right now stay with fox news channel for president obama's speech. good night from washington, d.c. >> the o'reilly factor is on, tonight: >> the president's upcoming address on the isis terror threat and person who foreign policy. we will talk with karl rove, bob beckel,v]oqz dennis miller, cammeron and rosen and martha maccallum. 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. in just about an hour, the president will make an important address to the american people and the world about grave threats. and protecting the folks is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. according to a new "wall street journal," nbc news poll, 47% of measures feel

the country is less safe than it was before we were attacked on 9/11 2001. that number is up. way up from 28% just last year. proving that americans are very worried about president obama's ability to protect us from harm. the journal's lead editorial today explains why mr. obama's foreign policy has increased anxiety. the president has tried to reason with the russian tyrant putin even pulling missiles out of poland and the czech republic as a gesture of goodwill. attempting to demean barack obama and the west.6 mr. obama refused to help pro-democracy forces in iran believing that appeasing the mullahs would leave to detente it didn't work. iran continues to defy the world on nukes. president obama backed off from taking action against syrian tie rant assad and didn't arm moderate forces fighting him. the result iran is still in power. mr. obama could not convince iraq to allow u.s. troops to

stay under a protected arrangement? the result, we pulled out and the iraqi government under maliki collapsed, allowing isis to occupy much of that country. and finally by announcing the withdrawal of u.s. troops in afghanistan, the president has emboldened the taliban and destabilized hard fought gains made by nato forces. all over the world, the decline of american power is causing chaos. china is on the march. africa is under siege by muslim extremists, egypt, libya and pakistan in chaos. that is is the back drop for tonight's foreign policy speech by the president. himself under siege by the american people who are finally waking up to the fact that the u.s.a. ismhjmñ not being managed in an effective way. mr. obama's poll numbers are cratering. thus the attempt tonight to convince us he has things under control. talking points said months ago that isis should be bombed inside syria and everywhere else. >> and what has president obama done to the isis army? has he bombed their caravans

to and from syria? has he directed drones at their leaders and their headquarters? no, he has not. and u.s. intel warned the president that islamic militants were gathering power in syria. but he did nothing. nothing. to stop that. >> well, tonight, the president is expected to announce expanded bombing. i also told president obama face to face that he would get nowhere with radical muslim groups like the brotherhood. >> muslim brotherhood grave concern to a lot of people are they a threat to the u.s.a. >> i think that the muslim brotherhood is one[ñásv faction in egypt. they don't have majority support in egypt. but they are well-organized and there are strains of anti-u.s. there is no doubt about it. >> those are tough boys the muslim brotherhood. i went want them anywhere near that government. >> those words proved to be true. no matter what the president says tonight, it is doubtful that barack obama realizes the danger, the true danger

this country is facing. and the "wall street journal" lays some of the blame on his nationals. intellectual defenders were complicity cheering on flight from world leadership as prudent management from u.s. decline. even now some of his most islamic states jihadists right where he wants them unquote. in this age of high tech distraction takes a lot to wise many of us up. but most americans now understand president obama's world vision is failing. and it suspect to him to turn that around. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. reaction, first up, joining us here in the studio, karl rove. can he turn it around? can he become a tough guy overnight? >> no, he can't. and that's not what his goal ought to be. his goal ought to be to stabilize it and keep himself from falling further. the american people have made a pretty definitive judgment about this guy in a new fox poll 5ed% say they think america is less respected around the world

compared to 2008. when they talk about him, his -- his record on foreign policy, he is at a near record low. on syria, is he is at a record low. on iraq, he is at a record low of 34% approval. when it comes to seeing him as a strong and effectivehp9 leader, they don't. in fact, in the fox poll, a 7% say they see him as weak and indecisive. only 34% see him as decisive. all he can can hope is begin the process of stabilizing himself and allowing a record of accomplishment to begin holding him where he is he has ruined his reputation with the american people and once ruined it's very hard to repair. >> okay. he has got two years to recover. >> 120 months. >> he says is he going to take three years to chase down isis which, again, is another statement -- why do you do that? just say i'm going to go get them and i'm going to go get them hard. that's it. you don't have to say he is going to1sx take three years

