i enjoyed meeting the members of the service. have something to say, nice, mean, it doesn't matter, called the number. 877-225-8587. that's how the time we have left this evening. thank you for being with us. we'll see you back here tomorrow night. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight... >> when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration law, our nation is less safe. >> bill: the big battle over sanctuary cities continues. seattle now suing the feds. tonight, we'll talk with theow attorney general, jeff sessions. >> sanctuary cities are safe havens for criminal aliens and not their innocent victims. >> bill: judge pirro is outraged because it takes so long for illegal alien cases to be even heard in court. she will be here. also, bernie goldberg on whether cable news is destroying america. and watters with a very unusual spring break story.

>> we had a dance party earlier after we finished the kitchen floor. that took us days to make. [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's "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 o, 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. those cities want to release the aliens on bail orr their own recognizance. "talking points" believes that is dangerous and irresponsible. if there is a federal detainer request on someone who should not be in the country, that

request should be honored. it is just common sense. the sanctuary 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 aa signature of a i.c.e agent. in a moment, judge jeanine pirro will tell us about the backlog of immigration cases, which isin astronomical. now, why is all happening? in a city like new york, the mayor is a far left individual who was elected by very liberalu voters. mayor de blasio sees himself as a defender of the poor and downtrodden. he opposes immigration regulations in general and is fine with millions off undocumented people living a in and visiting the city. de blasio has no problem abouthe 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. so you have two opposing forces with little chance of reconciliation. it should be noted that theg federal appeals courts have never required local governments to comply with detainer requests. it is optional.d you can't be arrested if you defy a detainer. an official can be arrested ifrr he or she defies a warrant. finally, to make sanctuary cities 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 longeril 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 forceds to comply? doubtful. but they will pay a price. that's "the memo." now, the top story, an interview with the attorney general of united states, jeff sessions joins us now from washington.

am i making any mistakes in my analysis, mr. attorney general? >> i think it is pretty close, bill. there is a serious matter. the american people believe the arnctuary 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. is the justice department -- do you ever target noncriminal aliens for deportation? d and if so, who?t >> yes, sometimes, they are apprehended. for example, we had one last month who was a known gang member, he was arrested, 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: so this man did not have a criminal record when you asked for a detainer. but you knew he was a member of a gang, and the city of denver still wouldn't hold him. then he got out and he murdered someone. but i'm talking about the millions of illegal aliens who are 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 -- i.c.e is focusing its efforts at all. we are doing a lot of good things. for example, you know, it looks like the entries at the border are down 60% just because of president trump's strong leadership.. and as we continue to build a

wall and beef up our forces and bring in more judges, we'll be even more successful there. that is the way to solve this problem. and if we stay at it, we can create a lawful system of immigration, one that admits 1.1 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 punish sanctuary cities other than denying them the justice department grants, which will hurt them a little bit, but it is certainly not going to put them out of business. you know, you have heard theth 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 the trump administration is thinking about taking? >> we don't want to take any measures. we want to see the cities comply. i was pleased that miamise complied. i was pleased to see the president of the maryland senate reject a house-passed bill and say maryland would not be a

sanctuary state. he said that unequivocally. he's a democrat. s i think a lot of these leaders need to get -- hear from their constituents. h you are right, it is not going to devastate their budgets. we don't have that much money that will be controlled. but it is a signal. >> bill: is there anything else that is being discussed in thehe trump administration to punish the sanctuary cities? any other denying of funds a or anything else? >> we are looking at other possibilities that would be detrimental -- >> bill: can you give me an example, mr. attorney general? >> i am not prepared to give that now.-d >> bill: oh, come on! the "no spin zone."al all right, 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 grant notices that required people to assert their compliance with the laws and threats of cutting off of various funds if they didn't

comply. we'll continue to pursue 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.it >> bill: i want to ask you one question about the russian investigation, which you recused yourself from. 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. so you have contact. and then you will, of course, know what is coming back and forth. >> what i am recused on, i do not keep -- >> bill: not even a whisper in the hallway or anything? you won't get anything? >> [laughs] no, i do not. >> bill: finally, loretta lynch was your peer in the obama administration last year. did you speak with her on the way out? i mean, she did things a lot differently than you are doing them.

that is for sure. >> well, we changed a few policies, no doubt. but, you know, she is a very gracious lady. she wrote me the nicest letterer when she left. and i called her and we had a sace conversation about it. she had already left washington by the time i assumed the office. but, yeah, she is a special, wonderful lady. we had a great conversation. >> bill: okay, 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 that we'll get to the bottom of some of this. this is not right. t we have never seen this kind of leaking. we have never seen -- it's almost as if people thinkg. they have a right to violate the law. and this has got to end. probably will take some convictions to put an end to it. >> bill: do you foresee indictments shortly? >> i won't predict that.

