The Department Of War

Summary

Podcast Summary: "The Five" – The Department Of War (September 5, 2025)

Podcast: The Five
Host: FOX News Podcasts
Episode: The Department Of War
Date: September 5, 2025

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Overview

This episode of "The Five" centers around President Trump's decision to rename the Department of Defense to its original title, the Department of War. The panel debates the implications of this move, the latest aggressive military actions against narco-terrorists, domestic crime intervention, immigration crackdowns, controversies surrounding RFK Jr. and the CDC, cancel culture’s impact on advertising, and a lighthearted fan mail segment. The show is characterized by Fox News’s trademark banter, a blend of pointed political commentary, and lively exchanges between its rotating panel: Sandra Smith, Kayleigh McEnany, Jessica Tarlov, Jesse Watters, and Greg Gutfeld, with guest contributions from Pete Hegseth.

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Main Topics & Key Segments

1. Rebranding the Department of Defense: Return to the Department of War

Timestamp: 01:05 – 02:20

Key Points:

• President Trump signs an executive order renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War, claiming to restore America’s “warrior ethos.”
• The rationale is to shift the posture from “defense” (reactive, passive) to “war” (proactive, offensive).

Insights & Quotes:

• Pete Hegseth: “We won the First World War, we won the Second World War. We won everything before that… then we decided to go woke and we changed the name to Department of Defense. So we’re going Department of War.” [01:31]
• Jesse Watters: “The War Department is going to fight decisively, not endless conflicts. It’s going to fight to win, not not to lose.” [01:43]

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2. Aggression Against Narco-Terrorism

Timestamp: 02:20 – 04:40

Key Points:

• Military strike on a drug-smuggling vessel off Venezuela, justified as treating cartels like foreign terrorist organizations.
• Discussion over whether such action is “extrajudicial killing” or legitimate military action.
• Democrats are accused of siding with narco-terrorists; legalities and ethics are debated.

Insights & Quotes:

• Jesse Watters: “Every boatload of any form of drug that poisons the American people is a imminent threat. And at the DoD, our job is to defeat imminent threats. A foreign terrorist organization poisoning your people with drugs is no different than Al Qaeda and they'll be treated as such.” [02:20]
• Jessica Tarlov (counter-argument): “I don’t know if it was extrajudicial. People have questions about how this happened...” [06:16]
• Greg Gutfeld: “It was illegal. It’s alarming, it’s unprecedented, and it’s dangerous. And it’s the latest example of how Trump continues to overextend and abuse military power.” [03:01]

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3. The Politics of “Offense” vs. “Defense”

Timestamp: 04:40 – 09:32

Key Points:

• The “warrior ethos” is framed as a posture of national strength and deterrence.
• Trump’s leadership is portrayed as distinct from predecessors, focused on bold “offensive” actions rather than “woke” reforms.
• Contrast between public perception (“normal people”) and Democratic legal critiques.

Insights & Quotes:

• Kayleigh McEnany: “This is more than just a name… This is an entire cohesive foreign policy that has been offense… Taking out Soleimani, taking out Al Baghdadi, striking in Syria… you achieve the respect of the world.” [07:59]
• Jesse Watters (on public reaction): “When you see a video of a cocaine canoe get smoked out of the water by the US Military, normal people say, yeah, all right. Smoke some narcos. Goodbye, light them up. See you later… The Democrats see this and they call it an extrajudicial killing. Normal people don’t talk like that. You know who talks like that? Lawyers.” [04:11]

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4. Chicago Immigrant Crime Crackdown and “Militarizing Cities”

Timestamp: 13:55 – 21:16

Key Points:

• President Trump claims crime in D.C. has been nearly eliminated after his intervention; eyes turn to Chicago for similar ICE crackdowns.
• Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker is critical, citing a “nefarious plan” and threat to the city’s autonomy.
• Debate over whether federal intervention and immigration enforcement improve public safety or undermine civil rights.

Insights & Quotes:

• Jesse Watters (mocking Pritzker): “He seems a little obsessed with me and with Chicago… maybe he’s got Pritzker derangement syndrome…” [14:32]
• Jessica Tarlov (on root causes): “You can bring down crime by giving people job opportunities and a better economic sector.” [16:49]
• Greg Gutfeld: “The bottom line is in every single story, the viewer has the freedom to discount all analysis, all criticism, all spin. Because the people complaining are not the people being affected by the crime, the bor. The economy…” [20:20]

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5. RFK Jr., the CDC, and Vaccine Policy Debate

Timestamp: 23:15 – 31:13

Key Points:

• RFK Jr.’s oversight of the CDC draws scrutiny for vaccine skepticism and perceived harm from COVID policies.
• Panel discusses school closures, mandates, and media treatment of pandemic dissenters.
• Tensions flare over access to vaccines and how restrictions are handled at federal and state levels.

Insights & Quotes:

• Greg Gutfeld: “Trump is the most anti war president I’ve ever had the pleasure of being alive for… all of his strikes… are highly specific. And you can only do that with a really, really powerful war machine.” [11:01]
• Kayleigh McEnany: “They literally harmed our children for a generation by not opening schools… This is what they did to us. And from this grew RFK… Americans will not forget it.” [24:54]
• Jessica Tarlov: “This role is so unbelievably out of his league, it’s hard to comprehend… You promise to uphold the highest standards for vaccines and have not done so.” [25:48]

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6. Cancel Culture and the Sydney Sweeney Effect

Timestamp: 31:55 – 34:55

Key Points:

• American Eagle’s stock soars following a campaign with Sydney Sweeney despite (or because of) left-wing backlash.
• Panel argues that consumer backlash against “woke” criticism signals cancel culture is losing its bite.

