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patton? are you going to get that. >> though wrote that. >> a guy named bill o'reilly. >> oh, him. >> 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. america, the torture nation. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. ever since we were attacked on 9/11. there has been ongoing debate over how to fight the war on terror. there are some folks like me, who believe we must use harsh measures to defeat the jihadists who would slaughter us all if they could. there are others who say we must obey the geneva convention even we are fighting an enemy that does not fall under that treaty. then there is the definition of torture. some believe that subjecting a captive to loud noise or verbal threats is torture. so, it's useless too debate the issue because minds will

not changed. enter a report by democrats on the senate intelligence committee it says that the cia tortured captured al qaeda suspects and lied to congress about it. the senate intel committee is comprised of 8 democrats and seven republicans. all of the republicans, all of them refuse to endorse the report. , which by the way, cost $40 million to produce. the g.o.p. senators did that because they feel it's a partisan situation designed to embarrass the bush administration. the report concludes that harsh interrogations did not prosecutes a single critical intelligence nugget that could not have been obtained by nonco-herrive means. now, i have spoken directly to senior members of the cia who say that conclusion is false. they strongly assert that coerced information saved thousands of lives. they point to the waterboardinging of khalid

sheikh mohammed to prove their point. i wasn't there. i don't know what happened. but i can tell you that a number of high ranking cia people are furious and swear the senate report is misleading. some say the report should never have been released because it puts u.s. operatives around the world in danger. i don't dispute that opinion. but, in an open society, if the cia or any other federal agency breaks the law we the people should know it. that being said talking points does believe the report is a partisan play that will solve nothing here is president bush. >> i knew the directors. i knew the deputy directors. you know, i knew a lot of the operators. these are good people. really good people. and we are lucky as a nation to have them. >> former vice president cheney was even stronger. telling the "new york times," quote: it occurs to me the report was sort of a cover for those on the democratic side who were briefed on the program but then were subsequently embarrassed to admit that.

and so they are going back to a construct, a rationale to say they didn't tell us the truth. interrogations were the right thing to do. if i had to do it all over again, i would do it. on a personal note, i know scores of americans who lost loved ones on 9/11. i have watched their children grow up without mothers and fathers. if i were president, i would have authorized waterboarding and other severe interrogation methods of high ranking captured terrorists. it is morally correct to protect innocent lives from bare bare bare -- bar bare barbarians. it's not theory it's reality. we are a nation of laws but we are involved in a brutal ongoing war. americans need to be protected. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. joining us from washington senator dan coyotes member of the intel committee. senator, i want to walk

through this because i'm not sure what exactly happened here. when did the torture investigation begin in the intel committee? >> well, bill, i was not a member of the senate at the time but it began several years ago it's been ongoing process. $40 million has been spent bringing this report forward. republicans were aghast when they looked at the report and said this is what you are doin interviewing any witnesses, biased does not tell the whole story and they then pulled back from initial report. >> not so fast though. we need your eyewitness testimony here. okay? now, look, you get a report, and it's done by people not the senators themselves, they are too busy. it's done by people they hire, the intel people they hire. so you see it, you, senator coyotes, see the report, what's the first thing that leaps out of you when you are reading it? >> first thing that leaps

out of me ised that the product is a -- was the result of just democrat senators and their standoffs -- staffs. republicans pulled out when the attorney general brought criminal charges and then it confused the issue in terms of putting those people as witnesses. and we said this is not going to turn out to be a balanced report. >> when did the attorney general bring criminal charges in the coerce interrogation case. do you remember? >> i don't know the date. but relative early in the process and so, it went forward. >> when you got there, when you quote there, you were elected in 2011. you got there on the intel committee. you were assigned there. that report was ongoing, right? >> it was. >> but your republican colleagues on the committee said we are not having anything to do with it, our staff is not having anything to do with it because we don't trust it, we think it's just designed for political reasons; do i have that right? >> there was real concern about that, and particularly

classified information that if released would have serious consequences, which is what we are talking about today. >> that's a separate issue though. the classified information is a separate issue. i want to get at the honesty of the report. all right, so, again, your colleagues are telling you we don't think this is on the up and up. is that correct? >> it wasn't on the up and up from the standpoint that we didn't think there was a balance a fairness in terms of. >> it's not a fair deal. then you, senator coyotes, you get the senator coats. you say you don't think it's fair; is that correct? >> that's correct. that's why we filed a report this probably won't get reported in the media to any extent but it ought to be read because there are two sides to this story. >> okay. now, one of the big issues on the democratic side is that the cia lied to the intel committee. your republican colleagues who were there before you

