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you simply have to see. go to my facebook page and like it. don't forget the brexit vote right here. we have a lot more on that tonight at fox news. broirl is up bill o'reilly is up next. good night. ♪ ♪ hi, i'm eric bolling in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching this o'reilly factor special, election 2016. let's get right to our top story. attack politics between donald trump and hillary clinton rapidly intensifying. this week the two have been unleashing a barrage of bruising attacks against each other. >> hillary clinton and, as you know, she, most people know, she is a world class liar. >> every day we see how reckless and careless trump is. >> hillary clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and even
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theft. she ran the state department like her own personal hedge fund. >> he has written a lot of books about business. they all seem to end at chapter 11. >> she gets rich, making you poor. >> he made a fortune filing bankruptcies and scifing his creditors. >> hillary clinton may be the most corrupt person ever to seek the presidency of the united states. >> the clinton foundation helps poor people around the world get access to life-saving aids medicine. donald trump uses poor people around the world to produce his line of suits and ties. >> well, nasty talk to be sure. what impact will this strategy from both sides have with voters. joining us now with reaction from fism boris. and staff on kerry presidential campaigns.
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author of the best made president book. mark, start with you. man, they are really going at it. who is winning this? >> obviously i think hillary clinton is winning it. because when you rook at who each has on their side hillary clinton has all the fact checkers on her side. even when trump went after her yesterday in a speech about her foreign policy record. nbc news, cnn, politifact, all these. >> all these fact checkers. >> the media was fact checking and they should this is not uncommon in american political culture. we have this uninhibited robust wide open culture. the thing that donald trump is a master of is personal insult. we saw that in the republican primary she took down each of his owe pony innocent one after another by calling names using school yard childish tactics. the thing that hillary clinton is getting good at is substantive attacks. >> substantive? you are taking a shot at donald trump's business
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record. >> yep. >> meanwhile the guy is worth billions of dollars. like him, hate him, you can't deny he has money. >> she has given two speeches now on foreign policy and the economy not proposing any policies. just going after donald trump. let's not talk about substance. what we need to talk about is hillary clinton's record of failure. starting over 30 years ago, rose law firm, white water. stuff about vince foster. >> talk about white house. >> and then her failures as a senator let me finish. >> conspiracy theorist. >> she has the worst record. go to syria, libya. china. mark, i'm giving you facts. these are facts. you are just interrupting me. >> whoa. >> it's a war of words. boris, i asked marks first, let me ask you, who is winning the war of words and why? >> donald trump is winning
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because, again, is he going record of hillary clinton. what i was trying to say and mark interrupted me. look at the 300 billion-dollar deficit with china. when hillary clinton said she want to do normalize relations with china. look at isis, egypt, libya and benghazi. russia, hillary clinton wanted to normalize relations. she failed they reset. she somehow ridicules him. hillary clinton has been a failure at everything she's has ever done we need someone who actually get things done and that's donald trump. >> let's do this. so the old saying you don't want to fight with the pig because you get dirty and they like it. hillary is basically taking the bait that donald trump has given her and brought the rhetoric down to a street fight. >> on some level, yeah. mark twain put it another way he said never fight with an idiot or fools because they will drag you down with their level and win with experience. that's kind of what donald trump for better or worse
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setting on some level the tone of this campaign. rattled off a laundry list of conspiracy theories and republican talking points we can talk about trump ice and trump air, trump water. >> cost america 700,000 jobs? >> cost a lot of people a lot of jobs. a lot of people in new jersey went bankrupt. a lot of people in new jersey when donald trump. >> avoiding people. enriches himself. >> he says i love playing with debt. we have $20 trillion in debt. we both agree that's a problem. >> most of that debt thank you to the clintons. >> the clinton name is practically synonymous with prosperity in this country. >> >> prosper themselves. >> we all remember the 90's. >> hillary clinton said we were broke when we left the white house. within a couple short years
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they are worth several hundred million dollars how did they become so prosperous. >> they had speaking fees. >> group like columbians who want to do have a trade agreement with colombia. >> let's defer to somebody who is authoritative. moody put out a report -- let me just say moody put out a report if donald trump's policies were enacted 3.5 million americans would lose their jobs. >> we already know what happened when clintons were in power. >> this is a con man, a salesman. is he good at putting his name on businesses. >> hillary clinton had a secretary of state. name one real success hillary clinton as secretary of state. just one. >> our entire foreign policy has been stabilized and american is seeing more positive. >> in the middle east. >> boris, i'm answering your question. american is seen more positively among our allies than it was when george w. bush was president. that was a lot due to barack obama's credited. >> are we better off in the middle east?
