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So, this Inspector General report should be out by now and now I can only assume they're playing games inside of the Justice Department and will release it tomorrow Friday in the summer or even Monday the day before the big meeting in Singapore, between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. If they do that, that signals to everybody that they, the Justice Department doesn't want full attention on this. It's a pretty transparent mechanism to release it on those days, so you can assume that the Justice Department is being nefarious, word of the day, if this report comes out either tomorrow or Monday, which it almost has to if the inspector general himself, Michael Horowitz is to testify on Tuesday in front of the Senate.
Now, Tuesday again that's the day that Trump meets Un, so a lot of stuff in play here. It's not going to be good news for the FBI. This report it is not, it's going to put an onus on Loretta Lynch, the former attorney general, James Comey and on McCabe his deputy. Now, how bad it's going to be? I don't know. Nobody knows. But it's going to be good so I'm kind of really disappointed with Attorney General Sessions for playing this game because this report should have been out and he recused himself only from the Russia part of it, not from the Hillary Clinton e-mail part of it and not from the overall running of the Justice Department.
All right so let's examine where President Trump is right now as he travels to Canada tomorrow. They're having a G-7 economic summit at a place called Charlevoix, I think that's how you say it, I've been there. I think it's Charlevoix, Quebec. That's how you say, it's not Quebec it's Quebec and all of the big Western economic powers, remember they booted out Russia, Russia is booted, so Putin can't go. So it used to be the G8 not it is the G7. So, Trump is heading up there in a position of strength because the U.S. economy is roaring and he wants better trade deals with almost everybody at that economic summit. He's going to get them, Trump is going to get the better trade deals, not going to get everything he wants but we already know that China has offered to buy 70 billion dollars a year more American goods then they were, that'll go up to 100 billion. It is still a big deficit, 275 billion and then Trump will get better terms from the EU, he will. And that's a good thing for America, isn't it?
Now, Barack Obama didn't even try, so you want to compare two presidents, there's the comparison. So Trump will go in there, I hope he goes in there humble. You know, I wouldn't go in strutting, I hope he goes in humble and says look all we want is a fair deal for the USA and if you give us a fair deal it's better for you because the whole worldwide economy will lift. That's the argument. Now one the side about the summit itself, it's going to take place in the Fairmont Hotel at the Manoir Richelieu. Now I have been there, its on the St. Lawrence River.
Quick story, I'm up in Quebec, beautiful town, beautiful walled city, lots of history, love it there. And I just say, you know I'm going to go up north for a couple hours because I hadn't seen that part of Canada. So, I get in my little car and I race up there, about a hundred and twenty miles an hour, there is nobody on the road. Nobody! Zoom! All of a sudden, a Mountie pulls out behind me, the little car flag, oh I'm toast. I'm really going fast but again with nobody on the road. So I pull over, he gets out of the car little guy in his Mountie uniform, he comes up I roll down the window, he looks at me, he goes, La Factor. He's a big fan, so he didn't write me up and I apologized profusely I said look, I'm undisciplined there is nobody on the road, I want to get up to this Richelieu place and check it out and he goes oh I tell you, you have to obey the speed limits, you know, I said okay good, thank you sir. I appreciate. He gave me a big break, I could have been paying lots of money going that fast.
So, anyway I went up there, it's a beautiful facility and I'm sure you know, there is a golf course, but they're not going to play golf, they're going to sit around and try to make trade deals and then Trump comes back for a little while and then he goes to Singapore a big, big trip, about an 18-hour ride. OK. And they're going to meet, he and the North Korean dictator at Sentosa Island. Now, I've been in Singapore, I'm going to tell you stories of Singapore on Monday. I gave you my Quebec story and I'll give you my Singapore stories on money and they're interesting and there's a reason why they're going to be on Sentosa Island.
