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Announcer
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Kayleigh McEnany
I'm kayleigh mcenany along with joey jones, jessica tarlov, jesse watters, and kat temp. It's five o' clock in new york city and this is the five. So disclaimer. This is not a skit from snl. Last night, the top eight Democratic Senate candidates in Maine took the debate stage, scrambling to replace disgraced Graham Platner after his campaign went up in flames. And wow, it was quite something. Just about everyone had a tough time putting distance between themselves and the disgraced Democrat while still trying to cling to his far left policies.
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Jessica Tarlov
Graham actually said he voted for me. I argued then, and certainly Graham agreed, is that we need to change the system. Graham Platner was right. The system's rigged.
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Jesse Watters
The single idea from Graham Platner that spoke most deeply to me is that he's right. The democracy that we thought we had has been deeply corrupted by those in power in Washington.
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Kayleigh McEnany
And there was another Democratic candidate in that debate who's getting a ton of buzz and not in a good way. This is Ashley Webb, a transgender woman, a biological male who had a pretty head scratching answer about qualifications to run
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Ashley Webb
with the trans community. Like we're being dehumanized. They say that we want to hurt people. I don't want to hurt anybody. I just want to use the bathroom. And if they want me to use the men's room, I will. But I don't want to be assaulted. I'm a songwriter and then I write my own books.
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Jessica Tarlov
You said you're from Medicare for All.
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Joey Jones
Is everyone on this panel, Dan?
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Ashley Webb
No.
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FIFA Official
Yeah, yeah.
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Jessica Tarlov
I mean, yeah.
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Kat Timpf
Just checking, just checking. That's eight for eight with the candidates.
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Ashley Webb
I'm actually on Medicare.
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Jessica Tarlov
Oh, okay.
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Kayleigh McEnany
Jesse Waters, primetime. Dare I say these candidates are not ready for primetime.
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Joey Jones
You know, you don't really know what you need until you see it. And I didn't know it, but I need Ashley in my life.
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Jessica Tarlov
Yep, I agree.
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Joey Jones
Call it love, call it lust. I've talked to Emma about it. We're good. She understands. Ashley says she's angry and if she gets into the Senate, she's going to be an angry senator and she's going to be our worst nightmare. I don't see it that way. Ashley to me is a dream. She is a dream candidate. And I don't usually do this, but I've opened up my checkbook and I have written a big fat check to Ashley. Maine needs Ashley. Fox needs Ashley. Graham would have wanted Ashley in that seat. Ashley says she wrote a book. The book's called I am Ashley. I'm already intrigued.
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Jessica Tarlov
It's.
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Joey Jones
It's. She also says she's a singer, songwriter. I couldn't wait to hear some of her stuff. I went online. I couldn't find a song. I couldn't find anything. Maybe she sings in the shower. I don't care. I need to hear it. I want to hear it. My whole team's on it. I went to a Reddit page and I did find something very interesting. Ashley says she ovulates and she menstruates. And I think that is fantastic. I wonder if Platner watched the debate. You know, sometimes when I'm not on the show, I watch the Five and it just. It's painful. That's probably how Graham Platner felt, but not painful for Susan Collins, who I think is watching and probably not even raising any more money.
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Kayleigh McEnany
Well, Jesse, when you're not on, we don't speak about ovulation at the 3 minute, 44 minute mark.
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Joey Jones
Sorry, I got ahead of myself.
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Kayleigh McEnany
Can you live without Ashley, Kat?
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Kat Timpf
Yeah, yeah. Look, for me, it's very simple. It's like trans, not trans. Write songs, doesn't write songs. I just want to be able to keep my money and be allowed to have a gun, which I don't think Ashley is on board with either one of those things. So not so much for me. But if I'm watching this and I'm Susan Collins, I do like my chances, right? Because, I mean, what are a lot of them doing here? A lot of them are failed. They've had failed campaigns for other offices, or they have, in the case of Ashley, perfect example. No real resume for, you know, to actually serve in this position. But also they're kind of showing that. I mean, there was moments that showed this. Dr. Shah suggesting, for example, that Susan Collins, you know, gave the go ahead for Pete Hegseth, which is obviously a huge sin in Democratic circles. When she did not do that, she actually opposed his confirmation, so. And I think the Troy Jackson thing is also very interesting because it, to me presents this. He looked. He was wearing, you know, a different outfit there, but he's always got his hat on. He usually has the ball cap on, which to me represents the same kind of thing that I think they tried to do with Graham Platner the way they were there. Look, he's a regular guy. He wears plaid, and for me, wearing plaid isn't what makes you a regular guy. Most of the regular guys, guys I know in my life, they don't behave that way. And if they do Then I certainly don't call them regular. So I think that there is not a lot going on here. I think that it is also harder for them to paint this kind of picture that they do in terms of we can't let the MAGA extremists win when the person they're talking about is Susan Collins, who is, I would say, a moderate and a centrist more than anything else. Really?
