evening. "we need to come to the operating room, he looked up at me and said, i hope you are all republicans, and i said, today, we are all republicans, mr. president." good night, everybody. o'reilly is up next with his interview with jeff sessions. we'll see you tomorrow. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on tonight. >> in cities and states refused to help enforce immigration law, our nation is less safe. >> martha: the big battle over sanctuary cities continues. a seattle now suing the feds. tonight, we'll talk with the attorney general, jeff sessions. >> sanctuary cities are safe havens for criminal aliens and not they are innocent victims. >> judge jeanine pirro is outraged because it takes so long for illegal alien cases to be heard in court. she will be here. also, bernie goldberg on whether cable news is destroying americ america. and a watters with a very unusual spring break story. >> we had a dance party earlier

after we finished the kitchen floor. [laughter] >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the "no spin zone." "the factor" begins right now. ♪ >> bill: hi, i am bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the brawl over sanctuary cities. that is the subject of this evening "talking points" memo. as you may know, the federal government is threatening cities that do not cooperate with homeland security with the loss of federal grant money. now, the city of seattle, suing the feds over that, the first of many lawsuits, i believe. the basic problem is that cities like chicago, seattle, new york, los angeles, san francisco, do not want to hold illegal aliens they've arrested until i.c.e can pick them up. though cities want to release the aliens on bail or their own recognizance. talking points believe that is dangerous and irresponsible. if there is a federal detainer

request on someone who should not be in the country, that requester should be honored, it is just common sense. this actuary city people say they will obey a warrant for an illegal alien. but that is a much more complicated process, immigration agents have to go to a federal judge, present evidence, before a warrant will be signed. it takes much more time than a detainer, which just requires a signature of a i.c.e agent. in a moment, judge jeanine pirro will tell us about the backlog of immigration cases, which is astronomical. now, why is all happening? in a city like new york, that the mayor is a far left individual who was elected by very liberal voters. mayor de blasio sees himself's of a defender of the poor and downtrodden. he opposes immigration regulations in general and is fine with millions of undocumented people living in and visiting the city. de blasio has no problem about it, none. so, the mindset of de blasio, rahm emanuel in chicago, and other far left mayors, their constituencies wants open borders and amnesty, so, they

play to that constituency. and to the federal government, which now wants to enforce immigration law, because president trump made out a hallmark of his campaign. you have two opposing forces with little chance of reconciliation. it should be noted that the federal appeals courts have never required local governments to comply with detainer requests. it is optional. if you can't be arrested if you defy a detainer. an official can be arrested if he or she defies a warrant. finally, to make things worse it is comply with federal law, the trump administration will now withhold money from them in the form of justice department grants, that means cities like seattle, which receives millions of dollars to beef up local law enforcement, and institute safety programs, may no longer get that money. which is why seattle is suing. the whole thing is a giant mess and reflects the huge division in this country. will sanctuary cities be forced to comply? doubtful. but they will pay a price. that's the memo. now come the top story, an interview with the attorney

general of united states, jeff sessions drains is not from washington. and am i making any mistakes in my analysis? >> i think it is pretty close, bill. there is a serious matter. the american people believe the sanctuary cities are wrong. it clearly makes their own cities less safe. as you know, the kate steinle story, that murderer, who had been deported, what, seven times, came back into san francisco because he felt safe there. he had a sanctuary there before he murdered that wonderful young lady. it's a big deal. >> bill: he hasn't been convicted yet but he is certainly an accused murderer. he'll go on trial very soon. it is the justice department, do you ever target noncriminal aliens for deportation? if so, who? >> yes, sometimes, they are apprehended. for example, we had one last month who was a known gang member, i.c.e placed a detainer

