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10:00 eastern here on fox. start your day with "fox and friends" 5:00 to 9:00. thanks for joining us we'll see you back here tomorrow night. p.m. the loiferl factor -- o'reilly factor is on. tonight. >> talk to each other. my daughter came up my first thought was are you serious? >> ebola panic rolling into the u.s.a. as the first victim might have come into contact with more than 100 people? what should the federal government do? we will tell you. >> new revelations that an armed contractor with a criminal history rode an elevator with president obama during a recent trip to atlanta. >> what's that all about? white house correspondent ed henry has the inside story. he will be here. >> also ahead, they are calling it shock and yawn as some believe the isis.
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the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ i'm bill o'reilly, thanks for watching us tonight. the ebola panic. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo all over the country. people are discussing the deadly disease ebola. brand new fox news poll asks how concerned are you ebola will spread to the u.s. 68% concerned. 38% not so much. but as you may know, the disease is already here in texas. here are the facts. liberia national thomas duncan being treated for ebola dallas hospital in serious but stable condition. duncan arrived in the u.s.a. on september 20th. prior to that, he had helped a 19-year-old woman in liberia who was ill. that woman died from ebola. a few days after her death, duncan apparently outwardly healthy boarded a plane
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monrovia. flew to belgium, changed planes went to dulles and then dallas. he begins to have symptoms of ebola. two days later he goes to dallas presbyterian hospital where he is examined and sent home with medication. on september 228th, duncan is taken by ambulance back to presbyterian where he is properly diagnosed with ebola. but here's the shocking thing. before the ambulance arrived, reuters is reporting that duncan was seen vomiting in the parking lot of the apartment building where he was staying. ebola is spread by bodily fluids. dallas authorities now estimate that up to 100 people, some of them children may have had direct or second hand contact with duncan. so, in dallas right now, there is grave concern. >> when my daughter came home from school, my first thought was like any concerned parent. are you serious? i just started crying.
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i was like hysterical. >> i was just wanting to get onto my kids. i went and got them. >> people won't shake each other's hands. they won't talk to each other. they are scared to go into the restroom. it's scary. real scary. >> they need to tell us what child it is because i mean if it was in their class i'm going to be 10 times more pissed than i already am. >> that's where we are many people frightened and angry that ebola spread throughout the u.s.a. what should the federal government do? since it is washington's obligation under the constitution to provide for the common good. first of all, all flights from west africa should immediately be discontinued to the u.s.a. europe should do the same thing. i feel sorry for west african nations but there is outbreak of ebola there and it will spread. no one should be entering this country holding a
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passport from any west african nation. that policy should last until the ebola epidemic subsides in africa. as you know many people hold irrational fears that's contagious as well. once ebola starts spreading around the country, chaos will follow therefore west africans should not be be admitted into the u.s.a. until cases are controlled. cases of life and death must err on the side of caution. president obama should order immigration quarantine from those areas. that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. reaction from new york city. andrea tantaros and allen colmes. we have information that utah authorities are looking at some strange occurrences. you know what this is. this is going to permeate around already everybody is talking about it. so my plan makes perfect sense, does it not? >> it does not. >> it does not. >> this is scaring people. scare mongering that's what the media is doing. scare mongering with isis and ebola and that's what the media does. >> you would let anybody
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from these countries in. >> what happens when they get on a plane in west africa they are checked to see if they have a temperature. if they have any symptoms whatsoever they don't get on the plane. you are putting the security of american people in the hands of west african. >> the cdc says quarantine and not that people -- negative possible consequences. you this are quarantined in country can tri. we need to get medical personnel in and out. you are possibly hurting the country. >> and you say? >> i say you are insane. >> thank you for letting me know that. >> allen is insane. >> we have known that for many many years. but under a program where we hire the insane, just a few -- >> -- andrea, i'm part of affirmative action. >> so we still got a quota, check. >> back it up now tantaros. >> back up my insanity too while you are out it. >> we are going to rely on the west african nation that clear live cannot contain this virus. bill barely believe in modern medicine sip or have the ability to treat anybody
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in their country we are going to trust them that they are going to make sure no one with ebola get on the plane. we are going to trust that anyone coming here is going to be honest and candid with us? that they are going to admit that they have come in contact. >> that's a good point. people in west africa know they are not going to get cured in west africa. if they can get to the united states they will get. there is incentive for people to come here. >> we sent thousands of military personnel to west africa to create lynn nics to work with these people. >> that's a noble thing that u.s.a. always does. those are professional people who are under strict guidelines on what to do and not to do. you have got this guy vomiting according to reuters. reuters and the "new york times," by the way, the "new york times" excellent reporting on this whole thing. and reuters reports this guy has been vomiting in the parking lot. come on, colmes, this has got to be taken seriously. >> yes he to overreact. a dress a man with ebola
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vomiting in a parking lot where people live. address it. >> it is one isolated country. >> only one and this is what happened. >> that doesn't mean you go and ban an entire nation from. >> you would do nothing. >> what we are doing is properly sending people to west africa to help those people. >> coming here you wouldn't do anything at all to stop them from coming? >> at this point, no. >> let me predict something. >> overreaction. >> lead me predict something. this will happen what i'm saying. it will happen, okay. andrea, go. >> we are not equipped to handle this here, bill. the nurse's association has said that we're, quote: wholly unprepared to deal with this. they feel unprepared. one patient can shut down a hospital. by the way, one of the things that you need to treat people with ebola, are iv fluids. guess what there is a shortage of in the united states right now, iv fluids. the administration could make more of these drugs available. they said the private sector is going to take care of it a lot of these drug patents need to be.