Insights & Quotes:

• Greg Gutfeld: “This is how you kill the woke: when whatever they attack becomes super profitable… All companies should embrace this practice.” [33:57]
• Sandra Smith: “Because of this ad, I wanted to be a part of like, you know, the story. So I bought two of the Sydney Sweeney jeans… I love them.” [34:47]

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7. Fan Mail and Lighthearted Fare

Timestamp: 35:40 – 38:43

Highlights:

• Panelists share what they’d do with a Powerball win (Jessica: “I would get everyone that I cared about whatever’s atop their list…” [35:57]).
• Guilty pleasure TV shows and playful exchanges.

8. “One More Thing” – Quirky Closings

Timestamp: 38:50 – 42:27

• Greg Gutfeld offers “sexy armadillo news.”
• Jesse Watters jokes about stereotypes in car accidents.
• Jessica Tarlov spotlights the Army’s Golden Knights parachute team.
• Kayleigh McEnany shares about a break-dancing taxpayer and local government.
• Sandra Smith closes with a story about a five-year-old’s solo trek to Chick-fil-A.

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Notable Quotes

• Greg Gutfeld: “They treated the military like a Disney remake. You know, let’s update all the characters. We’ll add a gay here, put a trans here, a non binary woodland elf. And then Trump enters the picture, he says, no, no, no, no, it’s about war.” [11:17]
• Jessica Tarlov: “You can bring down crime by giving people job opportunities and a better economic sector.” [16:49]
• Sandra Smith: “We had Democrat Alderman Raymond Lopez. He said it’s absolutely asinine the position that Democrats are taking with crime in the Windy City, a city I know very well, grew up and was raised there.” [21:16]

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Memorable Moments

• Jesse Watters’ monologue on “normal people” vs. “lawyers” (04:11): A signature, provocative riff about “real America” supporting aggressive military action.
• Jessica and Jesse joking over “conspiracy theory” about war with Venezuela being used for mass deportations (07:42): Jesse – “That’s a good conspiracy theory.” Jessica – “You like it?” Jesse – “I love it.” [07:42–07:45]
• Greg Gutfeld’s department renaming riff (11:17): “The ATF… just call it the Department of Fun. The IRS, Department of Extortion…” [11:17]
• RFK Jr. and the COVID vaccine banter (24:02–29:00): Exchanges get heated and chaotic as vaccine access and state differences are debated.

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Conclusion

This episode showcased Fox News’s approach to political commentary: loud, combative, and deeply critical of Democratic approaches to national defense, crime, and pandemic policy. The rebranding of the Department of Defense as the Department of War is cheered as symbolic of a return to strength and clarity of purpose. Witty banter and cultural references punctuate serious debate, giving both partisans and casual listeners plenty to chew on.

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Transcript

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[Sandra Smith]

Hello and welcome, everyone. I'm Sandra Smith, along with Kayleigh McEnany, Jessica Tarlov, Jesse Waters, and Greg Gutfeld. It is five o' clock in New York City, and this is the five. America's warrior ethos is back. President Trump signing an executive order renaming the Department of Defense to its original title, the Department of War.

[Pete Hegseth]

We won the First World War, we won the Second World War. We won everything before that and in between. And then we decided to go woke and we changed the name to Department of Defense. So we're going Department of War.

[Jesse Watters]

The War Department is going to fight decisively, not endless conflicts. It's going to fight to win, not not to lose.

[Pete Hegseth]

Really, it has to do with winning. We should have won every war. We could have won every war, but we, we really chose to be very politically correct or wokey.

[Sandra Smith]

And that warrior ethos was on full display. Suspected drug smuggling vessel off the coast of Venezuela. A boat laden with deadly poison and headed straight for American shores. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says this strike was not the end. It was the opening shot.

[Jesse Watters]

Every boatload of any form of drug that poisons the American people is a eminent threat. And at the dod, our job is to defeat eminent threats. A foreign terrorist organization poisoning your people with drugs coming from a drug cartel is no different than Al Qaeda and they'll be treated as such as they.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Were in international waters.

[Jesse Watters]

We smoked a drug boat and there's 11 narco terrorists at the bottom of the Ocean.

[Sandra Smith]

And yet the Democrats always have to reflexively oppose the president, even if it means siding with the narco terrorists. Kilmar Abrego, Garcia's biggest fan, Senator Chris Van Hollen is back, back at it.

[Jesse Watters]

But this was was an extrajudicial killing, pure and simple.

[Greg Gutfeld]

It was illegal. It's alarming, it's unprecedented, and it's dangerous. And it's the latest example of how Trump continues to overextend and abuse military power. He keeps pushing the boundaries to places we've never been before.

[Sandra Smith]

Guess it never surprised you where Democrats are go, what they'll defend or go after. But to the president's announcement a few moments ago, we all watched it live here on the Fox News Channel. Now we're talking Department of War. Pete Hex at the department, the Secretary of War. What do you think about all this, Jesse?

[Jesse Watters]

Well, I'm jealous of Pete. I mean, he got a name upgrade. I got to change my show. Jesse Watters. Primetime just doesn't cut it.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Call it torture.

