Donald trump . Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. The factor begins right now. Hi, im bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Hurting ben carsons campaign, that is is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. This is a pretty nasty story that has damaged the Carson Campaign and, perhaps, the image of senator ted cruz. As we reported yesterday, while the caucus voting was underway in iowa, a cnn reporter, chris moody tweeted misleading information about the Carson Campaign. Almost immediately the Cruz Campaign used that information to tell iowa voters that carson may be withdrawing from the race. Dr. Carson believes that hurt his vote tally. Ted cruz has apologized. Cnn says it did nothing wrong. Here are the facts. At 6 43 central time mr. Moody tweeted, quote carson wont go to New Hampshire, South Carolina but, instead, will head home to florida for r and r. He will be in d. C. Thursday for the National Prayer breakfast. Moody tweeted other stuff after that trying to clarify. Apparently, that did not get to cnn political reporter dana bash. We should say that our chris moody is breaking this news that ben carson is going to go back to florida to his home. Regardless of how far he does tonight here in iowa. He is going to go there for several days and then afterwards he is not going to go to South Carolina. He is not going to go to New Hampshire. That is false. Ben carson had events planned in New Hampshire even before he left iowa. Again, that cnnz report flat out untrue. Enter the Cruz Campaign, which, at about 7 00 p. M. Central time, 17 minutes after the initial misleading tweet said this quote cnn is reporting that ben carson will stop campaigning after iowa. Make sure to tell all of your piers that the caucus supporting caucus that they should coalesce aroundhdqp the true conservative who will be in the race for the long haul, ted cruz. Zax so you can see that the Cruz Campaign used a false report by cnn to damage the Carson Campaign. Last night on the factor, dr. Carson told me accepts ted cruzs explanation that he personally did not know what was going on. However, carson also said this a culture exists within the cruz camp that would allow people to take advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way. Isnt this the same thing that we see with the obama administration, the irs scandal . No responsibility. They were awfully anxious to get it out there, werent they . Now, there is no question that cnn is responsible for the false report. But the Cruz Campaign is also wrong and senator cruz should take disciplinary action against some of his staff. However, that may no8u i happen. So we simply as a campaign repeated what ben carson had said in his own words. He said after iowa he was going to go back to florida for a couple days and then he was going to go to d. C. To the prayer breakfast. And what that told us was he was not going to New Hampshire. But, again, carson had events booked in New Hampshire. So, come on. As far as cnn is concerned, it says it is standing behind its initial report. Which is ludicrous. That news agency screwed up big time and apparently doesnt care. Talking points has said it many times. The state of american journalism is on the verge of collapse. Ideology has permeated hard News Coverage andt t9qau reporting is becoming almost scarce, especially in political circles. Cnn should apologize. Ted cruz should take some action. And this should never happen again. The Carson Campaign was damaged5c by erroneous information, period. And thats the memo. Now for the top story, reaction, joining us from sarasota, florida, karl rove. So, am i going wrong . What do you think about this . No. I think youre right. First of all, though, a minor correction. I think the email from chris moody is one of three emails that start at 4 41. First email says that carson is going to catch a flight home tonight after his victory speech. Second one is the confusing one that says he is not going directly to New Hampshire or South Carolina. He is going to go home and then go to the prayer breakfast. But the third email says he is going to stay in the race no matter what. So, there is the center email that goes out about 4 43 is sort of confusing. But dana bash, how she she either didnt look at all three or she didnt question what was. Here is why it doesnt matter. Number one, they were tweets. A hard News Reporter shouldnt be tweeting at all, period. T e exactly. That should never happen in any news organization. Because tweets are shorthand. You cannot explain in tweets so hard News Reporter. Opinion okay. Shouldnt depend on them. Its supposed to be an editor. There is supposed to be people in charge of what is said on television. Dana bash is their top political analyst. The one they usew0÷ t for the debate. She clearly said that her reporter, moody, was saying. This so all the other stuff walks. You know, bs walked . It walks. Shy didnt even read all three of his tweets. If you read all three of his tweets, at the worse. Apologize or admit a mistake so everybody makes mistakes. Everybody makes them admit it. Im making your case stronger, not weaker. Because carson got jobbed. This isnt what our democracy is supposed to be spent a lot of money and time this is wrong and its out of control and it better stop. Well with, lets look at the second part of this. Because at 7 00 p. M. The Cruz CampaignSpence Rogers the tweet is headlined press says carson is going to take a break. Then it says he is going home and he has a big announcement later this week so tell all the carson people to caucus with the cruz people. This goes out at 7 00 p. M. Now, the campaign you just had rick tyler, the this by saying we only used his own words. Nowhere in chris moodys conversation with the carson people does he say im taking a break. And nowhere does he say im having announcement later this week. Send it out at 7 00. 