also tonight bernie goldberg on the poultry coverage of the irs scandal by the networks and thoughts about the government spying as well. 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. data mining and you, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. the surveillance situation very confusing but vitally important for every american. so, tonight, talking points will try to clarify what exactly is going on. and here is the headline. the u.s. government currently building a 1 million square foot complex in utah that will house phone call and email data taken from americans and foreigners alike.

joining us now from north carolina to sort it all out bernie goldberg. does this trouble you at all, bernie? >> not in and of itself, bill. it's complicated so let me explain. first, you know, there are a lot of critic hogs have been saying that too many reporters are in bed with this administration. based on what you just said, it's literally true. i mean, if you are a reporter and your wife works at the white house, yo themselves because this certainly sounds -- it certainly appears. >> bill: let me stop threw because i want to be fair now. a guy like sherwood and a guy like rhodes, they work their way up. you just don't get appointed at abc news president or cbs news president. you start a journalistic career you work your way up. along the way you get married to somebody who is in politics. you don't know where they are going to wind up. all right? so therefore, you get a powerful position and your spouse gets a powerful position. but it's not that way from the beginning. so it's almost happenstance. >> hey, bill. why do you think i wasn't going to go

bernie segment tonight. the purveyor of bernard goldberg and i have a slight disagreement over whether attorney general eric lder will be forced to resign i say he will have to. bernie says not so fast. he joins us now from miami. even tom brokaw agrees with me on this. roll the tape. >> does he stay on the job? >> boy, i think it's tough to see how he does in this case but it's up to the president. from a political point of view, one of the ways that you can measure the impact of all of this and the fairness of it is think if this had happened in the bush administration with john ashcroft as the attorney general. you know full well if the democrats on the left would be going very hard after them with these issues that are in play. >> bill: wow, brokaw trying to be fair and balanced there, bernie and you say? >> well, as moved as -- i mean as touched as i am, bill, by the fact that you and your new best friend tom brokaw finally agree on something. >> bill: right. >> in this case that eric holder can't survive, i'm saying unless you give me a timetable to go abelong with your bold prediction, you are not tel

also tonight bernie goldberg on the poultry coverage of the irs scandal by the networks and thoughts about the government spying as well. 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. data mining and you, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. the surveillance situation very confusing but vitally important for every american. so, tonight, talking points will try to clarify what exactly is going on. and here is the headline. the u.s. government currently building a 1 million square foot complex in utah that will house phone call and email data taken from americans and foreigners alike. let me repeat: the national security agency nsa building an enormous complex, 25 miles south of salt lake city to mine data. that is ultra serious. a leaker named edward snowden gave information to the far left london newspaper the guardian saying the u.s. government is taking information from tech companies in order to fight the war on terror. snowden will be arrested if he doesn't get asylum

and bernie goldberg and i will debate.t and bill versus dave earlier this week. >> were you surprised about how engaging and intelligent bill was? >> i was surprised how intelligent david was. >> oh, yeah. stay tuned for those >> personal story segment. as you may have heard actor james gandolfini was found dead in italy with an apparent heart attack. mr. gandolfini was a brilliant performer and became famous for his portrayal of tony soprano. >> i was not 90 percent sure. >> how about your brother, does he know? >> i think so. >> there was a time when the italian people didn't have a lot of opgs. >> you moan like marry? 0. you know i put food on the table. my father and uncle was in it and maybe i was too lazy to think for myself. >> the program of the sopranos criticism he made the vicious crime boss look like a decent human being. joining us to discuss the pervayor, mr. goldberg. gandolfini undeniably a brilliant actor and i believe he humanized the guy to the point where it may not have been a positive for the country,

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