Operation Epic Fury Wallops Iran

Summary

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Podcast Summary: The Five – "Operation Epic Fury Wallops Iran"

Date: March 13, 2026
Hosts: Jesse Watters, Kellyanne Conway, Harold Ford Jr., Kayleigh McEnany, Greg Gutfeld, Ainsley Earhardt
Theme: The U.S. military’s aggressive campaign against Iran (Operation Epic Fury), domestic terror attacks and DHS shutdowns, political polarization, and a touch of celebrity news and culture.

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Episode Overview

This spirited episode centers on America’s ongoing military action against Iran (codenamed "Operation Epic Fury"). The hosts discuss U.S. advancements, Trump’s handling of the conflict, criticism from Democrats, and related domestic security concerns. Other highlights include controversy over celebrity charity events, social commentary on immigration and assimilation, and lighter pop-culture banter.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Update and Analysis: Operation Epic Fury in Iran

[00:00–08:57]

• Military Advance Highlights

  • Jesse Watters introduces significant U.S. military strikes, boasting nearly total decimation of Iran’s offensive capacity.

    "We've knocked out close to 90% of their missiles... We could do things that would be so bad they could never rebuild as a nation again."
    — Harold Ford Jr. (impersonating Trump), [01:35]

  • U.S. Navy, Marines deployed: The Pentagon sends 5,000 personnel to the Mideast.
  • President Trump signals more to come, hinting he’ll end the conflict “when I feel it in my bones.”

• Leadership and Objectives

  • Greg Gutfeld and Jesse describe Iran’s leaders as desperate, disfigured, and in hiding.
  • Kayleigh McEnany rebuts Democrat claims of a planless campaign. Cites data (loss of Iranian military assets, missile/drone reductions) as evidence of successful strategy.

    "It's an abject lie. The data points are there. There is a war plan. It's working."
    — Kayleigh McEnany, [03:36]

• Political Critiques & Media Narratives

  • Democrats are depicted as scrambling to attack Trump’s mental fitness rather than the military effort.
  • Gutfeld lampoons the media (especially CNN) for turning war coverage into climate change stories.

    "Children's Table Syndrome. Because they've lost credibility and trust among Americans."
    — Greg Gutfeld, [05:10]

• Historical Perspective

  • Ford Jr. calls for more transparency than “I’ll know it when I feel it.” References Roosevelt’s WWII fireside chats emphasizing shared sacrifice and clear objectives.

    "We deserve more than that as Americans, and we have a history of getting more."
    — Harold Ford Jr., [08:27]

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2. Domestic Security & Response to Radical Islamic Terror Attacks

[12:50–24:50]

• Wave of Attacks

  • Kayleigh describes multiple domestic terror incidents linked to ISIS sympathizers, focusing on attacks in synagogues and universities. The group laments DHS’s shutdown.
  • Liberals and local leaders are criticized for blaming guns and Trump rather than policy and immigration failures.

    "Now radical Muslims have been attacking Jews for a long time... This didn't start because of Trump."
    — Jesse Watters, [15:17]

• Analysis: Immigration, Guns, and Terror

  • Watters and Gutfeld argue that soft immigration laws, lax judges, and DHS closure contribute directly to these attacks. They call out hypocrisy in political blame games.

    "You can't import the third world into this country without... imprinting your values and culture on them."
    — Greg Gutfeld, [23:30]

• Policy Solutions & Debate

  • McEnany pushes for the Scam Act, advocating denaturalization for those who commit crimes.
  • Ford Jr. insists that beyond reopening DHS, better intelligence and technology sharing across agencies and with local law enforcement is necessary to prevent radicalization and violence.

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3. Immigration, Assimilation & American Identity

[21:53–25:06]

• Assimilation Concerns
  • Gutfeld argues for mandatory assimilation, noting that swelling immigrant populations without social or cultural connection increase risks of violence.
  • Ford Jr. and McEnany debate how to hold new citizens to American values, with McEnany warning against xenophobia but supporting policy tightening.

    "Is there anything wrong with making people love your country?"
    — Greg Gutfeld, [24:17] "This is way too xenophobic. We gotta stop this."
    — Kayleigh McEnany, [25:04]

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4. Celebrities, Charity, & Cancel Culture: The Katherine Heigl Dog Rescue Affair

[25:18–31:38]

• Hollywood Outrage

  • Katherine Heigl faces backlash for attending a Mar-a-Lago dog charity event; online critics tie her to Trump.
  • Earhardt notes the hypocrisy and over-politicization of harmless charity work.

    "Animals don't vote. The only room they don't like is the euthanasia room at a shelter. As a society, we should all come together to protect the voiceless and the innocent."
    — Katherine Heigl, via Ainsley Earhardt, [26:16]

• Critique of Political Policing

  • Gutfeld: “You can get liberals to condemn the construction of a shelter that saves the lives of dogs simply by attaching it to Trump.”
  • Ford Jr. calls for decency, noting humanity transcends party differences.

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5. Cultural Banter: Hasslers, Sitcoms, and More

[31:58–37:15]

• Hasslers (Annoying People) & Health

  • Study suggests “hasslers” (problem-creators) age you biologically.
  • Hosts joke about who’s the real hassler (many quips at each other’s expense).

• Sitcoms Relatable to Life

  • Each host picks a sitcom representing their life (from "Happy Days" to "Gilligan's Island" to "Married With Children"), segueing into light-hearted one-upmanship.