So, Trump finds himself in a pretty good spot as far as policy is concerned, all right he is making inroads on a lot of different fronts, foreign policy, economics, the border... mmmmm very shaky and we'll get to that in a little while. But the president, if he were anyone else would have a 65 percent approval rate but as you know and as we've detailed the press is killing him every day no matter what he does, doesn't matter what he, doesn't matter how good the economy gets. They go Barack Obama did it and he inherited it. That's the latest. I mean it's just so absurd, so insane.
Now, I wrote a column it's posted on BillOReilly.com about why Americans are fed up with the press. Now, I've been doing this but this column is worth reading because now I get very specific about things. So I hope you read that column but he's getting pounded and pounded and pounded and pounded, primarily on the Russian collusion thing, this story is never going to go away. And Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor and now CNBC reports anonymous sources everyone, sources told CNBC, sources who spoke on condition of anonymity, sources say, that witnesses in the Russian collusion probe, have been asked to give their cell phones to Mueller. OK good. Is this a big story? I don't know who the witnesses are, I don't know who told CNBC that, I don't know anything. I don't think it is a big story.
What is a big story is the American media is totally ignoring what's happening in the country and continuing to try to remove President Trump from office. The only chance they have to do that is if Robert Mueller drops a bomb with the inspector general's report going to undercut Mueller's investigation by saying, the agency involved in accumulating the information was not being honest and that's what the IG report will most likely say, Mueller is kind out there, kind of out there now.
Let's bring in Steven Calabresi, he teaches law at Northwestern University, a very fine school in Chicago, former special assistant to Attorney General Edwin Meese, former law clerk to justice Antonin Scalia and he is the co-author of the book Unitary Executive: Presidential Power from Washington to Bush. He is coming to us from Providence Rhode Island this evening. First of all, Steven, am I setting this up in a way that isn't fair or am I missing something about Trump's experience right this day?
"You're setting it up in a way that's completely fair and I've always admired the fact that because you do that I think the media is mistreating Trump horribly by focusing on the Mueller investigation and I think the inspector general's report as you say will provide very damaging information about misbehavior by the FBI."
Just today, Judicial Watch put out a statement that they are trying to get documents that the FBI and the Justice Department will not give congressional investigators and they came up with a few e-mails from this Peter Struck, he's the main FBI investigator who they believe favored Hillary Clinton and you know, wanted Trump to get into trouble. But I don't know much about Robert Mueller, in the sense that his resume is decent, you know he did the thing in Boston which wasn't good with the Whitey Bulger case but I don't know whether he's a zealot, whether he's like Fitzgerald who just absolutely was going to get Dick Cheney or Scooter Libby no matter what. How do you see Mueller? Do you think he's a fair man?
"Well I'm very influenced by this Los Angeles Times article about Mueller, which argues that he's very hot tempered. He's very short and quick with staff members, that he is never willing to admit when he's made a mistake and that he once when he was FBI director went to great lengths to avoid being investigated by the investigator, by the Justice Department's investigator general. So, I don't I think Mueller is very much like Patrick Fitzgerald, I think he is very pro-prosecution and very loathes to drop a case, even though he's been pursuing this case for 13 months now and he has yet to produce any evidence at all of collusion with Russia, notwithstanding the fact that President Trump has given him almost unlimited access to White House material and personnel, something that no prior president has ever done."
Yeah and that's overlooked, that's an excellent point. But maybe Mueller wouldn't give the public pieces of information, you know if I were a special prosecutor, would I want to dole it out piece by piece? I'd probably want to you know, clamp everything down until my final report. Does that make sense?
"Well it could make sense. I think one important thing to note with Mueller is, I think that Robert Mueller's appointment as special counsel is actually unconstitutional because he was never nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and he is exercising the powers that are held by an assistant attorney general or a permanent U.S. attorney and all of those officials have to be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. There are 93 U.S. attorneys in the country and they're all nominated by the president. I think it is unconstitutional for Mueller."
