to do is make the tea party come alive as this fright thing thing and drive people into our corner. i don't understand why the tea party itself doesn't see that, you know. i mean, they're not going to win any hearts and minds over there you are on teargted what you say making ms. stefano koch brothers that she works for bad the bad guys. their big money people trying to spew things they don't have any ideas. they can go on and on in that way and not have to talk about the real issues. again, this is an opportunity to use her as a piñata to beat her up. and at this think that she fell for it i don't think anybody is going to watch that show, do you? >> no. were you frightened by brian
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williams tonight? half my staff went home. they said we have got to go home because we are worried there will be flooding tonight. >> i think they are going to have some pans in the morning from all that exposure. >> when you hear that kind of an alarm given off by a national anchor man that you know, hey, we better get this straight or we are all going to be, you know, like i'm doing a thing on noah coming up, because that's what i heard and brian williams is going -- have to have arks because all the water is coming melting in the artic and going to come down. i do think there are valid points in the he can logical range. what do you say? >> i was taken by what you said about the tesla. i was struck you were so forthcoming. >> that wipes opec off the face of the earth if they get not just a tesla. a million tesla. run around and plug the damn
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things in so we don't have to buy oil over there. >> what i'm say something you could get yourself in a political battle here mr. o'reilly i'm right, i don't care. i. >> that's the difference. you have an honest discussion with a guy like me and i appreciate it and i have known you for years so i know. >> the other side won't even let anybody make a good point. that's why they had that woman on. they wanted to whoop up on her and explosive tv. >> i don't know. nobody saw it. now they have. all right, juan. originally evening we were going to do teachers attacking students using the internet. we will hold that until tomorrow night. alba kirky, new mexico in turmoil. believe police are gunning down people for no reason. take you out there for a special report. noah big hit, big controversy. get you to the bottom of it upcoming.
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unresolved problem segment tonight. forcing the law in albuquerque, new mexico. big motion after homeless man was shot by police. since 2010, 37 police shootings in albuquerque, 23 of them fatal. >> a day's worth of protests finally comes to a ned in the streets of albuquerque. abd deploying tear gas and arresting people. for hours it was a battle of wills. hundreds marched on the streets, even i-25 at one point. voicing frustration and anger at the recent fatal police shooting of a homeless man in the foothills. a shooting that has many accusing the officers involved of crossing the line. >> joining us from
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albuquerque antonio, a new mexico state representative and paul broom chief investigator for the alba i didn't i didn't -- albuquerque police investigation. >> we ran, looked very dubious. far away from the cops, didn't have a gun. he had a knife. they shot him dead. let's start there. do you understand why the protesters would see that video and take to the streets? >> yes, i understand that, bill. they saw part of the episode that took place up there. that was a 4 hour episode. part of the episode. it is unsettling, there is no question about that. >> but, remember, if it were just in a vacuum, we could say all right, let the authorities investigate. but with 23 other dead in less than four years, the protesters are basically -- they are a bunch of anti-cop people anyway. you know that. people that hate the police
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and they are going to jump on this to exploit it even me, very pro-police, i'm going, you know, what's going on in albuquerque, mr. voom. >> there was a major spike in shootings. >> why did that happen? >> why did the spike happen? primarily because of the danger that the police officers are facing in these neighborhoods. >> from whom, gangs? >> gangs. we actually have a mental health situation in albuquerque and many other cities which is in a state of collapse. we have situations where we have a lot of domestic violence. and every time a police officer gets out on those streets, is he taking his light live in his own hands. >> that's every city. >> how do you see this now? >> we agree. >> there is a justice department investigation into the al go quirky police. began in 2000 is it. typical federal government. run up a huge tab and don't know anything for years.
