Platner Officially Withdraws From ME Senate Race

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Five – "Platner Officially Withdraws From ME Senate Race"

FOX News Podcasts — July 10, 2026

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Episode Overview

This lively edition of The Five revolves around two major news stories:

1. The drama and fallout of Graham Platner’s official withdrawal from the Maine Senate race, his controversial legacy, and what it means for the Democratic party’s trajectory.
2. President Trump’s claims about threats from Iran and his revealed contingency plans, with analysis on foreign policy implications and the political narrative surrounding the threats.

Along the way, the panel shifts to satire about trash-collecting Swifties, the political ambitions of Gavin Newsom, and features fan questions and lighthearted banter. The show keeps its characteristic sharp tone, blending commentary, humor, and pointed debate.

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Main Stories & Key Discussion Points

1. Graham Platner Withdraws from Maine Senate Race

The Withdrawal & Its Fallout

• Kayleigh McEnany opens the topic, reciting Platner’s defiant exit posted on X, notably his "F ICE, Free Palestine, Up the Hearts" sign-off (00:35):
  • "Now it’s a Game of Thrones for the left as Democrats fight and scramble for his successor…" (00:35)
• The panel discusses the collapse of the Platner candidacy and the ethical, cultural, and electoral questions left behind.
• Far-left voices are said to feel alienated, with references to Joy Reid advising progressives to stay home if a moderate replaces Platner (00:35).

Ideological Shifts in the Democratic Party

• Political Commentator draws parallels to the Tea Party, saying this Democratic wave is “a Tea Party on steroids” and notes only 47% of Democrats approve of their Congressional party (02:39).

Media Narratives, “Obscurity-to-Overnight” Phenomenon

• Greg Gutfeld reflects on Platner’s sudden rise:
  • “It blows my mind that this guy was an obscurity and now he’s everywhere…the revolutions happen in places you ignore…” (03:33)
  • Critiques the mainstream media’s treatment of Platner supporters versus Republican or Sanders voters:
    • “They never coddled a voting bloc like this… when they discussed Trump supporters, they painted them as rubes falling for a charlatan…” (04:25)

Platner’s “Regular Guy” Image as Camouflage

• Panelists assert that media focus on Platner’s folksy persona (mustache, pickup) hid his “campus radical” ideology (05:00).

The Weight of Allegations & Party Decisions

• Joey Jones presents a detailed timeline of the many allegations and the sequence of endorsements/denials (08:31):
  • “If what she says is true, it’s unforgivable… But why weren’t these other 16 things what broke the camel’s back?”
  • "The straw was that he was losing." (Greg Gutfeld, 11:09)

Questions About Accountability

• Paul Morrow brings the focus back to the grave seriousness of the rape allegation:
  • “If she has [a] credible allegation of rape, where’s the case?... All we’re talking about is politics. You have a woman saying he raped me… Hello, AG of Maine. Do your job.” (12:48)
• Critique that media/party is more concerned about election fallout than justice for accusers.

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2. Foreign Threats: Iran’s Alleged Plot Against Trump

Trump’s Contingency & Threat Messages

• Paul Morrow explains the background: Israel warns the US about a new Iranian plot against Trump; Trump tells the NY Post he’s "left instructions" to bomb Iran "at levels never seen before" if assassinated (14:49).
• Joey Jones reflects Trump’s style:
  • "By the way, if anything happens to me, even if it isn’t your fault, you’re getting bombed smithereens…" (16:09)
• The panel distinguishes between strategic ambiguity and genuine threat, and the political value of Trump’s "bombastic posturing" (16:09–17:02).

Skepticism Over Israeli Intel & Motives

• Discussion includes whether Israel might “gin up” threats to push Trump into a tougher stance (15:28).

Domestic Threats v. Foreign Plotters

• Greg Gutfeld argues domestic threats to Trump are more worrying than foreign ones:
  • "I’m less concerned with international assassins than…the crazies that the Dems and the media have spawned who are more likely to try it…” (21:29)
• Joey Jones reminds listeners of past terror attacks on US officials as very real threats (22:07).

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3. Gavin Newsom, 2028, and the Socialist Surge

Newsom’s Ambitions and Progressive Contest

• Joey Jones and Greg Gutfeld critique Newsom’s "five-alarm, we will lose the republic" campaign rhetoric:
  • "Nobody’s less impressive than the guy that has to tell you how impressive he is…" (25:11, Joey)
• Kayleigh McEnany and Greg Gutfeld analyze why Newsom can’t find a devoted fan base despite apparent political skills (25:19–25:47).

Demographics, Socialism, and the Future

• The crew explores growing approval for socialist politics within the Democratic base, especially among younger voters:
  • "You cannot win an election if you don’t hang out with the socialists…" (28:01, Kayleigh)
  • "Bernie is sharp… he’s like one of those old guys you don’t want to mess with." (29:14, Greg)
• Kat Tim connects socialist appeal to a sense of economic grievance, but argues "resentment isn’t really a policy" (29:33).

Wiretapping, DOJ Investigations

• Paul Morrow briefly mentions new DOJ attention on Newsom’s team, including covert recordings and plea deals (30:41).

