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Hello, everyone. I'm gillian turner along with emily campagno, carol ford jr, jesse waters and greg gutfeld. It is five o' clock here in new york. This is the five. It is the one handshake that can shake the world. President Trump, Chinese President Xi holding what they called a very productive nearly two hour meeting together on the first day of Trump's China summit, a visit. You saw it dripping with pageantry and global power politics. Hundreds of children waving Chinese and American flags. The President seemed impressed with the Beijing charm offensive.
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President Xi, I want to thank you very much. First of all, that was an honor like few have ever seen before. And I think I was particularly impressed by those children. They were happy, they were beautiful. The military is obvious. It couldn't be better, but those children were amazing and they represent so much, and I know they represent so much to you. These Chinese restaurants in America today outnumber the five largest fast food chains in the United States all combined. That's a pretty big statement.
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He's not wrong. The White House says the two leaders talked about stopping the flow of fentanyl, enhancing economic cooperation and the war in Iran. President Trump also told Sean Hannity that she has offered his help in securing a peace deal in the region.
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The issue, and you've been asked about
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it and you've spoken about it, and
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that is China's support of Iran.
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How big a discussion was that today? We discussed it. I mean, when you say support, they're not fighting a war with us or anything. No, he said he's not going to give military equipment. That's a big statement. But at the same time, he said, you know, they buy a lot of their oil there. They'd like to keep doing that. He'd like to see Hormo straight opened. He joked. He said, you know, it's sort of. They stopped it, then you stopped them, but they'd like to see it open.
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So that's China here. Back at home, not everyone is happy with Trump's leadership. On the world stage, Whoopi Goldberg voicing a lot of displeasure with the President, using a pretty graphic analogy. Take a listen.
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I don't believe in anybody who is running this country right now. We have been devolved as a nation, I feel, because we are. I thought, I thought my description was lovely. Yeah, but it's the same thing.
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Okay.
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I don't have them, but I know it's the same thing. But the idea that no one is in charge freaks me out.
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All right, let's start with that. Emily, have we been Deballed. Am I even allowed to say that?
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I don't know personally have not been. You know, I think it's so laughable that the same talking head that helped cover up for Biden's ineptitude, that's when the United States was deballed. That's, that was during the Biden administration. And so I put together a little list for her knowledge and for everyone's review of what exactly it looks like to be d balled and what exactly it looks like to operate from a position of strength, which is right now. So just as of today, the president, President Trump has hosted 87 meetings with foreign leaders. And in President Biden's entire office, he hosted 36. Remember, he took hundreds of days that he napped in Rehoboth BEACH with while 18,000 terrorists flooded across the southern border. And we lost 360,000 minor children. Jill Biden ran meetings. Recall, they closed every day at like 1pm Colleen lids, everyone mocked his schedule. And then you contrast that with President Trump. He has direct and as he should like, responsibility for things like credit for multiple tariffs, border security, Naito spending, hostage release, Middle east cease fire deals. And he is the one that has been in direct involvement in talks with Mexico and Canada and China and NATO allies and the Middle East. And remember, it was this media that complained that his pace was too fast and too hard for everyone to keep up with. He has issued 250 executive orders just in today. And the only president that matched his pace in the first year was FDR with eo. So I can go on, but it's so laughing and unfortunately emblematic of the mainstream media that no matter what, they will continue to cover for the president that was absolutely missing, the one that was derelict in duty, that abdicated his duty every day, that signed with an auto pen. And we have a president who is out there with the reporters, with the crowds, with the foreign heads of state that doesn't need to have Maloney guide him away because he has no idea where he's doing like they had to do with Biden. And somehow this is where we look weak on the world stage for once. We have a presence and an involvement by this president in talks and negotiations and deals. And we are stronger for it because unlike Biden and unlike the prior presidents, this one is actually representative of the people's will and he actually serves as a public servant instead of putting himself or his wife first.