and four months and 36 hours. we're not going to put booths on the ground. he seems to almost apologize for american power. did you ever get that feeling? >> oh, absolutely. >> look. >> from the first moment from. his speech in cairo, it's we are responsible for this because american colonialism, i don't remember us ever have a colony in the middle east. >> we said that at the time. >> yeah. >> okay. so i has got to now go away from that belief because his own presidency is to the tottering on the brink of disaster. i don't know if he has the steel inside him to be a war time as i said in the godfather con signature con signature do you -- consigulary. he doesn't take this stuff personally. >> he is not engaged. is he distant and aloof from it. i write about this in my column tomorrow in the "wall street journal." i agree with you. this is a big challenge for him. history has given him the responsibility of ache war time president and the question is is he going to rise to it? i have got to tell you we don't know much about his

speech tonight. broad outlines of three things he is going to do. just a few moments ago two exsermingts from it one of them causes me great concern. we are going to use a counter terrorism strategy that has worked well and that we have been using for years in yemen and somalia. yemen is a near failed state and somaliaje4d is an utter disaster. >> what he means to be fair to him, all right. and i always try to be weigh means there is he going to pick these guys off from the air and using drones and air power. and he going to create uncertainty within the ranks, which he has done, all right? that's whatdy!r what he means. i don't think he is holding yemen and somalia up as victorious. >> holding them up as models of success. >> only as far as how the military thing is going to come down. again, why bother? why bother even saying that? just get them. you want to get them that way, you don't have to signal you are going to do it. >> he does have to explain a strategy to the american people. he has a responsibility from

going forward from here to periodically update the progress and set backs and occasionally to remind them of the stakes -- we can't just have one speech and then have him from the the stage and go back to fundraising and golf. he has got to focus on this problem. this problem is deeper than just simply the absence of a strategy. it is a failure to have the tissue of relationships, the web of relationship ares around the world that will cause penal to come to our aide and stand with us when our interests and their interests are threatened. >> okay. but there has always been that let sense ever since world war ii ended of these. he they want america to protect them. >> but they want american leadership. >> they want american leadership but they want us to do the heavy lifting. >> look, if america leads, they dual their part. remember. >> i'm not sure about that. >> in iraq, for example, per capita, georgia contributed more people in to combat than the united states of america did. small country, three

brigades,. >> come on. he they can't military power. >> give nato the troops and nato moves them. in you know the game. mr. rove, we will see what happens in a few minutes and we appreciate it next on the rundown, bob beckel will give us a liberal point of view. and we will have the brand new fox news poll that mr. rove referenced. later, miller on the president's speech and bad airline mojo. factor is coming right back. check out all these airline seats.

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on foreign policy in general 34% approve. 59% disapprove. here to react co-host of the five bob beckel can. and you say? >> i say i have never in high political career of 30 years seen as much movem%@6y!&c@ off of two events, the killing that decapitated two u.s. citizens where the public took a huge turn in the polls. and as they did that, they blame obama. he is the one sitting there in office. the president gets a hit on. but before that the american people were in favor -- >> -- they weren't engaged. they didn't know what isis was. >> right as i said in the talking points it's hard to get their attention. once you get these attention because these beheadings were put on the internet then they know. the president has been derelict in his analysis of isis. i mean, we now know that he knew about the threat for a year. he didn't do anything about it. all right, i mean, i kept badgering him, look.

you have got to do it. you have got to do it. you have got to do it. he wouldn't, he wouldn't, he wouldn't. there isn't any reason. tonight is he going to say we are going to go into syria and bomb them there. why didn't he say that six months ago. >> you can always say in hindsight should have done it the television community is covering their butts. i have been in the white house before and it was classic. knew about it for a year. first of all isis has been around that strain of islam since 1720. this is nothing new. >> but they had the money, the guns, and the organization and syria to expand and mount. you are telling me you don't believe the cia knew that and gave that -- >> . no i think the cia -- well, first ofç9ç intelligence has been derelict in a lot of places, particularly in the middle east. very complicated to find out. the idea that maliki, that somehow we could have saved a victory? that wasn't a victory. in iraq we never should have gotten in there in the first place. >> why didn't biden and obama say it was? >> i have no idea. that's the problem with the foreign policy that the president has implemented. he says stuff and then it

