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Hello, everybody. I'm Jesse Waters, along with Kennedy, Jessica Guitarlov, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld. It's five o' clock in New York City, and this is the five. Looks like the commies are hungry for more scalps. And tomorrow they go hunting across the Midwest. In Missouri, former Squad member Cori Bush 3 thinks a fresh coat of socialist paint will win her a comeback in the house. In Michigan, DSA challenger Donovan McKinney is trying to send Congressman Sri's career to the puppy mill. And in the state's U.S. senate primary, phony physician Abdul El Sayed is writing a prescription for the moderate wing's extinction. Listen, we finally want to get money out of politics. We finally want to take our democracy back. We finally want to tax billionaires their wealth so we can provide for schools.
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Are we here against data centers? Are we here for Medicare for all?
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Yay.
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Are we here for free tuition public colleges?
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Yes, we are fighting for permanent affordability
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because that word shouldn't just be thrown
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around like a slogan, but we need to enshrine it as a practice.
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Now, about that last socialista you just saw, Francesca Hong. She's on the ballot next week to be the Democrats pick pick for Wisconsin governor. And she's getting absolutely cooked over an old now deleted tweet where she casually called for Thanksgiving to be canceled. Hong was just stumping with their commie commander, Hasan Piker, aka the guy who said America deserved 9 11. Which explains why the Democrat old guard is heading for the exit. I am not going to be in the same party with Hassan Piker.
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I can tell you that right now.
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If he becomes a force in the
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Democratic Party, I'm out of here. That if the Democratic Party keeps going
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in the direction of the dsa, my
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vote was in play.
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And all I heard all vacation was, oh my God, you're a Republican now. No, that's not what I said. I said in play. Dana, you want to make any predictions for tomorrow?
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Well, I think El Sayed, would you call him the phony physician probably has a very good chance of winning. For a while, it looked like Haley Stevens might actually do very well. One thing that happens in Michigan is you can have same day registration, which means that if you're college kids and you've suddenly motivated on that morning, you can show up, sign up to vote register and cast your ballot. Also, the other thing that happens in Michigan, which might give Haley Stevens a little bit of hope, is that Republicans and Democrats can cross over so you don't have to just stay on your side and vote within your party, you can cross and vote on the other side. It's a strange system, but a lot of states have it. So there's a report this weekend of a friend who was out door knocking for Republicans and ran into two other Republicans who said, I'm actually going to cross over and vote for Haley Stevens. Because El Sayed scares me. Why does he scare people? I think that when you are a revolutionary leading a movement at a time when the establishment is basically sitting on their hands and you have Democrats saying, oh, it's a day late and a dollar short, and they're so short of dollars at the dnc, all the money is going to where the energy is, and he is where the energy is. I do think that Mike Rogers, the Republican who will. He was basically running unopposed, and he will be the nominee for the gop, has a great chance of winning statewide. He almost won last time. It was by. He lost by 19,000 votes. And the other thing is, this isn't like El Sayed or even Hong. They're not running in deep blue states. They're running in the purple states. And President Trump won those states twice. So if you have to win statewide and it's a close election, then you would say, well, the GOP might have an edge, but here's another issue, is that Trump's not on the ballot this time around. He might campaign, he might throw some money behind. He might even go out there. But El Sayed right now probably has a good chance of winning.
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Canceling Thanksgiving, Greg, kind of a controversial stance. Do you think she can survive that?