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Jesse, let's talk about this arrival ceremony. It was quite a production. You know, it was sort of impressive. In its scope and its scale. The President kept talking about how happy he was to see these kids. He did look genuinely delighted. The President obviously has to give Xi, like, big kudos, right, for this. That's his role being there. We don't, though, however, have to do that here. And I would offer that it's awfully easy to put together impressive pageantry when you're running a commie regime that jails and kills political dissidents, people that disagree with you. You enslave a third of the population, and you can pretty much get people to do whatever you want.
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You're saying our kids can't jump that high? We were just at the king ceremony and they had all the pomp and circumstance. They had all the colonial guys with the guns. I think we put on a pretty good show. I don't think we're lacking in pageantry.
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Who?
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The United States? And what's the big deal? These are kids jumping.
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I didn't say.
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It's not like they were making the world spin on it. I don't know. I don't care about the pageant. No one has been debauled. The balled would be Kamala in charge. Literally. She said the right things on the straight. Doesn't want it told, doesn't want it closed. He's not going to help the Iranians and might even help us, but we'll see what he does. He said his position on Taiwan. We said our position on Taiwan doesn't make a difference. Rubio warned him, don't make a grave mistake, and then said that the Chinese military's aiming to grow as great as the US military into a global power. So we'll have to navigate that. I think it might be even easier to deal with the Chinese than the Russians because there's so much trade between us. But the problem here now is the trade only goes one way. The politicians here opened up America to China and China shut its door. So Trump goes over with 30 CEOs, and he got Xi to say, we are open for business. So we're going to be selling them chips and planes and they can all put it on the Visa and MasterCard. That's great. I'm actually thinking about having How I Save the World translated into Mandarin. We can put it on Amazon and everyone in China can read about Jesse Waters. I hear they're big fans over there. The Chinese have made major inroads into the American restaurant scene. But get this, There are over 20,000 McDonald's, Taco Bells and KFCS in China. And they're growing every year by the thousands. And once the United States gets fast food into a country, that's it. Fried chicken, Big Macs, chalupas. They start listening to our music, watching our movies. They start marrying our women. I'm just kidding. We don't allow that. But that's basically now an American colony. Them hooked, and it's pretty much over. The Chinese have a history of expanding and then collapsing, Expanding and then collapsing. So Trump, the strategy is ride it out peacefully as they expand alongside them. Peacefully. And when they collapse, you feast on their carcass.
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Okay, whatever you say.
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Exactly.
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Greg.
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A lot of people today, the foreign policy analysts were, like, criticizing. We're not criticizing. But they were aghast, I guess.
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Aghast?
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Aghast that she.
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How much was that gas?
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If you have to ask, you can't afford it. But they were aghast and upset that she made these threats about Taiwan in the presence of President Trump. I would proffer that if you were surprised by what he said about Taiwan, which was basically a warning to the US not to think about getting involved and interfering as they illegally invade a sovereign country and try and take them over, if you didn't know that was coming, then it's like you've been living under a rock because that's all the Chinese have been talking about to America for, like, 10 years at this point.
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Well, you raised a good point that you just answered. I want to talk about Whoopi.
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That's taken.
