Iranian Drone Strikes Near U.S. Consulate In Dubai

Summary

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Podcast Summary: "The Five"

Episode: Iranian Drone Strikes Near U.S. Consulate In Dubai

Date: March 3, 2026
Host: Emily Compagno with Jessica Tarloff, Jesse Waters, Dana Perino, Tyrus, and guest correspondents (Trey Yanks, Jennifer Griffin)

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Main Theme / Purpose

This episode of "The Five" covers the rapidly escalating Middle East conflict, with a focus on Iranian drone and missile attacks impacting U.S. and allied interests, most recently a strike near the U.S. Consulate in Dubai and on the CIA station in Riyadh. The panel analyzes the U.S. and Israeli military response, internal U.S. political reactions, and the implications for domestic and international security, energy markets, and the political landscape. Key voices included firsthand updates from the field, government officials, and lively discussion among the hosts.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Breaking News: Iranian Drone Strikes

• Incident Details [00:17–01:18]

  • Iranian drone hits a parking lot near the U.S. Consulate in Dubai; all personnel safe; fire contained.
  • U.S. closes three embassies in the region amid continued missile threats.

• On-the-Ground Update (Trey Yanks) [01:18–02:52]

  • Central Israel experiences another barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles; seven lightly injured.
  • Israeli strikes hit Iran’s Supreme Council building; targeted Iranian officials involved in leadership succession.
  • Israel and the U.S. collaborate to target Iranian leadership and missile infrastructure.
  • Israeli attacks against Hezbollah's stronghold in Beirut signal a message to Iran's proxies.

  “The Israelis say they are looking to send a message to terrorists across the Middle East that if they get involved in this war, they will be eliminated.”
  —Trey Yanks [02:48]

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2. U.S. and Israeli Military Response

• Trump Administration's Stance [03:04–03:25]

  • President Trump touts having “knocked out” Iran’s navy and air force.
  • Secretary of State Marco Rubio aggressively defends the administration’s actions.

  “They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons... That’s why the President made this decision. Take away their missiles, take away their navy, take away their drones, so they can never have a nuclear weapon.”
  —Marco Rubio (reported by Trey Yanks) [03:25–03:55]

• Communications Strategy & Challenges (Dana Perino) [03:59–06:14]

  • Main communicators: Trump, Pete Hegseth, General Kaine, Rubio.
  • Debate over defining "success" in the operation.
  • Iran seen as a persistent threat, increasingly desperate and unpredictable.

  "If you want to talk about a forever war, how about the one that started in 1979?"
  —Dana Perino [04:54]

• Economic and Geopolitical Impact (Jessica Tarloff) [06:19–08:13]

  • U.S. strikes aim to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear arms and destabilizing global markets.
  • U.S. consolidates control over the oil market, weakening Russia’s and China’s influence in the Middle East.

  “You can’t allow Iran to blackmail the global economy... Look at what we’ve done here. We now control almost the entire world oil market, and we’ve kicked out Russia and China from the Middle East.”
  —Jessica Tarloff [07:25]

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3. Political Messaging, Media, and Domestic Reaction

• Media Critique and U.S. Political Divide (Tyrus, Dana Perino, Emily Compagno) [08:37–11:07]

  • Criticism of media questioning Trump’s motivations and response to Israeli actions.
  • Praise for Trump’s record on avoiding wars, with skepticism about his current recognition.
  • Ongoing concern about misinformation, national security, and border challenges.

  “Always taking a shot at his manhood, always trying to attack him... He just answered them very calmly. He’s very tempered now.”
  —Tyrus [08:52]

• Stranded Americans and Troop Safety Concerns (Dana Perino) [11:07–13:56]

  • Republicans—even Trump supporters—raise questions about operational planning and the safety of U.S. personnel overseas.
  • CBS reporting about poorly protected soldiers at a Kuwaiti base puts further pressure on the administration.

  “If we were so prepared... I find it hard to believe that there would be thousands of Americans stranded across the region.”
  —Dana Perino [12:54]

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4. Democrats, Liberal Media & Criticism of the War Effort

• Opposition Reaction (Clip montage, Tyrus, Jesse Waters, Jessica Tarloff) [15:42–21:20]

  • Prominent Democrats like Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries forecast failure and question the war’s necessity.
  • Accusations from some in the media that Trump's action is a diversion or “wag the dog”—detracting from domestic issues.

  “The American people want us to focus on making their life better ... not getting involved in another endless war in the Middle East.”
  —Chuck Schumer (paraphrased/clip) [15:51]

  “At the moment, it looks like the United States is kicking ass and taking names, literally.”
  —Tyrus [17:24]

• Debate over Congressional Authority & War Powers (Jesse Waters, Dana Perino) [18:54–22:50]

  • Discussion of historical precedent: Congress hasn’t formally declared war since WWII.
  • Administration claims it’s worked “by the book” in briefing Congress, submitting War Powers notification.

  “...the War Powers Resolution notification submitted to Congress on time on February 28th before the strikes.”
  —Dana Perino [21:45]

• Impact on U.S. Military Morale & Veteran's Perspective (Emily Compagno) [23:00–24:05]

  • Critique of defeatist messaging by politicians; importance of faith and stewardship towards service members.

  “It reads like a betrayal... no faith in those brave men and women who put on the uniform...”
  —Emily Compagno [23:00]

• Differentiating Criticism within the Parties (Dana Perino) [25:07]

  • Notes that some Democratic veterans in Congress (Gallego, Moulton, Crow) oppose the war and wish to see it debated, but not all predict its failure.