It may well be but that's not going to matter if Mueller comes out and accuses Donald Trump of something. You know they'll litigate it but it's the court of public opinion now that is most important and that brings me to the question of we hear time and time again that President Trump has been told by Comey, by Rosenstein, by members of Mueller's team that he isn't the target here. That it's not the President of the United States, he isn't the target of any Russian collusion, maybe people around him. So, I'm saying to myself, if that's true wouldn't it be better for the country if Robert Mueller would step up and say we're clearing him but we have some other people we're looking at. Wouldn't that be the way to handle it?
"Absolutely, that's what Mueller ought to do, he ought to clear President Trump and stop distracting him and the press so that President Trump can perform the duties of the office he was elected to perform. And I should mention something about Mueller, which is that he spent over 17 million dollars so far investigating Russian collusion and the entire criminal division of the Justice Department spends 220 million dollars a year. So Mueller has spent almost 10 percent of the total budget of the criminal division of the Justice Department and basically he's really turned up nothing so far."
Yeah, well that we know of, that we know of because I want to be scrupulously fair on my analysis of this because my audience depends on me, you know no spin, that's a term I made up but really, to really see it, so we don't know, we don't know if Mueller doesn't have anything. What we do know is that Comey, Rosenstein, the two former head of the FBI, Rosenstein is now in charge of the investigation, both said Donald is not the focus of it and they would be in a position to know because Rosenstein oversees Mueller and Mueller could make a statement at any time, well that's not true or we are still look into it. But he hasn't. So, I think that you and I are simpatico on the fact that the country is being hurt. So we're going into a summit that could denuclearize the Korean peninsula and we still have to deal with this murky stuff by anonymous leaks and all of that, we're going into an economy that is at historic levels as far as employment is concerned but there's still no uniformed happiness because of this. So, this is like dragging the spirit of the country down into a place where I think it's damaging our very society and I want it to stop and I think this IG report, that it should have been out a long time ago and they're playing games with it.
"It should've been out a long time ago, I agree with you that they are playing games with it and they should release it immediately and Attorney General Sessions has appointed John Huber the U.S. attorney for Utah to prosecute any wrongdoing that the inspector general report turns up and I hope that Huber brings some prosecutions."
Well, McCabe is done, McCabe is going to be prosecuted. I'll bet you any amount of money. Comey, if McCabe flips on Comey, which if offered a deal, he would. So Comey could be in big trouble, too. Which is why he's out trying to sell as many books as he can, he's going to have to pay those lawyers. So it is, it is really murky. But you know, what I appreciate your candor, Mr. Calabresi, you know, you're one of the few that we can get on here who can cut through the darkness and I hope you'll come back when the IG report comes out probably next week and then ultimately, when Mueller does what Mueller does, so I really thank you for the opportunity to talk with you today.
"Thank you for the chance to be on the factor. I've long admired your show, it's great to be here."
OK. Let's move onto the border. Last year at this time Donald Trump was saying hey I got it under control, my tough border policies are stemming the tide, not now and that's because the surge of illegal immigrants coming here, is because the economy is so good. Now, you get a job like that now and that's why it's happening. So 50,000 in April, 50,000 apprehended in May and this is people turn back and actually taken into custody, both numbers and that is way more than this time last year. But the real humanitarian problem is that families with children trying to cross the border illegally, are up 435 percent from May 18 to May 17, 435 percent. 11,000 children now in custody without their parents or an adult who brought them here. That's a big problem. Those kids are innocent and the federal government's got to, got to deal with them. Now, not our fault, not America's fault. OK. They're being brought here because they're being told, they being the illegal immigrants. You bring a kid, you got a better chance of getting in, that's what these unscrupulous coyotes, these people smugglers are telling them. And that's what they're doing.