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Whoopi. No, that's not how it works. Whoopi accuses Trump of castrating America. Sorry, Whoopi. Guys stopped getting erections around you years before Trump got into office. Do not blame him for your dateless weekends. Who is she comparing Trump to? Emily went over all of his achievements, but you have to look at how world leaders react to him. You think no one's in charge of the United States. Trump's in charge of the US and it looks like whenever he's around world leaders, he's in charge of them, too. They treat him like a rock star. The only people being D balled in this country are the children of liberals who trans them for virtue points at the wine club. Trump's done a lot of things, and one of the things we have to revisit is think about, I don't know, six, four or five years ago, fentanyl overdoses were racking up 70 to 100,000 deaths a year. These are people who aren't just junkies. And you go, well, they're seeking Their own death. These are one and doners. People that get a Valium or get something, but it's off the street and they die. Biden didn't lift a finger. He didn't do a thing. So here's a little fentanyl history for you. He declared. Trump declared the opioid crisis in 2017. He had it. He had a agreement with China in 2019 to halt fentanyl exporting, and it kind of worked. But then the supply shifted to the cartels. So he expanded the border wall, remain in Mexico, did all the things that the Democrats hate, and then over time, fentanyl decreased. And then Trump gets reelected, he really kicks it in. Explicitly ties tariffs to trafficking and fentanyl trafficking. Then he designates the drug as a WMD and cartels as terrorists. We're going out. We're bombing the crap out of them. 60% of fentanyl trafficking drops in the southern border. Lives. Thousands of lives are being saved by Trump because of this. And I bring this up because the late Scott Adams would be very pleased and very proud because he lost his stepson to a fentanyl overdose. And when he died, he said he would make it his mission to get Trump elected, get Trump to understand this threat, get him to China, and get him to focus on the precursors and also to kill the dealers. None of this would have happened under Ding Dong Kamala. He has literally saved thousands of lives. And again, I'm not talking about just the drug addicts that you see on the streets. I'm talking about people's sons and daughters who went to a frat party. Yeah, so.
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So you want to ask. Because they're telling me we don't have a lot of time. I'd say a couple of things. The president, 24 hours ago or 36 hours ago, when he left, he stood outside the White House and said that the only thing on his mind was trying to keep with regard to Iran, was trying to keep nuclear weapons or eliminate their ability to get a nuclear weapon. When he was asked about people's financial situation, Democrats jumped on him. I'd give him some grace, understand what he's saying. But his tone has shifted dramatically since being in front of Xi, and I don't understand. The president seems to be enamored with some of these things. Xi went right at the president and said, taiwan is the number one thing on my mind. If you guys stand in our way, you and America get in our way. We could. Our relationship will devolve to conflict and maybe even worse. The president said he approached the idea. Approached the idea. The Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Hormuz is critical. But the president didn't say that 36 hours ago when he left Jill. And he said that his number one concern was nuclear, nuclear weapons. He didn't ask to my knowledge and I haven't seen yet. And the president still has another day and I'm rooting for him in this trip. Has not asked President Xi to help him with this nuclear weapon issue with the Iranians. Two, you think about the backdrop in the world today and you did a great job. Both of you did a great job of talking about a lot of the accomplishments and I give the president great, great kudos on the border and with fentanyl. But UK the UK right now is in political upheaval because their prime minister appointed somebody they didn't look up. Do an adequate background check on it looks like the government could be in turmoil. Russia attacked Kyiv with a bigger set of military strikes than they have since the beginning of this war, killing nine people, at least nine people and a few children. The Philippines had a shooting in their capital yesterday. I hope we get, I hope we get a little more subsidy. I want to sell more soybeans and I want to sell more beef and I want to sell more airplanes to the Chinese. But if we don't get away to have us as partners, have them help us with what's happening in Iran right now, this will not be a successful trip. We can we I hope the CEOs on there get everything they want. But if we find ourselves with everyday Americans with $5.50 gallon gasoline between now and the end of this month, this trip will not have been a success.
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Well, there's a lot of hope because the US And China's interests are the same in getting this straight open. So whether the president brings it up with Xi or not, you know that the on the sidelines are going to do.
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I'm not arguing with you. I want the president to do it. I didn't hear that this first day. And that's when I'm hoping the second day of meetings we'll get some updates and progress on that.
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All right. Well, coming up next, former VP Kamala Harris teasing a permanent power wish list for the Democrats. We're going to get into that. Stick with us.
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The clearance rack Obama unraveling right before our eyes after the Virginia Supreme Court smacked down the Democrats redistricting gambit. Roll it, Stig.
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Who lost?
