>> shannon: we started the show tonight talking about what many see as the split within the g.o.p. on the issue of obamacar obamacare. trump tweets. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight... >> bill, you proved yourself at bus. general flynn was. >> bill: interesting point. very interesting point. >> bill: the drama about president trump accusing president obama of tapping his campaign is rising. tonight, we talk with a senator who is actively investigating. >> are there other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships that worked harder for less. they, too, had a dream. >> bill: ben carson under fire for calling slaves immigrants paid will take a look at that. >> this executive order makes clear that washington will not be a willing participant in promoting or carrying out

mean-spirited policies that break up families. >> bill: the governor of washington openly defying the trump administration over illegal immigration. we'll have a "follow-up report" all night. 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. investigating national security leaks, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. coming out of all the chaos surrounding the russian hacking and president trump's allegation that president obama somehow tapped the trump tower during the campaign should be indictment against those who leak national security information. so out of chaos may come justice. let's hope so. as we reported last night, there are only two stone cold facts that we can report in this entire debacle.

first, that general michael flynn was captured on a white make wiretap talking to the russian ambassador, perhaps in trump's tower. that tap happened, but we don't know who ordered it or how it went down. obviously, the american people are entitled to know. second fact, twofold. someone leaked the conversations between flynn and the russian ambassador to the press. that is a felony. we need to know who the leaker is. associated with that, then-attorney general loretta lynch working for president obama ordered the rules about shield intelligence information changed just days before the present left office, just days before mr. obama walked out the door. so why did miss lynch do that. did mr. obama ordered the change? again, we need to know. it's very important because by national security agency sharing

raw information, okay, undivided, with the fbi, cia, and other agencies, you open up the potential for leaks. that's what happened. as soon as president trump walked into the oval office, his phone calls to the mexican president, the australian prime minister, and other high-level officials were leaked to the press. in effect, the obama administration may have -- i emphasize "may" -- have created chaos for the trump administration by allowing unsubstantiated information to be spread across a number of agencies. this is big. if that were done intentionally to harm the incoming president, mr. trump, that is subversion. you can see that congress must get to the bottom of the situation. right now, there are investigations in the house and in the senate to find out if russian officials colluded with the trump campaign. as we reported last night, so far, there is no evidence of

that. we also don't know anything solid about the wiretaps and leaks concerning donald trump, and we need to know. and that is "mmo." joining us now, senator tom condon, a member of the senate intelligence committee that is investigating will be laid out in "the "the memo." so, senator, tell me about that meeting, what happened? >> bill, great to be on with you. senator david perdue and i went to meet with trump. we had a productive meeting, talked about steps he has taken, but we're going to have to do with congress and the president, especially on obamacare and tax cuts, to get the economy growing even faster, create more jobs, in particular, legislation that david perdue and i have that would try to reorient our legal system away from mass, and unskilled immigration which has had such an effect on working-class wages in america and moving toward high skilled

and ultra high skilled immigration as president trump has said he wants to do. >> bill: we will get to that in a little while. did you ask president trump if he had any information he would like to give you as a member of the senate intelligence committee backing up the assertion that president obama tapped the trump tower? did you ask him about that? >> no, bill. we talked about the economy, taxes, immigration. >> bill: were you curious about that? >> our inquiry and review on the intelligence committee is moving forward at a good pace. we just got access to a lot of very important documents that would otherwise be very restricted. point out that it was the trump administration that gave us that access, not the obama administration paid so by the level of cooperation we have received has been very thorough. >> bill: i would hope so. >> we look forward to making as much of our conclusions public as we can. >> bill: i hope you do that. it is a twofold investigation though, right? it is, was their collusion

between the trump campaign and russia? and then who is leaking out this stuff? are you investigating that? they leaks? >> step back from those two items to the previous matter, the way this started, the conclusions of the intelligence community that it was russian intelligence services behind the hacking and the disclosure of emails from the democratic national committee and from hillary quinn's campaign chairman. we are deep and very deeply into that to analyze the intelligence that supports those conclusions. in recent months, as you say, there have been numerous leaks that led to some very fantastical claims about relationships between donald trump's associates and russian intelligence officials. that is going to be part of our inquiry as well. you're very right that these leaks, regardless of the content, are damaging to national security and raise this prospect of serious behavior. they reveal potentially with

united states nose, but it doesn't snow, and what it has to know, we do not want our adversaries -- >> no max but when it opens up all sorts of things. i'm a simple man. i don't know if you know that, even down south they know i'm simple. i want to know who ordered the wiretap on the russian ambassador which picked up general flynn at, we think, the trump tower, but we are not 100% sure. i want to know what agency authorized that. do you know? can you tell me who authorized that tap on the russian ambassador? >> bill, i prefer not to speak -- >> bill: do you know? >> about what surveillance may or may not have been in place. >> bill: do you know who ordered it? >> bill, as a member of the intelligence community, i am aware of and i follow up closely -- >> bill: so you know, you know