Now, if you look at the people who are decrying this and you say OK now what is your solution? What is your solution to it, on the border? How would you handle it? You get a blank stare, a blank stare. It's like nothing, they have no solutions but in their heart of hearts the far left people would let everybody in. That's the open border George Soros crowd. We'll get to Soros in a moment. Everybody comes, c'mon c'mon in to America. You're poor? You don't like Honduras? You don't like where you live? Come on in. And we'll give you all the services, all the welfare, we will give you the food stamps, we'll educate you, we'll give you driver's licenses, can't pay for health care? We'll pay for your healthcare. Obamacare will take care of you. Meanwhile, we have twenty-one trillion-dollar debt. So, this is, this is suicide, economic suicide, the open border policy. So, you've got to understand the intensity of this and then they oppose the border wall. So you ask Senator Charles Schumer what would you do? Well we want to increase security. What does that mean? When you have 50,000 people a month being detained that means another hundred thousand or so got in. It's a wave, a human way and we don't have the personnel we can't do it. You don't have the court system, you don't have the Border Patrol can't do it. There's not enough human beings, so you've got to put up a barrier an impenetrable barrier. Or the country gets driven into bankruptcy, we're almost on the doorstep of bankruptcy now. This drives me crazy because it's so disingenuous, so dishonest when I hear Nancy Pelosi and these liberals and CNN and MSNBC and all the network news, you can't separate the people, you can't, hey it's not our fault.
Now, I have a solution to this problem and I put it in the Message of the Day and the solution is basically, that you put the kids and their guardians on a military base, you adjudicate them quickly, you send them back together. You got military bases you can do that, that's what I would do immediately and then I have a solution to the dreamer thing because Republicans met today it's a bunch of gobbledygook. I was going to report on it, they don't know what they want to do, some of the Republicans a hard right and they don't want to have anything to do with given the dreamers, these are the kids who were brought here through no fault of their own by their parents or relatives. They don't want to give them anything, they just want to throw them out. That's the hard right. The moderate Republicans want to you know, have a little system for them. Most Americans agree with the moderate Republicans, as do I but I would make the system very strict and I have it written down in the Message of the Day. I want you to read the message, I was going to go over it now but you know what, you can read it if you're interested, if you're not interested I don't want to bore you. Read it and then write me, do you agree or not? If not, why? And on Monday we'll have a real good discussion on this, just you and me and we will get a guest. So read the Message of the Day, take notes, formulate e-mails saying, you're right O'Reilly, I support you because of this or you're wrong you're a pinhead O'Reilly and this is the reason why. And we will kick it around on Monday. All right.
Kim Kardashian turns out to be a humanitarian. She got a woman, sixty-one-year-old Alice Johnson who is serving life in prison for drug smuggling drug distribution drugs, drugs, drugs. She's in prison 21 years, well Kim Kardashian went to Donald Trump said please let her out on a humanitarian basis and Trump did. Trump commuted the sentence, Alice Marie Johnson got out yesterday and here's what she said about Kim Kardashian and President Trump. Roll it.
"Kim told me when she left the White House meeting, that no matter how this turns out that she will never stop fighting for me until I come home. So this is, she's an incredible woman, an amazing woman."
"I would tell President Trump, thank you so much, that I am going to be that one that is going to make you so proud and I hope that my life will encourage him to do this for others too."
Now, the interesting part about this story in the sense that President Trump did pardon the woman at the behest of Kim Kardashian, is that President Obama turned her down, turn her down for a commutation because her crime was very severe but it was about 25 years ago, she's 62 model prisoner, you know I said a few days ago, I would have let her stay in prison for another few years, I'm revising that. I think this was the right thing to do and I do say that by the way the woman reacted, by thanking Kim Kardashian and President Trump and I thought in a very sincere way. So when I see that, I say OK. You know I never had much use for Kim Kardashian and the whole Kardashian machine. I never paid attention to it, I never watched them once on TV. They don't really have any talent, with all due respect that I can see, they don't entertain other than wearing clothing and I guess they talk amongst themselves and people like that, I don't know. I just don't know. But I have to say that Kim Kardashian used her fame in a very good way and I've gained a measure of respect.