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6. "One More Thing": Heartwarming Stories & Personal Notes

[37:33–40:15]

• Veteran Honor Flights:
  • Ford Jr. shares an emotional airport scene welcoming veterans, calls for gratitude.
• GoFundMe for Elderly Delivery Man:
  • A Nashville woman’s act of kindness goes viral, raising $500,000 to help a retiree.
• Show Plugs:
  • Kayleigh previews interviews (Sen. Joe Manchin, a former jihadist, and a man who claims to have seen Jesus in a coma).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." — Greg Gutfeld, [01:23]
• "I've never seen no war plan that resulted in a 90% reduction in ballistic missiles... It’s working to great effect." — Kayleigh McEnany, [03:36]
• "CNN... they tie it to climate damage... Children's Table Syndrome." — Greg Gutfeld, [05:10]
• "When I feel it in my bones, is when I know it's over. We deserve more than that as Americans..." — Harold Ford Jr., [08:57]
• "You can't import the third world... without imprinting your values and culture on them." — Greg Gutfeld, [23:30]
• "Animals don't vote. The only room they don't like is the euthanasia room at a shelter." — Katherine Heigl (via Ainsley Earhardt), [26:16]
• "We have to force them to love us..." — Jesse Watters, [24:50]
• "Mandatory assimilation. I don't know how you do that. But... you gotta make people love your country." — Greg Gutfeld, [24:53]
• "This is way too xenophobic. We gotta stop this." — Kayleigh McEnany, [25:04]
• "If you have the same friend having the same conversation... and they're just put upon you... they're sucking out your energy, you got to rethink it." — Ainsley Earhardt, [33:08]
• "Negative people make positive people sick." — Jesse Watters, [34:07]

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Timestamps of Key Segments

• [00:00–08:57] – Operation Epic Fury, U.S. strategy in Iran, political/media spin, transparency in warfare.
• [12:50–24:50] – Domestic terror wave, immigration policy, Democrats vs. Republicans on security.
• [25:18–31:38] – Katherine Heigl & Mar-a-Lago dog rescue, liberal outrage, cancel culture.
• [31:58–37:15] – Hasslers and health, sitcom analogies, humor.
• [37:33–40:15] – Heartwarming stories, upcoming interviews, show sign-offs.

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Tone & Language

• Robust, combative, sarcastic: The conversation is sharp, with playful jabs and heavy irony, especially toward perceived political hypocrisy.
• Mix of serious analysis and humor: The hosts address high-stakes topics with both gravity and levity, keeping the podcast’s trademark banter intact.
• Emphasis on American values and political divides: The language is patriotic, occasionally polemical, reflecting the Fox News and "The Five" style.

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For listeners seeking an overview:
This episode presents an unapologetically pro-Trump, hawkish take on the Iranian conflict, a partisan breakdown of domestic terror and immigration challenges, and a tongue-in-cheek look at culture wars, all delivered with The Five’s iconic blend of news, opinion, and humor.

Transcript

[Jesse Watters]

Foreign. I'm jesse waters along with kellyanne conway, harold ford jr. Kayleigh mcenany and greg gutfeld. It's five o' clock in new york city and this is the five. Ayatollah Jr. Might want to watch his step if his legs are working because the US Military shredding his Iranian terror regime piece by piece. And now the pentagon sending about 5,000 sailors and marines to the Middle east as part of the Amphibious ready group and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit. This is President Trump issues his most heated threat yet to Iran, posting on Truth Social quote, watch what happened to these deranged scumbags today. And the Secretary of War is vowing no mercy. Looking up, the IRGC and Iranian regime sees only two things on the side of aircraft, the Stars and Stripes and

[Greg Gutfeld]

the Star of David. Iran's leadership is in no better shape. Desperate and hiding, they've gone underground.

[Jesse Watters]

Cowering, that's what rats do.

[Greg Gutfeld]

We know the new so called, not

[Jesse Watters]

so supreme leader is wounded and likely disfigured.

[Greg Gutfeld]

No quarter, no mercy for our enemies.

[Jesse Watters]

As for when the one sided beating will end for Iran, the President telling Brian Kilmeade he'll feel it in his gut.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

It's going very well. We're way ahead of schedule. Way ahead. We had no idea we'd be this far ahead. We've knocked out close to 90% of their missiles. We could do things that would be so bad they could literally never rebuild as a nation again. And we're trying to be nice about it. We're not doing it. When are you going to know when it's over? When I feel it. Ok, my bones. We have to do a little excursion to get rid of mad, mad people, crazy people that have, that want to have nuclear weapons.

[Jesse Watters]

And as Iran's Navy sits at the bottom of the ocean, the Democrats scrambling for their latest reason to claim America's losing by lying about Trump's mental state.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders. They are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly. What have we achieved? I mean, we've taken Khamenei, who's 86, and so far we replaced him with his son Kaminey Jr. Who's even a bigger hardliner.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I just hope the President stops this war.

