you should be able to tell me what the offending passage was. >> bill, bill, bill. let me put it this way. i can give you lots of different verses that are out there. the bottom line that this was well covered in the media. >> bill: no. the real bottom line. >> the military made the change and they fixed it. >> bill: the military took care of it that's the real bottom line. >> they did. after we went and had to stand up and fight on behalf of our clients they finally did. without us they would not have. >> bill: all right. final question, the obama administration very secular administration. are you still saying that the military is corrupt or has the obama administration after five years wiped all this out? >> this is not an indictment on any member of the us what. obviously whether it was george w. bush or his predecessor obama commander and chief. things are clearly better under obama. you say secular like it's a bad thing. >> bill: i didn'ti didn't say s a bad thing. i said it's a secular administration. >> i would say -- i say that very proudly. that means every

bill: not yet. okay. mother of seven. >> right. >> bill: clean record. >> right she had traffic tickets. >> bill: down there to attend a funeral. trying to get back to the u.s.a. clip her off the bus and charge her with drug smuggling. >> bill: i think this is the end of mexican tourism if they charge her. i don't think any mexican is going to go. >> there i certainly don't think anybody is going to go by bus. >> bill: not going to go by anything. you can't keep throwing americans in jail. you know the marine. you can't keep doing it? >> only two americans on the bus. everybody else was mexican. they got targeted. how did she get 12 pounds of pot on the bus and nobody witnesses and then she duct taped it to the seat and what kind of a moron who wanted to smuggle 12 pounds of pot across the border would put it underneath their own seat? it's going under your seat not mine. >> bill: evidence that this is a frameup and they wanted to shake her down. >> that's what her husband alleges that they asked for $5,000. >> bill: it's a corrupt country. we know that i think this is the tipping point. if mexico goes ahea

bill: not yet. okay. mother of seven. >> right. >> bill: clean record. >> right she had traffic tickets. >> bill: down there to attend a funeral. trying to get back to the u.s.a. clip her off the bus and charge her with drug smuggling. >> bill: i think this is the end of mexican tourism if they charge her. i don't think any mexican is going to go. >> there i certainly don't think anybody is going to go by bus. >> bill: not going to go by anything. you can't keep throwing americans in jail. you know the marine. you can't keep doing it? >> only two americans on the bus. everybody else was mexican. they got targeted. how did she get 12 pounds of pot on the bus and nobody witnesses and then she duct taped it to the seat and what kind of a moron who wanted to smuggle 12 pounds of pot across the border would put it underneath their own seat? it's going under your seat not mine. >> bill: evidence that this is a frameup and they wanted to shake her down. >> that's what her husband alleges that they asked for $5,000. >> bill: it's a corrupt country. we know that i think this is the tipping point. if mexico goes ahea

anthony weiner, 18%. >> bill: i'm amazed it is that high. >> i'm not. >> bill: but you know what? don't write him off. >> i'm not. >> billst the system. against the establishment. everybody is out running the same campaign, getting all of the endorsements they can you know. christine quinn, bill thompson, bill deblaseio who will probably be my candidate. i like anthony weiner. in a crowded field the others running traditional campaigns. he will be the guy -- i got no endorsements. i got -- but i don't owe anybody anything, right? i don't know. big contributors, labor unions, big business, nobody likes me. just you and me. i mean you could run a good campaign on it. >> i actually spent time yesterday looking at some of his speeches from the house floor when he was a congressman. he's dynamite. he's such -- he's dynamite. >> bill: no. yeah. >> he's so good. >> bill: he really is. let's compare anthony weiner, for example to -- well, another outstanding member of our congress. michele bachmann. i mean this idiot comes out yesterday. she's got the answer now to the i.r.s. scandal. >> my opinion the i.r.s. should be abolished