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4. Lighter, Viral, and Satirical Segments

Swiftie Trash Collecting Goes Viral

• The panel reacts with mock disgust to the story of fans buying trash left after Taylor Swift’s wedding—including cigarette butts and even a discarded ovulation kit (32:22):
  • "Ew. But also intriguing, Greg. Perhaps I should start selling my trash." (32:42, Kat Tim)
  • "Why not make trash a commodity?" (33:14, Greg Gutfeld)

“Fan Mail Friday” – Banter & Non-News

• The hosts share songs they know by heart, and joke over how to get out of jury duty.
  • "If you were picked for jury duty, what would you do to get out of it?" (38:01)
  • Paul Morrow: “In this town, there are two magic words. You ready? It’ll get you out every time. Hello, Fox News.” (38:33)
  • Kayleigh: “I have one better—‘I worked for Donald Trump.’” (38:45)

Animal Oddities & Closing Remarks

• Greg closes on the “super cute” echidna and Joey on ocean predator news, with playful banter about critters and trash (39:27 onwards).

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Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• Greg Gutfeld (on Platner’s rapid rise):

  “It blows my mind that this guy was an obscurity and now he’s everywhere…this is where the revolutions happen…” (03:33)

• Kat Tim (on political obsession):

  “If you are truly grieving and mourning the end of any campaign…politics is playing an outsized role in your life.” (06:39)

• Joey Jones (on party complicity):

  “Nobody’s getting screwed over here. Besides, maybe Graham Platner’s exes…” (08:46)

• Paul Morrow (on legal angle):

  “You have a woman saying he raped me…the statute of limitations in Maine is 20 years…Hello, AG…” (12:48)

• Kayleigh McEnany (on Democratic Party shifts):

  “Election integrity is the Save America Act. That’s what it is. But he’s trying to twist it, you’re right.” (28:01)

• Greg Gutfeld (on domestic versus international threats):

  “I’m less concerned with international assassins…delusional depressives amped up on the media’s existential fearmongering…” (21:29)

• Joey Jones (on real threats):

  "They flew planes into this city, into the Pentagon, they tried to fly one into the White House. It’s a real threat…" (22:07)

• Greg Gutfeld (on Gavin Newsom):

  “He’s Harry Ellis from Die Hard—the coke sniffing executive who says, ‘hey, bubby, I’m your white knight’…That’s Gavin Newsom.” (25:47)

• Kat Tim (on the socialist surge):

  “…at least these socialists are sort of acknowledging, hey, we see you, and it’s all these rich people’s fault. That’s not true…but they’re trying to capitalize on the resentment and get votes.” (29:33)

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Important Segments & Timestamps

| Segment | Timestamp | |------------------------------- |-------------------| | Platner’s withdrawal & Dems’ crisis | 00:35–13:41 | | Trump, Iran, & foreign threats | 14:33–22:54 | | Gavin Newsom & the socialist contest | 24:19–32:00 | | Swiftie trash, fan mail, banter | 32:22–39:25 | | Closing animal stories, sign-off | 39:25–end |

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Tone, Dynamics & Format

The panel’s style is direct, irreverent, and often comedic, with a blend of incredulity, skepticism, and party-line critique. There is a heavy dose of sarcasm around the absurdities of modern politics and pop culture (notably the Swiftie garbage bit). While the show traffics in punchlines and jabs, it also carves out sections for robust debates and moments of more serious reflection on justice and global threats.

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For first-time listeners, this episode gives a snapshot of each co-host’s style: Kayleigh’s focus on electoral strategy, Greg’s satirical media analysis, Kat’s contrarian logic, Joey’s veteran perspective, and Paul’s legal and procedural insights—all interspersed with Fox’s signature blend of news and entertainment.

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Skip to these timestamps for the episode’s core topics:

• Platner fallout: 00:35–13:41
• Iran & Trump: 14:33–22:54
• Dem primary & Newsom: 24:19–32:00
• Viral pop-culture & closing: 32:22–end

Transcript

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[Kayleigh McEnany]

Hello everyone. I'm kayleigh mcenany along with paul morrow, cat tim, joey jones and greg gutfeld. It's five o' clock in new york city. It's Friday and this is the fight. Well, it's official. Democrats disgrace Candidate Graham Platner has withdrawn from the main Senate race posting his dropout letter on X. His final line, listen to this says quote f ice free Palestine up the hearts. And now it's a game of thrones for the left as Democrats fight and scramble for his successor and the far left is going through the motions. Don Lemon spells a conspiracy. Joy Reid is telling the left that if they can't get the perfect far left replacement, they should just stay home.

[Greg Gutfeld]

If they put another a pack sell out moderate in place of Graham Platner and they do not put somebody in who is his same ideology, you have my permission to stay your home. I believe that the accusations are awful and that they are disqualifying for a political candidate if true. The question is, is that

[Commercial Announcer]

was this

[Greg Gutfeld]

an orchestrated thing and both of them can be true.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Maine Democrats are sacked with a bunch of losers who are still licking their wounds from losing past statewide races. One of them is Troy Jackson. He came in third place for Maine governor this year, but he thinks his pickup truck progressive punchline will work this time.

[Paul Morrow]

I come from Mercer County. I mean I represented Susan Collins town. You know, I'm not the same as Susan, but I'm you know what they consider a pickup truck? Progressive because I fight for issues that are important statewide.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

But get ready for more Graham Platners. And some election experts say that the party is now the Tea Party on steroids.

[Political Commentator]

We have seen something like, like this before. You have to go back 16 years. Remember it was that Republican Tea party wave of 2010. I would argue the Democratic version of is a new Tea Party but it's on steroids. Democrats dislike their party more than Republicans did during the Tea party wave of 2010. Just 47% of Democrats now approve of their own party in Congress. As I said, it's a new Tea Party, but it's a Tea party on steroids.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

So Axios initially reported Platner was waiting until Monday, the deadline to drop out. And I hope I have permission to be inappropriate on a Friday, Greg, because Brent Scheer said this about that Monday deadline. Democrats better hope he doesn't see a porta pot on his way to drop off his paperwork.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Oh, why would they say that? What does that mean? I don't get it.