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what's your assessment of the albuquerque police force? >> thank you for having us. albuquerque is wonderful. apd simply does not acknowledge the sta tis take call off-the-chart shootings. 23 homicides. not homicides, let's be fair. 23 fatalities. >> no. they are homicides. they might be justifiable homicides but they are homicides. to answer your question, bill, you are right. 23 police-involved shootings in a city that's 600,000 people does not jive with the rest of the country. so a.p. needs to look at it. we need to look at it in the community. >> what's the essential problem? the police are they trigger happy and not trained enough? what is the essential problem in your opinion? >> systemic and the leadership has not looked at that question. >> what question? >> you have a county police force or deputies that
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surround the population of albuquerque that don't have these instances so you have a lot of young can cops, albuquerque is a great place to live. they are not being held accountable. good people. brothers and sisters at apd not accountable by the chief. doj all the way until they came in without an invitation from the hair. >> -- from the mayor. >> is it a lack of training or is there no problem at all? >> there is no question that training is always increase always been in favor of that what we are faced with, bill, in this city like many other cities is a deterioration of the mental health situation, the deterioration of the domestic abuse situation. tremendous amount of poverty in the albuquerque area and there is a lot of violence on the street. there is plenty of drug use and abuse in this town as
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well. so i think we need to look not only at the police department but at our own culture and citizens. >> when you say that, you know in new york city crime has been falling and most other cities violent crime is falling. around the country it's falling. yet you have a free fire zone in albuquerque which it is. i understanding there the poverty element out there. i understand i have been there many times certain neighborhoods who are bad. every city has that yet your city now is exploding. it's exploding. i'm going to give you 30 seconds to wrap it up. go? >> you are asking the $64,000 question, bill, why is this happening? it takes a community to figure out. it takes to us listen to one another. have community forums and take as police force to listen to the community and have the community learn more about safety measures. >> it's always good to chat but whether you have got this kind of answer tense situation. weaver waiting for the
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justice department again they have been out there for two years. that's long enough, guys, let's have the report so then we can advance the conversation. gentlemen, thank you. plenty more aheads the factor moves along. the movie noah scores big at the box office not so big in some religious circles. we will report on the controversy. then, watters goes to philadelphia to give some americans a citizenship test. >> president of the united states during world war ii? >> oh my god. >> george washington? >> no? >> that was close, right? we hope you stay tuned to those reports. well, did you know bad news doesn't always travel fast? (clears throat) hi mister tompkins. todd? you're fired. well, gotta run.
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personal story segment tonight. a lot of anger on the internet about gwyneth paltrow. a regular working momma ken zi dawson wrote a scathing letter to ms. paltrow basically calling her a brat. pitch perfect, how to say it right the first time every time. the beef with ms. paltrow seems to be that she goes on e, she is wealthy and bemoaning the fact that she has to go to wisconsin to a movie set and work 14 hours,. >> makes it sound like she is going to north korea. >> depends on what month you go to wisconsin. in january it's a little brisk then the moms making 40 grand a year and look at this woman are you kidding
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me? >> i don't think there is anything that rubs people quite the wrong way than having rich celebrities or ceos complain about how tough they have it. this was gwyneth marie antwon net moment. >> why would she do it. dependent on the people coming to the movies. why would she say something like that. >> i don't think people put the time ahead in an interview figuring out what are the things i want to accomplish in this interview. what are the stories i want to tell and what am i proposing here. i feel as though when you are accomplished actress like that you go in and wing it a little bit. way too much spontaneity. when you don't have it planned, anything can spill out of your mouth. >> her saying that she believes that i don't think she fabricated that i believe she thinks this is a tough life for her going to a movie set. >> this powerful person lose touch with their customer. >> that's what it looks like to me. her perspective is just crazy. and, you know, i'm glad this
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woman that mackenzie. >> any gaffe on the internet worldwide and anybody is after you. this is what whole different ballgame. this happened to the duck "duck dynasty" guys. the head guy when he said bad things about gays, remember that last year? >> right. >> their numbers are down 33% in key demos after that rocialtson believes what he said that homosexual is wrong. by saying it publicly he has lost a lot of his audience i'm not sure reality were controversy and planned controversy can tend to work making you part of the conversation and boost your ratings. >> only in the short-term a show like "duck dynasty" and the factor anything what they call appointment viewing because you are going in for the personalities, if you alienate some of your audience, they are gone. they just go. >> what did he in this situation though after the
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situation after the fact complain that his remarks were taken out of context. >> never works. >> tiredest excuse imaginable. >> one of the dumbest things i have ever heard an actor say. >> charlesston heston movies are no longer in demand ♪ mortal soul man lay forever ♪ the angels wouldn't take him up to heaven like he planned ♪ because they couldn't pry that gun from his cold dead hand. >> this is antigun entertainment thing. but carrie's career is not exactly, you know, and, again, like gwyneth paltrow they are dependent on people forking over 20 bucks to see their movies and you alienate 50% of your audience by doing a stupid video like. this this is very intentional skit. this wasn't a matter of just something falling out of his mouth the wrong way. the sincerity has to be called into question here.
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if you are in a movie where guns and bullets are flying and you are doing a video like this. you have to be sincere and you have to back it up with the kinds of movies you are in as well carrie believes that gun control should be stringent but again. the book is pitch perfect. thanks for coming in. noah is, it sacrilegious. watters world in philly with the citizenship test. moments away. - cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, t he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game om the great northwest. he'll stt investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work to his last, ich isn't rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade.