bill: what is sad is your lack knowledge of this program willis. we have no fear here. wise up. lisa... >> bill: that is absolutely correct. >> bill to be fair i'm not sure any country does, tom. >> bill: that would be ace producer ron monaco. >> bill: thanks to you and everyone that is reading it. pi think debuts, number ten on the times list moves up to six the following sunday. thank you all. finally tonight the tip of the day, last night on the stewart show i debated my pal, jon over the muslim jihad situation. >> let's say somebody committed an act of terror and we took their own religion and we all lumped th in for special singling go out. >> "a" an an act of terror. i'm doing the math here. is to keep the mountain up. are you gone? are you. i'm leaving in a couple weeks. i'm going to a$[kç mission. [ laughter ] >> i heard you are going to direct a movie. i'm shocked when they told me you got fired. >> did not get fired. >> where did are you going? >> i'm going to the middle east. >> the exchange program? >> i'm setting up a charity. it will be above board. >> you are not going to be here? >> i'm going to be directing a movi

bill press show" on facebook. this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 33 minutes after the hour. s wednesday morning. we are coming to you live from our nation's capital. we're brought to you today by the national education association. good men and women of the nea under president dennis van roekel. we salute those teachers out in oklahoma who did such a good job of protecting those kids and saving lives and really stepping up to the plate. all members i'll bet you of the nea. you can check out their web site at nea.org. one of the big things that we were looking forward to yesterday in the senate was the hearing -- senate banking committee, i believe it was. wasn't it? >> the senate subcommittee on permanent investigations. they were going to go after apple for the biggest tax cheats in america. it turned out to be a lovefest. covering that hearing ashley cod yanni joining us in studio. >> thanks for having me. >> bill: tell us about now this news, a fairly new player on the scene. >> so we are six months strong. we are -- >> bill: six months, all right. >> so we are a mobile so

bill. of course the senate doesn't want it but they passed a bill --. bill: what was their idea, liz? idea was to fix it floating to the 10-year treasury yield plus another 2.5%. so right now the 10 year yield is at 2.1%. you're looking at more than -- here comes the president and he will be speaking in just a moment on this and his plan. but with the republicans they put in a cap, highest would be 2.85%. bill: 2.85%. so that is a max. >> right. bill: the white house says we're cool with that or not? >> the white house has another plan. they want to fix it to the 10-year, stafford loans, fancy way of saying federal student loans, but it would be .93% or 2.93%, depending what kind of loan you have. i don't want to throw too many numbers at people. that on the surface looks lower than what the republicans have offered. however with the president's plan, no cap. right now, we don't have a growing economy but we hope certainly at some point we will and when it does you start to see interest rates on the 10 year climb rather dramatically. what happens then? so we have to figure something o

bill. the bill they passed this week -- they are how now. the billed said that employers cannot give you time and a half for overtime. instead, you have to work the overtime, but instead, they will give you comp time and they decide when you get the comp time. you don't decide. you lose money. you lose the freedom to plan your vacation, but you take more rights away, more opportunities away from workers and you give more power to employers, and that was their one accomplishment in the house this week. okay? then they had that hearing on benjamin of course. next week, they've already scheduled the vote for next week. here is what they are going to do when they come back for their next one full day here they are going to vote again to repeal obamacare. they did this 33 times in the last congress. this is the first vote. now, it's 34 times to repeal obamacare. this is what we are getting. you talk about a do-nothing congress. there has never been such a do-nothing congress. we are paying them one 74 ,$000 a year. if there was ever an argument not to mak

come on. >> bill: i want you to go over and get -- >> -- i'm on it. >> bill: brand new bill o'reilly.com poll question. based on everything happening in washington, make a prediction. will attorney general eric holder resign? yes or no. results on bill o'reilly.com. directly ahead. american citizen mother of >> bill: in the impact segment tonight, another american citizen thrown into mexican prison on dubious charges. you may remember john hammer bogus gun charges. fortunately he was released but his ordeal was harrowing. 42-year-old maldonado mother of seven who lives in arizona charged with drug smuggling. >> i'm not guilty. i don't have nothing to hide. they put my cuffs on my feet and on my hands. it was horrible. i was nervous before. but now i feel a little better. i'm mexican. i was born here. and this is very sad what i'm going through. it's very sad. >> bill: the woman was attending a funeral in mexico. boarded a bus to come home. mexican soldiers stopped the bus. found 15 pounds of marijuana under her seat and she is now charged. the lawyer says it's completely bogus. >> there

