star to help grip the ball on a windy night. that's tonight's speed read. see you you tomorrow night at 7 p.m. eastern. good night. bill is next. the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> the affirmative action of today is very different than it was when i was going to school. >> supreme court justice sotomayor furious that most of her colleagues struck down racial preferences in washington. we'll have intense debate tonight. >> obama, whether deservedly or not does have a manhood problem in the middle east. >> is that true? has president obama lost credibility, perhaps even respect overseas? we'll analyze that assertion. >> what is wronk with using jihad to describe what happened to us on 9/11? >> also tonight a growing controversy at ground zero. a new museum will feature a video on jihad. and some folks don't like

that at all. >> there is always the fear that a wider group of people are going to get blamed. >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. racial preferences in america that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. we begin with the 14th amendment, which says very clearly that no state shall deny any person equal protection under the law. that means that all laws passed by the 50 states have to apply to everyone equally. enter affirmative action which gives a racial preference to selected americans in hiring, school admissions and other competitive arenas. if an individual american gets a preference, then he or she is not being treated equally with everyone else. just as simple as that in

michigan, voters struck down racial preferences for admission to state colleges and universities. that happened in 2006. and by a a 8% margin of vote. of course, it was appealed to the supreme court which ruled this week 6 to 2 that the people of michigan have a constitutional right to say no to it affirmative action in education. supreme court justice sonia sotomayor is angry about the ruling. ms. sotomayor is a true american success story, raised by a single mother after her father died. she excelled at a catholic high school in the bronx and accepted to princeton university in 1972. while sonia was a very student, she believes affirmative action helped her. >> the affirmative action of today is very different than it was when i was going to school. and each school does it in a different way. but i do know that, for me, it was a door opener that changed the course of my life. >> ms. sotomayor fulfilled her part of the bargain.

she graduated summa cum laude did i from princeton and then attended yale law school where she prospered as well. in 2009, judge sotomayor became the first latino supreme court justice in u.s. history. i met the justice in december. she is a very nice person who firmly believes that minorities in america do not, do not have equal protection under the law. she believes that because of the past, when blacks and other minorities were kept back by the white establishment, they have never been able to catch up. therefore, the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment should carve out a special place for minorities whereby they would be given preference in some areas. the problem is that by giving one person preference based on skin color or ethnicity, you harm another person. the university of michigan can only admit some students. if a white student meets the criteria but is denied admission because a black person with less white

person not receiving equal protection therefore a violation of the 14th amendment. it's kind of simple. now, what should happen, what should happen is that hiring, admissions and other circumstances be based on achievement. so if you are a poor person and you achieve a certain grade level in school as judge sonia sotomayor did that should weigh heavily in your favor. poor americans get extra credit because they don't have the resources that affluent americans have. you take race and ethnicity out of the equation. out of it. let me give you another example. if a brilliant white student has four felonies on his resume that works against the white student when applying for anything. criteria such as character counts when you compete. and surely poor americans who do well show positive character traits. i would like to sit down with justice sotomayor and put that to her. if she does not accept it

it, then she is clearly wrong constitutionally speaking. if she does accept it, we have a solution. trying to right historical wrongs at the expense of hard-working people today is not fair. the supreme court did the right thing this week. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. reaction. joining us from detroit, attorney george washington who represents the coalition to defend affirmative action, immigration, and immigrant rights. let's address what i'm saying here. it is based on economics when you get into a point system. would you favor that? >> well, yeah. we favor recognizing economics but what i think you're absolutely forgetting, bill, is that race, as justice sotomayor said has a tremendous impact. being poor and black is different than being poor and white or being poor and latino is different than being poor and white. and what affirmative action