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thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly in the factor follow up segment tonight noah big hit grossing $44 million over the weekend. also very controversial. our pal glenn beck called the movie dangerous disinformation. but its star russell crowe says bologna. >> we have had probably over a year now of very harsh criticism from a bunch of people who put their name and stamp on an opinion that's not even based on the movie or seeing the movie. just an assumption of how it could be or how bad it could be or how wrong it could be in their eyes which, you know, i think quite frankly is bordering on absolute stupidity. >> joining us now from "chicago sun times" film
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critic richard roper. managing editor of the ewtn news catholic broadcast network. were you offended by noah? >> i wasn't offended by noah. but, let me tell you, bill, i interviewed all of the stars here the director. showed it no-to-my audience. the reaction i have gotten for the last few days from people who have seen it has been nothing short of titanic. they went to see gadd yart gladiator in an ark. dark depiction of this story and deviates from the bible story or popular conception of it and i think that's rattled audiences. two biggest things i keep hearing, bill, there are stone giants in this movie. big transformer like -- they look like they are out of lord of the rings casting. they help noah build the ark and lay waste to everybody trying to get on the ark he can. >> giant monster people are protecting him. >> yeah. >> i don't know if that's in
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the bible. i didn't see that there, richard, but maybe i have forgotten it. but, look, when people go to to the movies, they have to expect that movie is going to be entertainment and there will be giant concrete people there, i guess. i don't know. those giant monsters are angels that have fallen to earth and god has punished them genesis. as we are saying here this is a big budget entertainment. it's got to have a lot of factors. if you are just going to show noah as this kindly old a 50-year-old man who leads all the animals on to the ark and rains for 40 days that's a 10 minute cartoon and that's been done before to. get audiences to see this story which i agree it of course deviates from the text. so does almost every single fictional hollywood movie ever made been based on anything. >> using the ark and the religious connotation to sell a film. so, you know, some people
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like glenn beck are going to be annoyed by it listen, you are taking it -- they didn't have to name it noah. they could have named it sydney, all right? and just had a movie about, you know, a guy and didn't have to be noah because if you are going noah come on? >> canoe. >> john the baptist and then you have got people get upset. literalism to the bible. >> give it a chance. once in the theater when you have the entire ark of the story, once they are on the ark, no pun intended, noah's mission, he believes god is moving him to wipe out his grandchildren. he has a knife in hand trying to take out the grand kids. this is a very dark conception of this story. >> richard, look, look, look. it wasn't a really touchy
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feeling story to begin with a vengeful god saying look, i created the world and you people are spitting in my face so i'm going to wipe you all out and start again. that's happy days, raymond. >> but noah wasn't running around chasing the kids and the animals, bill. it rattles audiences. look, i don't have a problem with artistic innovation. mel gibson did it but he stayed true to the basic material. that's what's happening here. it is so at odds with the basic material. audiences, i think look at the cinema ratings a c, bill, that's less. >> it's so divided though. >> you thought it was a very good movie, right? >> bill, i'm showing my christian side by letting raymond talk even though you said richard at the beginning of that question. we have to give and be generous of the spirit. >> bill, you made very good point about the old testament. a lot of stories there if you take them literally, we are talking about a god who is testing man and asking them -- someone to sacrifice
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his son. in the case of noah, one must assume if he was told to bring just his family and the animals on the ark that he is shutting out humanity. he did take that and turn it into a gladiator story it is about a man who believes that god is telling him something and wants to obey his god's orders. and ultimately, ultimately does the fair and just and christian thing. >> all right, gentlemen. well, we will let everybody decide whether they want to see noah or not. and we really appreciate the lively discussion. thank you. watters world on deck. the citizenship test. can you pass it? watters is next. ok, here's the way the system works. let's say you pay your guy around 2 percent to manage your money. that's not much, you think except it's 2 rcent every year. does that make a difference? search "cost of financial advisors" ouch! over time it really adds up. then go to e*trade and find out how much our advice costs. over tispoiler alert.dds up. it's low. really? yes, really.
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book of the book seeing: the citizenship edition. as you know in order to become an american citizen, foreign nationals have to take a history test. they have to know something about america and answer six out of 10 questions correctly. we sent watters to philadelphia. the cradle of liberty to give the test to some americans. ♪ ♪ >> now, let me ask you a few questions here. 13 stripes on the american flag. what do those represent? >> 13 colonies. >> oh, god, i'm going to be awful at this stuff. >> you know this. >> do i? >> freedom, everything. like being free and being happy. >> getting what you want. >> that's what the stripes represent? >> to me they do. >> surely you can't be serious. >> i don't know. >> 13 colonies. >> for the first 13 colonies? >> nailed it. the economic model here in the united states of america. what is that?
