"Like him or not, former President Bill Clinton is an excellent analyst of the American political scene. Last week confronted by Black Lives Matter militants in Philadelphia, who say the criminal justice system is racist, Mr. Clinton fought back. Mr. Clinton is absolutely correct, the vicious drug world results in millions of Americans being harmed. Dope pushers and gang members should be incarcerated. But then Mr. Clinton came under pressure from his own party and may have buckled, saying 'I almost want to apologize.' So why would Bill Clinton almost want to apologize? What he is saying is true, and here are the facts: According to FBI data, between 1960 and 1990 the rate of violent crime in the USA surged by 350%. Violence in cities like New York, Detroit, Los Angeles was out of control. That was insane, so Bill Clinton and both political parties passed tough new sentencing laws. The result: Violent crime has dropped drastically since the mid-1990s to historic lows today. Now the race question. From 1976 to 1995 black Americans were identified by police as committing more than half of the homicides in the USA. African-Americans make up 13% of the population. So what's the beef if black Americans are committing crimes out-of-proportion to other ethnic groups, why is there a racial component to their presence in prison? The question becomes, why is the Democratic Party caving into propaganda put out by radical groups like Black Lives Matter? It is clear that tough sentencing reform spearheaded by both parties and signed by Bill Clinton saved perhaps millions of American lives. Yet the entire criminal justice system is now being branded as racist and oppressive. Disgraceful!"

The Factor invited Charles Krauthammer to evaluate and elaborate. "This is one of the most telling episodes that we have seen in our politics and our culture," Dr. K lamented. "Bill Clinton governed as a new kind of Democrat with the crime law, welfare reform, and free trade. Those are all things that his wife is now repudiating. This is the perfect index of how far the Democratic Party has moved to the left. Bill Clinton was right in what he said and the crime bill led to a dramatic decline in crime. And the people who benefitted the most from the crackdown were African Americans, thousands of black lives were saved by this."

The Factor welcomed Donald Trump and asked the Republican front-runner why he is viewed unfavorably by about seven in ten Americans. "We started this primary with 17 candidates," Trump began, "16 of whom were shooting at me. When they are all coming after you, you probably don't come off looking so good because you go after them even harder. Ronald Reagan had very high unfavorable ratings also. I will get along with people and I think I'll be a unifier." Trump also scoffed at accusations that he is, as Tavis Smiley put it last week, a 'racial arsonist.' "I don't think that's the perception at all, I think we'll do fantastic with African Americans and Hispanics because I'm going to bring jobs back to the country. There is a 59% unemployment rate among African American youth!" The Factor reminded Trump that his personality is inherently different from Ronald Reagan's: "Reagan was the least confrontational guy and you are the most confrontational guy. And if you get the nomination, you will have to become the softer, kinder Trump. I don't know if you can do that."

Returning for a second segment, Donald Trump reacted to the Boston Globe, whose editorial staff put together a mock front page envisioning the horrors of a Trump presidency. "If you're conservative and Republican," Trump groused, "the press is just brutal. Here is a newspaper that sold for a dollar, it's worthless, and they put together this edition where everything is about Trump. We need borders, we need a wall, we need jobs, we need somebody who knows what they're doing on trade, but the Boston Globe talks about this as if it's some kind of a joke. The Boston Globe is a worthless piece of paper!"

With many observers predicting a no-holds-barred political rumble at the Republican National Convention, Fox News analyst Brit Hume looked ahead to July in Cleveland. "This could be wide open," he theorized, "and after the first couple of ballots virtually every delegate will be at liberty to vote however he or she pleases. A lot of delegates pledged to back Trump on the first ballot will stay with him, but a lot of them will not. Literally anything can happen, they can nominate whomever they want! If Donald Trump doesn't get the nomination after the first ballot or second ballot, it's not going to happen." The Factor predicted that Ted Cruz and John Kasich may forge an alliance to stop Trump: "I see Cruz making a deal with Kasich, and they would be formidable opponents for Donald Trump."

Documentarian Ken Burns has created a new series about Jackie Robinson, who famously broke baseball's color barrier in 1947. The Factor asked Burns to assess race relations in modern America. "I think it's always been pretty bad," Burns said, "people have been divided by race in this country since the beginning. You can't deal with American history without coming up against race. Some of these old guilts metastasize into anger and distrust of people, and that has come to the fore recently. I don't think racism is as bad as the media plays it up, but I get a lot of mail from people who call me a 'n-word' lover. We have made a lot of progress and there is more progress to make."

Jesse Watters spoke to some big-city public school teachers about the threats they face on a daily basis. Here are just a few of their horror stories: "I was sworn at, I was called every name" ... "I have fights erupt in class, I had fights spill into my class from other classrooms" ... "I worked in one school where the entire school was one gang or the other" ... "My hair fell out, I couldn't sleep, I was getting sick all the time" ... "The parents became younger and the children became more aggressive" ... "I was running a basketball practice with another coach and we got shot at!" ... "We need a complete revamp of everything."

Marshall Feeney, St. Louis, MO: "Mr. O, one of your famous phrases is 'you don't justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior.' Yet, you do that in telling Senator Cruz that Donald Trump donated money to politicians to get things done in New York City. That's wrong and shouldn't be done."

Germain Seri, Sacramento, CA: "O'Reilly, great interview with Cruz. Surely he knows that if you don't grease wheels in New York, you can't build anything."

Abraham Chamoy, Tokyo, Japan: "Everyone knows Cruz is a great friend to Israel and to the Jewish community he serves in Texas."

With Christianity under assault around the world, a valuable new book comes from former Secretary of Education William Bennett. In 'Tried By Fire,' he tells the story of Christianity's struggle for survival over the course of its first millennium.