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Emily Compagno
Five years ago, the US Brought leaders.
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Megan Alexander
From Israel, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain together to sign the Abraham Accords.
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Emily Compagno
I'm Megan Alexander and this is Middle.
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Megan Alexander
East tomorrow go to partners.foxnews.com met.
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Emily Compagno
Hello everyone. I'm emily compagno along with harold ford jr. Jesse waters kennedy and greg gutfeld. It's five o' clock in new york city and this is the five. Anti ice protesters taking over Minneapolis streets as President Trump slams the brakes on a so called drawdown of immigration officers there. The president arguing the massive crime drop is in the, in the city is thanks to those officers arresting thousands of dangerous criminals. Trump also warning that the protests and opposition aren't organic. They're organized, professional and paid.
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Jesse Waters
Look at Minnesota. Minneapolis, we have crime down there because we took out thousands of people despite all the mess and everything else. But do these people really want to have rapists? Do they really want to have drug dealers and people from prisons and murderers? Do they really want to have them in the community? You know, it's a, it's really insurrectionists and agitators and they're paid and you can tell a lot of reasons.
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Harold Ford Jr.
Number one, they're professionals, you know, with their mouth.
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Jesse Waters
But they're also, you look at the signs. The signs are all professionally made.
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Emily Compagno
Meanwhile, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch announcing today that the DOJ is looking into some of the radical left wing groups the president referenced as part of their investigation into the killing of Alex Peretti. Now, he also confirmed a civil rights investigation into Peretti's death is underway.
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Jesse Waters
This is something that we're investigating and we are. That's what we would always do in circumstances like this. And so there's an investigation that's ongoing.
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Harold Ford Jr.
Which I'm not going to talk about. Are you looking at a nexus of left wing groups? This DOJ said that that's something that you guys were concerned about. Are you following money? Are you looking at a potential that all of this may be related somewhere? I mean, yes.
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Greg Gutfeld
Get your suit fixed.
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Emily Compagno
And at any moment, disgraced ex CNN anchor Don Lemon making his first court appearance in Los Angeles after getting arrested. A grand jury indicting Lemon charging him with federal civil rights crimes for storming that church in St. Paul, Minnesota during a Sunday service. Lemon's lawyer, Abby Lowell releasing a statement saying this, quote, don has been a journalist for 30 years and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done. But the prosecution is arguing here, Greg, that indeed it's different in that it violated the Face act. And he also conspired to do so with a group of people that are also in court as we speak.
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Greg Gutfeld
Yeah, from my understanding, Lemon got arrested for the Face act. And it's not that face act, Jesse. That's legal. That's legal now.
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Jesse Waters
Oh, God. We've come a long way.
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Greg Gutfeld
No guilty. And I'll tell you why he's guilty, because once I tell you why, it's so obvious. Number one, he was there at the beginning. Get the video. He knew all the details. He worked with the fellow activists, he helped them out. He even brought them coffee and donuts. But the most obvious thing is he could have waited an hour. Religious services only last one hour, so if he was a reporter, he could very easily have waited to interview people. But he is, therefore, his motive was, in fact, to impede the service. Service. And that is a violation of, again, the Face Act. I. I think this is the best thing that has ever happened to Don Lemon. No career, no reputation, no friends. I just hope this doesn't inspire copycat crimes. You know, with Jim Acosta, Keith Olbermann, and Joy Reid, they're going to be stampeding and breaking into all kinds. But of course, they won't do a mosque, get their asses kicked. But if you take the. It's a dance between the agitator and the media. They both know what they're doing. The agitator creates instability, and they even use whistles, which nobody seems to talk about, but that's meant to create instability, mental instability. In law enforcement. It's a known tactic. So they taunt, they're aggressive, they're violent, and then when the media appears, they declare victim status, or they're what's called a cry bully. So they get you all riled up, and then they fall down like a pro soccer player, you know, when a ball comes rolling at them. The media did the same thing in the Summer of Love, where they just airbrush a filter of romance over insanity. The neat thing about Lemon is he collapses the agitation and the media into one ghoulish, comical symbol. Him. He's both the media and the agitator in one. Saves a lot of time. Meanwhile, what the politicians are doing is they're indulging a moral panic. Panic, which they did with Trump and Trans and Covid. And they find themselves protecting rapists, pedophiles, because in their world of indiscriminate compassion, they actually don't see the violent criminal. They just see whoever is punishing them. And you'll notice this especially, and it came to my mind watching this, how the left and the media never pay attention to heinous murderers until they're on death row facing execution. So they don't care about any of the victims, but when it comes to the criminals time in the seat, they freak out. Last point.