[Jesse Watters]

I don't care about the politics. All right, Kelly, we're about two weeks into this. How are we doing?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Well, the senile old man losing his mind. I wasn't aware that Biden was back to being Commander in Chief, but I guess that's what Chris Murphy must be referencing. Of course he's not. Chris Murphy decided to lie about the president. He went on to say, there's no viable war plan. I've never seen no viable war plan that resulted in a 90% reduction in ballistic missiles coming from Iran. I've never seen no war plan that resulted in 95% decrease in drone attacks that resulted in a navy that is no longer combat viable, no longer combat ready. The sinking, the destruction of 90 ships. Never seen no war plan that hits 6,000 targets. It's an abject lie. The data points are there. There is a war plan. It's working to great effect. Chris Murphy goes on to say they change their goals and their aims every single day. This is the refrain from Democrats. There's no objective. There's no objective. Oh, wait. Well, we've known the objective for decades. Bill Clinton, we have an overriding interest in containing the threat posed by Iran. Barack Obama, we will never allow them to get nuclear weapons. Joe Biden, we will never allow them to acquire a nuclear weapon. We know the objective. Every Democrat president in modern history has said it, but one took action. This is going extraordinarily well. Trust President Trump. He was right on Maduro. He was right on for doe. He's going to be right here again. And he will know in his gut, as you pointed out in his gut, when it is time to exit.

[Jesse Watters]

Imagine the press In World War II, Greg, asking Roosevelt, what's going on? Do we have a war plan? We lose. What happened? Why did, why did the Germans do this?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah. Let me tell you everything right now. I'm going to lay it all out for you. So the Ayatollah, he might be disfigured. He's already impotent. I have a feeling that the 72 virgins are going to convert to Buddhism. And they say he's apparently in a coma, which is prompting Democrats to say, been there, done that. I think that CNN is leading the pack in their war journalism. They did the classic CNN story where they take something they don't like and they tie it to climate damage. What day are we in? We're day 13. They finally did.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

The

[Greg Gutfeld]

strikes have caused immediate pollution, environmental damage caused by soot and hydrocarbon. You know this first I've ever heard about this. I had no idea that when you drop bombs, it doesn't clean your dishes. You see these plumes of smoke. I think we can figure this out ourselves. Cnn. But the Dems and the media are suffering from something I coined cts, Children's table Syndrome. Because they've lost credibility and trust among the Americans. They're kind of stuck in the kiddie table in the kitchen screaming for attention. You have Chris Murphy for example, talking about senility after he spooned dementia patient for four years. They scream about gas prices which they didn't scream about when, when the Ukraine war started and caused the prices to jump up. So the fact is when they say any, when they say stuff, nobody takes it seriously. Lastly, when you hear Trump talk about Iran, what does it sound like? It sounds like everything else he talks about, whether it's his political adversaries here, the media or celebrities. When he says, says deranged scumbag that could be about De Niro doesn't change his tone or delivery. Even when he's talking about foreign policy, he doesn't dress it up with flowery language. I don't think you are going to find another leader less impressed by power which is hilarious, you know, because the Dems love to call him a king or a fascist but he's really ambivalent about presidents, kings, theocracies. He doesn't put them on a pedestal and he won't bow. That's why his language is consistent. He uses power to advance American interests. Democrats gaining power is their interest.

[Jesse Watters]

How have the Democrats navigated the first two weeks of this mission?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Harold?

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Well, first, good to be with you. I don't, I don't quite look at that. I think there's some people whom are saying things that I think are relevant. Some people I think are saying things because they just dislike the president so much and there are probably things he could say that they would never agree with. Like there's some Republicans who can't, who can't come to agree with Democrats at all. But I take a step back. I differ with my friend Kayleigh just a little bit. I think the President saying I, I will know it when I feel it in my bones. I think about the great doctrines, the Truman Doctrine which committed our support to countries resistance in communism, the Eisenhower Doctrine which is very similar as it said that those Middle Eastern countries would do the same thing back in the 50s and the 60s. I think part of the, and maybe the President's bones are a great way to determine whether or not this thing and how he feels is the great thing. But when you're committing U.S. troops, we have a history in the country of. I would agree with Greg and everybody around the table not explaining Everything in every detail and every moment, for that matter, all of the time. But you invoke Roosevelt. During World War II, President Roosevelt would conduct fireside chats, and he asked the country to take out a map. He said, we're in a different kind of war. You got to understand the entire world and how we're thinking about this. I'm not saying we go back to doing that, Jesse, but we have more tools, more technology, more ways for people to access things. And I think some of the frustration here is when you hear the Secretary of War say, you don't need to worry about that. When we were talking about whether the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened or not if it was dangerous, when the president said, show some guts. I can't imagine Jesse Jr. Or my son Harold Hef that I would want them when they get of age, for them tofor the President of the United States to say show some guts and go through a military exercise or go through something that our military themselves are trying to figure out. I just don't think that's necessarily the right. Look, I'm not defending Democrats who I think go overboard at times, but we're owed more than what we're being given right now. For those who want it all, Kelly, I would agree we shouldn't give all of the information, you and Greg both. But I, when I feel it in my bones, is when I know it's over. We deserve more than that as Americans, and we have a history of getting more from that, from our.

[Jesse Watters]

Well, we have a communications expert right here. Do you think the language from Hegseth and the president on the straight and on the timing has been effective?