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Kayleigh McEnany
Yeah, no doubt about it. I mean, Jessica, looking at the polling, I was reading a passage from Brookings today, and they said not a single public poll in 2020 showed Susan Collins with a lead in her race. In fact, there were some showing her trailing by double digits that she went on to win by 9 percentage points. I like her odds up against that field.
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Jesse Watters
Well, yeah, but you didn't play any examples of Troy Jackson speaking.
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Kayleigh McEnany
They weren't.
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Jesse Watters
I. Listen, I am not saying that if that stage translated to the 2028 primary that anyone would be getting off of it necessarily. But I think that, you know, licking your lips and saying seal deal, I think Susan Collins doesn't need a lot of another dollar is not how the Republican Party feels about it or how Susan Collins does. I did appreciate that for the first time ever, Jesse, you didn't misgender a transgender person.
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Jessica Tarlov
I was noticing that.
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Kat Timpf
I noticed that also.
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Jesse Watters
He's really internal. So good for you. Listen, Nurovsha, he was touting the fact that he came in second in this very big gubernatorial primary. He did make a mistake there with the record. Shanna Bellows made a mistake as well. I think she switched the war powers vote for Venezuela instead of Iran or whatever it is. This was not a primetime showing at all. But there is a lot of energy right now in Maine and it is blue energy in the Democratic sense. Right now it's a D 10 to D 14 environment. There is a reason that they are talking about the policies of Graham Platner because they were overwhelmingly popular with the primary electorate. So we'll just get rid of the behavior. So Susan Collins In 2020, 100%. I was one of those people who sent money to Sarah Gideon and I was like, this is our time. And then went up and finished well. Yeah, but it's six years later. Susan Collins is six years older. She's voted with Donald Trump 95% of the time. And right now, Maine is in full crisis mode over this ICE murder from last week of Juan Guerrero. Everyone's talking about Susan Collins, one of the deciding votes for that extra $70 billion for ICE funding. When they talk about ICE agents being untrained, inadequate to do this job. I think they're speaking specifically about the guy, the officer, David Brulette was the one who shot him. His ex wife was interviewed about him and she said that she told him, how do you keep getting jobs where guns are around all the time? He called her after this happened to try to get her to, quote, unquote, lie about his character and the abuse. He abused her and their daughter had threatened to kill her. And Mark Wayne Mullen today in his press conference, when he was talking about turning down the temperature, apparently that's just about the press. He said, we're going to be turning up the heat in the streets. Susan Collins doesn't want any heat up in the streets. Susan Collins is going to have a very difficult time hanging on if things like this are going on in her state. And if you can tie her directly to the funding without the guardrails. She says, I'm very concerned there should be body cams. I said there were supposed to be body cams. Well, there weren't and there weren't in Houston either. So don't take anything for granted. She's got to run even stronger than she did in 2020. This is a different environment and it is a very anti Trump environment. And she is tied with him with 95% of her votes going his way.
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Kayleigh McEnany
If we would have played the rest of that debate, you would have heard, abolish ice. You would have heard, yep, yep.
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Unknown Guest
So Troy Jackson, his great line was about ice. They give us nothing in this country but heartache and racism. It's not law enforcement. It's a rogue agency that goes around doing things that they're being told on high. That's his perception of ice. Bellows, for her part, when called for falsely attacking Collins, goes, well, a week ago I was on vacation, and when I need to know the facts, I'll do my homework. I mean, that's what someone says. Who showed up to perhaps the only debate that she's going to have a chance to call the herd with. She's also the Secretary of State that tried to ban Trump from being on the primary ballot in Maine because of what she calls an insurrection and his part in it, of course, I believe it was the Supreme Court that said, no, you're crazy. That's not. That's not allowed. So those are your real, like, establishment frontrunners. You have Nirav Shah, who's, you know, another one of the. Well, pretty much all the top four have lost some primary this year or recently. Nirav Shah lost the governor primary. The face of the COVID response for Joe Biden in Maine. So that's who that person is. There are other things that people in Maine are up in arms about. They're up in arms about the fact that you can't go to Bangor or Portland and not see 100 people that are strung out on meth walking up and down the streets. Maine has a lot of problems. It's got a lot of beautiful countryside. It's got a lot of beautiful things about it. It also has a whole lot of problems. It has a huge drug problem. I don't know if people in Maine will vote to blame Democrats or Republicans for that, but the border has something to do with it for sure. So as much as you want them to hate ice, the fact is there are people in Maine who, I guess their reaction when being stopped by ICE is to try to drive away and over whoever they need to to get away. And I would like for all those people that are illegal to be rolled up and put in jail and maybe even deported if legally possible, if they haven't committed any other crimes. You know, that doesn't matter to me. Worse first doesn't mean everybody else stays forever. That's the hard truth of it. And the voters get to decide how much they care about that. They cared enough about it to vote President Trump in office. Let's see if they care enough about it to defund and abolish ice, which is what just about every single one of these candidates want to do.