Here is a story that made my head go back a little bit. We got Justify, he's won the Derby and the Preakness and is going to run the Belmont on Saturday and could be the 13th Triple Crown winner and Justify is owned by WinStar Farm. OK 60 percent of Justify is owned by the farm. It takes a lot of money to develop a horse at this level. Fifteen percent of Justify is owned by George Soros, that means I guess the horse is a little left leaning. Let's watch when the horse leaves the gate if he veers left, so 15 percent of the horse is owned by one of Soros' many fund concerns, SF Bloodstock and SF Racing Group. So Soros has his money in Justify. Eh, it's a free country, am I going to root against Justify, I have to think about that. I despise George Soros, he paid people to attack me, so it's personal. All right. His groups did, his groups did. He funds groups, the groups attack people they don't like and that's how it works.
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Joe Yared. Minneapolis.
"I voted for Trump. I want to put this into proper context, Trump disinviting the Philadelphia Eagles shows he's content to divide the country. He does a good job of dividing us and turning the rhetoric, my side versus your side, he said he was going to be a unifier not getting my vote in 2020."
OK Joe, I mean listen you're a smart guy your email was a well composed. You don't want to vote for Trump, that's your privilege but remember all these guys, Barack Obama said he would unify the country, Hillary Clinton said she would unify, none of them are going to unify the country. Donald Trump knows his chances for re-election stand with expanding his base, not convincing Nancy Pelosi and the New York Times that he's worthy. That's never gonna happen. So, yes, he does manipulate things like the national anthem and the Philadelphia Eagles, I said he did, there's no doubt he does. But for him it's the greater good, I'm going to mobilize my base, I'm going to get my people, more on my side because I need that and if I have to use the dopey Philadelphia Eagles, and I say dopey because look, if you're going to disrespect the man, the President you've got to expect to be disinvited. If you say I'm not going to show up he's not even going to bother with you. All right.
John Kelly. Nutley, New Jersey.
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"Two things: The baker in Colorado would have provided the cake to the gay couple but he just didn't want to put a marital sign on it."
It's true.
"The other thing is I want to mention Donald Trump offering Donald Jr. talking points about his infamous meeting with the Russian lawyer. I know you said it's not good but what do you think could come of it?"
Nothing, nothing can come of it. It just shows that the White House wasn't telling the truth when it described that meeting in the aftermath. It isn't a crime to advise your son in an ill-advised meeting and that's what I would have said in the beginning if I had been President Trump, hey my son came to me for advice I gave him this advice. Everybody would understand.
On the message board, Ralph.
"If McCabe takes the Fifth we'll have another Lois Lerner all over again nothing will happen. Can he do this?"
McCabe, second in command of the FBI. All right. Has now been accused of lying to his own firm, that's way beyond Lois Lerner. That's a criminal charge. OK. And he has to take the Fifth, so it's not anything like Lois Lerner, McCabe, Andrew McCabe is going to be charged with a crime, Lois Lerner was not. That's a big difference.
Joanne on the message boards.
"My question is do left leaning readers and watchers of the media realize there's no sense of fair play?"
They don't care. fanatics and zealots don't care about fair play. They don't, they're just going to give you their side and they don't want to hear the other side.
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I don't want the draft, I don't think we need it. I think your character is formed, yeah you're immature when you graduate from high school and college but I don't think the military's responsibility is social engineering, Maria. We put our money where we need it, we don't need a mass army anymore because of high tech weaponry.
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And finally, Rex, this is one I wanted to, no I'm going to hold this Rex, I'll hold that.
Jermain.
I still don't understand how President Obama can make a deal to send a billion dollars in cash to Iran without Congress' OK.".
I'm going to, I'm going to research this Jermain so I give you a very, very exact and specific answer. All right. So we'll do that next week. I'm going to put this aside here so I know it.
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