on him. they ignored it in denver, and a few weeks later, he murdered and robbed an individual in the area. so, you don't have to be a criminal but that is our top priority. >> bill: this man did not have a criminal record when you ask for a detainer. but you know he was a member of a gang and the city of denver stillwater and told him. then, he got out and he murdered someone. i'm talking about the millions of illegal aliens working the farms in california and florida and working as chambermaids or whatever. you don't have a squad or a crew going after them, do you? >> no, you are correct. that is not where we -- a i.c.e is focusing its efforts at all. we are doing a lot of good things, for example, it looks like the entries at the border are down 60% just because of president trump's strong leadership. as we continue to build a wall and beef up our forces then

bring in more judges, we'll be even more successful they are. that is the way to solve this problem. if we stay at it, we can create a lawful system of immigration, one that admits 1 million people lawfully every year and one that we can be proud of as a nation. >> bill: we don't want anarchy. now, is there any other way to pile up punishing story cities other than denying them the justice department grants, which will hurt them a little bit, but it certainly not going to put them out of business. you have heard the rhetoric from rahm emanuel and de blasio in new york and the mayor of san francisco, they will defy you. is there any other punitive measure that the trump administration is thinking of taking? >> we don't want to take any measures. we want to see the city's comply. i was pleased that miami complied. i was pleased to see the president of the maryland senate to reject a house passed bill and save maryland would not be a sanctuary state.

he said that unequivocally. he's a democrat. i think a lot of these leaders need to get, here from their constituents. you are right, it is not going to devastate their budgets. we don't have that much money that will be controlled. it is a signal. >> bill: is there anything else that is being discussed in the trump administration to punish the sanctuary cities? any other denying of funds or anything else? >> we are looking at other possibilities that would be detrimental --dash go >> bill: can you give me an example, mr. attorney general? >> i am not prepared to give that now. >> bill: oh, come on. the "no spin zone." you are discussing other things that you will do or possibly do. >> in the future, we can put requirements -- right now, under the obama administration, they sent out grantor notices that required people to a search there in compliance with the laws and threats and cutting off of various funds if they didn't comply. we'll continue to for precede

that and go further. >> bill: if you get into the transportation area, but it will be lawsuit after lawsuit. >> there's limits on what you can do. >> bill: i want to ask you one question about the russian investigation, what you recused your cell phone. is there a liaison in the justice department that is working with the fbi, actively working with the fbi right now? >> yes. we do have persons within the department of justice that work with the fbi every day and there are persons working on all the cases. >> bill: okay. you have contact. you will, of course, know what is coming back and forth. >> what i am recused on, i do not -- >> bill: even a whisper in the hallway or anything? you won't get anything? >> [laughs] i do not. >> bill: finally, loretta lynch was your pier in the obama administration last year. did you speak with her on the way out? she did things a lot differently

than you are doing them. that is for sure. >> we changed a few policies, no doubt. she is a very gracious lady. she wrote me the nicest letter when she left. i called her and we had a nice conversation about it. she had already left washington by the time i assumed the office. she is a special, wonderful lady. we had a great conversation. >> bill: final question for for you. the leakers in the various agencies, federal agencies, you guys zeroing in on them? do you think you will have some indictments shortly? >> i expect we'll get to the bottom of some of this. this is not right. we have never seen this kind of leaking. we have never seen -- it's almost as if people think they have a right to violate the law. this has got to end. probably will take some convictions to put an end to it. >> bill: do you foresee a indictment shortly? >> i want predict that. i will take that very seriously. what is happening now is not

correct on my stop. >> bill: mr. attorney general, we really appreciate it, anytime you want to stay something, i hope you come to us. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> bill: next on the rundown, as mentioned, judge jeanine pirro, outrage over the illegal alien court situation. there were hearings in controversy today, new controversy, colonel peters has some thoughts. those reports after these messages. ♪ allergies with nasal congestion? find fast relief behind the counter with claritin-d. [ upbeat music ] strut past that aisle for the allergy relief that starts working in as little as 30 minutes and contains the best oral decongestant. live claritin clear, with claritin-d. you feel every mountain we've ever conquered. in our sports cars, you feel every podium we've ever climbed.