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I don't know. I don't know. I love it when they find these old tweets, you know, because that's what they really thought before they. Before their opinions mattered. And that's when they were their most honest. I think what's amazing is how the Democrat Party is being destroyed by their own immigration policy. They created an open border to their party, no barrier to entry. They didn't defend their values when these people came in, nor did they demand or even expect assimilation. So if you open the door wide and you don't care enough to protect what's inside, this is what you're going to get. You're saying, our party is here for the taking. Easy to enter, easy to exploit and subvert. That's what you're seeing. It's funny, wherever you find the left, you see this. It's either it's on the campus, it's in parties, it's bureaucracy, the justice system. If you don't value your values enough to protect them. The people you attract, the radicals, they value it and they will take over. It's why you see so many experiences and you go, like, how did this happen? Like, how did we get Drag queen story hour? Do you ever think about that? How did that happen? How is it that city blocks could be taken over or that we actually tolerated looting? Or there's violence in subways and airplanes and felons are rarely incarcerated? This is what happens when you no longer fight for your values, because then the structure starts falling apart because the people that are coming in convinced you it scared you, that the basic civil order is oppressive and it's just better to concede the ground to them. If you look at these guys, though, this is why. Why is the energy there's. It's because the DSA has the purest moral expression of the Democrats. Progressive commitment. That's all it is. Anti racism, economic justice, solidarity with the oppressed. And the Dems are so incoherent. What are their values? They don't talk about it anymore. So the party kind of welcomed these people because it gave them an edge. It was like a better version of them. But now you've got these skeptics like Carville going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. They are starting to realize that this charismatic force will harm you once the trust is secured. But by then it'll be too late.
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When it is too late. If, let's say, all of these socialists go down in the general, Jessica, I mean, what are the Democrats going to say then?
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I'm guessing that we're going to be plenty sad and shed a tear or two. There is no reason that we shouldn't be winning this Michigan Senate seat. The environment is arguably going to be bluer than it was when Alyssa Slotkin beat Mike Rogers by 19,000 points. If we lose Maine, what votes? You said points. Votes also like points. It's going to be very upsetting. And, you know, we should definitely be holding on to the Wisconsin governor's mansion. And part of the problem there is that we were splitting the vote between Crowley and Mandela Barnes, who had a bunch of scandals that were going to come out and dropped out too late from that. So we'll say Jesse's bothered because I named people he doesn't know where they are. Mandela Barnes was running for governor.
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I don't know what the audience definitely.
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Well, some of them might have listened to a fraction of what I said. And he's run before.
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Mandela Barnes, everybody.
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Do we know if you're from Wisconsin. You know who Mandela Barnes.
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Mandela Barnes. When you've been in an accident, Mandela Barnes.
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If you could see who Mandela Barnes was, you would think that that was not as. I don't know where I'm going with that. Anyway. I have a broad complaint, though, not just about what's happening internally in the party about women, which is stressful. It's not about women today. It's a general point. Democrats are just in this massive circular firing squad. You know, you have James Carville that's out there talking about this, Phil Mars talking about this. Every question that people get in an interview, no matter what side of the party you're in, is about, well, how do you feel about what the other side is doing? You know, what do you think about the rise of the dsa? What do you think about the fact that the establishment hasn't spoken to the needs of the people, et cetera. And Republicans, generally speaking, at least post Tea Party era, even getting on board with Trump will just fall in line with each other and we just punch each other in the faces over and over again.
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Both parties say that about each other.
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Yeah, I've heard that. Well, I don't feel during the Trump man, not to interrupt, but during 2015, 2016, it was insane.
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But if you look at it now, you can't even get people to answer questions about stuff that's going on. I mean, reporters now say to Mike Johnson, oh, did you see this headline? Like, now there's a paid data service from Trump Media where you can insider trade. You can pay $100,000 and get his true social posts ahead of time. Or should I not even ask you about it because you're going to say that you haven't seen it and Democrats don't do that. And we shouldn't be doing the insider trading and the scamming. But sometimes I wish that we would point our gunfire in other directions.