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5. Gas Prices, California’s Policies & Political Blame Game

• Gavin Newsom's Claims (Tyrus, Emily Compagno, Dana Perino, Jesse Waters) [32:47–36:42]

  • California’s governor blames Trump and the war for rising gas prices, but panelists push back, citing local regulations, taxes, and inability to import affordable oil.

  “That’s why it kills me to listen to him... when his policies have absolutely had such an impact on living in California...”
  —Emily Compagno [33:50]

  “Would you invite Gavin Newsom to one of your shows and interview him?”
  —Jesse Waters (joking with Tyrus) [41:03]

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6. Breaking: CIA Station in Saudi Arabia Struck

• Details from Jennifer Griffin [36:55–38:52]

  • Iranian drone hits CIA station within U.S. embassy compound in Riyadh (no casualties).
  • Highlights the threat posed by Iran’s vast drone arsenal, which could escalate conflict and circumvent traditional missile defenses.
  • Decline observed in the frequency of missile attacks, but drones remain a persistent problem.

  "These drones are really the new suicide bombs of the next phase in the Middle East and they're going to be a problem for some time."
  —Jennifer Griffin [38:00]

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7. Sidebar: Hillary Clinton, Epstein Deposition & Political Theater

• Clinton - Epstein Clips and Political Reaction [26:08–31:43]

  • Panel reacts to video of Hillary and Bill Clinton in a deposition related to Epstein, highlighting Hillary’s visible frustration and Bill’s nonchalance.
  • Debate over the significance of Republicans leaking images and Democrats' own conduct.
  • Mixed views on the legitimacy and necessity of the deposition.

  “He was actually in pretty good spirits, considering the wife was there looking at the same photos. I thought he handled himself pretty well, considering that I would not want to be a fly on the wall in that car ride home.”
  —Tyrus [27:34]

  "She’s the most investigated person in American history. Maybe Donald Trump’s going to be more than her by the time this is all over."
  —Dana Perino [30:25]

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8. Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [08:52] Tyrus on Trump’s media interactions:

  “Always taking a shot at his manhood, always trying to attack him... He just answered them very calm. He's very tempered now.”

• [17:24] Tyrus on U.S. performance:

  “At the moment, it looks like the United States is kicking ass and taking names, literally.”

• [23:00] Emily Compagno on military morale:

  “It reads like a betrayal... no faith in those brave men and women who put on the uniform...”

• [38:00] Jennifer Griffin on drone warfare:

  “These drones are really the new suicide bombs of the next phase in the Middle East and they’re going to be a problem for some time.”

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9. Lighter, Human-Interest Segments [39:13–41:41]

• Firefall at Yosemite, Bike Lessons, Zoo Animal Update:

  • Show closes with lighter stories: firefall at Yosemite, group teaching a friend to ride a bike, and an animal anecdote.

• Comedy & Odd News:

  • Tyrus promotes his Planet Tyrus comedy tour.
  • New York shoppers discover a live owl in a store.

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Opening news & scene-setting: [00:15–01:18]
• Live update from Tel Aviv (Trey Yanks): [01:18–02:52]
• Administration response / Rubio defense: [03:04–03:55]
• Defining strategic ‘success’ (Perino/Tarloff): [03:59–06:14]
• Domestic impact & oil market analysis: [06:19–08:13]
• Media critique and troop safety: [08:37–13:56]
• Democratic/media opposition clips: [15:42–17:01]
• Congressional/War Powers Resolution discussion: [18:54–22:50]
• Troop morale and politicians’ rhetoric: [23:00–25:07]
• California gas price debate (Newsom): [32:47–36:42]
• CIA station drone strike (Jennifer Griffin): [36:55–38:52]

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Takeaways

• Escalating regional conflict with direct hits on American diplomatic and intelligence sites intensifies urgency and scrutiny of U.S. and Israeli military policies.
• Strong partisan reactions on both sides about the conduct, strategy, and ethics of the military campaign on Iran, with particular focus on messaging, transparency, and historical precedent.
• Energy markets and global alliances are directly affected, with broader narratives about U.S. strategic control and economic implications.
• Media spin and political narratives shape domestic perceptions and could influence the midterm election context.
• Emergence of drones as a major threat in modern asymmetric warfare, underscoring vulnerability even as traditional missile capacities are degraded.
• The episode concludes with relatable, lighter stories and humor, providing balance to the intense news coverage.

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This summary is designed to provide an in-depth, comprehensive recap of the episode for listeners seeking to understand the scope, tone, and key insights without having to listen to the full broadcast.

Transcript

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[Trey Yanks]

Emily, good afternoon. Sirens were sounding across central Israel today. Last hour, another barrage of Iranian ballistic missiles fired toward this country. We know at one location that we went to, you could see the shrapnel aftermath. Seven people there were injured, mostly lightly. As this conflict develops, the Israelis are continuing to go after Iranian leadership. And today they struck Iran's Supreme Council building just south of the capital of Tehran. And Israeli officials say that they killed individuals who are Iranian officials who were counting the votes to determine who would be the next supreme leader of Iran. There is a joint effort underway by the United States and Israel to go after not just the leadership but also the missile launching positions that are causing this significant damage to the central and northern part of Israel. When we arrived at this site today, there were hundreds of children in the street. They were celebrating the Jewish holiday of Purim. And Israeli officials say it was a miracle that no one was killed. Now as the Israelis are looking east to this incoming fire, they're also looking north at the Iran backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Iran's largest proxy that continues to launch rockets and drones over the border. The Israelis responding overnight with more strikes against the Lebanese capital of Beirut, striking the Lebanese stronghold of Dahya. This is a neighborhood in the southern part of Beirut where Hezbollah launches many of their operations from. It's a coordination hub. And the Israelis say they are looking to send a message to terrorists across the Middle east that if they get involved in this war, they will be Eliminated.