[Jesse Watters]

Isn't that what your show is called? So I don't know if Truman is a woke guy. From what I understand, after World War II, they needed a standing army to have troops stationed in Asia and Europe to kind of keep the peace and maintain a posture during the Cold War. So we used to just have the draft every time we went to war. So even though we weren't at war, it was still a Cold War, and we needed to defend our interests. So we consolidated the Army, Navy, Marines, and there you go. It was the Defense Department, but it's now the Department of War. And I think America's enemies are upset. You know who's really upset? Van Hollen. So that just came out today, and I'm sure Jessica saw it. The Democrats are really trying to reconnect with normal people. That was what it says. They've lost touch with normal people. Let me just explain how normal people think. When you see a video of a cocaine canoe get smoked out of the water by the US Military, normal people say, yeah, all right. We're like, smoke some narcos. Goodbye, light them up. See you later. That's what normal people do. Normal people like to see the war on drugs fought as a war because it hasn't worked the way before. And a lot of people in America, normal people have families that have lost people to drugs. So they see this canoe and they see a potential death coming. And we like to light this guy up. The Democrats see this, and they call it an extrajudicial killing. Normal People don't talk like that. Normal people don't talk like extrajudicial. You know who talks like that? Lawyers. They have to stop sounding like lawyers. You sound weak, you sound wily. Lawyers are unpopular. Almost as unpopular as pollsters. Jessica. And when you contrast that with Trump, who's taking strong action, and you have a guy that's saying extrajudicial killing, it just makes you guys look pathetic and not normal.

[Sandra Smith]

Jessica, to Jesse's point, I mean, are Democrats falling for the latest trap, or aren't they just playing right into the hands of Republicans with Democrats now defending drug lords?

[Jessica Tarlov]

No, I don't see it that way. And I just want to. On the lawyer front, Jesse's always, like, so embarrassing at the party of lawyers. If you guys had better lawyers, you would win more cases.

[Jesse Watters]

We've won everything.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You lost Supreme Court.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Literally every lawyer that showed up in court at the 2020 election. Oh, that laughed. Oh, the big one. The big lie.

[Jesse Watters]

That was not really well argued. We got better ones this time, and we're like eight. No, but go ahead, Jessica.

[Jessica Tarlov]

I don't want to take any hoodles. Yeah, Harry Truman not famously woke. I should note a bunch of presidents that served our country. Not Donald Trump, But Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, H.W. bush, all of them was just fine to call the Department of Defense. You know who else calls it the Department of Defense? The people that Donald Trump are jealous of. The Chinese and the Russians also use that name. It's because he thinks it sounds more dangerous, more big guy, more manly. Like Jesse said, it's a nickname. It's all a game. And first of all, this happened through. It, passed through Congress. So they're probably going have to go back through Congress to do it. So nothing has been changed, except that their Kyrons get to look that way in terms of smoking the canoe with the drug lords on it. I don't know if it was extrajudicial. People have questions about how this happened, but our very own Jennifer Griffin was posting about the fact that now there are eight Navy destroyers in the Caribbean, which certainly seems like we are going to war in that region. So typically, the F35 that are on there would be heading to Iran, for instance, to blow up a nuclear facility. What exactly are we doing? And then by extension of that, is there a chance that Donald Trump is trying to get us into a war with Venezuela so that he can use the Alien Enemies act to try to pull off some of the deportations that he has failed to be able to do in the first few months of his administration.

[Jesse Watters]

That's a good conspiracy theory.

[Jessica Tarlov]

You like it?

[Jesse Watters]

I love it.

[Jessica Tarlov]

I give it to you.

[Jesse Watters]

I'll take it and run with it.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Okay.

[Sandra Smith]

Kaylee, your former boss, does this. Anything surprise you about him not wanting to be on defense? Right? He would. He. No, he always. He always says in his, like, you know, his debates, his interviews, never, ever put yourself on defense. You always want to be on offense.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

It's like you know him very well, because I remember being in a meeting with him when I was on the campaign and we were determining the name for the counterpart to Act Blue Blue. So it was do we want Act Red or win Red? And I said, president Trump, we're winners. We win. He goes, yeah, that's right. Winning is better than acting. Win Red. Doesn't surprise me. He wants to take off defense and put offense. Why? Because he's a president who's been on offense. This is more than just a name, Jessica. This is an entire cohesive foreign policy that has been offense. Bombing Fordeau, taking out the drug cartel ship. Go back to the first term. Taking out Soleimani, taking out Al Baghdadi, Daddy. Striking in Syria. When Biden said don't, President Trump said, do. And what you are looking at is a reflection of that. They are taking down defense. They are going to make this the Department of War. This is a president of offense. He doesn't say don't. Because when you say don't, the enemies act. When you say don't, Putin goes into Ukraine. When you say don't, hamas attacks on October 7. When you say do. When you actually do in action, you achieve the respect of the world. And that's what's happened with President.

[Jessica Tarlov]

You were on Congratulations, by the way, during the Alaska summit where he thought he made a lot of progress. I'm sure you did. You don't. And then Putin showed up and he's standing with President Xi. And Donald Trump says, now they're concerned.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Biden. And also when I was on maternity leave, we got your fact that there.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Are seven warriors even though you've been on leave.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I am not fresh.

[Jessica Tarlov]

You are.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I. Very good.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Fresh.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Let me tell you how I am not. I brought you. You said you didn't know the legal justification for the striking of the ship. I brought it for you. OLC opinion from 1980, Article 2, Section 2, Commander in Chief Power. So we've got that, too. I'm fresh and I brought my face.

[Jesse Watters]

Wow, Jessica.