bill: you are very rarely right. >> no, no. i said right. >> bill: bob beckel, everybody. >> when i come on here. >> bill: you are befuddled whenyou come on here. >> i'm not befuddled. you give yourself too much credit. you are a good interviewer but not that good. >> bill: cbs news correspondent says she may have been investigated by the feds along with james rosen. rosen is going to be on the factor tonight. we are coming right back. >> bill: in the impact segment tonight, let me just recap the snooping scandal story for you. the fbi investigated the associated press trying to find out who leaked the story to them about a terror operation in yemen. the fbi also secretly looked at fox news correspondent james rosen's personal emails investigating a story about north korea. finally, cbs news correspondent sharyl attkisson says her emails may have been monitored as well. joining us now from washington republican strategist kate obenshain and democrat kirsten powers, also a fox news analyst. what about attorney general eric holder in? now he reciewsd himself on the a.p. story but rosen, we don't hear a word about that and that's

that is what we call a straw argue: >> bill: whatever it is, straw. >> bill, you are being dishonest the suggestion is to either have wild drones shot by the cia. >> billild drones. >> indesscream indesincriminate. >> we don't have access to the proof. >> bill: because we are fighting a war. you don't have access to all the battlefield stuff in a war. no war you have access to that. so there it is. >> the problem is it is not only a battlefield. we lie about the death tolls we have 18-year-old people in yemen being called millimeter combatants. >> bill: if you have proof of that doctor, please give it to me and we will do a segment on it we appreciate your point of view as always. here are the results of our bill o'reilly.com poll we asked. which situation is more damaging to the country? benghazi irs more than 25 thundershowers of you voted. 23% say benghazi. 77% say the irs. i concur with the irs on that. directly ahead, ms. laura ingraham on another muslim act of terror causing big tension in london, england and later megyn kelly on the james rosen situation. those reports after these messages. >> bill: in the impact eggment tonight tensions running

bill: give me a ballpark, 40s, right? >> yes. >> bill: because this isn't frivolous. we want people to understand. >> right. >> bill: you did it as a young woman, but you now wish you had did it earlier. >> i wish i had, you know. >> bill: to take all of that emotional. >> as soon as it went from thible checkups to every six months i wish i had done it right then. >> bill: had there been any unintended consequences after the surgery? >>. no in fact, after the surgery because i went public with it, people have -- i have had so many people contact me. and talk to me about my decision and tell me what's going on with them. and. >> bill: physically for you any downside? any negative? >> no, no. >> bill: sports, you can do the same thing. >> you can do everything. >> bill: you are like riding horses all the time and running around and chasing kids and doing everything. playing highs hockey, aren't you on the bruins? i think i saw you. >> it takes a number of months to recuperate. about six months before you can be fully active. but, you go right back to you. >> bill: doing everything you used to do. >> absolutely. >> bi

bill: give me a ballpark, 40s, right? >> yes. >> bill: because this isn't frivolous. we want people to understand. >> right. >> bill: you did it as a young woman, but you now wish you had did it earlier. >> i wish i had, you know. >> bill: to take all of that emotional. >> as soon as it went from thible checkups to every six months i wish i had done it right then. >> bill: had there been any unintended consequences after the surgery? >>. no in fact, after the surgery because i went public with it, people have -- i have had so many people contact me. and talk to me about my decision and tell me what's going on with them. and. >> bill: physically for you any downside? any negative? >> no, no. >> bill: sports, you can do the same thing. >> you can do everything. >> bill: you are like riding horses all the time and running around and chasing kids and doing everything. playing highs hockey, aren't you on the bruins? i think i saw you. >> it takes a number of months to recuperate. about six months before you can be fully active. but, you go right back to you. >> bill: doing everything you used to do. >> absolutely. >> bi

