When Henican noted that the GOP doesn't share its internal reporting with him -- “You get that,” Henican said, “I don't” -- O'Reilly backpedaled, replying, “I don't get it [internal GOP polling] ... [Fox News anchor Sean] Hannity probably gets it ... I don't get it. I don't get anything, from anybody.” O'Reilly added: “But our sources are good.”
HENICAN: Now, did you see, by the way, the [CNN/]USA Today/Gallup poll today on the NSA domestic spying --
O'REILLY: Yes, I did see that.
HENICAN: Fifty what? Was it 58 percent of Americans have serious, serious --
O'REILLY: Yeah, if you look at the way -- if you look at the way the poll question is --
HENICAN: Oh --
O'REILLY: Look, the Republican internal polling -- and I don't know whether you know this or not -- but that's why [White House senior adviser] Rove --
HENICAN: They don't share their internal polling with me. You get that; I don't.
O'REILLY: Right. But, I don't get it. We have good sources, unlike some of you guys who can't -- nobody will talk to.
HENICAN: See, they don't call me with that.
O'REILLY: No. Hannity probably gets it.
HENICAN: He gets it.
O'REILLY: I don't get it. I don't get anything, from anybody. But our sources are good, and that's why Rove came out for the weekend and made it a campaign issue --
HENICAN: Well --
O'REILLY: -- because their numbers say, look, Americans want to be protected. They're not buying the theoretical argument that their phone calls are going to be tapped, and I believe that's true.