-- now we're getting somewhere. we you know who did it. i understand it is classified, but you know president trump could make it unclassified like that. you can tell me who ordered it. let's hope he does that. >> the president does have that kind of declassification authority. i have suggested that some members, leaders of the intelligence community, might want to make some kind of public statements, but i understand the reluctance of them and particularly president trump as well, because this kind of statements, those kind of disclosures, do threaten -- >> bill: i get that it has to be done in an orderly way. now let me take the next step. you know who did it, what agency did it commit see you know who have the transcript made of it, because that is the agency woule to come i had to make the transcript. then the transcript is leaked so that you know which agency has to be investigated to find the

leaker, correct? >> bill, i make 2 points about that. first, we have seen media reports that suggested the obama administration officials intentionally spread intelligence information widely to include just raising it in meetings when it might have been inappropriate to do so. they claimed it was try to preserve the intelligence. i suspect it was more likely they were trying to get it to leak. second, something many americans don't realize, fbi is not just a law enforcement service. it is also our main counterintelligence service. the fbi as part of the department of justice, the department of justice, until generate 20th, was run by obama political appointees, and the main consumer of intelligence from that is the white house and specifically the national security council. you have many partisan democrats who were receiving this information, and i think there's a good chance that you might want to look to some of those partisan democrats who left office and generate 20th and are now being identified as former

u.s. officials if you want to know where some of these leaks are coming from. >> bill: it seems you're pointing a finger at the fbi that, that they leaks may have come from the fbi. >> no, bill, what i'm saying come up with the fbi is part of the department of justice, and the department of justice, until january 20th, was a recipient at consumer of fbi intelligence materials, was run bipartisan obama democrats. >> bill: all right. we want to find out who tapped the russian ambassador and general flynn, where it happened, and then who transcribed the conversation and leaked it to "the washington post" ." again, i'm a simple man. that's what we need to know. >> the leaking is the most important material. that information should never be in public. >> bill: you can trace back whether that leak was ordered oe from or any of that. it sounds like you are hot on the trail. would you say that is accurate, that your heart on the trail? >> we are moving forward very

quickly and we are trying to examine all aspects of it. >> bill: we only have a minute. your new immigration vision is to limit the number of illegal migrants who come here for work, is that correct? >> that's right, bill. we want to refocus illegal immigration on high skilled and ultra high skilled immigrants who can contribute to our economy. they won't need to use any kind of public welfare benefits. and that will mean higher wages for working americans. >> bill: what about the agricultural industry and service the industries, construction industries, who need unskilled labor, particularly in agriculture? >> bill, i am open to those arguments. it's an evidence-based question. i would note though, there is no job in the united states that is not filled by a majority, sometimes a large majority, of native-born americans. there is no drop that americans won't do. >> bill: they have a very hard time in the central valley of

california recruiting in that hot sun and down in florida as well, people to pick the fruits and vegetables. that's not an easy thing. >> bill, what i would say to that committee solution, rather than importing more unskilled and low skilled workers might be to raise wages for working americans who haven't had a pay raise and decades. if you have a high school degree or less, haven't seen the wages rise. if we don't have the large surge of mass low skilled immigration that we've had for decades now, the market will work its magic. >> bill: wages would raise if is not the competing with labor. senator, we appreciate you having coming on. next on "the rundown," judicial watch suing the government to get answers about the wiretapping allegations. later, another outrage as the governor of washington orders his agency is to ignore homeland security requests on questionable legal aliens.