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Harold Ford Jr.
Jacob.
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Greg Gutfeld
Jacob Fry. Is that his name? He said, if you don't do something about this, your city is next. That's what he said. Actually, his city is next. Seattle just paid $30 million to a family of a man killed in the chop zone. That was the protester controlled area where cops had were abandoned by decree. So Jacob City is about to be hit with at least two major lawsuits from these murder victims. You could probably do a class action suit. And so this short term virtue signal that made him a hero and is going to cost him probably at least $70 million. Probably a lot of other things, but he's probably too stupid to care.
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Emily Compagno
Yes, because ultimately you pay tax dollars because your city's responsible for your safety and they have a duty of care. So, Jesse, we sort of saw a little bit of that interplay earlier today. What do you make of Tom Homan? Say we're going to do a Dr. The president coming out today. And to Greg's point, saying, no, actually, we don't want rapists in your community. You're welcome. We're going to help get them out.
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Jesse Waters
You think I want to talk about Tom Holman when Don Lemon just got arrested? Emily, come on, it's home. And Friday, I did not have Don Lemon on my retribution tour checklist, but he walked right into it. Greg, I read the the indictment. You know what his middle name is?
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Greg Gutfeld
What?
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Jesse Waters
Ronaldo.
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Greg Gutfeld
Love it.
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Jesse Waters
I mean, he is like the soccer player.
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Harold Ford Jr.
Yes.
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Jesse Waters
Whining about getting kicked in the leg. It is illegal to interfere with the free exercise of religion in a house of worship. This is a slam dunk. Journalists cannot break the law and then when they get caught, say, it's fine, I'm innocent. I was just filming it. That's just not how it goes. Imagine your house gets broken into at 2am and Don Levin is interviewing you in your pajamas while the house is getting ransacked and your kids are crying. You can't be there. It's so obvious. This guy was premeditated. He conspired. He knew the target ahead of the time. And then when he gets in there, he actively encourages the disruption. They intimidate everybody. Get along on the side of the pews, box them in, and then start screaming at the children. Your parents are going to rot in hell. They were yelling to the parents, this is the house of the devil. And so Don Lemon, the whole time is watching. He's like, yep, kids are crying. They're traumatized. But you know what? It's gotta happen. This is nuts. If this had happened at a synagogue, a mosque, forget about it. Don Lemon gets in the pastor's face and starts threatening him and intimidating him. Kids were screaming because they thought their parents were gonna get shot. Some of the parents couldn't get access to their children because they didn't have a way to get out of there. They had no escape plan. Eventually, they just, like, fled for safety. So Don Lemon, the whole time is waxing poetic as people are crying and thinking they're about to be punched in the face now. And then he goes out and he sells the video on his website. People on January 6th were arrested, actual journalists, and they didn't even go inside the Capitol. And for all the journalists that are out there saying, like, oh, he's a journalist. No journalist has ever done this before. This is the first time anybody invaded a church, shot it, and then tried to get off because they said they were a journalist. I can't believe he thinks this is fine. I think he's actually going to do time.
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Emily Compagno
Harold, in the charging documents, it references what Jesse was talking about, which is that Lemon allegedly communicated quite heavily with those individuals that organized storming the church. And to take Jesse's analogy a bit further, you know, if you're filming the burglary, you wait outside. You don't storm the front door and interview the screaming child while the bedroom is ransacked. A lot of people were frightened that day. And more importantly, their service, worshiping the Lord, was interrupted, which is staunchly unconstitutional.
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Harold Ford Jr.
