record" 7:00 p.m. that way you never miss it up next the o'reilly factor. good night from washington, d.c. o'reilly factor is on. tonight. >> benchmark. >> no one can can ever kind of reach that again, i don't think. no one ever did. >> i admired him and he is a legend. >> can anything good come from the death of robin williams? maybe. tonight, we'll investigate the causes surrounding the sad story and how they might be mitigated for other people. >> shame on you, barack obama. >> hillary clinton criticizing president obama's foreign policy and now the far left is attacking her. we'll have the latest on that explosive story with crosswalk -- charles krauthammer and karl rove. >> i'll be okay. right now i'm not. >> also ahead, a tense

racial situation in a st. louis suburb, dr. ben carson will weigh in it. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪. bill o'reilly, thanks for watching us tonight. this afternoon, authorities in morin county, california, told the world that mr. williams hanged himself in his bedroom as you might know the media is playing the williams story big. some believe it might be too much. bernie goldberg will analyze that in just a few minutes. talking points does not believe the coverage is a very important story. apparently robin williams suffered from depression as 16 million americans do. and it was a depression that likely caused him to take his own life.

this morning i was impressed when dr. keith ablow said this. >> here's the truth. every life story, what happened to robin williams he came to believe, that this grand imposture robbed him of the belief left of his life story that would be great. everyone does have that. it's the absolute truth. i promise you. and if people will take little bit of a rise i that next season i will be restored if i deploy all the resources at my disposal i promise 100% that can happen. >> now, that is solid advice to everyone who gets depressed. things will get better. the cycle of life dictates it unless you are self-destructive. now on to mr. williams himself. is he one of the last entertainment icons meaning that most of the country knew him and his vast talent. today we are a fractured society where americans going off in all different

directions thanks to social media never again, will entertainers like robin williams be so prominent in the nation's mind. mr. williams had a unique talented. i saw him at carnegie hall a few years ago and almost his entire act was exsearch rainous off the cuff. brilliance doesn't even begin to cover it his piers knew that they understood the giant talent of robin williams. >> too soon. he is out of here way too soon. is he very gifted. benchmark. no one can ever kind of reach that again, i don't think. no one ever did. >> mourning the loss of such a great man and he was also a friend and i admired him and he is a legend. >> he made people laugh. in today's world with the violence and everything that is going around, there was very serious -- we are going

to miss him a lot. >> many creative artists are tortured souls. ernest hemingway and kurt cobain there is a unique pressure on famous people. everyone has high expectations of them and very difficult to live up to those expectations and still live as a normal human being. i met robin williams one time at yankee stadium. he seemed to be a good guy, maybe everybody in the box laugh and he was very courteous. colonel hunt who provided security for mr. williams at times confirmed that last night. so the nation mourns the death of robin williams and hopefully all of us become more aware of the depression situation. my friend, mike wallace, struggled with it his entire life and even attempted suicide himself. it's a terrible disease but one that can be overcome. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction. joining us on the phone from idaho actress patty duke in a book called a brilliant madness and from florida,

singer, connie francis who also discuss depression in her book hops sorry now." after a terrible crime was committed on your person, rape, you descended into depression. you have managed to prosper in some way ways. tell us how. >> it was a long time back, after having written that book, 15 times mental institutions involuntarily taken from my home, four homes i had tried to build. and it's against the law but put in shackles and isolation. i was a nut. misdiagnosis happens very often. you know, it was fashion of the era to be called

bipolar. i exhibited all of those symptoms considered bipolar to be bipolar when, in fact, it was something that was part of my a type permanent since birth. >> i want to get to it and think about it because i have got to go over to patty duke now. what was the main thing that brought you back so you were able to function? ms. duke, i want to address your situation as well. >> thank you, bill. >> when you heard about robin williams committing suicide what was the first thing that popped into your mind how did you process it. >> nothing that went through my mind i just screamed no, no, no. i join all of the people that he made so happy with his laughter or his creativity in heart break today. i must say after the screaming i wondered why of

