Guests:Brit Hume
The Factor led off with the Talking Points Memo, which explained why House Speaker John Boehner was not popular with conservatives and eventually had to resign.

"What angered some conservatives is that John Boehner never really showed much emotion about policy. He saved that for the Pope's appearance and talking about his own upbringing," The Factor said. "Then the emotion flowed.

"But where was your outrage, Mr. Speaker when 177 Democrats in the house basically voted for infanticide last week? Where was the outrage? Mr. Boehner rarely brought indignity to the table. He didn't seem all that bothered about the direction of the country. And that bothered many conservatives who felt Boehner was ineffective, a wobbly leader.

"Again, it is the job of the Republican leadership to persuade the majority of Americans to do the right thing. Sometimes that means pounding the table and, perhaps, imitating Trump who has mastered the art of the outrage."

Brit Hume then joined That Factor to explain why Republican voters are so frustrated.

"I think I that a lot of the frustration in the ranks of the Republican Party has to do with things that a significant subset of Republican voters thought could be done and thought they had been promised would be done and that were not done," Hume said. "Obamacare repeal was one of those things and they expected continuing efforts to do that. They haven't seen what they think is anything like it."

Guests:Rachel Campos Duffy & Melissa Francis
Donald Trump on Monday announced his tax plan, which would lower the tax rate on just about every American. Melissa Francis and Rachel Campos-Duffy joined The Factor with reaction.

"I think it makes a lot of sense," Francis said. "I mean it's lowering taxes across the board on pretty much everyone. The thing about the people at the bottom not paying any tax is a gimmick because that's already the case."

Campos-Duffy opposed the plan because so many Americans would be exempt from paying taxes, thus they would not have a stake in how taxpayer money is spent.

"I just think it's bad for the country when you have 50 percent of the country not paying any taxes and it's sad because it's spending," Campos-Duffy said. "If you go to a bar you might order a beer. If your uncle is paying for the wedding and it's open bar you're going to order top shelf. I think that we're not going to get the spending under control which is our big problem if we don't have everybody involved."

Guests:Amie Parnes
The Factor asked The Hill Senior White House Correspondent Amie Parnes if there had been any updates to the Clinton email scandal last week while Americans were distracted with the Pope's visit and the news with the GOP presidential race.

"I think the fact is that the story is alive and well," Parnes said. "It's not going away. And that's scary, too. The Clinton camp, you know, they want the story to go away. They want to pivot to other issues, to policy issues but they can't because on Friday, for instance, we discovered that two months of e-mails are suddenly missing."

Guests:Lt. Col. Ralph Peters
Lt. Col. Ralph Peters joined The Factor to discuss Barack Obama's and Russian President Vladimir Putin's one-on-one meeting at the United Nations.

"Well, the meeting between Obama and Putin went twice as long as was supposed to," Peters said. "And Putin rushed out to do a presser in which he gave the boilerplate that the meeting was business like, open and constructive. There may be areas in which we can work together, which made me wonder what the President might have given away this time. Basically Putin is doing a relatively skillful job of putting the onus on Obama for not cooperating in the fight against terror, it's a real diplomatic defensive. It seems crude to us but it works for many of the countries that are seated in that General Assembly today."

Guests:Juan Williams & Eboni Williams
ABC News Political Contributor Matthew Dowd said that Republicans are angry because America is less white than it used to be.

The Factor asked Eboni Williams and Juan Williams if they agreed.

Eboni Williams didn't agree with Dowd's assessment.

"I actually don't know what Dowd is talking about, Bill," Eboni Williams said. "Because for what he said to be true, that would make John Boehner, what, the face of racial diversity in America. It's absolutely nonsensical. Now, what I do think is a valid argument is that, yes, there are people in this country that think that America should be for certain people. We know that but I agree it's not exclusive to the Republican Party. And that's a real concern. And that makes people very nervous when you start talking about something that doesn't feel inclusive."

Juan Williams, however, thought Dowd had a point.

"I don't think Dowd is off here," Juan Williams said. "I think that it's a fact. If you look at it, I think it's half of the Republican Party thinks Obama wasn't born in the United States. Obama is a Muslim. And the number one issue for Trump [who is] at the top of the polls, for Carson, [who is at] at the top of the polls, immigration, Bill. There is something going on, especially with that Tea Party element of the party."

Guests: Jesse Watters
Jesse Watters joined The Factor to share a hilarious report on his trip to a Brooklyn tattoo show.
"Do you know what I noticed was different about that report?" The Factor asked. "You stood further away with the mic. Did you see that Watters?"

"That was only with the snake lady," Watters said, "I'm terrified of snakes."

Charles Kolman, Naples, Florida: "Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is a hypocrite. She implies that Marco Rubio associates with a Nazi sympathizer. In the meantime, she supports the Iran nuke deal which may lead to another Holocaust."

Pete Sims, Tupelo, Mississippi: "Bill, you are clearly in the tank for Marco Rubio. You must see yourself as his mentor."

Caleb Wallace, Elizabethtown, Kentucky: "Just finished reading the riveting Killing Reagan. It was an honest look at the man I consider the best politician in my lifetime. The shortfalls of his humanity highlighted to me just how much his patriotism and love for the American experiment lifted him above the rest."

"Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has an interesting column in Time Magazine this week about the responsibility Americans have to educate themselves about issues. Mr. Jabbar says that we the people must read and seek out points of view other than our own. Quote, 'Many of us use the net only to confirm conclusions we didn't arrive at through examining evidence. We go only to sites that agree with our position in order to arm ourselves with snippets that we use as ammunitions against those who disagree with us,' unquote. That's absolutely true. And it's dangerous to solving problems.

So, here's The Factor tip of the day. Seek knowledge first of all, seek knowledge, and then test your beliefs against skepticism. Get the other side. Have some debates. But make them fun. All right? Therefore your beliefs have become more powerful.