You're right about that part. It's good to be with everybody. It seems like it's been a little while longer than it has. I'd say two things about Don Lemon, because I want to talk about Mr. Homan in a positive way. Let the chips fall where they may. Don Lemon, he's got a great lawyer. Abbey Lowell. Everybody has a presumption of innocence, as we all know, around the table, when these things happen, and we'll have to see if the facts are what you and Greg so eloquently said. He will have. He will have a challenge. I want to get to Tom Holman for one moment, because I think we're at a moment here where both sides, where cooler heads are starting to prevail. There's been an admission on the side of the White House that maybe some of the ways they were going about this first was maybe too aggressive. The wacky liberals need to understand what they're doing in terms of some of these tactics in protesting. It's not working. Everybody's trying to push a reset. Now. There are some who are saying they don't believe that Tom Homan is serious and that he can be trusted and that President Trump can be trusted. If we judge everything that way, we will never come to agreement or reach some kind of reconciliation about things. If we just mistrust everybody, if everybody might have been wrong before, everybody's now trying to come together. So if you're in a problem solving business or you want to problem solve, you got to be in that business and you got to be willing to reconcile and forgive. Two, Mr. Homan, I think, is right when he says that the jails ought to give up, the criminals ought to give up those who are national security and public safety threats in exchange for a different federal law enforcement posture, radically different federal law enforcement posture there in Minneapolis. I'd say to those who, again, are suspicious of that, you can't be suspicious and not want to engage and try to find an answer if you're serious about trying to find an answer. And that goes for both sides of it. Now, where Mr. Holman is also right. People who are in this country illegally are guessed and they're trying to find a way to be here permanently. And if they commit a crime, a violent crime, they should be arrested and frankly, deported. Where we have a difference, and I have a difference perhaps with some around the table and even some in the administration, is the hierarchy in which you do this. So you just go and pick up people whom are here paying taxes, raising their kids who may be here illegally. Do you deport them, or do we find a different way? But we'll get to that conversation. I would urge Democrats, Republicans, particularly the leadership of Minneapolis, to take Mr. Homan at his word. I've been critical of him on this show in the past. I said sometimes I thought he tried to do a Clint Eastwood approach to this, but he's actually doing this the right way. And I hope that Mr. Fry and I hope that Mr. Ellison, I hope that Governor Walz give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Emily Compagno
And certainly under the Obama administration, he deservedly so received awards for his service. So bipartisan support for Homan's work. I note that as we watch the live protests, Homan's work, yeoman's work, as we watch the live protests we're seeing, apparently it's now broadened in aperture because it's not just anti ice, it's now pro Palestinian. I mean, well, it's good to know.
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Megan Alexander
The protesters are so focused and so on message. You know, that's just incredible discipline. Are they going to trot out Greta Thunberg here any moment to call for the global intifada and then maybe cry some tears for those poor polar bears just off the shores of Greenland, which is just about to be invaded by Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio and maybe a couple of seals. This, you know, this is such a needless distraction. And to Harold's point, everyone who's in the streets right now, they are completely unserious. And I don't think a lot of people realize that it was possible to shift the focus of law enforcement. And people in Minneapolis just assumed that federal law enforcement would do there what they had done in Portland for so many years and so many months. And that is essentially to stand by and be agitated, be terrorized by a very small group of people and sit there and be blinded and take it. And, you know, there has been a massive shift. Do I agree with all of the tactics and all of the things that every single ICE agent has done now? And Tom Homan said the same thing. It has not been a perfect operation. And you know, he has talked about taking the temperature down. And part of the hallmark of the president's negotiating style is he is not going to be predictable. He is not going to take something else someone says in his administration and internalized it as orthodoxy. So he is going to. If someone says that there's going to be a massive shift, he is not going to give Rachel Maddow and Tim Walls a win because they're going around cheerleading and patting themselves on the back saying, see, we knew we could do it. The heroes in the streets. And I think what Trump was doing today was pushing back on them, not necessarily on Hallman. But yes, things have to change there. Believe me, Minneapolis, you do not want it to get worse. And I'm still very curious why you are protecting the very worst people that have embedded themselves in your society, in your city, instead of spending your energy trying to make where you live safe and wonderful, even if you have political differences with this administration.