[Emily Compagno]

Emily, Trey, thank you, and stay safe. And now to President Trump earlier today boasting about how the US Strikes have largely, quote, knocked out Iran's military watch.

[Tyrus]

They have no navy. It's been knocked out.

[Jessica Tarloff]

They have no air force. It's been knocked out.

[Dana Perino]

Mr. President, did Israel force your hand to launch these two strikes against Iran,

[Emily Compagno]

pull the United States into this war?

[Tyrus]

No, I might have forced their hand.

[Emily Compagno]

And Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivering an epic smackdown to critics before briefing Congress on the strikes.

[Trey Yanks]

Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics. They have an ambition to have nuclear weapons. They intend to develop those nuclear weapons behind a program of missiles and drones and terrorism that the world will not

[Jessica Tarloff]

be able to touch them for fear of those things. And this is the weakest they've ever been.

[Trey Yanks]

Now is the time to go after them. The President made the decision to go after them. Take away their missiles, take away their navy, take away their drones, take away their ability to make those things so that they can never have a nuclear weapon. That's why the President made this decision.

[Emily Compagno]

Dana, successful messaging. Indeed. And do you see this operation as being successful, too?

[Jesse Waters]

Well, I mean, yes, so far. And I think that even actually, the President and Rubio are the ones saying, let's just take a beat, guys. This is. We're in this for the long haul, and I don't know how long the haul will be, and they're not putting a timeline on it. And I think that's correct. I do think that Rubio is an excellent communicator. So you have basically four people right now that are making most of the news and the statements. So there's President Trump, of course, then you have Pete Hegseth and General Kaine, and then you have Marco Rubio. But also those four individuals are extremely busy people, and they have a lot that they have to do and a lot that they have to manage. And so they're the communicators. But also, you could see the need for some additional communicators to understand what is going on and what the mission is and how they define success. What does success look like in the end? And that's what some people today are saying. Well, how do you define that? I think Rubio got closer to that today, although I could pick amongst all of them and say, I agree with that, I agree with that. And if you want to talk about a forever war, how about the one that started in 1979? Okay, so we could. We could go back through all of that at the same Time you are dealing with the fact that Iran is not only ruled by religious lunatics, they are harboring terrorists. The leader of Al Qaeda today, right now, is alive and living in Tehran. Now, I don't think he was at any of those meetings where everybody went down, but who were they protecting? Who were they giving comfort to? Al Qaeda. So there's that. And I believe the other problem is that Iran, having taken a beating last summer, didn't take a lesson. Right. They said, well, I guess we'll just keep going. And Witkoff last night on Hannity says, they came into the meeting last week and said, we don't care what you do. We have enough material right now for 11 nuclear weapons or nuclear bombs. So Iran is basically saying now that they have the fact that the leadership is decimated, they just want to burn it all down. They're like, if we're going down, all of you are going down with us. And that's why you see them attacking everyone else. But they, they are definitely backed into a corner. They, I think the Iranians are hoping that Trump and Netanyahu will back down and that they can have some sort of way to survive. What I gather from what the President and the Secretary of State and Secretary of War have said is that that's not going to happen.

[Emily Compagno]

Jesse, you've been covering this alongside Dana since that first Saturday. What are your thoughts on how this has been unfolding?

[Jessica Tarloff]

Well, we're crushing them. And you're hearing people say, oh, well, the attack wasn't imminent. Why would you wait for an Iranian attack to be imminent so you can justify it to Democrats? These guys were nuking up. Trump's not going to wait around. He had a window. They had a meeting for breakfast and he took the shot. You can't allow Iran to blackmail the global economy. Look at little rocket man. Look at what he's done in Asia. Imagine a Muslim little rocket man what he could do in the Middle east. No bueno. And you'd have a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Their ballistic missiles can already hit Europe. Couple more years, they're going to be able to hit the east coast of the United States. And China finances the missile program. It is incredibly expensive and dangerous to defend against these missiles. And then you have the terror proxies from Beirut to Baghdad. We all know how that went down. They constantly interrupt the free flow of oil through the strait. It jacks up prices, it jacks up premiums, it boosts inflation. And China buys all the cheap sanctioned oil. That's not going to happen anymore. Because what we've done here is now with Venezuela and Iran, we've basically taken tipped over to petro dictatorships, both proxies of Russia and Iran. It weakens both of those countries. And we now control almost the entire world oil market. And we've kicked out Russia and China from the Middle east, an oil rich region right in the middle of the world trade from Asia to Europe. That's where all the goods and energy flows. So if this is a successful mission and this is what you call checkmate

[Emily Compagno]

and since you mentioned Europe and the weapons being pointed there and I think the allies of Europe right now have been a little bit quiet and the real partnerships are unfolding, frankly in the Middle east, which I think underscores how this President Tyrus has fostered those relationships and created those alliances well before this so that the ground was fertile for everyone uniting against Iran or I should say against the Islamic regime.