i will just say that i take that very seriously. what is happening now is not correct and must stop. >> bill: mr. attorney general, we really appreciate it, anytime you want to say something, i hope you come to us. thank you very much.. >> thank you. >> bill: next on "the rundown," as mentioned, judge pirro, outrage over the illegal alien court situation. then theie trumpeters have alrey convicted the president in the russian deal. there were hearings inrs controversy today, new controversy, colonel peters has some thoughts. those reports after these messages. ♪ i no longer live with the uncertainties of hep c. wondering, what if? i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it's been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. and is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. certain patients can be cured

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>> bill: "outrage of the week" segment. immigration court. are you ready for this?it in denver, courts wait times can drag on for more than five years.s. in texas, average wait time, almost three years. currently across the country, more than a half millionon immigration cases are pending. with us here in new york city, judge jeanine pirro, you see her saturday and sunday nights at 8:0000 p.m. so why are you outraged by that?

>> because what we are doing is, we are in a system where 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 161,000 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 that the cases that were pushed back, they will get lost. witnesses are going to be lost, there is going to be files thatt will be lost, there will be people will essentially disappear because they know thel them. system is not going to find them. 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 that 161,000 had not completely been resolved. it is just getting more and more in a hole. >> bill: there aren't enough judges, first of all, right? immigration judges. >> right. >> bill: and there is no urgency

on 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 now with the trump administration, thee promise of law and order and the rules implemented now by the department of justice, as the general just indicated. now what we have are judges who are going through the detention centers. we no 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: down about 60%. what about the people who don't show up? because a lot of the immigrants who come in here, migrants, illegal aliens, 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: well, do they go on a computer, an i.c.e computer, a system, a database? >> do you remember last year,

bill, that the obama administration accidentally removed the names of all of those who were wanted in the immigration system? >> bill: i don't remember that. >> i do. >> bill: well, that is why you are on the program. >> no, that is why you are theth host and i am not. >> bill: you are saying that there was a giant erasure of people who didn't show up?f >> of people within the system. okay?>> these cases get lost, the files get lost, the people get lost, we don't have the resources. look, 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.re >> bill: so 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, which is in the pocketbook, i really believe i that that is the decision to withhold federal money, unless they agree -- >> bill: got to be 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: there's the judge. directly ahead, if you watch the cable competition, you would j think that the president would have been charged with a crime over the russian deal. that, of course, is nonsense. but today, more controversy. we will tell you about it when we come back. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. and now. i'm back! aleve pm for a better am. ifover time it canr fromlead to cavities and bad breath. that's why there is biotene, the # 1 dry mouth brand recommended by dentists. biotene. for people who suffer

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>> bill: in the "impact segment" segment tonight, the 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 toi undermine the election. >> it would surprise me if there was no coordination with his campaign. i don't want to believe that that is true. at this point -- >> bill: what facts? what facts? mr. murphy doesn't say. and he wasn't even asked about it on that dopey 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 roberts sent this to me, and this is so crazy what is going on now.th and i say that because it isw. being used as propaganda rather than fact. apparently, the national security council, they have an office in the white house, came across a number of instances where members of the trump campaign, including the president himself, showed up on

intelligence wiretaps, that is transcripts of 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 what was -- nunes said he saw shocking stuff, but he said it had didn't have a thing to do with russia, shocking, shocking.re he talked to president trump about it. okay, that is what happened. is there a scandal here or something that you are seeing as 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.en this wasn't h.r. mcmaster. it 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: we'll get that into a minute though. >> but that's what it's about. >> bill: it's important if donald trump and some high member of his transition team are caught on wiretaps, as you know,, it is supposed to be blanked out, now they are on transcripts in the intel agencies. i think that is an important story, is it not?? >> no, 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 worked 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 n investigation. so if those names were not blacked out in the transcripts, that tells me that these people were under serious investigation, perhaps part of the fbi investigation. as another red herring, it diverts attention from the primary issue. that is where congressman nunes, this week -- last week and this