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>> i want to be very very clear i don't expect the united states to experience an epidemic of ebola. i don't. but, under the constitution, the federal government primary mandate is to protect us. and, as i said, in life and death, you err on the side of caution. >> a few months ago we had middle eastern syndrome more dangerous than ebola. we didn't quarantine then. we don't need to do it now. >> allen, you got it wrong. the president came to the podium and said confidently it won't end up here and you know what? it has. we are going it trust people, bill, they are going to come to this country and go to a hospital we can't rely on that. we had a patient go to the hop and the hospital released him. i'm glad you have so much faith in the human intelligence and human spirit, allen, but i don't. >> you are scare mongering and you are hurting the country by scaring people. >> you are being in a fantasy world, allen. >> if you were living in revolutionary times you would have said paul revere is a scare monger because. [ laughter ] >> hey, get off that pony,
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all right? because. >> i'm not quite sure about that bill. >> we are alerting people. we are trying to minimize a very serious situation. >> one case and you only spread it through bodily fluids. >> taking a look at that right now. going to be a whole bunch of other things pop up, believe me. good debate, everybody. >> thank you, bill. >> when we come right back, laura ingraham will have more on this later on. next on the rundown, shock and yawn that's what some are calling against isis. coming back. [ male announcer ] tomcat bait kills up to 12 mice, faster than d-con. what will we do with all of these dead mice? tomcat presents dead mouse theatre. hey, ulfrik! hey, agnar! what's up with you? funny you ask. i'm actually here to pillage your town.
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78% do approve. 15% do not. do you believe defeating isis will take ground troops? 57% say yes. air strikes alone, 24%, 19% unsure. do you support adding ground troops if air power is not enough? 52% now favor that. 42% oppose. and finally, how has president obama been on radical muslim extremists? not tough enough? 74%. too tough 7%. about right 11%. joining us now from washington lt. colonel ralph peters. what do you know about this isis bombing, colonel? >> well, a contact of mine at the u.s. central command, which is the key headquarters in the chain of command for this mission anti-isis mission staff are so disheartened by the
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phoniness of it that they call it shock and yawn. that's not military commentators like me making editorial comment. that's the guys involved in planning the missions. shock and yawn. there is so much proof. bill, the administration is so proud that they have done over 200 strikes in almost two months. a serious air campaign would have 200 strikes in the first day or two. look what we are doing, using small heads on individual trucks. right now there is a perfect opportunity to really flick damage, serious damage on the islamic state militants up in this kurdish city on the turkish border. they are out in the open o. we know where they ever. you send in b 52s and saturate the area with bombs the way we did successfully in afghanistan and iraq. and no, there are no -- no, no, no. the civilians have fled and across the border in turkey almost 200,000 of them at
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this point. we know we can see isis out in the countryside. i am convinced that this president is determined to keep the body count low. when reporters ask the pentagon, well, okay, have you knocked out over is hundred vehicles. how many terrorists have we killed? they won't give a answer. >> i don't know that they know that. >> you you can get. >> you know as well as i do what they do is hold people hostage and hide behind people. it's not like they have camps that you can just bomb. so, if we did do the b-52 thing and did do the carpet bombing, we would kill civilians, inevitably that would happen. number two, we don't have any much eyes on the ground in syria. we have some up in kurdistan, on northern iraq. but we don't have a lot of, you know, precision target people saying look, they are here, they are there. go get them. i don't know if it's as easy as just saying, you know, the obama administration is screwing it up. we should x, y, and z.