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I would love to know Nancy Pelosi's trades before those come out. That would definitely be Nancy pales in
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comparison to Nancy Pelosi. A trade tracker has been the greatest boon to investors who are willing to go out on her limb because they, that class of investor, they've made billions and billions of dollars off of Nancy Pelosi's trades, which, you know, of course have nothing to do with insider trading. But, you know, it's like what you're talking about. Yeah, it does feel like a circular firing squad and it feels very counterproductive. And the problem is you left your powder dry for too Long and now it's too late because you have very energized people. And the kryptonite for establishment Democrats is they have ideas. And we should challenge all the parties to come up with ideas, all the parties to come up with solutions. Unfortunately, we are stuck. We are mired in this two party system. And so now within the Democrat Party, you see people marching in and they are taking it over and they are taking it over with younger voters. And James Carville can rant all he wants, but, you know, he wasn't really ranting to Democrats who they had the bully pulpit for a long time and that was the time to come up with a series of ideas. But instead, they were so worried about keeping the postmortem secret after 2024 and making sure that, you know, no one was embarrassed by the failings of foisting Comm. Harris on all the voters. And there was so much precious time wasted. And now in places like Michigan, independent voters are going to decide everything. And, you know, hopefully at some point it's not just going to be Republicans and Democrats, because even in the Republican Party, you know, you had Marjorie Taylor Greene and some of the other people who feel like they've been left behind from Trump's Republican Party and they're talking about creating their own party. Bill Maher is talking about, you know, his flirty vote is going to go roost with some other chickens. And, you know, hopefully at some point this will lead to a productive conversation. That just goes to show because Democrats especially, but, you know, Republicans are not blameless in this. They have shown that big government equals bigger problems. And that's all the DSA is. That's the only thing they have to run on. Like, we're going to take your taxes, we're going to take taxes from the rich when they leave, we'll take middle class taxes and we're going to fund all this stuff so no one ever has to work again because they are allergic to work. But what they are offering is so incredibly dire. So at this point, I'm like, if you're blowing up the parties and that leaves me the independent with better choices, hallelujah, I'll take them, lower my taxes, get out of my way. And you will prove my point. Because government, big government ultimately fails.
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All right, Kennedy up for grabs. Up next, somebody call 911. RFK Jr. Just left a fresh trail, a roadkill.
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I'm not debating this week.
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Of course you are. No, because I'm not sure how to do is repeat things that people Told you and say, trust the experts.
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And the Fauci diaries fallout is not over yet. HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. Clashed with CNN's Dana Bash, echoing the frustration of many Americans who believe the press failed to ask tough questions during the pandemic. I really want to move on, but
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you were saying you were part of the problem.
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No, I wasn't.
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Part of the problem was absolute press malpractice. We're allowing your.
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Mr. Secretary your job.
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Your job is a fierce skepticism toward authority, and you weren't doing that.
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You.
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My job is also.
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You were scaring people.
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Why are you saying that?
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Because that was the job of cnn. You're repeating like a parrot. I actually read the science. Let's.
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You don't want to.
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You don't want to hear and debate the science.
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I'm not debating this, of course, you
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know, because I'm not. Repeat things that people told you and say, trust the experts.
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Okay, well, guess what?
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That is my job to talk to people.
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Your job is, am I allowed to talk to the American public?
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Yes. And my job is to get as much information as I can. Kennedy, I love your passion about this issue. And you speak, I think, for a lot of moms and dads out there who had children who went through this in the middle of it. What do you think of that exchange?
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You know, good for the secretary, because these people are not held to account enough. And the Fauci diaries really gave us a glimpse into his mindset and the cozy relationship he had with people like Dana Bash and like Jake Tapper and, you know, people at CNN where he had a pipeline where he could just feed them all sorts of crap, and they would go up there and they would. They would disseminate it with a manure spreader, and it was pretty powerful. And, you know, now conveniently, she doesn't want to discuss some of the vaccine stuff. And I've gotten into it with RFK Jr about vaccines in the past. I don't agree with him on everything. And I know she was trying to get him to tell parents to get the measles vaccine, which he, in fact, did. But there's so much to answer for between Anthony Fauci and the mainstream media and how they would not allow for any skeptical points. They would not allow for differing experts to come forward. I mean, it's like, if you, God forbid, were diagnosed with cancer, wouldn't you want someone else to look at your scans and say, you know what? I don't think we need to do surgery right now. But not Only did Anthony Fauci want to do surgery, he was standing there with an ax, ready to start chopping off limbs. He wasn't even using a scalpel. So it wasn't a very subtle form of art that he was using in order to carve up the country. And he did so, so much damage. And yes, it is because of people like her. And I have to say, I met her in the past. She was not very nice to me. So I don't feel bad saying that.
