877-225-8587. that is all the time we have left this evening. hope you set your dvr. thank you for being with us. ♪ >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight... >> you just proved it was tappe tapped. it was tapped. general flynn was. >> bill: interesting point. very interesting point. >> bill: the drama about president trump accusing president obama of tapping hiser campaign is rising. tonight, we'll give you some new information, and talk gwith a senator who is actively investigating. >> other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships that worked harder for less. they, too, had a dream. >> bill: new hud secretary ben carson under fire for calling slaves immigrants. we'll take a look at that. >> this executive order makes clear that washington will nots be a willing participant in promoting or carrying out mean-spirited policies that break up families.

>> bill: also ahead, the governor of washington openly defying the trump administration over illegal immigration. we'll have a follow-up report on that. 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 mean indictment against those who leak national security information. c 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 wiretap talking to the russian ambassador, perhaps inap flynn's office in the trump tower. that tap happened, but we don't know who ordered it or how it went down.ow obviously, the american people are entitled to know. second fact is twofold. someone leaked the conversations between flynn and the russian ambassador to the press. that is a felony. so we need to know who the leaker is. associated with that, then-attorney general loretta lynch working for president obama ordered the rules about shared intelligence information changed just days before the president left office, just days before mr. obama walked out the door. so why did miss lynch do that? did mr. obama order the change? again, we need to know. it's very important because by national security agency sharing raw information, okay, unvetted,

with the fbi, cia, and other intel agencies, you open up the potential for leaks. that's exactly what happened. as soon as president trump walked into the oval office, his phone calls to the mexican president, to the australian prime minister, and to other high-level officials were leaked to the press. so in effect, the obama administration may have --ha i emphasize "may" -- created chaos for the trump administration by allowing unsubstantiated information to be spread across a number ofre agencies. this is big. if that were done intentionally to harm the incoming president,g mr. trump, that is subversion. so you can see that congress must get to the bottom of the situation. right now, there areco 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 "the memo." now for the top story. joining us now, senator tom cotton, a member of the senate intelligence committeeil that is investigating will be laid out in "the memo." so, senator, tell me about that meeting, whate happened? >> hey, bill, great to be on with you. senator david perdue of georgia and i went to meet with trump. we had a productive meeting, talked about steps he has takenu what we're going to have to do in tandem with congress and thea 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 immigration system away from mass 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 trumpil

has said he wants to do. >> bill: we will get to thatat 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, obamacare, taxes, and immigration. >> bill: were you curious about that? >> our inquiry and our 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 closely restricted. i would point out that it was the trump administration that gave us that access, not the obama administration. so far 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. now, it is a twofoldns investigation though, right? it is, was there collusion between the trump campaign and

russia? and then, who is leaking out this stuff? are you investigating that? the leaks? t >> bill, step back from those two items to the previous matter, the way this all started was, 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 fromm hillary clinton's campaign chairman. we are 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. but you're very right that these leaks, regardless of the contents of them, are damaging to national security and raise the prospect of serious criminal behavior. they reveal potentially with

united states knows, but it doesn't know, and what it has to know, we do not want our adversaries -- >> bill: it opens up all sorts of things. i'm a simple man. i don't know if you know that, you're from arkansas, even down south they know i'm simple. and 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 tonight 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 closely -- >> bill: so you know, you know -- now we're getting somewhere. you know who did it.