[Sandra Smith]

Boom. Greg, do you see any problem with this? By the Way that was fresh vo just a few moments ago. I could smell it actively. They're actively changing the names on those government buildings, as you can see, removing the defense.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I love the idea of changing names to represent the ideal right. It's pure persuasion. This is why a lot of liberals like Jessica have to psychoanalyze him, because they don't understand persuasion. When you have somebody like Van Hollen who speaks like a lawyer, you're never going to persuade anybody. They should do this with all the departments. The atf, which is Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, just call it the Department of Fun, you know, the irs, the Department of Extortion, the Department of Indian Affairs. Casinos, casinos, casinos, tsa. Just call it second base. But Trump is the most anti war president I've ever had the pleasure of being alive for. And all of his strikes, as you know, are highly specific. And you can only do that with a really, really powerful war machine. We predicted that the taking out the narco terrorists, in a matter of time, the media and the Dems would side with the narco terrorists because. Because Trump did it. And also because their problems, that is the bad guys, always seem to matter more than ours. Americans, whether it's fentanyl and gangs, sex trafficking, I'm sure one of those drug smugglers, we will find out through Van Hollen owned a puppy and used to read to his grandma late at night. But we talk about the past. We don't have to go that far for this distinction. Trump was making a distinction about the last four years. What did Biden do to the Department of Defense? He turned it into a laboratory for social experimentation. It wasn't about protecting the country. We saw it, everybody knew it. It was about making it an enlightened vehicle for the rainbow people. They treated the military like a Disney remake. You know, let's update all the characters, right? We'll add a gay here, put a trans here, a non binary woodland elf. And then Trump enters the picture, he says, no, no, no, no, no. It's about war. And if it doesn't fit that definition, we don't want it. His critics don't understand this and he drives him crazy because he operates on a superpower they don't have, which is persuasion. What is persuasion? Blunt language usually. That's pretty colorful and memorable. Department of War, you know, he understands incentives and disincentives. Department of War is a disincentive. What he also has, you think, past the sale, calling it the Department of War then has you accept the premise in its own title. So when you hear things, you go, we need new missiles. Department of War. That sounds about right. We want a diversity month. Is that diverse? Is that Department of War? No, it isn't. So he creates this world for you, and it drives the left crazy because they still haven't found the person who can do this.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Jessica, I can do it already.

[Sandra Smith]

Up next, the showdown in Chicago. ICE agents are ready for a raid.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I need a cup of coffee and.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

A couple dollars change. Call a battle.

[Jesse Watters]

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[Pete Hegseth]

One of the elements of fascination for people over the last period of time has been what's happened to D.C. so we've gone from a. One of the most dangerous cities in our country to a. What they call a safe city. It's a totally safe city. In fact, I set up dinner in Washington, D.C. next week. I wouldn't have done that, to be honest. I would have had an obligation not to do it before I came into office or even at the very beginning when things were so corrupt and so dangerous out on the streets. So Washington, D.C. has had virtually no crime.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

That was President Trump revealing he set up for dinner in Washington, D.C. next week after his successful crime crackdown severely reduced the violence in our nation's capital. Now, that comes amid the showdown in Chicago that you're looking at at any moment. ICE agents are set to move into the Windy City for an immigration crackdown, and it's putting Chicago leaders on edge, like this one. Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker insisted he doesn't want federal troops in Chicago, arguing the city is safe. That comes despite a bloody Labor Day weekend. It left eight dead, more than 50 injured. But instead of teaming up with the president, who could fix all of this, Pritzker would rather taunt him.

[Jesse Watters]

He seems a little obsessed with me and with Chicago. Maybe he's got Pritzker derangement syndrome. Part of their kind of nefarious, nefarious plan is begin with ice, cause mayhem on the ground, and by doing that, say that there's a need for military troops on the ground to protect ice. We're going to immediately go to court if National Guard or other military troops are sent to, deployed to the city of Chicago. Immediately go to court. The future of our democracy, the future of America is on the line.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Jessica. He used the word nefarious plan. Apparently, it's nefarious to Send ICE agents to arrest criminal illegal immigrants. And I'm curious if it's nefarious to people like the woman, 37 year old woman, ICE arrest criminal illegal alien who concealed and abused the body of a missing woman. She was found in a container. There's also an illegal immigrant in Chicago accused of shooting a Jewish man. Is it nefarious to these people who in some cases lost their lives, to go arrest the people who might perpetually kill others?

[Jessica Tarlov]

No. Take them away. Everyone's in agreement. Well, no, because the plan won't be that this is what's been going on since Donald Trump came back into office. You advertise that that's the plan and then you go to Home Depot and you go to immigration court and you pick up people who are, yes, here illegally but have committed no crime on US Soil and have just been hardworking folks that are here for the American dream and a lot of them have American children. Immigration. So that's what's been happening and why he's completely underwater on immigration in terms of militarizing these Cities. You know, D.C. is very different than what he wants to try to do in Chicago. And I hear, you know, the residents want it. The residents want it. There's Kendall Reid, who is a gun violence mediator in south side of Chicago. We need mental health resources, job opportunities to stop school closures. Send those people in. Don't send the military in. Donald Trump has been cutting budgets for mental health. And as far as the job opportunities, I'm sure you saw the jobs number this morning. A big disappointment. Even Kevin Hassan admitted it only added 22,000 jobs in August. Expected 75k. We had a downward revision for June to minus 13,000. Haven't had that since. This is December.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

This is called a red herring, literally, about crime. And you said jobs.

[Jessica Tarlov]

I know why I read you something from someone who's talking about the military and crime and then saying, how about we get a job opportunity? Also, you know that voters went out and they put Donald Trump in because they thought he was going to, quote, unquote, fix the economy. And the exact opposite has happened. You can make people shoot others less. You can bring down crime by giving people job opportunities and a better economic sector.

[Greg Gutfeld]

And you know, yeah, that's all criminals need is jobs. Right, because they'll just stop shooting each other if they get a job. Where have you heard that before?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Right? And you know, Jesse, we saw today, Jeanine Pirro gave this stellar press conference where she exhibited the rage the nation feels, the loss of a 21 year old intern. We've seen losses like this across the country. I think people stand on that side.

[Jesse Watters]

They do. And jobs are down because the illegals are gone. When you leave, 2 million illegals leave the country, you're not going to have as many people working. And the people that are working are Americans, Jessica.