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It's been a while since I did communications work, Greg. But it is kind of surprising when I, when learning about that Dr. Fauci had so much time on his hands to communicate directly with anchors instead of letting the comms people do that.
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It's very gross. I'm surprised he was blindsided by this. And boy, man, talk about having a long face. She was a media groupie. We all knew that. You knew that was like she'd lost her credibility. And I don't understand. It always feels like the people least like into the news are the CNN news anchors. They always seemed like it's the first time they heard something. You know, I actually, and I'm with Kennedy, I have disagreed strongly with RFK on the way he positions his the autism vaccine link. But vax hesitancy is a good thing when you are faced with vax intimidation. That's what changed me, you know, which we experienced during COVID You know, if I have to say, you know, why do I have to feel bad if I don't want my daughter to get a vaccine for a disease spread by drug use and sex? Why do I have to feel bad about that? Don't shame me because you don't have an answer for it. And that's something that every, every parent has a right to say. And, and I think again, as someone who's highly critical of RFK Jr. There has been a dramatic rise in autism. And it demands an explanation. And you might wanna resist the reflex to close that question prematurely. For that reason, we're just asking for better data, less dogma. He's not rejecting the principles of vaccinations. He's questioning whether. And I question it. And it bothers me that whether the childhood schedule has been adequately stress tested, that's kind of basically what it is. It's not about the individual vaccines to me anyway. It's like, wow, there's so many. And it kind of started in what, 1986? Wasn't that when it began, when they kind of loosened the standards and, you know, I didn't know that. I didn't know any of this stuff until I had to, until I had a baby. And I'm going like, wow, you know, we have a lot of vaccines and they all happen at once. And that wasn't always the case. And you have this used to be 1 in 10,000 autism cases and now it's 1 in 36. Of course they broaden the criteria that could explain it. And you have all those fraudulent cases, you know, the Somalians in Minnesota. Maybe that's it. All I know is there's an environmental issue there and we gotta get to the bottom of it. And I think you can be critical of RFK on the autism piece, but cheer him on when it comes to being skeptical about the entire industry and what's going on with the scheduling and
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with the media, because he proves himself over and over again to be one of the MVPs of Trump's cabinet.
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Yeah, he's very highly rated. And she came to this discussion because she wanted to wax him over measles. And now measles cases erupt because Fauci and Democrats school closures made everybody miss their vaccinations and because Biden opened the border and like all the unvaccinated third worlders poured in. So she comes on and thinks she's winning and just gets absolutely crushed and says, I'm not going to debate you. That's her job. If you disagree, you're supposed to debate the guy. And then he just nails her. He says, listen, you just repeat what you're told and then say, trust the experts. Now, I've been in this business countless years, not as many years in a bash I managed to hang on. And even I know the experts are wrong. Experts have an agenda. Experts have a financial interest in the outcomes. Sometimes experts, as you said, disagree with other experts. So you can't say the experts are right after you've just had four years of the experts being dead wrong about everything. Rewind it. CNN put experts on that, said the housing crisis was not a crisis, there was no bubble, that there were WMDs in Iraq, that Clinton was going to smoke Donald Trump 99.9%. And so to say that that's not gonna be the case, she's just ignorant. And that's why CNN is in last place, is because they're so arrogant that they've been so dead wrong for so long. And then you get up and you start preaching. And that's why everybody has tuned CNN out. They're like the Fauci of cable.
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Jessica, last word to you.