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Emily Compagno
All right, guys, up next, here we go again. Even more rich and entitled woke celebrities think they know best on Minneapolis. Stay with us.
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Megan Alexander
Hi, I'm Megan Alexander and this is Middle East Tomorrow.
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Emily Compagno
Five years ago, the US Brought leaders from Israel, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates.
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Megan Alexander
And Bahrain together to sign the Abraham Accords.
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Emily Compagno
That historic day ignited a cross border.
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Megan Alexander
Movement of change makers who are joining.
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Emily Compagno
Forces to reshape the region. Join me as I uncover the stories.
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Megan Alexander
Of the people transforming the Middle east today and tomorrow. Go to partners.foxnews.com met.
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Jesse Waters
Oh, boy. Even more Hollywood celebs think the whole country's clamoring to hear their hot takes on ice. Lady Gaga actually paused her concert in Tokyo, a place with some of the tightest immigration laws in the world, to scold America. And even Hanoi Jane Fonda's internal lesbian anger is throwing a fit.
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Megan Alexander
Listen, I'm Jane Fonda and I'm Jane Fonda's internal lesbian anger.
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Jesse Waters
I've been fighting injustices like these for.
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Emily Compagno
A very long time.
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Jesse Waters
Speak the upper if you follow ice, unfollow me.
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Greg Gutfeld
Don't come to my shows and don't watch my movies.
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Harold Ford Jr.
This is time for revolution.
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Greg Gutfeld
They'll kill 550 million, however, but the rest of us would survive.
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Megan Alexander
It's not becoming a fascist government. It is a fascist government.
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Emily Compagno
So imagine what they're doing behind closed doors at detention centers. My heart is aching thinking about the people, the children, the families all over America who are being mercilessly targeted by ice.
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Jesse Waters
Had enough? Well, Bruce Springsteen's currently on the ground in Minneapolis. His guitar apparently says arrest the President. This comes after he decided to treat us with his anti ice song. King Trump's private army from the dhs, guns belted to their coats, came to.
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Greg Gutfeld
Minneapolis to enforce the law.
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Jesse Waters
Or so their story goes. All right, Kennedy, I want to talk about your internal lesbian anger.
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Greg Gutfeld
That was an internal lesbian.
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Jesse Waters
Springsteen, tell me how you feel about these celebrities.
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Megan Alexander
They enraged my external heterosexual, actually. I don't want to hear from them. I don't care about their hot takes. They don't make anything better. I think Ricky Gervais had pretty much the best retort ever to celebrities who are filled with their own narcissistic opinions. When he hosted the Golden Globes and he said, come up on stage. Thank your God all of you have less education than Greta Thunberg and just f off. And that's pretty much how I'm feeling now. Whenever I see Jane Fonda, I just think about all the men who fought and many of whom lost their lives in Vietnam when she sided with the communists. And I frankly will never forgive her.
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Jesse Waters
Harold Ford, Bill Maher said Hollywood celebrities just really shut up because it's really hurting the Democrats. Do you agree with.
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Harold Ford Jr.
I hear what he's saying. I don't think that some of these messages are going to advance the cause necessarily in a lot of these swing districts. But look, I don't mind them saying, nor do you. First Amendment protected speech is not speech we agree with or speech we are, you know, only speech that we're not offended by. There's, you know, I think that Nick Fuentes and Nick Shirley have every right to say what they say. I don't agree with it, but they have every right to, particularly Fuentes. Nick Shirley has every right to pursue the kind of journalism he wants. And he's done some decent stuff there, it looks like, in Minnesota. Hope he goes other places we are. What those who are opposed to ICE have to understand is we're in the middle of a reset. I give the president like I gave President Biden when he tried to deal with, and some cities tried to deal with this, with the fact that some people were being arrested and their bail wasand the fact they couldn't pay their bail. They had to go to jail. And sometimes their jail time, even if they had been convicted of the crime, would be less than the time they spent waiting for their trial. It didn't work. We should have reversed it. It's an admission. To have Homan in Minneapolis now says that these aggressive tactics that were used in Minneapolis in many ways have not worked. So those who are opposed to the way ICE has conducted themselves, you should view this as a victory and we should figure out ways now to get the worst out, which is what the President was elected on and I agreed with him on. I'm part of the 80%, if not more of the country that believes that the most heinous and most violent illegal should be ejected from our country and kicked out of our country. That's where we should be going. So I view this as an opportunity to do that. Look, I'm not. Their message is not one that's going to appeal to any congressional districts and Senate races. But they have every right to say it. It's hope they stop saying it.
