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this story is not about illegal talks between trump and the campaign people. this story is barack obama and the democratic party attempting to sabotage the trump presidency and force him to be impeached or resign. >> joining us from austin, texas, karl rove. former senior advisor to president george bush. it is leakers leaking stuff to the press orrm you have this theory where former president obama is holed up somewhere and orchestrating this devious counterespionage campaign and laying landmines throughout the administration trying to derail president trump. how do you see it? >> look, i think there is a medias bias in the selection of

their stories. i do think the democrats are on high alert, looking for every opportunity to trash a member of the trump administration. jeff sessions, i have known him personally, i have known him for years. he is a man of great integrity. he did the right thing by recusing himself. he would have done that anyway, but what they are attacking him for is a nothing burger. does president obama have a role in this? i don't know. maybe he is busy with that $60 million book deal. but he has an organization, organizing for america, used to be obama for america, and i get there truth team emails which they send out on a regular it is all designed to stir people up. here's one. "trumpio administration set stae for mass deportations." i read the email, that is the

headline they vote for it. here'sli another one. unhappy with trump? call your congressman. fielding a record number of calls. they are systematically attempting -- it is really remarkable. the political organization of the former president never missed a beat. they were out there attacking president obama's successor, president trump. i don't think we have seen this may be ever in american history that a president, having left office, has this political apparatus going tooth and nail after his successor. >> you could not resist holding up a white piece of paper, could you? >> i couldn't help it. here's a third one. >> jesse: that's okay, i believe you. said the obama administration actually sought and at one point received wider approval note --

wiretap approval to listen to the phone calls of officials as late as october. when you combine that with this "new york times"nd report that obama officials are disseminating information about russia throughout various agencies in the government that will be used during the transition then uncorked during the first 100 days, it seems like a a systematic strategy to take down president trump, pretty devious, wouldn't you say? >> let's divide these, let's take the second one first. the reports that the obama administration officials took information about the contact between the trump campaign supporters or trump campaign officials and russians and disseminated it throughout the government in order that the trump administration would not be able to suppress this information strikes me as paranoia. a bunch of over-the-top lunatics who were sitting there saying,

oh, we so distressed over successor that he found information that was damaging to america's security interests and mightgh reflect badly on someboy associated with his campaign, he would try to bury it. v it says something about how they view the president of theri united states. let me say something different here. i have a sense that the fbi, particularly when they go to get what is called a fisa a national security warrant, acting on the basis ofd need, and the judges who granted those requests would not act without some sense that something needed to be listened to. i don't think that was political at all. still want now, let me ask you this. if this had happened with george w. bush and you had former clinton officials going after, you know, going after kellyanne a conway, going after

flynn, going after sessions. how shouldio president trump respond to these attacks and hii lieutenant? because it is happening, and i don't know if there is a strategy to counteract it. >> i think you have to do it on a case-by-case basis. first of all, don't be diverted. this is an attempt to divert the president's energy and effort, to get them engaged in conversation about kellyanne conway on the couch or jeff sessions recusing himself. don't take the bait. keep focused. cut taxes to energize the economy. rollback unnecessary regulations to free up the energy of american job creators and prosperity creators. get rid of the repeal and replace obamacare. these were the things that people elected him to. first, don't take the bait, second, tone. they don't want to beat not anger, the tone ought to be disappointment because most americans look at this stuff and

say, that is petty politics. the more the administration says, we're sorry some of our opponents feel obligated to dote this, we are focused on the bigger things, that is the way to go. >> jesse: president trump showed at the joint session that he can rise above party politics. we'll see if he can do that. thank you. >> congratulations, incidentally. on your crew. i wonder where you stashed o'reilly? >> jesse: it was a bloodless coup. he is on an island in the south pacific. >> i thought it was the south atlantic. >> jesse: demanding his resignation, one democratic congressman joins us in the no spin zone with reaction straight ahead. if a denture were to be