all people couldn't he get thecific kind of help he needed and i comforted myself with perhaps his illness was as unique as his creative genius i suffered what got to be known as bipolar for 35 years completely out of control except when i was working. boy oh boy was was i in control then. as years went on i tortured my family. i was abusive to my children and finally i was working with richard crena and i went into a manic episode. everybody noticed, except me, of course. and they said they would cut down production and i could go to it a doctor, which i did and i was diagnosed back then we called it

manic-depressive. and i was treated in my case with medication, and after quite a short time, i was able, for the first time in my life, to make decisions for myself, the illness didn't make those choices. >> so medication and analysis or diagnosis from a psychiatrist helped you. >> oh, of course. >> get back on track. but you have got to assume that robin williams had medication that he could have accessed. >> yes. that's the part of me that is screaming why. >> the most important point is this: that the 16 million americans probably more, who suffer from depression, they need to basically surrender to someone they trust, a medical, like dr. ablow or somebody else, a medical person. >> but first they need to know that there is hope and there is recovery, it's hard to surrender. >> sure. >> to something that is kind

of the unknown. >> that's why we wanted you to come on the air tonight. >> you are so grand, thank you. >> so that people can see that you can can overcome this illness as tough as it is. so, you are right. you are absolutely right. you have got to have hope. but you have got to have the discipline to also seek the best treatment. >> yes. you have to want to not just for your family, those are the unsung heroes, but for yourself want to give up this illness. it's very tricky. it wants to keep you in its trap. >> you know, i understand that i have seen people with it it in your case, i think for our viewers tonight, what was the one thing that turned around for you? >> my brother's death became my resurrection. for seven years i was wallowing in

self-victimization. i'm a mom, had three families to take care of. behind and get going and do something about. >> it was family that finally got through to you after all those years? family? >> i knew i could no longer afford to do that anymore. i had to do something and try to help as many people as i could. >> i'm glad both of you are functioning now. we hope everybody who is suffering from depression becomes aggressive and does what they can do to get out of it we appreciate ladies very much. next on the run down. what about the intensed me were coverage of robin williams? bernie goldberg has some thoughts. later on the factor hillary clinton criticizing president obama's foreign policy. all hell is breaking loose within the liberal precincts. karl rove and charles krauthammer will have some thoughts and we are coming right back. ugh. heartburn.

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continuing now with the lead story the death of robin williams. joining us from north carolina, purveyor of berne nod goldberg.com. mr. goldberg. we on the factor last night, we did two stories about it. cnn went wall-to-wall with it as is there want now. they go across the board with it media coverage in general, what's your assessment? >> well, there has been a lot of it, that's for sure. and i think there is a safe rule of thumb and that is when a famous person dies an untimely death. especially when it's a dramatic untimely death. and when that famous person is a well-liked celebrity, it's going to get a lot of coverage. part of the reason, it's a legitimate story. i want to make that clear. part of the reason is something i have mentioned on this program before and that is we live in the united states of entertainment. and these are our

celebrities, they are royalty to us. news executives and news producers understand that people who get bored after 10 seconds of news about ukraine will watch 10 hours of news about robin williams because even though they have never met robin williams, they only know him from tv or the movies, you know, they really do see him as a kind of friend, a friend who made them laugh and when a friend who makes you laugh hangs himself, that's intriguing and legitimate news, but, bill, sorry. let's make no mistake about this. the reason it's gotten as much coverage as it has is because, and i don't mean to sound callus at all, even in death, robin williams brings in numbers ratings, ratings translates into money, it's a business. that's why they do it. we know that. there are ways to cover it today as you know are concentrating on the depression aspect of the story. 16 million americans diagnosed with acute

depression. and all of us get depressed. that's a good way to cover the story, to bring that out in the open and maybe some people who are in the same situation mr. williams was in will seek help and try to get on a different path. you know, you and i have been in this business a long time. it's changed dramatically. 30 years ago robin williams wouldn't have had wall-to-wall coverage. changed with john kennedy jr. remember that plane crash where they sat on the long island sound for days. and people tuned in to watch. and you are absolutely right. a guy like robin williams one of the last of the icons, one of the last of them. everybody knew them and everybody liked them. very little dissent on that. the story i think is legitimate. i'm not real annoyed that even the people overdoing it. i'm not annoyed with them. >> there is a hollywood, again, it may be too soon to be so blunt, but there is a hollywood death-o-meter and

