it is my job to give you a hard time. it is my job to give everyone in power a hard time. and i do. you remember that president trump told me i should see a psychiatrist at one point. but i don t have an agenda, other than an honest presentation. i like barack obama as i have liked george w. bush. i think they are both patriots, okay? you may not agree with their policies, you may think that t they are not managing well. that s fine. everybody has an opinion. but as human beings, i thinkey they are both trying to do what is best for the country. so, i admire that, i respect that. bill: for saying that, the far right hammered me. summing up, if the american press wants to regain respect, it needs to ditch its outwardly liberal bent. i know all these people. i know all the anchors, most of the producers, i know who they are and how they think. in the national press, it is at least ten to one, liberal over conservative.
but as president trump told me in the interview, the magnitude of his job surprised him. i m sure it was the same for president obama. true, and you wrote that email before my talking points tonight. we shall see.
bill: thanks for staying with us. i am bill o reilly. in the hume zone segment, the accomplishments of the trump16 administration thus far. after four weeks, it has ended with a catch and release of illegal immigrants on the southern border. it has ordered the new border wall to be built. and it has tried to limit refugees from chaotic muslim nations. b that was harpooned by the courts, as youo know. but some anti-trump people say the administration is all talk and little action. since winning the election,is donald trump has dominated the news nearly every day. he has picked fights with the media, making a series of bizarre, mostly false claims, but in the midst of it all, what has he actually done? hardly anything. bill: but is that true? joining us now from florida, brit hume.tr so evaluating the first four weeks, accomplishments, where would you put the trump administration? i would put it pretty high on the list, bill. i think he has done quite a number of things that we
not willing to give him a chance or any benefit of the doubt. surely, that is what is going on. surely. as for the adversarial nature of the press, senator mccain is correct. the founding fathers gave us specific freedom so we couldri tell you how the people in power were behaving. but when the press aligns itself with a political movement, in this case, liberalism, then, it is no longer objective or free, because it is sympathizing with a political point of view. it is tethered to a philosophy. this is not unique to america. the european press is far left, generally speaking. they are worse than the presse here. but in america, president trump has made this an enormous issue. some believe that the fox news channel is not fair and free. i dispute that, pointing to
think it s absurd. bill: so, why would mr. zakaria, who is one of cnn s big analysts, make that assertion? well, i suspect that it is because the things that he is accomplishing are not agreeable to people like mr. zakaria. i don t know mr. zakaria. but i think he i bill: we talked about earlier on the factor tonight, there is this huge divide. i mean, getting bigger by the day. look, whether people like brit hume or not, hume has been around since james polk. he knows what washington is and knows what presidents do. so, hume comes in, not a big fan of barack obama, i think that is accurate, right? i mean, of donald trump? nor was i really a r particularly big fan of donald trump. bill: i meant to say donald trump but i m old and i m losing my mind. not a big fan of