war you must be high. >> only on current tv. [ music ] >> get social with bill press, facebook.com/bill press show. this is "the billill: thirteen minutes before the top of the hour. from the good state of oregon in studio with us in the next hour. well, what a week for president obama. more noise about benghazi and the breaking news topped by the department of justice bill court press in the rose garden. how are you? >> hell 0. how are you? >> that was symbolic yesterday. used it this morning. stormy weather. >> yeah. exactly. you have written -- you interviewed robert dallick, one of our best presidential historians about that. is this just kind of for president obama or bigger? >> traditional historian, but he agreed this had been a really tough week for president obama, that it reflected maybe some problems of things that had been planted in the first time but didn't have time to bear fruit. he said this idea of the second term curse happens in part because the other party is so unhappy after losing two national e elections. >> also, big time, day before yesterday, with the media, schiell releasing e-mails on be

bill: you are very rarely right. >> no, no. i said right. >> bill: bob beckel, everybody. >> when i come on here. >> bill: you are befuddled whenyou come on here. >> i'm not befuddled. you give yourself too much credit. you are a good interviewer but not that good. >> bill: cbs news correspondent says she may have been investigated by the feds along with james rosen. rosen is going to be on the factor tonight. we are coming right back. both tylenol and bayer back & body are proven to be effective pain relievers tylenol works by blocking pain signals to your brain bayer back & body's dual action formula includes aspirin, which blocks pain at the site. try the power of bayer back & body. you get 5% back, on everything. everything. everything. everything. everything. everything. everything? [ all ] everything? yup! with the new staples rewards program you get 5% back on everything. everything? everything. [ male announcer ] the new staples rewards program. get free shipping and 5% back on everything your business needs. that was easy. to fly home for the big family reunion. you must be garth's father? hello. mother. mother! travel

bill press. this is the "bill press show." >> bill: all right., may 9, my parting shot for today, she is the most powerful woman on the planet. no doubt about it. i'm not talking about queen elizabeth, angela merkel or oprah winfrey the most powerful woman is hillary clinton. if you don't believe it, look at yesterday's hearing on benghazi. in the house. there have already been ten congressional hearings into the attack on our consulate in benghazi but house republicans staged yet another one yesterday. importing a couple of disgruntled state department employees to give their own account of what happened. we learned absolutely nothing new. all we heard was a string of attacks on former secretary of state hillary clinton as if she and not the terrorists were responsible for the murder of four americans that night in benghazi. they called it the learn about benghazi hearing. they should have called it the stop hillary clinton hearing because clearly, that was its sole purpose to beat up on hillary and try to scare her out of running for president

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bill, joel, joe. that does it for me. caution. with bill o'reilly. >> bill: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight: >> you had secretary clinton but you did ask her any questions and why not? >> bill: we'll tell you why not. and it all has to do with honesty in the federal government. a special report on how things in d.c. may be unraveling over benghazi and the irs. >> this has been going on for four years. >> oh, no. it's been going on for 40 years. >> bill: factor continues its investigation into why a major maryland jail facility was taken over by a vicious drug gang. should the governor of maryland be held responsible? >> are you going to come on the factor one of these days, governor. maybe. i don't generally watch fox. >> why do you want to be hating on me dog. i am just trying to keep it rizzsy. that means real. i think it means real. >> bill: why is the zany duck dynasty program so successful? we will talk with one of its stars. >> this is my reputation that's on the line. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly.