came, did they think they were lied to by the cia? >> there was concern about whether or not the information that was being processed, again, there are two sides to that story. sort of separate to the story as a whole. and that is an issue that has been resolved relative to the cia's concern that the democrat staff was not following the rules. >> that doesn't mean anything to me and i don't think most of the viewers. do the other republicans on the intel committee think the cia mislead them in testifying about coerced interrogation? >> i can't speak for other members of the committee. all i can do is say that our view was that this was going to be a biased report. not supported in a bipartisan basis. >> let me ask you one more question about this. has any of your colleagues, you don't have to name them said to you, you know what? i don't think the cia was up and up when they briefed us.

i of your colleagues say that to you on the republican side. >> we're part of an oversight process. we questioned the cia. we have dealt with that issue and will continue to deal with that issue. i believe that issue has now been resolved but the larger issue is the release of that report and consequences that may come to harm americans. >> with all due respect you are kind of dodging it. >> one last time, any of your republican colleagues on the intel committee tell you they thought the cia mislead them about coerced interrogation? yes or no? >> look, bill, i'm sorry, but we're part of a classified can't release information. i can't speak for my colleagues. and i won't speak for my colleagues. they are going to have to speak for themselves. i had real concerns about this personally. >> real concerns about what? >> real concerns about what the narrative was. and in terms of what happened before i arrived here. >> you can be more specific about what your concerns

were. >> the concerns were there was this internal issue relative to what the cia was doing thinking that the democrat staff was overstepping its authority. >> you were concerned how the democrats were conducting the investigation, not what the cia was doing. >> to get to the truth. i thought we needed to listen to both sides and that was not happening. >> all right. senator. we appreciate your time tonight. thank you. >> sure enough. >> next on the rundown, president obama will kill suspected terrorists with drones from the sky. doesn't want to juan them. we will continue that discussion. then the very liberal mpr radio network attacks jesus. wait until you hear this. the factor is coming right back. i have a cold. i took nyquil but i'm still stuffed up. nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. really? alka-seltzer plus night rushes relief to eight symptoms of a full blown cold including your stuffy nose. (breath of relief) oh, what a relief it is. thanks.

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enhanced techniques such as juan to try to detain suspects. 60% support it it 37 oppose and 7% don't know. in 2012 i interviewed jose rodriguez who oversaw the enhanced tear gation program for the cia. >> we got thousands of intelligence reports that basically allowed us to take down and destroy the al qaeda organization that attacked us on 9/11. >> that's the cia's point of view today. with us now to respond the director of the accountability project. fox news analyst monica crowley. all right, so i say the report should have been released because in an open society, that being said i did say, you know, it could put people on alert. but i think you have to be open when there are accusations that a federal agency broke the law. >> i disagree with you on this issue. because i think for a couple of reasons, first of all talking about national security. some secrets should be held close to the back. >> they did redamascus some

things. >> not enough. >> 500 pages. >> but, still, we have sources and methods that are now out there and our enemies can read, too. it puts our people and interest at risk. the other thing to keep in mind. we have allies. and we also have unsavory characters in the world cooperating with us on counter terrorism. they look at this and see they are exposed their methods are exposed. >> close call. most likely to cooperate with us. folks doing counter terrorism today at the cia, nsa and elsewhere. if they are going to be. >> opinions as a journalist i want the sunshine the senator didn't want to answer my question about the cia saying to the republicans things that the republicans thought were misleading. he didn't want to answer that question he. did that give you pause? >> what gives me pause and i understand there are complicated moral issues here. i'm not -- you know, i don't come strongly down on this. i mean, i support what they did. but i understand this is

complicated there was a brief period of time from august of 2002 it to early 2003, where the guidelines weren't set in stone. they had the legal authority to do the enhanced interrogation techniques there were a few months where it was a little bit influx. i think that's what he was pointing to. there was a short period of time where the guidance wasn't totally. >> i don't want to do speculation. but that took me aback a little bit. okay. i believe it's a partisan report. i believe that the democrats had a solution that they wanted. you know, when you write a parity and you wanted to have a conclusion and then they you only take the evidence that leads to the conclusion, i think that's what they did here. >> i mean this was based on evidence, yes it would have been much better if it was a bipartisan report the congress is not speaking to each other right now on both sides what they did do is interviewed all the directors of the cia. >> no they didn't. >> yes they did. >> let me stop you, they did not.