[Greg Gutfeld]

And that number will be revised. I wonder if they'll be talking about the revised number when he gets the.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Right person in the job.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Maybe.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Okay.

[Jesse Watters]

All right, so let's stick with a theme, though, because when you don't act, someone else has to come in and act for you. You look weak. And when you go to court and argue that Donald Trump is too powerful, you look weak. Donald Trump is a man of action and he's taking bold action because he has a mandate to fight crime and illegal immigration because the Democrats booted it so badly. And if he moves, he moves on the streets. You see it, you hear it, you smell it, you can touch it. The Democrats make moves in court.

[Greg Gutfeld]

What do they.

[Jesse Watters]

They go to court. They hire a lawyer to argue on their behalf. Something happens in court, there's no cameras, and the next day a journalist writes about it in a newspaper that nobody reads. That's the problem with you guys. Nothing you do is affecting anybody because it doesn't even appear anywhere. Donald Trump's building things. He's arresting people, he's knocking boats out of the water, and you guys are arguing about extrajudicial banana jammas in court. Now, the Democrats need to stop saying Donald Trump's obsessed because, I don't know. In the last week, Donald Trump's gone after Maduro, Modi, Putin, Massie, Newsom, everybody. And this guy Pritzker, who needs to lose a little weight, is saying he's obsessed with me. No, the Democrats should start obsessing with people besides Donald Trump. Pick somebody else besides this guy. He's not the only man in the world. Go after the drug cartels, the gangs, go after the predatory lenders, go after the nasty insurance companies. Go after somebody else besides this guy because he's like the sun. And the only way you guys can get any attention is if he shines on you.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yeah, you know, Greg, I think that's spot on. I think J.B. pritzker wants Donald Trump to be obsessed with him.

[Greg Gutfeld]

It's silly. It's. Captain Fatty Pants is guilty of projection. That's all Democrats, too. Trump is obsessed with you. Says a Democrat belonging to a party so completely fixated on this guy that they ignored every major issue Whether it was the border, whether it was the crop, whether it was crime or the economy. They let all that slide because they were fixated on Trump to a point where they actually sided with sex traffickers and spousal abus by claiming that Trump is obsessed with them. They deflect from the actual issue that Trump is exposing. Making it again about Trump. He's like a guy that gets arrested for robbing a bank and then blames the bank for lack security. The bottom line is in every single story, the viewer has the freedom to discount all analysis, all criticism, all spin. Because the people complaining are not the people being affected by the crime, the bor. The economy. They're in fact the people who discounted your concerns for four years about the crime, the border, the economy. So pay attention instead to the citizens who are responding based on their own experiences. Crime is down, streets are safer, they're happier. The Dems aren't all the cable news channels, they're in hysteria, except for Fox News. That's because for them, good news is kryptonite.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

You know, and Sandra, I think Pritzker and Newsom are having this little battle. They both want Trump more obsessed with them because it propels them for 2028. And there's this battle going on, I fear.

[Sandra Smith]

Jessica, you just played right into Republicans hands again with your argument about the economy. President Trump has been, you know, pretty hard on the Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell to lower those interest rates to get lenders lending, to get people buying cars again, to get people building homes and buying homes again. If the job market was so weak, the Federal Reserve chair should certainly be in a position to lower interest rates, and he has not. He's got a dual mandate, right? It's inflation and it is employment. He keeps saying the employment picture strong. So you should, you should address that with Jay Powell. 70 people were shot in Chicago over Labor Day weekend. That happens every weekend in Chicago. We have people on our program America Reports in the afternoon. All week this week, residents in that city begging for the federal government to come in and help. It's a war zone. Many of them will describe that. We, we had Democrat Alderman Raymond Lopez. He said it's absolutely asinine the position that Democrats are taking with crime in the Windy City, a city I know very well, grew up and was raised there. We had another alderman who said he's lived in. He's, he was a Democrat. He's left the party. He's lived in Chicago 67 years. He said, he said he had to leave the party. The Democrats have deserted him. They've gone too far to the left. Pea Ray Easley, you probably know her well. She's an advocate for the federal government coming to the city to help. She says children are dying in the streets there. She said some. Somebody has to care about us. In her words. On my show, she said Democrats would rather score a win than ensure the safety of the residents of this city. I mean, somebody's got to listen to these people.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

And we will see. First ice and we will see if he invokes title 10. We're watching. Up next, the liberal media claims millions will die, all because RFK Jr. Wants the CDC to actually do its job.

[Jessica Tarlov]

It's meant by hand. I am the lucky man.

[Jesse Watters]

Like.

[Greg Gutfeld]

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[Jesse Watters]

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[Greg Gutfeld]

I mean, the slogan is make America healthy again.

[Jessica Tarlov]

And.

[Greg Gutfeld]

And he's the main person making America sicker again and sicker for stuff that should have been in the history books.

[Jesse Watters]

As the senators said themselves.

[Greg Gutfeld]

A lot of lies. He just lied repeatedly.

[Sandra Smith]

Trump loves the fact that he's a Kennedy and maybe was a Democrat at one time, and he's more relevant than he'd ever be under an administration of any party at any time. So they kind of need each other, and therefore, here we are.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah, that's the only person he's performing for.

[Jesse Watters]

But Trump giving Bobby an attaboy.

[Pete Hegseth]

He's got a different take, and we want to listen to all of those takes, but I heard he did very well. It's not your standard talk, but if you look at what's going on in the world with health and look at this country also with regard to health. I like the fact that he's different.