blows right up. i mean, come on, americans told me that iraq was a stable situation. so we are pulling all americans out of there, which was a mistake and we said so at the time. all right? because it isn't 2020 hindsight. >> you think american soldiers would have kept that stable? >> i think it would have kept isis out. absolutely would have kept them out. >> really. >> we would have had. i was there as you know, we would have had an infrastructure there to be with the iraqi forces, all right, as backup. that's what they need. once we left, the corruption set. in the rivalry set inform the discipline went down. same thing is going to happen in afghanistan. the bottom line is that the president, as i i said to rove, isn't a war timeñr?ç president. doesn't have any interest in it. >> by the way. i night correct you, i know were no nistles poland and check -- missile system. he ran as a domestic president. you can't run as a domestic president. you don't have that option as a president. things are going to happen. he concentrated on domestic

he wanted to keep foreign policy off the table he never liked it all of a sudden it's coming at him in massive numbers. not as dangerous as a lot of us make it out to be. >> pretty dangerous though. isis is a dangerous concept because of the ability to raise money and get people places. look, 9/11 was a bunch of clowns, all right? they took over three planes. that's not some kind of sophisticated operation they just got in here and were able to do it. isis guys better trained than they are, better trained than they and they absolutely can do it again. >> have more protection than we did back then. when the intelligence community knew. >> you just said the intelligence community didn't know. >> the cia and the fbi knew and never talked to each other. that was the whole idea of the war powers acted. >> i'm not convinced that barack obama like james buchanan before the civil war broke out, all right? has the stomach for the fight. he doesn't seem to be passionate enough. if i'm the president, i say,

look, i'm going to kill every one of these bastards and i'm ininto the going to tell you how. i'm going to kill them. they want to kill us and they already have killed american citizens. they are out to put the world in a very very bad place. i'm going it use american power to kill as many as i can. thank you, good night. go watch your entertainment program. >> you know and i know it's not going it happen because i think you are right. he views war and he views our involvement in the middle east as something far different than george bush did, far different than other people have, and the threat level of isis. death. my son before he went to college dad, should i be worried about isis? absolutely not. if my kid can't go to college -- do you believe for a second we can't keep these -- these guys, once we put some missiles on them and kurds have got some guns they are running like dogs. >> takes five of them to get in here and blow up something. >> listen, how do i think? go down to the south border and go in with the kids from central newark.

>> go in with the kids from i wouldn't tell anybody they are not a threat because they want to kill us. they stated that they are ruthless and suicide bombers and all of that ready to go. last word? >> the last word is i think that isis is an organized group of thugs with money because they have got oil and he they are not going to have and this i think the expectation of barack obama are so low on foreign policy the republicans are going to try to make an issue out of it and isis is going to be on the run and a positive for them. >> bob beckel, everybody, directly ahead. what are the unintended consequences of expanding the war on terror? later miller and martha maccallum on the president's speech tonight. up ahead. while every business is unique,

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so i just got a summary of what the president is goingxoz to say and i'm going to go over it point by point with you. and the main theme being unintended consequences. he is going to pursue the isis thugs into syria. bomb them there, no come bat troops but he is going to send specialx♪gñ forces, peopl, try to assassinate as many as he can. unintended consequence? >> the unintended consequences are the bombing in syria could be that we inadvertently help breashear al assad who we don't have any interest in helping of the unintended consequences of the special ops guys doing unilateral missions is potentially we lose some of these very valuable assets. he would be better off using those soft guys embedded

with the foreign troops that their trying to bring in there to make them more effective and make the air strikes more effective. >> all right. so let's get to the surrogate armies that the president is trying to put together. we know that there is one viable option, the kurds. >> um-huh. >> but there really aren't any other viable options. a couple of iraqi units are okay, we have about 1200 trying to help these people. but they are not very good. i don't see these surrogate armies materializing. i don't see saudi arabia sending them in or any other arab nation. they just don't have them and they're not really welcome in the area anyway because of the sunni she a rivalries and all that stuff the turks, the saudis and the qatarryys. >> they are not going to do that i can't imagine them doing that i could be wrong, but i think that's pie in the sky and he says well, we are going to get a coalition