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"impact segment" tonight, democrats calling for the resignation of jeff sessions. senate minority leader chuck schumer is leading the attack against the attorney general, saying this yesterday.t >> because the department of justice should be above reproach, for the good of the country, attorney general sessions should resign. >> jesse: but schumer had a very different reaction after then-attorney general loretta lynch had her highly criticized tarmac meeting with president clinton during the investigation last year. >> she has said nothing was discussed relating to the investigation.ch you have two choices, to say this doesn't matter or she's lying. i don't think she is lying. >> joining us with reaction, democratic new york congressman. you are my congressman, so i have to put you on the spot here. >> your vote for me or not? >> jesse: i did not.

i'm not afraid to say it. but your colleague, new york guy, he says one thing about loretta lynch, takes her at her word, but then does not take jeff sessions at his word. a little hypocritical, wouldn't you say? >> i would not say. i would say they can be separated. >> jesse: but that is my focus. >> not a dodge. there wasn't a case or a question of whether or not jeff sessions perjured himself or the roger lynch perjured herself. different situations and didn't involve national security and the russians and things like that. >> martha: no mexico won hillary's that. you are in the problem-solving caucus. >> problem solvers caucus. >> jesse: an oxymoron in my

opinion. where do you see common ground? >> there are 20 democrats and 20 republicans in u.s. government that are on the problem solvers congress. our goal is to find common ground to get things done. everybody is sick of congress when they don't get things done. they want us to try to accomplish things. >> jesse: can you get along on obamacare, that is unraveling right now. >> we need to see what the proposal is from the republicans. it's the one they won't even show fellow republicans. >> it is top-secret. >> jesse: saying, you want to talk about tax reform and infrastructure, we think these are trickled big, big areas whee could be places that we could talk about commonn ground. >> jesse: tax reform cannot get the top rate, business rate, it goes down. you have to agree that taxes are too high. we are living in the same area. we are paying half of our paycheck.

>> at the big problem is property taxes on long island. >> jesse: beside that, property taxes, 35%, 36%, those have got to come down, right? >> i really believe that it is clear as day that we need to lower the corporate tax and bring that money that is offshore back into the united states of america, and i would like to see that invested in infrastructure. as far as income tax, like i said, i am opposed to any increase in them income tax. >> jesse: that's not happening. >> our district especially is a huge net donor. we send a lot more than make it back. and i encourage my democratic colleagues from democratic states like new york and new jersey and connecticut and california, we are all huge net donors. >> jesse: especially bill o'reilly, also a new yorke new yorker.

giving a lot of money to the treasury. >> and he voted for maine. it's the one that makes one of us. infrastructure, about a trillion dollar bill. we need need new roads, need nw bridges, the l.i.d. takes me about -- you should take mass transit. >> jesse: i do, i take the train, but sometimes i have to drive. >> everybody agrees there is a huge deficit in infrastructure. not just roads, sewers, water, airport, and it will create a lot of middle-class jobs that we need and it will create a lot of economic activity. >> as long as you can get your friend nancy pelosi onboard with some of these moderate proposals, i think we might have a deal here. can you bring nancy along? >> i think nancy and other democrats are very interested in creating jobs. >> jesse: why did she sit and not clap when trump announced

those neww jobs. >> it was really interesting to watch the clapping and not thet clapping. >> jesse: mostly not clapping. coming up next on a special edition of the o'reilly "the o'reilly factor," democrats claimed that jeff sessions may have violated the law? what are their claims wildly exaggerated dr. scholl's. this is one gorgeous truck. special edition. oh, did i say there's only one special edition? because, actually there's five. ooohh!! aaaahh!! uh! hooooly mackerel. wow.