[Paul Morrow]

Can you explain?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

He blew water. He enjoyed going into the port a potties and doing.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Can you be more specific on what happened?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Now I'm blushing.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Okay, I knew it. I knew it. Look, you know what is amazing about this whole story, and it's quintessentially American, is that we never heard about this guy six months ago. It's incredible how somebody so obscure can all of a sudden become the most important variable for one major political party, that it's tells you that these things happen in places that you ignore, you know, spaces that are unoccupied and you're too busy doing something else. This is where the revolutions happen. I don't know how you stop this. Like, where these guys just pop up out of nowhere. Maybe we're just, you know, we're so consumed by so much information, we. We miss these things. But it's. It blows my mind that this guy was an obscurity and now he's everywhere. New York Times ran a piece on women mourning him. They were grieving, which is an insult to anybody who suffered any.

[Joey Jones]

Yes.

[Greg Gutfeld]

They never coddled a voting bloc like this. I mean, when they discussed Trump supporters, they painted them as rubes falling for a charlatan. Even with, Even with Bernie Sanders, they didn't show any sympathy for the voters. They cheated when they tossed him aside in two elections. This is why, you know, it kills me when they. When they laugh at Republicans or conservatives who think 2020 was rigged against Trump. It's like you guys rigged two elections against your own guy. Why wouldn't we think that you did it to Sanders, who deserved it? This whole thing might be coming in part because of that. They kept saying this guy was relatable, a normal guy, but I think this was all camouflage. Not for his sexual escapades, but for his policies. They said by focusing on the mustache and the truck driving. You didn't talk about free Medicaid, trans defunding, police, blm, antifa. There's nothing folksy about his beliefs. It's pure campus radicalism. He has all the stuff of that. That campustown coffee shop where the coffee mugs don't match. And all the flyers on the wall are for no Kings rallies and bail funds and rent strikes. He's a walking billboard for decolonization and Free Palestine rallies. That is not a normal guy just because he wears a sweatshirt. And last again, they keep portraying this guy as far worse, a far worse evil than voting for Susan Collins. That was their apocalypse. An elderly, benign, liberal Republican who's about as MAGA as Sally Field. And yet that choice. Oh, not, not, not her. Drove women in Maine to grieve, grieve over a guy with a Nazi tattoo who may or may not have raped a few women. They grieve over him, Kat.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I remember his rally after that New York Times piece came out. And I saw these older liberal women, you know, there's a type. Of course, know what I'm talking about.

[Kat Tim]

Yes, I do.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Standing behind him. And I thought they handpicked the few women in the crowd to stand behind him and support him. That's what they do at rallies. But no, this New York Times piece says women are mourning him.

[Kat Tim]

If you are mourning the. The end of any campaign, if you are truly grieving and mourning the end of any campaign for any reason, of someone you've never met and don't even know in real life, politics is playing an outsized role in your life. Especially when the alternative, as you pointed out, Greg, is essentially a centrist.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yes, right.

[Kat Tim]

It's a choice between this guy and a centrist. It's not like something insane would happen if this happened, for one thing. Also, no politician is crying over you ever. So it's really kind of pathetic always to be crying over someone who's not crying over you. Second of all, I don't understand how even if they take the belief that, okay, the government, this is gonna have this huge role in my life, how do they then reach the conclusion that they wanna support someone like Platner, who wants the government to have an even larger role in your life than it has already? Which, by the way, is what he stood for. As you pointed out, Greg, we never really got there. We never really had a chance to talk too much about what this guy actually stands for, because we had the Nazi T and all of the accusations of sexual misconduct up to and including rape. But if you are getting this upset and devastated thinking, if this person gets elected, then the government's gonna have all this control over my life. How do you not take that next step and think, well, maybe we should have smaller government, maybe it shouldn't. I would want a world where it doesn't matter where. I don't feel this emotionally connected to every election because there's so much focus on the people we put in positions of power and to me, not enough focus on the amount of power that those positions have. And I don't understand how the same who get all wound up about elections don't then think, maybe I don't want this to have as much power as it has over me, even more power than it has already. Which is exactly what a vote for this guy would have been.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Joey. Apparently advisors were telling him that he was the one. He was a hero of the movement, he was a historical fixture and he was leading a revolution.

[Joey]

Well, the whole premise of Grand Planner is based on a lie, right? This idea that he's a humble oyster farmer and you find out that his dad funded basically his start in that he went through this wealthy school. So this whole humble beginning, he wears

[Greg Gutfeld]

a hat,

[Joey]