they did not interview any of the directors. >> okay, hayden testified before congress. >> it wasn't in there. the senate intel committee did not interview any of the cia brass involved. none of them. do you know why i know that? because i did. i talked to them. all of them. >> in the report, granted there is 1300 pages of the report. only 500 produced because they redacted a lot of the national security issues. but what i'm concerned about is what is in that report that is nonpartisan. number one, they had contractors. they had been hiring contractors and the cia had stepped up and admitted this, members of the cia. >> contractors were hired. >> contractors. some of them have criminal background. none of them had any experience at all with interrogation tactics. >> what else? >> and number two, there was no oversight. there is was no oversight because they weren't communicating to congress. >> they did communicate to congress. they briefed according to both the president and the vice president they briefed the intel committees and the house, too. >> they mislead them and didn't give them the report. >> you say they did.

the report is partisan. >> and, also, keep in mind top democrats who were briefed on these enhanced interrogations. >> maybe not all of them. >> the ones who were briefed and now they want to say they had a big problem with it. >> let's be fair here. if the cia held things back and they briefed on some things but not others that's wrong. >> that was my original point about that brief period of time about four or five months where the legal guidance and so on wasn't totally clear. >> 2008. >> i believe it's a partisan report. i want to tell everybody that we tried to get vice president cheney on the factor tonight on the phone. >> nothing. >> wouldn't come on. now, maybe he is busy. but his -- i have an offer, standing offer any time on the phone. don't have to go anywhere but i would like to talk to him about it he was the guy

the point man on all of this. >> he hasn't defended it on me. >> directly ahead, npr attacking jesus just in time for christmas. very nice, isn't it? later, watters world christmas shopping edition. >> how many inches is the tv. >> 55 going in the bedroom. >> so you can watch me. >> of coursing. >> you don't even know who i am, do you? >> no. >> upcoming. s ♪

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unresolved problem seeing want tonight, mocking jesus just in time for christmas. on the very liberal npr radio network there is a show called wait, wait, don't tell me. it's a quiz show.

host of the program is peter segal, who on saturday mocked a catholic advertisement. >> you can take a selfie with jesus, the catholic church preaches that jesus is always -- in fact, is he right behind you. new catholic diocese shows a woman sitting by herself and holding out a phone to take a selfie like the kids do. in the picture you see this woman and bearded man behind her. his hands were occupied? what does that mean? we asked npr president yarro mone. that's his real name to define his hands are occupied. here is what the pr person sent me. wait, wait, don't tell me it's a comedy show that pokes fun at the news.

their goggle is to make people laugh. we regret that we didn't succeed in this case but no definition on the hands deal. joining us from washington fox news contributor. this whole thing arose because the i do i do says of brooklyn trying to get people to come back for christmas season. this guy seized on it do you have any idea what the hands thing is all about, pastor? >> i don't want to speculate what was going through that sick mind but what i do want to point out, bill, this is illustrates the hypocrisy is i the double standard of the secular media when it comes to christianity. i can guarantee you one thing if this host had been ridiculeing mohammed he would have been out. look what they did to juan williams. you say sick mind. why would you characterize the man that way? >> well, i think the context to me is something that at the very least is dirty, and

possibly could be blasphemist. but, you know, i was in washington, d.c. earlier today to lead the opening prayer for congress, so i thought, i'm going to be with bill tonight, talking about this i want to find out how much taxpayer money are we using to support npr, it turns out we are subsidizing them $40 million a year to support this kind of junk. bill, that is something the folks out there ought to get mad as hell about. >> you know, pastor, we have been talking about that npr and pbs should not have access to taxpayer money. i just want to be fair to this guy. i truly hope that his comment about jesus was not salacious, all right? i truly hope that maybe he was saying that jesus' hands were nailed to the cross and that's why, maybe. you know. i mean, it's christmas, pastor. i want to be as charitable as i can to this man. , if indeed, it was salacious what he was trying to get at with jesus, then that is -- he should be

fired immediately. i don't know if we can prove that or not. >> no, i can't either and i can't read another person's mind. if it was talking about having his hands on a cross, to me that's even worse. >> really? >> yes. it is. i mean, we are doing, it's interesting a campaign in our church around the city of dallas in a couple of months. billboards around the city. how good is god at forgiving the tact is he nailed it with a picture of christ's hands on as cro. that is not blasphemist. that is trying to promote christianity. npr at the very least is ridiculing christianity. >> no doubt they were ridiculing it just don't know how out of control it was. thanks for coming on o. plenty more as the factor moves along this evening. is it legal investigating why a key witness was left out of the ferguson, missouri transcript release? is there something wrong going on in missouri? also, stossel on the protesters and watters on