[Ainsley Earhardt]

Yes, I do. And the Democrats have been very ineffective and impotent here because, look, when the strong word is the Department of Homeland Security. Well, he mentioned Robert De Niro, so that reminded me of it. And I just moved it on over to the Democrats. But on this one, when the Department of Homeland Security was founded, it passed November 25, 2002, George W. Bush, the president, signed it into law. There were 118 co sponsors in the House, including Democrats. It passed the Senate 90 to 9. Now you have a Democratic Party won't even fund the Department of Homeland Security. So there's a straight line between that and how they feel about Iran. Democrats need to understand is on this one, you're either with America or you're with Iran. There is no middle ground. There's no gray area. Our commander in chief has made a decision because he's the only one with the courage to do what every single president, right, left and center has said we should do, we should do, we should do. We tried everything else, Jesse. We tried sanctions, we tried moral suasion. We tried being nice, we tried being tough. This is a guy who's saying enough. I know. We're used to presidents like Obama that give them $400 million of cash. And Biden, who two days into his presidency delists Hezbollah and Hamas as foreign terrorist organizations and sends John Kerry there to renegotiate the jcpoa. They are nuclear capable. Secretary of State Rubio said that Iran can develop over 100 missiles a month and they have 1,000 one way drones already. We are developing about six or seven interceptors over that same month. You do the math. So it takes a four letter word called will to have done this. We have a plan. Politics is supposed to stop at the water's edge. And I think the Democrats should read an excellent op ed by a big Democrat in today's Wall Street Journal, David Boyce. Excellent op ed saying look, whether you like Trump or not, you have to support what he's doing. And he also points out there's a lot of anti Semitism at play here too in the Democratic Party. It's not just on our college campuses here at Columbia and elsewhere. It's in our halls of Congress and they are opposing something. Look, last point. Donald Trump is able to do this now because of what he did in his first term. He made this country energy dominant. We became net exporters of Petra of oil and gas for the first time in American history. He flooded those reserves with more energy, allowed dopey Biden in November 2021 to start unleashing it. Why did he unleash it? Not because he stood up to Iran, but because he wanted to lower gas prices. And Donald Trump doing that, plus establishing these great relationships with the Gulf state nations and buckling them up last when he went around the globe and firmed up those relationships, the Abraham Accords. That's economic security. That's national security. That's diplomacy. So President Trump has made this moment possible and then had the courage to do what everybody said couldn't be done. The Democrats would rather be upset about 47 words in a Trump tweet or a truth social post. In the 47 years, Iran has been raping women, murdering its own people, throwing gay people off of bridges and threatening the world's oil supply.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I'm a Democrat who's not anti Semitic and I just want to, I think trying to that sweeping kind of thing there.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Admitting that there are good disclaimer here.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Well, there are a lot of Republicans that are anti Semitic too, Kelly, so there are a lot of them. Unfortunately we live in a. We shouldn't make light of the things that are happening.

[Jesse Watters]

Does anybody else want to announce how anti Semitic they aren't?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yeah, I'll throw my cup.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I'm going to hold off for a while, but wait and see what happens.

[Jesse Watters]

Well, I have a feeling in my gut that we have to go to break a wave of radical Islamic terror attacks rocking America and the libs want to blame Trump.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

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[Jesse Watters]

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[Harold Ford Jr.]

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[Greg Gutfeld]

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[Harold Ford Jr.]

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[Kayleigh McEnany]

While the Democrats recklessly keep the DHS shut down, America is on edge over a wave of radical Islamic terrorist attacks on US soil. Four attacks since March first starting in Texas, then New York and now two back to back attacks. Just yesterday in Michigan, a man with a rifle rammed his car into a synagogue with more than 100 kids inside and tell a heroic security guard shot and killed him. Thankfully no children were hurt. And in Virginia, a convicted ISIS supporter shouted Allahu Akbar before opening fire at Old Dominion University, killing an ROTC officer at the school. Thankfully, another cadet fatally stabbed the ISIS supporting lunatic to prevent more carnage. Both attackers have been identified as naturalized U.S. citizens and the FBI is treating both as terror attacks. But the liberal media is blaming, you guessed it, President Trump in Doge.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

It's time of course, with so much chaos, of course, after Doge and other

[Kayleigh McEnany]

things, I think the Jewish community across this country feels under attack. I am not divorcing that from the feeling that there are many other Americans that also feel under attack.

[Greg Gutfeld]

The immigrant community in this country feels

[Kayleigh McEnany]

under attack by its own government. You have to wonder fundamentally about the

[Ainsley Earhardt]

degree to which this White House, which

[Kayleigh McEnany]

has been caught completely flat footed on

[Ainsley Earhardt]

a war of choice, really has the

[Kayleigh McEnany]

personnel in place and actually the interest

[Ainsley Earhardt]

in keeping Americans safe.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

And local leaders in Norfolk have a different scapegoat. This Soros backed DA from the Commonwealth. Well, he is blaming guns instead of the terrorists who wielded them.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

This is a national sickness. We live in a country where people care more about guns than they care about six year old children. They care more about guns than they

[Jesse Watters]

care about synagogue worshipers.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Till there is the political will to

[Jesse Watters]

break the Spell of the cult of gun absolutism.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

You will see more incidents like this.

[Jesse Watters]

If you're looking for somebody to blame, don't look at anybody up here.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Well, they blame the gun every time. Highly predictable. Not often do they blame Doge. I mean, Jesse, you interviewed the Doge boys. They're clearly responsible for all this, right?

[Jesse Watters]

No, this happens every time, Kaylee. There's a tragedy and then they blame guns, Republicans, climate change or racism. And it's usually to distract from the fact pattern. And the fact pattern here is that it's loose immigration policy, soft judges, and the fact that we shut down the Department of Homeland Security. Could you imagine if Biden was at war with Iran and there is a domestic attack and the Republicans had shut down Homeland Security? They would be screaming that the Republicans had blood on their hands. But no. Now radical Muslims have been attacking Jews for a long time. I'm going to go with centuries and Christians. This didn't start because of Trump, okay? This happened for a very long time. Obama, I mean, we had Muslims attacking people willy nilly for those eight years. Fort Hood, Chattanooga, Boston bombing. No one blamed Barack Obama for inspiring the terrorism. You blamed him for dropping the ball or intel failures. He didn't say Barack caused it.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I think I did, but we'll move on.