he's cosplaying as my buddies is what he's doing. He did serve in the Marine Corps. He did go to war. And then that becomes this, like, place to throw all the trash until the trash heaps up and flows over and he just smells like garbage. So I want to take you on a walk down memory lane right now. The message is like, oh, main voters are screwed over because this guy lied about who he was. And now the party's taken the opportunity to pick their candidate away. That's a lie. Nobody's getting screwed over here. Besides, maybe Graham Platner's exes. Because if you go all the way back to August 19, 2025, he says, hey, I'm running September 1st. Within two weeks, Bernie has a rally for him. They didn't do any Apple research. They didn't do any Bernie Sanders didn't make sure this guy wasn't a bad person or someone that's a liability. On October 16, the Reddit posts come out. October 20, the tattoo becomes a story. February 26 of the next year, the anti Semitic reposts come out. And then April and May of this year, we learned about the Reddit post, We learned about the Porta Johns, the slandering of the Purple Heart vet. And listen, I've heard that that vet that he was talking bad about has his own problems. Whatever. Just the verbiage he was using. Despicable in between. Then the Working Families alliance endorsed him. The UAW endorsed him after the Purple Heart vet and Porta John stuff. Mills suspends her campaign because he's picking up traction now. Indivisible endorses him. Who's that? That's Soros. All right, so then you go on to May 30, just a few months ago. All the text with the women, all of that comes out. What happens a few days after that? Schumer confirms his endorsement of him. Then you go to June 4th, a New York Times article drops. That's where Lindsey Fifield tells her story. And several others were mentioned, but they didn't go into any color about any of the liberal accusers. Okay, now you fast forward a month later, and now one lady says they were dating and he raped her. And it's the straw that broke the camel's back. If what she says is true, it's unforgivable and it should break the camel's back. But why weren't these other 16 things what broke the camel's back? And all of these endorsements along the way, they chose this guy knowing all of it. You can't tell me that this one allegation that isn't any more proven than all of the other things that came out, not any less either, is what broke the camel's back. The establishment might have been wanting to get rid of him, but people in Maine don't want to. I don't believe they want.

[Greg Gutfeld]

The straw was that he was losing.

[Joey]

That was.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

That was the real threat.

[Joey]

What did I say? Mills tightened the polls and on. Well, anyway, they got the internals.

[Paul Morrow]

They finally said, oh, we got a jettison. This guy, first of all, he's about as genuine as a Times Square wristwatch, right? And those two people that did the vetting, they're like the Milli Vanilli of candidate betting, right? You saw this, too. We played it the other night. And you think, you know, Greg, you make the point that he came out of nowhere. Think about who else came out out of nowhere. So around Mamdani.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Exactly right.

[Paul Morrow]

And this is what happens when the machine decides. And you know what? It's very telling. They called them the aoc. The one the who said. That's like from that Matrix movie, right? Is what happens when you have 23 year olds deciding who's going to be the next candidate in the U.S. senate. But look, we've been speaking about all of this in the context of the politics of it. And I just want to go slightly outside of that because another article dropped today, and I got to give some quotes here. Lindsey Fifield says 10 years after they broke up, she ends up getting texts from him out of the blue. Now, I don't want to embarrass anybody on the panel here, but think about your own romantic history and go back 10 years and think about how you would feel about getting a text from an ex from 10 years ago. And she describes it as him taking a quote, unquote, temperature read, where are you on me? And look about some of the things he says. I don't have to worry about anything unflattering because I'm a simple oyster farmer, and oyster farmers don't require a security clearance. He's asking her what's in your diary. Now, these are, to me, very, very damning. He's worried about what she has. And I don't want to turn this into a legal seminar even though I know you love them. Yes, but if she has against him, which we know he does right now, a credible allegation of rape, where's the case? I said it Wednesday. All we're talking about is politics. You have a woman saying he raped me. The statute of limitations In Maine is 20 years. You have him texting another ex who has allegations against him, asking her, you know what you put in your diary about me? Oh, you know, luckily, I don't need a security clearance. Are you kidding me? That's what we should be talking about now that he's out of the race. Hello, Ag of Maine. Do your job. Get out there. And it's also an indictment just to close the loop of the media because nobody here really cares about the rape victim. If they did, they'd be asking, is he gonna get arrested? All they care about is, can we get the Senate.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yep. And the way he signed off. F ice free Palestine, up the hearts, a reference to soccer. No contrition. All right, well, coming up next, President Trump always has a plan. Find out about the instructions he left should Iran do the unthinkable. I just wanna be hurt so bad it hurts so bad it hurts me.

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[Joey Jones]

I'm on every single one of their lists. And so far, I guess I've been a little bit lucky, but that maybe doesn't last very long. I'm number one on the kill list for Iran. They're lovely people. I'm number one, so I don't know

[Paul Morrow]

so President Trump insinuating all week that Iran is trying to kill him. And for good reason. The Iranians rolled out Kill Trump banners at the dead Ayatollah's funeral. And according to the Wall Street Journal, Israel shared new intelligence with the US that pointed to a fresh Iranian plan to assassinate President Trump. The president even telling the New York Post that he has, quote unquote, left instructions should Iran assassinate him, bomb them at levels never seen before. But this one Democrat suggests Israel is ginning the whole thing up to mess with Trump's mind.

[Political Analyst]

It's also easy to see that Israel would want to sort of buck up Trump, make him more willing to take on Iran more strongly. Netanyahu has been pushing for that tougher stance, a more hawkish approach to Iran for quite some time now, crucially, without any clear plan for how that's going to turn into some sort of success in terms of fundamentally breaking the Iranian regime. But Israel certainly has that interest. So it's hard to know. It's hard to know exactly what that intel is.

[Paul Morrow]

I get it now. It's all very clear, Joey. We have 17 intelligence agencies, we have tens of thousands of people working on it, but they can't actually corroborate something that the Israelis tell Donald Trump over the phone. Am I getting that right?

[Joey]

That's what people are alleging. Listen, I would not, I would understand if Israel is like, hey, we've got this sitting over here. Let's make sure he remembers this. Let's make sure he knows this. Maybe it's something that's not as much of a revelation as it is an ongoing piece of intelligence. Like, I wouldn't be surprised at that. I mean, Israel does have a self interest here of like, hey, let's get back at it. And I don't necessarily blame them for it. It's our President's job to see through that if it's not in our best interest and to go along with it if it is. It's just, I love the fact that he goes, I've left instructions. If anything happens, just bomb the hell out of them. Like, I mean, that's what I would message as well. I would want them to hear me say that. Listen, by the way, if anything happens to me, even if it isn't your fault, you're getting bombed smithereens. I mean, that's a part of his bombastic posturing that has at times worked very well for us. And then because there's also this like, well, it might actually be true. That might actually be exactly what's happening.