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Kayleigh McEnany
Yep, my favorite line from Dan Cleveland last night. The reputation of the Democratic Party is in the toilet, so we will leave you with that. Speaking of candidates with Nazi tattoos coming up, a DSA member apparently has no problem with Nazis joining their movement.
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Jessica Tarlov
You want me to say that I want you to stay. So you should probably leave.
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Joey Jones
Democrats aren't hiding it anymore. Their hatred for Israel's out in the open after nearly half of House Democrats backed ending all US Aid to the Jewish state in a landmark vote. But one commie is taking it a step further, saying it's no biggie if you're a Nazi. As long as you vote the right
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Unknown Guest 2
way, I don't really care if, say, like, Bernie Sanders or aoc, go home and they're a secret Nazi, but they go out and they vote for the right things like we're talking about.
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Ashley Webb
You don't care.
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Unknown Guest 2
Politicians, as. I mean, but why would it matter if they're public officials and they're doing the right thing in public? I'm not here to say that they're like, you know, the greatest person on the planet. This is about a representation of the values of a party platform.
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Joey Jones
But not every Democrat is on the anti Semitism bandwagon. Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, who I believe is on Kaley's show this weekend, is drawing a red line on Israel.
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Unknown Guest 3
I've believed that the Democratic Party is going to become more anti Israel as long as we continue to do that. You make that official. You make that part of our platform. That's my red line in the Democratic Party. Look at the people that are winning these primaries right now. They're not just. I'm just pro Palestinian. I am deeply anti anti Israel. They campaign with garbage like Hasan Piker. That's pro Hamas.
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Joey Jones
If you want to cut all aid to Israel, does that make you necessarily anti Semitic?
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Kat Timpf
So you said that it was taking it one step further to say that you don't care if people are Nazis. I think that that's taking it, like, a lot more than one step further. I think that is one of the craziest things that I've heard anybody say, quite frankly. And I don't know who that guy was, Jessica. I think you know what his name is. But I thought his response was really funny when he was like, wait, what? Like, sometimes when you're. Sometimes when you're in interview with somebody, you're kind of like, okay, like, yeah.
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Kayleigh McEnany
And you just.
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Kat Timpf
You can just kind of find yourself nodding along. He was not nodding along. He's like, wait, whoa, what did you just say? Because, look. And I'm always someone who's like, hey, you know, live and let live. I don't like to see too much concern about a candidate's personal life, but I think that I do draw the line if in their personal life, they're a Nazi. And I will say that I don't care who you vote for. I think that that's an issue because I think that if you're a Nazi, if you're a literal Nazi, if Jews are inferior for being Jews, then I think that. That perhaps you might be a little dangerous being around power. If you were in that position. And I thought it was particularly interesting cuz this woman who said this, she herself has called out Republicans saying this is Nazi speech, this is Nazi this, this is Nazi that. So she can't do that now. She can't ask people to then care that she's calling someone else a Nazi when she just said it doesn't matter to her if someone's a Nazi. So I feel like, you know, people do make the argument and you can make the argument, sure that you can criticize the government of Israel without criticizing Jewish people. However, that doesn't mean that there can't be antisemitism by some of the same people who do that. I think that there's separate things we need to look at. But that's not a catch all cover. And I feel like when you have people saying things as alarming as I don't care if someone's a Nazi, as long as they pretty much, no matter what they say after that is going to be something that's going to really raise my eyebrows because that is something that should be truly dangerous and that's something that should transcend politics. That if you're a Nazi, that that is bad.
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Joey Jones
Were there Republicans, Kaylee, that that voted to cut aid to Israel?
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Kayleigh McEnany
Thomas Massie But I mean that guy's out. But when you look at the Democratic caucus, there were 103 Democrats that voted for ending aid, 98 who voted against 10 present more Democrats voted for ending aid to Israel, then voted to keep it there. And when you look at aid to Israel, even taking, you know, the, your hat off of what you think about Israel, it's strategically smart. They're only ally in the Middle east, they've been there, they reciprocate intelligence. It's a smart relationship to have. But John Fetterman, my co host on Saturday in America, I joke, he's not. But we have him on a lot because we like his reasonableness that his red line for leaving the party would be Israel. Well, you know, there's a big pressure on Democrats if they win the House to come up with a cohesive position. And I venture to think they will side with the majority of the Democratic caucus, which is for ending aid to Israel. And the man you're looking at with the cool sunglasses, John Fetterman, he will be. I know, Jessica, you dream of flipping four Senate seats and taking back the Senate. The man you're looking at will be your 51st vote. You lose him, you lose your hopes and dreams of the Senate and you're about to lose the man you're looking at.
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Joey Jones
Oh, are you about to lose that man, Jessica?