[Tyrus]

Well, a couple of things. First of all, we're not going to get a fair shake from mainstream media here is we had this major event happen and the question was, did Israel force your hand to launch these strikes so they can't even respect him Just to get an answer, you leave your issues with the orange dragon out to ask a question for the American people. I don't think anyone was interested. Did Israel bully you into like you're just trying to. Always taking a shot at his manhood, always trying to attack him to get him. And I was very excited to see that he did not jump into it. He just answered them very calm. He's very tempered now. And the thing is, is like he's knocked out their navy, their Air force, their radar. Now they're going after their rockets. They're sending a message to the world. And it's the exciting part of this is is that the Middle east is actually finally responding. This is the one time President Trump has a record of avoiding wars. He's a peace, he wants peace. He's shown that. I don't know, was it eight, was it six? Just wars that he stopped all over the and yet, no, he can't get any recognition for it in this action with Iran. And I'm not a military guy, but I can kind of see I played Clue as a kid. I played Trivial Pursuit. It's pretty easy to figure out during the last administration the world was allowed to run buckshot wild. And what president is doing is autocorrect and all these emboldened things. They are used to what they're. They invested a lot to get those protests here in America, to get those people. We had wide open borders. We don't know who's here, but we do know that there is a concentrated effort to downplay everything that this administration does right here at home. So we all should be looking, watching around, because we don't know who's in our country. And we to get information, we have to really pay attention to what is coming. When you hear Rubio speak, who I think is handling this magnificently, the president. He's not. He's going to give you answers. What I'm concerned with is how much of the American people are going to get actual information based off the way the media's just initial reaction is, you know, they're just the ex girlfriend who everything you do is wrong. Instead of talking about what we need

[Emily Compagno]

to talk about, Jessica, later on in the show, we're going to talk about the Democrat elected officials reactions and statements about this. But I wanted to ask you about sort of your initial thoughts of all of that incredible footage of those liberated Iranian women who are cheering and celebrating in the streets is the first step of many in a long road ahead. But I just wanted to get your reflections on what feels like just an unfathomable joy, a pure joy.

[Dana Perino]

Absolutely. And the soccer team in particular, you know, it's very exciting and they fought hard for this. Hundreds of thousands of people have died over time, 30,000 in the last month since we really started, you know, loading up our military capacity in the region. And President Trump said help is on the way. And I hope that this is the help. I would love to know more about what the plan is to make sure that you do have a free Iran going forward. They have plenty of religious lunatics who are standing in line to take over. You know, we can blow them up every morning at their meeting. I assume they're going to stop having those meetings, but there are a lot of them there. I, I do want to push back on what Tyrus just said about, you know, the media questioning whether we took Israel's lead in doing this as being a knock on President Trump's manhood. They're following the facts. They listened to Secretary Rubio yesterday and he cleaned up those comments today. But they also know about the briefing that the Pentagon gave on Sunday where they directly refuted the story coming out of the White House. And they told congressional staffers that it wasn't that Iran was going to attack us, that if Iran got attacked by somebody else, then they were going to attack us. And that somebody else was Israel. Those are just the facts on the ground. It doesn't make you anti Israel or, you know, not a Zionist to talk about that reality. And you see the domino effect, you know, Caroline Levitt tweeting out pieces and in the National Review saying, no, Rubio didn't say this. President Trump saying Iran was going to attack first. That also flies in the face of what the Pentagon briefers were saying. If we were so prepared for this to happen, I find it hard to believe that there would be thousands of Americans stranded across the region. And there are lessons to be learned out of the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan under President Biden. These people should not be going on, you know, the website for the American Embassy in Jerusalem saying, you know, I need to get out of here. And they say we can't help you. Right. You shouldn't call the State Department hotline and they shouldn't say we can't help you. And I saw there was a tweet this afternoon that there are going to be charter flights, but these people are already there and they're already stranded. CBS is reporting about the six soldiers who died in this at the Kuwaiti base, that it was essentially like a makeshift trailer type thing. It had six foot walls but nothing on top. And they had been apparently asking for more defense systems to fight back the drone capabilities. And they hadn't gotten that. So there are loose ends here, to say the least. And it's not just Democrats pushing back on this. Todd Young, Republican senator, in a GOP lunch this afternoon saying, what's going on here, guys? What's going on with the story? And pushing back on Lindsey Graham. These are the kinds of things that you should be talking about on the Foreign Relations Committee.

[Jessica Tarloff]

So I think what happened was, respectfully, Jessica, is that when they had this meeting in the morning, when the entire leadership goes out in the open, you had to strike immediately. And the plan was with the Israelis. They were going to launch the first decapitation strike, which would then cause Iran to respond. And knowing that, that Iran was going to respond to the decapitation strike, we had to go in right then. That's what happened. And that's the opportunity that the president took.

[Dana Perino]

I don't think that we're saying different things. I'm saying it is less clean. And it was not clean out of Secretary Rubio's mouth yesterday, certainly. And he was very frustrated visibly today when the same reporter who had asked him yesterday had to follow up today about it. And Netanyahu in his interview with Sean Hannity Last night had to play cleanup about it as well.

[Jessica Tarloff]

I was pretty clear about what happened when I saw the full press briefing that Rubio gave. If you just look at the clip, you can have that impression.

[Jesse Waters]

It's not like scheduling.

[Dana Perino]

I watched the briefing and I told you.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Yeah, that. You told me. Disinformation. That's why I had today.

[Dana Perino]

This is my.

[Jessica Tarloff]

My own research.

[Dana Perino]

All my fault. Sorry, guys.

[Emily Compagno]

All right, guys. Coming up next, Democrats and the liberal media seem to be rooting for failure and Operation Epic Ferry.

[Jesse Waters]

That's next.

[Jessica Tarloff]

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media are ramping up their resistance to Trump's attacks on Iran. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries voicing their pessimism and already forecasting failure.

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[Tyrus]

The American people want us to focus on making their life better, making their life more affordable, not getting involved in another endless war in the Middle east that is going to end in fear failure.

[Dana Perino]

Wars without clear objectives do not remain small. They get bigger, bloodier, longer, and more expensive. This is not a necessary war.

[Jessica Tarloff]

It's a war of choice.