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Who lost? Did the voters lose? Did the voters lose?
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You take Personal responsibility for investing so much time and resources, tens of millions
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of dollars in ultimately foolish effort. We did the right thing.
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The ghost of the Confederacy has afflicted the United States Supreme Court majority and
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is invading and haunting the nation right
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now and going to win in November. And then we're going to crush their souls.
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Wow.
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Kamala Harris getting drunk on power that she doesn't have, suggesting a far left wish list of bad ideas if the Dems ever take back control.
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This is a moment where there are no bad ideas. No bad idea brainstorm is what I'd
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like to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the Electoral College. We talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court.
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Let's talk about statehood for Puerto Rico
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and D.C. all right, Harold, you have been in business a long time. So have I. In fact, we should work together. I have an idea. When, Eddie, you've been in meetings where somebody says there are no bad ideas means that there are no good ideas. And I think the issue that you might agree with me on this between Hakeem, which I call the straight Obama or the gay Harold Ford and Kamala is that they invest their time in political efforts and ideas and not in efforts and ideas for people. So he is he. The whole redistricting thing was about politics, and she mentioned things about winning, but none of them were about the people because they not only have no bad ideas, they have no ideas. We'll be right back.
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I don't disagree with. There are a lot of people, you sit in meetings who, when someone starts their no bad ideas, that's when I try to move them out of the room. But having said that, I remember a time when you redistricted at the beginning of the decade, and you did it because you conducted a census.
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Right.
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And the census gave you a sense of how many people were in a state. And the way you really got rewarded was if your party was in charge at the time, meaning the governor and. Or the legislature was controlled by whatever party you might be in, because you would have the ability, once you got the census numbers, to determine how to draw the districts. And there was always politics there, and everybody accepted that. And then two, if your population grew in your state, you know what that meant? That meant that your state had good policies on taxes, on education, on housing, on things that made people want to move to that state. And so you got an additional set of seats. We have a finite number of congressional seats. In our country, 435. And we move them around depending on where people live. President Trump started this. He started this effort to redistrict in the middle of. In mid decades. We hadn't done this in 40 years in the country and I thought we had gotten out of it. I don't. The politics around districting, redistricting at the beginning of the decade is fine. We've all accepted that. But to do it mid decade, what we've done, I think, regrettably, Greg, as we've set a precedent and it's going to come when Democrats are going to have more governor's seats, control more state legislatures in this awful, terrible precedent that we've set, this tradition that seems to be starting and Democrats are following. And I kind of can't blame them. I don't want them to do it. But you can't just lay down one of the districts I just redrew in Tennessee. That was my old congressional district. You couldn't redraw that district the way they did it unless you just literally went all out and did what they did. Now, I'm not crying, but look, I'm a grown up, but I'll tell you this, you better be a grown up. When Democrats do the same things Republicans and I don't want them to. I think we should get back to the day, get back to the regular order of doing the things the right way. Meaning if your state grew because your policies were better, you got more seats. I didn't mean to cut you off, but.
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No, it's okay. But I want to ask Jesse. We see so much evidence of these crazy districts where you have so many Republicans living in a state who have no representation. Right. Where did that come from?
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There's like literally no Republican House members in all of New England.
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Yeah.
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And there's plenty of black Democrats throughout the Deep South, Harold. So I'm really sorry to hear about your district.
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There's senators from. First of all, my district was not a voting rights district. My district was.
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Anyway, I'm sorry, I'm just. I feel bad about your district and if you want to talk about it later, I'll be in the green room.
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I feel bad for the people. That's what I do.
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And that's a great point about the people, because they're not trying to. What can I do better to help the people? They're trying to do better for themselves. Themselves. It's like every time they lose a game, they change the rules. Imagine if the Sixers got smoked to the Knicks.
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They Did.