bill: you are very rarely right. >> no, no. i said right. >> bill: bob beckel, everybody. >> when i come on here. >> bill: you are befuddled whenyou come on here. >> i'm not befuddled. you give yourself too much credit. you are a good interviewer but not that good. >> bill: cbs news correspondent says she may have been investigated by the feds along with james rosen. rosen is going to be on the factor tonight. we are coming right back. welcome to the new buffalo... where new york state is investing one billion dollars to attract and grow business. where companies like geico are investing in technology & finance. welcome to the state where cutting taxes for business... is our business. welcome to the new buffalo. welcome to the new buffalo. welcome to the new buffalo. new york state is throwing out the old rule book to give your business a new edge, the edge you can only get in new york state. to grow our start your business, visit thenewny.com [ male announcer ] a car that can actually see like a human using stereoscopic cameras ♪ and even stop itself if it has to. ♪ the technology may be hard to imagine... but why you would wa

bill press. this is the "bill press show." >> bill: president obama yesterday said that he's very unhappy about reportse i.r.s. targeted right wing political groups during the last campaign as we've been talking about. actually, she be so unhappy because the news of the i.r.s. knocked benghazi off the front page as it should because one of these is a real scandal. the other is not. benghazi is nothing but a political side show. the i.r.s. matter is another story. true, there are a lot of political organizations that sprung up after citizens united. most of them on the right wing. but that doesn't excuse the i.r.s. from singling out conservative organizations anymore than we liberals would tolerate the i.r.s. singling out progressive organizations under a republican president. we all want the i.r.s. to go after tax cheats so why don't they start with the big banks and the oil companies who are making record profits and paying nothing in federal taxes. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." [♪ theme music ♪] >> stephanie: hum, hum hum. shuffling through papers jacki schechner and that's sort of bad

bill press. like us at facebook.com/bill press show. this is "the bill press show." >> bill: thirteen minutes before the top of the hour. here we go on a wednesday morning, may 8th. good to have you with us. lots to talk about. you know, when it gets this busy, we can't do it ourselves. we have to -- we need famous words of the beatles a little help from our friends. eliot spitzer joining us. good morning elliott. >> good morning. i am honored by that introduction. >> bill: there you go. >> it there is a god of second chances, i guess? ? >> this is south caroline so who knows what to make of it. right? i couldn't say that. >> that's not fair. i think the good news in that race is that it was a lot closer than we thought his sxwnths will be known he beat stephen colbert's sister. redemption is good. i suppose that is a good strand in our society as well. who knows what it stands for? >> bill: but it also shows, i think, that it the government spending, the tea party argument, there are parts of the argument where that is the dominant issue no matter what

bill, shfer. let him run. we're at bpshow on twitter. >> bill: larry is calling from houston. good morning. >> caller: good morning, billill: what's up? >> caller: i think lots of things but first of all i think ted cruz is a known canadian. >> bill: he was born in canada an american mother. i think that makes him a citizen, right? >> caller: citizen of the united states. >> bill: well, here's the deal. there is a question there. >> there is a question. >> bill: because he was not born on american soil but he was born of an american mother. so i think -- two things. i think he would be able to make the case he's still an american citizen. i think some people would interpret the law that way but the other thing is the tea partiers they'll certainly give him a pass, don't you think? >> caller: i think so. >> bill: yeah. they're not going to be birthers on that. thanks for your call. here is our buddy joey from chicago. are you ready for this? >> caller: hey bill. ain -- april fools was a month ago. april 1st not may 1st. i would like to see this guy run. i seen this movie called "dumb and dumber" and i think jim carrey pl

bill: yes? martha: a lot going on. a very busy day. bill: thought you had a query for me. martha: thought i had a bya? bill: martha in knew writes? : thanks for joining us everybody. we'll see you right back here tomorrow. bill: bye-bye. >> this fox news alert, everybody. president obama hosting the prime minister of turkey at the white house. hello, i'm uma pemmaraju in for jenna lee. >> i'm gregg jarrett in for jon scott we're awaiting a press conference. after days of pressure the white house is releasing 100 pages of e-mails and notes on the attack, in an attempt to quell the outrage over the revision of talking points in the days after the attack. these new e-mails. painting somewhat of a different picture than what was portrayed before. here's what press secretary jay carney said last week. >> what remains the case is that the intelligence community, cia, drafted these talking points and redrafted these talking points. the fact that there are inputs is always the case in a process like this. but the only edits made by anyone here at the white house were stylistic and nonsubstantive.