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Jesse Waters
Greg, you're raising your hand.
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Greg Gutfeld
Yes, I take issue. I take issue with Harold bringing up Homan again. I wasn't going to say this, but I'm going to reframe it for you so everybody understands it. Homan is just a relief pitcher. They had seven innings. The guy worked his ass off. He went in and now you got a relief pitcher who's finishing the game. There's two innings left. It's not a. It's not a reset. It's a relief Picture Harold.
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Harold Ford Jr.
I differ. I think. What do we say? This. You said you. I think he was the first group was so bad, three innings, still you brought a guy in to try to win the game. They're down 3:1.
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Greg Gutfeld
And so that's my take.
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Harold Ford Jr.
I could be wrong, but that's what I'm saying. I differ with.
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Greg Gutfeld
You know, I don't believe you have the right to free speech. I always hate that when people say, you know, everybody has a right to free. We start with that. You don't have to remind us of it. We know that. But that's not going to keep me from telling. Telling you that you're stupid and you're an idiot. The laziness and the banality of that commentary is so striking. It's like they all get the bat signal. This is today's virtue signal from your lesbian publicists. This will score you compassion points. Don't worry that you are encouraging an actual insurrection, not like the fake one on January 6th. And if you don't believe that this is a real insurrection, maybe take Governor Waltz's word for it when he said he worried there would be a Fort Sumter moment coming up. Granted, it is Waltz. He probably has no idea what he's saying, but you get the point. The fact is they can't get past step one, which is getting the orders from their publicists. They don't know how to frame it, so it all sounds the same. What did you know? I wouldn't mind if the people who listen to Hollywood just did what Hollywood did, which is just sit at home and go, I agree, but they're adding status and credibility to people with dark motives. These are not protesters, Harold. This is antifa. This is like telling children to run with scissors. You know, they're telling kids to run with scissors from their gates of their. Of their protected mansion. These are not people are still operating under the Hollywood notion that these are protesters with little signs. No, these are violent, unhinged people. And again, I would ask. I won't ask Jane Fonda because she's got brain damage, but I would ask any of these celebrities, if it was your kids, your sibling, your mother, would you want them to be part of an organized confrontational network, complete with an alert system that directs the troops into violent areas? Would you want your daughter to skip work or class to be among the people spitting and screaming and putting them in harm's way? What if she was that person? What if she was that unstable? It would break your heart. You thank God she's not like Them. So the celebs are in it for their own status. Self seeking egotists. They never think beyond what's in it for me. They're as comical as they are disgusting.
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Emily Compagno
Emily, here's what makes me sick. The large part of it is that these are the people who take the roles that portray those brave men and women in uniform that are actually enforcing the laws. These are the men and women that read the scripts that are written by different people than they're portraying. Oh, let's get this. This guy writes really well as an inner city black man. But guess what, he's white and Jewish. And then that person is gonna play the role of the CIA operative who's really amazing. Then he comes and he does his time and he's a veteran and then he comes back and he's a cop. And then we're gonna make a billion dollars on it. They are exploiting the actual heroes of this country and then they have the nerve to mock those people on air. I will say that there is a distinction because I see a lot of reporters that shove microphones into celebrities faces and garner on the red carpet their opinion on these kinds of things. But then there are a whole host of others like the person on the screen right now that take it upon themselves to sit on their million dollar toilet. Toilet.
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Greg Gutfeld
She's on her toilet right now.
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Emily Compagno
In their million dollar home and share with the world their thoughts. And I wonder how many of those.
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Greg Gutfeld
She's on a toilet.