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>> bill: impact segments net, watchdog group called judicial wash, filed a lawsuit against the cia, justice department, treasury department, wanting records pertaining to alleged wiretapping during the presidential campaign pain joining us from washington, president of the group commit tom fitton. you call this, "scandal." please define that for us. >> the scandal we all know about, the only one of substance beyond the hacking of the podesta emails directly, is the leaking of classified information, including the fact that there were wiretaps and the results of those wiretaps. as he pointed out, the results of the phone call between general flynn and the russian ambassador, we ask specifically for those types of records.

we got the proverbial hand to the face. we got an interesting response from the national security bill, and it goes to the conversation you had with senator cotton. the nsa told us they can confirm or deny they have any records about that. >> bill: maybe they are not involved. i don't know what senator cotton nose, clearly knows what agency tapped the russian ambassador and general flynn. he knows. >> the nsa is essentially telling us, we can't tell you if we have them, we can't tell you if we don't have them, because to do so would tell you about our capabilities. >> bill: can't comment on the investigation -- they all do that. i think people need to understand that a russian embassy's russian territory. that is not america, okay? therefore, agencies like the cia and nsa, they can go in and they can tap, and they have been tapping for 50 years, all of these people, and people should know that, should know how this thing can be done so there is a

myriad of suspects here. do you come up for your investigation, have you narrowed it down on what you think happened? i don't want you to speculate. it's got to be based on information have accumulated. >> we just sued, so we are waiting to get responses from the agencies, and it is going to be hard for them to say no. the irony is, president trump's appointees, ones that are going to be figuring out this litigation, frankly, because of other requests we have, well over a dozen requests under the freedom of informational act to get information. frankly, we want the transcript if it's not classified. release it, if it is classified, potentially declassify it in part or in hole. -- in part or in whole. we want to know who have access to this information. >> bill: i want to know who leaked it, who put it up there.

president trump accuses president obama of doing it, but no evidence to show it -- and president obama is a pretty smart guy. you know, but his minions certainly could have. they tapped angela merkel. how long do you think it is going to take your crew to cut through this bureaucratic fog and get these documents so we can figure out what happened? >> i think we will start getting the responses in about a month, i think we'll get more direct responses than congress. when congress gets documents, they don't necessarily release them all, when they give the documents to us, we get into the public. important to know that there is this independent entity out there, that we are not relying on the politicians to figure out what is up and down. >> bill: please let us know what you come up with, mr. fitton. directly ahead, the personal attacks on president trump mountain, do they mean anything,

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>> bill: "personal story" segment tonight. you might think the attacks on president trump would ease up a bit because of the "enough is enough" component. but no. speak up most of the people i speak with have transition from saying this man as the president into a circus clown. >> what is he created, nothing except chaos. >> donald trump is destroying the office of the president 140 characters at a time. >> bill: joining us now, lisa boothe, juan williams. i'm not getting this.

a former cia guy who nobody knows, want to insult personally the president of the united states, what is the benefit of that? >> typically, there is a great deal of deference given to the president given all the pressures and responsibilities and the fact that we want to revere our leader, our american president. i think in this case, bill, some of this has to do with the history going back to clinton and impeachment, wish and weapons of mass destruction, and don't forget, obama and where was he born birther movement started by none other than donald trump. i think they are punching back at donald trump. >> bill: but is there any benefit, is there any benefit to these people to spout this the trail? what's the benefit? >> i think they feel that they are responding to someone who is insulting -- coats but one and a personal way. do you see any benefit, lisa?

>> for the members of congress, they hunker down and placate the last of the liberal base, that is their audience in the effort to delegitimize donald trump. >> bill: you think they are getting votes -- they think they are getting votes by demeaning him personally. >> yeah. i think for some of these, particularly for somebody like nancy pelosi, she is placating -- she is catering to the left, the progressive left. with the media ending sensationalized rhetoric we have seen from the media, i think in their efforts to try to discredit president trump, they discredit themselves. i think john dickerson, cbs's john dickerson was absolutely right when he said that the media didn't need trump to discredit them, they did it themselves. >> bill: i agree with you. what do you think i'm at juan? i think the media has damaged themselves almost beyond repair with its obvious hatred of president trump. you know, there is a difference

between issues and trying to destroy somebody. what do you think about lisa's point that the media has hurt itself? >> i just look at the numbers. the numbers are up across the board for conservative and liberal outlets. newspapers are selling more copies. people are very plugged into what is going on. i don't think it is fair to blame the press. if you look at the polls, the people don't have a high opinion of the press. you can pick a memo pretty easily. the reality is here that donald trump sends out tweets, he knows how to get around the press anytime he likes. >> bill: so you don't think it has damaged its credibility in the country by all of this, you don't think so? >> bill, i think it is a sewer. you and i have had discussions about the internet and all that. but contrary to what lisa said about pelosi, this is not about getting votes at this point. i think there are a lot of people who feel like donald trump goes over the line. >> bill: so they have to try to destroy him. all right, lisa, last words?

