ms. hannah will be here. also tonight, jessie waters on the jerusalem is i shore. >> are you upset when you see them behave so disrespectly on the show. >> hell no. i'm just as crazy as they are. >> bill: dennis miller on al gore. >> he spends the rest of his life trying to be relevant and he falls quite short, frankly. >> bill: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi,. >> bill: o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the republican challengers to president obama kicks into high gear. that is the subject of this evening's poll. quinnipiac surveyed likely republican voters on who they favor against mr. obama. governor perry 26%. mitt romney 20%. michele bachmann 12%. ron paul 10%. everybody else in low single digits. the matchups between president obama and individual candidates are very interesting. here mitt romney ties the president at 45. mr. obama defeats governor perry at 45% to 42% and defeats michele bachmann 48

ms. hannah knows that. all of these incidents happened aboveground at our pumping stations, the majority of the oil was confined to transcanada property, and in the majority of the situations the amount of oil that leaked was five to ten gallons. five gallons is three oil changes in a truck are. so let's put some perspective on this. >> to be clear, though, there was, according to one number i found, a 500-barrel spill in may in north dakota. >> that's factually true. that is true. again, that was aboveground, did not involve the pipe in the ground. the oil was confined to our property except for an oil mist that sprayed into the outlying field. it was cleaned p up quickly. perspective on that, when they say 12 spills, the average american thinks, my god, it's the pipeline in the ground. that has not happened. that is not the truth. >> what about this, james. is there any way you can get this oil to the gulf coast without crossing these aquafers, going this particular route? >> well, here's the interesting