Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. The factor begins right now. Im bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Americans not happy with president obamas take on terrorism and that is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. Another rather painful exposition at the white house yesterday. Reporters asking spokesman eric schultz about negotiating with terrorists. The taliban is still conducting terrorist attacks that you cant really say that, i mean, the war has ended as far as they are concerned. I would also point out that the taliban is an armed insurgency. Isil is a terrorist group. So we dont make concessions to terrorist groups. Taliban a terrorist group . I dont think that the taliban huh the taliban is an armed insurgency, this is the winding down of the war in afghanistan and thats why this arrangement was dealt. The arrangement, mr. Schultz referring, to is the trade of five top taliban commanders for sergeant bo bergdahl whom we will deal with in a moment. But what about schultz parsing the terrorist description embarrassing, right . Stop this nonsense because its become a national joke. Taliban slaughtered 132 pack establish School Children recently. Its an armed insur is genesee . Come on, thats just insulting. So i am going to send a chart to the white house by fedex. The following are terrorists because they either kill or support killing civilians. Al qaeda isis, boko haram, taliban, iranian mullahs, hezbollah, hamas the Muslim Brotherhood and every other jihadist group. Its going on the chart. Write them down. Send it down to the white house so they know. Now, there are also terror groups not aligned with radical islam but they are insignificant at this point, thank god. A new fox news poll Shows Americans are are getting fed up with the dumb dance the white house is doing. When asked if america is at war with radical islam 56 say yes, 37 no. When asked if president obama overor under emphasizes the terror threat. 47 under. 43 about right. 6 over. Actually that poll is closer than i thought it would be. Must be weighted toward San Francisco people. The truth is that the muslim world, most of it, would like to see the jihadis defeated. Bad for business, bad for the soul. America is not going to put the jihadis out of business because the commander and chief lacks the will and the folks, we the people, have had enough. Why should we bear the brunt of the entire war on terror . If muslim nations would declare war on the jihad we and other allies would certainly help them big time. But that does not seem to be a possibility in a very cowardly world. And so the beheadings the kidnappings, the bombings the mutilations will all continue unabated until, until the u. S. A. Gets hit again. Then everything will change. And thats the memo. Now for the top story tonight, the pentagon striking back in the bo bergdahl case. The factor using military analyst lt. Colonel shaffer has reported heavy pressure on general mark mille to go easy on Sergeant Bergdahl who we have mentioned was traded for the top taliban commanders. Army denies that and also denies that general mille has come to any conclusion about bergdahl but how can that be possible . Joining us from washington colonel Ralph Peters Fox news strategic analyst. So the army interviewed bergdahl in august 2000 page report, which wrapped up in october. This is the second report on bergdahl now its february coming and they still dont know. Does that make sense to you as a military man . No. But everything im hearing ised that the white house is is white wash the bergdahl case. Let Sergeant Bergdahl walk. Hey, by the way, something that really, really particulars me off about this. The funny promotion of sergeant. Bill, i wore a buck sergeants stripe on my collar before i went to the dark side and became an officer. Is he no sergeant unless you get stripes for serving the taliban. But at any rate, back to the key point. The white house doesnt think beyond the next pr op. For the president saving face and so oso for the white house, they dont get it desertion, why is it dissnergs that cant be such a big deal its like skipping class. For our army for our military, its much bigger than this pathetic guy loser bergdahl. Its about the president. If you cook the books military justice very fair and pain staking system. If the white house manages to let this guy walk away, you you have basically said desertion is just fine because every future case the defense of any deserter would be able to do the bergdahl defense like it wasnt desertion for him why is for me. Good order and discipline in the future for our military, it matters. Okay. But lets get out of the theoretical and into the practical. The army itself, all right and pentagon itself putting people out. And they are saying. That general mille has not been contacted by anyone at the white house or anybody else because if he was directly contacted, the case would be thrown immediately. How do we respond to that . We respond the pressure would be on and doesnt have to be. The white house isnt going to call him directly it goes through its a wave. And by the way the military people are very loyal, voyeur loyal and its hard for them to resist the white house. But clearly i mean the only possible explanation and the only one im hearing is that the military is trying to get this right. Remember bill they have got dot all a the is and cross all the ts. Sometimes the military system can be frustratingly slow. From what can i tell and everything i hear the army is trying to get it right. The white house is poisoning poisoning the justice system. The white house