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Jesse Watters
I don't know. Kelly knows him better than I do, so maybe she has got a handle on this and there are special relationship like we have with Israel and continue to have. Bibi Netanyahu himself has said we don't need the aid anymore. When you look at the hundred plus Democrats that voted for them, some who have always criticized Israel, some who I have called anti Semitic on this network, some like Nancy Pelosi and Adam Smith who have led trips to Israel and used this vote to send a signal that the way that the Netanyahu government is behaving, and that includes how he is constantly on a war footing, what's going on with the settlements in Israel is unacceptable and that they don't deserve billions of dollars from us for that. So you cannot make this a blanket statement on the Nazi front. I care if you have a Nazi tattoo. I care when Graham Platner had one. I don't think we should throw that around as Ted Herndon did. I always mess it up. Had a great reaction. But there is some, I guess potential Nazi tattoo or Nazi issues brewing on the right. I don't know if you saw this new report about Mike Collins, the congressman who's running for Senate against Jon Ossoff, who's lapping him. I think he has like $42 million in his war chest as well. But his son in law is a white nationalist.
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Kayleigh McEnany
Is his son in law the candidate?
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Jesse Watters
No, it's not even a blood relative. Well, she just. I'm saying that if you wanna get out. Well, this guy's in his campaign paraphernalia. He lives in a house that Mike Collins owns. He has said things like, nothing wrong with white nationalism. Jewish Bolsheviks killed millions of Christians before World War II. And all Mike Collins can summon is I'm a strong supporter of Israel. I don't know if he didn't. He wasn't aware of the fact that this guy who support who has posted about you have Chevalier.
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Kayleigh McEnany
That is ridiculous. I'm sorry to ignore the anti Semitism problem. Is only.
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Jesse Watters
I just went.
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Kayleigh McEnany
Chevalier is the candidate. Mike Collins is a separate.
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Jesse Watters
I call it out every time. I'm saying that. If you don't think this is gonna be a factor in a high profile story.
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Joey Jones
We're going after in laws now. All right, in laws are fair game. Someone has probably every tattoo except a Nazi tattoo. Is that right?
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Unknown Guest
Yeah, if I have a Nazi tattoo, I'm in the Graham Platner role and didn't know it, but I don't think so. You know, I'm rather fond of killing Nazis myself. We did a good job at it in the 40s. And if we have to do it again, we will. I have no problem with that. They're the enemy of our state. At the end of the day, there is a fine. Well, no, there's a big gap. There's a gulf between being anti Semitic and skeptical of spending money from our country towards any other country. That's okay. You should ask questions. I ask questions about our war policy and the guy in charge of the War Department is someone I used to sit beside and consider a friend. Doesn't mean I don't ask questions, doesn't mean I don't have criticism. But I don't question his motive. I know he loves his country and I know he wants to beat and kill our enemies. I don't question Israel's motive to be a country in an area where for 60 years people have tried to decimate, destroy and erase them. That doesn't mean that Bibi Netanyahu is going to bat a thousand. Doesn't mean that Israel isn't trying to get the United States to politically and policy wise be in their best interest. It's up to the President of the United States to handle anybody that lobbies him. Israel, Ukraine, Europe, UK, Mexico, anybody in this country, any of the 535 members of the two chambers of our Congress. Any industry in this country doesn't make any of those people bad, evil or against America if they're lobbying for an interest that they believe to be vital to their existence. And so the difference between having an intellectual political disagreement about where our money goes or how we spend it and being completely anti Semitic, it's being conflated on the right and the left. The left is doing it with this mind virus of the only way to support the kids of Palestine is to be pro Hamas and want to see Israel wiped off the map. And the right is doing it, saying, hold up just a minute, you said you were America first and right now we see ourselves in a multi month, potentially year long war with Iran and where is it going to go? And did Bibi Netanyahu sell you a bad bill of goods to get us there? That's an okay question. I think the answer is no, because I think President Trump has, you know, other than dropping the F bomb a time or two in the last couple of weeks and telling us about it to Bibi, I think he's, he's shown that he has his own line as far as how far he's willing to go and what he's willing to spend in this war. But if you're Bibi Netanyahu, of course, you want to see the most powerful country in the world take out your biggest enemy when they're their enemy, too. So this idea that it's some sort of manipulation, I think, is what comes from the four chan chats and the conspiracies. The left and the right are dealing with it in very different ways. The left is dealing with it by rolling it into this DSA that's equally anti American as it is anything, because it's truly communism and it looks at us as some colonial oppressor. And they're rolling it into that and saying the Jews are complacent in that or complicit in that. And the right is saying, hold up just a minute. We want it to be America first. So that gulf is just as wide between the left and the right when it comes to Israel as anti Semitism and being skeptical of every decision your government makes. And that's the problem here, is they're easy to conflate, but they're completely different things as far as John Ossoff and Mike Collins goes. I'll look at Mike Collins record and Jon Ossoff's record. When he can't vote for a bill that honors Lake and Riley, he can get voted out of Congress from Mike Collins all day and twice a job.
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Joey Jones
He did vote for him.
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Kayleigh McEnany
Bingo.
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Jesse Watters
Well, he and Warnock voted for it.
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Unknown Guest
Yeah, you're right. My bad.
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Joey Jones
She knows everything about him. She's a big crush.
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Unknown Guest
You're right.