[Jesse Watters]

You're probably right, but it's not like because Barack was fighting the war on terror, that's like his fault and he should just like bow down to terrorism. Every president fights terrorism. There's always a little blowback and that's just the way it is. Now, why are we bringing in people from Sierra Leone? No offense, but I mean, this country's a mess. I mean, genital mutilation, mass rape, civil war. It's like one of the most impoverished backwards countries in the world. I'm sorry you guys can't come. It's too risky. And then you have Lebanon. I mean, another not a picnic, to be honest with you. Hezbollah is all over the place. The guy that is allegedly involved with this has been tied to Hezbollah. And this is what Democrat presidents have done. Clinton, Obama and, and Biden, they do is they bring everybody in and then they loosen the tests so you like can basically get a D and pass. And then they drop down the fee you have to pay and then they naturalize everybody in an election year. That's what's going on here.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

You know, Harold, when I look at what Simone Sanders Townsend said, you are, you declared fervently that you are against all sort of anti Semitism, Great I didn't need to.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I was just reacting, saying, oh, Democrats are not that way.

[Greg Gutfeld]

What are you hiding here?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

But Simone Sanders, you know, she said the Jewish community is under attack, but then she goes into saying, I'm not divorcing that from the feeling that there are many other Americans also under attack. That is both sidesing it.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Well, I didn't hear what she said.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I know her.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I have the chance, but I know her not to be. I know her not to be a person. But let me. The bigger, the bigger issue for me is how do we, how do we prevent this? I think Jesse touched on there's a part of it around our immigration laws. We have a long line of presidents who've allowed people into our country who thought were going to be decent people and turned out not. We also have a lot of people who were born here who turned out to be not decent either. We got to do two things. Number one, the things that Congress can do, there's no doubt that DHS ought to be reopened. Whether it's the president calling Congress or members of the Democratic Party coming back and saying, we need to do this. This is something that is overdue. I understand the politics of wanting to reform ICE and reform the Border Patrol, but this may not be the time. This is not the time to do it in light of the threat we now face because of our actions overseas. Two, I have friends. I listen to what the governor of Michigan and the governor of Pennsylvania were saying about how you have to call people out who are talking in ways that are so harmful and dangerous. I have friends, people I thought were my friends who have said things to me over the last couple weeks with a cavalier and casual way that have been so blatantly, reprehensibly, disgustingly anti Semitic that I had to call it out. I didn't have to wait for the governor. I thought it was important for the governor to do it. But this is just over the course of. It was over the course of a few months. And I think it's serious. I think everybody, we talk on this show about how everybody has to look at their language. Do Democrats try to blame Trump for everything? Sure. Do some Republicans try to blame Democrats for everything? Absolutely. Is there a kernel of truth probably in both of the blame? There's no doubt. We all have to step back and understand this casual way we talk about hate and the casual way we throw around the word Nazi and the casual way we throw around these awful things, these awful terms is without a doubt having an impact. Finally, the president brought the technology companies to the White House to talk about ways in which they could be more helpful in this fight against Iran. We need to bring them together to help with all the intel sharing we need to do across this country. If this thing is right about Michigan, this guy being on some list somewhere or another, we learned some things about him. We need to know about every person in this country, whether it be from Sierra Leone, because I got to tell you, if you live in Sierra Leone and the way you describe it, you want to come to America. We don't want to let the worst in. But people who want to escape that, you want to let them in. Got to use every tool we have to ensure that every police department, every sheriff's department is able to get every piece of information on any person that might be doing something or thinking about doing what happened here in Michigan. And that ought to be all across the country. But the one tangible thing Democrats, Republicans can do alike in Washington today is open the Department of Homeland Security.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

But we need even more than that. We need the Scam Act. We need to denaturalize people who commit crimes in this country. And where are Democrats? They should partner with Republicans on it.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I was trying to be nice. Y' all still under the low.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

This wasn't a random gun attack, as the Norfolk guy said, who was backed by George Soros and I assume believes everything George Soros stands for. This was somebody who was a convicted ISIS sympathizer. I look at the guy in Texas a few weeks ago, he had on a T shirt, Property of Allah. He didn't have on a Make America Great Again, red cap, everybody. I don't even know where you buy a Property of Allah T shirts. I think those websites should be shut down. I want to take a moment, Kayleigh, just to talk about the man who was killed in this terrorist attack yesterday. Lieutenant Colonel Brandon Shah. He was a professor of military science at Old Dominion University, and he was the leader of the rotc, the ROTC program. He was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Atlantic Resolve. Two bronze stars. I mean, medals and distinction this long. And this man survived all of that over there to come here and be gunned down in a classroom by somebody who should not have been on the streets. So I don't want to hear about a gun. I don't want to hear about somebody's misunderstood and people are xenophobic and racist and every other bad word you can throw at them. I want to hear why President Trump was wrong, because he was absolutely right. In his inaugural address, he said radical Islamic jihadism. He didn't say Islam. He said radical Islamic jihadism is. Terror is a scourge that must be eliminated. And these folks are proving it every single day. God bless that man, sweet soul, and we should all honor his service. It'd be nice if the guy in Norfolk had taken one second to mention Lt. Col. Brandenshaw who gave his life yesterday.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Amen. Greg.