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Emily Compagno
Yes. How many of those celebrities, if ICE is enforcing the law. Have you lobbied your legislator? Have you talked to your congressperson and your senator? Do you know the facts around the multiple detainment requests that were denied that led to murders and deaths needlessly toilet. Bambi Larson in San Jose or Kate Steinle in San Francisco in your state? By the way, that's in California where all these people are. And yet, no, I have a feeling that they're just going off their publicist recommendations, their ex account, their dopamine hits and then they will go right back to putting on a fake uniform that portrays these real people because that's what makes them the money. Because in this world those are our heroes. It is not these sick celebrities.
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Greg Gutfeld
By the way, none of those people, with the exception of like Springsteen and Lady Gaga are have any careers left. John Leguiziamo, his shows. What shows are those? You know, I. Molly Ringwald, I mean she's. I think she's currently homeless. I'm not sure.
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Emily Compagno
Not in that bedroom.
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Harold Ford Jr.
Molly Ringwald was one of my crushes as a kid. So really I love Molly.
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Jesse Waters
She was a crush.
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Harold Ford Jr.
I always had a crush. And John, John, John, he's. John's a. He's still a star, you know.
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Greg Gutfeld
No, he's not.
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Jesse Waters
He's washed up.
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Greg Gutfeld
He waited on me at an Applebee's. John Leguizamo. Is that how you say it? Yeah, Luigi Maba.
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Emily Compagno
Like he played the little rabbit in or that creature cartoon.
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Megan Alexander
What?
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Jesse Waters
Like you would ever eat an Applebee's.
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Harold Ford Jr.
Greg.
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Greg Gutfeld
I love a good Applebee.
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Jesse Waters
You do not.
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Harold Ford Jr.
The biggest one bees apple you ate.
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Jesse Waters
James Carville has a big fat prediction on which Democrat can win back the White House.
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Greg Gutfeld
There's belly lit, cigarette burning, a hole in your blue jeans.
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Emily Compagno
American girls love to buy.
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Greg Gutfeld
ABC's David Muir, the most trusted anchor in America.
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Harold Ford Jr.
The most watched anchor in America.
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Greg Gutfeld
Thank you for making World News Tonight with David Muir the number one newscast in America. Most trusted, most watched. David Muir on ABC.
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Megan Alexander
Dance party. The Democrats bald little butterball James Carville says Kamala has no chance in 2028. Instead he's putting all his chips, the remaining chips, I suppose, on this high rolling heavyweight watch.
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Harold Ford Jr.
If I were like betting the Kentucky Derby and I saw this 12 to one horse and I said, yeah, I want to get a price. I take J.B. pritzker. Really?
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Greg Gutfeld
Why?
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Jesse Waters
Well, not Kamala Harris.
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Greg Gutfeld
She's black.
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Harold Ford Jr.
She has no chance.
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Greg Gutfeld
Why not?
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Harold Ford Jr.
Because no Democrat wants anything to do with anybody that had anything to do with 2024. Just win. They don't. If we nominate two white males, no.
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Megan Alexander
One'S going to give a sh T. Sounds like Adrian.
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Emily Compagno
Win, win.
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Megan Alexander
Harold, is James Carverell right? Is Kamala Harris toast? And is JB Pritzker the future of your party?
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Harold Ford Jr.
I don't know. I respect and like James a lot. He got me.
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Megan Alexander
Oh, pick a side, Harold.
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Greg Gutfeld
I can see both sides of J.B. pritzker.
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Harold Ford Jr.
No, no. When he managed the campaign. But here's what I think. I think primaries will play themselves out. 2013. I've said this around the table. When Barack Obama was in his second term. President Trump's in his second term. 2013. When after he got elected. We're now 2014 because we're 2026. The front runner for the Republicans was Jeb Bush in 2021, the frontrunner in Joe Biden's first term. On the Republican side was another Florida governor named Ron DeSantis. So as we sit here today, JB Pritzker, all of them, you know, who knows? What I do know is the frame has to be about not impeaching Trump, fighting Trump, but finding ways to fight for answers and to build coalitions to provide answers for whether it's immigration, whether it's crime, whether it's education, whether it's health care, whether it's tax reform. I'd be out saying, we want to fully fund the baby accounts. I call them baby accounts. He calls them Trump accounts. We introduced them years in Congress. Congratulations. They got it done. Mr. President, if I were Democrats, I said, how can we get more of this for kids who go to school, who don't commit crimes, who live in, who do things over the summer, who are contributing to their communities? A lot of libertarian ideas. You don't like this one, but we give more money to their accounts to ensure that they're a part of the country. That ought to be the frame. If JB Pritzker can get that frame right, perhaps he has a chance. But in 13 and 21, Bush, who I like, DeSantis, whom I don't know, they were not the nominees.