and we are going to do this and do that. we're going to have to do it. we can get help, but we're going to have to do it. but, the president is going to spend a lot of time in his speech tonight explaining why he didn't act earlier. you know, because guys like me have been pounding him on that, hey, why didn't you act when you first knew about it a year ago, whatever? he is going to tell you why he didn't. he wanted to be cautious. know who to support. isn't this just political -- politics rather than strategy? >> it's actually even deeper than that, bill. and you have mentioned it before. it's the president's discomfort with foreign policy and with usingz1nh totally in our interest, when it's totally the right thing to do, he just doesn't feel comfortable doing it. and so he dithers and waits and waits and hopes the problem goes away and in this case it didn't go away. it's gotten worse. >> okay. now, beckel says isis not a threat to the homeland. a lot of liberals say that

some libertarians as well. you say? >> they are a threat to the homeland. they are not lining up at the border ready to jump in here. but they can affect our interest in the region and they can get people in here as you mentioned that you only need five or ten people to make a mess of a terrorist -- with a terrorist event. they could get in here. they are the real deal. and we need to be concerned about it. not the in paralyzing fear, but concerned. >> now, president obama also wants the iraqi government to do whatever he wants, kerry is over there. we are going to talk about that with james rosen in a minute. you can't depend on the iraqi government or the saudi government. and that's what i'm saying to myself. you know, if you believe in your heart as i do and you do, that this isis army is a threat to america, at least on the periphery, and you have the ability to go and kill a lot of them as we do,

you do it, and you don't tell them what you're going to do. why tell them there is no boots on the ground? why bother? don't tell them anything. >> that's one of the president's biggest weaknesses. it's like he can't help himself from telling our enemies exactly what we're going to do and more importantly. >> jo get that at all. i guess that's to it reassure the left there is not going to be a replay of the iraq. somalia we are going to conduct the war against isis the way we do by killing people in yemen and somalia. you know, i understand what he is getting at there. but i, again, why bother? people don't even know where yemen and somalia are. they just want these guys who beheaded our people dead. last word? >> last word? that tactics, particular uniques and procedures in somalia and yemen are not going to be sufficient against isis. we need to do more. we need more air power controlled by our people hitting those targets and

then we have a shot at making a difference andking the. >> it would be interesting to see if turkey allows the air force to use their space and fuel and things like that. that's big. now, if the president can pull that off, then i will give him credit. thanks very much. plenty more ahead had as the factor moves along this evening. president obama has made conflicting statements about terrorism in the world. martha maccallum will have a reported on those conflicting stamentsz. also ahead, miller on the president's speech and bad things happening in the friendly skies. we hope you stay tuned to those reports. i'm type e.

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the washington beat segment tonight, it's all about terrorism. joining us from washington, ace correspondent james rosen and carl cameron. see, cammeron, congress is going to authorize just about anything the president wants, correct? i can't see them objecting to anything at this point. >> there is going to be some objections. lawmakers in both parties, however, do want the president to get congressional authorization for air strikes on isis in syria. but the president and an awful lot of people in congress actually think that technically the president already has that kind of power. were apt congressional vote to restrict the president. and most republicans support taking military actzkz not a blank check. that's a big deal. the president wants $500 million as well as congressional authorization for the pentagon to decide which of the syrian opposition groups might be safe enough for the townhouse train and arm against isis. harry reid has already and said that most democrats can accept air strikes but want absolutely no part of

broader military action in election year. house republicans have suspended their work on budget legislation in order to try to continue to fund the government to see if they can figure up with some way to put some money the president is asking for into it not until they get the details. tomorrow after this big speech tonight which will be pretty broad and not so rich on details, lawmakers will get classified breechings at the hill. that's when they will get details on tactics and strategy information. democrats want it know when an end date is which is not particularly good in letting the enemy know what is going on. the president has suggested that fighting isis could take a long term. both parties are worried that it could end up in the next presidential cycle two years from now. >> i can't see the democrats opposing president obama on this and republicans either. americans want blood. they want these guys down. i can't see them nitpicking. >> what more than anything what congress wants really have to see the commander and chief do something. it's worth noting, bill, it was exactly a year ago tonight, in the very same seat that he is going to be sitting at in just a few minutes that the president said it was in the u.s.' national interest to use air