[Greg Gutfeld]

The guy in Norfolk didn't realize that at the synagogue it was a truck that did the terror attack and it was a gun that stopped it. If there wasn't a gun there, imagine how many people would have died there. If you want to lay blame, look at the judge who cut that guy loose in the Old Dominion. Terrorists that guy was, would still be in jail, I think. You know, if you go to a, your typical progressive and you, and you point out that both of these suspects are named Mohammed, you know what they will say, Greg? It's the most common name on earth. So it's just like a numbers game. Meanwhile, the second most common name on the planet is Maria. I don't know a single terrorist. I've never heard of a terrorist named Maria. Except for maybe Bartiromo. She's a terrorist of love. Look, you know, we keep hearing and it's a scary conversation because. But it's not really because, but it, you know, you wonder what you can do with naturalized citizens now, but it exposes the consequence of mass open migration without assimilation. You know, if you go back to 1960, the foreign born population has quadrupled since 1960. It's like 53, 54 million. That's not counting illegals. So great we get all this labor at low wages, but it comes with no social connection. You know, mom, dummy might must feel really good that he knows the name of his maid. But that's not a social connection. You know, we have an environment now where we have millions of young men or millions of people, including young men, who have no social or cultural connection to this country. You can't import the third world into this country without, and I hate to say it, but I love to say it, imprinting your values and culture on them. I probably wouldn't have said that a couple of years ago, but I have to say it now because I'm seeing our country change. The treatment of women especially should raise red flags to people. When you're having people come from Sierra Leone or wherever and how they treat women, that should make you go, holy crap. Believe that legal immigration is a benefit. It's A plus. But the only way to do it correctly is with mandatory assimilation. I don't know how you do that. But make. You got to make. I don't. Is there anything wrong with making people love your country? Is there. Is that so much to ask? I mean, do you want it to turn into Sierra Leone with, you know, better goods? It's like, we have to start thinking about this. We're looking at our streets, man.

[Jesse Watters]

We have to force them to love us.

[Greg Gutfeld]

We have to force them to watch nine seasons of Friends and then Fox News.

[Jesse Watters]

That'll do it.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Fox News. And Friends.

[Jesse Watters]

And football.

[Greg Gutfeld]

And football.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Mandatory.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

This is way too xenophobic. We gotta stop this.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Yes.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Okay. We gotta get to Brick.

[Greg Gutfeld]

But I love the Jews.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

You finally said it. Okay. Up next, the TDS lunatics are howling mad at Katherine Heigl for helping out rescue dogs at Mar a Lago. That's next.

[Jesse Watters]

I can't make her miss me, no,

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I can't do nothing I can't make

[Jesse Watters]

her smile is yet to come and, babe, won't that be fine?

[Ainsley Earhardt]

The TDS crazies have gone barking mad. Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl receiving hatred from angry liberals online after attending a charity event for rescue dogs at Mar a Lago. That event raised a record breaking $5.5 million for the largest no kill dog shelter in the U.S. here are some of what the loonies are saying.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Who knew Katherine Heigl was such a.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

She took time from her busy day

[Greg Gutfeld]

of schlepping dog food to visit the

[Kayleigh McEnany]

dump that is Mar a Lago.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You know that shelters are being overwhelmed with cats and dogs because of the ICE deportations.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

You know what they say.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. That's clever.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

The actress firing back in a statement saying, quote, animals don't vote. The only room they don't like is the euthanasia room at a shelter. As a society, we should all come together to protect the voiceless and the innocent. This should not be a polarizing issue. Haley, I was at that event last year. I can't believe how much money they've raised. People are so happy to be there. She was there with her mother. It's on her personal time. But since she wants to protect the innocent and the voiceless, I think we should invite her to a pro life gala.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Totally. Oh, I love that idea. I love that idea. Look, let me start by saying I'm not a huge dog person despite having a dog. Oh, no, no, I'm joking. But not really? But surely we can all unite around dogs. And she gets criticized by the left for coming up and doing something like this. But you're exactly right. Imagine if she would have gone to a pro life event. The kind of criticism she would get, the rabid criticism. But luckily, none of these celebrities matter anymore. We all remember Cardi B And Beyonce and Taylor Swift, and they all showed up and they supported Kamala Harris. Then the New York Times dropped the pie after the election. Old school celebrities could not move the needle. They don't matter. Their voices don't matter. Good for you, Katherine Heigl, for showing up for the dogs.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

Greg, this whole Hollywood group, I mean, their entire business is based on freedom of thought, creative license, freedom of expression, and yet they want to police everybody else's thoughts to the point where the actors can no longer fake it, the comedians are no longer funny. Should she even care?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Well, it's pretty clear that Hollywood hates animals and they hate the Jews. Put that out there. This is a prank on the left. You know, Trump tries to be pro. Like, if you want the left to be against something wonderful, make sure Trump is for it. So it's like. It's like, you know, you see all these white feminists come out on behalf of Hamas or violent illegals or men masquerading as women. Now it's like, wait, he's against killing puppies? Well, that doesn't matter. I'm against that. You can't. You can get liberals to condemn the construction of a shelter that saves the lives of dogs simply by attaching it to Trump. And, you know, the complainers. I don't know who these people are. They don't lift a finger for animals or even humans. This is what they do. This is their sense of worth doing stuff online because they don't get off their ass. They have no friends. They have no family. And if they don't like what Heigl did, why don't they do it themselves? They can't, because they're a festering sore on the butt of life.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Whoa.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Howard. Howard.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I'm looking for him, too.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

Harold. I'm anti. Harold. Harold. Look, they did politicize it. These are liberals who have stage five tds attacking her for doing something on her personal time. How do we get out of this?