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>> jesse: the dem >> jesse: the "unresolved problems" segment tonight, democrats demanding a legal investigation of jeff sessions. some of them claim the attorney general committed perjury last month, but are those accusations completely overblown. joining us now from washington to analyze, george washington university law professor jonathan turley. so, professor, does sessions face any sort of perjury charge?

yes or no. >> no. i don't even think this is a close case. he was asked a fairly convoluted and extended question that dealt with a recent immediate release about campaign involvement with the russians. he answered that question. actually, he went beyond what what the question asked him, which was what he would do about that. he answered that question then he went beyond it to say, and i haven't had any contacts with russians. it wasn't artful. it turns out he has had contact with russians. he should have corrected it. but that's not perjury. and the standard for perjury is quite high. you have to show intent. only handful of people that have been persecuted for perjury in congress because the standard is difficult to meet. >> jesse: and the next step seems to be a special prosecutor, i keep hearing about a special prosecutor, i think

democrats want a special prosecutor. what would that mean, and why would there be a special prosecutor? >>. the all thing about that, f you ask for a special counsel to be elected and the acting deputy general could that, if they viewed this as a conflict for the department to handle the question, you still have to articulate what it is they aree investigating. >> jesse: what is the investigation? is it about russian interference with the election and then being in cahoots with the trump campaign? is that what they're getting after? >> the problem is, we don't have any evidence of collusion. even if you go to say, was their collusion, what's the crime? it is not a logan act violation. we haven't seen any type of allegation with regard to that since the flynn episode, and he wasn't even charged.. we haven't had allegations of money being exchanged from the russians. the question is, what is the

special counsel are going to investigate? is he going to come and say, yes, we were hacked by theth russians much like we have hacked other countries? is he going to investigate some nameless guy in st. petersburg? now, maybe evidence will come forward, but until it does, you're getting ahead of your skis on this. >> jesse: it seems to me the only problems the trump administration is having is not the contact with the russians, it is what they say about said contacts? is that what how you see it? if there is nothing else, this thing dies. >> that is a problem. the white house has not been performing as well as it should. it has been three beats behind. for example, the sessions case, there should have been a clarifying letter and this would have been a nonissue. he should have recused himself. frankly, i don't understand whys a recusal wasn't readily abased early on.

it is a good deal. pull your critical people out of this investigation which is likely to go nowhere. they can focus on other things. you won't have the drip, drip, drip of this controversy. i don't know why this wasn't recognized early on. the white house said, we're cool with an investigation.on we are going to have people recuse themselves. you can take this as far as you want too go. >> jesse: jeff sessions staff was as confident as the factoryd staff is? should have let them know and we went to pat this problem. thank you very much. next up on the rundown, a wave of government acts, that debate, upcoming.

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laws, many of the mainstream media are unfazed. >> we are getting great prints coverage by the hour, and that's the only reason this administration is admitting things. trump didn't act on a flint, the report ran in today's newspapers. this is an administration being driven by truth that is coming from somewhere else. >> jesse: joining us with reaction from washington, journalist and author ron kessler. his newest book is "the first family detail" now in paperback. and democratic strategist richard goodstein. the press doing its job, ron, or is it aiding and abetting leakers? what do you say? these revelations are not that big a deal. whether flynn lied was not a surprise to the white house. they knew he had previously. who wants to cooperate with the

cia and become an asset and reveal, for example, terrorist plots that could wipe out millions of people with wnd attacks if they feel their secrets will not be kept confidential. you have a press that is totally out of control. a ap ran a story about the fact that the cia had an asset in yemen who was revealing information about bombs that would be put on planes going to the united states, could not be detected normally. there was no abuse, there was no failure, and yet, the ap ran this story, and that meant the asset was gone, compromised. t that could have resulted in many deathshs. if you really have a press that is out of control and arrogant. >> jesse: and they definitely are arrogant. i will give you that. richard, the last eight years, there weren't that many exclusives and that when it just revelations coming out of the

press. just in the course of three months, it's like every single day there is this front front e splash, breaking news, constant breaking news, investigations. they are getting all the stuff from somewhere. these leakers are running wild and the press is loving it. >> a couple of things, jesse. there were leaks during the trump campaign hardly the doing of obama holdovers. second, the sense of hypocrisy is a little strong here considering donald trump 100 times on the campaign trail extolled the virtues of wikileaks. he said, i love wikileaks. somehow, now that his goose is getting cooked, it looks a bit different. third, i think what is going on here is, trump has whopper after whopper, whether it is the electoral college, one after another. i think people in the administration don't know that