does is take into account the reality that black and latino students do not have equal opportunity. >> but that's an opinion. that's an opinion and it's also subjective and the 14th amendment is not subjective. it basically says all measures will be treated equally under the law. look, counselor, you know what you are arguing is theoretical. you know it because it is all subjective. >> no it not theoretical. bill, just come to the city of detroit. >> oh, stop. been to the city of detroit many times. >> being tweeted equally. >> counselor, it's -- >> -- tenet. >> they are not. no, it's reality, bill. and what the court did and what you are doing is just ignoring the reality black and latino students face in this country and let me finish. what's wrong with what you are saying is. this every group in this society, poor kids, veterans, rural kids and everybody can and does go to

the governing bodies and get adjustments to recognize the inequality they ask. is prevent black and latino students from doing this. that is separate and unequal. it takes color out oof it. >> look. you don't seem to understand. i'm sure you do understand. you just don't want to understand it it when the 14th amendment was passed. when the 14th amendment was passed, it was passed specifically for all races, colors and creeds. everyone to be treated equally. if you treat a person of glor a different manner that is a direct violation. a direct violation of the 14th amendment. now, you may be right historically speaking that blacks and latinos have the deck stacked against them. but you would have to overturn the constitutional amendment which you can't do. >> absolutely. bill, you are wrong. the 14th amendment, the people who sponsored the 14th amendment also

sponsored the special educational programs for black people because they realize that what had been done in this country had to be. >> special with special programs and funded to the tune of trillions of dollars historical problems we had. >> would you, reject the fact that other people will be treated unfairly if race -- >> -- no they won't be treated unfairly. if skin color is is a precedent for obtaining a job or slot at a university. someone will lose a job or the slot. >> i heard you were fair and balanced. can i say something here? >> go. >> the fact that other folks in white suburbs have advantages of the just like they have advantages over poor people generally. what these programs do is recognize that and make it possible. and the colorblind theory

that you are advocating, which is not what the 14th amendment says, what this has done is exclude one half to 1/3 of the black and latino students. >> it excludes no one. it's based on economics. >> it does exclude. >> no, it doesn't. >> no, no, no. >> because you wouldn't know who the applicant would be. you would know their economic circumstance but you wouldn't know what color they would be. therefore, the job or the admission would be based on, look, here is somebody whose parents are making 18,000 a year. so we're going to give them extra points because, gee, look what they have overcome. that's the fair way to do it. >> you keep forgetting that race is a separate, independent, and much greater factor in inequality. just look at the city of detroit or washington or los angeles, and you can see the kind of inequality that you and the majority are simply ignoring. the city of detroit -- >> -- the reason it is a disaster is because it has

been poorly managed, all right? >> no, bill goes back 100 years. >> come on, counselor, look. one more thing and i will give you 30 seconds to wrap it up. do you basically here trying to rewrite the constitution because it's clear that every american has to be treated the same way. no one group elevated no matter how much injustice has been done to that group. last word. >> thank you very much. bill, every other group is getting special programs. in fact, you are advocating for poor students. what you are failing to do is recognize race and what you are doing is taking away from black and latino students the right to get programs that will make it possible for them to go to school. that's a new -- that's not equality. >> all right, counselor. thank you very much for coming on. next on the rundown, "new york times" writes president obama has a manhood problem. james carville will react.

ms. megyn kelly over 9/11 and jihad. factor is coming right back.

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neensz that there isn't any overall policy. it's basically reacting to what comes your way. but what brooks is saying and brooks is not an obama basher by any means is that now, now it's personal. and now putin is taking advantage of obama in a personal way and the mullahs in iran are likely to take advantage of him in personal way because they perceive him as being i didn't jimmy carterresque. >> i think if i recall, i could be wrong, mr. brooks mr. brookser -- longs for a day of a more bellicose foreign policy. any rate, it is fair to say he adapts to a situation and takes each thing one at a time. i think some chance iranian policy is at least continuing. continuing to talk that could be a game changer. >> we will know in a month. >> will know in a month.