[Jesse Watters]

I mean, if he wasn't different, we'd still be getting fat and sick and stupid.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yeah. You can't watch this hearing without the context of COVID 19 in the background. They literally harmed our children for a generation by not opening schools. I said often at the podium. Open the schools. Open the schools. They said you're a science denier. Okay. Right. The school should have been opened. They closed our churches, they closed our places of businesses. They tried to make me put a mask on a two year old on a plane. Just try putting a mask on your 2 year old @ home. This is what they did to us. And from this grew RFK and I have differences from rfk. I don't agree with him on everything but this healthy skepticism for the science. Wanting to ask questions about your children, what we're putting in their bodies, what they eat. This stemmed out of COVID 19. The Orwellian mandates. Americans will not forget it. They lied to us and the media perpetrated it. And the teachers union was in lockstep.

[Jesse Watters]

Jessica, are you a maha mom?

[Jessica Tarlov]

No.

[Jesse Watters]

A little bit.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Like artificial dyes are bad. Get them out of the food, you know, that's fine. But that's why RFK Jr. Should have never gotten anywhere near HHS and should have given him some role at USDA and let him, you know, work on the stuff that was actually bipartisan. This role is so unbelievably out of his league, it's hard to comprehend. And you say the media is melting down. The media is Senator Bill Cassidy, Senator John Barroso, Senator John Kennedy, Senator Thom Tillis, all Republicans that voted to confirm him who are saying we are denying people vaccines. You promise to uphold the highest standards for vaccines and have not done so.

[Jesse Watters]

What vaccines has he denied someone?

[Jessica Tarlov]

Oh, COVID 19. Exactly. Who can't get a sense wife to begin. And Bill Cassidy used.

[Jesse Watters]

Wait a second. You mean you can't walk into your doctor's office and get a Covid ever?

[Jessica Tarlov]

Prepare. Why don't you prepare? Kathy Hochul had to do it. No, no, it is true.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Classified it. Stop. He reclassified.

[Jessica Tarlov]

You now need a prescription and CVS and Walgreens is denying it to people because of the quote unquote regulatory environment. You can thumb your nose at it. You are healthy and lucky. This is why. But there are even Senator Warren.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I assume you look up to Senator Warren. She said effectively denied effective.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Well bill testimony.

[Jesse Watters]

Insurance doesn't cover if you're healthy.

[Jessica Tarlov]

No, that what you're talking about. I mean that you need a prescription to. To get it. It is becoming. What?

[Pete Hegseth]

Okay, you shouldn't.

[Jesse Watters]

If you're healthy. You don't need a COVID vaccine. If you want.

[Jessica Tarlov]

You're not paying a woman with stage four cancer.

[Jesse Watters]

They can get it. If you have stage Eric.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Eric's wife cannot he wrote about it. He talked about.

[Jesse Watters]

I don't know anything about his wife.

[Greg Gutfeld]

But first of all, this is on.

[Sandra Smith]

A state by state basis. Jessica, this wasn't a blanket.

[Jessica Tarlov]

There are 16 states where there has been some confusion.

[Sandra Smith]

There's been some confusion.

[Jessica Tarlov]

How big of you to admit that? Sandra, come on.

[Sandra Smith]

Okay, okay. It was on a state by state basis.

[Jessica Tarlov]

I am upset about this.

[Jesse Watters]

Don't be so upset.

[Sandra Smith]

You urged Jesse to do his homework.

[Jessica Tarlov]

I did.

[Sandra Smith]

There's. There are several states who had sort of this temporary ban on issuing it to anybody who walked into a pharmacy. That has since changed. Walgreens has issued a statement regarding that. Okay. And if you're in a state where you're 65 or older or a doctor says that you should get the shot, you can go back in, they're stocking the COVID shots, and you can go get your Covid shot. Okay. I don't know if perhaps there's something else going on out there. We don't know. We can't say that everybody's got the shot available or if somebody's not following the rules. However, when it came to this hearing yesterday, we were covering a live on the Fox News, and I believe we all had a chance to watch it. It was rather unfortunate that we couldn't learn more that the members of Congress in that room had such an opportunity. Tina Smith, the Democrat from Minnesota, what a missed opportunity to actually ask real questions. I do not think she ever broke and let RFK even respond to a question. So there was no opportunity for the American public that sat down to watch this to learn anything because they went on their tirades. I don't know. I think I wrote it down. I don't remember what she went off on. But anyway, Ms.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Opportunity that there's school shootings because kids are on antidepressants.

[Jesse Watters]

That's not.

[Jessica Tarlov]

That's what. And that was a lie.

[Sandra Smith]

And not say that. And we rolled tape on all you.

[Jesse Watters]

Not do your homework again. You've obviously done your homework.

[Greg Gutfeld]

As always.

[Jesse Watters]

As always.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You know, I can disagree with RFK and a lot of things, and I have. And I've written about it, actually. But I will never call him a liar. And I have seen him debate people who actually seriously disagree with him. And he does something that Democrats don't do. He listens. I watched him listen. I wouldn't call him a liar. And I especially people who said Joe Biden was as fit as a fiddle. They lied about the most important health story of our lifetimes besides Covid. Having a four year invalid, that disqualifies them from criticizing anybody in terms of health. They are disqualified from this discussion. They went after people who were right about Biden. They were the people who that told us about the 51 experts on Hunter's laptop. They're the ones that pushed the 97% climate change consensus, which is all bogus. What about 10% for the big guy? These are all things that they lied about. The party's over and now they got got people that legitimately want to clean up the mess. Americans were lied to. Bad things were done. You know, forgive us if we want to review and revisit the organization, organizations that may be responsible. We could have avoided a lot of things if people didn't lie and we caught them in lies. I mean, saying that the. That healthy children and fit adults needed the COVID vaccine, which then led to the lockdown. We didn't need that. Why did they do that? Was that so they could get it on some kind of schedule? I don't know. And they did kind of lie about the vaccine. I understand it at the beginning calling it a vaccine, but it really was a therapeutic. You could have called a gene therapy. It had messenger RNA in it, but that sounds too experimental. So you rode the comfort level of vaccines and everybody felt, oh, it must have the same status. But there's no, you know, obviously no placebo controlled studies with, with, with vaccines. But maybe we should. And I can't. I honestly cannot be told that my side is anti science. When you gave us Rachel Levine.