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>> because what we are doing, we are in the system, it is set up, so, in the end, there is no way to get out of this hole. right now, we have got an immigration system, with the influx for example in 2014, an additional 160,000 immigrants who came in from central america. president obama put those at the head of the line, pushed everyone back, and the interesting thing is, the cases that were pushed back, they will get lost. witnesses are going to be lost, there is going to be files that will be lost, people will essentially disappear because they know the system is not going to -- the curious thing, 161,000 that were pushed to the front of the line, 41,000 of the 67,000 resolved, had been sent back. even matt 161,000 had not completely been resolved. it is just getting more and more and a hole. >> bill: there aren't enough judges, first of all, right? immigration judges. >> right. >> bill: there is no urgency in the part of the system to

bring these people in and figure out whether they should be allowed to stay or have to be deported. >> but now there is an urgency. what we are seeing with the trump administration, the promise of law and order at the roles implemented now by the department of justice, as the general just indicated, now, what we have our judges who are going through the detention centers. we know longer have the obama catch and release. we now have judges going to the detention centers, immediately making a determination as to deportation, and getting them out. they also understand, the immigrants understand, we are going to get caught, why pay a coyote a $10,000 -- >> bill: about 60%. what about the people who don't show up? a lot of the people who come in here, migrants, illegal aliens cover whatever you want to call them, they are giving a desk ticket or something, you have to come back now. but they don't. >> they don't. >> bill: what happens to them? >> nothing. >> bill: do they go on a computer, a i.c.e computer, a

system, a database? >> do you remember last year, the obama administration accidentally removed the names of all of those who were wanted in the immigration system? >> bill: idol or member that. >> i do. >> bill: that is why you are on the program. >> that is why you were the host and i am not afraid >> bill: you are saying that there was a giant erasure of people who didn't show up? >> of people within the system. these cases get lost, the files get lost, the people get lost, we don't have the resources. right now, we need 520 judges and we have 301 immigration judges. we don't have enough judges, we don't have enough courts. all we can do now is stem the tide. we cannot deal with what is already here. they have been flowing all over the country. we don't even know who they are or where they have been flown to. >> bill: anarchy reigns and they are trying to stop the flow coming in and take care of it after that. but still, if you are an illegal alien, the odds are, you are going to stay.

unless you commit a heinous crime, you will stay. >> unless you commit a heinous crime, you will stay. and with the sanctuary cities, unless we hurt them where it hurts, and the pocketbook, i really believe that that is the decision to withhold federal money, unless they agree -- >> bill: more money than the justice department has. >> you would be surprised. that is law-enforcement money. if you are not safe, you are not going to be happy. >> bill: the judge. directly ahead, if you watch the cable competition, you would think that the president would have been charged with a crime of the russian deal. more controversy.vi we will tell you about it when we come back. recommended by dentists. biotene. for people who suffer from a dry mouth. ♪

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>> bill: in the "impact segment" segment tonight come with a never ending russia presidential campaign situation. as you know, some on the far left are trying to delegitimize

the trump administration by saying that his members of the campaign colluded with putin to undermine the election. >> it would surprise me if there was no coordination with his campaign. i don't want to believe that is true. at this point -- >> bill: what facts? he doesn't say. and he wasn't even asked about it on that filthy channel. today, there was a hearing in the senate and new information about who showed congressman devin nunes classified information on the white house grounds, joining us from washington, fox news' strategic analyst, lieutenant colonel ralph peters. first of all, john robert sent this to me, and this is so crazy what is going on now. i say that because it is being used as propaganda rather than fact. apparently cover the national security council, they have an office in the white house, came across a number of instances where numbers of the trump campaign, including the president himself, showed up on

