0 had enough and murdered an infamous psycho 1972 years ago today. o'reilley was there. that joke is getting old, isn't it. now you know the news for this thursday, january 24, 2013. please don't tell him i said that. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight -- >> ma'am. >> yes? >> can you put somebody around you on the phone? >> bill: "the factor" succeeds in getting the 911 call of that horrendous mob attack in norfolk, virginia. >> i was stopped at a light. somebody threw ago is the my car. >> bill: wait until you hear what happened to the teen-agers who savagely beat two newspaper reporters for absolutely no reason at all. >> there was a lot of guy, people, black kids, picking on a virtually nothing happens to them, well, this is a true travesty of justice. the city of norfolk depends on tourism. so it's obvious they don't want this story in the public arena. my job is to tell you the truth and expose wrongdoing. this whole case is shameful. by the way, the norfolk media attacked "the factor" for its coverage of the crime. that is shameful as well. that's a memo. top story, let's bring in attorney megyn kelly. a number of legal things to talk about. first of all, how are the victims in this case doing? >> we understand the male victim is doing fine and we don't know the update on the woman. but we have every reason to believe she's recovered. >> bill: i think they're both back at the newspaper working this. >> right. >> bill: our producer actually talked to them. one was off the record. the other says he's all right. neither of them we should point out in the interest of fairness, want the story covered. they want it to go away. >> although we should say that they filed a complaint against the police department for the way in which they handled this investigation when it first got started and that is a case we asked with the police department that is a case that is still being handled and pending. >> bill: right. the two victims officially said the police department in norfolk wasn't investigating. >> that they were not investigating. >> bill: here is the problem. >> that led to the ultimate result in the case, bill. >> bill: of course. they didn't want us off this case. here is the problem, the newspaper editor, you heard him, he didn't want the story. >> how does he say it's not a mob? >> bill: 'cause he didn't can't to cover the story. >> i listened to them and i was on with you when you first filed the request for these 911 tapes to which, forget bill o'reilly, the public is entitled to those tapes. what they said to the factor factor first was, oh, you can't have them 'cause you're out of state. well, then we pointed out to them that's not an exception to your obligation to disclose this information and then they said, it's because we have an ongoing investigation. well, we had to live with that until the investigation was officially closed, which it is now. now we are we hear the tapes and not only do you hear the terrified victims, but hear people describing it as mob. why is the virginia pilot, the boss of these two journalists telling you -- >> bill: you want me to answer that? because the editor isn't interested in the news. he's interested in protecting the imof the city because that's why weather the money is made in tourism. that's what it's all about. last question on this for tonight. this punishment is ridiculous, would you agree? >> there is no punishment. >> bill: right. >> first of all, there is supposed to be five of them. so they didn't find one. one gets a slap on the wrist. >> bill: how much does this happen around the country where people are physically assaulted and nothing happens to the assailant? >> i have no way of knowing that. but where there is good police investigation, in a case like, this we have this many eyewitnesses, it should be readily ascertainable who was involved. people were giving descriptions even on the 911 of the outfits being worn by the perpetrators. if you have a quick reaction, i see no reason why they couldn't have found the proper i'd caution, including the two victims who could have participated in i.d. >> bill: it's shameful across the board. >> i agree. it's a crime on two -- >> bill: it's a huge stain on norfolk, virginia. no doubt about it. senator diane feinstein of california introduce the assault weapons ban which they did have for ten years. my question, we'll see the votes in the house and senate. but the last time the ban was passed, was there any meaningful challenge to it? >> there wasn't because that was a '94 and the nra at the time is said to have believed they did not have a particularly friendly make-up on the supreme court. >> bill: so the nra didn't challenge it. >> no, 'cause they didn't want gun rights being adjudicated under that court. the court looks very different now, more right leaning than then. and number two, this ban that she has proposed is much more broad than the one that was put in place back in 1994. we're still getting our first look at it. but it looks like, among other things, she wants to ban hand guns that have detachable magazines. >> bill: clips. >> and one characteristic of a military weapon. the ban in '94, you had to have two or more characteristics. this passed this new york state and there have been suggestions that the new york state prohibition is going to be found unconstitutional because it comes too close to taking hand guns out of millions of americans. >> bill: you fully expect this to go to the supreme court? >> i think the nra is going to look at this much differently. but i don't think it will pass. >> bill: we have a minute left. on tuesday, a legal segment told everybody about a pennsylvania professor, college professor who murdered his wife with a crowbar and was going to be let out of jail after five years on parole. now, pennsylvania has reversed it, rescinded that. what happened? >> the parole board reversed its decision in the wake of a couple things. the family made a stink and met with the parole board. it went into the national media. and most critically, the trial judge who tried the case wrote an unbelievable letter to the parole board saying don't do this. when i sentenced him, i only gave him five to ten because the guidelines required me to do that. i wanted to give him much more. the guidelines wanted me to give him three or four. i gave him five to ten did she issue did he said don't release this guy. he's a dangerous man. >> bill: nobody wants to mess with them. >> i certainly don't. >> bill: that's right. thank you. next up, the obama administration clears women for combat operations, but is that a smart thing to do? we'll hear both sides next [ male announcer ] coughequence™ #8. waking the baby. 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