[Jesse Watters]

Wow, Jessica, that was a tough one for you. Up next, the purple haired mafia tried to take her down, but Sydney Sweeney is selling jeans and shoes like hotcakes.

[Greg Gutfeld]

This is Jimmy Phela inviting you to join me for Fox Across America where we'll discuss every single one of the Democrats dumb ideas. Just kidding. It's only a three hour show. Listen live at noon eastern or get the [e-mail] you know, I just might.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Greg loves my girl music choices. Welcome back. Is Cancel culture going out of style? American Eagles stock soaring almost 40%. And the clothing chain is giving credit to that infamous Sydney Sweeney ad campaign which some on the left called racist. And now that Sydney has buttoned up the critics, she's in hot demand for other brands. Like this spot for Jimmy. Choose.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Okay, Tyler, we're ready to. Okay, ready.

[Sandra Smith]

Tell him Scarlet's busy.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Jesse, I. The answer to all of this is embodied in that bodysuit that she had on there. She's just hot. She's going to be in every ad.

[Jesse Watters]

Well, you know, she's girl next door ponytail. She's not like an 80s supermodel or anything. But I see the attraction and we just have to use her carefully. I'm thinking Bret Bear show goes bye bye. We put her on at 6 and let the rating soar.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Great. Hume would love that. Her name is lovely Cindy Soyni. Tell me more about.

[Jesse Watters]

We could do a whole show with this. Brit Hume and Sydney, Fox Nation if you're listening. I mean, I put her on the ticket. I had Vance and Sweeney. There's so many combinations you can use for this woman. She's like very well packaged. Put her out there. It's funny how people haven't thought of this before or it's like we all had amnesia for like five years and we're like, oh, let's put like an obese woman that's trans on the ad. Oh no. Now we're back to normal.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Kelly Nome Sweeney Sweeney, you could do Bondi Sweeney, you could do Levitt Sweeney. There's so many beautiful women in the Trump administration and they're smart too. But I love this Mad Men. It reminds me of that kind of advertising. We need to bring that back.

[Jessica Tarlov]

I did love the show Mad Men. Greg, what have you got on this I controversy?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Right now Dylan Mulvaney is spinning in her jockstrap. This is, this is how you kill the woke when whatever they attack becomes super profitable, you know, their target always gets better. In fact, all companies should embrace this practice. Try to appeal instead of trying to appeal to the miserable cretins who won't buy your stuff. Hire spokespeople that upset those miserable cretins. You know, get Kid Rock to sell your soap. Get Joe Rogan to plug your toasters. Get me to front your new line of athletic wear for barrel chested silver foxes.

[Jesse Watters]

Yes.

[Sandra Smith]

Awesome. Sandra, this is not an endorsement nor do I own the stock. But because of this ad, I wanted to be a part of like, you know, the story. So I bought two of the Sydney Sweeney jeans, had them delivered.

[Jessica Tarlov]

I love them.

[Sandra Smith]

Like they're like a total winner. I get so many compliments and they're a style that I wouldn't have picked out for myself. I did it just to kind of, I love them.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Be part of the.

[Sandra Smith]

They're comfortable, they're stylish, great.

[Greg Gutfeld]

They're boot cut, good jeans.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yes.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Blonde, blue eyed. Put her in your next.

[Sandra Smith]

Thanks, Jessie.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You're welcome.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Fan mail. Friday's up next.

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[Greg Gutfeld]

Fairville Friday. First question from Joan. If you won the Powerball, what would you do first? It's like a billion and a half, right? Jessica, what would you do? Give it to the poor.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Am I the poor?

[Greg Gutfeld]

I don't know.

[Jessica Tarlov]

I would get everyone that I cared about whatever's atop their list. Like, whatever. I mean, within reason, I guess. It can't be like you care about Million Dollar House sometimes. Not today. It's been a rough.

[Jesse Watters]

I care about a billion dollars. Would you give me a billion dollars, Jesse?

[Greg Gutfeld]

What would you do first?

[Jesse Watters]

Greg, you go on a very long vacation. All right. And then you come back and you stay working at Fox. Yes, that's the move. Why, you just keep your job. What else are you going to do with your time?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Then you could be really obnoxious knowing you got something to fall back on.

[Jesse Watters]

Yeah, fire me. I dare you.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Clip that, Sandra.

[Sandra Smith]

I mean, I'm thinking we just toured those beautiful mansions in Newport. You know, like the marble. I threw a great big party and celebrate for the first.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Wow, all of you have the wrong answer.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

But, Kelly, I just figured out I would put 20% in private equity, 20% in stocks, 20% in the money market, 30% real estate. 10% to my church.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Oh, wonderful.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

That's up to 100.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Church of Gut Belt. You know what I would do? I would immediately hire the very best security possible because somebody's going to try to kill me. Yeah. So I'd spend like persons. The person is at this table. And then I would take the buyout. You know, you. Oh, no, I would get. I would get incredible security. And you're right, I would keep working. Too important. Donna S. Asks, what show would you be embarrassed to admit to watching? And you can say your own, Jesse.

[Jesse Watters]

I used to watch some housewives. I'm not proud of it, but that's how honest I am that I could admit something like that.