[Paul Morrow]

Well, we call it that and the sort of highfalutin until people call it strategic ambiguity. Right. But it's the same damn thing, which is we gotta worry about this guy because he's capable of anything. Now, you work for him and do you think it's a good idea to personally put him at the center of a target?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yeah. President Trump knows what he's doing. And it's funny because I know you remember this, Paul. Right after President Trump won, there were folks arrested, attempted Iranian assassins who wanted to take out President Trump. And why did they want to do it? Because he took out Soleimani. That was a huge deal. And in fact, in the indictment, it says that Iran paused the plan to kill Trump until after the election because Iran assessed that Trump would lose the election and it would be easier to assassinate him. Well, you know what they say? It's fafo faifo. What is it? F around, find out.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I saw it in a porta potty.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Porta potty. So f around, find out. I won't say the word. And they did find out, because Soleimani is now dead. But when you put this juxtaposed right against the story that Mayor Mamdani's Office of International affairs person was about to meet with Iran, who in turn had a plan to assassinate the President, it is outrageous that this is where we stand that the Bear of New York City said he didn't know she was going to meet with the Iranians.

[Paul Morrow]

Oh, she got a talking to and I think a lesson in federalism because they stood that down, because you can't do that as a local official, interfere in American foreign policy. Speaking of American foreign policy, I gotta come to you. You and I have shared a lot of opinions relative to this whole caper in Iran, but can we ignore a nation that says things like that and practically has debt to America on their money as they pursue a nuclear weapon?

[Kat Tim]

Well, first of all, I wanted to point out that there was this question over whether or not this intel from Israel was legit or not. I thought it was interesting that President Trump himself denied that Israel had any new intel. He came out, he said, no, no. Israel came up with nothing. No, no. Then he said, no, I' one for a long time. And then he said, and it's the way life is, you know, which for him, it certainly is the way life is. Look, I don't think it's this mind blowing thing to think that this regime wants to kill American leaders. I don't think that that's a New thing by any means. I think that the only questions that people have had along the way is okay, they have these desires, however, what can we do to involve ourselves? And is there, there's a certain cost benefit of money and potential lives and the risk of escalation. And once you get involved, more involvement seems to be, get further involvement and at what point is it enough? And those are the questions you're asking. To me, there is no question whether what, what these people's opinion of our country is. There's absolutely no question there, regardless of this. So I think that you can have concerns, but you got to, of course, keep hoping, hoping for the best, for, for the safety of, you know, all of our soldiers in the Middle East.

[Paul Morrow]

Yeah, this is one, you know, foreign policy is often described as choosing the least bad option. Right. And this looks that way. And let's recognize something else. When we got the meeting of the ayatollahs and with the bombs that we got, the Israelis gave us that information. This is out there. It was through Sigurd signal intelligence, but we were able to verify it through a person, a close source, who I suspect is still there. Greg, take us out. What do you got?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Well, you know, I agree with Kat. It's like this isn't really news that Iran is putting a hit out on Trump. I mean, how is that? Next thing you're going to tell me that Jesse's in Turkey getting a hair transplant. But I, I guess it tells you how dangerous Trump is to our adversaries, which is how it should be. Our adversaries should want him dead. I find that refreshing. They never would have targeted Joe Biden or Kamala Harris because they realize they're more harmful to the United States when they're alive. Keep them healthy. They wish Joe Biden was healthier. Our enemies love Joe Biden. He reminds me of when we used to sneak into a movie theater when we were kids. We always did it when the old guy with a bad eyesight working. That's exactly how our adversaries looked at Joe Biden. Now's the time. Now's the time. But I'm less concerned with international assassins than our homegrown, than the people that are homegrown, cuz they seem to be the most effective because they're hard to categorize, they're hard to ferret out. You have these delusional depressives amped up on the media's existential fear mongering who believe that heroism, this heroism and meaning will come if they kill this Threat to democracy. They'll become heroes. There's a guy in my neighborhood, I see him once a week, he openly on his bike, I think he's a bike messenger. Kill Trump on his shirt because he feels that he's emboldened. He can do that, he could do that. And I could see Iran weighing options and opportunities to go after him. But it's the crazies that the Dems and the media have spawned that are more likely to try it cuz they got nothing to lose.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

So true.

[Joey]

I just want to say real quick, anyone dismissing this needs to understand they had Secretary warrior Pete Hegseth faced with it. They had Marco Rubio, they had the entire cabinet out there with a target on their face. These are people that travel abroad, that are a part of our government and at the end of the day, 25 years ago, they flew planes into this city, into the Pentagon, they tried to fly one into the White House. It's a real threat and it's something to be concerned about. And it's something our president, anyone going on TV going, I don't know if that's really true to think the play down a threat against the life of a man who's already been shot. I mean that's the politics we talk about. They get in the way of being human beings.

[Paul Morrow]

And you would think foreign adversaries have better trade craft than some of these knuckleheads who have taken shots at Trump, who were domestic.

[Greg Gutfeld]

That Greg, is asymmetric warfare.

[Paul Morrow]

So you know, there you go. I mean we can't lose sight of the fact that he's had a number of attempts on his life and he's

[Political Analyst]

gotten very, very lucky.

[Paul Morrow]

All right, up next we'll look who's star for attention. Greasy Gavin News. He's trying to steal the socialist spotlight.