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we are not. china or russia. >> can i beg to differ with that assessment? i think middle east is a disaster right now, far worse than it was prior to hillary clinton's state department stay and also, let me ask you this. what do you think israel thinks about what is going on and president obama and hillary clinton is running on the coat tails of president obama? do you think israel is cool with obama/clinton. >> or iran deal? >> i care a lot about what israel thinks. i care a lot more about what americans think and what american generals think and we have had american military leaders. >> israel is our close, we need. >> they are scared about iran. we know that netanyahu and barack obama aren't going to be getting to get brunch any time soon they aren't besties. >> she ran the state department for four years. >> people of israel if you take a look at polls of american jews and you see that overwhelmingly support the nuclear deal with iran
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and overwhelmly support. >> you know the iran deal -- >> -- i will tell you what we can do. that was very hot debate. if the break we can look that up and look at the polls. gentlemen, we will leave it right there. next in the rundown, the supreme court giving two blockbuster rulings on immigration and affirmative action. we will take a hard look at that as this o'reilly special continues.
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>> leaving the broken system the way it is that's not a solution. in fact, that's the real amnesty, pretending we can deport 11 million people or build a wall without spending tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money is abetting what is really just factually incorrect. we don't have to wall ourselves off from those who may not look like us right now or pray like we do or have a different last name because being an american is about something more than that. >> the president also blasted republicans, blaming them or the dead lock in demanding that senate republicans allow hearings on merrick garland, his supreme court nominee. >> republicans in congress clearly are woefully allowing the supreme court from being fully staffed and functioning as our founders intended and today's situation underscores the degree to which the court is not able to function the way
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it's supposed to. >> joining us now with reaction from washington i will i can't shapiro, a senior fellow at the cato institute and francis is francisco. that was a size being loss for obama today. you could see it and hear he was shaken by it? >> it's a lot for all of us, a 4-4 tie doesn't do anything and the chances of the supreme court taking it up again are almost zero it really just goes back to congress where it started and it should have been. i think it was a rigged vote. i think they decide to do do no harm since we don't have the nine supreme court justice. >> hold on. you are accusing the supreme court of a rigged vote? you do realize so the audience understands that the lower court, the fifth circuit said no, it's not going to work we don't want this executive action. they set it up to the supreme court where they said we are going to send it back down standing by the original lower court
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decision. >> right. don't put historic precedent in it. just do a 4-4 tie. let it go back to the way it was and wait for congress to do something which is where it belongs. it doesn't mean they opined either way. it means we are missing a supreme court justice. what are we going to do? we are still in the same situation we are before. >> it's also the way the law works in the country. immigration, one person, even the president can't unilaterally change the system. that's good news. >> that's the whole thick. this is not a debate about whether immigrants or good or bad or what kind of reform we need. this is correctly in congress' lap. roberto got that right. president obama expid to do rewrite the law. that's why we are in this mess. maybe if he had at the very beginning not egg ignored the separation of powers and other constitutional provisions throughout his entire tenure in every area, maybe then congress would trust him and we could have immigration reform. it takes a law to change law
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enforcement if scalia had been there they would have struck it down 5-4, no difference. >> this action was taken prior to scalia's death. this wasn't going to win anyway. >> what would have, could have didn't happen. the difference is we have 8 supreme court justices. now president george bush tried it in 2000 with an all democrat congress with all republican congress. this goes all the way back for 16 years. it isn't just obama. congress needs to act. we both agree on that. whether this was constitutional or not. it doesn't matter. we are still where we were before. >> do you know what happens? this is why this matters. we are in the middle of a presidential election. donald trump, love him or hate him, republicans have to say if that were a liberal supreme court ninth justice there, you may have a different outcome on this a million illegal immigrants in the country, therefore, even if you don't like a trump, maybe do you swallow the trump medicine and vote
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for him just because you don't want a supreme court that is as far left or leans left for the next 20, 30 years? >> that's not correct analysis. >> president obama and francisco are being disingenuous. even if merrick garland had been confirmed in record time, it wouldn't have been soon enough to hear this case or any other case. >> this is not, again, we can talk about what congress should or shouldn't do or what it should have done under bush or should have done under obama. the president as president obama himself recognized 23 times before he decide to do implement this particular action, the president cannot rewrite the law by himself. regardless of what you think the law should be. >> come on. you are a constitutional scholar. you know for a fact that he vested no right on any of the dock cana recipients. no permanent right or promise of only congress can give what you call any immigration reform. >> this means absolutely nothing at all. >> no, no
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test not being paired. i'm sorry. ran out of. >> up next, donald trump.