i'm not sure if putin is doing all that well now either. he starts to admit that the sanctions are hurting him. if he does anymore. is he going to be facing pretty serious. >> does he veto do anymore. he just picked off crimea and added that to the russian landscape. i don't know really if he has to do anymore. eastern ukraine. it's costing him a lot in terms of his. >> he doesn't look like is he hurt to me. maybe you are seeing him in otherwise office. he is looking like is he is having a grand old time to me. >> read robert -- modern person of russia he doesn't think it's going well for putin. these things we don't know at one time we will know in the future. i do say it is a valid point that it does seem that the president and his foreign policy of late have gone from sort of one crisis to another. i'm not sure that might be the best policy we can have. >> well, wait a minute now. i submitted about a month ago that the weakness that

president obama showed to assad that was the big thing. two big things. president obama riding a bicycle in short pants and then backing away from assad. he should have bombed assad's military air fields. he should have done that taken him out and he should have never gotten the bike with the dopey helmet and the short pants. >> there was no public support for it. >> so what. >> he didn't want to do it it and back fired. >> so what. >> ineffective in doing it. >> no, no. a leader leads. a leader leads. >> you know, the military was dead set against. this probably for a lot of reasons. there is no appetite in the upper echelon in the united states armed forces to go to war. >> a five hour taking out their air force in syria would not have effected our military one iota.

now, you have got the president in asia, and we have ed henry coming up. the chinese want to take a bunch of islands away from the japanese and away from the filipinos. okay? they -- you know, most likely going to do that now. going to seize those islands to control the shipping lanes in the south china sea. and, again, president obama is not going to be able to stop them. >> well, you know, first of all, we don't know historic to put it mildly animosity between japanese and the chinese. i'm not sure that he is going to be able to. >> they are going to seize the islands, carville. >> so then what's your answer? >> my answer is that when you show weakness, whether your calvin coolidge, jimmy carter or barack obama, things get worse. last word. >> okay. you know what? invaded georgia in 2008. crushed country in 1956. they crushed prague in 1958.

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>> joining us now on the phone from tokyo, fox news chief white house correspondent ed henry. my only regret is that i can't see the pocket hankie i know you are wearing around the hotel there. >> it's bright pink. it's great. it's lighting up tokyo right now. >> the islands, japan is talking about taking those islands away. does that come up? >> it has come up big time and what we are seeing is in a lot of our asian allies here in japan next up is south korea. very nervous in japan they move on these islands and move on other territory and they are nervous because they are watching president obama deal with the situation in ukraine. you see the power grab. taking territory by vladimir putin. ened the u.s., the west not doing too much to stop it as we talked about last week. andation allies here are nervous about it. also nervous when the president got a little agitated at the news conference today in tokyo, agitated because he was pressed by a reporter about look, this idea that you are going to defend japan if china moves in on the islands, that's just like

basically another red line with syria. and the president got upset, basically said, look, this is not some red line i'm drawing. this is a treaty that says we will defend japan that predates my birth. both line it shows the president is agitated. >> in the beginning you said that japan -- it's china who wants the islands. they want islands from japan. they want islands from the philippines. so he -- everybody knows this is in play. and we don't know what the president would do if china does seize the islands. now, he -- this is the first time in quite some time i think since bill clinton that president has gone to japan, traveled to japan. our strongest ally in the region, there was some rebottom thing, what was that? i have got to tell you i thought that was bill hemmer when i first saw that. >> here is the funny thing. president obama president obama has been here to japan. there has not been a state

visit. high level thing since bill clinton. obama line robot named osomo. pretty cool. kicking a soccer ball. i bet in a couple eks he will be taking over water -- before long sun for me on the factor we wouldn't have to pay him that much. did you get in on saki and sushi last night, henry? were you out on the town. >> i was not out on the town. factor. and the president obama the president was served with the prime minister sushi master here almost 90 years old. they had sushi saki late into the night. sushi master is so well known you can't get a table there for months unless you are a president or prime minister or ambassador caroline kennedy who dined with them as well. along with susan rice as well. or if you are named o'reilly. i bet can you get a table. >> i don't eat suturey

because i sushi. i don't trust it i like my stuff cooked. but i understand -- there is the sushi master. there he is he has got a big sword, too. i think i know that guy you would have liked the state dinner. ice cream shaped like mount fuji. >> i have never been invited to a state dinner and don't expect to be before i die. but i have to say to everybody in the world, the mount fuji area, absolutely stunning place to go. ed, thanks a lot. we appreciate it plenty more ahead as the factor moves along to evening. cheryl at kissson says the far left web site may be getting paid to. ijihad, should it be mexicoed