it spreads into main street america. princess di dying the way she did on a scale of 1 to 10 is 1,000. it's way over 10. and then michael jackson, and even robin williams. even robin williams. the fact that he is as likeable as he was, that's important. that means a lot. i mean, people like emotion than they like facts. facts are important. but, you know, if i say to somebody, by the way, isis took over mostly the other day, really? if you say hey, robin williams committed suicide yesterday, it's like, what? we absorb and process that kind of information. >> it's more personal to us. it's more personal to us and they don't know mosul, isis unless you pay attention, you don't know what's going on over there and unfortunately millions of

americans are not paying attention. and that is going to change the country dramatically as the people start to hibernate with their machines. you know, robin williams deserves the adulation he is getting. hopefully the depression thing will become forefront. >> i want to make clear, bill, both to you and to everybody watching. from all indications he was a likeable guy. >> good guy. >> who was tormented. the news coverage of his death is legitimate. page one of the "new york times," hours and hours on cable television. i'm not arguing against that. i'm just trying to bring -- and maybe it's too soon but i want to bring a dose of reality to this. what you said, we all know that i just want to make sure we do all know it if kurt douglass, who is almost 100 years old, he is he 97, i think. when he goes, he is he not getting this kind of send off because he is an old man. when henry kissinger goes

and he was involved with vietnam and the middle east, he is not getting this kind of send off. a celebrity who dies relatively let's call it untimely death and dies the way robin williams did. >> shocking death. shocking. that's the word. >> is going to get a lot of coverage. >> appreciate it as always. directly ahead, hillary clinton criticizing president obama's foreign policy. and now she is being attacked by the far left. karl rove has some thoughts. >> later, dr. ben carson on the race riots in missouri off the death of a young black male shot dead by a police officer. those reports after these messages.

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the world u.s. foreign policy is a mess. even democrats are criticizing mr. obama. hillary clinton a big name. she says. organizes principles and don't do good stuff. direct dig at president obama who once adescribed part of his foreign policy as don't do stuff stupid stuff. joining us from austin, texas, karl rove. the far left outfit move on, despicable group, immediately attacked hillary clinton after she took the dig at barack obama. how do you see it? >> well, look, this is an exercise that is fraught with difficulty. hillary clinton wants to diverse herself -- divorce herself from barack obama. is he at all time record low. she is getting ready to run for president. she has got to do two things and both of them are dangerous. she wants to celebrate herself from the failures of

the obama administration which causes some people on the left of her party to come out against her and after her. and on the other hand, she needs to somehow convince people that while she was there for four years she should not be held responsible for the actions of the administration on foreign affairs. she was, however, the secretary of state and how to juggle these things. how to get out from underneath obama. >> do you think she should be held responsible for isis? she says that she wanted the obama administration to arm the good rebels in syria she said that flat out. so she can't force policy, mrs. clinton couldn't force policy. do you think that voters should hold her responsible for the foreign policy mess? first of all it shows as the secretary of state she was not able to direct foreign policy. she couldn't bend the president in his direction. >> she couldn't convince him? >> the fact is though at the end of the day, people will hold her responsible in part

for the actions of the obama administration. we have seen this drama once before. in 1968, vice president hubert humphrey who disagreed with president johnson on the vietnam war had difficulty breaking from the administration. he finally did at a speech in salt lake in october. by doing so, he neither placated the critics of johnson's war policy or kept the support of those who agreed with johnson. it's a difficult dance. >> do you know who is having a difficult dance with this whole ordeal the republican party. even though it's a mess under president obama and getting worse by the day and iran coming up and that's just going to be all of the republican party's foreign policy under bush the younger in iraq and afghanistan now in hindsight looks awful. >> no it doesn't. in hindsight it looks better. >> i'm talking about the regular folks.