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[Joey]

Well, it looks like some Everybody's jealous of all the attention those Democrat socialist stars are getting this summer. California Governor Gavin Newsom is kicking off a national midterm tour this week, stopping in Nevada. Then he's swinging through my territory, the south a little 2028 warm up. And if you're wondering what his stump speech sounds like, well, it's the usual Trump doomsday talk that didn't work last election.

[Joey Jones]

We got to take back the House of Representatives or we'll lose this republic. I talked about this Trump administration as the great grift because this is a corruption story. We will lose the Republic. I made a point on July 4th. If you haven't seen my speech, you should take a look at the speech. You'll know exactly my mindset. We will lose this country unless we're vigilant about what's going on in terms of election security. This is code. This is serious. A five alarm fire. This guy is not screwing around. He's just winding up more unhinged by the hour.

[Joey]

You know, Greg, nobody's less impressive than the guy that has to tell you how impressive he is. Could you imagine Lincoln went around like, hey, remember that dress on Gettysburg? You should read that. That, it was really good.

[Greg Gutfeld]

In 30 seconds he said, we're going to lose the country. It's a five alarm fire. It's code red. We're going to lose the Republic. He does it from there because no one can ask a follow up question like, could you? How? How? If you don't take back Congress, how would we lose the Republic? How would we like? It's what Cat always says. They never ask a follow up question. He just says this stuff. And that again, is the amped up up language that creates this existential panic that leads to people getting shot. You know what's funny about Newsom? He has the skills, but he has no appeal. Yeah, like it's got to be frustrating for him to have the looks, the glibness, the assertiveness, the confidence, yet no dedicated fan base. He's like the least talented member of a boy band. And it's kind of sad. You know what? You know, people always compare him to the Christian Bale character in American Psycho. They're totally wrong. He's Harry Ellis from Die Hard, the coke sniffing executive who says, hey, bubby, I'm your white knight. You don't even know what I'm talking about, do you, Caleb?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

No, I don't. That's why I'm just nodding.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Die Hard.

[Kat Tim]

I've been in the same room as. I know what brave, but I've never really watched.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Okay, Harry Ellis, I'm your white. He goes up to the terrorists because he knows that they've got the power. And he's like, hey, I'm your white knight, bubby. He's got cocaine all over his face. Then he dies, which is great. That's Gavin Newsom. He looks for the power. Kamala got beat him in this poll, 29% he way down. It tells you these aren't the people that are gonna be on the ticket. And it also says, funnily enough, that if Sanders announced that he would enter the race at 87, he would be 87. He would probably get it. He's old and he's a socialist, but everything looks benign when it's older. It's like when you see those guys on death row and they look like they look like a retired school bus driver.

[Joey]

They do.

[Greg Gutfeld]

They do, don't they, Kaylee?

[Kat Tim]

I don't spend as much time looking

[Joey]

when you say that everybod, everybody has somebody in mind. They stop and think, oh, yep.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah, they all do.

[Joey]

Listen, Kaylee, so I don't want to harp on this, but it's such a great thing to point out. He says we're vigilant about what's going on in terms of election integrity. That's almost an Obama style thing where he says what the right is saying, but he's trying to twist it. Election integrity is what President Trump is working on finding and establishing. The Democrats are going the opposite direction. So what's he do? He claims that term election integrity lies. Like you're losing integrity by making them show an id, prove they're a citizen, not Ballot Harvest. Hand over some of the information they need to make sure illegals aren't participating in elections. But he's saying, oh, no, they're trying to steal our election.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yeah, Election integrity is the Save America Act. That's what it is. But he's trying to twist it. You're right. I was thinking about the old guy at the movie theater, who you snuck in by when you were doing that whole thing. And I was trying to visualize him. But look at this Newsom. He last summer took the lead in the polls. He has not led in a poll since February. Okay, Kamala Harris is leading in the polls, but he has looked at the polls. When you look deep at the polls, here's what you find. Democratic socialism has a plus 17 approval rating among Democrats. Congressional Democrats have plus 4. So which side do you want to be on? You have to be with the socialists if you want to win in this party. Socialism in the party has a 66% approval rating, according to Gallup. You cannot win an election if you don't hang out with the socialists. This is why Gavin Newsom is saying, I will campaign with the dsa. Kamala Harris has called Mom. Donnie called pro Palestinian activists. That was reported. They all are trying to beat aoc. AOC is going to run. She has the best socialist credentials. Bernie Sanders would be 91, I think.

[Greg Gutfeld]

No, no, I think he'll be 87 then.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

But by the time he completed his first term, he'd be 91.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Spry.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Second term, he would be spry. And we all know what happened with Joe Biden. So AOC is their hope.

[Greg Gutfeld]

He's no Joe Biden.

[Kat Tim]

Like.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Like, Bernie is sharp. There's no. He's like one of those old guys that you don't want to mess with. You know, he'll count. The exact change in front of you.

[Kat Tim]

Wasn't an age issue with Joe Biden. Listen, I've spent a lot of time around 80 year olds, all right? And a lot of them are a lot better, doing a lot better than he was.

[Greg Gutfeld]

They can pinch pretty hard.

[Kat Tim]

Yeah. Look, I think it's crazy that we might be in a place as a nation where the governor of California. California is maybe too conservative to be the Democrat candidate for president. Because I truly do think there is this parallel with MAGA where it's establishment versus this outsider who. There's a lot of people, particularly in my generation and the ones that are younger, that they feel left behind. They feel there's a huge percentage of people in their 30s still living with their parents. They haven't met these milestones that they thought they were gonna meet. There's a whole host of reasons for this. But at least these socialists are sort of acknowledging, hey, we see you, and it's all these rich people's fault. That's not true. It's not rich people's faul fault. And resentment isn't really a policy, but they're trying to capitalize on the resentment and get votes. And I think that what others need to do is pay attention to them noticing the problem and say, hey, I see your problem, but this is not a solution. And this is why this would actually make this inequality worse.