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mad as hell segment tonight, five feisty letters and to put them all into perspective fox news anchor heather nauert see her in the morning on "fox & friends." all right, letter number one, comes from ken: first, tell me about the gas

prices. >> well, this is the time of year that gas prices start going up. people are just out driving more often. also, we have a lot of demand from china that's driving our prices up as well. also, turmoil in ukraine. >> how. >> 36 cents. >> 36 cents a gallon from the first of the year. >> expected to go up a little bit more. >> if they build the keystone pipeline, i don't think that's going to bring down gas prices. >> that's what a lot of experts in that industry are saying. >> regular folks like me are saying more supply would lead to other costs. >> that's exactly right. going to be sold to china. it's not going to bring down the gas prices. >> it's debatable. but a lot of experts don't think it's going to bring down gas prices significantly. >> letter from hawaii on the

of course, they're talking about the korean ferry. what's the latest on that. >> exactly right on that. a young woman who had no experience doing this whatsoever. she was the least experienced of any of the employees on that. >> she was by herself. >> she was by herself. because of bureaucracy that she was at the helm at the time. someone more senior at the helm. he was on break at the time. >> break? >> because the ship had to leave late bad weather ended up being on her watch. >> they are all going to be charged. this woman. >> at least 11 people have been arrested so far. considered a serious offense in south korea. looks like the captain may get up to life in prison. the president of that country has called this tantamount to murder that looks like it could be the case. such an awful situation. >> third letter:

>> what is this? >> actually freeze dried alcohol. >> put it on the market. >> the companies think as soon as this fall. approved by the federal government earlier this month that approval was rescinded because of a packaging discrepancy. basically what they call the fill level. how much powder goes into each packet. the company says they will rectify that and it will be on the market. >> that's all we need palcohol, sports stadiums drunk. they they are drunk now. >> drunk and more stupid. >> next letter: >> okay, so what is our policy on the drone strikes. >> the president did outline this at the national defense university and he gave three key points about this. a lot of this is, of course, still being debated in the courts. >> real quick? >> it has to be against terrorists who pose a threat to the united states. >> right. >> no other governments could be capable of

addressing that threat, yemen, for example. near certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured. >> so mexico will say, look, the cartel its we are addressing it so therefore we couldn't use drones against them because the government is engaged down there to some extent. >> they aren't considered criminal terrorists. >> but this correspondent says they should be and i agree with that. >> all right. >> the last letter i'm going to handle: okay. here's the deal, todd is mad because watters interviewed a bunch of pot heads in denver who came off as shallow to say the least. todd apparently likes the pot or something. the deal on watters world in general is that he has man dated the chronicle exactly. when he goes on location. people to speak put on camera and reflect whatever environment watters is in. i get mad as hell when

zealots of all kind refuse to accept reality. when if you spend any time around drunks or stoners you you know what a collosal waste of time and talent you are witnessing. watters world in denver reflected that. if you deny it, you are not an honest person. you have a false ageneral davment watters world takes the viewer to the place and demonstrates what is happening, period. got it, heather? >> that place 420 not where i want to go. that place. >> if you are mad as hell i want to hear about it. write us at mad as hell at foxnews.com. when we come right back, ms. megyn on growing controversy. a film about jihad and the new 9/11 museum. some people are objecting to it goldberg on whether far left web sites are being paid to defame conservative americans. upcoming. ♪ don't miss a step...

