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caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone . the factor begins right now. hi, i am bill o reilly, thanks for watching us tonight. president obama s job performance, that is a subject of this evening s talking points memo. about an hour from now, barack obama will deliver his farewell address. after eight years in office, he believes he has been successful. others dissent. wall street journal editorializing today, barack obama s presidency has been a disappointment at home and abroad. in fact, ironically, underscored by mr. obama s relentless insistence that he has been a so, now, talking points would like to assess and present the facts about president obama on the job. first of all, some of you believe that i, your humble correspondent, have been too easy on mr. obama. over the years, i ve received letters like these. speaking of matthew richards, native massachusetts come i didt realize that you are the new spokesman for the white house. bill, you threw ....
and we know how that turned out. god, you may want to intervene here. i want to just pray for arnold, if we can, for those ratings. i m not worried about arnold s ratings. i m worried about what are we going to do about iran. i m in favor of additional sanctions against iran. nothing is off the table. reporter: officials in the u.s. military raising major concerns over president trump s hastily approved ground strike in yemen. he doesn t make executions like that glibly. he did make the call at dinner, right? i can t reveal where he made the call. president trump s enemies within the administration continue an unprecedented level of leaking for a presidency that is not yet two weeks old. there are new leaks tonight about the president s role in launching a mission in yemen in which u.s. navy s.e.a.l. william owens became the first american killed in yemen. counsel of different people. there were other people around the table including his secretaries and ge ....
how important this process is, to getting confirmation, as we saw what happened in 1986. more importantly, i think he took head on a lot of the critics and criticism of decisions that he s made and votes he s cast. and i thought in particular, with cory booker becoming historic, you saw the first sho for the 2020 democratic nomination for president. let s just put that on the table. certainly, that s part of the drama and theater of what he chose to do. but i also found it somewhat ironic that just in january of 2016, in legislation that he co-sponsored with mr. sessions, that celebrated those who walked from walked the selma mile, if you will, that he referred to him as it was a great honor to work with him and that he appreciated his commitment to civil rights. and yet now sees him as he referred to him as a danger with danger to our country, as he s been quoted to say. the politics is not lost here. i think everyone in this town understands that. and to have this stag ....
north korean actions just re-enforced for both leaders why this is the number one threat to both prime minister abe and to president trump. i think the north korean actions were deliberately timed after what was a pretty good week in terms of u.s. policy in asia, with regard to president trump s call with xi jinping and secretary mattis s trip to the region, i think the trump administration said look, we re here and we re not going to be an easy issue to deal with. right now the national security advisor is said to have broke on the law and critics call for him to be fired, for him to step down. how much does that impact the advice that this group can give the president at this time? i think the precedent is going to get advise from a wide range of people, including the folks in the state department, particularly those commitments to china that would affect the finances that north korea has for building these missiles, there may be a statement that comes out of the u.n. se ....
plus literally dialing up the rhetoric. president trump and president putin set to talk as counterpart tomorrow. but who s calling who? keir simmons in new york, kristen welker at the white house. big meeting today, big phone call tomorrow but it s the meeting that s not happening that s grabbing all the headlines, right? that s right. that meeting that was supposed to happen with the president of mexico which was cancelled yesterday after president trump insisted that mexico was going to pay for the wall, the president of mexico said not going to pay for the wall. that is something we have heard him say over and over again. then we learned he cancelled the meeting. president trump tried to cast it as a mutual decision. bottom line, this is a rift in a relation with one of the united states closest allies, its third largest trading partner. what happens next? the administration floating the idea of a possible 20% tax on imports from mexico and, hallie, for a very busy day. ....