[Joey]

Paul, real quick, Kamala Harris at almost 30%, 29. Gavin Newsom's at 15. Everybody else pretty much kind of dramatically drops after that. Is it Democrat socialism that Republicans should be worried about?

[Paul Morrow]

I mean, I don't know if they should be worried about it, because I don't think he can win at the national. But nobody thought Trump could win either, Right? So famous last words. You know, let's just look at one thing real quick here. With the time I have, Kamala's pulling away. And roughly around the same time we got the reporting about doj, looking into the entire apparatus of Gavin Newsom, including his wife. And I had this look at this very sophisticated chart that I drew left, if you want. I made about 100 cases doing that. Bottom line is all of a sudden, we get news that somebody is wearing a wire right next to that office, right next to Becerra's office. I don't have time to go through the whole thing. It's a little nested somebody in California because it's coming out of Sacramento. It's only $250,000 in play. That's not a lot of money in California politics. It's a lot of money to me. You know, Greg, you spend on the weekend, but it's not a lot of money in the context of the NGOs out there. Somebody dimed him out and they're getting near him now. Do they? Are they going to get him? I don't know. I have no idea how to know. But if you don't think that the guy's putting that case together, who wired somebody up that has to go to the director level? And it started under Biden. Somebody at the director level said, put a body wire on her, forget the prosecution, and put her against these people. We've already had three plea deals. One of them is former chief of staff.

[Joey]

Yeah, I know how he feels. Everyone around me is wearing a wire right now. All right, the fastest is up next.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Mr. Weatherman, What is your.

[Kat Tim]

Welcome back? One girl's trash is another Swifty's treasure. Taylor Swift. And Travis Kelce's wedding at MSG may be over, but fans are buying $25 cubes of street garbage collected outside the venue, including cigarette butts. Straws and even a discarded ovulation test kit.

[Apple Narrator]

Ew.

[Political Commentator]

Ew.

[Kat Tim]

Ew. But also intriguing, Greg, perhaps I should start selling my trash.

[Joey]

This.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You know, I happen to have all of Judge Jeanine's discarded empty Activity Activia containers, because I know they're going to be. There's. I've got 300 of them. And if anybody would like to buy them, they're starting at $3 a pop. I'm on ebay. You could do it. I. I never throw. You go outside to the trash. At Fox, you can get, like, a used Q tip from Brian Kilmeade. That's gotta be worth something, you know, why not make trash a commodity? Yeah, that'd be selling water.

[Kat Tim]

That'd be a good idea, Paul. If anybody ever wanted to quit this job. To first spend a few weeks going through everyone's trash.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yes.

[Kat Tim]

And grab all the trash. And you could have a whole side business selling Fox News people's trash. You never need to be on air again.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Look at the swag. We sell that like, like. Well, never mind.

[Paul Morrow]

I'm going to tell you what this is. This is a socialist scheme so that Mandani doesn't have to pay the sanitation.

[Joey]

Well, that would actually be quite the capitalist answer, to be honest with you. Listen, here's my take on this. Two things. One, if I'm Taylor Swift, I'm going around and I've got an assistant with a paper shredder. Because what people are trying to do is they might find something where, oh, that's her handwriting. And try to monetize that. I mean, she's to the point now that even if she scribbles a note, she needs to, like, shred that or categorize or catalog it. But, you know, if you are in the market for stuff like this, you can buy my feet pictures and my used socks. Just go to my Facebook page and find them there.

[Kat Tim]

But this wasn't even her trash, Kaylee. This was trash that was outside of a place where she was tertiary.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Trash.

[Kat Tim]

Yeah.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

You know who doesn't have trash is Jesse Waters. You walk by his office, his office is, like, pristine. It's like he's trying not to leave

[Greg Gutfeld]

DNA evidence because he doesn't do anything.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

He doesn't do anything. No papers. Anyway, that's why I will say this is disgusting on so many levels, because for the first time this week, I saw a New York City roach. I grew up in Florida. Like, I know bugs. I swear, it was this big.

[Paul Morrow]

You never saw a New York City roach?

[Kat Tim]

No.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

But I guarantee you, every one of those trash bags, I saw them piled on the street had a New York City roach on it or in it.

[Paul Morrow]

Oh, forget.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

And that is disgusting.

[Joey]

How'd you know it was New York City? So you get out of the way.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Where else did it come from?

[Kat Tim]

I don't want to. I don't want to be classist. I don't want to be classist, but I feel like if you need to take an ovulation test on the street, you might not. Maybe not be having a child. Maybe not. Fan Mail Friday is up next.

[Political Commentator]

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[Kayleigh McEnany]

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[Joey Jones]

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[Greg Gutfeld]

Fan Mail Friday. Ooh, this is a fun question from Algae. What's one song that you've completely memorized and care to sing it? Oh, I like that. All right, Kaylee.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

All right. They see me rolling, patrolling they trying to catch me riding dirty Trying to catch me riding by the way, right

[Kat Tim]

away she was like, I have one.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Right away she was like, I have one.

[Greg Gutfeld]

And it was that. Don't stop.

[Joey]

Oh, we got enough time for you to finish?

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[Kayleigh McEnany]

Hey, who do you think I am? The guy from Fox and Friends who Keep singing. You know what I'm talking about. I'm not gonna put you guys through that.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Joey.