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thanks for staying with with us. i'm bill o'reilly in the kelly file tonight, interesting controversy in new york city. the 9/11 memorial set to open at ground zero. it will explain the horrible roots of the terrible terror attack that killed about 3,000 people. at the museum there will be a short film called the rise of al qaeda. but some are objecting to that film. >> what is wrong with using jihad to describe what happened to us on 9/11? >> nothing when it's put in

context. jihad is of the violent nature that we saw so tragically on 9/11 is one of many different kinds of activities. the ones that people most muslims adhere to is the struggle to do good, which is a powerful and real struggle, the struggle to be able to fast. >> struggle to be able to fast. here now megyn kelly you see her after the factor a couple of things that was justice supreme court breyer's daughter. >> yes. justice breyer's daughter. >> this is exactly what happened to me on "the view." remember when behar and goldberg walked off same debate. you can't zero in on jihad or the killers or anything like that because if you do you are besmirching all muslims. when are they going it stop this nonsense? >> they attribute any link that might be in people's minds between islam and al qaeda to a misrepresentation by brian williams who narrates the video at the 9/11 memorial as opposed to

to the terrorists who happen to believe in radical form of islam. >> i want to be clear here. williams didn't do anything wrong here. >> no. of course he didn't. >> he just narrated the seven minute film. >> is he not exactly known as this incendiary guy offending people at every turn. he clearly didn't see any problem with what he was narrating. >> he we should tell the audience, kelly, that neither you nor i have seen the film because the museum will not put it out which is a mistake by the museum. they should let everybody see it. >> you have to go there to look at it? >> the reverend there breyer's daughter. >> horrified. >> of course. >> because they are using the term jihad. objection she is trying raise there in the muslim world, jihad is basically a battle for self-improvement, and although it was used to kill 3,000 americans on 9/11 in 2001 it has a more generalized meaning and they want that museum to point it out in the 9/11 memorial. they don't want to leave al qaeda as islamists out there

because they think that will leave people thinking that al qaeda represents all muslims. >> nobody would think that if they have an iq over 7. all right? everybody understands that jihad is a struggle for impose islam on other people. and that if you do not -- if you oppose that then you deserve to be killed. that's what the jihadists do. this is just a 7 minute. this isn't the whole museum. this is just a smidgen as president obama would say. >> it is important to point out that the museum took pains to make sure that muslims were also killed. on 9/11, of course not all muslims supported what happened on 9/11. but they pay tribute to the muslims who were victims who helped fight the fires. it is not muslim bashing thing. they talk honestly about al qaeda. they want that honesty couched in different terms. >> they don't want any mention of it at all. >> the museum guy put video. on the show tonight. ask him directly about these

accusations. >> >> i think this film is fine. ms. megyn as you may know one of the "time" magazine influential people in the world. all right? this is a list that i have never made, ladies and gentlemen. >> here i am. >> no, that's not you. that's beyonce who i guess is the most influential human being on the planet now. >> as if she didn't have enough. she is having that amazing gene pool now she gets number one. >> you know i'm responsible for that. >> for making her the most powerful person on earth? >> because i criticized her. as soon as "time" heard that they go whoa, we will put her on the cover we will show him. >> take credit for. >> you are going to this little party. >> you should have two more body guards. >> this is what is going to happen there. bon beyonce? >> no. they will off and on over --

fawn over you, kelly. when your back is turned -- that's what you are gonna get. >> that was going to happen. because i'm going to put it out there now the back of the dress i bought -- someone is going to be sticking a knife in. >> there anybody gives you a hard time, you take out a pad, you write down their name and say i'm giving this to bill tomorrow. >> really? watch the factor two weeks from tonight. you heard here first. >> you got it. >> all right. beyonce, i mean, megyn kelly, everybody. >> in my dreams. >> on deck, far left web site being accused of taking money to hammer conservatives. bernie is next. foot and asked for less. because what we all really want... ...is more. there's a reason it's called an "all you can eat" buffet. and not a "have just a little buffet". that's the idea behind the more everything plan. it's more of everything you want,

