Talking points is on. Also ahead, Dennis Miller on china. An ambassador john bull on whether president obama will be dragged into the rice story. Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. Hi, im bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. A few powerful people in washington really want to know the truth and . That is the subject of tonights talking points. Remember that the irs was accused of auditing some conservative groups for political reasons. That is illegal. The woman in charge of the office that allegedly happened was lois lerner. She was called to testify in front of a congressional committee. She took the fifth. While i would very much like to answer the communitys questions today, ive been advised by my counsel to assert my constitutional right not to testify or answer questions related to the subject matter of this hearing. Bill after that, ms. Lerner packed up and left the irs with a nice government pension. Absolutely Nothing Happene
plead the fifth. you think any attorney would tell her that? bill: it s kind of inconsistent with what she said. she said she did nothing wrong but i ve been a lawyer. maybe i tell my client i have an abundance of caution. don t answer any of these questions. i don t pretend to be a legal expert on masking i m going to try to find out what the rules are and are they crimes. is it important enough for the country to give meeting to get to the bottom of this? it s a story that is now politicized, you know that. your democratic colleagues in the senate don t want any part of this. to back will see. they ve been really good. i want to hear from brandon and klapper about potential trump ties. he said there is no evidence. bill: i understand. don t you think the senate is about as polarized as you ve ever seen in your career right
jurisdiction. but my committee is ready to move forward with public testimony of brandon klapper and yates and i would ask brendan klapper to susan rice ever come to any of your organizations and ask that names be unmasked? bill: and that s a simple question yes or no. now we assume that when ambassador rice gets called before any congressional committee, the house is investigating to come she s going to take the fifth just like lois lerner did. i d be surprised. she said she did nothing wrong but were trying to build the case here i suppose. just in the old-fashioned way. the people in charge of the collection need to be asked if susan rice ever asked for anything you collected to be on masse and if she did, what did she do with it? and if she takes the fist, that would be stunning. bill: why would it be stunning though? don t you feel she s in a precarious position right now and go to for that her attorneys are going to say listen, there s a lot of implications here and there a
nsa to have unmasking of any trump transition figures that were surveilled? then you go and ask the rally question, what say you if she did? what committee should do that in the senate? good question. this is where it s confusing. you have brennan and klapper under the jurisdiction of the intelligence committee but i ve made a request of the judiciary sub committee for klapper. sally yates, for our committee and testify in public, we ll see if we can do that. bill: and can you compel them to come to your committee? can you compel them to do it? they only want to come once. in the testify once in an open hearing, once in a closed session. that got to cordate this with the intelligence committee to find out who s in charge. sally yates was in the justice department so she s under the judiciary committee jurisdiction, the other two are probably on the intel
intelligence, yes. now as part of his job, does he have anything to do with susan rice? because she s a national security advisor. do they work together? yes, the director of national intelligence ought to be the servant of the president through the national security council. he has a very important role to play in that regard. bill: what is her role as far as he s concerned? in effect, she is her supervisor since he doesn t supervise anyone directly in it to the national security council that the entire intelligence community is cast with responsibility for what intelligence to collect. okay, so klapper is supervised by susan rice. so as susan rice s attorney, i m saying maybe she wanted to check up on him? maybe she wanted to see for herself what was happening? what s wrong with that? if you have some notion that