7 53. The Carson Campaign sends out a thing saying we are here staying in the race. We are going to New Hampshire and South Carolina. And at 8 20, the national cochairman of the Carson Campaign, steve king sends out a tweet saying looks like carsona3tx÷ is getting out of race. Now, they that this was inaccurate. Now, lets also look at one other thing. They say, you know, cruz in his initial senator cruz in initial explanation about this said we were sending it to our team leaving the implication i suspect most viewers this had to do with sending it out to the staff members. No, no, no. They will sent this to their nearly 1500 precinct captains. 1500 precincts in the state. They sent this message from Spence Roberts to precinct captains. Why does that matter . The gap between donald trump and ted cruz is 6239 volts there are 1500 precincts. Do the math. If this message called precinct captains in the precincts to tell the carson people your guy is getting out. He is having a big announcement later this week. Caucus with us. If that cost carson four votes per precinct to switch to cruz, then cruz beats trump. If he doesnt witch four, then he loses. Trump is calling for an investigation, federal investigation into this whole thing today. All right. That was a good explanation. Serious this is. Nobody gets a pass on this. Cruz campaign doesnt get a pass and cnn doesnt get a pass. Yesterday we reported that your close personal friend george soros donated 6 million to Hillary Clintons super pac in5v december. You have a super pac crossroads. Right . Umhuh. You have donated any big money to any republican candidates . No. Were not involved in the republican president ial primary. We have been spending some money on Hillary Clintons on making sure people understand hillarys record. We are off to the strongest start we have ever had. We do it differently than the democrats. Democrats require cash on the barrel. They get a 6milliondollar jekel from george soros. Our supporters generally tend to say here is how much i pledge and here is when i give it. We are off to the strongest start we have ever had. Im happy you canopies or whatever. No canopies. Who are you going to give money to . Money you are going to give money to . Do you know how are going to give money to. We anticipate to be active in the president ial campaign. We already spent money in the New Hampshire senate race. But not for any of the president ial cap democrats. No, no. Our cross road supporters are split across the board. We will not be involved on president ial candidate. We will keep our focus on Hillary Clinton whom we think is the likely democratic nominee and then help the republican nominee once he or she is selected. All right, mr. Rove. Thank you very much. Next on the rundown, will the fbi soon present damning evidence against Hillary Clinton . The factor has been investigating. Then later president obama visiting a mosque. But why . Those reports after these messages. Insurance but up to 90 fall short in getting key nutrients. From food alone. Lets do more. Add one a day mens. Complete multivitamin. With vitamin d and magnesium to help support healthy blood pressure. One a day. Factor follow up segment tonight, there is big worry among the leadership of the Democratic Party their primary president ial candidate Hillary Clinton will be embarrassed and perhaps indicted. The factor will not try this case on television. But scores of fbi agents are now involved. That means its serious. Joining us from boynton beach, florida. Author about the detail of the first familyzm secret service. I understand you spoke to former Justice Department officials. What are they telling you . They say as much ascase can , this is an open and shut case because the relevant law, section 793 of the u. S. Criminal code simply says handling classified information with gross negligence is a felony bedefinition, if you put classified on unsecured server, that is gross negligence. But that would be argued. So but that would be argued, obviously by mrs. Clintons lawyers and her and her she herself says listen, i didnt know anything was classified. It didnt come in that way and i was just conducting business as usual. But heres the bottom line on it this is a partisan issue. You would agree with that, right . Democrats, they dont want her to get indicted. They dont care what she did generally speaking, all right . And republicans want the fbi to go in and kick her door and take her out with cuffs. This is a partisan issue. What i get out here when you assign this number of fbi agents. All right . That itself sends a signal. Does it not . Sure, and there is no question that there would have already ban grand jury impaneled because they have to obtain documents with subpoenas and get testimony from people like her underlings so definitely a