intelligence wiretaps, that is transcripts of the recorded -- secretly recorded conversations. two white house guys called nunes, the head of the house intelligence committee, to the white house, to look at the stuff, to look at -- nunes said he had a shocking stuff, but he said it had didn't have a thing to do with russia, shocking, shocking brady dr. president trump about it. okay, that is what happened. is there a scandal here or something that you are saying is our security expert that i am not seeing? >> there is a sort of scandal in the fact that this wasn't the national security council sourcing these documents. it was a couple of trump appointees assigned to the national security council. this wasn't h.r. mcmaster. he was clearly another attempt to divert attention from the main issue, which is the question of whether or not vladimir putin's regime was able to penetrate the trump campaign

and potentially the administration? >> bill: will get that into a minute. it's important, if donald trump and some high member of his transition team are caught on wiretaps, as you know, i do suppose to be blanked out, now, they are on transcripts and the intel agencies. i think that is an important story, is it not? >> i think it is a b.s. story and it is phony and no one will release those. i will tell you, unlike so many of the instant pundits out there, i actually work in the intelligence world for over two decades. we take great care not to include the names of u.s. citizens unless they are under some sort of serious investigation. so, if those names were not blacked out in the transcripts, that tells me that these people were under serious investigation, perhaps the fbi investigation. as another red herring, it diverts attention from the primary issue. that is where congressman nunes, this week -- and last weekend

this week, he stepped on more banana peels and a caterpillar. >> bill: he's not handling it methodically, that's for sure. don't we think there is a possibility -- i don't want to be like the other cable stations and rakes by speculation -- they are sick a political component inside of these agencies edge of the wiretapping, they don't like trump, they don't like his people, if they can put them in an embarrassing position and leak it to a newspaper, they might do it. isn't that in play here? >> no. i think that is untrue. if people are able to tell who voted for trump, you would find that people in the intelligence agencies, the rank and file people, probably voted overwhelmingly for him because they despised hillary clinton. political appointees of the top are another question. our intelligence agencies, not case conspiracy theories. they are patriots who defend this country every single day, they don't spy on americans.

back to congressman nunes, all he had to do, when he took that call from the white house was to say, yes, i'll come over and i need to bring my counterpart, the ranking member with me. >> bill: i told him that he shouldn't have gone to the white house, he should have gone to a neutral location. is there anything in the russian investigation, which the senate delved into today, that has caught your eye? again, it is all speculation at this point. we know the russians dented. but was there cooperation by anyone? we don't know. anything that caught your eye? >> there are two crucial questions. crucial to the security of our country in the sanctity of our elections. the first has been answered. intelligence communities are unanimous based on hard evidence that extensive evidence that putin did interfere in our presidential campaign. the question that remains unanswered is whether or not the putin regime was able to penetrate the trump campaign. on that, we have so far, the public, you and i, only have

circumstantial evidence, all the meetings with paul manafort and flynn and paige and gordon and now, jared kushner, with the russians during and after the campaign. that is circumstantial evidence. but it is not business as usual. the number of meetings and contacts, there is a lot of smoke there. >> bill: paul manafort was well before the campaign. >> and during. >> bill: the other ones were -- i don't know. >> bill, please. >> bill: if that is a hard-line couple we have to wait. to be fair, we have to wait. >> the trouble here, the scandal really for me, is that both sides are politicized. every american cares about this country and the legitimacy of our elections. every american -- >> bill: do you think the fbi will find out what happened? >> i'm encouraged by the senate's attitude but you are absolutely right. the people that will get to the bottom of this, it may take a long time, the fbi working with the treasury. they will follow the money.

