(NewsNation) — After years of criticizing him down the quality desk, Bill O'Reilly offered praise for erstwhile President Barack Obama arsenic the “hardest-working modern president.”
“Obama was the hardest-working modern president,” helium told NewsNation’s Leland Vittert. “I knew what helium was doing and wherefore helium was doing it, and helium wasn't, successful his mind, oregon successful my mind, damaging the country.”
NewsNation's Chief Washington Anchor and big of "On Balance," Leland Vittert," sits down with the 1 and lone Bill O'Reilly successful a NewsNation peculiar entitled "Bill O'Reilly's Confronting the Presidents: America's Best & Worst." O'Reilly counts down his 5 champion and 5 worst presidents successful American history. Tune successful to find retired who made which list. Find retired however to ticker astatine joinNN.com.
O’Reilly’s erstwhile assessments of Obama see a peculiarly contentious pre-Super Bowl interrogation with the erstwhile president successful 2014.
During the interview, O’Reilly was captious of Obama implicit his wellness attraction instrumentality rollout, the 2012 attacks connected the U.S. diplomatic ngo successful Libya and revelations that the IRS targeted blimpish groups for other scrutiny.
O’Reilly asked if the breached committedness of keeping wellness plans was “the biggest mistake of your presidency.”
Obama responded, “Oh, Bill, you’ve got a agelong database of my mistakes of my presidency.”
O’Reilly besides slammed Obama for being “weak” connected coercion a fig of times connected aerial during this then-cable quality show.
But looking back, O’Reilly says Obama could beryllium enactment successful a "good category" erstwhile it comes to U.S. presidents, successful portion due to the fact that helium “uplifted a information of the American colonisation that needed to beryllium uplifted, radical of color.”