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I think that this is one of the rare examples today of a conversation or a clip that went absolutely viral and had two polar opposite reactions. Because I have found since 2024 that there is more crossover than I thought. Obviously there's like, you know, far right and blue sky and whatever's going on there. But the read that you guys have on this exchange is polar opposite to everybody, certainly that I know, who thought that RFK Jr. Was way over his skis, very aggressive and in denial of what his administration's policies are doing to Americans, which is making them less healthy. So the backward looking, you know, anything that's wrong, it was Biden's fault. Sometimes it's Obama's fault. President Trump does this all the time. Kadachi is, you know, an evil guy because, you know, he is obsessed with the flattery and he has, you know, the time to be on the phone with these people. Donald Trump picks up the phone for anyone who calls and I'll sit on the phone with you all night. He's in the middle of a war. He can take your phone calls. The measles are not just a little bit up. It's over 2370 cases, highest in 35 years. CDC has 25% less staff, 45 states. There are people with explosive diarrhea. And there is no end in sight for this. We just had our first two fatalities. We don't know if it's Taylor Farms. It was Taylor Farms and it's not Taylor Farms.
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Why are measle cases okay, then why is through it?
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Why is whooping cough then?
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I have no idea.
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Because people aren't getting vaccinated anymore. Because you have an anti vaxxer. As the head of hhs, women are petrified.
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I haven't heard anything about the whooping cough. Just like Mandela Barnes, this is news to me.
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Women are petrified to take Tylenol because this administration is telling them that it's unsafe for their unborn child, that it's going to lead to a rise in autism which is completely unfounded. The science does not back it up. And that goes back to the 80s.
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You said the science doesn't back up. All the things during COVID that you were dead wrong about.
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We weren't.
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The science doesn't back it up, doesn't fly anymore. We don't believe that.
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Okay, then go. You always say that.
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And then vaccine for measles too. You're blaming the guy for rising cases of measles and he's out there on CNN saying, yeah, get vaccinated for the measles.
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He got backed into a corner and begrudgingly had to say it. You don't fire a corner.
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He said it during the hearing.
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By the way, the rates of measles are higher in Canada and England and Mexico. They leave that out.
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Well, what matters is that we're at a 35 year high. Usually it's one to five cases go,
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why is that, Jerome?
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Because people, because he just explained to
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you they miss their vaccines.
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Okay, again we go by.
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Let's go to my next topic, which is one of my favorites. Coming up, a WNBA coach tries to dunk on Sophie Cunningham for sticking up for women's sports.
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That it's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes.
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Just when you thought the score on trans sports was 80 to 20, the WNBA said just told McCosmo Indiana fever guard Sophie Cunningham is still coming under attack for the mortal sin of saying girl sports should be for girls. Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve wearing a Trans Kids Belong T shirt as a way to stick it to Sophie on the sidelines against her team at a matchup yesterday. And head coach of the Golden State Valkyries piled on.
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Sports is about belonging. It's about inclusivity. It's about allowing everyone to be their authentic self. You know, I'm big on that just because I have been criticized for my height, for my ethnicity. I've been in those you shouldn't belong here many times. So I'm all about women, little girls deserving to play, and that includes trans women.
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It is so hard being oppressed with this long, luscious hair and being super tall like a supermodel. Dana, you had a reaction to that. What are your thoughts on some of these coaches coming?
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Well, I would really like to see that last lady play anybody on the Golden State warriors. Like the worst player on the golden actually, the guy who gets the water for the Golden State Warriors. I'd love to see her play him one on one and see how it goes. It really drives me crazy that we have to care more about women's sports and protecting girls in women's sports than people who are like a coach or an owner of a WNBA team. I've never seen a business so focused on destroying itself just when they are getting a foothold. They could sell out arenas, but now they're selling out arenas because people want to say, ooh, wow, is the coach of the other team going to wear a T shirt that's going to try to get Sophie Cunningham to go viral with her reaction. It's absolutely bizarre. And I asked you guys in the break, so I'll just. I'm trying to make an analogy. Permission to make this analogy. If you took the NBA coach, Mike Brown of the Knicks champion. Okay, why isn't Mike Brown fielding any of these questions? Where are the women transitioning to men that want to play on the team?
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Yeah.