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Jesse Watters
Everyone has a crush on Jon Ossoff.
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Joey Jones
Not everybody.
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Jesse Watters
Well, you're not Ashley Webb on the line.
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Kayleigh McEnany
I do not.
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Joey Jones
Ashley's my girl.
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Jessica Tarlov
You're right.
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Joey Jones
We're going to take another trip to socialist Mandani land, where the masked weirdos run the asylum.
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Kat Timpf
But it's all right now.
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Joey Jones
Coming.
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Jessica Tarlov
I'm done.
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Kayleigh McEnany
President Trump at a FIFA reception at Trump Tower right here in New York City ahead of the Sunday's World cup final. Let's listen in.
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FIFA Official
The legends of our game are here. Those who made our heart beat, who made the hearts of billions of people in the world beat, and of course, the FIFA council as well. We are all here united tonight, President, to celebrate this incredible FIFA World Cup. When we met the first time, Mr. President, in 2018, in the summer after the award of the decision, I promised you we would make a great World Cup. And by all means this World cup has exceeded all expectations. Full stadiums, 7 million people in the stadium, tens of millions in the cities in America, in Canada, in Mexico, billions in front of their tv. Everyone enjoying the game with happiness, with joy, with peace. And The American dream, Mr. President, came to reality. We united the world. We united the world. In America, when I told you we will do a great World cup, you told me America will welcome the world. And you did welcome the world. Everyone that came here enjoyed it. Everyone that stayed home enjoyed it as well. By watching the incredible images of these beautiful host cities, of the fans from all over the world coming together and enjoying in peace, Mr. President, in happiness and in joy. Because I don't know if you know, but the official definition of FIFA is we are. FIFA is the official happiness provider to humanity since 120 years. So we are providing joy and happiness. Unless the team loses, of course. And all this, of course, would not have been possible. And I say this because it is the truth. You don't need people to compliment you, Mr. President, but this World cup would not have been such an incredible success without you. Please. Your administration, every single person in the White House, in the administration, in the cities, in the States, everywhere, contributed to create this safe and secure and joyful environment to live something that the world has never seen. This has not just been and is not just the greatest World cup of all times. It is the greatest human, social and cultural event that mankind has ever witnessed and seen. And we are all part of it. And for this, I thank you very much, Mr. President. Thanks for having us here. There is one more game to go well, two more games. The bronze medal tomorrow, and between England and France, of course, and the great final between Argentina and Spain. One country will be the world champion, but the world has already won. America has won. FIFA has won. And uniting the world in such a way as we did this summer, giving unforgettable experiences and memories to millions, to billions of people all over the world, is something that we will take with us and cherish forever. Thank you, Mr. President.
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Jessica Tarlov
So I want to thank Johnny. This guy, he came to me with this crazy idea, said, are you crazy? We're not a soccer country. It turned out we were a soccer country. And I think it's going to remain about what he's done and what he thought of with a lot of your friends that I met today. They were very much involved in the decision. But I want to thank our great FIFA President, Johnny Infantino. There's nobody like him, actually, very few. And the entire team at FIFA for their incredible work. I've met so many of them. I see why you were so successful because of the commitment and devotion of the people in this room, this beautiful room where the sound is very good, because you're going to hear a great opera singer in a couple of minutes. That's why I say, you know, Pavarotti was here, saying years ago, he was here, and he sang right in that corner. And he said to me something I never forgot, because it's luck. Sound is luck. Like talent. You're born with it. Sound is a little luck. He said, this is the greatest space. And he came and recorded either an album or a song, and we're going to hear somebody. You're going to hear somebody in a couple of minutes. That's really good. But I did say to him, christopher, are you as good as. He's an Italian man also. I don't know. It seems that being Italian is a big advantage in that business.
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Ashley Webb
Right?
