0 colbert is taking it upon himself to retaliate. ♪ [ music ] . ♪ [ music ] . >> greta: that is your last call. thank you for being with us tonight. go to gretawire.com and tell us what you think about donald trump's idea, offering $5 million to open those white house tours. tell us what you think. tomorroe you have a great weekend. the factor coming up. right about now. >> laura: the o'reilly factor is on. tonight. >> let me just say that upon review we have concluded that we will not give her this award. >> new disturbing evidence that an egyptian woman who was about to be honored by the state department is one of the biggest anti-semites around. we'll have the latest on this very troubling situation. >> stocks are holding on to record levels. >> the stock market is up, up, up; despite budget chaos in washington. should would he be prepared for a financial crash? lou dobbs will be here to tell us. >> this guy didn't rob a liquor store. is he a spokesman close to the people who killed over 2900 americans. >> and why is obama administration trying usama bin laden's son-in-law? a high threat terrorist suspect in a u.s. court? we'll debate it. >> laura: caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. and the factor begins right now. >> laura: hi, everyone. i'm laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. filibuster envy. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. it's been fascinating to see the reaction to senator rand paul's filibuster of the john brennan nomination. with the principled persuasive argument with the use of drones on american soil, he drew support from people across the political spectrum from jon stewart to mitch mcconnell, from the aclu, to ted cruise, his filibuster made for some strange bed follows. but, of course, not everybody was happy. is that snarkers calling paul's stance weird and crazy. but what's surprising is that two g.o.p. senators lindsey graham and john mccain launched their own drone strike against paul. >> we have done, i think, a disservice to a lot of americans by making them believe that somehow they are in danger from their government. they are not. i don't think what happened yesterday is helpful to the american people. what we saw yesterday is going to give ammunition to those critics who say that the rules of the senate are being abused. i hope that my colleagues on this side of the aisle will take that into consideration. >> to take this debate into the absurd is what i object to. >> laura: now, don't get me wrong. they have the right to disagree with paul and the majority of g.o.p. senators who stood with him. but, given that the filibuster lasted 13 hours, why didn't either of them have the moxxy to debate their colleague face to face on the senate floor? what were they afraid of? presumably they could have done so either before or after their dinner with the president. were they jealous that a junior senator dominated the headlines and managed to galvanize left and right? are they worried that they are becoming increasingly irrelevant as younger more conservative senators step forward to heal and reenergize a demoralized g.o.p. base? or, do they really favor giving pretty much unlimited power to the president to order targeted killings as long as we say that we are at war with al qaeda? if it's the latter, i think rand paul would be happy to have that debate face to face any day of the week. if anyone is on the fringe here, it's mccain and graham. both men made a big mistake with their drive-by hits on rand paul. appropriate. they didn't comport with our values. >> laura: as it turns out ms. ibrahim who initially claimed her twitter account had been hacked wrote this yesterday after the controversy surfaced. quote: i refuse to apologize to the zionist lobby in america regarding my previous anti-zionist statements. also this week, secretary of state john kerry announced the u.s. is giving $250 million worth of taxpayer money to egypt's muslim brotherhood a government with anti-semitic history. so what is is going on here joining me now from l.a. is mark hanna, a former aid to secretary of state john kerry. good to see you, marc. first of all, what is going on with this smyrna eastbound bra him issue. she was noted in "time" magazine 100 most influential people issue. and the essay about her was written by share lease theron and o'reilly speculated last night that that was good enough for the state department when it was reviewing its list of possible candidates to be honored. what's your take? >> right. no, there is no doubt whatsoever that ms. ibrahim is remarkably effective activist in pro-democracy proponent in egypt. she was, as you know, laura, subjected to some of these virginity tests that happened. she ended up suing the leadership of the egyptian government and became sort of a star that way. here is the thing we have toker are. in this part of the world you can be anti-dictator and pro-democracy and still hold very reprehensible --ws and be deeply big bigoted and anti-semitic. >> are you making excuses for the state department's pathetic due diligence. >> no i'm not. difficult questions will be asked in the state department how he made it this far. >> laura: mark, mark, mark. this sem bare wassing. this is what i don't get. republicans will have no problem calling out, i think at least lately, republicans who just blow it. because it helps -- it actually helps the party. the state department just finished with this benghazi deal, okay? where we don't really know what happened but that thing was not handled right, obviously. >> but, laura, do you think the state department. >> laura: this is a smaller issue but, nevertheless do a google search. i mean, facebook her. i mean, come on. >> once this new evidence did come to light and once they were presented with these tweets and saw that she had said these reprehensible things, don't you agree that the state department did the right thing. >> laura: of course. but why did we get here? they only did because bill kristol came up with the information. this is our state department. one would think they are a little more professional and thorough than what they have shown us here. look, it's not your deal. this is what they did. to me, this just seems like really, really slipshod stuff here. let's go on in this egyptian muslim brotherhood funding situation. >> sure. >> laura: $250 million not that much when you think of overall budget but nevertheless when we see military tuition assistance programs in the united states being cut, $250 million given the history of anti-semitism on museum brotherhood web sites and comments by morsey himself who is is the president. >> right, on one hand you could say we are bound to these obligations by the camp david accords in 1979 and the peace treaty that existed between egypt and israel. the fact of the matter is we need to be taking these commitments of foreign aid very seriously and whether this is in our smart and strategic national interest. now, i happen to think that as much as mohammed morsi has said some pretty heinous things and is deeply flawed leader of egypt, having a strong and secure egypt is within america's national security interests and, look, we give $2 billion a year to pakistan. we give $3 billion -- >> laura: exactly. >> we give money based not on whether or not we agree with the leaders of a certain foreign country but whether in our strategic got you ! you cannot escape the rebel forces ! ahhh. got you ! got ya ! gotcha ! got . that's all you got, brother ? 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