[Joey]

Marine Corps hymn would be the only one I know the words to. Yeah, and I can't sing. I did. I have to stand at attention. Yeah, I was gonna say the Grundy county auction, but I looked up the lyrics and I was way off, so I just can't remember the lyrics to anything.

[Greg Gutfeld]

How about the lyrics of Billie Jean?

[Joey]

No, it's Vaseline, apparently.

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[Greg Gutfeld]

Vaseline. Not my.

[Political Commentator]

Okay.

[Kat Tim]

There are so many. Honestly, there's so many. There's a whole concert set that I know everywhere. To Brian Jones from Massacre live in Glastonbury, 2014. I have watched that so many times that I know every single word to every single song, every single riff from, you know, Gotta Say this right to

[Greg Gutfeld]

the only person that sang so far,

[Kat Tim]

all the way down to Poker's Attack.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

My favorite

[Paul Morrow]

rest of the show. Ready? Yeah. Regrets.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

You're laughing. You're a good singer.

[Greg Gutfeld]

He's actually quite the musician.

[Kat Tim]

Singing is like the one.

[Paul Morrow]

I'm not doing it.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I have new Kind of Kick by the Cramps. I can sing like that one, too. Yeah. Life is short Filled with stuff don't know what for I ain't had enough I learned all I know by the age of nine and I could better myself if I could only find.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

That was beautiful.

[Joey]

Thank you.

[Kat Tim]

I did it even better than them.

[Joey]

I would rather take apart another bomb than sing in front of people. I wasn't very good at that.

[Greg Gutfeld]

All right, do you have time for one more or what? All right. If you were picked for jury duty, what would you do to get out of the it? Well, I tweeted all day yesterday in jury duty hoping to get out of it. I even said I should be on jury duty because I can tell if somebody's guilty just by looking at them. They still.

[Joey]

I would dress as the grim Reaper and as soon as I walked in. But we should bring back public hangings.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Kat.

[Kat Tim]

I would just be myself.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Paul, you're a co. You're a cop.

[Paul Morrow]

In this town, there are two magic words. You ready? It'll get you out every time. Hello, Fox News.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yes, But I didn't even get to that stage. I knew that if I said Fox News, they'd throw me out. But I didn't even get there.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I have one better than I worked for Fox News. I worked for Donald Trump. You're out. They're gone.

[Greg Gutfeld]

They asked. They would ask you if. Cause mine was a criminal case, if I was familiar with anybody who was a victim of a crime. And I'm going, yeah.

[Paul Morrow]

Hello.

[Greg Gutfeld]

They were just throwing everybody out because of that. And I'd be like, I know.

[Paul Morrow]

Jeez. In the last 15 minutes.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yes. One more thing's up next.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Time now for one more thing. Greg.

[Greg Gutfeld]

All right. Tonight we got a super duper duper duper show with Tom Salu, Brianna Lehman, Bobby Kelly, Cat Tim. Who's that tonight? And let's do this rage that disgusting. Take a look at this little creature, huh? Not me. Look at that thing, huh? That's Ouija. A short beak. Echidna puggle. Have you ever seen that before? They're blind, hairless creatures the size of a jelly bean when they're born. And they. They lack nipples. No comment. Can their moms secrete milk? Onto specialized milk patches on their bellies for their puggles to lap up. Isn't that cute?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

That looks like the Manhattan roach I saw.

[Joey]

Looks like a Pokemon character.

[Kat Tim]

Oh, it's the second cutest thing I've ever seen without nipples.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Who's the first? I know. Tune in tomorrow, Saturday in America, 10:00am Eastern Time to 12:00pm I have rush Limbaugh's wife, Katherine Limbaugh. She was in the courtroom with Erica Kirk. She will be here tomorrow. Also, Linda McMahon. They found in education spending James Blair, the man behind the midterms, Joe Grutters, Andrew Yang, you remember him as a Democrat, but he loves Trump accounts. And Patricia Heaton from Everybody Loves Raymond here to talk about her faith. Joey.

[Joey]

All right, so this is an important thing. So researchers off the coast of Rhode island discovered an almost 40 foot long dead humpback whale. It took up the entire coast of Rhode Island. They found it there. It was dead and it had shark bites all over it. Underneath it they found a healthy, well fed great white shark. That's the second shark that's washed ashore with shark bites or second whale that's washed ashore with shark bites all over it. And I just love, you know, animals are great. And I love to bring the animal kingdom to the five and remind you that animals eat each other all the time and we should eat animals, too.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Sharks are not great.

[Joey]

Cat sharks are awesome.

[Kat Tim]

All right, come see me live, guys. I'm doing standup all over the country. New Mexico, Hawaii, California, Nevada. Look at that. Arizona, Florida, New York. So many places, so much fun. Maryland, too. Yay.

[Greg Gutfeld]

North Tonawanda.

[Kat Tim]

Don't miss it. Speaking of stand up, I spent the Fourth of July in the Middle east doing stand up for the troops through the Independence Fund. And I just wanted to shout them out. Oh, look at me and Cam in the, in the, in the helicopter. It's dedicated to serving the war fighter community through programs that foster the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual independence of our veterans and service members. So you can donate visiting the independence fund.org, it was one of the change my life. Life changed my life. Truly amazing experience.

[Paul Morrow]

All right. We only got 20 seconds here, so I got to do this fast. There's a very big seal in Australia. Show it. Go ahead. There he is. That's it. And you know what? He's got nipples. Isn't he cute? All right, that's all I got. You know, we got to go. That said, join us Fridays, three o', clock, all right. On Fox Nation.

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