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tonight. honesty on the internet, two words, forget it there is no supervision on the net. therefore various web sites have sprung up doing a bunch of terrible things. one of those web sites is media matters, tax exempt organization which daily defamous conservatives. recently sharyl attkisson said this. >> media matters, to my understanding is, a far left blog group that holds itself out to be an independent watchdog group. yes, they clearly targeted me at some point. they used to work with me on stories to try to help me produce my stories. but when i persisted with fast and furious and some of the green energy stories that i was doing, i clearly at some point became a target that they, you know, i don't know if someone paid them to do it or they just took it on their own, but they everywhere very much in lock. >> is that possible someone would pay them? >> they get contributions from, yes, they get contributions. >> all right. in fact, 2010, liberal billionaire george soros announced he was giving $1 million to media matters to defame people. joining us now from miami,

the purveyor of bernard goldberg.com, from goldberg. is there anything wrong with taking money to hurt people with whom you disagree? >> i think the line on that, bill, is very bright. what is not acceptable is to take money from wealthy partisans who tell you or who imply that they want you to either defame their opponents or smear them in some way or bring them down by any means necessary because they're too powerful. that is unacceptable. what is acceptable, however, is to it take money, either on the right or the left from people, partisans of any kind, who say i want you to point out the biases and the inaccuracies of the other side. as it -- that's acceptable. as it per answers -- pertains specifically to sharyl attkisson. there is not a shred of evidence that anybody gave media matters any money with instructions to rip her.

she is an investigative reporter. believe me, and she is hawk ago book. if she had any evidence that somebody paid media matters to bring her down, she would be talking about it. >> all right. but i believe that george soros and his elk. it does happen on the right as you pointed out. but not nearly to the extent as it does on the left. they basically send a signal, look. you o'reilly, you get goldberg, you get limbaugh, and we'll make sure that you have a comfortable life. we'll give you tons and tons of money. but, if you then go over and start to criticize a liberal icon, you are not going to get the money. now, i think that should be true. >> that's front and center and everyone on earth should know it and that's what ms. attkisson was saying. this media matters outfit -- i have been doing this 18 years, they are the most vicious. there are a couple as vicious as they are. they're the one that drove that sylvia story when i actually was complimenting

african-american entrepreneurs like sylvia in harlem. they twisted it down to make it seem like i was condescending. they did it on purpose. a guy like soros would say these guys are players. i'm going to give them money. there is a direct quid pro quo for what's happening. go. >> i would argue if it were direct but i get your point. let me give you two examples. media matters went after me, they were right. i made a mistake and they pointed it out. i can he will it you it was an honest mistake. i don't know that they thought so. >> about what? >> they had every right. it was something -- i had a text of an interview in one of my books and the people who gave me the text took things out of order and it gave the wrong impression. media matters was right it to criticize me. but here is another example. it's not just the web. a former anchor on another network said something about me that was so factually incorrect it was so malicious that two lawyers that i went to, two said

that i could win a defamation of character lawsuit. i don't think anybody gave that person money in order to get me. i think if you're a far left person in the media, you just do it. it comes naturally. >> was that rather? >> no, no, no. >> somebody else? >> a cable anchor. you know who it was. it was a cable anchor. it was a cable anchor on msnbc. >> all right. we don't even care about them. okay. finally, this cliven bundy out in nevada made some very unfortunate comments about black americans. and now people are jumping off his horse. they are bailing out on him like crazy, bernie. >> yeah. i would use the analogy like rats jumping off a sinking ship. here is what he said. he told reporters and it's on tape. he told reporters that he wondered whether blacks -- i'm sorry, he wondered whether negroes, that's his word, in 2014, he wondered

whether negroes were better off during slavery than they are today taking government handouts. this man is abysmally ignorant. and all those people on the far right who turned him into a poster boy for government -- you know, to make the case against government overreach and how the government owns too much land out west, those are legitimate points. but, guys, you can find a better poster boy. >> absolutely. >> be careful. you can find a better postal boy than this one. ignorant. >> the factor covered that story absolutely accurately from day one. and but you have got to be careful. and that's right. if you are going to partner up with somebody identified goi with somebody ideally, you need to know who that person is. 100 most influential people. did i have anything to do with

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