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Megan Alexander
The only number that's higher than his bmi, Jesse, is his taxation wish list. This is a guy who's going to tax the middle class out of existence. There are other Democrats, moderates, like Josh Shapiro and Andy Beshear, Bashir Beshear, who are a lot more attractive to fickle independents. Your thoughts?
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Jesse Waters
Can I just be brutally honest?
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Harold Ford Jr.
Oh, no. Yes.
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Greg Gutfeld
Do it. Jump off the cliff, Jesse. More money for me.
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Jesse Waters
He's just too big.
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Greg Gutfeld
You want to say fat?
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Jesse Waters
Be the nominee.
- [29:18]
Greg Gutfeld
You just want to say fat. You sit big all of life.
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Jesse Waters
You can't. It's just the age of television. We haven't had a nominee that looked.
- [29:28]
Greg Gutfeld
Like this since Chester A. Arthur.
- [29:30]
Jesse Waters
Chester A. Arthur, Garfield, Taft. This guy could have the greatest policies.
- [29:38]
Megan Alexander
He doesn't, but.
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Jesse Waters
And he doesn't. But he could have better policies, and he still wouldn't get the nomination. Because we are a shallow country and looks do matter. And that's why you're successful. Why don't I even need to carry on?
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Megan Alexander
That wasn't an indictment at the American audience.
- [30:03]
Jesse Waters
I take that as a compliment. He called me successful.
- [30:06]
Megan Alexander
Emily.
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Emily Compagno
Hello.
- [30:07]
Megan Alexander
Hi.
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Emily Compagno
What I think becomes and feels a little smarmy to people like us who like to read about these things and see it, is that I think he's billing himself out as a centrist, a moderate, one that will play well in donor circles and his executive experience, a technocrat. But the reality is we see him with total tds. And, yes, he's sort of, you know, it's not easy on the eyes. Did I say that right?
- [30:32]
Jesse Waters
One way to say it.
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Emily Compagno
And in this climate where we are making a complete sort of, I think full circle or rotation as a government in terms of personal health and health control and all of these things, I'm not quite sure why the antidote on the left would be like, yes, and let's deposit a 500 BMI individual that traffics in corruption and enjoys large taxes. I also think that he's sort of typical to your point about the contender, that he'll be in there, he'll be the reasonable one, he'll give good answers. But at the end of the day he doesn't have the paid ads for free that Newsom and the other loud squawking one does. And he doesn't have the likability or the experience that will really get him across the finish line. I think he just tastes better out of the gate than a lot that leave bad taste in our mouths on the extreme left, those liberal woke virtue signaling ones. But there's no way he will ever make it into the Oval Office.
- [31:24]
Megan Alexander
What's more important, through the door listing the people who might be potential nominees for 2028 or making sure there's a list of people who will not run in two years.
- [31:34]
Greg Gutfeld
Well, I just want to write the headline for the clip. The clip blogs and websites Fox show Fat shames Governor, I got it there for you. Okay. Do you get the impression that Carville just says stuff for the hell of it? You know what Prince guy? There's a bigger prince. I wish they got rid of condoms. Remember when you used alcohol? Yeah, trans kids smell like zebra gum, you know, but he's good for a segment and then you can reuse this segment over and over again. He's like a sandwich bag that your mom used to use. Ah, we still got one of those. But you know what? I think my idea, I call it the, the campaign slogan would be a perfect 10 and you have Skinny Carville and you have fat. You have Fat Pritzker. And it's like a 10. They're shaped like a 10. So it'd be Skinny Carvel Fat Pritzker and it looked just like a 10. Problem with Pritzker is he, he's the worst person on trans. This guy went all in on men gaming the system of compassion because he's got a relative. I think he's got a brother who's now his sister or s who's now his brother. I think it's brother who's a sister. Could be an uncle who's an aunt, could be a niece who's a nephew. Something that either way, it's clouded his vision.