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Don't have to imagine that they did. The next night, the coach goes into the arena and then repaints the three point line closer so he gets easier shots. You can't do that. And that's what they're trying to do. Electoral College has been around since the founding. We've had nine justices since the 1860s. I'm okay with adding states. I love that idea. So if we add Puerto Rico, we get Cuba, how about that? Or Greenland or Alberta, Canada, if you were wondering where I'm talking about. They're doing a little bit of a secessionist vote. I did some research on the blacks. As Judge Jeanine so eloquently would say, the solution to Hakeem's problem, the skay Obama is baby making. Blacks for 150 years have only represented 10 to 15% of the American population. Okay, that's not that much. So if they want to have more seats, they got to get in between the sheets. Spanish, they're coming north, they're having tons of kids. And at this point, they have almost the same amount of House seats as blacks. The Hispanic caucus is almost as big as the black caucus. So if you guys need to solve that problem.
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I'm not arguing for more, you know
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what you need to do.
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I'm not arguing for more black congressmen. I'm arguing just don't draw the district's advantage apart.
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No, you're just discriminating against whites.
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Whites.
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That was an all black history. I'm just going to be in that district.
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I'm discriminating against my support segregation against my kids.
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It's not a blacks only, it's whites only. We have a, you know, very diverse district now.
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Jillian, what are your sources in your spin class telling you?
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I missed it this morning. So I got, I will say in politics, and Harold knows this better than anyone, in politics, as in sports, it is very important to be a good loser. And I think the problem with the minority leader standing up in front of the press and basically accusing Democrat Republicans of being racist after they won this round, it speaks to a fundamental, I think, disingenuousness about the process. And it also is a little bit outdated in the sense that, you know, 10 years ago, Republicans, excuse me, Democrats, could claim to speak for, you know, the majority of black voters in this country. That's no longer the case. You don't think Democrats speak for that?
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I don't think voter issue, to be honest.
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Not all. They don't dominate that demographic here like they did 10 years ago, is my Point. But I do think people are worried, are right to worry about the problem of, like, black representation in Congress. They just lost another six seats at least, you know, after the Louisiana Supreme Court decision. So it's a important issue to worry about. But being a sore loser is not helping anybody.
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I agree with you, but, Greg, I don't care. The black thing has nothing. I know.
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I agree with you. This is Democrat, Republican I'm talking about.
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This thing got devolved. I don't see race here.
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No.
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Hakeem Jeffries, but I don't is the one that brought it up.
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Last words. That's why we're talking about innocently take it away.
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Okay. The difference between Democrats and Republicans in redistricting is that Democrats are doing it illegally. And that's why we just saw the Virginia Supreme Court knock it back down. The GOP is going about it constitutionally. They know the law. That's why every court decision is handing them a victory. And respectfully, I don't think Trump started this. This was started by the dems when, remember, 14 years ago, they had an issue with the census because they were freaking out that, oh, no, the horrors of opening your door to a census taker would somehow put illegals under the gun proverbially, which would mean that they would have less votes that they assumed was in their can. I totally agree with you, Gillian. It's the sore losers. Remember what we saw in Spain recently when Walls and a bunch of leaders went over there, they said, how are we going to fight back? How are we going to get back those votes? They never talked about earning the votes. They never talked about, oh, maybe it's our policies, maybe it's our ideology that have totally expelled everyone from our party. They had no idea. It's not about fighting the Republicans or resisting the Republicans. It's about attracting voters. And I think Hakeem Jeffries, he reminded me of Ursula in the Little Mermaid or the witch in into the Woods. You know, like, I want to crush their souls. It's the same tired playbook. We're going to expand the Supreme Court. We're going to neutralize red states. We're going to grant new statehoods to D.C. we're going to abolish the Electoral College. They can't ever win on the merits, and so all they want to do is change the rules.
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Well said. We must move on ahead. Everybody hates white liberals.
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Four days to hitchhike from Saginaw.
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Hi, everyone woke Hollywood director Adam McKay is raging against white liberals because he thinks the Democrats aren't far left enough.