>> i think the irony of this, the entire russian narrative that is being driven by the media, without a shred of evidence there was collusion or influence over the election, the idea behind it is the concern of distrust and institutions. doing a good job on its own when you get the media driving in narrative without a shred of evidence. no, but you've got democrats calling for the abolishment of the electoral college, calling democrats to defect paid for doing a good job of our own of building that. >> bill: planting was the factor most long this evening, the republican version of obamacare good for you, the solid american citizen? dana perino has led. this time, a los angeles woman killed by a man allegedly deported five times. hope you'd stay you stay tunede reports. has something in common.

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>> bill: i have to tell the audience, i don't know enough about the inner workings. to me, a simple man -- that is the theme of this program -- it comes down to whether they folks will get the doctor they want for a price they can afford. isn't that what it comes down to? >> it does and also to fulfilling a campaign promise. they campaigned saying, we will replace obamacare, and we're going to make it great again. >> bill: then you have conservatives coming out, this is the worst thing in the world, this is a sellout, because they don't like the tax credits given to people. >> they'd also don't like the fact that the medicaid expansion was allowed to stay in, and also in this particular bill, when of the specifics, in this version in the house, you can't actually deal with selling insurance across state lines. >> bill: they say that is going to be reconciled. >> what i thought was interesting was, when you think of obamacare, when president obama worked on that, 58 speeches, a lot of political capital spend, he was able to keep democrats all in agreement,

right? but he spent a lot of time, a huge amount of political capital, and i wonder if president trump is going to be willing to do the same thing. already, republicans -- >> bill: rand paul doesn't like it. >> but they have some legitimate gripes. >> bill: i'm sure, a massive bill like this can't be perfect. i'm not espousing the bill. again just want the people of the country to have the ability to get health insurance. if they don't have money, i think we got to help them out. if you are broke and destitute for whatever reason, you've got to help them out. >> bill: president trump should be a lot of confidence in his secretary of health and human services. >> he likes it. >> he likes it and he is calm. i thought that was refreshing. >> bill: now, if all the democrats vote against it, and they probably will. maybe a couple of exceptions,

but they probably will. then, as you say, president trump's got to get all of the republicans in line or doesn't get past. >> i don't think it would be good for president trump to pass a republican-only bill as president obama did. >> bill: did with obamacare. >> because he is a negotiator, he should be able to get if you like senator manchin. it is going to take a lot of effort, and i don't know how much political bill he is able to expand. he can do it in a charming way, but he has to break some kneecaps. >> bill: in the end has to say, look, if you do this for me, i'll do this for you down the road. that is how, as you know, how presidents get things done. >> dealmaking. >> bill: a do you think that is realistic. >> it won't be resolved by april even though he wants to get it done quickly. >> bill: dana perino, everyone. when we come back, "law & order" in washington state, governor

dare says he's not going to cooperate. and then gutfeld and mcguirk on ben carson's controversial comments on slaves.

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>> announcer: "the o'reilly factor," the number one cable news show for 16 years and counting. >> bill: the governor of washington state, jay inslee, has ordered his agencies not to cooperate when asking for an illegal alien to be detained. >> this executive order makes clear that washington will not be a willing participant in promoting or carrying out mean-spirited policies that break up families and compromise our national security, and importantly, our community safety. >> bill: with all due respect, the governor is a thunderhead, and i'm going to prove that any moment period. now, eboni williams and kimberly guilfoyle. they could arrest him, but he will not, he will not allow his people in washington state to

respect requests for detainers. what is the difference between a detainer and a warrant? >> it is not a request. supported by probable cause and he cannot, by law, ignore it. a detainer -- and that is criminal, okay, supported by probable cause. a dictator is mainly a request and he is not under an obligation to comply with i.c.e. creates >> bill: there isn't a law that says he must. now commit detainers are asked for by the government federal government -- not because they don't like the color of his car or any other reason. i.c.e. believes this person has enough bad things that he or she is going to be deported. this isn't some little thing. >> no, it is very serious. >> your exactly right. that standard definition between probable cause and reason to