okay. i understand it is classified, but you know president trump could make it unclassified like that. boom. he could say it is not classified anymore, and then 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 statement, but i understand the reluctance of them and particularly president trump as well, because this kind of statements, those kind off disclosures, do threaten the collection method that we had. >> bill: i get that it has to be done in an orderly way. now let me take the next step. k you know who did it, what agency did it, so you now have the transcript made of it, because that is the agency would

have to have 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.s 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 much 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 is part of the department of justice, the department of justice, until january 20th, was run by obama political appointees, and thee main consumer of intelligence from the intelligence services is the white house and specifically the national security council. so 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 on january 20 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 the leaks may have come from the fbi. >> no, bill, what i'm saying when 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 by partisan obama democrats.i >> 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 toen "the washington post." i mean -- 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: absolutely. you can trace back whether that leak was ordered or where it came from or any of that. it sounds like you are hot on the trail. would you say that is accurate, that you're hot on the trail? >> we are moving forward very quickly, and we are trying to

examine all aspects of it, bill. i'll say that. >> 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 legal immigration on high skilled and ultra high skilled immigrants who can contribute to our economy.us they won't need to use any kind of public welfare benefits. and that will mean higher wages for working americans. >> bill: okay, but what about the agricultural industry and service industries,co construction industries, who need unskilled labor, particularly in agriculture? >> bill, i am open to those kind of arguments. it's really an evidence-based question. i would note though, there is no job in the united states that is not filled by at least a majority, sometimes a large majority, of native-born americans. there is no job that americans won't do.pe

>> bill: i don't know about that. 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 in 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 every year that we've had for decades now, the market will work its magic. >> bill: wages would raise if there's not the competing with labor. senator, we appreciate you coming on. we hope you'll come back. keep us posted on the investigations vital to the country. thank you very much. next on "the rundown," judicial watch suing the government to get answers about the wiretapping allegations. later, another outrage as the governor of washington orderseg his agencies to ignore homeland security requests on questionable legal aliens. those reports after these messages.

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specifically for those types of records. we got the proverbial hand to the face.fa g 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't confirm or deny they have any records about that. >> bill: maybe they are not involved.en i don't know what senator cotton knows, clearly knows what agency tapped the russian ambassador n and general flynn. he knows.sentially 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: fbit can't comment on the investigation -- they all do that. i think people need to understand that a russian embassy is 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, through 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 that you've 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, the ones that are going to be figuring out this litigation here. frankly, just the beginning, because of other requests we have, well over a dozen requests under the freedom of information 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 whole. we want to know who have access to this information. >> bill: yeah, i want to know who leaked it.

i want to know who put it out there. president trump accuses president obama of doing it, but no evidence to show -- and president obama is a pretty smart guy. you know, but his minions certainly could have. they tapped angela merkel. i mean, certainly.. so 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 gettinr responses in a months. 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: well, please let us know what you come up with, mr. fitton. we appreciate you appearing this evening. directly ahead, the personal attacks on president trump mounting, do they mean anything, or are people numb? later, dana perino on the

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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. >> most of the people i speak with are transitioning from seeing this man as the m president into a circus clown. >> what has he created, nothing except chaos. >> donald trump is destroying the credibility of the office of the president 140 characters at a time. >> bill: joining us now, lisa boothe, juan williams. i'm not getting this, juan. what is the benefit of a

senator, a congressperson, and 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 h history going back to clinton and impeachment, bush 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 a lot of people think they are punching back at donald trump. >> bill: but is there any benefit, is there any benefit to these people to spout this vitriol? what's the benefit? >> i think they feel that they are responding to someone who is

>> bill: in 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 ouy personally? >> yeah.te i think for some of these, particularly for somebody like nancy pelosi, absolutely, i think she is placating -- she is catering to the left, the progressive left. with the media endingti 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 itbs themselves. >> bill: i agree with you. what do you think, juan? i think the media has damaged itself 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 on them pretty easily. the reality is here that donald trump sends out tweets, he knows how to get around theea press anytime he likes.e >> bill: so you don't think it has damaged its credibility in the country by all of this, you don't think so? >> look, bill, i think it is a sewer. y and you know, 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? >> bill, 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 any influence over the election, the idea behind it is the concern of the driving of distrust and institutions. but we're doing a good job on its own when you've got the media driving a narrative without a shred of evidence. no, but you've got democrats calling for the abolishment ofle the electoral college, calling the electorate to defect. we're doing a good job of our own of building that. >> bill: as "the factor" moves along this evening, the republican version of obamacare good for you, the solid american citizen? dana perino has that. this time, a los angeles woman killed by a man allegedly deported five times. hope you stay tuned for those reports. out of straw. one day a big bad wolf huffed and he puffed and blew the house down.