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150,000 cases came before the grand jury and that only 11 cases they didn't começ back with indictments? that it's like lightning striking the black community over and over and over again. >> well, we're hoping mr. simmons will come on tomorrow night because that's a little misleading what he just said there. is he talking about federal grand juries and the grand jury in ferguson and staten island both of those were local grand juries. so not even close to being the same thing. that raises the question, the factor has been asking. do the protesters really know what they are talking about? and how are they being received in the liberal precincts? john stossel visited the upper west side of manhattan. what diewmpleg of the protests? we are allowed to protest that's our country. >> i most of the whites said the protests were a good thing and some were fine with blocking traffic. >> we're also going to make the point the sidewalks are narrow here. how you can have a thousand people making a point if they can't be.

>> there is room on the sidewalk. they are blocking the bridge to get attention. >> well, of course they are. is that bad? >> but that's okay, blocking traffic? >> why not. >> i thought that was powerful. >> most blackss were fine with blocked bridges. >> i don't care. i'm sorry, people being killed every day by people who are supposed to protect and serve. so. >> one, 21 people supported the violence. >> in terms of looting and all those things, i have no issue with what they did. >> really in the looting? >> what other way to take it to the streets instead of taking it to small businesses and people who work in that community to let you know we are not playing games like this is what we do. >> small business was innocent. >> innocent. and so was michael brown. >> that doesn't make any sense at all. all right. here is stossel. i just want to point out the key stat, there are more than 43 million african-americans in america. latest statistics yearly statistics 123 were killed by police. and black americans commit over 4,000 murders a year,

1,000 more than whites. so that there is intense violence surrounding this whole controversy. but did you feel in your introduce that theme supporting the protesters knew what the issue was? i did. i think the choking issue is pretty clear you walsh the tape. in ferguson, no, i wasn't interviewing people in st. louis. yeah. there is police abuse you have got 800,000 cops. some of them will be sadists or jerks. >> some of them. they won't do it to you or to me because we are known and we are white some some of them will abuse people. you don't shut down society. ambulances can't get through and accidents, the guy goes looting is okay that's nuts and wrong no argument from me there. >> but the protests, i don't think, understand the big picture. russell simmons, i hope he comes in tomorrow to talk with us. is he a sincere guy. weave have had him on the program before.

is he comparing federal grand juries to state and local grand juries. >> while they indict they almost never indict cops. >> they are in difficult circumstances a lot of these times and there is a lot of violence against the cops but i don't think russell simmons knows much about anything. >> i'm sticking up for simmons. see what he has. got guts to come in here. you have to admire that. when you talk to the limousine. most of them do not have cars and, you know, if it's a cause that they are going to be sympathetic to it, correct? , i said to one you are blocking the bridge. >> well, they can take other bridges. >> the ambulances can get through. >> no, they can't that's enforcing force on others. >> john stossel, everybody, when we come right back is, it legal investigating another murky situation in ferguson, missouri, as well as the real cost of obamacare insurance. legal is next. ♪ music

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when which he helped design was deceptive. >> i sincerely apologize for con jenning temperaturing with the tone of expertise and doing so in such a disparaging fashion. it's never appropriate to make oneself seem smarter by demeaning others. i do better, i know better, i'm embarrassed and i'm sorry. >> okay. well, what about what president obama has been saying? >> you are going to be able to buy insurance through a pool so that you can get the same good rates as a group that if you are an employee at a big company you can get right now. which means your premiums will go down. >> here now to analyze the truth about health insurance premiums in america kimberly guilfoyle and lis wiehl. do not blow this one. this is very important. so, wiehl insurance policeman yums for the

folks. the people who aren't working for ibm or the big corporations because they are again given their plan for the regular people, like me because i have my own corporation. fox doesn't pay my healthcare i do. how are the premiums? are they going up or going down. >> they are going up. for the regular folks like you nationwide average is about 5% going up. about 28% if you live in missouri, it's lower. 5% going up. that then couple with the deductible also going up. and if you look at the deductible compared obamacare versus a private plan. obamacare is 326% higher. >> is that across the board for all plans? >> that's across the board average. >> because they have a three prong silver. >> right. >> you are telling there and telling me, this is importanted that the conduct tillables for all the affordable healthcare plans, all the obamacare plans is up 326%. >> across the board if you take the average, exactly.

