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ad, who needs christ in christmas? you walk through times square, this is what you see. >> and the man behind a controversial atheist billboard will be here to defend his christ in christmas. >> the o'reilly factor begins now. hi, i'm in for bill o'reilly. thanks for joining us tonight. let's get to our top story. infighting in the gop. the house overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan two-year spending plan yesterday in hopes of averting another government shutdown, but 94 congress people voted against it, most of them tea party conservatives who worried the deal will increase govern...

That they point to with evidence for the conflict that, they say, does not deal with these issues. lieutenant anthony schaefer, senior national adviser to that task force. chris, what's the risk -- i shouldn't say that. i outline the risk. what is the probability and what is the ability to assess the probability that this risk would occur? >> thank you, dylan. the difficulty is that these are -- an ooernt like this. so as opposed to something like a hurricane. . we an event like this that maybe happens once in every 100 years, so there isn't an accurate set of data to know when we can predict ...

Have been some some agreement that that was okay. i doubt it. so it clearly is the ability to have baghdad to act as a unifying element in order to create degrees of stability across the government. the one thing that you can measure, your canary in the mine, is, what do the border forces look like, what do the security forces look like? do they exist to provide legitimacy and relevance to this government as it grows up? in addition, obviously, the military, but more importantly are those security and border forces. otherwise, we'd just have a major traffic route in between iraq and iran that ...

About the future. they are happy saddam is not here, but they are worried that a sectarian system, a new status quo has been put in place, with shiites dominating this country for the first time in about 1,400 years. >> yep. richard, thank you for staying up and talking to us on this cold night. your perspective is uniquely yours. so richard engel, thank you so much. and joining us now here in the states to talk about the implications of the drawdown, lieutenant colonel anthony schaefer and retired general james marks, the managing director of the opportunities development group. and as i unde...

>> so this is an historic moment. a war is ending, a new day is upon us, and let us never forget those who gave us this chance. >> certainly a shift in relationship, from wartime enemies in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, reigning hell fire from the sky, even if the weapons weren't really there, to a u.s.-backed government in a foreign war, to now a full-blown democracy. after the final troop withdrawal, some 16,000 americans will still be in the country that borders on iran in varying capacities. what will also remain is a growing power vacuum in iraq, and the continued thre...