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Why isn't he having to take these questions? Does that ever occur to them? And also Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark, like, look, we're just trying to play basketball here. We're not trying to get involved in politics. They're not saying trans kids don't belong. You could take that aside separately. What they're saying here is that girls sports should be protected for girls who can then hopefully grow up and be like us. There's a saying in women's mentoring that you have to see her to be her. That's what these little girls are going. That's why they're going to the games. They want to see Sophie Cunningham. They want to see this lady. Yeah.
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And they saw Sophie Cunningham take a really dirty foul to the face, stick an elbow to the face, and she got called for the foul. So obviously the NBA doesn't only have it out for Caitlin Clark, but her teammate Sophie Cunningham, because she has taken a very moderate stance on trans.
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Yeah, that was definitely a rough foul. And we have seen Caitlin Clark get pushed around way too much. And I understood why she said when Caitlin was asked about it, it's for the leagues and the governing bodies to deal with. You know, I'm here to play basketball and drawing an enormous amount of positive attention to a league that had struggled to capture people's attention, even with a rise in young girls that are into basketball. And I think that's all to the good. You know, I think that the coaches shirt actually is important because it said trans kids. And kids are very different than people that are playing competitive sports like this. And you have not seen. There's not one WNB, one WNBA player who is trans. There are only 10 trans athletes on the NCAA level out of 500,000.
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That's what you're saying, 10 too many.
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Well, I'm just saying that this is a miniscule issue.
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Why is it such a big deal?
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Well, because we're talking about it all the time. And because people can't state reality sometimes, which is there is obviously a biological advantage to someone who went through puberty as a boy and then transitioned to being a woman. That doesn't go away. The Height, some of the muscle, et cetera.
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Yeah, Greg.
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Well, that shirt says it all. Trans kids belongs. That takes it right out of this little debate that we're having. How do you diagnose trans kids? What's the timeframe in which you can say, ah, I have a trans kid. There's no way to do it. If there is a phase, nearly all of them exit it. This was a change in activism. Okay, Think about it. Why not wait? Kids going through a phase, why not wait? Because they disappear. The phase goes away. They become gay, they become lesbian. So why do they do it? What? Why would you go after children? You know, childhood gender dysphoria is a trans. A transient developmental phenomenon. It's not a fixed identity. So what is behind the idea of trying to fix it? It's because the intervention actually perpetuates it. It creates a higher persistence of the dysphoria. People don't talk about this. Why do you think it bothered me so much when they talked about pronouns or having kids change clothes where boys dressed up as girls in drag queen story hour or even the name changes? And why did I find that deeply immoral? Because it created a higher persistence of the dysphoria. It was a self reinforcement and it warped the natural development of a child. That woman wearing that shirt has no idea what she's talking about. This isn't Bigfoot. This isn't wearing a, you know, a Loch Ness monster T shirt where, you know it's fake and it doesn't hurt anybody. That actually destroys lives. She's an idiot and she's a coward.
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Jesse. I think this is really about some of those coaches wanting players with a biological advantage on their teams so they have a higher winning percentage. I think that's why you're seeing, you know, the owner of the Seattle Storm and you know, the various coaches here responding to Sophie Cunningham, because you don't, you know, to Dana's point, you don't see the NBA coaches go, you know, we would love to have some trans men on the team, you know, to honor equity and inclusion in our sport, because they would hold a spot for at least one or two on each team.
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Yeah. This is week three of the five covering the wnba.
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Right.
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And I have to say I am done. I hate the wnba. I mean, I don't mind women's basketball, my girls play basketball. But I don't want to cover women's basketball. I don't want to be a WNBA analyst. We get paid to have an opinion about everything. And this is something I Don't care about every time I open up the rundown and see the WNBA in it, I feel like Jessica must feel every day we have to do this again. Really? This again? Someone wore a T shirt at a WNBA game. I remember when they were throwing dildos. Remember? That was funny. That's his news story. This isn't a news story, okay? It doesn't matter. There will not be a man in the wnba. We don't even cover the NBA. Why are we covering the wnba? This is ridiculous. I feel like boycotting this segment. Yeah, I just talked about it.
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That's why you went last. Jesse.
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Thank you.
