Guest: Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI)
"Many Americans are tired of hearing about Benghazi. The left says it's just a conspiracy against the president, but that is not true. The assassination of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in Libya is a very important story because someone misled the world about the terror attack. And now, a year and a half later, we still don't know why we were misled or who designed the deception. During my interview with President Obama on Super Bowl Sunday, I never got an answer as to whether the president was told by Leon Panetta that a terror attack killed Ambassador Stevens. The president still has not clarified that and Panetta will not answer questions. Enter Mike Morell, former deputy director of the CIA, who was allegedly behind the bogus information put out by the administration. Morell will testify Wednesday before the House Intelligence Committee and he may be in serious trouble. As everybody knows, the Obama administration put out Susan Rice to tell the world that intense protests may have incited the attack. That was after the CIA station chief in Libya sent a memo saying the attack was not due to any escalating protests. President Obama was running for reelection, so there could have been political motivation to keep terrorism out of the Benghazi debacle. If the administration lied, that's an abuse of power. And if the CIA cooperated in the lie, that's an abuse of power. So Benghazi is a big story. To be fair, we need to hear from Mr. Morell under oath, but this whole thing is very suspicious. If that CIA memo counters what Ambassador Rice said, all hell should break loose, even with an apathetic media."

The Factor welcomed Republican Congressman Mike Rogers, who will chair Wednesday's hearing, and asked Rogers whether he has personally seen the CIA memo in question. "I have seen the memo," Rogers answered, "but I can not go into the specifics because it is still a classified document. I can tell you that what was in that document prompted us to re-interview the CIA station chief about what happened. There is some disagreement between what Mr. Morell has told the committee and what the station chief on the ground has said. Nobody there in Libya believed this was started by a protest." The Factor concluded, "It looks like Morell, the former CIA deputy director, was at odds with what his station chief was saying."

Guest: Eric Bolling
During Monday's Talking Points Memo, The Factor declared that the electric car Tesla, by virtue of using no gasoline, will greatly benefit America. Fox News business maven Eric Bolling entered the No Spin Zone with a far different view. "The government loaned Tesla $500-million," Bolling groused, "and we still pay every single Tesla buyer $7,500 just to buy the darned car. This is a car that uses electricity that is made through firing up a coal power plant. If everyone drove a Tesla the air would be horrible because all these coal and oil and gas power plants would be spewing carbon into the air. This is an $80,000 car that only the likes of DiCaprio, Clooney, and O'Reilly can afford." Nevertheless, The Factor maintained that electric cars serve a greater good: "The more gasoline we can get away from, the more OPEC gets hurt. And if electric cars are all over the globe, Putin's whole structure collapses."

Guest: Monica Crowley & Alan Colmes
Monica Crowley and Alan Colmes examined a disturbing new trend in which students post YouTube video "tutorials" that often include false allegations and are intended to get their teachers fired. "This really scares me," Crowley said, "because it touches on a bigger issue about kids and the Internet and what they're trying to do. There is a cultural breakdown of respect for authority." Colmes disputed one student's claim that the videos are meant to be humorous. "These don't look like satire to me and it's terrible. You may wind up where you're going to need a video camera in a classroom all the time so people know what's going on." The Factor lamented that technology is making the job of teaching ever more difficult, saying, "Teachers are now being watched and surveilled by their students who want to get them in trouble."

Guest: John Stossel
Fox Business host and free market proselytizer John Stossel laid out his rationale for legalized gambling. "I bet on sports with friends all the time," he said, "because it excites me and it makes me root for that team. Adults should be able to do anything that's peaceful. I agree that at casinos people lose all their money but just keep going. That's repulsive, but banning it doesn't stop it!" The Factor worried that Stossel's legalization prescription would lead to more gambling addiction: "If it was easy to gamble on the Internet all day long and your living room was your casino, you don't think there would be an explosion of people losing the rent money? I would never support unfettered gambling everywhere because I think it's harmful."

Guests: Kimberly Guilfoyle & Lis Wiehl
Legal aces Kimberly Guilfoyle and Lis Wiehl scrutinized the case of Robert Richards IV, an heir to the DuPont fortune. Although he admitted to performing sex acts on his 3-year-old daughter, Judge Jan Jurden meted out a sentence of probation and community service. "This is really bad," Wiehl declared. "He was first charged with two counts of second-degree rape and he would have gotten a mandatory 20 years. They pled this down to forth-degree rape, which has no mandatory sentence." Guilfoyle accused the judge and attorneys of acting reprehensibly. "They said this individual would not 'fare well' in prison, which is an inappropriate criterion in sentencing. This guy is 6'4" and weighs about 275 pounds! I believe his family name and money had an impact."

Guest: Charles Krauthammer
President Obama is celebrating the claim that 7.1 million Americans have signed up for insurance under the Affordable Care Act. The Factor asked Charles Krauthammer for his diagnosis. "The numbers they are touting are phony," Dr. K declared. "It's like saying anyone who goes on Amazon and puts something in his 'shopping cart' has purchased it. They can't tell you how many people have actually paid the premium." Krauthammer also predicted that many doctors will flee the profession. "I talk to doctors who were in medical school with me and they're desperately trying to retire. They've lost autonomy and authority and are working twice as hard." The Factor theorized that liberals see ObamaCare as a way station on the road to total government control: "The administration knew it wasn't going to get socialized medicine through Congress, so they did this. But the goal is still a single-payer system."

Even as other cable networks went wild with the missing jetliner story, The Factor destroyed the competition in March, with ratings 50% higher than CNN, MSNBC, and HLN combined! The lesson: sticking to your principles pays off, professionally and personally.

Tim Dunlevy, St. Petersburg, FL: "Mr. O'Reilly, I take exception to your love affair with the Tesla electric car. Where do you think the power to generate the car comes from? Fossil fuel."

Ralph Badger, Bellevue, NE: "The one thing nobody mentions is that the high price of gas hurts the poor and middle class the most. Why can't we have cheap fossil fuels?"

Sandra Jenkins, Freeport, FL: "Bill, you hit the nail when you said ObamaCare is supposed to fail. That has been the plan all along."