[Jesse Waters]

And some in the media are letting their opposition be known, even framing it as an issue for the Democrats to run on in the midterms.

[Jessica Tarloff]

If this does extend three, four, six weeks and the American death toll really accelerates, this is not just a defining moment for this president, but a real problem for his party in a midterm election year.

[Trey Yanks]

We don't know why Donald Trump just

[Jessica Tarloff]

started this war in Iran.

[Dana Perino]

Trump did it basically as a favor.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Can President Trump really take out every dictator on his own without consulting Congress or getting them to vote?

[Emily Compagno]

You know, there's something fishy about why he did it. To me, it's a distraction, like a

[Jessica Tarloff]

Wag the dog situation.

[Emily Compagno]

Tyrus.

[Jesse Waters]

Let me start with Hakeem Jeffries saying while we have troops actively working, he says it is going to be a failure.

[Jennifer Griffin]

That is.

[Tyrus]

That is shocking. And here's a guy that I've been on record a few times saying that he was going to be legitimate threat in the Democratic Party in terms of, like, presidential. And then he goes and drops something like that. I don't know when we got to the point where when they're saying American people, it's the American people who are going over there. It's our troops that are going. Those are about as American as it gets. And to not show support, you don't have to agree, but just to use key words like fail or when did everyone become these predictors? It's always mass chaos. It's always, oh, the death toll is going to do this and do that. Well, at the moment, it looks like the United States is kicking ass and taking names, literally. They can't even have a Sunday brunch tea anymore to discuss because everything they do, America is one step ahead of them. Where is the support? There is a moment, I think at least give them the week before you start dropping your criticism from your. You know, something seems fishy to me. Wow, what a journalistic take that was. It was a wag the duck. These are American lives, I don't think. And the President, again, his resume, forget what you think of him. His resume shows that he is not in the business of putting men and women who serve this country in the line of fire. He avoids it like the plague. And this situation, it is what it is. He's reluctant, but he knows it's the right thing to do. And I'm trusting the process. But when you have these leaders or they're not leaders, they're sound bites. And instead of being a part of the solution, the other argument would be with all the stuff they're talking about, because now they're going to say the economy is high because of the war. Where are your ideas and solutions? Give us one. Come to the table with one. Where's your magic health care? Give us something. Because I'm pretty sure if it's good enough, he'll. He'd sign it. He's literally said a million times, bring it to my office. So where are your solutions? Always telling us how it's going to end. It's like. It's like that one friend who never pays for dinner always complains about the restaurant.

[Jesse Waters]

But rooting for failure is something else. Yeah, that's new, Jesse. Whenever we deal with the War Powers act, we have to go back and remind everyone that Congress hasn't declared war since 1942. So the claim that Congress wanted Trump to come to them and say, let us know everything and let us vote on it before you take any action. Like, the Congress can't even fund the tsa and female.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Yeah, I mean, you don't do that with a surprise attack. This Isn't an Iraq war where you go to the UN and then you have this buildup for a year and then you ask permission from the Democrats and everybody votes? This was a window and we took a shot and we briefed the Gang of Eight before and we did it afterwards. I don't know why people are surprised. Rachel Maddow doesn't know why we're at war. There's been an Armada building in the Gulf for a month. Hannity at 9 o', clock, opposite of her, has been covering it every night while she's been covering Epstein, and she doesn't know why. Call a source, call someone in the deep state. They'll explain it to you. We've been at war with these people since 1979. Can I talk about Hakeem for a second, Dana, please. To say that the US Military is going to fail. That's what the Ayatollah said and he's dead. You cannot have men and women serving, risking their lives overseas on what, day four of an ongoing military operation. And the lead Democrat in the House says you're going to lose.

[Emily Compagno]

Yep.

[Jessica Tarloff]

I mean, everybody overseas watching now knows Hakeem Jeffries does not have their back. And, and he's asking, well, where does he get the money for this war? Okay, it was in the $900 billion Pentagon budget that he voted for. I think he's losing it.

[Jesse Waters]

The other thing is that Hakeem Jeffries, they talked about in terms of the cost of the bombing, it's like, well, yes, there's the bill actually passed, but they were the ones also the day after Trump's inauguration saying that he hadn't done enough to bring down the price of eggs. So there's that. I know we don't have a ton of time. Jessica, let me go to you and talk about the. The Democrats like John Fetterman today on Newsroom said, but they wanted Iran's leadership to fail. They wanted them to get rid of them, but they just wanted it done in their way. But they had not done it in the past two times when they had the presidency.

[Dana Perino]

No one disputes that Iran was a mass threat. We talked that no tears shed for the Ayatollah or the other. You know, 45 some odd people are with him day one in the 80 something that died today. I think it's more about the questions of how long is this going to go on? What does it mean? What does success look like? How many American lives are going to be lost? And tying it back to the fact that Donald Trump was Someone who ran on successfully multiple times as the, quote, unquote, peace president and no troops on the ground. I do think calling it an illegal war and going down that route is pretty fruitless and silly. I mean, Secretary Rubio said yesterday we followed all the protocols. I'm looking right now at the War Powers Resolution notification that they submitted to Congress on time on February 28th before the strikes happened. They have been doing it, quote, unquote, by the book up until this point. And they will have the vote on it and there will be some Republicans who will vote against it. Todd Young is signaling that that may happen. But it is not just Democrats that are concerned about this. You know, already mentioned Todd Young, the Thomas Massie's of the world, the Rand Paul's of the world. And I think there's a difference between the kind of surgical strikes that we saw with Operation Midnight Hammer or in Venezuela and what this looks like even just a few days in, and our close ally Israel's intention here and how long we know that Netanyahu will go to make sure that Iran is totally eradicated as we know it.