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We are being hit with the high grade marketing and no group is worse than white liberals. I mean they are the worst. I've tried to talk to them about climate. They are so smug and captured and really it boils down the privilege. I mean when you talk to white moneyed liberals, they're getting a lot from this broken system.
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What lawn chair was he on? All right, Greg. Captured by who? What is he talking about?
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It's kind of interesting because. Because he's not bashing the white liberal. He's bashing the white liberal because he's more liberal than the white liberal. It's his own flex. He's saying I am on my own, alone on an island, an intellectual and ideological giant purity on climate change, on progressivism. And you cannot match it. One battle after another. I have to go through this because you're not just wrong, you're evil. See this, what's interesting about this, and I think, I think Harold would agree with me, we don't have this kind of person on the right because we have humility in the sense that we are never 100% certain about anything or everything. That is why you tend to find, you know, more God fearing people on our side than on the left. You have more atheists because they are so certain there is no God. And I myself am God. He, he is, he's okay with illegal violent crime, recidivism of violent criminals, trans scams that masked predators and rape, the COVID ups and the fraud because in his mind it didn't go far enough. So he knows something none of us else do when we are suffering. He's got the answer, we just don't know what it is.
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E
Harold, you were invoked.
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Look, I agree with Adam McKay about. Liberals in my party have white people.
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You hate white people.
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I think liberals, I don't see race. The liberals in my party have taken us to a place and you talk about.
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But he's, he's. You're criticizing them for a different reason
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than he is perhaps, but you. But I'm coming back to you. You, you identify often and so does Jesse and DP does as well. The 80, 20 issues, sometimes 90, 10 issues. One of the most prolific one being boys playing in girls sports. And you still have a group of Democrats out on these social issues and when they're out there, you can't be taken seriously if you have a really positive idea about housing. Democrats wonder why Spencer Pratt may be finding some traction in Los Angeles. It's because he actually, as we've said on this show, offering answers and solutions. Whether you agree with his answers or solutions or all of them, he's actually offering answers to real problems. That's what's missing in politics. The true deficit is that there are derivatives of it. People don't like Democrats working Republicans, Democrats don't like Democrats working with Trump. I mean, but we've got to get back to offering answers. But if you're not taken serious on most, the most basic things, people don't listen to you on the things that you might be right about that are serious in their lives.
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Jesse Adam McKay reminded me of a lot of those Hollywood celebrities that love tweeting out things from their very far left position, which is essentially what he's doing. Like, namely his name escaped me, but the one that is sort of swollen now and he was with Reese Witherspoon in the Just Like Heaven movie.
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Mark Rufalo.
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Yes, Mark Ruffalo, perfect example. I'm just describing him physically, but that's what he reminded me of. Right where the very smug position from a very comfortable position, stirring up the hornet's nest to make people go as far left and radical as possible. You know, they're the ones that are advocating people like him for essentially the President's assassination and likening him to Hitler and the like. So there's no type of ever Democrat establishment or moderate ground that they would ever ally for whatsoever. It just has to be far from far left or you are a white moneyed liberal. That is the problem, as he said.
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Are you asking me because I'm smug?
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She was thinking about the money.
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Maybe
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the Chinese, the blacks, the whites. You do what's going on with the show? I'm uncomfortable. You know, I was fine until the C block. Now it's just white on white crime. I don't get down like that. There are tens of millions of white liberals. They're my friends, they're my family members. Some of them serve me drinks in the Village. Some of them play sports. Not well, but they do. Some of them may have even been in a relationship with other people on this set. I can't talk about who are you talking. No one's dated a white liberal. I. The answer is no. Bs the answer is no. He's probably married to one. How am I, how am I open minded here?
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What are you talking about?
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What are you talking about? I like to make large, general, sweeping generalizations about large groups of racial ethnicities, but not about the whites.