that's incredible. >> it's significant. >> very. here is my legal question to is it legal. gruber said that it was deceptive what was happening to get it passed. he is apologizing not for what he said but for being a weasel. is he apologizing for being a weasel. there is something called fraud in the endecember dues: i didn't go to law school but i know what this is whereby if you sign a contract or pass a law under fraudulent circumstances, you think you are getting something but are not getting it. >> right. that is illegal. >> right. it's under consumer fraud law and it would be unfair and deceptive business practices. >> so we heard the president of the united states say on more than one occasion that the insurance premiums on average were going to go down and insurance costs are going to go down. me the deductibles are up 326% across the board of. is that not fraud and

inducements? >> do i think that the case against gruber and with be unsuccessful no i do the not. impact on the u.s. supreme court when they continue to evaluate obamacare? i do. it's going to have a human factor impact on them. >> in a court of law? ultimately it will go down on the tax issue. that will be the trigger. >> the tax issue i agree with you and the supreme court is going to rule against it okay. we got that out of the way. i wanted to get on the record the healthcare costst right now according to wiehl, and you blame her because the deductibles are up so much. also up for employee sponsored programs. >> in ferguson, missouri, they reiss released the report of the information given to the grand jury within a huge try to sneak it in that one of the witnesses favorable to michael brown's case friend that transcript was not released. why not? >> this is the witness. it is dorian johnson 22 years of age who was with

michael brown during this fatal altercation. this is the witness that claimed hands up, don't shoot rendering at the time which would be a key factual issue to determine if the felt he was in danger for his life. >> what mr. johnson surely says. surely wiehl, his pg transcript of what he told the grand jury should be included in the exposition. why was it not? >> because what the feds are saying it's the transcript of interrogation between county and feds. we are not releasing that some it has been released. >> wait. mr. johnson was interrogated by local and fbi agencies joint. >> giant. that transcript was written down. so the fbi doesn't want it out, why? >> they are saying pause we have ongoing federal investigation. one can at least think about it and say wait a wait a second. some of what he said, are out there.

why pull this one back? >> holder is making this determination. it's eric holder. >> it's ♪ just the fbi. you have to understand something -- >> -- it's the justice department. >> district attorney. anita gupta the civil rights division and fbi agent in charge that william. >> but the bottom line it's eric holder. he doesn't that transcript out. >> he says it could have undo influence to the instead of at thissing to unique this is n. >> there is a lot of inconsistency the. >> i don't want to be speculative and now we know why it wasn't put out. if you have a beef, call up holder. ladies, thank you. watters on deck. edition. jesse causing trouble at cosco moments away.

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>> yeah. >> are any of your children musically inclined. >> one of them is a dancer. >> what kind of dancer. >> she is not a pole dancer. >> how many inches is the tv. >> it's 55. going in the bedroom. >> so you can watch me when you go to bed. >> of course. >> you don't even know who i am, do you? >> no. >> i'm kind of a big deal. people know me. >> here we go. some neuropathy -- nerf guns. >> for my very mafia family. >> size 34. must be in shape. >> eh. >> eh. maybe you can buy him a treadmill later they are on sale. >> we just bought these from toys are us the other day. oh, we got ripped off. >> that's why cosco is where you get your deals. you get turned on when you see a sale, don't you. >> exactly. that's my biggest high. >> frozen. >> do you want to build a snowman? >> do you want to build a snowman? [ laughter ]

>> don't ever do that again. you look like a frozen type of guy. >> if you put it in a shaker, might be frozen. >> you mean, alcohol? >> magic trick. >> yeah. >> that's right. >> yeah, like make mom