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All right, coming up, the grocery comrade is demanding your papers before you touch the produce. That's next.
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Mom, Donnie is socialist. Grocery store NYC wants to see your library card before buying tofu. Roll it, Glenda. How are you going to keep people
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from taking advantage of that?
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You know that deal? Basically this is a program for New
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Yorkers to be able to put food
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on the table, not a program for people to be able to make a
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quick buck through reselling.
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We are looking to make sure that we target New Yorkers whether it be at sort of a library card, esque.
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So Dana, it's going to cost 70 million to make these, construct these stores. We pay for it and then you got to cover the difference between the market cost and the below retail price. Isn't this basically just like a lot of food stamps? It's almost like taking food stamps and putting it into a three dimensional.
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It's like a taxpayer funded food bank. Yes. And the thing is about the id. What will all the married women do? I know, I don't know what's going to. I mean I didn't know we were making Jim Crow grocery stores. Now if you remember, that was the argument. I'm going to call it the Kamdani Market. Right. So it's like a Kami Mamdani market and you're going to rob taxpayers. You might as well have their contact information.
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That's true.
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Right. For like who's going to be a part of it? But I do think that it gives a lie to all of the arguments against voter id. He's his office now is this lame statement they put out trying to say,
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well no, it's not.
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It's not really about that.
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No.
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Everything they've ever said about voter ID being racist, sexist or problematic has been completely turned on its head to give people some discount on groceries that will actually hurt all the other hardworking grocery owners in a. In I Was gonna say in America. Not yet, folks just here in New York.
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Yeah. You know, Jessica, he makes the valid point that the, you know, they want an ID to prevent the resale in bulk of the food. That is cheating.
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Yep.
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Which is kind of what people want with voter id, but somehow that's racist.
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No, not at all. Voter id, great idea. Save America act is not a voter ID bill. It's a birth certificate bill. They are very different. If you want to put forward a voter ID bill like Lisa Murkowski is talking about, like Jim Clyburn is talking about, go ahead, be our guest. You can show some form of id, but if you ask people to bring their birth certificate, majority of people don't have that or a passport. And it would hurt Republican voters more than Democratic voters. We have more passports than you can get it.
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You can get a birth certificate very easily.
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Actually, it's not that easy. And if you.
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Why are people just too dumb to get one? I'm not saying they're are certain groups too stupid to get a birth certificate.
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Jessica, you that. But I don't know if you want to put me in that group, but I have told you how hard it was for me to get my real ID done at the dmv. I am not a what they're talking
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like how hard is it for somebody to get.
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Because I have two middle names and some of my.
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Because you have two middle names, you couldn't get an id.
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Well, because I have different names on different forms of ID and they have to all match. Why? Okay. Mandela, Barnes. It's all hilarious to you, Jessica.
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You say you won. You say you won an accident. She says she wants voter id, right?
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Yeah.
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Like, okay, really?
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So, so why don't you guys do it? Why don't the Democrats put it on the floor? You never do it, Jessica. You don't want it because you guys,
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we cheat to lose. That's how pathetic we are.
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You guys are doing now and they're. You're losing by minority owned businesses who are going to be hurt by this communistic forced mercantilism. It is going to hurt businesses that already have the narrowest margin of any sector in the economy. I went to the South Bronx, I talked to people. It's not a food desert. Do you know what they want there?
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Overwhelmingly?
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They don't want government run grocery stores. They want a Walmart.
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Yeah.
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Well, if you want to find the location of these tax funded grocery stores, look for the stores that are out of business. They'll be right there in between them. Up next, are you a tool for leaving a review?
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Welcome back. A new report explains why reviews are ruining your life by drowning us in endless options and endless opinions about those options. Kennedy, do you leave reviews?
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Very rarely do I leave reviews. I think reviews are by and large unhelpful. And now AI is leaving so many fake and fluffed up reviews. Now you have to go to different website websites and there was a good suggestion. Read the one star reviews because those may be the only honest ones out there.
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I thought of you, Greg, for this because remember when I sent you to that dental clinic and then you left a one star review?