strikes against syrian assad and he never took action. >> he has to this time because his whole administration is going over the cliff so he he has to now,rqçx rosen, your pal, john kerry, secretary of state, your close personal friend, he was in iraq. he went to iraq. why? >> well, he met with the new prime minister and other key figures there. basically what the americans want from the iraqis is for three big institutions in iraq to start doing business very differently. and they say they got the prom misss they need that they1?ag"s that's the oil ministry, the finance&dbxç ministry, and, of0÷ course, the iraqi armed forces. but kerry and his aides are fairly sober about the difficulties ahead, this being iraq, of course, for example, they know that isis is still attracting huge numbers. staggering numbers of foreign fighters to its cause. and also they cautioned us not to expect from the iraqi politicians what they called a linear track of progress. the secretary of state has now moved on to saudi

arabia. there he is going to be negotiating the use of bases syrian opposition. and then later still he will be in france for a hastily arranged conference on iraq. the goals of which are not even all that clear. >> what does france have to do with it. get to turkeys land our planes there and refuel and bomb the hell out of isis in syria. i'm not going to criticize kerry. he is he not doing a bad job. is he constrained by the president as hillary clinton was. has to be a team player. but, it looks like kerry understands the issues, would you say that's accurate? >> sure. i mean he spent a long time as the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. >> yeah. >> he meets with all these world leaders. he has known most of them for 20 years or more. the question really is whether this administration can prevail in this fight against isis in the time it has left and most aides are saying it's going to come up to the next president of the united states to do it. >> if they really hurt them that will be enough for the

folks. gentlemen, thank you. when we come right back, it will be miller time, the president's speech and airline dismay. miller is next. music ♪

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tonight. let's get to the sage of southern california who joins us from santav5gíñ barbar. all right, miller, the president's speech coming up momentarily. what say you? >> well, the first thing i would do is make sure that biden was put down for the night. somebody has got to pump a sedative dart into his haunch so he doesn't run on live in the middle of the speech and start doing the second, as far as president goes, i would tell him like television appearance live. don't tip all the punch lines. give details. i think what we have with isis and the other terror groups is a premise problem. i don't think it's about the details. i think it's a premise2

interview. the world does look like at church chillian now, not winston it's ward churchill. less neville chamberlain. jihad looks at us and think that barack obama is the jv. if i was him i would say the word war against jihad. that's it. >> i would too, i agree 100%. we have been overestimated by crew chef and the communists. they were going to bury us. the jihadists under estimating us now. taunting us by beheading our citizens on the video. i think obama got to just bring it. or not, is the question. >> $64,000 question. >> all right. now miller and i fly around the country and we know that the seats are getting smaller as americans are getting larger. and when you put the seat back down, can you dislocate your jaw.

i mean it's crazy, and there are fights literally breaking out. miller on the plane when the little seat back goes down. what say you? >> >> last time you and i were on coach gary powers was flying, all right? >> some don't have firsts and don't have business. like southwest. i fly them once in a while. you have got to sit there. >> yeah, i i know. billy, i was surprised that you installed within of those knee protecters4g our private jet when we left rapid city, south dakota last year. i went to read back and usually you read me a bedtime story to put me to sleep on the bolder fresher tour. i was leaning back thinking billy is going to pick up the story of johnny stossel's magic stash and turn it into a caterpillar and i found the knee protector there and i thought wow this is really getting invasive. folks, don't fly coach. if you have to go from new york to l.a. you are better off walking than flying coach. because you are going to sit

down and coach. they are going to chain you to the oar and tell you to pay attention to the guy working the drum at the front of the cab. >> how did it happen? how did it get this bad? my father once forced me to take a greyhound bus from long island to fort lauderdale, florida. i thought that was the worse. you couldn't get any worse than that even getting off at south of the border. and eating those greasy omelets. now it's worse flying and taking the greyhound down to lauderdale. >> listen, stretch. you couldn't even fit in coach anymore. let's face facts. you have got those extendo legs. the fact is be luck i couldn't are flush hosting the factor because you don't have to go back into hosting that freak show. >> it's true. >> carney, miller and i have been on a camping trip with him. he left the white house and has now signed with cnn.