the truth will actually come out. they say that see that the trus trump's energy, they say, it works for him, may be me too. >> jesse: the difference, that was john d podesta with leaks about chelsea clinton. these are between your national securityna advisor, conversatios trump is having with the leaders of countries. >> 17 intelligence agencies said that russians, they were trying to subvert the u.s. elections. that is serious. we don't know yet, that if any of paul manafort, roger stone, talking with theha russians, incidentally, not just a coincidence that wikileaks dropped one hour after the excess hollywood tape came out, if any of that comes out to be

true, that is treason. >> jesse: hillary lost the election because she was a terrible candidate. didn't have anything to do with the russians. ron, please respond to richard. >> on top of this, eric holder when he was attorney general made it difficult to uncover the sources ofs these leaks. on one hand, sensitive information, very compartmentalized, but eric holder with the rules making it i tough for the fbi, first of all, if they go after a press h organization comes up, they have to challenge it in court, secondly, they can't issue a search warrant against a reporter and less the reporter is under criminal investigation. really, holder tied the hands of the fbi not based on anything in the constitution, not based on any law passed by congress. that is going to make it much more difficult.

i was, "the washington post" during watergate, no way he woulden have run any of these stories. >> jesse: and president obama went after leakers harder than any other president in modern day history, all of a sudden, there are leaks out of the trump white house, trump is this bad guy trying to destroy the first amendment and whistleblower. obama goes after people, it is leakers, a when trump goes after people, it is whistleblowers. >> at the enemy of the people, jesse, obama didn't say that, trump did. >> jesse: fake news isn't the enemy of the people -- >> then he said fake news, we don't know what he means by that. >> jesse: i knowke what he means. he means this fake dossier that was claiming god knows what in a hotel in russia he never went to. i've got to run. thank you very much. directly ahead, vicious ms13

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>> jesse: thanks for staying with us for a special edition of "the o'reilly factor." i'm jesse watters and for bill o'reilly. in a "personal story" segment tonight, going after illegal immigrants. amid the crackdown, authorities have indicted members of a central gang on murder charges. their immigration status also comes as no surprise. >> according to officials, ten of the 13 members indicted are here illegally. two members are still on the loose, and this time it is unclear whether they will be deported. promising gang violence won't be tolerated. >> we will continue to keep the pressure on this ruthless gang and anyone who associates with them, and we will spare no cost. >> jesse: the 13 gang members were charged with the murders of seven people, including the savage deaths of two high school

girls last year. it is worth repeating, ten of the 13 gang members are here illegally. joining us from san diego, enrique morones, former of four of a border advocacy group, and bob dane, director of the foundation for immigration reform. pretty vicious. beat these people up with baseball bats, machetes, i mean, really sickening stuff. henrique, you would agree that getting rid of criminal illegal alien gang members in the united states protects public safety, with you ceed that >> i believe, and american people believe that people with criminal records should be deported. the only person that does not agree is maybe the criminal. >> new mexico and so where do you draw the line?

some people say you have to commitit a rape or murder, how about a dui? they should go, right? >> first of all, i don't call them illegal immigrants. they are undocumented people. the terminology is not the same. >> jesse: it is not hateful. it is not hateful. >> the majority of the country does not agree. >> jesse: i disagree with that, but that's besides the point. >> that's okay. that's fox news. >> jesse: and you are on fox news. we'll call it how we see it. speak what you can call it how you see it, and i'll colored how i see it and how the country sees it. if a person is undocumented and breaks the law, they should be punished according to the law. the thing is, the person that created -- people that create most of these, are actually citizens when you do it by a