[Jesse Waters]

Emily, you work with a lot of veterans groups and I wonder how you think that language about you will fail lands with either active duty military or the veterans.

[Emily Compagno]

I can only speak for myself where it reads like a betrayal. It reads like a prediction. It reads like there's no faith in those brave men and women who put on the uniform, who have bled under and died under the flag that he rolls his eyes under, being a loved one of someone who has deployed under Biden and deployed under President Trump. There is a real difference in that stress level, a phenomenal delta between the two. And this is a president who understands the stewardship of our greatest treasure, which is our brave men and women in uniform and in the shadows, and does not take the loss of those six American lives lightly. He takes it with a gravitas that it deserves. And I find it despicable that, for example, behind Schumer, we saw Senator Kaine called it an invasion of Iran. And then Hakeem Jeffries talks about billions of dollars for bombs. It was under Obama's JCPOA that we paid $1.3 billion to Iran in interest alone. The principal was just 400 million.

[Tyrus]

Just.

[Emily Compagno]

And that somehow is supposed to be divorced from what he's talking about. We still pay, by the way, $83 million per week to the Taliban. We still do because it's caught up right now in the Senate. There's a lot of machinations behind the scenes that have fomented those radicals over there and the thought that somehow it was fine or that it wasn't fomenting, that there wasn't an absolute daily and constant risk of Americans lives and of our allied interests is an absolute lie. And for those Democratic senators and congressmen to pretend that there was somehow a stability, that our interests weren't threatened, that the veneer over the abscess that we've been operating under for all of these years can somehow then be kicked down the can just because everyone else before us didn't have the vertebrae to do is such a slap in the face. And I find it massively disrespectful. I feel, however, no surprise whatsoever from any of them who have never shown a modicum of support for the reasons that people sign up for service and the reasons that President Trump has vowed to protect.

[Jesse Waters]

Those.

[Dana Perino]

Can I just add really quickly, Ruben Gallego, Seth Moulton, Jason Crowe, all Democrats, all, all veterans that oppose what's going on here and want to see it debated. Those people know.

[Jesse Waters]

Do you think they agree with Hakeem Jeffries that it's going to fail?

[Dana Perino]

I don't. I, I have not seen the comments on that. But I'm just saying there are people who serve this country and know about sacrifice who are concerned about what we're doing over there.

[Tyrus]

Okay.

[Jesse Waters]

Coming up next, Hillary Clinton was clearly not thrilled about her Epstein deposition. And Bill seemed very focused on a few old photos.

[Tyrus]

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[Jessica Tarloff]

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[Dana Perino]

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[Jennifer Griffin]

Thank you for joining me for the

[Dana Perino]

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[Tyrus]

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[Jessica Tarloff]

House oversight dumping hours. A video from the Clinton's Epstein deposition. And it doesn't disappoint. Hillary's head exploding after Congresswoman Lauren Boebert snagged a photo that was then leaked online. Watch this.

[Jesse Waters]

If there are photos that are being

[Dana Perino]

released of the secretary, she is testifying.

[Jesse Waters]

Can you please explain how done this? If you guys are doing that, I am done.

[Trey Yanks]

You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home.

[Jessica Tarloff]

This is just typical behavior. He will go off the record.

[Trey Yanks]

Oh, for sure.

[Jesse Waters]

So I would like to understand how that's permissible.

[Dana Perino]

It doesn't matter. We all are abiding by the same rules.

[Jessica Tarloff]

And check out the look on Bill Clinton's face as Bubba reminisced a little too fondly about the good old times with Epstein, flipping through photos like it's a school yearbook. That is, until his lawyer swoops in, snatches the papers, and reminds him this isn't story hour. Back to business, Mr. President. Oh, and just to be clear, he did not have sexual relations with that woman in the hot tub.

[Tyrus]

I don't think there's anybody in the hot tub. I don't even.

[Jessica Tarloff]

I didn't forgotten that there was anybody

[Tyrus]

in the hot tub, but it was

[Jessica Tarloff]

big, so we went out, I swam around, I sat in the hot tub for five minutes.

[Tyrus]

I could go whatever it was.

[Jessica Tarloff]

And I got up and went to bed.

[Tyrus]

And AB Asked us, did you engage

[Jessica Tarloff]

any sexual activity with this person? I showed, not a crime to be in the hot tub.

[Tyrus]

Not a crime. You know what, man? You know what's terrible about this whole thing is that Bill Clinton was a president, and he was a pretty good president. I mean, whether you like it or not, he balanced the budget. I think everybody got a surplus refund and taxes and stuff. He did some good things. But he will forever be remembered as this guy. Like, this is who he is. And he was actually in pretty good spirits, considering the wife was there looking at the same photos. I thought he handled himself pretty well, considering that I would not want to be a fly on the wall in that car ride home. And Hillary was just looking. And she had a right to be upset. Like, let's be honest. She had a right to be. To be pissed. But it could have been anything. At some point, she was going to say that, and she had a right to do that. But they literally could have been like, good afternoon. And she'd be like, it is good morning. I am out of here. You are not. This place is. And I get it. Like, this is. As a wife, I can't imagine, you know, but. Oh, Bill. Like, you can balance the budget. You can. You can fix all kinds of things in two terms. Play the saxophone, be cool, but you smoke one cigar, that's it. You're a cigar guy for the rest of your life. Like, he's never going to be. This is. And it's. And it's. It's tragic, Dana.