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i think it's harder than that. >> bill, of course it's hard. some of is easy though. reporters are standing on the turkish border. they can see the ice tis positions. this is one time when they are artillery positions and other positions are out in the open. they are not surrounded by civilians. and we're not doing anything. of course, president obama undercut the mission by warning them they are coming to syria. we do need boots on the ground. >> don't have the stomach for. this you may be absolutely right. >> it's a political ploy with novembe in mind not a serious strike against isis. by the way, bill. you were talking about ebola. this president has sent twice, thousand u.s. troops to west africa to counter ebola. that is twice as many as he has been willing to send to iraq. because, to hirges using our military, exposing them to ebola that's a cool thing, that's fine. >> no question everybody knows it. we are failing in this
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mission. turkish parliament did okay. the war against isis. they did that yesterday. do you think that's going to make any difference? >> it will make some difference if we can use air base to mount missions. and president, formerly prime minister of turkey is an islamist. his ideal scenario is for isis elsewhere to slaughter the kurds and get us in to kill isis because he doesn't want isis in power. >> he doesn't like the separatist movement. >> he doesn't like the kurds. he wantser islamists to be in power and assad gone. and we don't want any islamist in power. this is good news but it's not great news. overall, this is a phony war, a phony campaign, it's a disservice to our troops and the american people. >> all right, colonel. thanks very much as always. directly ahead, why is the secret service failing on the job? we'll talk with white house correspondent ed henry and two secret service experts.
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then, did president obama and secretary of state kerry directly try to get marine sergeant tahmooressi out of the mexican prison? those reports after these messages. ♪ all around the world
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job as a security guard as i understand it at the cdc in atlanta. something i learned during this investigation i did not know is when the president gives a speech somewhere, if that company or government organization has it or open police force or their own security guards, they are not allowed to carry weapons. the secret service basically supersede whatever police powers or whatever that organization their normal protocols. a somebody hired as a security guard without the secret service realizing that he did have, by the way, prior arrests. i'm told he was not actually convicted of those crimes. he had had a record and a gun. >> somebody guess over that to see if anybody in the proximity of the president has weird stuff on resume. >> they dropped the ball. >> was the guy arrested or anything? >> he was fired, i'm told by the officials there pause he broke protocol by hopping on the elevator with the
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president and shooting picture or some dopey thing that caught people's attention when they pulled him aside. >> some local security guy hired probably per diem armed. he was inches from the the president and he could have done something. thankfully he did not. that, i'm told is the pivotal moment when the president lost confidence in juliet pierson the director. he had full confidence just hours, he said, before he actually-she actually resigned. >> that was before the fence jumper shall the sequence of events basically is that juliet pierson briefed him last week face to face in the oval office about the fence jumper but did not mention this other thing in the elevator thinking it could be swept under the rug. when the president found out about that he was furious, obvious. >> ms. pierson will be working at burger king next week. she is done. this was a topic of discussion at a white house briefing. roll the tape. >> security contractor at the cdc in the elevator who
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was armed in the presence of the president in violation of secret service protocols did director pierson brief the president on that incident? >> can i tell you that the white house first learned of that incident yesterday afternoon shortly before it was reported by -- before it was publicly reported by news organization. >> so he just backs up what you say that. >> so the incident was bad enough but the fact that she wasn't upfront about it with the president. >> of course. >> i'm told the white house's story is what changed here in terms of the confidence is that she offered her resignation. i'm told by secret service insider she was brought in by the director, the secretary of homeland security and said give us your resignation. you are done today. that's what happened. >> and now she is going to go on vacation with sebelius. they are going to go down to the same parts. you know james rosen. is he is kind of a hot shot he works down there in the bureau in washington. he is going to come up with what secretary of state kerry did with tahmooressi if anything. did president obama get directly involved with the marine sergeant's case.