>> bill: i didn't meet anybody. no russians. nothing. i'm clean. >> i don't know, you look a little russian to me. >> bill: nope, not me. irish. a long way from moscow. colonel, thank you. plenty more had "the factor" move zola had this evening. ted koppel and others believe that cable news and for an particular fox news are harming america. what does group bernie goldberg think about that? later, spring break craziness underway. watters found some college kids rejecting that. they are doing good stuff at their time off. we hope you stay tuned for those reports. ♪

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>> bill: "truth serum" segment tonight. sanctuary cities and crime. there are three studies and they are confusing. here are noted with the truth on the table, our correspondent shannon bream and eric eric sh. the center for american progress, done by the university -- speak of the center for american progress, progressive -- >> bill: the data themselves. they didn't farm it out. they found out what? >> they found that crime in sanctuary cities is down by 15%. >> bill: over cities that don't have these permissive policies toward illegal alien criminals? >> that is correct. they found that in sanctuary

cities, and on sanctuary, there are 432 per 10,000. but, the study also said that sanctuary areas have a lower unemployment, higher household income by $4,000 a year. we were people under the poverty line. so, as of the chicken or the egg? is it because it is a sanctuary city or is it because -- >> bill: i don't believe the study at all. i think it is bogus. my opinion, we have an obligation to present it -- a second study done by whom? >> by the university of california, by riverside. they say there really isn't any difference. >> bill: no difference. >> although, they think violent crime is up a bed. basically, no different. they studied 54 cities from 2,000 2002, that is him sanctuary city starting to be developed, they found that is some crime went up. san francisco, where kate steinle -- st. louis, milwaukee, st. paul op. down, washington, baltimore,

new york. they say most people are concerned about deportation. overall, it's a wash according to them. >> bill: the third study was from a group that doesn't like illegal alien permissiveness. >> the center for immigration study. pretty shocking. they tracked 8,000 illegal aliens who were in the system at one point. they say of those 8,000, 1,867 were rearrested after they were -- >> bill: 8,000 illegal aliens were arrested, the center got their names, and tracked their behavior after the arrest, what was percentage? >> 23%. some, bill, wherefore crimes like rape, child abuse. they were led out. they were free to get back on the streets. >> bill: the recidivism rate was about 22% federal so they

find? >> they also want through the people who were released, 63% were a threat to public safety. so, it looks like at one point, releasing people who were threats, who were recidivists -- >> bill: that is what the center come but they described in that one. >> that is their records, they were convicted or they were charged with in some cases, violent crimes, left back out -- >> bill: 63% elect back out. >> many of them did it again. >> bill: now, there is a man named daniel ramirez medina, shannon bream, who was swept up by ice february 10th outside of seattle. he was kept in confinement, big story out there because he is one of these dreamers from under president obama's act that will leave these people alone. he came to the united states with their parents are relative, it is not their fault they are here. what happened to medina? >> it sounds like immigration officials were actually going after his father and we are told

that the father, according to i.c.e, was deported eight different times. he has served time for a felony drug conviction. they happen upon the sun. he got brought in. they say he has a gang tattoo. his lawyer say it is not a gang tattoo come with a tattoo celebrating where he was born. they say that the immigration agents, he admitted to gang ties. that is disqualifying under the special program that you talked about. >> bill: if i remember correctly, he said i used to hang with at my california but i came up to washington state to get away from them. the bottom line -- i hate the bottom line -- at the end result is, the judge let him out. he is out, right? >> he had been after a bond hearing before by the immigration judge. he turned it down because he is a separate lawsuit against the department of homeland security and federal court. he was positioning that chose to let them out. they are letting his lawsuit proceed but they wouldn't let about. >> bill: so, medina and his lawyers are suing i.c.e for bringing him in the first place, although he was caught with his dad in the same house, or they

were living together, and his father was a convicted felon wih eight deportations on his sheet. now, medina is suing. >> bill: he is out now. apparently, i.c.e said there is no check in, he is not wearing a monitoring -- he has a hearing in may. >> bill: he can dream the day away. he wasn't employed, by the way. he got a job. >> he is a young son and he is unemployed. >> bill: he is out and we appreciate it, guys. thanks very much. when we come right back, bernie goldberg and a very provocative question. is cable news harming america? bernie is next. ♪ here you go little guy.