[Harold Ford Jr.]

We've been in it for a while. But let me be clear. I think that Katherine Heigl was right. I have three dogs, and I'm a dog dad and a dog person. And I don't follow anybody for going to a place where these kinds of things are going to be supported. And you said you were there last year and it looks like they raised five and a half million bucks. I remember when, whatever your thoughts are about Governor Christie, Chris Christie, when he welcomed Barack Obama to New Jersey after one of the hurricanes and there were Republicans who criticized him and he said, all I'm doing is trying to make sure I get federal funds here. We've sunk into this craziness when humanity and the things that you consider most important to humanity, it doesn't matter if the person is a Democrat or Republican. If you. We're all endowed with certain things from. I believe in something much higher than me. So I think we're endowed with these qualities. And the Lord doesn't say, I'm giving you a little Democrat, you a little Republican. We're humans and we make all these stupid choices. And for people to criticize this woman for doing nothing more than wanting to raise money so that animals and dogs in particular would be treated better, shame on them. And shame on others who do the same on any side, Democrat or Republican, when it comes to bettering humanity.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

You're here last Friday, White House press secretary Caroline Levitt. Kathryn, Caroline Levitt said there's more to life than X. And she was basically saying that to a lot of folks. I think it's such an important thing. But Jesse, I feel they've been mad at Katherine Heigl For 15 years, ever since she said I don't deserve to be nominated for an Emmy this year because the producers didn't give me a media enough role and she took herself out of contention. You don't dare do that. You don't dare admit that maybe you don't deserve an award in Hollywood because. Because, because they all think they deserve an award.

[Jesse Watters]

I always thought they were mad at her because you. That stupid movie with that guy with the curly hair that smokes a lot of dope. He's Jewish, right, Greg?

[Greg Gutfeld]

I don't know. Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen on your list? Howard.

[Jesse Watters]

Howard, is he on your list? I don't know. You keep a nice list. Obama 8 dog. You can't raise money for him at Trump's club. That's ridiculous. These liberals have been at Harvey Weinstein's house, Epstein's house, house. Michael Jackson's house. You don't hear anything. If I ever got invited to Barack Obama's house, I would definitely go for the stories and to snoop around. You go upstairs to the bedroom, see if they see.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Is that what you were doing in my House.

[Jesse Watters]

I go into medicine cabinets. I look at prescriptions. Well, you guys don't.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I'm creepy.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

You're not coming over tomorrow.

[Jesse Watters]

I've always said animals are great, right?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yes, you have.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

I love dogs. The fastest is up next.

[Jesse Watters]

Okay. One day it called you. I lost red eyes.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Congrats. As Sade. Welcome back. Researchers say the annoying people in your life who constantly create problems called the Hassler may literally be aging your cells. Listen to this quote. Hasslers have the potential to speed up cellular aging by roughly 1 1/2 percent, meaning Hassler aggravated cells age about 1 biological years. 1.05 biological years for every calendar year. Jesse, as I think about this, I think about how my life has been shortened sitting next to you. I love you, but just how much it might be shortened with.

[Jesse Watters]

That's funny that you.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I may do the same to you, too.

[Jesse Watters]

No, no. There's someone else that sits in that seat. Jessica's made me go gray. And. I mean, I used to look amazing. And then a couple years next to her. No offense, Jessica. I love you. I just love Harold Moore.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Kellyanne, what are your thoughts about hasslers?

[Ainsley Earhardt]

This is 100% true. If you have the same friend having the same conversation about cleaning out the junk drawer, getting a job she loves, leaving the guy, dumping the guy she doesn't love, and you're having the same conversation, they just put upon you. Put upon you constantly tapping on your shoulder, or the person at work or the person in your life. I think you gotta.

[Jesse Watters]

It could be a husband.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

You gotta realize, well, yes, there's divorce. I did that.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

We'll leave that alone.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

The hassle factor is a big one, by the way. People right now aren't spending time to save money. They're spending money to save time. And you got someone taking up your time and sucking out your energy, you got to rethink it.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

How do you deal with this girl?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Well, first of all, this explains why Bill Clinton looks so old.

[Jesse Watters]

Crooked.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yikes. Well, here's my question. How do you know? Everybody, we're all looking at this as a person who's dealt with a Hassler. How do you know you're not the Hassler? Nobody ever, ever says, oh, maybe I'm the annoying one. Because we don't. We don't.

[Jesse Watters]

Should we tell them now?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Don't we never see ourselves as the villain in any story? But you can. There's an easy test. If you're a negative person. This is a. Hassler is essentially a negative person. Positive people do not constantly Complain and negative people are the biggest drain on everyone.

[Jesse Watters]

What did Ailes say?

[Greg Gutfeld]

I don't know.

[Jesse Watters]

Negative people make positive people sick.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Oh, my God. Did he say that, Kelly?

[Jesse Watters]

A lot of things, Kaylee.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

What are your thoughts on this, Kaylee, with regard to. Do you have Hasslers in your life?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Oh, I did. Kaitlan Collins, Jim Acosta, John Carl. You got to cut them off at the knees. That's it.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I mean, y' all are. You got to forgive and move on.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Hey, I've forgiven you. Just still got to cut him off at the knees.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

You have something else to say, mister?

[Greg Gutfeld]

No, I'm good. We have face. We have fan mail.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Fan mail. Friday is up next.