[Jesse Waters]

Well, I. I don't blame her for getting mad. The Clintons asked for a public hearing, and they were denied a public hearing because they wanted to do it behind closed doors because they were going to get all this great information out of it. Well, now we know. You can look at the tapes. Is there great information that came out of It. But if you leak a photo to social media because that's more important to you than adhering to the rules, then, yeah, you're going to get slapped down like that. I think that for the Republicans, I would say there's a lot of problems in this country. Pick your battles. This isn't one of them.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Do you think the Clintons comported themselves professionally in this deposition?

[Emily Compagno]

I think they comported themselves true to their brands. I mean, they were both vintage. You know, he was like, I felt uncomfortable seeing his glee at the pictures. Like, I felt like he was reminiscing clearly. And, you know, I was like, oh, God. Like, I felt like I was seeing too much.

[Jesse Waters]

I know he loves it.

[Jessica Tarloff]

He's like, give me that back.

[Emily Compagno]

It just reminded me how he was like, I didn't inhale. You know, he's like, I didn't have sex in the hot tub. I mean, whatever. At least in that hot tub photo, he's clearly wearing a bathing suit. And then I felt, you know, Hillary Clinton has always demonstrated a massive defensiveness and refusal to be held not just to account, but through the typical auditing process of the offices that she's been privileged to hold after being the wife of a president. So I found, you know, whatever half second of pressure she felt fails in comparison to what the four Raven 23 contractors felt for years and years at her behest and a lot more. So I think it comes with the territory. But if she wants to freak out, go for it.

[Dana Perino]

She failed to be held to account. She's the most investigated person in American history. Maybe Donald Trump's going to be more than her by the time this is all over. She sits for every committee hearing. And not only that, she says, let's do it publicly. I mean, she has had, she's been tailed for 35 plus years, every single move that she makes. And I think it is important that they said to Jim Comer, we want to do this and we want to do it publicly. And he rejected it. And you see the difference between how the Republicans behaved in front of the cameras and how they were when they were actually talking to somebody with that level of intelligence and command of the facts. Lauren Boebert in front of a mic outside acted like she was too big for her britches. You know, she's out there, you know, with that kind of energy, like she owned the room. She's like a 12 year old little girl in there. When Hillary Clinton says, you can't do that because she's violating the rules she didn't just take the picture. She leaked it to somebody like a Benny Johnson to put it out there to millions of followers and try to humiliate her again. It's.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Yeah. Democrats never leak information.

[Dana Perino]

Stop it, Jesse. This is a bipartisan point that it is not leak.

[Jessica Tarloff]

It's bad, but they do it.

[Dana Perino]

You know that there was no reason that Hillary Clinton should have been in there for a deposition. You know it.

[Jessica Tarloff]

I don't know what I know. You don't tell me what I know. I know enough to know what I know.

[Tyrus]

Jesse knows a lot more than you think.

[Trey Yanks]

Darn it.

[Tyrus]

Not more. But he knows a lot.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Just about as much.

[Tyrus]

Yeah.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Up next, greasy Gavin Newsom gets a crude awakening. So we did there. After trying to blame Trump for high gas prices,

[Dana Perino]

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[Emily Compagno]

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[Tyrus]

I'm talking Jesse. The greasy one is trying to pull a fast1. California Governor Gavin Newsom is blaming, guess who, Trump for higher gas prices in the state. Watch.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Gas prices are going up. Every ten dollar increase in a barrel is roughly $0.24 per gallon that you'll be paying more because of Trump's war. The concerns we have as it relates to gas scarcity or potential just spiking of prices in the next days, weeks and potentially months. As Donald Trump said today that this could be months and months of additional attacks.

[Tyrus]

Emily, since we're both from the Golden State, although it's not really golden anymore, it's more tarnished. But anyway. Do you think Gavin has been aware at all of all the oil refineries that have been closing up because of all the restraints he's put on them. Or is it. It's just easy to say Trump.

[Emily Compagno]

That's why it kills me to listen to him. You know, he just inserted himself in foreign policies and international geopolitics in Germany, you know, at flaunting and advocating for his potential 2028 run and then comes back and has the nerve to say that when his policies have absolutely had such an impact on living in California in so many different ways of cost, everyone has fled. And by the way if he even knew how to had a slight understanding of what was going on in the region, I would say let's pretend what he said was accurate and its additional 24 cents. I will gladly pay that to be safe from all of the evils that were lurking there latently while he gets to comb his hair and go to French laundry. So I see him as a joke and I'm not quite sure why. He is clearly surrounded by yes. People who are not saying to him, hey Governor, I think you should sit this one out. This is for the adults.

[Tyrus]

Jessica, I have one question for you. How dare you.

[Dana Perino]

So he's not right. He's not wrong on the facts of the increase in oil. We've seen that gas gone up 10 cents today as a result of all of this. But obviously California has had very high gas prices compared to the national average. They their blend is this cleaner blend to prevent more smog. It's more expensive. They also have a bigger consumption tax for their roads that ends up getting put onto the consumer there. So that's how you end up with more expensive gas. But he's not wrong. And you say I'll gladly pay more for it. There are going to be Americans who are going to say I am not glad to pay more for gas because of a war abroad. That is a real sentiment on the right and on the left.

[Jesse Waters]

But are they willing to pay more for gas for ridiculous policies like banning combustion engine cars and forcing everyone into an evil? That was only because Trump and the Congress got that law off the books. President Trump saved him from something even worse. It's not just that gas prices are a little bit more in California. $4.70 a day in California versus $3.10 the rest of the country.

[Tyrus]

Jesse, I couldn't help but notice. I'm sure you did as two alpha males, the way that he presented that his voice was deeper. He only used one hand to move. Is this going to get more traction because he's doing a little more of a macho. See that? See how he's pointing? Is not the two hands go.