believe. >> bill: why would any honest civil servant say, i'm not going to cooperate with the federal government when they ask for a specific detainer. >> i can tell you why, bill. because it will clog the docket. if they indeed complied, it would clog the docket so miserably that it would actually further disrupt -- -- 's but one that hasn't happened in texas, florida, where they do respect it. that's feeble, eboni. your excuse is feeble. >> she is getting the justification why they would do so. i suggest that actually makes a bigger problem, and issue public safety, because some of these people have committed crimes and should be removed from the country. >> bill: here it is, here's the hammer. you ready for hammer, everybody? here is by he is a dunderhead. let's put up this picture,

sandra duran. i don't want to look at him anymore. she's killed in a car crash. she has kids, how many kids? >> at least one. >> bill: she is dead. the police say a man named estuardo alvarado killed her while driving drunk. tell me about mr. alvarado. >> was thing about him, bill, a habitual dui. this is not his first time driving drunk behind the wheel. been deported five times, multiple felony convictions. >> bill: he was deported five times, arrested 20 times. now, he didn't have a warrant out for him, did he? >> not currently. >> bill: but if i.c.e. knew where he was, they would have put out a what? >> a detainer. >> bill: a detainer, a detainer, which they wouldn't have honored. >> in los angeles. this is the worst-case scenario. >> bill: that's not the worst-case scenario, that is a

real scenario, a woman who is dead, and this detainer would not have been honored by los angeles, as a sanctuary city, or this idiot governor of washington state, okay? that's the hammer. now let's hear from the woman's father. >> so much was taken away from us that it is a pain you cannot describe. and it will be there for the rest of our lives. but her big smile, her pictures keep us going. we are keeping her smile, and we pray every day. it seems like she's here right now. >> bill: so now there is a child without a mother, and this man was deported five times. didn't have a warrant out. arrested 20 times. still in the country. >> already had duis. >> bill: and if i.c.e. had known where he was, they would have asked for a detainer and been turned down. this is why i'm just crazed

about this and kate's law should be passed. then the guy would have been in jail. >> you don't even need to see the hundreds of cases like this that happen across the country. one of them is sufficient reason for them to uphold the law and none of the. >> bill: kate steinle is dead, and now sandra duran is dead, if you had kids lock him up a guy who did this could have been swept off the street and put into prison. >> he also should have never been back in the country, bill. it's the one that is why they want to build a wall. it is not an isolated worst-case. >> it is not isolated. >> that is why it is a detriment to public safety. >> bill: kates law has got to be fast tracked. i want to mention that ms. ms. guilfoyle is on "the factor" podcast. gutfeld and mcguirk on deck.

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pursue prosperity. and happiness in this land. >> bill: now, by calling slaves immigrants, dr. carson is getting hammered. for the record, anyone forced to leave their homeland is not an immigrant paid certainly slaves were abused human beings who had no choice about where they lived or even what they did. but if you listen to dr. carson speech, his point was that even those most abused on this planet have dreams, and those dreams are now achievable, according to dr. carson, in the usa. now, bernard mcguirk and greg gutfeld. i always think that before you condemn someone for a mistake, a verbal mistake, gutfeld, of which you make tons of them. >> not like that one. >> bill: but it wasn't done out of malice, and it wasn't done for any other purpose other than to make a point that america is a land of opportunity. now, dr. carson has, i wouldn't

say apologized, but he has issued a statement, look, not what i mente. the slave narrative and immigrant narrative are two different experiences. he does recognizes his mistake. should he be crucified for this? >> it depends on who says the sort of thing. when president obama says something, it is brilliant, he made the same comparison, slaves and immigrants at a naturalization ceremony, 2015, the federalist has a list of the times he has made these comparisons. it is out there. the fact is, he made a decent point about the american dream, but he kind of poison to the stew. it is like, you're not going to eat it -- 's but when you're catching me surprise here. i did not know that. it was his point to the same thing? >> all the people that are here are our ancestors, share a commonality, some by slave ship

ships. he might have been more eloquent, but he was also president obama, so you get more slack. >> to stipulate in defense of dr. carson, he was speaking extemporaneously. they weren't prepared remarks. maybe they should have been prepared remarks. >> bill: that is a big one. whenever you're talking about slavery, which was so horrendous and still has an impact to this day, all right, got to relate -- it's almost like talking about the holocaust. >> it's like leaving a sponge or scalpel in the brain after surgery. when you are a black trumpet supporter or official, you definitely -- youist crosshairs. >> bill: that is my point, i don't think it was the elkin s. i don't think a lot of americans know how bad that was, we kind of slough it off, but we should talk about it, gutfeld.