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>> no. i put this directly to josh earnst yesterday. i felt it was relevant because of the fact that there was a hearing on capitol hill about post-traumatic stress disorder and specifically that a v.a. doctor had said that sergeant tahmooressi is suffering from ptsd, hasn't seen a doctor in months, languishing in this mexican jail. congressman ed royce a republican says he asked vice president biden go to president obama and ask him to call the mental can president directly that might get sergeant tahmooressi out. i pressed josh earnst on that. he suggested no phone call had happened. look, it's up to the state department. it's not the white house. that obviously seemed surprising because the commander and chief might want to get involved. >> yeah. you know. it's just one after another after another. i mean, president obama he doesn't like fox news, took a shot at us today. i'm going to play that clip with laura ingraham later. it's not our fault, mr. president. you know, it's just not our fault. you are just making one mistake after another. >> the president went to great lengths to get bo bergdahl back. combat zone.
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taken prisoner. this was a different situation. still, it's a u.s. marine. >> sure, he should be picking up the phone saying get him out and down the road. the bergdahl thing is very strange, very weird, we have a factor investigation tomorrow on that. ed henry, everybody. plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. we will talk with two men very familiar with why the secret service is having so much trouble. later, as mentioned, laura ingraham on president obama and the ebola virus. we hope you stay tuned to those reports. new york state is jump-starting business with startup-ny. an unprecedented program that partners businesses with universities across the state. for better access to talent, cutting edge research, and state of the art facilities. and you pay no taxes for ten years.
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continuing now with reporting on the secret service. the first family detail is about the secret service. and here in new york city, dan, former secret service agent who guarded president obama and president bush the younger. also, he has written a book entitled life inside the bubble. let me begin with you, what the heck is going on here? >> bill, we have had an insulated group, a small group of managers within the secret service who i feel have used the agency as their own personal job search service for their secondary careers. that's not to absolve them of the recent failures. it wasn't the managers this chased the man over the fence. but there is a a problem here with the white house staff and the management that you can't just view these things in a vacuum. >> okay. but you need to explain it a little bit more so people who are not familiar with it, you say they are using it as a job search mechanism. what does that mean? >> they work within dhs.
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>> department of homeland security. >> right. department of homeland security. >> yes. >> with the white house they have to almost leverage their networks for their post secret service careers rather than take care of the. >> so they are not paying attention to detail? >> exactly. >> when you were an agent, guarding president obama and bush the younger, was there a morale problem? >> not when i first got on the secret service in 1999. as a matter of fact, the morale was spectacular. the men and women were so proud you were just waiting for someone to ask you what you did. when i left, bill, it was in the trash can. >> why is that? >> once the department of homeland security shift treasury happened. massive new bureaucracy. used to be a big fish in a small bond in the treasury. then we were subjected to this new unbelievably large agency that just put their. >> do you believe the quality of agents deteriorated? in 2003 the secret service transferred from the department of treasury as the agent you just mentioned into homeland security.
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did the quality of agent go down. >> no the quality of agents, that was instructor at our academy as well i thought went up. that's what makes this so paradoxical how we have such good people in the rank and file that is consistent. >> so the leadership you say is what the problem. >> disseminating the agency, bill. >> mr. kestler, do you agree with is that? do you think the leadership of the secret service is causing these problems? >> yes. but i would describe it as a culture within the management of basically penalizing agents and they are brave and dedicated for pointing out problems deficiencies even potential threats. you saw that happen with with the females, uniformed officer who reported gunshots, the supervisor overruled her and later she said she was afraid to push it because she felt she would be criticized by management. >> reported gunshots where though tell the audience what happened. >> gunshots at the white house. they were not detected in
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fact until four days later. >> this is another incident where somebody took a rifle, shot across at the windows, the agent heard it, reported it, and you are saying, mr. kestler, that was told to shut up. >> yeah. and conversely, the incentive is in order to get ahead and in order to get promoted you have to go along with the idea that the secret service is invincible, you have to suppress. >> no improvements if you see something that's not quite right. you shut up, send in and that's how you get promoted. >> cover up. now i have a question. the reportage is that there was a female secret service agent inside the white house who is overpowered by this jumper. the guy overpowered her. now, that says to me that should never happen. i mean, if the ladies are qualified to be secret service, i'm fine with it no one on one should everren overpowered. >> i know you don't have pc.