doesnt want a trial. We reported last night. Thats my point. The white house seems to want appear lesser desertion charge slapped on bergdahl so they wouldnt have to go to trial. Plead guilty. Time served taliban captain and he leaves. Awol charge they love to walk. I need to you react to this. You heard kirby. I mean, you heard him. I mean look, its not just fox news reporting. This its nbc reporting it as well. Here is kirby right . And he goes out. He basically calls us liars, colonel shaffer is a liar. Everybody is a liar. Nothing has been decided. Mille is still deliberating, which, look this isnt that complicated. You know . Its not that complicated. No, it isnt. But kirby is in a tough spot. Sedansing on burning pins and needles. They are going on the offense, see. So now if it comes back that it is a desertion, he looks like an idiot. And a how much longer are they going to draw this out . I mean, how much longer is it going to take . I dont know. But i will tell you. This today i attended a Retirement Ceremony of a close friend of mine. Faulk. I saw the old guard, division do that magnificent performance. Bill, i was sitting there and thinking about this case and Everything Else. Maybe im a polyanna but i believe that the u. S. Army will do its best to do the right thing and president obama should remember that another demagogue named senator joseph mccartdy was brought down by a department of the army lawyer. Have you no shame, mr. President . You have no sensitivity . I dont know if you convict mr. Obama now. The indications are are from colonel shaffer yourself, other people that the white house is pressuring the investigation. Army denies it. All right . Their parsings are kirby. Kirby is not army by the way. The army is parting. They are parsing, absolutely. But, kirby is around. I mean, is he making the rounds. They are making a big deal out of this. We will find out the truth as we said yesterday. This guy they are caught between the white house and fox news and let me tell you, i know the army. Their hearts are fox news. Well, maybe so. But we want to find out the truth. We will find out the truth. Well. Colonel, thanks very much. Ahead on the rundown, donald trump tweeting negative stuff about the factor. We will find out what is annoying him. And later Bernie Goldberg on american sniper and liberal hollywood right back. Outnourished scene on outnumbered on fnc. Colonel peters convicted president obama. I dont know if thats fair. The circumstantial evidence is there that the white house doesnt want this. Yeah. To be a full fledge desertion trial. Yeah. I believe that 100 . I want to be very cautious about convicting anyone of anything. We dont believe, however that the army is dragging its feet and stone walling. Do you believe that . I do. And i think that they are feeling pressure from the the administration to do it at a time when they can dump it and maybe a lot of people wont notice. So this afternoon, josh earnst was asked about this. And he said well its not that he hasnt been charged. We know he hasnt been charged. We are just figuring out if charges will be brought so again, verbal gymnastics here. Bill, i think there is compelling evidence. I think there is a lot of evidence. There is a lot of evidence. They mucked up this terror swap. They are waiting for a really big incident. Maybe the patriots to do something stupid and they can dump this. They can dump this. Friday tomorrow, before the super bowl. Not going to happen now. Thats when they want to do it. We put the pentagon and the army in a very bad position here because colonel shaffer stands by his story. Nbc news reported the same thing. Thought pentagon is saying uhoh. It doesnt really make any sense that this report would not be adjudicated. Its been more than enough time to go over 2,000 pages. Thats not a lot of pages. Its one guy here. One. He was interviewed in august a. So what say you . Im with the colonel in terms of what we dont know whats causing the delay. We dont have the answer to that the only thing we can do is wait. I am not and we are not here we are not going to second guess the pentagon. Are you disturbed by this case . I am interested in finding out, of course i am. I would like to know more information. Are you waiting for Sergeant Bergdahl to get a lesser charge. Of course not. You want him punished for what he did . I would like to have the facts. I would love to know with a what exactly happen. Im not going to guess what happened until i see the facts for myself and i would know what the president is going to do with him. Bergdahls mates the guys who served on the front lines and had to look for him when he left . Did you see any of those introduce . Interviewes . Back in the day i did. That makes this case different. His guys in his unit in afghanistan came on television and said look, this guy desserted and we were charged to go find him and guys killed in that effort. That elevates everything to what im trying to get to there is some urgency here. Mille the general doesnt seem to feel that urgency but i feel it. We may all feel it but we are not in charge. I know right . We can certainly put pressure. Do you think the white house putting pressure on mille . You think the white house is putting pressure on him . If it was such a black and white case,maybe the interviews would have been sufficient, right . One word against another case. They are trying to figure out a way not to make it such. Go ahead andrea. Not only that bill. This is different because the president stood at a rose garden ceremony. Yeah. Which is why this is unprecedented. I didnt hold that against him. But even they knew