what do you think about that? >> jay carney in the job we see on the screen has spent the last six years becoming very comfortable in front of a small group of 70, 80 people who completely agree with him. that's perfect forgy=qz cnn. nothing audience he is going to have over there, baby. >> you don't see him as a threat to the power of the fox news channel? >> no. every vigilant over there he might not be paying attention to the world. but trust me has carney on 24 hour lipstick spy cam in his dressing room. he knows what's up over there. >> the other guy and his name escapes me. the guy who was before carney, he works for cnn, too. or at least he used to. he took some shots at obama. what's his name? can anybody remember? can you tell me in my ear? >> ron ziggler? >> no, that was nixon. what, tell me? >> robert gibson. >> robert gibson. you know, like a pipeline of

gibson he was tough on obama. do you think carney is is going to do that? >> the white house press corps -- white house press secretary is cnn's intern program, all right? they work a lot better and bring them up to the mother ship. >> very good line. you will become a white house spokesperson next stop cnn. martha maccallum on deck. president obama's conflicting statements on terrorism. right back with it.

past statements that he has made on terrorism. for months, i your humble correspondent have been criticizing the president for not doing enough to fight the islamic jihadists.

>> the isis people, they control parts of syria and northern iraq. and we have known that for a long time. summing up the iraq deal, u.s.a. should begin bombing the al qaeda army as soon as possible. we don't need any more meetings. let's send a message that terrorists remain targets. al qaeda is our enemy. you know, i feel like i'm lecturing fourth graders here, that's how bad this iraq mess really is the president should have been way out in front of this. >> with us now to help this segment move along fox news anchor martha maccallum. you see her in the morning at 9:00. the reason i said al qaeda is because isis is off chute. they were so vicious al qaeda said you know even we, you know, we want to behead people but we will use a long knife while you are using the little knife inflict more pain, that's the extent of it. yet, the president tonight is going to try to convince the nation that his deliberation was good. >> um-huh. >> correct? >> absolutely. you have to remember what was happening. when you said that back in june.

they had marched through mosul and taken mosul which had a huge number of christians. they had destroyed 45 churches. marched people off to it executions and, yet, the president and while they were doing to distinguish themselves as something more vicious and different and a group thatted to establish an islamic state, the president went on after that june 22nd to address the nation and he tried to make it sound like they were just one of the sort of the same folks that we have been dealing with before. watch this. >> i think it's important for us to recognize that isis is just one of a number of organizations that we have to stay focused on. al qaeda in yemen is still very active and we are staying focused on that. >> all right. so, that was four days after i said that, you know, you have got to bomb these guys and he is trying to play it down even though mosul is the second largest city in iraq. and it gets captured. you can't play it down. so, again, tonight he -- i think a lot of people are going to be watching this with skepticism because there are a lot of

commentators, not just me, a lot of commentators have pointed out that the president is way behind the curve on this one. here is another example. >> president obama was asked by the iraqis to bomb the terrorist army months ago. the president refused. with most americans apathetic about iraq americans about iraq and the left generally opposed to any military action, it's easy for the president not to do anything. that was one day after the president's previous statement. so what do you think it is about barack obama that makes him so cautious? what is it? ideology? personal? what is it? >> i think he believes that since president bush and the first battles in iraq that we have been been sort of poking this hornet's nest. and when that happens the hor t hornets bite back. clearly they're going to bite back no matter what we do. and as you've pointed out, they seem to answer to nothing but a very strong punch back. the president talked about putting the cart before the horse. you had hagel, you had dempsey

very much in the cart, the horse that seemed to be behind was president obama in this situation. tonight he's going to go to the american people and try to convince them that he's on board. we saw the poll numbers this morning. >> that's why he's doing it. >> we need to strike in syria as well. but he's dragging this out again. and very interesting to watch for tonight is how he names this enemy. david cameron named the enemy clearly. he said it's a poisonous ideology rooted in islamic extremism. >> you don't think you're going to hear islamic extremism, right? >> doubt it. >> now. president obama he was asked after the two, three-month sound bite, did you blow it? we have a tape. >> did you underestimate? >> i think that there is no doubt that they've advanced their movement over the last several months has been more rapid than the intelligence

estimates. and i think the expectations of policymakers both in and out of -- outside of iraq. >> okay. so now we have a president who has to change course because the american people demand it, not because he says, you know what, maybe i wasn't doing the right thing. because he's not going to say that tonight. he's going to say i was deliberate and because i was deliberate now we're able to -- >> exactly. >> now we're able to, because i laid the groundwork here. i'm saying to myself i don't think the folks are going to buy it. he might make it worse tonight, unless he comes out as you said and says, look, i'm going to get these islamic jihadists. i'm going to get them because they're a danger to the united states. >> in that sound bite he talks about how he underestimated to a certain extent and our intelligence underestimated. they may be underestimating now a threat to the homeland. that's what you're hearing now.