grand jury is in the works. And, you know, if you look at watergate. That was also a partisan issue but the fbi conducted itself professionally, resisted efforts by an even more powerful figure president nixon to suppress that investigation. And sure enough, that investigation continued without any problem. The difference in watergate is that you had a press driving the information flow to the public. You dont have that here. The liberal press largely doesnt care about the email situation. The New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for president just this week they dont have any qualms about it. You dont have that watergate pressure coming from the press that every day there is another revelation. Director comey is an interesting guy. I, myself, and i could be wrong, do not believe that this man is going to succumb to pressure from anybody, including barack obama. Do you know anything about him . Well, he has an impeccable reputation for integrity. He is the guy who threatened to resign over illegal issue in the bush administration. He is also a former prosecutor. So he knows exactly whats needed. I believe he never would have authorized this investigation in the first if he didnt already believe that the fbi had evidence to indicate that she should be indicted. All right, but thats speculationi now, mr. Kessler. Thats your speculation. Im trying to get at this. There are a lot of people who say no way Hillary Clinton is going to be indicted. The fix is in. Its like the irs scandal, comey is not going to do it. But i say to them, listen, comey cant indict. He doesnt have that power. Buff he can certainly come on the Oreilly Factor and say, you know what . This is what we found out and this is what is troubling. I think comey would do that. Sure. Yeah, heats people are not going to ruin their reputations. Of the same with loretta lynch. She is not going to ruin her lep station for life by refusing to go along with aneeo indictment. On the material, when you are talking about top secret beyond top secret, thats, for example, cia breaking into an embassy overseas to get the codes. Developing an asset in8 the inner circle of foreign leaders, . B÷ intercepting terrorist conversation. Its very obvious on its face that its classified. And prosecutors who prosecuted this case have told me that the only issue is in a trial whether the government can present witnesses that demonstrate that these people that these documents are properly classified and, of course, i think its going it be very easy. Hillary clinton has put out all these smoke screens about it, claiming that it had to be stamped. No it didnt have to be stamped. Again, i dont want to try the case here. Mrs. Clinton is going to have her high priced lawyers and her defense and we will see what the fbi comes up with. Mr. Kessler, thanks very much. We appreciate it he had henry covering the clinton campaign. How worried are they about the fbi . Also, civil war might be breaking out in sweden between migrants and nativist gangs. Could this happen in america . Up ahead. Royer with asthma not well controlled on a longterm asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. Breo wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. Breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. Breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. 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When you say a fulltime freakout. What does that mean . Are they bashing their heads against the wall . Are they tumbling out of windows . What are they doing . I heard of one specific incident where one of their senior staffers was on a phone call saying that this is disastrous. Happening on the friday before the iowa caucuses. They were specifically, you know, worried about thati now, this hasnt been much of an issue in the democratic side of the campaign as you know because Bernie Sanders has sort of taken it off the table and tried to focus on the economy. But they were worried are that the timing was going to change the minds of some democrats. Its a friday night play. They always do that. And the clinton, sanders, iowa thing was a tie. But something did happen, bill, which is on sunday, Hillary Clinton went on abc and compared this email deal to benghazi. That was significant and feeds into what im reporting because they were concerned enough to then say this email thing is benghazi meaning republicans are attacking me for nothing. Partisan issue that. Does not add up because its the fbi. You can attack trey gowdy on the and say its the republicans. This is why they are most worried. If the fbi moves forward with something its awfully hard to attack a nonpartisan entity. They are done. Barack if the fbi comes forth with damning information and even if she is not indicted i think thats the end of her. In New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders is way ahead had, right . Is there any chance that Hillary Clinton could upset bernie. Yes. And here is why. He is sitting on a big lead. Hillary clinton had so in our late poll, Bernie Sanders was leading about 10 days or so ago by 22 points. Hillary clinton a few months ago was leading iowa by 441, 50 points that came down big time. She won but it was awfully tight. So if Hillary Clinton pours it on here, brings in the money, brings in the ground game, can she win . I still think Bernie Sanders