much larger percentage per capita. when you -- when they have done something terrible, they should be punished. whether they are undocumented or not. to try to paint it as if undocumented people are doing it more than everybody else? >> jesse: i'm not saying they are, but this is a vicious murder involving gang members and machetes, g i think it needs to be addressed. the knock against the trump immigration crackdown is that they are now going after immigrants that came here illegally but haven't broken the law since. do you think it's fair to go after those people? >> i think one of the most diabolical reasons, attempted to reprogram the way america thinks about immigration. we're supposed to think that violating immigration laws in and of themselves is now

entirely inconsequential unless convicted to be a felon. the fact of the matter is, we do have laws on the books. in terms of this surge of gang violence, these are bad guys and they mean business. but this gang violence is really a symptom of a broader issue. we have had eight long years of a lack of enforcement. we have had increasing numbers of sanctuary cities where they are aiding and abetting, harboring illegal immigration. so now, after eight years, you have got massive illegal immigration, these huge holes, human traffickers and other criminal enterprises are exploiting and people are dying as a result of that. >> jesse: let's let enrique address that, if you have the sanctuary cities, and they act as a magnet or criminal illegal activity. if shot to those sanctuary

citiesdo down, wouldn't that, in turn, at least reduce the criminal illegal activity in the cities? >> no, because there has never been an increase in people who are undocumented, increasing crime create >> jesse: in a lot of these sanctuary cities, there are high levels of illegal alien activity. >> no, i don't agree with it. >> jesse: you have to. >> it's not true. you are using that as a reference. something that is with eugenics and white supremacy. >> jesse: i am not using their statistics. look at san francisco. the fbi. >> law enforcement says that undocumented people -- >> jesse: the fbi says that in these sanctuary cities there is a higher rate of criminal illegal activity and if you are going to cities that don't allow sanctuary policies to exist you say there is more? that doesn't make sense.

>> you are having a problem with this because that's not what the fbi says. >> jesse: americans commit crimes too. but when they are in jail, they stay in jail and don't get deported. the point is, if you are an illegal alien and you commit a icrime, you've got to go.o >> yeah, an undocumented person that commits a crime should be punished. if they qualify for deportation, remember, they have no legal way of entering the country. most of the people that are here undocumented have no legal way of entering the country. as i not like when your forefathers and foremothers came. >> that is nonsense. there is legal ways. >> jesse: i got to run. a new study reveals how biased the media has been against president trump. it is almost comical. we'll be right back. la quinta presents

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>> bill: in the second segment > jesse: in the second unresolved problem segment tonight, media coverage of president trump. the conservative media research center finds that during his first 30 days in office, a whopping 88% of the news on the mainstream networks were hostile. n n watch. >> there have been terrorist attacks that nobody knows aboutv because the media choose not to report them. it has been a busy day for presidential statements divorced from reality. >> jesse: joining us now from richmond, virginia.

tim graham. tim, 88%. that is pretty astonishing. that is almost 100%. out of the park. what you take away from that? >> we should explain that it does not count partisan sources which would mean trump speaking or chuck schumer speaking. overwhelmingly, those people that you trust, the reporters themselves, sources in the american public, overwhelmingly negative., the funny thing about it is, this is the time in a presidency where the president of whichever party get some sort of a honeymoon.f eight years ago, we were still on, "and the obama girls got a dog." or "look at michelle's arms" ." >> jesse: if this is the honeymoon, we know the rest of the marriage. i think divorce is right around the corner. the effect that this has, this constant barrage of very negative attacks against the president. the american public, are they tuning this coverage out or soaking it in?

how do you think they are digesting it? >> i think it obviously gives them some sense of unease. i think you saw when there was like this little pause after his speech to congress, there is a sense of relief like, oh, we won't be slammed for 12 hours. but, obviously, we found the same thing in the fall. 80% negative coverage in the last few weeks of the campaign and he won. so i think he can govern with it but still the question is, how do these people suggest this is fair and balanced? i don't think this is the case at all.ug you don't have to be 88% hostile to hold the president t accountable. >> jesse: you said something interesting. h because he did win despite the overwhelmingly negative coverage. i am wondering if the mainstream media bias almost helps the president. because it is so vicious and bad and then you have these fake news stories that you can point to and say, this is what i am up