we have to go over there and deal with them. we doept have to worry about that -- the people -- >> you got a family. you think these guys are capable -- >> on tsa and homeland security, have you heard anything about an increased ramp up of what they're doing to find these hundreds of people who have u.s. passports, thousands who have european and american passports? we're already hearing they have a lot of names, some of them are unknown. very, very vague. >> i look at it this way, i look at it as tomorrow is the anniversary, 13 years, where 20 thugs, i mean thugs, low-life creeps, killed 3,000 people. and boston marathon bombers, who were these people? who were they? two brothers who could hardly find the men's room. you can do damage with idiots as long as they're willing to give up their life. suicide bombers -- you think these guys are training suicide bombers? yes, they are. and so when people say, well, they're not really a threat to the homeland i'm going did you

miss it 13 years ago? did you miss what happened? >> and the point is that they can get in and out of this country -- >> anybody can. >> very easily. they don't even need a visa. to think that we're immune from this here at home is, i think, short -- >> we agree. and that should be enough for everyone. >> i agree. >> "the factor" tip of the day. two fox news ladies -- you got to listen to me here. two fox news ladies defending me in public. are their careers over? we'll have the tip coming up. i'm not afraid. i can take sip after sip on this hundred mile ride, tackling the uphill climbs, the long downhill stretches, and the bumps in between. new tena instadry. designed for those unexpected leaks with 864 tiny funnels to zip wetness away.

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"the factor" tip of the day, two fox news ladies defending me in a moment. first the mail. john, thailand, monica crowley said that this is a holy war and you argued about it, bill. why? you really need to sharpen up. hey, john, if i get any sharper, i'd be a dangerous weapon. using the term holy war to fight terrorism hurts america. that's because there are many muslims all over the world who are helping us. for example, dr. shaquille afridi pinpointed bin laden so we could kill him. for his trouble the pakistani doctor now serving 23 years in prison. marcus lutrell survive a vicious taliban attack, agents in other friendly countries help the cia. so branding this a holy war, muslim, islam against us, would hurt the usa. no question.

doug gray, florida, according to ron paul's logic arresting bank robbers only serves to make them angry and inspires more people to become bank robbers. anthony, ohio, why call ron paul's foreign policy kooky? he is simply following ronald reagan's suggestion that the government can't solve all problems. you need to take a long walk. mt. brook, alabama, don't blame football for causing domestic abuse. a majority of the nfl player conduct themselves well and some are even outstanding role models. o'reilly, i'm disappointed with your interview with the wives of two former nfl players. this is simply pandering to cheap sensationalism. dr. larry, michigan, bill, outstanding interview with the two wives. you helped shed light on an important issue. and finally tonight, "the

factor" tip of the day, as you may remember last week i, your humble correspondent, was called a sexist by two state department spokeswomen. last week as i criticized their failure to answer direct questions. well, fox news analyst kirsten powers and katy pavlic both stuck up for me. katy wrote, we posted both columns on billoreilly.com. "the factor" tip of the day, you should check them out. i appreciate that, ladies. very nice of you. and that is it for us tonight. please check out the fox news factor website different from billoreilly.com. also we'd like you to spout off about the factor from anywhere in the worl world o'reilly@foxnews.com. no noddies. ms. megyn is up next.

preview right into the president's very important address. stay with fox news all evening long. we'll have analysis afterwards. i'm bill o'reilly. please always remember that the spin stops here. we're definitely looking out for you. breaking tonight, with america increasingly worried about a growing terror army in the middle east and the president facing the worst poll since taking office, we are moments away from a white house speech with big stakes for our security and country. good evening everyone. welcome to "the kelly file." i'm megyn kelly. we expect to hear from the president in moments outlining his strategy for defeating the terror group isis. the al qaeda offshoot we watched in horror within the past month as two american journalists were beheaded on camera. what followed was an admission by the president that he had no strategy for taking on this threat despite months of warnings. our coverage starts with