>> a guy named bill o'reilly. >> oh, him. >> he's that enflu wen shall? >> i was going to buy six of them. >> you were going to buy six? one, two, three, four, five,

six. >> oh, my, i'm set. i don't need anything else. >> here's watters. go back to costco, i want you there for the next ten days. >> you remember the cabbage patch kids and all the years there was this mania. is there anything this year that people have to have? >> not that prevalent. elf on a shelf is a big deal. >> everybody i talked to got it. probably cost a dollar to make. but they sell it for $15. this little cotton elf, it's all over the house and it changes place each night. >> i have a real elf that does that in my house. >> you should call somebody for that. >> "frozen," that's big. >> huge. i've seen it probably a thousand times. probably see it another thousand. >> really? >> not because i like it, bill. >> no, of course not. >> because my kids watch it. >> okay, sure. your kids. it's your kids watching it. sure it is. all right, watters, thanks very much.

we'd like to thank costco as well for allowing watters to unfold its westbury, long island store, i've been there. great bargains. the tip moments away.

back to tip of the day. a very unlikely tv star. in a moment. but the chance to get all of my books signed. killing patton, killing jesus, killing kennedy, killing lincoln. they make great christmas gifts. go to billoreilly.com and i'll sign them for you. we've bundled killing patton and killing jesus together. we hope you'll check that out. we also have our christmas store with lots of good stuff there. now the mail. scott, illinois, o'reilly you let reverend degraph and mr. powell spin in the no spin zone. for the record, i don't let anybody spin on this program. but i do let them answer the questions if i believe they're

honest and not evading. thomas coley, would african-americans be happier if the police withdrew from their communities. if they believe they're not getting that, they should protest. but they should also look at the facts. that's all we're asserting here. kelly, williamsburg, i was raped at the university of virginia and know others who were as well. it's incredibly disheartening to see "rolling stone" magazine's poor journalism shift focus away from a horrific situation. "o'reilly, why don't you and krauthammer stop bad mouthing lebron james and invite him on the factor." don't be a pinhead, steve. no one badmouthed mr. james, and he's invited on this program any time. maryanne "i picked up some great gifts on billoreilly.com. shirts, a hat and key chain. great prices and thanks for

giving the money to charity." thanks for helping me. "i'm serving aboard the usns alan shepard and have read all your books, bill, what's next?" we have three more in the series. i can't tell you the subjects because someone will steal the idea. that happened with "killing jesus." "the boston show with miller was very entertaining. were you guy z surprised at the warm reception in a lineral town?" boston's my second home. my parents met there, i worked there. we sell out everywhere. just three shows with tickets left. dallas march 14th, new mexico rio rancho april 11th, westbury long island, may 2nd. tickets make great gifts. tip of the day. there are approximately 76 million baby boomers in the usa right now and i'm one of them. the boomers caught the advent of rock 'n' roll, the age of

aquarius, the golden age of tv, classic films like the godfather, the disco era, on and on. it's been a great ride. television really binds the boomers together. who can ever forget the addams family especially pugsly addams. so they were teasing you because you were pugsly addams? >> yes, i did kind of draw a lot of fire because of that. >> you knew she was running away. why didn't you stop her? >> you know women, once they've made up their minds. >> from 10 to 16, you couldn't get away from being pugsly. >> hardly, hardly. >> did you try after the show was canceled to do other roles? >> yes, i went out and interviewed for several roles, but i was typecast to pugsly. >> that settles it. no more school. >> good thinking, sir. >> i was pretty recognizable on the street. and it created problems. at that time. but not today. >> so the pugsly experience wasn't a good one for you? >> during the show, it was

great. being around the cast and all of that was wonderful. >> ken witherwax passed away this week, 59 years olded. and we baby boomers mourn. factor tip of the day. please check out the fox news web factor website which is different from billoreilly.com. we'd like you to spout off on the factor oreilly@foxnews.com. name and town, name and town, if you wish to reply. the word of the day, do not be contumelious when writing to the factor. and our mad as hell segment will be featured this friday. if you're teed off about anything, mad as hell@fox news.com. it's a separate address so we don't get mixed up with our

daily mail. i want to thank hickey freeman and skip making me look sharp every night. give them a plug for christmas. their clothes are the best. miss megyn is next. the spin stops here. we're looking out for you. breaking tonight, new alerts from the fbi, the department of homeland security and the pentagon tonight while 6,000 marines overseas are on high alert after democrats dump hundreds of cia secrets on the senate floor raising warnings about the risk of a terrorist backlash. welcome to "the kelly file," i'm megyn kelly. the cia's use of enhanced interrogation techniques, how the cia in the aftermath of the september 11th attacks extracted secrets from the terrorists who mean to do us harm. the cia says the intel stopped terr