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this. the hatred in our two competing metrics, pretty much off the chart, as everyone knows. it is polarizing the country, to some extent. could joining us from miami, bernie goldberg. i am changing my opinion. i used to think that the battle between conservative and liberals was predictable but it was okay, you could watch it. but this new hate deal, this has really changed things. >> okay. look, are they hammering president trump? yes. does it feel like a feeding frenzy? yes. does it sometimes cross into hate, criticism? yes. so, are they polarizing america? yes. but you leave out a couple of very important things. the first thing is, that by any rational standard, donald trump has said and done so many things that are on presidential that he is handing ammunition to his enemies.

as bad as they are, when they cross into this hate, donald trump isn't an innocent victim. in the second thing you leave out is the polarization is a two-way street. there is plenty of slobbering in certain places in conservative media over donald trump. and that also contributes to polarization. everybody is taking sides. >> bill: i don't think that is as harmful. if you look at president bush and then president obama, you had a bat. you had some slobbering and you had some criticism. you had back and forth. i lived through both of those errors. nothing like this. there are conspiratorial lists now on cable television, given hours to weave these -- you saw my commentary a couple weeks ag ago. donald trump is on a grassy knoll. he is really sasquatch. they are just on and on, no

boundaries at all. just totally different. >> bill, you are right about that. i watch because it is part of my job and i sit there and i say, these people are nuts. but i think you give them too much credit. look, donald trump won the election with 46% of the fourth. that is what it was a choice between, donald trump and hillary clinton. there is no choice -- that's history. now, the only choice is between approve and disapprove. according to the latest gallup poll, donald trump has 35% of the vote. that is terrible. >> bill: is something interesting happened today, overwhelmingly, americans believe that he will improve the economy. if he does a year from now, he'll be up in the 50s. i don't even care about the political aspect of it. i don't care. >> i do. let me finish my point. he is down on the daily tracking poll, he is down to 35%. maybe a little higher, who knows. but at the terrible number. he is losing people who voted

for him. >> bill: because of the health care debacle, though. it is in context. look, this is the key. and this is ted koppel's thing. he believes that we come at the fox news channel, because he is basically a social liberal, i don't think he is a crazy left-winger, but we are harming the nation because the nation now looks to us rather than to straight news. it has never been straight, you know that, they always slanted the news left at the networks. on, ted. but we, we are the bad, bad people. i will give the last word. go. >> well, i think ted misses a point and he is right and another point. the point he misses is that cable has given a voice to knowledgeable people who have something important to say that ted's network and the others never allowed to say. that is number one. and he misses that. but the second point he makes about how cable is polarizing america, cable didn't start the

fire. cable didn't start the polarization. that was around before cable even existed. >> bill: pouring the oil. >> because people are choosing sides. people go to the side if they like trump and that side if they don't like trump. that is adding. >> bill: it used to be, he respected, those of us who had a clear-eyed, respected point of view, opposite hours, now, you have to hate them. that is what cable news has brought and it's terrible. bernie, thank you. watters on deck. it is spring break time. this year, we are not going to show you drunken kids passing out on the beach. watters has a story that is actually inspirational. next. ♪ inflammatory substances that cause nasal congestion and itchy, watery eyes. for relief beyond the nose. flonase.

>> bill: "back of the book" segment tonight, "watters' world." for decades, cooked college students have use their spring break vacation to party hard and sometimes embarrass themselves. there is another take on this. students from the university of delaware and other schools are working at charleston, west virginia, this spring to improve the lives of people in the area. watters zeroed in on one man whose house was severely damaged by flooding. ♪ >> what are you doing out here for spring break? >> i'm here with the university of delaware spring break program. we are here fixing up a house in napa last year. >> how much time each day do you spend working on this house? >> we are here for about nine hours a day. >> nine hours a day? and you are not getting paid? >> no. >> most freshmen at the university of delaware are at a beach doing booty shaking contests and you are here building homes. >> i don't think i'm missing much.