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>> honestly not too sure of that. >> i'm not the brainiac of all brainiacs. >> you are not? >> money? >> i don't know that one. >> everybody knows that. >> cuba has communism and we have -- >> -- stresses. >> stress? >> we have stress. >> we have stress. >> we are capitalism. we have some socialism aspects of our economy. >> unfortunately. >> is this fox news? >> just kidding around. >> i'm just being humorous. >> how many centers are there in the u.s. city? >> 10. >> like 300 and something? >> about 25 or more? >> how many senators are there in the united states? >> i'm not even going there. 52? >> more. >> 60? >> more. >> 70? >> more. >> 80? i don't know. >> more. >> 100? >> yes.
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>> they taught you this in school? >> no. >> i'm like far out of school. >> it didn't take? >> 50 states? >> 50 states,. >> who was the president during world war ii? >> theodore roosevelt? >> close. >> jfk? >> close. >> ronald reagan? >> there you go again. >> it wasn't reagan. >> it was close. >> it wasn't reagan. >> it was not reagan. >> nixon or something? >> nixon? >> sock it to me? >> i actually know that one. >> let's go, while we're young. >> i can't remember his name. >> oh, my gosh, george washington. >> we're going to have to deport you? >> my goodness, who was president of the united states during world war ii? >> roosevelt. franklin d. roosevelt baby, yes! >> tdo you vote? >> i haven't voted in a couple
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of years, because i have my own emotional thoughts about it. >> when you do vote for the president, how do you vote? >> well, it's around spring. >> october. >> it's november. >> do you ever watch the o'reilly factor? >> i have seen it a couple of times, i like it. >> my roommate watches it. >> i'm into the paranormal. >> ever hear of watters world? >> no. >> i'm watters, and this is my world right here. >> oh, here now is jesse watters, so it is kind of grim again. >> it was a bad one, i'm from philly, that hurt, that really hurt. >> so you asked -- >> 12 people got the quiz. >> right? how many passed? >> three. >> three out of 12. >> and when immigrants take it, 90% of them pass. >> because they're studying.
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>> and they're motivated. >> kind of? >> and only two people got that right, the easiest question was stripes on the flag, 13 colonies. >> i thought fdr would be -- >> unbelievable. >> now, i get letters all the time, watters looks for idiot, if you're smart he is not going to talk to you? >> i would say get out to the mall, talk to the same first ten people you see, ask what the national debt is. >> do you just pick people you see? >> on this shoot, i talk to 12 people, we put 11 people in the package, i don't think the people look dumb. >> but when you say i'm going to try to get this person and put them on the air. >> let's be honest, if a person has purple hair, or looks like a super model. >> the smartest guy was the black guy in the cap.
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>> he ran the table. >> and look, i've been to harvard, i've been to columbia, there is a lot of dumb people out there, but when you go -- not everybody is informed. >> all right, watters world, nobody knows where he is going except me. factor tip of the day, jesus ani the kids, the tip moments away. i go to angie's list to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we're expecting, i like the fact i can go onto angie's list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i've found on angie's list actually have blown me away. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust.
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opportunity, not equality. and since when did geraldo rivera become an expert in military tactics? i believe that geraldo may have been in more war zones than any other journalist working today in this country. if he is not, he is in the top five, martin. and o'reilly, i can't believe you would allow such nonsense as the twilight segment on the missing airliner, families have lost loved ones and the guests are mocking the tragic event. they're obviously mocking the press conference of the event. and bill, cody, wyoming, that is the most tasteless segment. and i thought that was the best segment ever on the factor, and iowa, absolutely brilliant and well played, so obviously controversy here, i want to know what you think about this. was the twilight zone missing airlines segment on friday the
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worst or the best? great or awful? you can see it again, billoreilly.com, we have the thing posted. and then vote in our brand-new poll. can't wait to see you, o'reilly, with megyn and kilmeade. going to be a blast, premium tickets for the show on long island are sold out. but some tickets do remain, billoreilly.com will link you right to the box office over at liu post. we'll see you there. going to be -- first time megyn, doing a show like this, so wonder if she is nervous, think she is nervous? i would be nervous if i were walking in and kilmeade and i were standing there, my gosh, i would walk right outside. and that is it for us, please check out the website, different from billoreilly.com, spout off about the factor from anywhere in the world,
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