give you last word. anti-war candidate he criticized iraq and afghanistan war. he was reluctant to get into another war. he won the nobel peace prize for all of his efforts. thank you for joining us. thanks for watching. hard ball starts right now, chris matthews. the coming of trump. let s play hard ball. back in washington the start of a busy month. in 18 days donald trump will be
sworn in like it or not as the 45th president of the united states. today president obama returned from vacation in hawaii with the goal of trying to protect his legacy which is an endangered political spe sees. address last week interest chicago. president-elect trump returned from his vacation. he tweeted. 2,762 this past year. he criticized what he called media outlets for suggesting he himself thought he was going to lose the election. we ll talk to newly appointed kellyanne conway. what is donald trump know that we don t what does donald trump know that president obama and
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caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone . the factor begins right now. hi, i am bill o reilly, thanks for watching us tonight. president obama s job performance, that is a subject of this evening s talking points memo. about an hour from now, barack obama will deliver his farewell address. after eight years in office, he believes he has been successful. others dissent. wall street journal editorializing today, barack obama s presidency has been a disappointment at home and abroad. in fact, ironically, underscored by mr. obama s relentless insistence that he has been a so, now, talking points would like to assess and present the facts about president obama on the job. first of all, some of you
believe that i, your humble correspondent, have been too easy on mr. obama. over the years, i ve received letters like these. speaking of matthew richards, native massachusetts come i didt realize that you are the new spokesman for the white house. bill, you threw softb
and the race to find a 6-year-old girl, 300 miles away. good evening. it s great to have you with us here on a very busy friday night. we begin with a deadly police shooting. two officers shot and wounded. the suspect shot and killed. tonight, there s video of the harrowing scene as it unfolded. police struggling with an armed suspect. one officer seen falling to the ground. authorities still trying to figure out if the officers were shot by a suspect, or if there was friendly fire. pierre thomas is on the scene tonight in washington. reporter: disturbing video shows police swarming over the suspect at the end of a dramatic foot chase. as shots ring out. it s not clear what triggered the gunfire or who shot first since the officers are in such close quarters, struggling with the suspect. but four shots can clearly be heard on the video.
at least one apparently striking this officer, who can be seen falling forward to the ground. both officers were wounded. the suspect later died
media, if people don t believe us. one of the reasons they don t believe us is because of the way the last election was covered, which was overwhelmingly in favor of one candidate over another. that is not surprising given that there is no politically diversity in the press corps. politico did a study on this. how many registered republicans in the white house press corps? zero. that s a huge problem, don t you think? i m a registered independent. i think it is important to be neutral when you are covering politics in the white house. tucker: do you i agree with you. you think of the people covering the white house are objective? i do. we went to read their twitter feeds? i can t speak for every member of the association. s i think it is very important to be neutral. i think it is important to report the facts, it is important to report robustly with the president is doing. i think you should do that regardless of whether the president is a republican or a democrat. tucker
what would you like to see happen to these protesters? they need to go home and get a job. 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. wiretaps and your health. that is a subject of this evening s talking points. the two things are separate, thank god. today, the leaders of the senate intelligence committee issued a statement saying they have no evidence that anyone tapped trump tower. not a surprise. also, the white house dragged our pal bret baier into that and he will be here shortly. but first, the debate over your health and how the country should treat you. fact number one, we need a new health care system because working americans are paying too much for health insurance and the federal government is running up debt that will eventually harm every single one of us.
so, congress needs to move it. but no matter what the republican majority in congress comes up
fasten your seatbelts, federal judge in hawaii blocked the travel been just before it takes effect, has extended that order. derek watson further blocking the government from restricting noncitizen travelers from six muslim majority countries. in seattle mayor ed murray announced he is suing the trump administration over threats to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities who refused to cooperate with federal immigration officials, that brought several sanctuary city mayors and police chiefs to washington for a meeting with john kelly seeking to find some common ground. it is absolutely untrue that our priorities anything other than keeping our communities safe. we don t have the resources to be the immigration police, nor would that benefit the population, nor will that be proven. we cooperate with ice, make sure we are aware of who is in our custody but we do not prosecute based on immigration status. first priority is to keep the bad guys off the street. cutting funding
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americans were working than eight years before. we have turned it all around. once again we have been the economic envy of the entire world. it really is a stroke because the gdp did hit four times during the obama administration. the highest was 5.1 percent. but as you say, it was something. mike: growth like this is something obsolete should be celebrated. with the white house and i think others have been saying is that the numbers during the obama administration may have been high but it was largely because there was a recovery phase. when the president began with the economy already, pretty decent shape and really revving it up with the agenda of deregulation and all of that. he s been criticizing the fed recently for trying to pump the brakes on the economy because he did not want them to raise interest rates. eric: meanwhile, this is been
going on all cylinders in terms of the economy and the gdp. another blowback of the performance with vladimi
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market in decades. by the way, we have 375,000 manufacturing jobs that did come back to the united states president obama. according to marketwatch today wage and benefits are rising at the fastest pace in the decade. the employment cost index rose .6 percent in the second quarter, a tick below the marketwatch estimate of 7.4%. more important, the cost of worker compensation, pay and benefits, edged up 2.6 percent to reach the biggest gain since mid-2008. in other words, workers are making out better. you bet. the argument for every republican candidate goes something like this. economyant to get this going, if you want to keep this job market thriving, see your investment accounts growing vote republican. number two, a way to avoid impeachment, keep the midterm elections in republicans grip?
educate voters on what the democrats have
threatening to shoot on the government unless congress provides money for the wall. the threats have been frustrating for congressional republicans who are trying to avoid a shutdown, right before the midterms. but tonight, president trump said things that will only make them even more nervous. we got $1.6 billion, and we ve started large portions of the wall, but we are going to need, even the way we negotiate, we are going to need more, we are going to get more, and we may have to do some pretty drastic things, but we are going to get it. president trump also sent a significant portion of tonight s speech defending his trade policies and tariffs. he s been taking heat after china s retaliatory tariffs have hurt u.s. farmers, so much that his administration announced a $12 billion aid package for farmers. speak at our farmers are true patriots patriots. because china and others have targeted china and others
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camp says he supports via the of the democrats should embrace because of impeachment and not something that will motivate republicans to get to the ballot box. good evening. there s a lot of talks, democrats split on this because they are not sure if it is good for them or not. s camp says internal polling shows 32% of democrats are uncomfortable with candidates talking about impeachment the 21% of republicans, the highest percentage of those worried about this, won t keep republicans home and there s always concern in washington that impeachment is going to rile up republicans but numbers show the opposite, time to get to what is really going to win elections and he thinks that is impeachment. i think he is running for president. facebook announced their removing fake profiles. buried in today, the resistance and anti-trump, they did not manipulate us policy. russian influence, influencing the electi