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>> bill: "factor followup" segment tonight, r >> bill: "factor followup" segment tonight, republicans in the house have put forth a new version of obamacare, keep some of the provisions, like you can't be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing condition, but it does away with people being forced by healthe insurance and direct subsidies to folks who can't afford it. it is expected that most democrats will reject it, some conservatives don't like it either, dana perino to explain it. you like this proposal?

>> the issue that never goes away. the gift that keeps on giving. >> 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 it also comes down to fulfilling a campaign promise. republicans 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 expansioa was allowed to stay in, and also in this particular bill, one 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 thinke of obamacare, when president obama worked on that, 58 speeches, a lot of political capital spent, 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. then you have some -- >> 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, i 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. >> president trump should be a lot of confidence in his secretary of health and human services. >> bill: he likes it. >> he likes it and he is calm. one of the things he did is, he didn't promise that you can keep your dr. afterwards. 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. so then, as you say, president trump's got to get all

of the republicans in line or doesn't get passed. >> 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. >> i think that because he is a negotiator, he should be able to get, like, a senator manchin. it is going to take a lot of effort, and i don't know how much political will he is able to expand. he can do it in a charming way, but he has to break some kneecaps. >> bill: in the end, he 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: right, "i'll owe you one." do you think that is realistic? last question. >> it won't be solved 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 there says he's not going to cooperate.an

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counting. >> bill: thanks for staying with us. in the "law & order" segment tonight, 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 makesg 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 dunderhead, and i'm going to prove that to you in a moment. now, eboni williams and bomberly guilfoyle. they could arrest him, but he will not -- he will not allow his people in washington stateot to respect requests for detainers. what is the difference between a detainer and a warrant?

>> so an arrest warrant is not a request. this is supported by probable cause and he cannot, by law, ignore it. a detainer -- and that is criminal, okay, supported by probable cause. a detainer is mainly a request and he is not under an obligation to comply with i.c.e. and it is civil in nature. >> bill: there isn't a law that says he must. now, detainers are asked for by the government when he they believe he is going to be deported. 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. >> bill: what do you n say? >> you're exactly right. that standard definition between probable cause in the warrant and reason to believe.

that's the standard for a detainer. >> bill: why would any honest civil servant say, i'm not going to cooperate with the federall government when they ask for a specific detainer? >> i can tell you why, bill.er >> bill: though. >> because it will clog the docket. if they indeed complied, it would clog the docket so miserably that it would actually further disrupt -- >> bill: 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, an issue with 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 why the governor is a dunderhead. let's put up this picture, sandra duran. i don't want to look at him anymore. let's look at sandra duran.

32-year-old mother. she's killed in a car crash. she has kids, how many kids? >> at least one child in the car with her during this horrible, deadly accident. >> bill: she is dead. she is dead. the police say a man named estuardo alvarado killed her while driving drunk. tell me about mr. alvarado.. >> worst thing about him, bill, a habitual dui. a 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. >> yes, over the course of the years. >> bill: now, he didn't have a warrant out for him, did he? >> not currently. h >> 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. >> bill: okay, this is what makes me furious. >> 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 and the county, or this idiot governor of washington state, okay? so that's the hammer. now let's hear from the woman's father.sh >> so much was taken away from us that it is a pain you cannot describe. you know, it is there, and it will be 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. and it seems like she's here right now.nd >> bill: all right, so now there is a child without a mother, and this man was deported fivere times. didn't have a warrant out. arrested 20 times. okay. still in the country. >> already had duis. >> bill: and if i.c.e. had known where he was, they would have asked l.a. for a detainer and been turned down. >> l.a., new york. >> bill: this is why i'm just

crazed about this and kate's lar should be passed. then the guy would have been in jail 40 find deportation. >> you don't even need to see the hundreds of cases like this that happen across the country. one of them is sufficient reasos for them to uphold the law. >> bill: kate steinle is dead, and now sandra duran is dead, if you had kate's law, the guy who did this, eboni, could have been swept off the street and put into prison. >> he also should have never been back in the country, bill.. >> bill: 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.ot >> bill: kate's law has got to be fast-tracked. i want to mention that ms. guilfoyle is on "the factor" podcast. telling all her secrets. we appreciate it, ladies. gutfeld and mcguirk on deck.