bill press show" on twitter. follow us at bpshow and tweet using the hashtag watching bp. this is the "bill press show." >> billght. it is 13 minutes now before the top of the hour here on the "full court press." congressman, one of your colleagues, mark polcan is going to be with us. >> oh, good. >> bill: we're visiting visiting with jackie speier. happy birthday. continuous celebration of your birthday here. >> thank you. >> bill: so we were talking about -- i want to ask you about some other issues. we were talking about this macho mentality that's dominating the media. when we think that, you know, people have grown up now and they recognize more the rights of women and the place of women that we've moved on as society then you hear somebody like pat robertson on the "700 club," he's responding -- love to get your response to this. he's responding to a viewer who complained about her husband was cleteing on her and she was upset about it. pat robertson basically is saying it is your own dumb damn fault. >> so, like it or not males have a tendency to wander a little bit. and what you want to do is make your

bill press show" on facebook. this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 25 minutes after the hour. he foreign policy, the world view here with joe cirincione from the ploughshare funds. the great work they do on the issue of nuclear proliferation. joe, some day, we'll get rid of all nuclear weapons. >> we're working on it. >> bill: joe cirincione, ploughshares.org. darrell issa, his oversight in the house tomorrow, holding another hearing, yet another hearing. i've lost track of how many hearings on benghazi. now they have somebody who was a number two guy at the embassy in tripoli. he said call in the jets, send in the jets and the department defense refused to do so. if he said if we had done so, we would have saved those lives. how can they keep this thing alive? what's the real issue? >> this dog doesn't want to let go of the bone. they want to use it to show there is a conspiracy going on that obama doesn't know what he's doing on national security. that he's hiding critical information. that he's losing the war on terrorism. that's the whole point. they keep driving it. as lon

case and make it harder for him to remain in charge of it. >> bill: that's speculation. >> bill: i know all of it is to it some extent. >> bill: not really. >> i'm talking about a question that has to be answered that has not been. >> bill: can he answer the question but can he always say i don't know, i don't know. i don't know. that's what he always does. you have two facts in stone. have you associated press. yemen at divide. you have rose in north korea. >> brit: right. >> bill: rosen thing is ratcheted up because the judge signed off on a warrant to snoop. >> not only that. >> bill: is he a coconspirator. >> days before the story broke, we're talking about here, about the rosen emails that were seized, holder, under oath, before congress, had been asked about this question of, you know, the prosecution of the press and he said he had never heard about anything like that answered wouldn't think it was wise policy. well, the affidavit that he approved basically accused rosen for the purposes of that affidavit and for the purposes of being a criminal. >> bill: right. he didn't tell the truth. >> there well, he has got a pro

murray come in. >> bill: they were paying him a lot of money this guy. >> which is why he took it he also was financial ruins. >> bill: let's slow down for a moment. >> all right. >> billu guys are saying in the state of california, this concert crew that hired jackson. >> aeg. >> bill: they knew this doctor didn't have a license. >> they knew or should have. >> bill: hired him anyway and paid him $150,000 or something? is that what you are saying? that doesn't make any sense. >> why doesn't it make any sense? >> bill: hire a legit doctor. >> a legit doctor couldn't make michael jackson go out and perform and do what he needed to be done. >> bill: you think they knew jackson needed all these drugs to go out on the stage. >> exactly. >> anybody that passes in the supermarket checkout line can figure that one out. they got a doctor who would do it. >> bill: i want to be very clear about this. is that the concert promoters knew jackson was a drug addict. they hired a doctor who was going to feed him the drugs so he could go out and perform. >> knowingly and intentionally did this and ultimately. >> bill: that would be tough to prove. >> would result in his death. >> celeb