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Oh, I'm getting ang. Which I don't think anybody's ever read. I trust regular reviews over the experts. Case in point, Rotten Tomatoes. The Crit. If, if the critics reviews hate a movie and the audience loves it, it's a great movie. Yeah, that's my. That's me.
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Are you a review consumer?
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I don't, not really. I don't really consume reviews and I've never. People will ask me to write one and I, when I don't know how because I don't have a Google account, whatever, blah, blah. But, but I also only take reviews from people I trust. So I think word of mouth and that kind of recommendation is better.
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Yeah. Jesse, how do you spread the wealth about things that you.
A
Well, it's like when you go into the restroom in high school and you see like, you know, Sally did this. I believe it. I believe it. And then you call Sally and you say, hey, Sally. Just kidding. I have always trusted reviews. Like I read a comment under Greg's Instagram account and it said his show sucks. And I was like, yeah, I'm never watching it ever again.
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I trusted was from Johnny.
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It was.
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Yeah.
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I probably has Johnny doing one more thing next.
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It's time now for one more thing we gotta do. Hit on our hands. Fox Books. Trey Gowdy. There it is. The Sound of Regret. Highly anticipated sequel to his thriller debut, the Color of Death. Full of twists and turns. Chilling murder mystery in which vengeance and justice are interchangeable and the law becomes a tool for corruption. Pre order it right now foxnewsbooks.com Tonight, Jesse Waters primetime Johnny celebrated National Girlfriend's Day.
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It's National Girlfriend's Day. How are you celebrating? I got work. I didn't know it was National Girlfriend's Day. That's my bad. The is wrong with you? Are you kidding? Take off work. I can't take off work. I told you that.
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No, you didn't.
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Oh, my God. Take off work.
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Oh, Greg, you know the sound of regret? It's the sound Trey makes after he goes to the barber. All right, tonight, Joe DeVito, Tyrus Rob Henderson. I'm excited. Emily Campagno. Let's do this, Greg. Celebrity news. Big deal, everybody. Roll it. Rosie o' Donnell returning to the View for the anniversary show. Aren't you guys excited?
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Can't wait.
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Yeah. Actually, that's a Neil the seal. He's £2,200. This is in Australia. That's it.
A
You're so rude, Dana.
B
I have Trey Gowdy on the podcast today. Perino on politics. Hair was looking great, and I had a thing about a bear who basically got in a dumpster and left with all the goods. If you can see that. Like, they're getting very sophisticated, these bears. He's like, I'm just gonna take all this, sort it out. Sort it out later.
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Again, the sound of regret. Have a good night, everyone. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds here from Mint Mobile. Now, I was looking for fun ways to tell you that Mint's offer of unlimited Premium Wireless for $15 a month is back. So I thought it would be fun if we made $15 bills, but it
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FOX News Podcasts | August 3, 2026
This episode of The Five explores the ongoing tensions within the Democratic Party as progressive challengers threaten more moderate incumbents in key Midwest primaries. The panel discusses the repercussions of rising socialist influence within the party, the fallout from the “Fauci diaries,” the polarization over vaccination and press accountability, debates about trans inclusion in women’s sports, controversies over government-run grocery stores in NYC, and the perils of online reviews. Throughout, the tone swings between skeptical, combative, and sardonic, with moments of humor and pointed criticism.
Democratic Party Tensions:
Concerns Over Party Direction:
Primary System Mechanics:
Old Tweets and Party Purity:
Open Borders Metaphor:
Party Infighting:
Generational Shift:
Heated Exchange with Dana Bash:
Vaccine Debate and Parental Rights:
Polarization over Public Health Information:
Trans Athletes in Women’s Sports:
Panel’s Critique:
Jesse’s Satirical Resignation:
NYC Food Subsidy & ID Requirement:
Voter ID Debate Rekindled:
This summary captures the full bandwidth of major arguments, notable quotes, and moments, offering a clear roadmap for listeners seeking the highlights of “Radical Reckoning.”