Guests: Steve Harrigan & Mike Tobin
The Factor was live with breaking news last night, providing the latest updates while the world awaited the grand jury's decision on whether to indict Ferguson, MO Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

The Factor briefly laid out the facts of the case, carefully avoiding any speculation:

"You may remember Mr. Brown and Officer Darren Wilson collided on a street after the teenager stole items from convenient store. Officer Wilson shot Brown six times killing him. The grand jury comprised of three African- Americans and nine whites, charged with deciding whether Officer Wilson broke the law or was defending himself.

"Some facts have leaked. Mr. Brown tested positive for marijuana at the time of the confrontation and there was a physical altercation between the two men in the police car. Unfortunately, speculation has run wild leading to violence, looting and injury. We will not speculate here tonight, just the facts as we await the grand jury announcement."

The Factor then went to ace Fox News correspondents Mike Tobin and Steve Harrigan, who described the calm before the storm of last night's unrest.

Mike Tobin reported from Ferguson, where the protests were their most intense last summer. Tobin reported he saw less than 100 demonstrators, but that some were armed with weapons. He also said several protesters were dressed in fox masks - a trademark of the anarchical Anonymous movement, the amorphous group best known for hacking government websites and fomenting unrest at major protests around the world.
"We have seen in the crowd that there are weapons," Tobin said. "Some of them are decorative, some of the kids in the Anonymous gear, one at least we saw has brass knuckles on the back of his backpack. It was a Batman set of brass knuckles. It looked like it is more decorative than anything. That being said, some of the security people out here have identified more serious weapons like knives in the crowd."
The Factor next went to Steve Harrigan, who reported from outside the courthouse in Clayton, MO. where the grand jury's decision would be announced. Harrigan described a calm situation where security was very high.
"We're about 10 miles away from Ferguson here in Clayton the courthouse behind me the situation here very calm like a ghost town if you can see behind me," Harrigan said. "At the same time, only about 20 people, Clayton is about 80 percent white and most of the people standing out here are white. There is heavy security presence. You have metal gates around this courthouse and then a second row of plastic barriers. They are filled with water. We have seen a heavy police presence and National Guard, too, putting on uniforms. As far as stores and the shops go, they have pretty much all shut down. The main street is dark. Streets are blocked off."

Guests: Megyn Kelly
Attorney and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly joined The Factor and explained why the Ferguson story had garnered so much national attention.
"I think the reason this case has become such a big deal is several folds," Kelly said. "Number one, it came on the heels of the Trayvon Martin case which attracted so much attention. They were calling George Zimmerman a white Hispanic but non-black man who shot and killed a black teenager, an unarmed black teenager. And then now here is another situation in which a white man, a police officer, shoots and kills an unarmed black teenager who is 18 years old. And, in the first case, George Zimmerman was found not guilty. People felt he wasn't held accountable. And in the second case, they are wondering whether the same result might happen. I think there is also bias against the police in Ferguson, in the African-American community to some extent because they feel there is a bias by the police against them and there is some statistical evidence to support some of those claims. I mean, you could make the argument if you wanted to you know sort of go there. But there is plenty of today defend the police, too. You can be selective in the way you view this case."
Kelly also said the grand jury's decision should be respected regardless of whether or not it decided to indict Officer Darren Wilson. "This is the way the system is set up," Kelly said. "We have entrusted this prosecutor, the people elected him, four times. And they have entrusted these grand jurors who have handled all sorts of cases involving people of all different races. And there is no reason not to respect them no matter what the results tonight. I have said that all along prior to tonight and tonight."

Guests:McGraw Milhaven & Bishop Geoffrey Dudley
St. Louis radio talk show host McGraw Milhaven and Bishop Geoffrey Dudley of the New Life in Christ Church told The Factor how locals were preparing for the looming grand jury decision.

Bishop Dudley, who leads a predominantly African-American church, said he would be upset if there was no indictment, but that he would respect the decision.

"Personally, I would be incredibly let down and maybe that's an understatement," Dudley told The Factor. "Upset, twinge of outrage but at the end of that, after all of those emotions, I would just simply have to have a resolve. I wore my country's uniform for twenty-one-and-a-half years to defend this process. Now I may be outraged about it, but I have got to respect it."

Milhaven told The Factor there were three types of people who were part of the protests. "There are three groups of people here in St. Louis," Milhaven said. "There are the non-violent protestors, there are the agitators, and there are the spectators. At any given time one is the other. And what really upsets St. Louisans is when somebody says, 'well these people are from out-of-town.' Well, who cares if your store is being looted? Does it matter that the person lives in California? It doesn't matter. All they are is coming into St. Louis to do damage and to do destruction. We don't really care where they are from and what they call themselves."

Guests:Brit Hume
The Factor asked Fox News Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume why Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was fired, and Hume said he thought it was because he had a bad relationship with members of Obama's staff at the White House.
"His secretaryship if you will, wasn't working," Hume said. "And he was not getting along with the people in the White House whom he felt we're trying to micromanage the Pentagon. I think he had clearly annoyed the President and his team by saying about ISIS, things that the president had not been prepared to say to with that, they were a threat like none we've ever seen before. And members of his high command with the Pentagon had said, you know, that you can't defeat them without going into Syria. There was talk among those generals of needing possibly ground troops. All things that the president has obviously resisted."
Hume also discussed the delay in getting a deal with Iran over its nuclear program. "If I were in Israel tonight, I don't know whether I would be relieved that bad deal wasn't reached or more worried that this means that eventually a bad deal will be reached," Hume said. "But I think that's the apprehension about this."

Guests:Juan Williams & Scottie Nell Hughes
Fox News Political Analyst Juan Williams and Tea Party journalist Scottie Nell Hughes joined The Factor for their take on what to expect from the grand jury in the Ferguson case.

The Factor asked Juan Williams if he believed the deck is stacked against African-Americans due to their skin color. Williams said it was. "I think that, you know, it's part of our society, American society, given our history and all the rest, racial profiling is part of the ticket and I think this is especially true for poor black people, those who are most often ... in the streets," Williams said.

Hughes disagreed with Williams and expressed concern that the grand jury was being unfairly pressured by the media and protesters to deliver an indictment against Officer Wilson.
"Here is my question, did this jury actually get influenced?" Hughes asked. "Unfortunately these kind of cases happen and never get the media attention that's happened. They don't have the Al Sharptons coming in and organizing rallies. They don't have people sitting there and grand standing this. And has that helped or hurt race relations within the United States?"

Guests:Jesse Watters
O'Reilly Factor Correspondent Jesse Watters went to the Harvard-Yale football game to see what students of two of the most prestigious universities in America actually knew. Turns out, not much. Very few had even heard of Jonathan Gruber, the Obamacare architect who said the healthcare legislation passed due to the "stupidity of the American voter."

"If it was head-to-head, Yale won, but if it was a test, they both bombed," Watter said in comparing which school's students knew more about current affairs.

Guests:Mike Tobin

Just before St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch announced the grand jury would not be indicting Officer Wilson, The Factor went back to Mike Tobin in Ferguson, where he said hundreds of more protesters had arrived in the last hour.
"I can tell you what's changed, the energy level and the number of demonstrators has changed quite a bit out here," Tobin said. "A few more hundred demonstrators have shown up here on the South Florissant road in front of the police department. They're getting whipped into a frenzy."