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political fitness standards. they scale them for age, for sex. bill, the bad guys aren't interested in your pc test. >> it's frightening that a secret service agent would be overpowered by some guy who jumps over the fence with a beard and a knife. >> right. >> the secret service has a gun, all right? >> when you are the last layer of security between the knife and the president. >> you can't be overpowered. >> right. >> so that bothered me, mr. kestler, do you agree that political correctness has eroded the agency's efficiency? >> yes. absolutely. and the fact that no agent took out the intruder with lethal force is another total debacle and then you have the secret service director juliet pierson saying they exercised tremendous restraint. >> why? why did they exercise restraint? >> because she -- this is an indication of the arrogance of the secret service that she could issue this
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statement. she must think. >> she doesn't see obviously doesn't see the protection of the president and the white house as something that deserves lethal force. would you have shot this guy. >> absolutely. >> you would not have shot him. >> he was an iraq war vet with a serious. you don't know that. he is coming at you with a knife on the ground you wouldn't have shot him. >> the secret service agencies and the officers there are trained to look for printing on garments. they didn't see it. >> you would not have shot him. >> no. >> but you would have beat him up, i bet. >> i would try. >> would you you wait until he got into the white house and blew up the white house? >> no. i would have shot him. >> ron, you are not training to look -- >> -- homicide. >> changed his mind. >> i don't change my mind at all i wouldn't have shot him. >> look at the bigger picture. >> i can't. i have got to go. >> bigger picture is barack obama should have replaced the directors a long time ago. >> well now he has. gentlemen, very interesting. thank you. cammeron and rosen upcoming. did president obama and secretary of state kerry
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even try to get sergeant tahmooressi released from the mexican prison? the boys are next.
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thanks for staying with us, i'm bill o'reilly in the washington beat segment
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tonight, did president obama and secretary of state john kerry even try to get sergeant andrew tahmooressi released from a mexican prison. last week i spoke with the sergeant's mother. >> john kerry, have you spoken to him, secretary of state? >> never, i knew that he raised the issue, which i believe andrew was very much of grave concern. he raised the issue may 21st. i have not heard from the executive level, no. >> he should have given you a call, that's for sure. >> all right. joining us from washington, ace reporters carl cameron and james rosen. all right, rosen, kerry first, has he done anything? >> look, first, we want to begin obviously by saying that we feel for the tahmooressi family and the sergeant himself. it may be the case that there is a misconception about the mission of the department of state in a case like this. i will come back to that bill after i answer your question directly. raised with foreign minister. the results is the mexican government has afforded the tahmooressi and the family
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excellent access to the prisoner in this case. 22 face-to-face visits with him and attendance by our diplomats at every one of sergeant tahmooressi's legal hearings. of course, it is the mission of the department of state to work for the protection of all u.s. citizens abroad. however, when one of them is accuse of a crime and being investigated on criminal charges in a foreign country with whom we are allied, the mission of our government in such cases as counter intuitive as this may seem is not necessarily to get him or her back at all costs but rather to ensure that the ensuing proceedings are conducted fairly and expeditiously. >> we he is a wrinkle here with the post-traumatic stress disorder and that puts it into humanitarian and humane grounds. that's the difference than a straight crime which i think everybody understands. i just want to be clear. so you are saying that kerry did his job. he raised it with the mexican foreign minister. conditions for the sergeant did improve and access improved. the thing that kerry should have done was call the sergeants' mom and say look,
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we are doing everything we can that means a lot. >> yeah, and i put that question to secretary kerry's aides this afternoon why hasn't he picked up the phone and made a five minute phone call to the tahmooressi family. i was told in essence that the state department at lower levels is keeping the family, as well as congress well up to date. but i just want to make this point clear, bill. the u.s. government and all the rest of its citizens have equities in these kind of cases as well. if a mexican national were accused of committing a crime on our soil would the american people and particularly the alleged victims of such a crime want the u.s. government to send that foreign national back home immediately without any process unfolding? >> it depends what the beef is if it's a low level beef like this and mexican patriot who served his country and has post-traumatic stress, i would say most americans say hey, kick him back. >> let me say one final thing. >> quick. >> without elaborating further, we need to be attuned to the possibility of additional facts emerging in this case which are presently being investigated by the mexican authorities. >> okay. >> that may help to explain
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why this case is enduring. >> if it comes out that tahmooressi was doing something else, then absolutely changes the story. but, that has not come out at all right now. so we want to stay "on the record." all right, cammeron, now, everybody is interested in about a month to go to the polls and see if the republicans win back the senate. real quick, let's run down the races that are key to that happening if you are rooting for the g.o.p. colorado, you got gardner and udall, and it looks like the challenger gardner, the republican, has taken the lead, correct? >> it's key race because that particular state has almost evenly divided voter registration. it's a real bellwether what happens in colorado could effect what happens around the country. cory gardner going ahead. bad news for udall but bad news for democrats across the country. >> unusual for incumbent to challenge at that level. iowa, joni earnst. >> bruce hailey is the
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congressman. state senator, proven to be a very very clever candidate. bruce braley has been dubbed by the republicans gaffe as gaffetastic. >> she had good performance in the debate last week. >> democrats were hoping to keep that seat. >> cotton against pryor. cotton up as well, right. >> cotton suspect and both in arkansas and louisiana with mary landrieu. both of these are the two democrat incumbents who are probably the most vulnerable. these races started effectively in december of last year. in louisiana, it's particularly important, bill, if nobody gets auto% in that race, mary landrieu is facing not only bill cassidy the republican, also an independent named rob manas. >> facing me because i bet carville a big dinner that he would lose. i'm going to run up quite a debt. >> run off in the middle of that. >> i will be hungry well into 2015. greg orman, pat roberts. >> big race.