week, he stepped on more banana peels than a caterpillar has feet. >> bill: he's not handling it methodically, that's for sure. don'tt we think there is a possibility -- i don't want to be like the other cable stations and raise speculation -- there d is a political component inside some of these intel agencies that do the wiretapping, they don't like trump, they don't like his people, if they can put them in an embarrassing positiot and subsequently leak it to a newspaper, they might do it. isn't that in play here?po >> no. i think that is absolutely untrue. if you were able to tell who voted for trump, you would findl that people in the intelligence agencies, the rank and file people, probably voted overwhelmingly for him because they despised hillary clinton. political appointees at the top are another question. our intelligence agencies -- contrary to nutcase 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 i need to bring my counterpart, the ranking member, with me..nd >> bill: absolutely. i told him that he shouldn't have gone to the white house, he should have gone to a neutral location. >> this all stinks. it all stinks. >> bill: 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 did it. but was there cooperation by anyone? we don't know. anything that caught your eye? >> there are two crucialal questions. crucial to the security of our country and the sanctity of our elections. the first has been answered. intelligence communities are unanimous based on hard evidence and 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 manafort and flynn and page and gordon and now jared kushner with the russians during and after the campaign. now, that is circumstantial evidence. but it is not business as usual. the number of meetings and i contacts, there is a lot of smoke there. >> bill: well, manafort was well before the campaign. >> and during. >> bill: the other ones were -- i don't know. i just -- >> bill, please. >> bill: if that is the headline, we have to wait. to b be fair, we have to wait. >> of course. the trouble here, the scandal really for me, is that both sides are politicized. >> bill: no doubt. >> 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? >> well, i'm encouraged by the senate's attitude, but you are peabsolutely 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. nol russians. nothing.

i'm clean. >> i don't know, you look a little russian to me sometimes. >> bill: nope, not me. irish. a long way from moscow. colonel, thank you. plenty more ahead as "the factor" moves ahead this evening. ted koppel and others believe that cable news, in particular fox news, are harming america. what does bernie goldberg think about that? later, spring break craziness underway. >> yeah! >> bill: but watters found some college kids rejecting that. they are doing good stuff at their time off. we hope you stay tuned for those reports. h... >>psst. hey... where you going? we've got that thing! you know...diarrhea? abdominal pain? but we said we'd be there... woap, who makes the decisions around here? it's me. don't think i'll make it. stomach again...send! if you're living with frequent, unpredictable diarrhea

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>> bill: "truth serum" segment tonight. sanctuary cities and crime. there are three studies and they are confusing. here now to put the truth on the table, our correspondents shannon bream and eric shawn. the first study was published by a far left outlet, the center for american progress, done by the university -- >> the center for american progress, progressive -- >> bill: they did it themselves. they didn't farm it out. okay, 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 -- per 10,000 and non-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. people under the poverty line. so is it 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. but we have an obligation to present it. a second study done by whom? >> by the university of california, right here, by riverside. they say there really isn't any different. >> bill: no difference. >> although they think violentif crime is up a bit. basically, overall, no different. they studied 54 cities from 2002 -- that is when sanctuary cities started to be developed -- they found that is some crime went up.om san francisco,, where kate steinle -- st. louis, milwaukee, st. paul up. down, washington, baltimore, new york.

they say most people arewn concerned about deportation. overall, it's a wash according to them. >> bill: and the third study wao from a group that doesn't like illegal alien permissiveness. right? >> 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: so 8,000 illegal aliens who were arrested, the center got their names and then tracked their behavior after the arrest, what was the percentage? >> about 22%. some, bill, were for crimes like rape, child sex abuse. >> bill: my brother out in the first place. >> they don't go into that, they just have the statistics. they were let out. they were free to get back on the streets. >> bill: the recidivism rate was about 22%.

what else did they find? >> they also went 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, what they described in that one. >> no, that is their records, they were convicted or they were charged with, in some cases, violent crimes, let back out -- >> bill: 63% let back out. >> many of them did it again. >> bill: all right. now, there is a man named daniel ramirez medina, shannon bream, who was swept up by i.c.e. 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 or a 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 actually served time for a felony drug conviction in the u.s. they happen upon the son. he got brought in. they say he has a gang tattoo. his lawyer say it is not a gang tattoo, it's a tattoo celebrating where he was born. they say also, the immigration agents, that he admitted to gang ties. that is disqualifying under the special program that you talked about. >> bill: if i remember correctly, he said, look, 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 -- the end result is, the judge let him out. he is out, right? >> yeah.h. he had been offered for a bond hearing before by the immigration judge. he turned it down because he has a separate lawsuit against the department of homeland security in federal court. he was petitioning that judge to let him out. now, they are letting his lawsuit proceed, but they wouldn't let him out. >> bill: so medina and his lawyers are suing i.c.e for bringing him in the first place, although hes was caught with his dad in the same house --

they were living together -- and his father was a convicted felon with eight deportations on his sheet. but now medina is suing the federal government. b>> he is out now. apparently, i.c.e said there is no check-in, he is not wearing a monitoring bracelet. he has a hearing in may. >> bill: he can dream the day away. he wasn't employed, by the way. >> he has a young son, and he is unemployed. >> bill: he is out, and we appreciate it, guys. thanks very much.th when we come right back, bernie goldberg on a very provocative question. is cable news harming america? bernie is next. bernie is next. ♪ no matter how dusty the room or how high the pollen count, flonase allergy relief keeps your eyes and nose clear. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause nasal congestion and itchy, watery eyes. for relief beyond the nose. flonase.