[Jesse Watters]

I forgive you, Jessica. Join the Professional tonight.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Gutfeld]

From Nancy, this is a great question. Is there a sitcom that is relatable to your life in any way? You can pick any sitcom you want, Harold.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Like an old sitcom or current sitcom. I would say the. I love the show Happy Days. I love the show Blackish. With. With. With. I can't think of the.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Like a black. Happy Days.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

You know what?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Laffy Days, I think that's called what's happening. What up, Raj?

[Jesse Watters]

That was a different.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I like Sanford and Son, too. Lamont died recently, bless his soul.

[Jesse Watters]

Yeah.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Well, thanks for bringing us down, Kaylee.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I love the erudite Frasier, but I will not compare myself to him. I think the Wonder Years because my family is so happy and it's just wonderful. And I'm trying to soak in these little babies, so. Wonder Years.

[Greg Gutfeld]

That's beautiful.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Thank you,

[Greg Gutfeld]

Kellyanne.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

Mine's the opposite. The old soap. You guys can look it up if you don't remember it.

[Greg Gutfeld]

With Billy Crystal.

[Jesse Watters]

Yes.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

And Jessica Hellman and Richard Something Other. Yeah, they're probably all gone, but it was. It was crazy. I wasn't allowed to watch at the time. Raciness. Yes. He was Benson.

[Greg Gutfeld]

That's where Benson came from.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

He was the William Guillon.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Yep.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah. Why did you pick soap, by the way?

[Ainsley Earhardt]

It's just all crazy. Everybody's craziness all at once. And the character development, it was. It was the first of its kind at the time, but it was funny and racy.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

What about you?

[Jesse Watters]

I always like Married With Children. And I always kind of identified with Al Bundy. Yes, I am. But like, you know, that wasn't like my family or my family now. But I liked Al that he stuck his hand down his pants and he sat on the couch, made really rude comments. I like that guy.

[Greg Gutfeld]

She was the hottest girl in television.

[Jesse Watters]

Kelly Bundy.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Oh, my God.

[Jesse Watters]

I'm reading her book now.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Oh, good for you.

[Jesse Watters]

Christina Applegate.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I'm so happy.

[Jesse Watters]

Dark, though.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Yeah, very.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Well, she. Yeah, she didn't have.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Did you see it when she came back on Sons of Anarchy?

[Jesse Watters]

Yeah.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Are you talking about the daughter?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yes. You're thinking of Katie Steagall. I'm gonna go with Gilligan's island because I like to think on the five. I'm Gilligan, you're the Skipper. Harold's the professor. Right, professor, sure. And movie star. And Marianne.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

You see things too late.

[Greg Gutfeld]

This is a sitcom. That's why it works.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

Three hour tour.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah. Sometimes it feels like three hours.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Know what I'm saying?

[Greg Gutfeld]

One more thing's up next.

[Jesse Watters]

Time now for one more thing. Greg.

[Greg Gutfeld]

All right. Tonight we got. Oh, what. What a great lineup. Cat Tymp Guy Benson. Tom Schlu. Jamie, listen out. Whoa, baby. 10:00pm Time for Ophelia Gorilla News with Brett Hume. Let's go to San Antonio Zoo. Brett, I'll be back in a second. This is B. Wenzie, a male gorilla. He loves popcorn and coconuts, but he likes to rest around 12 hours a day thinking about the lovely Molly Hemingway. And he lies down and he goes to sleep. My good friend Harold Ford, he loves a good gorilla. He goes to the Memphis Zoo. And predatory nature. Waiting for them to say hello. I'm so tired. All right.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

That's beautiful.

[Jesse Watters]

That gorilla. Anti Semitic. Clear that up. All right. In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the Fox Shop, 20% off. Look at this stuff. You can customize it too. You got five mugs. Primetime mugs. You got Fox News decanter sets for those alcoholics out there. Go to shop.fox news.com for more. Tonight, he's on again. I had Tola Jr. Who looks like my father.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Crazy passengers in Austin, Texas, stopped what they were doing for a powerful moment of gratitude as a group of 53 military veterans arrived for an honor flight. The crowd erupted into applause, cheering and thanking them. The emotional moment should serve as a reminder to us all thanking these men and women for their service and sacrifice. You still deeply appreciate it. Thank you.

[Jesse Watters]

Very nice.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Earl. Kayla.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Well, tomorrow my main guest is former West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin. What does he think of today's Democratic Party? Plus, trying to compete with Jesse. Here I have a former jihadist named Ruben Schaik who is now a counterterrorism official. All of these great congressmen and Gabe Perot. He was in a coma for 18 days. He saw Jesus. What did Jesus say to him tomorrow? Saturday in America.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

What time? I want to see what he that's on a 10 o' clock tomorrow.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

It's amazing. 10am Tomorrow.

[Jesse Watters]

Keep it moving, Chuck.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Anna's coming.

[Ainsley Earhardt]

Kellyanne Brittany smith of Manchester, Tennessee launched a GoFundMe after she saw a 78 year old man named Richard struggling to climb stairs while delivering her order. She tracked him down to give him a larger tip. Subsequently she went viral on social media with hundreds wanting to help. The GoFundMe is named Give Richard a chance to rest Again to raise over $500,000 in hopes to help Richard go back into retirement and be able to afford his wife's medication. The best of humanity kind of how

[Jesse Watters]

Greg moves around in the green room.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Nobody does a GoFundMe for me.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

We'll get that up and running.

[Jesse Watters]

Yeah, we'll get that up and running.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

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[Greg Gutfeld]

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