>> oh, no, no, no, i'm not talking. >> they see the iraq not worth it. every poll shows it? >> i disagree. i think they see it as in america's strategic interest to remove the taliban and saddam hussein. what they look back and say was why are we now tossing away the hard won gains of america's military by doing what we are doing. >> you think they see that? >> absolutely. the world is a safer place -- is the world a safer place today? no. it is not a safer place because what we did in succeeding and removing the taliban in afghanistan and removing saddam hussein has been frittered away by the policies of this administration. >> every poll i have seen, mr. rove, with all due respect to you. every single poll i've seen says americans regretted going into iraq. no, look, look, look, absolutely. >> we won it and obama gave it away. that's the crux of the matter. that's why people regret it look back now.

>> why is it not stable? i'm sorry? >> i don't think the g.o.p. can exploit it to the max because americans say look, iraq, why did we do it in the first place? >> look, what's going to happen is until there is a republican nominee in 2015 or 16, the republicans are not going to be able to speak with one voice. but the question is going to be in 2016 between a republican and a democrat and the question is going to be the republicans are going to say we need to have change from the failed policies of the obama administration and interestingly enough we may have a democrat who says i may have been part of the obama administration we need a change from the failed policy of the obama creation. that's a difficult dance for the democrats, more difficult than for the republicans who can be forward looking and look to the future. the democrats are going to be stuck on the fact that their frontrunner right now has a great deal of responsibility for the foreign policy or will be seen as having such in 2016. >> all right, mr. rove as always, thank you. plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening.

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hillary clinton and other democrats criticizing president obama's foreign policy. >> we're not leading, really. we are getting pulled in all different directions. there is not a clarity of who is in the united states of america and what do they

stand for? that's democratic senator manchin from west virginia. with us now here in new york city monica crowley and from washington, kirsten powers. there is a split in the democratic party. you know it, everybody knows it. is it going to hurt the party in this upcoming election? i mean, you know, the message is coming out as president obama is incompetent in the foreign policy world. and half his party supports the incompetence and half i don't think that's a good why it go into an election, is it? >> i think you might be overstating it saying half supports and half doesn't. i'm not sure where you are getting that. >> maybe that's a good point. i'm saying it's a divided situation. i don't know the percentage exactly but go ahead. >> i wouldn't even say it's divided. i would disagree with you on that. i would say there are some people who are criticizing him but actually very few and far between. >> hillary clinton, that's pretty big. manchin, is he a senator. come on. that's pretty big. >> i don't think i don't

think that hillary clinton is in sink with most democrats. hers is very. if she is going to be your nominee is not in sync with most democrats. >> arming the syrian rebels no i don't think that's probably what most democrats. >> do you think foreign policy in general is a mess? >> i think it's a mess but that is not an example of it. >> we'll get back. >> what she said i don't agree with i don't think it's true. i think that it is a fantasy that there were these people there that could be armed that could somehow overthrow assad and people partner with. >> a fantasy of what i said last night tag points memo for more than a year they knew this isis army do absolutely nothing, zero. nothing across the board. what did they think was going to happen? you saw what i did to karl rove, okay? >> most americans despite what mr. rove said, they

think that from the jump the whole iraq thing was worthless, right? that's all the polls show that even though we won, we did win the war and barack obama gave it back by not keeping a residual force. those are all facts that are all true. all right? so the republicans can't really jump on this issue the way they could if the american public did support the whole iraq adventure. >> i agree with you to a point americans like to win. we did win iraq and barack obama has lost it or is now in the process of losing it it where the republicans might have an opening, bill, if they can say look, we have the situation relatively stable. we had turned over a relatively peaceful and stable iraq. >> biden said that biden head we have stable democratic iraq. >> he said it was a powering achievement. american people as long as you are on the winning side or have victory in its sight. we have victory in our sights.