[Sandra Smith]

Sex in the City.

[Jessica Tarlov]

I don't know.

[Sandra Smith]

The reruns are kind of just.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Oh, no. The new Sex in the City is awful.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Just like. That was terrible.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah, it's terrible. And they did it with horses. Jessica.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Virgin River.

[Greg Gutfeld]

That sounds. That sounds like a fun amusement park.

[Jessica Tarlov]

It's not. It's like a small town. Like, she's a nurse. He's. Anyway, okay. Virgin river on Netflix.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Let's check it out. Love is blind. I watch it, analyze it.

[Sandra Smith]

So good.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

It's so good. Okay.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Why would you be embarrassed?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Because it's like, really, I don't know, profane and like.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Kaylee, you're with child. You don't want the baby to hear those words. I watched the entire Hunting Wives based on some suggestion and that. Yeah, I watched the whole thing, and it is awful. And then I started watching something called. What's it called? With Seth Rogen. What's it called?

[Jessica Tarlov]

Oh, the Platonic.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Platonic. It's so bad.

[Jessica Tarlov]

I love Rose Byrne, though.

[Greg Gutfeld]

She's terrible. She has an Australian accent. She keeps moving in and out of it. I hate it, but I still watch it.

[Jessica Tarlov]

I didn't tell you to watch it. Wasn't me.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Okay, one more thing's up next.

[Unknown Announcer]

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[Jesse Watters]

You might take something. Hey, I'm Trey Gy, host of the Trey Gatti Podcast. I hope you will join me every Tuesday and Thursday as we navigate life together and hopefully find ourselves a little bit better on the other side.

[Unknown Announcer]

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[Kayleigh McEnany]

It is.

[Sandra Smith]

Time now for one more thing, Greg.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Tonight we got a great show with Kat, Tim, David, Angelo, Todd Pyro, and Julie Banderas. Watch tonight at 10. Hey, let's do this great sexy armadillo news. Yeah, it's love on the half shell. Roll it. His name is Trooper. He's an armadillo. That's not all. He's in Philadelphia. Philadelphia Zoo. You know, that's called the osteoderm. Those are the bony plates. The carapace is the shell, like covering. Do you know what you call a group of armadillos?

[Sandra Smith]

Oh, I used to know that.

[Greg Gutfeld]

What?

[Sandra Smith]

No, I don't know.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Armadilloes?

[Greg Gutfeld]

No, a roll.

[Jesse Watters]

A roll.

[Sandra Smith]

Armadillos.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah, a roll of armadillos. And you know what? I wouldn't mind rolling with that armadillo. If you ask me, they can hold their breath for up to six minutes, which is good if you're around Jesse Waters. Cause he stinks. That was his birthday, by the way.

[Jesse Watters]

Oh, happy birthday, Armadillo.

[Greg Gutfeld]

His name's Trooper.

[Jesse Watters]

Happy birthday, Trooper.

[Sandra Smith]

All right, Jesse.

[Jesse Watters]

Sexy armadillo. Do you guys want to see an old woman drive into some water in New Zealand?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Boom. This just extends the stereotype, Jesse, that women can't drive.

[Jesse Watters]

I've never heard that before. I thought it was Asians can't drive.

[Greg Gutfeld]

That's another stereotype.

[Jesse Watters]

Oh, all right.

[Sandra Smith]

Was it a woman?

[Jesse Watters]

Yes, it was a woman. And she's alive. Oh, no.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Yeah.

[Jesse Watters]

No, she's on life support. I'm sorry.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I see.

[Jesse Watters]

No, no, she made it out. She's a good swimmer, Greg.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Oh, that's good.

[Jesse Watters]

Who would have thought the New Zealand, great.

[Greg Gutfeld]

They blame it on booze, can swim.

[Jesse Watters]

They're kiwis. What do you call a group of Kiwis? Not a roll. Jesse Waters tonight. Happy DEI Friday. Had to blow it out last night, boy.

[Sandra Smith]

Okay, Jessica.

[Jessica Tarlov]

Okay. The U.S. army's elite parachute team amazed spectators over the weekend flying over the Cleveland shoreline, passing a baton between team members midair, flying the American flag at 12,000ft and landing dead center on target. Formed in 1959, the Golden Knights are the Army's official demonstration team. It includes parachute teams, aircraft pilots, and even those behind the scenes handling jump logistics. Congratulations on the incredible job.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Cool.

[Jesse Watters]

That was a female jumper.

[Jessica Tarlov]

It's pink, so probably.

[Jesse Watters]

Okay.

[Jessica Tarlov]

All right.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Wow. Awesome. All right. Well, I want to tell you about my type of guy. This guy, New Jersey township of Cranford, he went to a town hall meeting and he felt that he wanted to get his point across about rising property taxes. He wanted to do it creatively. So he break danced. And get this, at the very end, he moon walked away. Talk about getting the point across. The rent is to bleep high Cranford. Very.

[Jesse Watters]

Wow.

[Sandra Smith]

Very impressed.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I love a good town meeting.

[Sandra Smith]

That's called like the robot man or something, right? All right. A five year old from Jacksonville, Florida, decided that he wanted a treat from Chick Fil A. There was just one problem. He walked into the store all by himself. Police arrived shortly after. William made his way to the restaurant and helped the barefoot boy make his way home. While walking to the police car, William nervously asked if officers were taking him to jail before officers drove him to his house down the road. He's okay and mom is happy that.

[Greg Gutfeld]

He made a lie. That's actually a little adult. I've done this before. I put up pajamas.

[Sandra Smith]

All right, that does it for us. Thanks for joining us here on the 5. Have a great night and weekend.

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