[Jessica Tarloff]

He's been crossing his legs.

[Tyrus]

Very water like presentation. I just like to put that out there.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Yeah, he could slash some of the taxes he slaps on gas if he wants to give California a little relief. Or he could build a pipeline. I just found out there's not a single pipeline connecting California to the rest of the country. California imports foreign oil from Saudi Arabia instead of getting it just from Texas. It's like this guy's out of his mind.

[Dana Perino]

They just authorize a bunch of drilling in the Central Valley, which is water,

[Emily Compagno]

finally, and they get water from Arizona.

[Dana Perino]

It was additive.

[Tyrus]

And coming up next, a breaking news update about our CIA station in Saudi Arabia.

[Dana Perino]

At a FOX News alert, an official source has confirmed that a suspected Iranian drone has hit a CIA station in Saudi Arabia's capital. Jennifer Griffin is live in Washington. Jennifer, what do we know?

[Jennifer Griffin]

Well, Jessica, we've confirmed with an official source that in fact it was an Iranian drone that struck the station, the CIA station in Riyadh. It was part of that US Embassy compound, part of that drone strike last night that led to damage at the embassy. This is certainly a symbolic victory for the irgc. Nobody was injured. Nobody was at the embassy at the time. The Washington Post was first to report on the incident and that it was in fact the CIA station that was targeted and hit. But what this indicates is that drones, the Iranian drones are going to be a big problem. They can take out the missile launchers and even the missile stockpiles, but they have thousands, if not tens of thousands of these drones and anyone can put them in the back of a truck and fire them. These are really the new suicide bombs of the next phase in the Middle east and they're going to be a problem for some time.

[Dana Perino]

U.S. defense officials are saying that the quote, waves Iranian missiles are declining. What does that tell you about where this conflict is going?

[Jennifer Griffin]

Well, I think in terms of ballistic missiles, the long range missiles, the cruise missiles, I think that the US And Israelis have been very effective in taking out the missile launchers and hunting down some of the mobile launchers. They still are able to get some of them off. But I think Israel has reported that 90, that on Saturday, 90 ballistic missiles were fired at it today, just 20. So it is going down. And I'm hearing from CENTCOM officials that in fact, they're seeing fewer and fewer in these waves. But again, these drones are going to cause are causing a lot of damage. They're the ones that have struck these hotels in Dubai and Bahrain and elsewhere. And they're going to be a problem for some time.

[Dana Perino]

All right. Thank you, Jennifer, and for your reporting. It's been very useful for all of us. Appreciate your time. We're going to keep monitoring this breaking story. And One More Thing is up next.

[Emily Compagno]

It's time now for One More Thing.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Jesse, you know what a waterfall is, right, Emily?

[Emily Compagno]

Yes.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Okay. How about a firefall? Have you ever seen one of these things?

[Jesse Waters]

Oh, this I love.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Check this out. This is at Yosemite, right? California. Right, Tyrus?

[Tyrus]

Yes, sir.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Little natural light phenomenon known as firefalls. When the sun sets on Horsetail Fall, making it look like a molten orange water stream is pouring down the granite Felseth. El Capitan.

[Tyrus]

El Capitan. Yes. Yes, you are. It's a great place. I've camped there. It's a great place.

[Jessica Tarloff]

You go camping?

[Tyrus]

I used to go. Yeah.

[Jessica Tarloff]

That is news to me.

[Tyrus]

I love it. Yep.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Tonight, Jesse Waters, prime time. Ted Cruz, 8:00pm awesome, Dana.

[Jesse Waters]

I've been wanting to do this one for a week. Maybe you've seen it online. Here is a group of guys teaching their teammate to ride a bike. He'd never ridden a bike. This is in Fort Scott, Kansas. And look at these guys. All the teammates roaming along with him. A dozen of his friends helped him figure it out. Now, once you learn to ride a bike, you're set. Podcast with Michael Allen. Very timely. On foreign policy.

[Dana Perino]

Jessica, I wanted you to have a Punch update now that I know that you're out.

[Jesse Waters]

Well, I just found out that Punch has to be separated from his orangutan because it's preventing him from actually getting to know the other monkeys well enough. So it's going to be a big breakup. It's really upsetting.

[Tyrus]

These things happen.

[Dana Perino]

Also really upsetting. I'm scared of going up in hot air balloons. And this is kind of why got tangled. Nearly 900 up in a cell tower. Firefighters to the rescue. Climbed the tower and safely repelled the two people down. Shout out to those firefighters. I am never doing that.

[Emily Compagno]

It is the one thing I won't do either. Tyrus.

[Tyrus]

Yeah, Bear traps and air balloons. I'm good. You know what time it is, Jesse? It's time for the Planet Tyrus comedy tour. And we're marking them out because now we're getting ready for our big California run. Hopefully gas prices are down by the time I get there, but April 9th through April 15th, we will be all places, California, whatever little tickets are left, every city in California.

[Jesse Waters]

Would you invite Gavin Newsom to come to one of your shows and, like, interview?

[Tyrus]

I would, but I'm dyslexic and I don't want to catch the hand thing.

[Jesse Waters]

Wait, no, I honestly. What if he came and you interviewed him? That'd be.

[Tyrus]

Yeah, for Jesse. I will, because Jesse and him have that bromance.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Do it for me.

[Emily Compagno]

Okay, my turn. Shoppers in upstate New York were treated to a rare find. A real live owl on the shelf resting peacefully next to a cookie jar in the shape of a chicken customers alerted the staff that they spotted something extremely lifelike. Police gently cradled the sleeping owl and released him into the wild. And on that good note and good news, that's it for us.

[Tyrus]

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