we turned over relatively stable iraq and this president has lost it. hillary clinton for four years was the chief are a text of american foreign policy under this president you don't think she can distance herself? >> this is a tight rope for her. 1968 that's the moment when the democratic party started to get overtaken by the far left extremists. now you have a point where you have got a dwindling number of moderate pragmatists in the party. >> i'm not sure about that. still a 20% far left at play. >> put up dianne feinstein. >> got to keep it tight here. kirsten, when you see move on, powerfully funded by sorrows and others really go after hillary clinton's jug glass, not nice, nasty, flfty. does that say she may have trouble with the nomination process? >> yeah, it does. i don't think they were nasty, i'm not sure what you think was so nasty. >> calling her incompetent and liar. >> they called her a liar? >> yeah. they said that she at one time supported the president

and now doesn't, so what does that make her? >> that's a little different than calling someone a liar, bill. >> they were critical of her and i think rightly so. >> they they have every right to be critical of her. mainstream democratic party which is not made up of far left lunatics. >> it's the way -- >> -- yes, they are. >> no, they are not. >> wait, wait, wait. you are always critical of me but you are always nice about it anyway, all right, ladies. always good to see you both. when we come right back, dr. ben carson on the race riots and looting in missouri after a police officer shoots a young black male dead. and then charles krauthammer on confronting evil. why won't president obama do it? up ahead. s charlie.

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michael brown's parents appeared on television last night. >> you okay, leslie? >> i will be okay, you know. i'm going to be okay. but right now i'm not. i'm not okay. >> no justice, your shirt says. why are you wearing the shirt? >> >> because my son don't have justice. and we don't have no peace. he has no justice, we won't get no peace. >> joining us now from florida, dr. ben carson a fox news analyst. so, obviously, we have to wait and see how the system handles the situation. you would agree with that the justice system? >> absolutely. >> you have a black attorney general eric holder who i in this case 100% confidence in that he would direct the fbi to find out all the facts of

the case and make surety local authorities in missouri prosecuted, if that's what the facts dictate. would you agree with that? did you have 100% confidence in attorney general holder to do that? >> well, i certainly think he has an interest in bringing this case to justice. >> okay. >> and he tends to put energy into things that he believes in. >> so do you have confidence as i do that in this case, the attorney general will use the power of its office to get all the facts out? >> i believe that to be the case, yes. >> so we have established those two things then how do we process people coming into the town of ferguson and looting, burning, disrupting, all in the name of justice? how do we process that? >> well, unfortunately, i think these people, perhaps, have not studied history. the reason that dr. martin luther king was so effective is because he quelled the

temptation towards violence and in fact brought a lot of attention to the injustices that were being done. if in case injustice has been done in this case and we don't know that yet because we have got to let the process take place, if it has, by rioting, by hurting people who have nothing to do with the incident, the people are actually detracting from the actual ininjustice that was done. they are not helping this family. he they are not helping this young man's memory by what they are doing. i hope there will be leaders that will point that out to people. >> the naacp chapter in missouri did do that today. they issued a statement that said this is totally wrong and we give them credit for that however, there are other people, like al sharpton who have come to missouri demanding this and that, agitating the situation. we have seen that over and over and over again. i don't even want you to comment on it. i just want to point out that he is there and that's what he does.

people can make up their own minds. now, do we as a society, what do we do? do we weigh in as the boy's father and if it were my son i probably would have said the same thing. but he is obviously talking through an emotional prism. the son is dead. he believes probably, i know he believes that it was an injustice. done for nothing. it was a murder. and many many african-americans believe that without knowing the facts. do we criticize them or do we remain silent? >> no. i think we have to speak out and help people to understand that, yes, we feel their pain. you know, how you can possibly even understand how these parents feel did you, at the same time. we also need to recognize that police are individuals, too. they have feelings also. and we need to hear from this police officer. you know, people -- they are trained to shoot to kill or

to shoot to stop. we need to understand why did he decide to shoot to kill instead of shoot to stop? >> yes. but i don't think right now -- i don't think that's going to happen. so what you are going to do is you are going to have the one side that has had suffered a terrible loss and the other side is not going to say anything and that's what we have to process. now, i was going to ask you about your presidential aspirations, doctor. i'm not going to do that because we don't have enough time tonight. i want you to promise me you will come back in a couple of weeks and tell me where you are on that scale, right? >> sounds like a good deal. >> all right, doctor. might want to check out the doctor's book "one nation." still a very strong best seller and great summer read. charles krauthammer on deck, why won't president obamaintr confront evil? charles is next. heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection™

