Bill joined Glenn Beck Friday on The Blaze Radio to scrutinize pretty much everything of importance that went down this past week. 

The duo began on a positive note, namely the House's passage of Kate's Law.  Bill conceived of, promoted, and even named the legislation that is finally on its way to becoming the law of the land.  "Kate's Law is necessary," Bill said, "to send a signal to every single person that our government will protect us.  It will make it easier for ICE to sweep up felons and gang members.  But hundreds of Democrats voted against it in the House and most Democrats will vote against it in the Senate."

Bill provided some background on the proposed law and the heinous crime for which it is named:  "The guy accused of killing Kate Steinle had been deported five times and come back six times.  San Francisco County had him in a lockup and the feds asked them to hold him, but the county let him out.  Three weeks later he shot this girl dead and you have Democrats saying they don't want to punish guys like that!  This is the most extreme situation I've seen in 42 years of journalism.  I am sick to my stomach about the Democratic Party not supporting this law and the media flat-out ignoring it because they don't want to demonize 'the immigrant community.'  This is a symbol of what's wrong with the country." 

Kate's Law and the Democratic opposition gave Bill another opportunity to smack political leaders and many in the mainstream press:  "We have a corrupt media that is not seeking the truth.  Everybody in the business knows that the media will not help the folks.  Secondly, we have cowardly politicians who take orders from the likes of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi.  These are corrupt and dishonest people who are ordering their members to vote against Kate's Law."  Perhaps playing Devil's advocate, Beck accused Republican leadership of being nearly as bad for pressuring its members to pass the health care law.  He recommended a straight repeal of ObamaCare. 

Beck and Bill turned to the brouhaha surrounding Joe, Mika, and the president's inflammatory tweets.  "Donald Trump is way too sensitive to criticism on cable news," Bill observed, "but I will submit that 90% of the American people do not know who Joe and Mika are.  They're not household names and Trump did them a favor.  But I think Donald Trump and his close advisers have decided that they will never get fair coverage and they will therefore make the American press the enemy.  They are calculating that the American people are so furious with the media that the Trump administration will gain more acceptance if it is aggressively brutal towards the press."  Beck concurred, but worried that President Trump is dividing the country even more than it has been.

Continuing on the tweet dustup, Beck asked Bill whether the feud between the Morning Joe folks and the president could be at least partly stagecraft.  "No, it's not," Bill declared.  "This is all based on emotion, President Trump will not accept criticism.  He once told me that I need a psychiatrist, he takes it all personally.  On the other side it's all about ratings, they know that hating Trump is good for business."  

Beck called for a pox on all their houses:  "You should be more mature than saying 'they started it' or 'she's bleeding from the face.'  The media is not helping and the president is not mature enough, he's acting like my 13-year-old son."  Bill advised Beck, "Trump is not going to change, he's 70 years old and he's always been this way." 

As the show wound down, Bill synthesized his concerns about modern America:  "We are living in an age of hate and there is no counter to it because the press is not seeking the truth.  You and I have both been attacked in brutal ways and it's not going to stop because those attacks work.  Look at the vicious, vile garbage on the Internet, where parents are just as brutal as their children.  Not since the Civil War has there been such hatred among and between Americans."

On that not-so-cheery note, O'Reilly and Beck wished all their listeners a great Independence Day.  This is an ideal time to remember that, amid all the chaos and division and vitriol, we still live in the single greatest nation in the history the world.