this is "the bill press show." >> bill: >> bill: president obama says, "i've still got a lot of juice left, and i am going to use it." what do you say? good morning, everybody. happy month of may. can you believe it? here we are, wednesday, may 1st. it is the full court press here, coming to you live from our nation's capitol and bringing you the news of the day. a lot of it made at the whitehouse yesterday with president obama in the briefing room. i was there. we will tell you all about it, bring you up to date on the situation in syria. the first lady talking about jobs for veterans day at the whitehouse as well and more positive response including from the president of the united states on jason collins and his big announcement yesterday of coming out of the closet as the first male member of one our four major sports to do so. so we have lots of grounds to cover this morning. >> that's why it's good to have you with us and good to know we are going to be able to hear from you on twitter on facebook and on the phone. the team here, team press in place for you, peter okaygburn and

bill: you didn't ask him. >> that was not the issue. what he said was. >> bill: that's the headline. why didn't ask you him. >> that was not what he we talked about. >> bill: why didn't you ask what the red redhead line of the report was. >> responsible for the systemic failure what he said was four people he recommended no longer work there. >> bill: it what was the systemic failure. >> he didn't say. >> bill: why didn't you push him. >> i didn't push him on that. >> bill: here is the point i'm trying to get across. this is a partisan play now. okay? the obama people are going to do what colmes did. try to make sure that nothing bad comes out and the people don't like obama are going to try to hang the president and hillary clinton. that's a tough one. because now it's a partisan issue rather than a truth issue. so what we're going to do here is be very, very precise. that's why i scolded you. this is the headline by mullen and by pickering appointed by hillary clinton. it was a systemic failure the american people need to know what the failure was and who exactly was responsible. now, do you believe, monica crowley. >> yes. >> bill: that hillary clinton

bill: really? we've never been to 15,000. >> never. uncharted territory. bill: overall you rate the number? >> solid. bill: on scale of 1 to 10 where would you put it? >> six. bill: better than a five. >> yes. bill: see you at 9:20 on fbn. martha: solid with security varney. got to remember that. let's head out to california now because firefighters in the southern part of the state are battling to save homes right now. they're trying to contain the out of control wildfires. this is the seen in camarillo. the fires topped a ridge and reached the pacific coast highway. 2,000 homes are in the danger area. 25 already suffered damage. fire officials are dealing with a troubled combination of weather conditions out there. listen. >> we're kind of working our way into a drought here in southern california. field moss first are up to the -- moistures up to levels in july. we're having santa ana events in may, an event like this hasn't happened in my career. we have sundowners but santa anas are very different. we may look at a very significant fire season. martha: only about 10% contained at this point and it is

bill: first of all -- >> how can you take me seriously? >> this is so great. >> bill: i was at a spelling bee once. >> i'm always watching -- >> bill: i went some dumb word. it was an easy word. >> one of my friends was telling me -- he spelled -- >> bill: peter was a king. >> i was the best speller in the state of south carolina for many years and i finally went out -- >> bill: not for many years. >> i had a two-year run. >> you're time limited. you have to be younger than eighth grade. >> yeah. i went out in the sixth grade on the word shellac. >> i feel like i read this on twitter about you. i put a k on it. >> no. >> i put c-k on the end. it is just a c. >> bill: i'm a good speller. >> that's what i went out on. >> it is incredible because you have all of these crazy parents sitting in the crowd. most of these kids who are doing the competition are legacies. they've had siblings who were forced to do it. >> bill: here's my problem. my problem with the spelling bee. here it is. here is an example of my problem with the spelling bee. peter, this is from yesterday. >> eminent. >> eminent. >> eminent. >> eminent. >> bill: now, all right no