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>> president obama and evil, i address dollars the subject last night in my memo bill o'reilly.com. last week on "special report" charles krauthammer pointed out the president is allowing evil to run wild in the world. he joins us now from washington. so we all know this is true and the other people disagree with you and me. they are uninformed, whatever. so is evil growing? >> it's gone pretty much unchecked. but now the why of it the why. president obama doesn't want to confront evil. why not? >> well, i think it starts with the fact and you just go back to the series of speeches he made after being sworn n 2009 when he went abroad. it was called the apology tour, but it was more of a confessional tour, where he talked over and a over again on foreign soil, mind you, about all the sins america

had committed starting with the maltreatment of indians all the way to hiroshima, 1953. and of course he emphasized iraq, torture, all these other things. he says that abroad. you know that he means says tha that he means it. i think he's one of the rare presidents who really thinks that america, perhaps despite its intentions, i'm not sure what i know he thinks about that. america ends up doing more harm than good. i think that's his view of american power and he sees his role as restraining american power. >> let me jump in here and -- you've spoken with him up close and personal as have i, all right? he doesn't come across as an ideological nut or an uninformed man, would you agree with that assessment? >> i think you're mistaking appearances with reality. he can talk his way out of a paper bag. i'm very impressed by how fluent

he is. but i would say, bill, judge him on what he does. >> i'm not judging him at all. i'm saying he doesn't come across as someone who is irrational. i pointed out last night that for one solid year since the isis army seized an entire town in syria, president obama and his advisers knew that this group was growing in power ander if osity. that they were the same as adolf hitler and his nazi party. they would execute people, rape them, enslave people. and for one solid year, the most powerful man in the world who could have done damage to this group, did not do damage to it. and allowed them to murder human beings at will, to grow inner if osity where they now are threatening an entire nation. i would like to put that question to president obama and i don't believe he could answer that question. so it's either he doesn't care about fellow human beings being slaughtered. he's too afraid to do it, or

he's too apathetic to do it. there's no other explanation. or am i wrong? >> let me propose a different explanation, added on to the one before, uncertainty about the righteousness of america, about american exceptionalism. i would add on to that the feeling that he has that he -- and this i would say is a kind of narcissism. he presented himself to the nation as the man who would end the wars. he ran for re-election, i end wars i don't start them. and this is his self image. this is going to be his legacy if he has any. i ended the war in afghanistan and iraq. in fact, david petraeus ended the war in iraq, and obama created the conditions for the rekindling of the war, that's fact. in his mind he was committed to a policy of hands off. we're not going to get into syria, we're not going to get back into iraq, i'm the peacemaker, i won the nobel on

the presumption that i'm the man who takes us out of wars. so to act forcefully, to act decisively would have been a contradiction of the self-image and of the image he wants history to read and the american people to see. >> that's good. that's good. can't argue with that, it could be very well true. >> charles krauthammer, things that matter, good summer read. factor tip of the day, why the regular folks are more powerful than celebrities. the tip moments away. it's monday. a brand new start. your chance to rise and shine. with centurylink as your trusted technology partner, you can do just that. with our visionary cloud infrastructure, global broadband network and custom communications solutions, your business is more reliable - secure - agile. and with responsive, dedicated support, we help you shine every day of the week.

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the. thanks for watching us tonight, the kelly file is next. the spin stops here. we're definitely looking out for you. breaking tonight, dramatic new pictures of a new round of disturbing news out of iraq. we're getting reports that our air strikes may not stop these terrorists. an eyewitness account suggested our effort to help thousands of iraqis hunted down for their faith is falling desperately short tonight. welcome to the kelly file, i'm martha mccallum in for megyn kelly. it has now been more than seven months since the kelly file first reported on the rise of a horrific terror group in the middle east. what started as an al qaeda offshoot turned into a blood thirsty arm known as