against. the people and i are running against this hateful media machine. i it is us against them. does that kind of boost his credibility with the rest of the american public? >> i think it does. i think they have this idea that trump criticizing the liberal media is something he just does for his base and this can't possibly work with independentus voters, people in the middle. i think that's not true. i think obviously, i can come up we saw the results of the election. i think it's remarkable some of the approval ratings we've seen for trump in these first few weeks. you'd expect it to be much worse trying to watch the way the television networks go afterer him. >> jesse: i don't think people even believe the approval ratings anymore.ey they were so wrong in the run up to the election and his numbers were supposedly terrible. but he won over 300 electoral votes.

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>> in the back of the book segment tonight, it is a roller coaster week for the trump administration. the next week could more critical. washington with they're perspectives, editor in chief of the hill newspaper, along with the white house correspondent for the independent your fall review. aaron renay, what do you think of the biggest news of the week this week was? >> i think it absolutely has to be the president's joint address

to congress, because he rose to the occasion, he was presidential, there was lot of concern, especially on capitol hill and from republicans about whether or not he could do that. in that speech, he reached out to democrats, he gave a message of unity and he talked about a number of issues that democrats actually do care about that, that's infrastructure, that's fade family leave that's the childcare tax credit. and he also talked about immigration reform. i think some of those messages were really important and a lot of democrats, even chuck schumer, were speechless after that. >>mer, schumer speech is also quite an accomplish bement. bob, did you sees that or was te sessions thing what carried the week in your opinion. >> the sessions thing is a bit over shadows the speech but i think history will look back to this week and say the trump speech, i agree with erin, a solid speech, very measured and really gave the republicans some much-needed momentum now that they havee to do the heavy lifting 0 on their agenda with

obama care and tax reform, so i think the speech. >> erin, next week what do we have to look forward to? it seems like every week there is some huge story that breaks late. any surprises? >> i think what did over shadow this week, what came out about jeff sessions and other details in the russia probe in that story, tell us that next week will be a huge week for that. we know that obama officials tried to preserve all of this intelligence about russian officials meeting with trump campaign aides, and i think that tells us that so many more details are going to come out next week, so that is going to over shadow anything else. remember, the travel ban, the new one, was supposed to come out at the end of this week and got knocked off. some big other stories will happen next week, but there is no question in my mine we will see more details come out about russia. >> maybebe we will find out more democrats that had lunch with the ambassador. bob, what is your prediction for

next week. lay itt on us. >> i think it is obama care. paul ryan and the white house reporting the finishing touches on a repeal rai and replace bil. it is going to be very dividend to passage the republicans have to unify, they're not going to get any help from democrats on this. we could see a big as early as next week. >> but the republicans aren't unifying because you had senators walking out because they weren't even allowed to see the text of this obama care repeal bill. why is the obama care repeal bill the biggest secret in washington? >> well, it is going to be controversial. >> everything except the obama care bill. >> i think theseil decisions are so hard on what to do with the taxes and medicaid expansion is that they're going in one direction and the freedom call cause, the conservative freedom caucus in the house wants to go in a different direction, and ted cruz. remember, republicans don't hav a lot of votes they can lose, so you have to unify or this

doesn't happen. >> erin, you said it is going to ben, russia. bob, you said it is going to be obama care. whoever loses has to buy the other person dinner, okay? >> deal. >> i like it. i like it. >> all righty, guys. thank you very much. i really appreciate it. and a a quick reminder, don't forget to catch my show, water's world, tomorrow night. it feature mice confrontation with one of the people disparaging the widow of ryan owens. here is sneak peek. i can't even believe you would denigrate the service and sacrifice of this family by accusing her of being a pawn to the president. you wouldn't say that to her face, would you, john? >> sure, absolutely. >> you know, what if you would say that to her face, you will probably get slapped in the face. waters world airs at 8:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow night right here on the fox newschannel. bill o'reilly loves the show so much, he dv rs it, if he can

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