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>> announcer: "the o'reilly factor," the number one cable news show for 16 years and counting. >> bill: thanks for staying with us. i am bill o'reilly. in the "weekdays with bernie" segment tonight, as reported earlier tonight, legendary tv journalist ted koppel got into a bit of a dustup with sean hannity over cable news. a year ago, ted koppel was here on "the factor" saying that we here at fox were harming the national discourse. i laughed it off at the time,

but after watching how some national programs are treating president trump, i am rethinking this. the hatred in our two competing networks, pretty much off the chart, as everyone knows. it is polarizing the country, to some extent.no joining us from miami, bernie goldberg. mr. goldberg, i am changing my opinion. i used to think that the battle between conservative and liberals, you know, it was predictable, but it was okay, youou 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? 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 unpresidential 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. and the second thing you leave out is that 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. look, if you look at president bush and then president obama, you had that. you had some slobbering and youo had some criticism. you had back and forth. i lived through both of those eras. fnothing like this. there are conspiratorialists now on cable television given hours to weave these -- you saw my commentary a couple weeks 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. and 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 thehe election with 46% of the vote. that is when 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 got 35% of the vote. that is terrible. >> bill: something interesting happened today, overwhelmingly,b americans believe that he will improve the economy. and 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 it's a little higher, who knows. that's a the terrible number. he is losing people who voted for him.

>> bill: that's because of the health care debacle though. b it is in context. look, this is the key. and this is koppel's thing. b koppel believes that we, 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. come on, ted. but we, we are the bad, bad people. i will give you the last word. go. >> well, i think ted misses a point and he is right on 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 allow to say. that is number one. and he misses that.ow 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. >> but because people are choosing sides. 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 to the polarization. >> bill: it used to be, you respected -- those of us who had a clear-eyed, respected point of view opposite ours, 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. but this year, we are not going to show you drunken kids passins out on the beach. watters has a story that is actually inspirational. next. story that is actually inspirational. ♪ don't let the food you eat during the day haunt you at night. nexium 24hr... shuts down your stomach's active acid pumps... to stop the burn of frequent heartburn... all day and night. have we seen them before? banish the burn with nexium 24hr. i think we could finally get youra bigger place.

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>> bill: "back of the book" segment tonight, "watters' world."

for decades, college students have used their spring break vacation to party hard and sometimes embarrass themselves. but there is another take onar this. students from the university of delaware and other schools are working near 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. ♪ >> so 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 appalachia. >> 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. university of delaware are at panama city 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.. >> what made you want to do volunteer work for spring break? >> i have been doing it since i was six. i firmly believe that givingie back to your community or any other community is great. >> i have been volunteering a lot throughout my life, and it felt natural to use my spring break to come and do something like this. i >> it's just the most rewarding thing i can do. >> did your parents make you come here for spring break? >> absolutely not. >> really? >> no. >> you are here for how long? >> just one week. >> just one week. so your friends are out funneling beers on a beach? >> i definitely miss my friends. but this is such a great opportunity where 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, but in a positive light. everybody looks up to everyone that goes on these trips.li >> all my friends are really l supportive of it. they helped me make the decision to come on the trip. >> being away and getting to cut that all off, we don't really t have reception here, so i don't have a phone to see what people are doing. it is really nice to actuallyve

leave that all behind and dooi 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 come in to do the living room floor, the back porch. >> i am not going to quit my day job. [laughter] 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. they're all great. >> we are just screening this two by four to put up a frame t for the wall. >> we had a lot of leakage and waterr damage problems. >> they are putting a tin roof on, because it leaked in five different places. that helps out a lot.

when the flood came through, it just destroyed everything. >> now 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 preston as an individual. >> thank you very much. i would tell you to behave but 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? h >> he is very poor. he was hauling iron his whole life. he broke his neck and his back. now he is on disability, cannot work. bought the house four years ago, then the flood destroyed everything. they hooked up with thesee college kids and they have been working there almost 9:00-5:00 every single day. they have done 20 homes over the course of spring break. >> bill: wow. >> and this appalachia service project has done a lot of great work for a lot of poor communities in this area. t >> 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.

you going to 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.p >> you are out of it, 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 help for american fats. a heart attack can happen without warning. a bayer aspirin regimen can help prevent another heart attack. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. bayer aspirin. new roundup for lawns has arrived to put unwelcome lawn weeds to rest. so draw the line. roundup for lawns is formulated to kill lawn weeds to the root without harming a single blade of grass. draw the line with roundup for lawns. could save money on car insurance.nce

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♪ one look at me and you can tell ♪ ♪ i'm from the old school >> bill: right on. now, the mail.

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