0 5th, 2013. i'm shepard smith. we're all back tomorrow for "studio b," noon pacific time, 3:00 eastern time and back here for "the fox report" tomorrow night. the o'reilly factor is warming up in the wings so hold on tight. >> laura: the o'reilly factor is on tonight. >> al qaeda is on the run and bin laden is dead. >> laura: just months after president declird al qaeda's demise now has america on the defense. how serious is the latest threat? we'll have the inside story. >> we're not broke. there is plenty of money. it's just the government doesn't have it. >> far left congressman keith ellison wants the rich to fork over their wealth whether they want to or not. we have a debate there is a rising libertarian stream that chris christie thinks that is a dangerous thought. a number of people may think mr. christie himself may be dangerous. >> laura: chris christie taking friendly fire from conservatives. is new jersey governor the best chance to beat hillary? we will hear from both sides. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> laura: hi, everyone, i'm laura ingraham in tonight for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us. hollywood and hillary. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. big news today. according to quinnipiac, among republicans and democrats, chris christie is the hottest politician in america. narrowly besting hillary clinton and barack obama. but pay no attention to that poll because to the hollywood and new york set, the former first lady is still the hottest commodity out there. at least if their production schedule says anything about it nbc, whose cable network is a house judiciary committee staff during watergate. no word by the way on whether the night of september 11th, 2012 will make the final hillary cut. but, i have a question what g.o.p. candidate is going to get his or her theatrical release or multipart mini series. in the run up to 20 are we going to see films like rand and deliver. marco from cuba with love. how about a big screen release the bush dynasty a life of service. oh, come on. today republican national committee chairman rice priebus sent letters to cnn and nbc asking them to cancel projects about hillary who we know is all but certain to run for president. priebus says if the programs are not cancelled he is going to recommend that the rnc not partner with nbc news or cnn for the 2016 primary debates. i'm going to say it's about time the rnc does something that the grass roots can cheer. republicans cannot force the media to be more even handed. but they also aren't under the obligation to help them elect more democrats. i wish more people in the g.o.p. leadership realized that most news outlets are run by people who dislike conservatives and want to elect liberals that's the memo. now on to the top story. the terror threats that have forced the closings of 19 u.s. embassies this week. how serious is this? >> after benghazi, these al qaeda types are really on steroids. thinking we are weaker and they are stronger. >> white house spokesman jay carney addressed the issue today. >> our current information suggests that al qaeda and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks both in the region and beyond. and our information suggests that they may focus efforts to conduct attacks in the period between now and the end of august. >> with us now chad suite, he is a former homeland security and cia official and current ceo of the chertoff group a global security advisory firm. chad, this is wild. try to keep the numbers straight here. 19 closed for another week. we had a worldwide travel alert here. how serious and how unusual is this and we'll get into the specifics. >> laura, it's very serious and very unusual. when i was in office, it would take a significant level of intelligence to warrant this kind of action. so what it tells us is that it is very specific and the reports about particularly the surgically implanted explosives i think is what is leading in part to this reaction. in addition, the last thing i would note is if you look at how they are leaning forward, this is clearly a reaction in part to benghazi. >> laura: before we get to benghazi, specific communications between ayman al-zawahiri and nasir top of the two top significant threat now reality that. mukasey former attorney general is on radio today with me. he is very information that keeps being put out by the obama folks. and stuck net virus and iranian system. that information was released after bin laden too many operational details about the way he was killed were released. and now this. but, nevertheless, you know, the president is getting praise from lindsey graham john mccain and others for getting ahead of this. and that's where you think maybe what happened in benghazi plays into this? 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[cheers] >> usama bin laden is dead. [cheers] >> why was the president pushing this terror victory narrative when the threat is still very much alive. joining us from new york is bernard whitman and here in the studio with me the famous mary katharine ham a fox news contributor. great to see both of you. mary katharine, let me start with you here. listening to those old clips it's sad and feweriating and amusing. this idea that the al qaeda was on the run it sounded great. where are we now given the threats. >> the american people rightly gave him plenty of credit for usama bin laden. that became the entirety of the message about terror. the pitch was not in a george bush style you need my steady hand on this site so we can continue and keep being protected. without a unified structure. unlike an octopus, when you cut off the head the tentacles regroup and that's exactly what happened. taken advantage of the unstable governments. and thankfully flew n samplet and drone strikes we have been able to get rid of the lot of the senior leadership after the killing of usama bin laden. >> laura: those are bush programs. >> actually, obama ramped them up tremendouslily and unfortunately there is a lot of members of your party that seem intent in living in the drone strikes and getting away of the nsa surveillance programs. embassy closures. >> laura: you know what i love about this bernard all my liberal friends this is where conservatives and liberals meet. libertarians and liberals. elites in both parties are in agreement about the nsa and stuff. think about, this you think about closing 19 embassies. we just had had a former nsadhs official say do you know what it takes to close an embassy? the primary responsibility of the host country to protect these embassies with our support intelligence suggested that is not going to be possible. rather than take a risk we're going to shut them down. that's exactly what we should be doing. >> impossible to defend. >> embassies, very concerning to send a message that's what it takes. >> all around the world, and the most responsible thing to do was to shut these embassies in the face of credible threat. which we picked up thanks to the nsa program. >> laura: i thought hope and harmony and reign supreme in 2008. i thought it was going to be rainbows and lollipops and all fall from the sky. the global community was supposed to come together. i'm very disappointed in all of this. mary katharine and bernard, great to see you as always. when we come right back, new york yankees star alex rodriguez in major league trouble and tens of millions of dollars is at stake. and then, does the on every purchase every day. produce delivery. 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