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Jessica Tarlov
If his name was Christopher Smith, it wouldn't work out as well. But I said, christopher, are you as good as poverty? No, no, no. He was the maestro. He was the greatest of all time. Who is? Nobody. Like, when you hear him, you'll understand he's just as good. Now, I would have said, no, no, I'm better than Pavarotti if I were him. And therefore, I'm doing this instead of that. But you're going to hear somebody who's fantastic, really an acknowledged genius. But this has been the most successful sporting event, maybe in the history of the world. It's been amazing. So I want to congratulate everybody in this room, because you're very much into football. I'll say, the word football gets a little confusing here, because we have the great Bob Kraft. He's won six Super Bowls. Six Super Bowls. That's not. Stand up, Bob, will you, please? And he also owns a soccer team, which is good, but hasn't been quite as good as the football. Do you agree? Not quite. And you're okay with that? He's okay with that, actually, in this country. Congratulations, Bob. Nice to have you been my friend for a long time. But eight years ago, all the way back in 2018, it was my honor to help secure the World cup for North America, never thinking that it would turn out to be what it's turned out to be. Johnny said this would happen, but as fate would have it, I'm president. I said, you know, I was supposed to not be here right now. I was supposed to be president for eight years. The polls Showed it. Everyone showed it. They rigged the election. And what did I get? I got the World Cup, I got the Olympics and I brought them here. I tried to take credit for 250 years, but that didn't work out as well. I tried to say I created 250 years. That one didn't work. But I did get the Olympics and we got this. And I don't know, this might be bigger than the Olympics. Tell me, is it bigger? Much bigger. All right, I'll take his word for it. I'll take his word for it. I had a feeling he was going to say that. But Gianni, I want to thank FIFA Secretary General Matthias Grafstrom, as well as FIFA vice presidents and all of those vice presidents and council members, along with the presidents and general secretaries of FIFA member associations, along with some presidents of their countries. Of course, being a president of your country at this particular time isn't really as good as being the president of one of your associations, but you've done an amazing job. In fact, the presidents of the countries are sitting in the back row. You believe this? They're going to be very upset with you. But we also have many famous FIFA legends and all star players, people that I recognize being somebody that knows something about sports. I have, my children love soccer. My one son, my very tall son, Baron, loves soccer. He's a good soccer player. He may, I don't know, his speed might, I'm little, you know, he's very tall. I don't know. I said, when some guy gets by you from Spain, from Argentina, from France, Baron, what happens from England, what happens, Baron? He said, dad, I'm a very good ball handler. I said, but Baron, if he's faster, what do you do about it? Dad, he'll never get by me. I said, but when he does. And he didn't want to answer that question. So speed, I think is quite important in this sport. Do you agree? Oh, yes, but he has good, good skills, actually. But he helped, Johnny, helped shape the game, you all helped shape the game. And really bringing it to a level that I don't think I've ever seen before. Melania's father, Victor is sitting right here and he's been a wonderful father in law, a great guy. And he said he used to play soccer as a young man. He didn't quite make it into the big leagues, but he was a good athlete. Victor, stand up, stand up. An ex soccer player. But we're gathered tonight. Thanks, Victor. But we're gathered tonight. He's going to be at the Game, along with Melania, along with everybody. I mean, who's not going to be at the game? If we had. If we had about 10 million more, we would sell every ticket you had. This thing is sold out. I've never seen nobody seen anything like it. But we gathered tonight in New York City as we await the final face off on Sunday between the amazing two amazing teams, Spain and Argentina. I watched that pass that Messi made, and not knowing as much as the people in this room, but I know about sports and I know about a little bit about soccer, but I watched Messi, and he was well guarded, right? Well guarded. And all of a sudden he's standing on the right. You understand what I'm talking about? I don't know if anybody.
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Unknown Guest 3
I didn't.
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Jessica Tarlov
I just noticed it. Nobody talked about it. I just noticed it. I said, he's so well guarded by a great player. And then he moved to the right, and the other player was just standing there and he had plenty of time. He kicked it. It was within, I would say, a quarter of an inch of being perfect. And that was the end of the game. It was brilliant. And these great players, they seem to do that over and over again. They're just born with something extra special. I know that Ronaldo is one of them. I got to know him over the years, and he's a great guy. You have a great player in England who I played golf with. You know that, right? And he. He is Harry, who's been fantastic. I think they perhaps made a mistake when they made him a defensive player. What do I know about Chuck? They took the league and they took their best player and him on defense, then somehow, no, we got to be a little offensive, right? But no, I'm not going to call it. Look, what do I know about coaching? But that was a little unusual. But Harry is a great guy, actually. But we're gathered tonight in New York City as we await the final face off on Sunday between these two amazing teams. And it's going to be something, I think, really special. This has been a tournament like no other, filled with fierce competition, unforgettable moments, yet unforgettable moments. Like probably the most unforgettable is when they gave that gentleman, is it a red card? And I was forced to call Johnny and just make a recommendation. I said, johnny, I'd like to make a recommendation. Let the guy in the game. No, I didn't say that. I said, I'd like to wager complaint. And actually, I didn't. I had no idea what was going to happen. But, you know, so much better the way it worked out because there's no controversy. They won the game and our team had all of its players. You made another great decision. If you think about it, I know you'll never get credit. You never get credit for this. Think of it. If he didn't allow him. And they'd say we would have won the game if we had our best players. So Johnny made yet another of his many good decisions. But the spirit and patriotism and the unity that's brought, I think, the whole world together. This has really brought the world together. The 2026 FIFA World cup has broken almost every record imaginable. This is the largest World cup in history by far, by many times actually welcoming 16 additional teams. And I understand you may be making it even larger next time. I suggested that. This has been so successful that. And I'm, you know, I'm really working these people hard because they really call the shot. They tell Johnny exactly what to do. I say what we should do is you should choose the United States of America again. This time we'll leave Mexico and Canada out. But then what you do is you. Which I was very nice to get