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A
Jillian, save us. I never heard of this guy before. I think maybe I'm the only one at the table, though. I don't know. Like, he didn't strike me as a household name, so this is the first time I've heard him say anything. What struck me is that he called the Democrats the political masterminds of the universe and held that against them. He's like, they're so good that they're actually, you know, like, pulling the wool over everybody's eyes. But that's the exact opposite assessment of the Democrats own take. Right. We remember that President Biden famously blamed everything on messaging during his administration. Right. He said, look, I have amazing policies, but, like, my approval ratings are in the tank because my team's not doing a good job of explaining to the American people everything we're doing. And then Kamala Harris said the same thing in the sort of aftermath of her campaign. So something's not driving up there.
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E
Yeah, definitely not. All right, guys, the plot thickens. Coming up next, does Katie Couric hate America?
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C
Yes. I went down, back down, down and the flames went higher. Does America's sweetheart secretly despise America? Katie Couric questioning her tds.
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D
I feel like, gosh, am I rooting against Trump? Does that mean I'm rooting against America? And I question myself, and I question my emotional response to some of the things that happen. Yeah. But I also think this person is dangerous, corrupt, and, you know, it's very difficult for me.
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C
This is actually kind of evolved for someone stricken with tds.
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D
She watched the Five because we said this. She's now moved. She went from I hate Trump to, is my hatred of Trump making me root for the enemy? Because my ego has been wounded by Trump's.
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F
Trump's success.
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D
How could I be wrong so many times that she has to. She had to protect her ego even more by wishing more things to go wrong, which then coincide with things going wrong with America. It also helps to provide a backward glance at old media. These were the people who protested that they were unbiased, they were fair, they called balls and strikes, but they happily demonized Republicans and praised Democrats. And what? So what are we seeing with Katie and Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo and Acosta and Harwood? Once they've been puked out of legacy media, you see their true colors. Maybe she's coming around. Who knows?
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A
I thought you were going to be more mad at her after this. I mean, I'm surprised.
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D
We don't get mad. We just get even.
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A
This is what she said in the same podcast episode that got my attention. She said, there is a significant segment of the population who believe the Trump administration poses an existential threat to democracy. For those people to have a both sides newscast is a violation for them of journalistic ethics. So she's arguing that because people hate President Trump, you can no longer present to them both sides of whatever the issue is, which just seems completely insane to me.
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C
Yeah, well, how did they come to believe, Harold, that Donald Trump was an existential threat to this country?
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F
Look, I know Katie Couric. I like her. I respect her. I think it was patriotic what she said. She's actually walking through how people. How she feels. And I think there are people on who don't like Joe Biden, who don't like Democrats, who don't like Hakeem Jeffries, who say terrible things and not listen. She's actually walking through. And to your credit, to your point, Greg, I thought it was a lot of credit to what you're saying. She has. She's evolving and saying, hey, I have to understand that because I don't like him, because I have strong feelings about what she says is his moral core and positions on issues that I've got to make sure I'm not rooting against my country. I think. I think everybody should take a lesson from this. If you don't like Democrats, just because you don't like them and there are Democrats doesn't mean that Democrats are against the country. And Democrats, just because you don't like someone that supported President Trump, that doesn't mean that person's not a patriot. I thought that was a wonderful statement from Katie Couric, and I congratulate her on it.
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C
You were constantly giving Joe Biden credit when he did things that helped the country.
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E
Indeed, those four years, two times that that happened.
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A
Yeah.