this is much better, to be honest. >> bill: was made you want to do volunteer work for spring br? >> i have been doing it since i was six. i firmly believe that giving back to the community or any other community is great. >> -volunteering a lot throughout my life and of all natural to you is my spring break to come and do something like this. >> it is the most rewarding thing i can do. >> did your parents make you come here for spring break? >> absolutely not. >> really? >> no. >> are you here for how long? >> just one week. >> and your friends are out funneling beers on a beach? >> i definitely miss my friends. but this is such a great opportunity, i am making new friends every day. >> do you find that some of your friends in college judge you for doing something like this? >> they judge you in a positive light. everybody looks up to everyone that goes on these trips. >> all my friends are really supportive of it. they helped me make the decision of the come on the trip. >> being away and getting to cut that all off, we don't really have reception here, i don't

have a phone to see what people are doing. it is really nice to actually leave that all behind and do what is really important. >> it is really rewarding. we work really closely with the home owner, preston, he is awesome. >> when did the students come help you out? >> they started three weeks ago. they had a group coming into the living room floor, the back porch. >> i am not going to quit my day job. [laughter] >> i'm appreciated -- how appreciative of the students are you? >> tremendous. there is no words you can put in and say that college students are going to come to west virginia to help me instead of going somewhere else to party and stuff like that. it's just great. >> we are just screening this two buy for to put up a frame for the wall. >> we had a lot of leakage and water damage. >> they are putting a tin roof on, because it leaked in five different places. that helps out a lot.

when the flood came through, just destroyed everything. >> know that i have been here, i think i have become more attached to the community and it is nice to help the community as a whole and as an individual. >> thank you very much. i would tell you to behave what you are all doing a very good job of that. always remember one thing. i am watters and this is my world. >> bill: so, here is watters. now, the man who owned the home, he is poor, right? >> he is very poor. he broke his neck and his back. now, he is on disability, cannot work. bought the house four years ago, then come with a flood destroyed everything. they hooked up with these college kids and they have been working there almost 95 every single day. they have done 20 homes over the course of spring break. and this appalachia service project has done a lot of great work for a lot of poor communities in this area. >> bill: when we make fun of the kids and all of that, the best thing is, no cell phone service. >> [laughs]

that's good. >> bill: get away from it for a little while. great story. will you run some of this on saturday night? >> we will run a little bit of that. we will do a maxine waters investigation. >> bill: oh, keep me out of it. >> you are out of bed but we will let her have a little bit of it. >> bill: jesse watters, 8:00 p.m., saturday night. "the factor" tip of the day, more health. "the tip" moments away. ♪ little girl: daddy! trapped by your unrelenting nasal allergies? [ meow ] [ sneezes ] try clarispray clarispray provides unsurpassed relief. it's 24 hour, non-drowsy and prescription strength. free yourself with clarispray, from the makers of claritin.

>> bill: factor "tip of the day," a good thing for vets but in a moment. one of the last old-school entertainment columnist, she reports backs. not just gossip. also laura ingraham gave me a heads up about this hank williams song. >> i'm from the old school but i made up my own rules.

♪ but i learned a thing or two from some pretty good teachers ♪ ♪ one look at me and you can tell ♪ ♪ i'm from the old school >> bill: right on. now, the mail.

unfair. i didn't mean to offend you but if i am in your circumstance, i do not buy anything on credit at that rate unless i absolutely have to. cash only. the smart thing to do. come on, tony. i have the same friends i had in first grade. regular folks. don't give me that kind of elitist stuff. they do that because they lost the argument. they use the r word to marginalize, right out of the rules for radicals. your brand people who disagree with you in a negative way. you demonize them. that is why this is going on.

i am reminded of this quote, show respect even to people who don't deserve it. not as a reflection of their character but of yours. good quote, andrew. the brutality of that time was very hard for us to fathom. excellent, andrew. you go to a good school. regis is a good school. also robert samuel and the contributing factor podcast had me on. posted up there right now. you can access that on billoreilly.com or itunes. no relation to looney tunes.

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