them in. But what we do is you leave. You choose us, but you pick somebody else for the next one. And that will take some of the anger, hatred and steam out of everyone. But Johnny also had another idea. He said we could do it. China and the United States for next time we do them. China, United States. So you have a nice short flight in between games. The players would love that. But it is the world's largest. And it's like having, you know, I first heard this, but many Super Bowls at one time, you know, it's like having many Super Bowls, Bob. Every stadium is packed to the rafters. The spirit. But fans from 200 countries attended 104 games spread across 16 Northern American cities. And I saw things happen. My mother comes from Scotland. My father comes from Germany. When I saw the Scottish bagpipes and the Scottish. They were going wild. They were going. I said, this is really different. And, you know, a lot of countries came here not knowing what to think. And they love the United States. In fact, the people that came, they're going to be coming back maybe permanently. I don't know. They love the United States. We're doing great. We're doing great. It's the golden age of America. We're doing better than we've ever done. We have $19.2 trillion being invested, much more than any country has ever had invested into our country. Factories being built all across the land. But I'm proud to report that with more than 6.5 million attendees, this has been by far the most attended tournament in history. And that's the history of all sports. And that's only going to go well, maybe up. I don't know where you're going next time. Where are you going next time? You're allowed to tell me. I'll let you know if you're going to do better. But that's a tough number to beat, right? That's why he's, you know what he wants to do. He's very competitive. That's why he's going to add some more teams. He figures by adding some more teams, maybe they can happen. But the total number of spectators exceeds the entire attendance of the last two World Cups combined. And together we pulled it off really flawlessly. I mean, I don't want to say this because you do have two more games and so let's not talk about it yet. I don't want to say how great it's been. We've had absolute spirit, absolute. I have to say the law enforcement, they're fantastic. But they didn't have to work too hard because the spirit was so good. There were no fights, there were no anything. So I just want to say great, but let's save it for Sunday evening. I think we'll hold it out for Sunday evening, but it's going to go well. By the time the final whistle sounds On Sunday, nearly 6 billion viewers will have watched this World Cup. That's a record by many, many times over. I have no doubt that the World cup has won millions of new fans and a lot of new fans in this country, which traditionally hasn't been a soccer country. But it's got, it's getting there even before this. It's been going up and this will have a big impact, I'm sure. From the first day of my administration, 2025, we've worked closely with FIFA to make this event a resounding success. We have great people. Andrew, thank you very much. Great job you did. We really, you really worked hard and thank you very much. Great job. To put our preparations into perspective and the record setting tournament has been the logistical equivalent of holding 78 NFL Super Bowls in less than two months time. 78. We marshaled the resources of more than 50 federal departments and agencies, deployed every arm of the federal law enforcement to ensure the games would be safe, secure and successful. And they've turned out to be Amazing. The State Department expedited thousands and thousands of visas for World cup ticket holders very quickly. Very. We call it fast, Fast. Letting them in. We call it, let them in fast. And we secured. And Marco was fantastic. Marco Rubio, fantastic in the job he's done. Secretary of State. And we secured more than $1.2 billion in funding to support transit operations and security for the games. 1.2. And he wanted more. I said, can we just relax for a little while, John? 1.2 billion to transport people. Isn't that nice? But I want to thank the White House FIFA Task Force. They've been really fantastic. And again, Andrew Giuliani did a fantastic job. Thank you very much. Hosting guests from all over the globe for the 2026 FIFA World cup was also an incredibly special way to help kick off America 250 years of freedom. We have tens of thousands of people from around the world that got to join us. We had a fantastic July 4th weekend like I think we've never had before. And it was only enhanced by having you here by. I don't know if you did that on purpose. I don't think so, but it was. It worked out fantastically. We had. We had an amazing crowd. 450,000 people showed up to celebrate our country on a very rainy evening. And because of lightning, everybody was forced to leave. And then I said, we're going to do it anyway, even if I have to speak at 2 o' clock in the morning. We called everybody back and 150,000 people came back. They were on their way back to Texas and Oklahoma, and we had 150,000 people standing in the rain late in the evening. Somebody suggested, let's do it on a different day, maybe in a week or two. I said, no, it doesn't work in a week or two. It worked on the 250, 250th year. From the Scotland fans who took over the streets of Boston last month to the Arjun Tinian supporters who cheered on Messi. How good is Messi? The hat trick in Kansas City? He had the hat trick. Something very rare, I guess, in your sport. That's pretty rare, isn't it? To our first ally, France, winning in Philadelphia on July 4th. What a game they would seem to be. I mean, it's life and sports, but they seem to be unbeatable. And then they didn't beat Spain. It was. They were the team that was favorite. They were the team that was winning, I think, probably the most easily. And then they. Something happens. It can happen in life. It's sports. It can happen in life, too. You're hot as a pistol and then you're not so hot. But I wouldn't know about a thing like that. No, it happens in life. You're hot and then you're not. But you have to always make a comeback, right? You can never give up. But it's been a true honor for Americans to share our magnificent country with the world. And today, America, it's stronger and wealthier and hotter than ever before. And you're a big part of it. Once again, I want to thank Johnny and the incredible people of FIFA. They're incredible people. Got to know some of them during this period of time. I'll get to know some more on Sunday and I want to congratulate every team that made the 2026 World Cup. One of the all time greatest sporting events in history. And I think beyond a sporting event, it's been, this has been not just a sporting event. This has been far beyond a sporting event. This has been something very, very special. So good luck to Spain and Argentina on Sunday and may the best team win. And now it's a pleasure, it's really my pleasure to introduce a very talented man. The man that I cannot tell, you know, Luciano was a great friend of mine, Pavarotti, and he was a great singer. And I cannot tell the difference. The only one that tells me he's not as good is Christopher. He says I'm not as good as him. He was the greatest of all time, as I said. But Christopher Macchio is a great, great talent. A very highly respected person within the world of opera. And you can hear a tremendous voice. And again, thank you very much. And Johnny, congratulations on probably the most successful event ever held. Thank.