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in the election 2016 segment tonight, president obama launching a new salvo at donald trump in an interview with bloomberg today the president took a
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giant swing at what trump may value most his reputation as a businessman. >> there's no successful businessman in america who actually thinks the most successful businessman in the country is donald trump. [ laughter ] i know those guys and so do you and i guarantee you that's not their view. >> but will this constant barrage against trump from president obama actually help hillary clinton or could it come back to bite her? joining from boston adrianna bolin and in the studio jessica tarlov. pollster. start with you, i guess president obama wants donald trump with her again sometimes people pushing back against president obama. is this good or bad for hillary? >> i think it's good for her. any time somebody who is as great as campaigner as barack obama is out there on your side is wonderful thing. out with elizabeth warren at the beginning of next week. doing her part, too. we saw in foreign policy speech more of a foreign pot
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shot attack at trump seen well earlier this week. business record, talking about his bankruptcies, the lawsuits, trump university, et cetera. i do think it's a net win for her. >> you know, what strikes me on, this adrianna. president obama and hillary clinton really they have lived off the taxpayer money for a long time. president obama is a community organizer and then he went into politics. she has been in politics a long time. what do they know about business? >> you are absolutely right. give me a break. these are career politicians who have never even run a hot dog stand yet, they have the audacity to criticize president obama's business finesse? you have got to be kidding me. trump has built incredible businesses that have been inenormous success. he has built enormous wealth and created thousands of jobs. i think come november voters have a choice. they can choose hillary clinton who has made the majority of her personal net worth through talking, through speeches paid for by wall street or they can vote for donald trump who has made the lion's share of his
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wealth by building things. when it comes to growing the economy do we want the builder or do we want the talker? i think the choice is clear. >> jessica, this is very important point here, one of the strengths the american people have said that strongest part is -- strong on terror but strong on economy and jobs. all bring in the business aspect of this. >> some business leaders are backing hillary clinton over donald trump. of course he has those on his side karl icon, woody johnson, huge endorsement there and i know he raised a good amount of money yesterday and today certainly. but we had the letter that came out just earlier today from all these executives sarah sandberg, warren buffet. >> they are also well known lefties. >> also well known republicans on this list. dan attkisson general motors. people worked in the reagan administration. h.w. bush administration who are backing hillary clinton. said things think there will be very dark days for america if donald trump is president. >> there is a point to be
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made. some people have said that google is one of them. i'm not sure facebook. >> cheryl sandberg. >> not going to participate in the rnc in the convention in july also one that struck me ford. why would ford pull out of that? that was curiosity. very successful business leaders supporting donald trump. jessica highlighted a few of them. we can add to that list the fownders of -- founders she mentioned home depot, papal. the list is long and deep and we know the ones that are supporting hillary clinton are big lefties like you pointed out, eric. look, donald trump has built an empire. he has built properties all over the world that are spectacular. what -- how has hillary clinton made her money? by talking. there is a big difference. doing and talking. those are your two choices and, you know, hillary clinton said something that really set women back about 50 years. she said recently. she said when it comes to
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the economy she is going to defer to her husband. you have got to be kidding me. if she is not capable of managing our economy, she shouldn't even run for president. i think that women back 50 years. >> also a very good talking point. listen, i was not a fan of that comment. i don't think she should have said it we know bill clinton will play a prominent role. this is about her. she has laid out her plans clearly as opposed to donald trump where it's fuzzy we don't know if he will add 10 trillion to the debt. >> adrianna just let me finish here. your points are completely taken. if you look at the business community and who they are overwhelmingly backing it's not that nobody isn't for trump. obviously. >> aren't going to back donald trump doesn't mean donald trump is a bad businessman. the guy is worth several billion dollars. >> i would like to see his tax returns but, yes, obviously the man is worth a lot of money i get it and he has built things. a lot of people have serious questions about his business records. i do believe he should release his tax returns
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especially since is he calling on transparency on eferl level from clinton. >> you do realize releasing tax returns doesn't show what you are worth? there is a balance sheet. buildings all up and counsel. >> he doesn't own them. he has branded them to the best of my understanding and from what i understand. the point is that this will help clinton out there taking those shots. >> we have got to leave it right threw. ladies, thank you very much. chaos in the house of representatives. and gun control debate veers off the rails, who is to blame? that debate moments away.