they mucked it up because they were trying to distract from Everything Else that was happening. Then this became a story that he was a desserter, at that rose garden press secretary, president obama stood up and thanked the amir of qatar during that press event. That plays into it the most recent prisoner swap with almarri and a the questions there bill the reason they are dragging their feet on this one is also so they can have the time to do what they did yesterday which is change the definition of the talibans designation. I dont know about that. I do. Why else would they do it. Court of Public Opinion is not going to buy that. Why else would they do it and make an effort to Say Something so ridiculous . Because they dont well, maybe thats attached to it. Look, by calling the taliban an armed unsurgency and saying they are not a terrorist group jeanise, he insults the intelligence of every person on the earth. You dont shoot look, there are practical reasons why they are not listed as a terrorist group. Let me finish my point okay . Let me finish my point. There are practical reasons, right . The operations are internal in afghanistan. Number three the right time to have put them the best time the most opportune time to put on the list in 2001 when they were giving safe harbor to al qaeda. Bush did not put them on the list. Having them on official list. Now we do not know this there is some kind of reconciliation process. Thats a legitimate point. Thank you. Dont have to be on any formal list. But when you are saying are these guys terrorists . You have got to say yeah. They are terrorists. Ladies, thank you. Good debate. Directly ahead. Donald trump apparently mad at us. Well find out why. Also coming up, Laura Ingraham on 26 states suing president obama over his immigration order. Those reports after these messages. I think she tried to kill us. Are you kidding me . 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You i shoved a bunch of snow in front of your door up here. The beef is all day long they advertised trump and palin and just over and over again and i said i have got to watch this not that i dont watch you anyway. And i was waiting and waiting for trump and i was even waiting for palin who is actually a very nice woman and a very good woman. And there was nothing about me and nothing about her. But there was nothing about me. So i said to myself, you know, thats sort of truth in advertising words. You are on deceptive advertising. They used deceptive advertising. There was something about you. You missed it. Well, perhaps i did. If there was its awfully quick. I know you, you are a fair guy. The segment was about all of the candidates that are thinking about running for the president on the g. O. P. Side. We ran them down, all right. And said strength and weaknesses. You were in there. And so was governor palin. Strengths, presentation liven things up. Straight shoulder, shooter. Weaknesses very challenging, thats exactly the word i used to get an organization in every state up and running in time to compete. Thats where you were. So come on. The factor is head hadding innz par very quick little thing. The ads were massive and i expected to have a nice piece. I saw something very briefly. But it certainly what was advertised. Thats okay. As far as heading in the wrong direction, i dont know. I think you have your act together pretty well bill, dont you . You are going to take that tweet back . Can you take a tweet back . Do you grab it out of the sky . I would never do such a thing. Yeah, dont be a pinhead. Dont tweet. You dont need to tweet. I mean, you know your words are worth more than this cheap cyberspace. Let me just separate it im glad you came on because now i know you were saying look i dont want to be exploited in some stupid Television Show in im not involved. Thats a legitimate point. Okay. But sarah palin was actually offended that i said wow, this could be a great reality show. And, with you and christie and palin well, i think you are true. Yeah. And i think thats right. You see the kind of record numbers the apprentice was doing. I knew we were going to get to that. Absolutely. You see the record numbers we got the other night on miss universe. It took the evening. So happy about that. I have got to tell it you donald you and a bathing suit in the contest. That wouldnt be for me. That wouldnt be for the public and it wouldnt be for me thats true. Now look, i dont think you are going to run for president. But, let me ask let me say. This i like the fact that you are not afraid to say whats on your mind. I think we need that in a president ial race. So im not offended if you dont run are, if you do run, but if you you decide to run, you have got to know that building an organization that you would have to build is very difficult for a person who has never done it before. But how do you know im not building it right now, bill . How would you know that . Because you are playing golf in miami, donald. Im not playing golf. I own the club. Im working with contractors. Im not doing golf. Are you telling me you didnt play golf this week . Did i not play golf this week. Not one time from stunned. Stunned. Im fighting with contractors and making the job look beautiful. Its almost finished. Somebody saw you putting through one of those wind mills in open. That wasnt me. Im a worker. Not a player. Watch the tweets. We want you to come on tell it like it is. You too. Dont worry about me. Plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. Did you know that a fox news correspondent was once a Fighter Pilot in the navy . 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