the temple mount is a very significant part of the state of israel. from the point of view of jews, christians, and muslims, it theoretically is the place where abraham attempted to sacrifice his son. of course according to which belief you have, jewish, christian, he didn t. muslim belief he did. the reality this is a very significant place to go. he should go there to try to, try to engender in people the idea we can all live peacefully together, sharing this, it s part of our religion. we have a slightly different interpretation of it, but it s part of our joint religion, you were president, you would go? once you did that to me and told me you re going to declare war on me if i don t go, won t let them tell moo where i could and the couldn t go. i couldn t imagine and let s see what the president does, in the lead-up to this, he s meeting with the palestinian groups, is that a concern for israel. if he s having a number of
soft, kind of dating game kind of thing rather than. look, they didn t need to be a mike wallace doing that the late mike wallace. i couldn t imagine chris wallace doing it. this was a very interesting moment. he didn t make the most of it. steve kroft didn t. president obama and secretary clinton made the most of it, which was to sort of congratulate each other and look happy. that s all they needed to do and that s all they had to do. i want you to watch the interview that i do with party.powell because it s all it s about you, your guys. that s tomorrow. and then we will have you back and you can discuss that interview. okay? you bet. bill: all right, mr. rove. on deck mr. carolla and chubby americans. some feel we should scorn them. carolla moments away.
soft, kind of dating game kind of thing rather than. look, they didn t need to be a mike wallace doing that the late mike wallace. i couldn t imagine chris wallace doing it. this was a very interesting moment. he didn t make the most of it. steve kroft didn t. president obama and secretary clinton made the most of it, which was to sort of congratulate each other and look happy. that s all they needed to do and that s all they had to do. i want you to watch the interview that i do with collin powell because it s all about the republican party. it s about you, your guys. that s tomorrow. and then we will have you back and you can discuss that interview. okay? you bet. bill: all right, mr. rove. on deck mr. carolla and chubby americans. some feel we should scorn them. carolla moments away.
i m bill o reilly, thanks for watching this special edition of the factor. we begin tonight with three genuine american war heros. chris kyl and former seal marcus la tremendously. all have remarkable stories to tell us. we begin with sergeant meijer. before we get to the book, and what you did and what you were honored for, recently, the u.s. command in afghanistan forbade american and nato troops from patrolling with our afghan allies. that is just stunning to me after 11 years in the theater. what do you think about that? i couldn t imagine. i was living withvi these guys, these afghans and i trusted them with my life. you know, i was so close to them that i was as close to them as i wasth the marines. bill: so and you were out in the forward bases so you had the elite afghan troops with you, right? i mean, they are just like a regular platoon. they weren t elite or special reports forces they were regular guys. regular guys out with you
columnist, both co-host of the five. good morning to both of you. happy anniversary. happy anniversary? thank you, bill. bill: bob has no idea what we re talking about. like any man celebrating an anniversary. bill: it was this week five years ago where the two of you came on tv for the first time. has it been that long? bill: it has been that long. the time has flown. and what people, people are not giving us any credit for creating the five. which eventually led to that. franchise started right here. happy anniversary, andrea, bill. you did a terrific job in connecticut. i can t tell you. yes you did, bill. bill: tough story as you can well see. i couldn t imagine. bill: let s talk about this andrea. will republicans go along with boehner or tell him to get out of the room again? it depends what he is proposing. if he is proposing to have a vote extending all the bush tax cuts there is a very good chance they will go along with him but why didn t he do this earl