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i'm patricia stark and now back to the o'reilly factor for all your headlines log on to foxnews.com. in the unresolved problem segment tonight, guns in america. for 25 hours, congressional democrats stage a chaotic and unprecedented sit-in on the house floor demanding votes on gun control legislation. it brought tempers to boiling point with one republican representative lashing out at them in the middle of the protest ♪ talking about radical islam. radical islam kills people. >> [chanting] no fly no gun. >> meanwhile house speaker paul ryan tried to paint the sit-in as nothing more than a political stunt. >> they are not trying to get this done through regular order. no, instead they are staging
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protests. they are trying to get on tv. they are sending out fundraising solicitations like this one. >> joining us now from nashville with reaction chip suggestionman, a -- sulsman democratic strategist marjorie cliffton. i saw that big drama, house floor sit-in looked like a park couple years ago. at the end they left and guess what's happening? not much is happening. what did they accomplish by this big theater? >> i think visibility. and i think democrats largely know they don't have the power. they don't have the numbers right now to get anything done. and for someone like john lewis who is -- he only uses his political capital when it really matters like in the civil rights movement to take that and take to the floor means this is an issue that is important. we have got to get people fired up about it and let them know what's going on. >> listen, but tell me this. what proposed gun legislation that the democrats brought both to
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the senate and to the house, what poolation would have changed orlando? none of them. >> all large of a bigger picture. orlando event drawing visibility to a national crisis. you have everyone from the commander of the international armed services mcchrystal who is even calling people to say we need to do something. inaction is not an option because we lost 18 times more people in the u.s. from 2001 to 200010 to gun violence than we lost in the iraq and afghanistan together. so that is not acceptable. >> marjorie, we can do these numbers until we are blue in the face. about 10,000 people are killed by gun. half of them are suicides. it's about 5,000. it pails in comparison to the other ways to i do in america. i have got to bring chip in this no fly no buy chant, it wouldn't have affected san bernardino and it wouldn't have affected orlando.