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FIFA Official
You.
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Kayleigh McEnany
That was President Trump speaking at Trump Tower about FIFA. He will be attending the final match this weekend. And you can watch it right here on fox. That's it. We will rejoin us after this break.
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Kat Timpf
Thank you.
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Jesse Watters
Okay.
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Kayleigh McEnany
I'm sorry.
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Kat Timpf
It's out of control here.
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Kayleigh McEnany
It's time now for one more thing, Jesse.
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Kat Timpf
Oh, Lord.
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Joey Jones
I know who that is now. All right, it all comes down to this Sunday. Spain versus Argentina. Check it out. Starts at three. We got a little pregame at 11. That is quite a long pre game. I'm into it. I don't care. I want Spain tonight or. Yeah, tonight. Jesse Waters primetime new details on Paul Pelosi's driving record. It is long and ghastly.
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Kayleigh McEnany
Wow. I'll be watching that, Jessica.
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Jesse Watters
Okay, Ben. Ben. This cute wire fox terrier from Japan has become an Internet sensation. Dressed like a real gentleman. He's often featured in photo shoots enjoying tea and pastries. The photos have gotten millions of views online.
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Kayleigh McEnany
That's a. Oh, wait, he's real. Oh, he's wearing Paddington Bear. Paddington Bear in Peru.
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Unknown Guest
Looks very English to be in Japan. I know, but cosplay.
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Kayleigh McEnany
Yeah, it's called Paddington in Peru.
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Unknown Guest
Cultural appropriation, Joey. Yeah. So I want to tell you guys about something real fun we did back on Tuesday. It's called EOD Day on the Hill. That's Congressman Brian Mast, also an E. That's me in uniform. I'm a 40 year old man in a 24 year old uniform, but I'm cool with it. And that is the Marine Corps EOD Team of the Year from Okinawa, 3rd EOD Company. And then so we also honored an EOD tech that I worked for as a mentor to me. He's about to retire with 43 years of military and civil service. We honored. That's him there to the right in the blue jacket. Mark Charter, Lieutenant Colonel, retired. These people that we honored that day and the people that work on the Hill there, those are the ones that will allow us to fight places like the Strait of Hormuz, our own coast in the Pacific. And the littoral warfare that the Marine Corps is geared towards. EOD is a huge part of it. And that's our contingent that went up on Capitol Hill. And that's me in the middle looking like I forgot how to be a Marine again.
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Jessica Tarlov
Oh, Joey, I love that.
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Kayleigh McEnany
That's amazing. All right, well, coming up tomorrow on Saturday in America, Darryl Strawberry. So super excited to have him. He's great. He's going to talk about overcoming adversity and his faith in Jesus Christ. And what he's up to now, Judge Jeanine Pirro, judge, district attorney in D.C. nick Shirley, excited to talk to him. Senator Rick Scott. This man's a fighter. He doesn't give up on the Save America Act. He says that the Senate vacations for too long. He wants people back to work. Henry Cuellar, we're gonna ask him about democratic socialism. And Senator John Fetterman. It wouldn't be Saturday without him.
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Jesse Watters
Cash.
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Kat Timpf
Thank you. First of all, come see me live, guys. I'm going all over the country. Honolulu, Henderson, Hagerstown, other places that don't begin with an H. Look at all that. I saw tickets on a lot of those. Yeah, get tickets@therealcat.tiff.com. yeah. DC. I'm going to DC now. Naples.
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Kayleigh McEnany
These are great cities. How do you get these?
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Jesse Watters
She's really funny.
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Kat Timpf
Yeah, I'm really good at making people laugh. My shows are fun and they're really wild and I can say all kinds of stuff that I could never say with the camera on me. And then also, also look at what this Oakland fire crew did. They had a pigeon that was struggling. They put the mask on the pigeon. And this is very nice, but I also hope that there wasn't a human that needed that mask and also that they did not then put the same mask that was on a pigeon on a human, in which case I don't think this is so nice.
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Kayleigh McEnany
It's because of the Canadians and their fires.
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Jesse Watters
No, it's a car fire.
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Kayleigh McEnany
Oh, car fire. Ok. Can't blame that on the Canadians. Well, that's it for us. Have a great night.
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