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>> bill: "back of the book" segment tonight, "what the heck just happened?"ba ben carson spoke about opportunity yesterday. >> that is what america is about. a land of dreams and opportunity. there were other immigrants that came here in the bottom of ships and worked harder for less. they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters,

great grandsons, great granddaughters, might 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.ow 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's 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: no. 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, butld he has issued a statement, look, not what i meant. the slave narrative and immigrant narrative are twote different experiences. he does acknowledge his mistake. should he be crucified for this? >> i don't think so. it depends on who says the sort of thing. when president obama says something, it is brilliant, he made the same comparison, slaves as immigrants at a naturalization ceremony in 2015, also in 2012, the federalist hai 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 poisoned theut stew. it is like, you're not going to eat it -- >> bill: was president obama's -- you're catching me by surprise here. i did not know that. it was his point the same thing? >> all the people that are here are our ancestors, share a commonality, some by slave

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 he should have been prepared remarks. >> bill: that is a big one. as gutfeld pointed out. you've got to -- whenever you're talking about slavery, which was so horrendous and still has an impact to this day, all right, got to really -- it's almost like talking about the holocaust. >> oratorically, it's like leaving a sponge or scalpel in the brain after surgery. when you are a black trump supporter or official, you definitely -- you are in the leftist crosshairs. >> bill: they want to get him. that is my point, i don't think it was ill intent. 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.

>> you know what, can't talk about it enough. there's another point he was talking about. he was talking about how you could electrically stimulate a w brain so that you could recall reading a book you read 50 years ago. i thought, why don't you just go and buy the book? >> bill: this was in the same speech? >> he was trying to give advice. >> on the bright side, bill, it wasn't jeff sessions who said this. he would have been crucified. then you have the double standard too. a guy like keith ellison can sit on his butt during a standing ovation for a navy seal widow, but they want him and 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 iwofold. self-reliance, which is really the way that people who are deprived have to do it. >> which is what he did. >> bill: right. 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 slaveor thing. so we all forgive him here on "the factor"? >> oh, absolutely. >> i'm not sure yet. >> bill: you're a tough man, gutfeld. i forgive you for wearing shirt. >> i think we should have dobbs and doocy here. we can have an all white man -- >> bill: let's just generalizeze about white guys. let's just do that. that's a good subject. all right, gentlemen. "the factor" tip of the day, a plea for sanity on cable news by me. "the tip" moments away. like a human fingerprint, no two whale flukes are the same. because your needs are unique, pacific life has been delivering

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>> bill: back to "tip of the day," we've got to stop

something occurring on the cable, we have to stop it.>> first, the mail. though there is not, flynn may not have been the tapped target but his words were recorded and then they were leaked to theea press, thus he was tapped.as there are strict guidelines to protect americans against that kind of thing. me too. yes, he does. the probable tap on the russian ambassador may have been ongoing. we simply don't know thehe circumstances, and we should.

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 and 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 w gathered. yes, be very skeptical of all political reporting especially if anonymous sources are used.

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. excellent! you'll be way ahead of your classmates in history, a very good advantage for you in life.n 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. >> 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 fine former presidents or senators, i wish i could do. once "at the end of the day" does not ever need to be uttered again. "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.t. 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 f have already called it obamacare lite. some are calling it obamacare 2.0. moderates are mad that it will defund planned parenthood, temporarily. democrats have no in