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what are they going for here. >> they are going for publicity and going tore fundraising. democrats do what they do best sit on their butts and do nothing and blame somebody else. they have been doing that in congress for a long time. that's why they are in the minority. all about fundraising. let's give them credit they worked for a whole 25 hours on this. now they they're in washington and new york and san francisco raising money on this issue. that's what it was all about. speaker ryan nailed it when he talked about it i said i hoped the speaker had turned this into a lock gin. turn off the lights and lock the door and see how long they last not very long. >> hundreds of people are being killed on the streets of killing every single year. what legislation would change that and why aren't they targeting that rather than worrying about someone being on no pray list. >> that is some of the things that they propose. some of the things they propose is universal background checks that would apply to gun shows and internet sales. >> how does that stop a gang
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banger in the street of chicago from shooting someone else? he is not going to be -- >> -- because if you have a criminal record, it means you are being checked at every place that you can buy a gun. what it does is take a lot of guns off the streets and absolutely having people who are. >> takes guns out of people trying to defend themselves. poor people in chicago in st. louis, in los angeles. poor people if you raise the cost of a gun by requiring $50, $75, $85 background check they won't be able to afford the guns to protect themselves. >> most of the stories we hear are not about people who shot themselves but victim of cry lent crime. shot will running away. not a situation where they happen to have a gun handy and pull it out at gun point. how do we take it out of the hands of criminals and people who have known terrorist records or tears ties. in the u.s. right now, the number of people who are on the no fly list, this american citizens is 2700
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people. there are 50,000 people on that list who are not american citizens who are on that watch list who can buy guns in the u.s. that is a simple measure that communicates a concern. a by partisan concern and i think those steps are important. >> chip, marjorie points out the violent crime perpetrated on innocent americans. however, this guy, this mateen guy, joker in orlando stood up, pledged his allegiance to al baghdady, eye sis, yelled allah akbar and shot the place up. that's not a violent crime. that's a terrorist act. >> that's right. we have done nothing to stem radical islam in this country. threes where the real fight is. this isn't about guns. this is about terrorism in our streets, in our cities and the congress have done nothing. the career politicians in washington has been sitting on their hands under the leadership of president obama and isis and radical islam has now entered our country and that's where they need to be focused on. >> chip, marjorie, great
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thanks for staying with us for this special edition of the factor, election 2016 special. i'm eric bolling in for bill o'reilly and in the personal story segment tonight. a pro-trump super pac has released a vicious new attack ad against the clintons and it's raising a lot of eyebrows. >> so who is all for women until she isn't? hillary clinton. when bill cosby accused of sexual assault, mrs. clinton tweeted every survivor sexual assault deserves to be believed. but when another bill was accused of sexual assault not so much. she called those women loony tune and staged destruction from a white house war room. she savaged their killing any at this and them. >> some folks are going to be have a lot to answer for. >> rebuilding america is responsible? rebuilding america now is the super pac behind web ad is this attack fair or
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crossing way over the line? here to analyze co-host of the five dana perino. >> >> donald trump effectively remember early on in the campaign in the winter time i remember, you know, they want to do go after donald trump for possible womanizing in the past and he said oh no, you don't. he effectively stopped them from making that argument anymore. this is a super pac. so not coordinated with the trump campaign directly. does it go over the line? that's what super pacs do. they are kind of allowed to for a lot of people who think she is already untrust one way or the other and don't like her, those will reinforce those views. i don't think it's that persuasive for other democrats who might be on the fence. >> what about other people who say this is too vicious of an attack he shouldn't be doing this? meanwhile, hillary clinton, the clintons have been known to be vicious, haven't they. >> i always remember this part, fliewzy benbow. i remember being disappointed on how this
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intern was treated. they called her a lot of the names. i wasn't there. i wasn't going to judge exactly what happened. i always felt thee deserved better from the first lady maybe like not talk about her at all. clintons fight very viciously. they are partisans that's how they win. >> stay on that. so they are claiming that things could be too vicious to hillary, this ad, et cetera. meanwhile they are fighters themselves. >> absolutely. >> remember the chock a.m. call. at one point they accused president obama of selling favors to the nuclear industry. >> right. so this is -- it's going to continue. it will get worse. thing for republicans is they have believed for almost three decades now that scandals were going to bring down the clintons and they think that now with the email scandal. by all accounts it should, but it probably is not going to. >> but how about this clinton foundation? i know we talk about it a lot, there are still instances where hillary
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clinton made deals with foreign countries and foreign companies and bill clinton somehow ends up with a speech for 500,000. >> $750,000 or a donation of $2 million to the foundation. >> how is that not quid pro quo. >> certainly shady. a lot of people when you talk about clinton global initiative but you have to say but they do a lot of the good work. they could have done a lot of good work without doing it this way. look at the unfavorable numbers people say they don't like her because they don't trust her. they think she is fake. that doesn't actually carry over to bill clinton himself. for some reason it's hillary it's like rub ago cat the wrong way. people just don't like her. >> you say it's going to get uglier, huge stakes. a lot. young voters, most of them had any idea that hillary clinton would have ever said that about a young woman that said, i don't think it's going to change their mind. remember, we talked about before in this election
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cycle 25% of the electorate is single women because they are thinking of their own self-interest. they will think who care what is she said in the 1990s, that was just politics. i believe in the policies that she would carry forward because i'm scared of donald trump. in their mind that's what they are thinking. i wouldn't spend too much money on this ad if i were the super pac but it does reinforce the ad. >> a year month now if you get punched you punch back harder. >> the clintons feel the same way. >> it's going to be a slug fest. >> get your popcorn ready. >> cut me, mitt, cut me. >> i have to say i am looking forward to the debate. >> the debates are going to be good. all right, dana, thank you very much. up ahead, a new study finds america's partisan divide worse than it has been in a quarter century. any hope of bringing the gulf together in a moment.