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>> looks like roberts is going to lose that. >> not yet. he is not facing a democrat. the democrat dropped off the the ballot. now he is facing independent greg orman. pat roberts around a long time. 16 in the house, 15 in the senate. looking for a fourth term. >> is orman a conservative, a liberal? what is he? >> he is basically a democrat. he has given a lot of money, including $40,000 to obama and clinton. he religion sterped to be a democratic candidate a number of years ago. ultimately didn't run. >> laura ingraham on deck. she is bringing president obama into the ebola discussion. then the factor tip of the day. about my appearance on letterman last night. back in a flash.
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tonight, week in review from the ingraham angle. miss laura causing controversy once again. >> why did boom let the ebola virus into the united states? do you believe that we should be allowing flights from africa into the united states from the two countries most affected? i believe our leaders first and foremost obligation is to protect the security of our country. why does that seem so difficult for these people to do? >> all right. here now is miss laura. so you are agreeing with me that beshould suspend all flights from west africa and no passports carried by anybody should be after loued in here because of this epidemic. but, you dragged the president in to it right away so you made it look like a partisan situation. >> no, i do a three hour radio show. if anything, i wasn't strong enough in what i said about this. what i think is indisputable is that we he have most african countries in the
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southern part of africa, central africa have put in travel restrictions. border crossing checks, all sorts of restrictions from transport in and out of the most affected countries. obviously britain and france taking it very seriously as well restricting flights. >> whoa whoa whoa, tell me what's going on in britain and france? what are they doing? >> britain and france have also put some flight restrictions on transport in and out of sierra leone and liberia. that flight went through from brussels. not in france or london. >> in the affected countries they can't fly to france and britain anymore? is that what you are saying. >> at least that was the case as of 24 hours ago. >> i didn't know that. >> so britain and france taking it very seriously. obama doesn't, i don't think, take it as seriously. and again these african countries are or britain and france. i think bill what i said on the show is, look, this is -- liberalism believes now that the american government is essentially a charity that exists to make the rest of the world a
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better place that we have to atone for our past sins. we have been an aggressor and dominant power. we were arrogant and dismissive even derisive, remember the president's policy tour. whether we have to use the military or have to it allow people to come here and be treated from other countries or not stop travel from these countries, that's just what we have to deal with because, frankly. >> seeing. this i said that president obama is going to have to stop those flights and i expect that he will. particularly if it there is another case or two that pop up and now they are looking at something in utah and whatever. >> bill, he should never have been here though. this man should never have been allowed to fly to the united states. >> you and i are are forward thinkers, all right in the government reacts. >> common sense. >> i agree. i said it from the jump. all right, now, today, president obama is very mad at fox news, and i understand why he is angry at us. is he having a rough patch. he has had a rough patch for the last six months. fox news has reported that. a lot of the commentators don't like the president on this broadcast -- not on the
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broadcast but on the network, they were skeptical about him from the jump. now that the administration is tottering they are giving it to him. so here is what the president said today. >> there is a reap few republicans you hear them running around about obamacare because while good affordable healthcare might seem like a fanged threat to the freedom. [ laughter ] of the american people on fox news, it turns out it's working pretty well in the real world. >> well, that's debatable how well obamacare is working. he didn't say it because of that. he wanted to get in the dig about fox news because is he mad at us. >> liberalism, obama style, is failing miserably. okay? we are a weaker country. comes out. "the washington post" the middle class is doing worse than it did in 1989, okay? liberalism obama style is failing so it's fox's fault. it's talk radio's fault. it's laura ingraham's fault. being mean to obama, this is classic owe lynn ski tactic he only implies.
