and what coats said is considered to be extraordinary shows you just how far washington has sunk in the era of donald trump, because, after all, everything that the director of national intelligence said has been confirmed by america s intelligence community, america s military community, and the media, even conservative media outlets, like the wall street journal. everybody has when i say conservative media outlets, also the journal editorial page. it s beyond question. everything that dan coats just said there is beyond question that vladimir putin is meddling in american elections. he s been trying to do that. it is an objective fact since 2014. the indictments that came out today, this day last week, shows
handing off to a separate independent u.s. attorney s office and saying, you look at this. this doesn t fall within my purview. you run with this. to go after mueller and say he s made mistakes in the past is a disservice. i m simply saying, you re saying they re beyond reproach, that the fbi is beyond question. i didn t say that. i don t think i ever said that. yes, you did. you attacked the message here and i m not trying to do that. mistakes have been made in the past. everybody needs to exhale and slow down. everybody s guaranteed the preassumption of innocence. everyone needs to etch hail. i would agree with that. everyone is presumed innocent. in court filings it will say that the subject is innocent until proven guilty but we also have to give the investigators the benefit of the doubt and stop treating them like jack boot thugs. this is our system of justice, our process. i didn t say that. i m saying we need to slow down here. exhale. everybody gets excited about the
admissible in court. any chance an exception would be made in this case? no, little to no chance there would be an exception. it s not admissible in either federal or state court in almost all jurisdictions. i think most people accept the fact that she did have an affair with donald trump. i think that s kind of beyond question. maybe i m nigaive or in a bubbl. but that does not seem to be up for grabs. what do you think about this? i think the only person who seems to be convinced that it didn t happen, or at least representing it didn t happen is donald trump. but certainly the polygraph is out there, not for the legal case. in fact, most of what stormy
i said a year ago, that they should be asking for a special counsel. the only way that president trump could possibly clear his name, after his own comments and this controversy, would be for someone who was beyond reproach, beyond question to render the decision. had the justice department to resolve this question, many on the hill would not be satisfied, because of everything that has happened. this may be the price of hubris. this was almost inevitable when the comey memo hit. but effectively, what happened, the deputy attorney general gave the country a healthy dose of tylenol to bring this fever down. that also tends to prolong the sickness. as you note, these investigations are measured not in weeks or months but years. they tend not to be the most efficient way to go about something. but they are the way to do it if you want to make sure that the results are accepted. martha: this has been
the factor begins right now. hi, i m bill o reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. reaction to the republican debate. that is the subject of this evening s talking points memo. it is beyond question. many people believe the cnbc mad moderators were a bit arrogant. some were opine. not to get information but it to create controversy. thus, the moderators got hammered but not by everyone. i thought they did a good job tonight. i m very pleased with. had time to be able to speak and talk about the fantasy land and also be able to talk about my plan, my program. the things that i know we can do together to get the budget balanced and create jobs and fix this country so i m very appreciative of how they did their job tonight. governor kasich in a minority but he is looking