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in the back of the book segment tonight, the partisan divide in america. according to a new study from pew research, the gulf is bigger than it's been in the 25 years. the majority of republicans and democrats have very unfavorable views of the opposing party. also, 49% of republicans say they are actually afraid of the democratic party and 55% say they fear the gop. joining us now from washington, kelly ridell and jeannie
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sdplchzano. professor, 55% of democrats are afraid of republicans? >> yeah, absolutely. and i wasn't surprised at all by these numbers. i don't think anybody right of center would be. >> what do you mean afraid? >> they are afraid of the actions that the other actions are going to take that they believe will destroy the country. you see that on both sides. so for democrats, they are fearful. look what you were just talking about. the sit-in in the house. you have almost every democrat in the house saying vast majority of americans support. if you're on a terror watch list, you shouldn't be able to purchase weapons. 80, 90% support even amongst gun owners and yet you are the house that can't allow a bill to be voted on let alone passed. this is partly what frightens people so much. >> kelly, i can see them fearing every time one of these sit-ins or something goes on on guns, gun sales go up, ammo sales go up.
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republicans are afraid of democrats taking away their right to bear arms. >> well, barack obama has been one of the most polarizing and political presidents in american history so the results of this study does not surprise me. it started with obamacare, the biggest tax increase on the middle class and passed all of these executive orders by passing congress. he has been particularly good at demonizing his political opponents and you see this with the gun debate. you're either for his gun control policies or you want to aid and abet policies. you're either for his transgender policies or the white house said yesterday you were hardened or had a cold heart. you're eastern for his iran deal or you want to go to war in the middle east. this paints republicans in a corner and, quite frankly, have given rise to donald trump. >> people on both sides of the
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aisle are afraid of immigration. a progressive liberal will let anyone into the country and the other side, we're not welcoming immigrants. >> and a lot of this has to do with the failure of leadership. kelly is absolutely right but the blame doesn't fall only on barack obama. let's look at the republicans. you have mitch mcconnell, a year or two into barack obama's term saying that the number one priority was not to handle immigration, not to fix our health care system, not to address all. concerns that americans have including a faltering economy. it was to stop barack obama from winning. that is no sign of leadership. >> but jeanne, stopping from president obama winning encompasses -- >> jeanne, i'm sorry, didn't hillary clinton in a debate last year say when asked who her greater enemy was say that it was the gop, that it was republicans? you have poor jim webb there
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saying his greatest enemy is the threat abroad, our enemies abroad. right now, it feels as though the democratic party would like to paint republicans as a greater threat to america than isis. >> they are a threat, kelly, because they haven't addressed the issues confronting the country. nine out of ten americans across the board believe we have a crisis involving terrorists getting weapons and that republicans that control the congress cannot pass the legislation. >> but the proposals before the house right now wouldn't have prevented that. this is nonsensical solutions meant to make people feel good but not really solve the problem. republicans want to solve the problem. you have barack obama calling -- you have barack obama calling isis, the jv team, saying we shouldn't be afraid of their political threat and then you have the cia director john brennan come out and say -- >> the political divide is
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o'reilly factor special election 2016. i'm eric bolling filling in for o'reilly. the spin stops with you. breaking tonight, democrats getting slammed for leaving town after holding a sit-in on guns. the weapon used by the terrorist in orlando while doing nothing about terrorism, which might very well continue even if we take away some guns. welcome to "the kelly file." i'm megyn kelly. congress has now gone dark. congress heading home for a week without doing anything to help the fbi or address the security failures that led to the horrific terror attack that left 49 people dead and another 50-plus injured in orlando, florida, last week. instead, what we saw