>> can't talk about it enough. there's another point he was talking about. he was talking about how you could electrically stimulate a brain so that you could recall reading a book you read 50 years ago. i thought, why don't you just go and read the book. >> bill: this was in the same speech? >> he was trying to give advice. >> on the bright side, it wasn't jeff sessions. he would have been crucified. then you have the double standard too. a guy like keith ellison can sit on his butt during his speech for a widow, but they want him in trump to fail miserably, so they're going to come after him. >> bill: i don't think the doctor deserves that. i think he is a compassionate man. i think he will do good in that position because his message is twofold. self-reliance, which is really the way that people who are deprived have to do it. >> which is what he did.

>> bill: and that this country does offer opportunity if you're willing to work hard for it. that message is what he got diverted on with the slave thing. we all forgive him here on "the factor"? >> absolutely. >> i'm not sure yet. >> bill: you're a tough man, gutfeld. >> i think we should have dobbs here. we can have an all white man -- coats but one let's just generalize about white guys. another "the factor" for sanity on cable news by me. "the tip" moments away. ct. they rebounded because a decision was made to protect them. making the right decisions today for your long-term financial future can protect you and your family,

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>> tucker: back to "tip of the day," we've got to stop something occurring on the cable, we have to stop it. lakewood, colorado, general flynn was not wiretapped, the russian ambassador was, there's a difference. though there is not, flynn may not have been the tampa target but his words were recorded and then they were leaked to the press, thus he was tapped. there are strict guidelines to protect americans against that kind of thing. bill, thanks for simplifying the wiretap fiasco, i'm so tired of he said, she said. suzette hook, woodland california. why can't president trump examine all the fisa warrants, doesn't he have that right? the probable tap on the russian ambassador may have been ongoin ongoing. we simply don't know the circumstances and we should do. president obama is not a stupid guy he would not order trump to

be tapped illegally. it is not likely that the barack obama himself ordered anything, i agree with you. on his watch, the nsa tapped the german chancellor for example at a bunch of other folks. there's a history. if verifiable bad things are on this transcripts, i'd like very much to know about that, along with how the information was gathered. charles krauthammer comparing what they said about his birthplace to the bloodless attempts to destroy trump's presidency is intellectually dishonest. krauthammer is right when he says mr. trump's troubles didn't start when he was elected, i voted for him and knew what i was getting. asheville new york, you said you do not believe -- you said it did not believe what you read in the press. did you mean that literally?

yes, be very skeptical of all political reporting especially if anonymous sources are used. jefferson south carolina, just became a premium member and it shows old school as my free gift, the book will be out three weeks from today. you and all the other pms will get it first. i believe you will like it. if you don't, i will be crushed. ryan tollison, i'm 11 years old and i'm reading it killing the rising sun, i've learned so much that i plan on reading all your books. he'll be way ahead of your classmates in history, a very good advantage for you in life. back to "tip of the day," you may remember that i put out an all points bulletin for politicians and pundits to stop saying the words "at the end of the day." at the end of the day. >> at the end of the day.

>> at the end of the day. >> at the end of the day. >> at the end of the day. >> [laughs] >> bill: i need obamacare, i have a massive headache. stop! this is verbal pollution. we actually have a fine system here for employees who say at the end of the day on this program. i can't find that former presidents or senators, i wish i could do. once "at the end of the day" does not ever need to be uttered again. back to "tip of the day" ." that is it for us tonight. check out the fox news effector web site different from billoreilly.com. o'reilly at fox news.com, name in town if you wish to opine, the word of the day. tomorrow, some ladies are taking

off from work. if i don't know why, but i'm good to find out. we'll have a report. thanks for watching us, on the bill o'reilly, the spin that stops here and i'm definitely looking out for you. ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," wikileaks has struck again it's a big one. it's exposed a huge volume of cia hacking secrets, you would think this would be a massive news story about the political establishment remains obsessed with chasing the ghost of supposed russian hacking and obama era wiretaps, will talk about it than just a minute. first tonight, the republican replacement for obamacare could already be in trouble, some conservatives in the congress have already called it obamacare lite. some are calling it obamacare 2.0. democrats have no