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the fact of the matter is i just got off the phone with one of the top cardiologist in washington, d.c. i read him the quote that we were going to play on the show. he said laura, networks are shrinking, doctors are we tiring, the patient doctor relationship has been compromised seriously. people don't have any clue yet as to what's really going to be happening in healthcare, most people haven't had a real interaction, in a serious way with the health care system. he said nothing could be further from the truth and that is is a direct quote from one of the top cardiologists in washington, d.c. >> nothing wrong with your heart? you are okay. >> it's okay. i wanted a good quote for the show. >> you just wanted to call him. some people think laura doesn't have a heart and that's not true. >> laura ingraham, everybody. factor tip of the day. me and david letterman, the tip, moments away. i'm not afraid.
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last night. first, we learned "killing patton" will debut number one on "new york times" best selling list. also number one for every other list for hard covers. the audio's number one. thank you all. we know it's because of you guys that all of these good things happen. "killing patton" is a good book, has a tremendous amount of information about world war ii and how america conducted itself. many of things martin and i will write will stun you. because many young americans don't know anything about history. once again, all the books in the killing series do them a lot of good. by the way, "killing jesus" number 17 on the times list after more than a year in the marketplace. i'll tell you more about the movie "killingjesus" on monday. now the mail. judith, mr. o'reilly, you are right. keeping folks in west africa out of america, i guess it's not politically correct to protect people from illness. dr. kimberly, helena, montana, he was right, he took you to the
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cleaners. how so? he put forth his opinion, i put forth mine. just because you agree with him doesn't mean i went to the cleaners. that would be a waste of money. i'm absolutely as clean as you can be. kevin mitchell, massachusetts, you made sense, bill. with an ebola incubation period of 21 days, there should be a quarantine for west africans. oklahoma, bill, your heads must roll mentality is out of control. when do we stop believing in second chances? when somebody jumps over the white house fence. come on. americans have a right to expect honesty and competency from washington. the secret service becomes an embarrassment, heads must roll. karen, connecticut, bill, thank you for the tip about the david lynch foundation providing transcendental meditation for children. provided with a priceless gift in our healing. that is great to hear, karen, i appreciate you writing. colleen morgan, california, mr. o'reilly, i'm so excited to see
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you and miller in las vegas, should i bring a dictionary? only if you want to hit miller with it, colleen, which you may. the bolder fresher show sold out at ze czar's palace. info on billoreilly.com. philippines, bill, i would love to read your killing series of history books. how do i get them here? to all our viewers overseas, billoreilly.com ships to you anywhere in the world, so does amazon, barnes&noble.com. i appeared on david letterman last night. you may remember a few years ago letterman and i didn't exactly hit it off. we had some pretty ruckus conversations. but i decided to try to win dave over. i think i succeeded. >> let's go down this list and see how we feel about stuff. >> all right. >> chocolate or vanilla. >> vanilla. >> i'm going to go chocolate. >> all right. >> boats or airplanes?
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>> planes. >> planes, me too. day, night? >> night. i'm a night guy. >> me too. i like the night. rivers or lakes? rivers or lakes? >> i like to do the current thing, the river rafting. >> me too. i'll go with rivers. this is interesting. you and i have more in common. >> and it's frightening. >> that was my 15th appearance on letterman. i appreciate him having me on. here's the tip of the day, when you deal with someone initially who you don't really get along with, give it a little time. it's the fair thing to do. and that is it for us tonight. please check out the fox news factor website which is different from billoreilly.com. also we'd like to spout off around the world. o'reilly@foxnews.com. name and town if you wish to opine. word of the day do not be laconic when writing to "the factor." the letter writing portion madashell@foxnews.com. and we'll hire an investigation
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into the army's investigation into sergeant bergdahl. again, thanks for watching us tonight. ms. megyn is next. i'm bill o'reilly. remember the spin stops here. we're definitely looking out for you. breaking tonight, the president's battle plan in the middle east takes a major hit as former defense secretary leon panetta suggests that mr. obama's own actions are directly to blame for the chaos we are seeing today. welcome to "the kelly file" everyone. i'm megyn kelly. it was just weeks ago that when questioned about the vacuum left in iraq after all u.s. troops left, president obama declared that removing the troops wasn't his decision. >> what i just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps oncoming up as if this was my decision. so let's just be