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E
Look, respectfully, to her, this is obvious. This is the point people have making the whole time that, oh, hey, guys, is it okay for you to root for the military while they are. While they are in harm's way? Why aren't you rooting for the accomplishments that the President has done on behalf of the country, for the country that benefits the country from minute one and all throughout the first term? I'm sorry, but all of his successes that benefited average Americans, every American, somehow goes unnoticed and unacknowledged completely. So for her to have a come to Jesus moment where she's like, maybe this is. I have no time for it. She is part of that behemoth media conglomerate that, as we know, gave 95% negative coverage toward Trump after the second assassination attempt, even after the attack was dominating coverage. They were still negative. This was after the second assassination attempt. When they told his allies to tone down rhetoric. The View. Sunny Hostin complained that Trump politically benefited from the toned down rhetoric. After the entire country was like, oh, it's been twice. Maybe we should tone it down. I mean, this is the same machine that she has stoked the entire time. So yes, all of them should look in the mirror and all of them should say to themselves, maybe by me not rooting for Trump, I'm actually just being a jerk to the entire rest of the country.
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D
The View should not look in the mirror. That is cruel and unusual punishment.
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F
All right, we gotta go.
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C
The fastest is up next. I've been everywhere, man. I've been everywhere, man. Cross the desert's ban, man. I breathe the mountain air, man. Gotta do what you gotta do.
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F
It's a tile turf war. Tourists scoring a big payout after suing his tour operator, claiming every poolside lounge chair at his Greek resort was already so called reserved the entire vacation. Greg, this is. This has happened to you on one of your. On the world trip.
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D
I am an amazing seat saver. You gotta get up early. A lot of people will put like a paperback or, or a towel on the, on the chaise lounge. No, if people will move that. What I do is I leave a leaky bag of pomegranates and some very old and tattered skin magazines. And when I keep them there, not only do I get that, I get the other ones around there without even trying.
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F
Gillian, is this a trick that you've used?
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A
Why do I have to come?
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F
I'll go to Emily. Is this a trick you've used?
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E
Guys, this was my whole issue with this. He said he did lapse 25 minutes in the 90 degree heat and couldn't find chairs and his kids were on the cement. Just take a towel and throw it in the ocean and sit down. And when someone says, I saved it, say, no, you didn't. What are you gonna do?
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A
Someone give her a true crime podcast?
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E
He literally went through a trial for this to get back $1,000. That was 15% of his investment.
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F
What do you think about this Promptom?
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C
You give the pool boy 20 bucks and he'll make sure you get a chair.
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D
What else for 50 bucks?
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A
Yeah. I don't think 20 bucks is getting you a chair. I think that they should all ban people saving the chair all day. You get up and you leave, you're out. That's it.
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E
Totally.
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A
I have small friends. I just did this on vacation with them.
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F
One More Thing is up next.
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A
All right, welcome back. It is time for One More Thing. Greg, you're up first tonight.
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D
We got a great show. Erin McGuire, Joe DeVito, Shalhou and Tyrus. That's tonight at 10, although I doubt it. China. Let's do this, Greg. Skunk in the Cup News with Brad Hume. All right, let's go to Colorado. Here we have a stumbling skunk, Jillian, that was saved by a Colorado police officer. Got the stuck up off the head of the poor little skunk. After a few failed attempts using a cat's pole tool, the officer went hands on to remove it. I wish the delightful Molly Hemingway was here to see this. Skunks have a torpedo like head, Jesse, you know that specifically discarded food containers are often a significant hazard.
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A
Aw, yeah, I know.
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E
I feel bad for Rush our cut.
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D
All right, Jesse, you're not crush our cups Indeed. Don't do that, Emily. You're a wise young woman. All right.
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C
You guys want to see a lot of money?
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E
Yeah.
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C
That is a hundred thousand dollar bill.
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F
Who is that on the $100,000?
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D
Woodrow Wilson.
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C
Woodrow Wilson.
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D
And you call yourself a Democrat? Yes.
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C
Tonight, Jesse Waters primetime. Johnny was at the Bruce Springsteen concert.
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D
How do you feel about his handling
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F
of the Iran war?
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C
It's illegal. We shouldn't be there.
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D
So you would let Iran have a nuclear bomb?
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C
Should we have them and they not? I feel comfortable with that.
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F
Listen to the 5ad free on Amazon
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D
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