- [32:56]
Megan Alexander
If he transitions, he'll be our first female president.
- [33:00]
Greg Gutfeld
Wow, that's amazing. Madam Secretary Jessica Barbara Pritzker oh, the.
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Megan Alexander
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Greg Gutfeld
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Jesse Waters
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Harold Ford Jr.
Welcome back. A couple's rubber ducky challenge for their house cleaners is sparking outrage. According to a Reddit post, a sticky note was pasted on a Mason jar inside the house saying, quote, get this to our cleaner. We hit a hundred mini ducks around the apartment. We did this to ensure a job well done. Please leave all ducks in this jar. It was very difficult to say this. Andy, what are your, what are your thoughts on this? Kind of.
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Megan Alexander
It's so incredibly condescending and it would take so much more work and cause so much more anxiety for the housekeeper to try and remember how many ducks were and then count them all at the end that it would actually compromise the job that they did. And if this happened, I would never clean those people's homes again. And I would probably leave something else in the jar that would be difficult to clean out.
- [34:43]
Harold Ford Jr.
Mr. Gutfeld, your thoughts about this kind of employment practices?
- [34:47]
Greg Gutfeld
Here's the thing. If you were to do this to your house cleaners, I would definitely buy new toothbrushes after they leave because I put them in a place where the sun don't shine.
- [35:03]
Harold Ford Jr.
Jesse, your thoughts about this?
- [35:04]
Jesse Waters
I think this is atrocious. I use cigarettes because then it's like a reward as you're kind of getting.
- [35:11]
Harold Ford Jr.
Her up to point Senate base.
- [35:13]
Jesse Waters
Sometimes I'll set traps. Like, I'll take a thing of dental floss just to check to see if she's gone into that room. And then I line it right up across the doorway. And then I'll ask her later, did you do the playroom? And if she says yes, and I see that that has not been broken, I punish her.
- [35:29]
Harold Ford Jr.
Any men ever clean your Home.
- [35:31]
Jesse Waters
Men cleaning home. What is this?
- [35:35]
Harold Ford Jr.
Emily, your thoughts, Emily, your thoughts about this kills me.
- [35:39]
Emily Compagno
I know you kill. I'm just asking under everything you say, I if this is true. Because my inclination is like, this is only for the clicks. But my favorite, this is like, when I love the Internet because everyone's responses were so funny and like the rage on behalf of the cliques. But my favorite one was that she should hide 100 I quit notes all over the apartment and let them find it in their own dang house.
- [36:02]
Greg Gutfeld
Well, that was fun.
- [36:03]
Harold Ford Jr.
Well, fan Mail Friday is up next.
- [36:18]
Megan Alexander
This is Ainsley Earhart.
- [36:19]
Emily Compagno
Thank you for joining me for the.
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Megan Alexander
52 episode podcast series, the Life of.
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Harold Ford Jr.
Jesus A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort and understanding of the greatest story ever told.
- [36:27]
Greg Gutfeld
Listen and follow now@foxnewsodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. All right, we got time for what?
- [36:37]
Harold Ford Jr.
What?
- [36:38]
Greg Gutfeld
One question from James. What is some music you are now ashamed or embarrassed to admit that you once loved? Let's go around the horn here and start with Ms. Glasses.
- [36:51]
Megan Alexander
I don't think there's anything I'm ashamed of. Like, I listen to weird stuff.
- [36:56]
Greg Gutfeld
Well, is there something that like a trend or a type of music? Don't say disco, because that's super.
- [37:00]
Megan Alexander
Disco's amazing.
- [37:01]
Harold Ford Jr.
Yeah.
- [37:02]
Megan Alexander
Like, I love the big years.
- [37:03]
Greg Gutfeld
Grunge.
- [37:04]
Megan Alexander
Grunge is great.
- [37:05]
Greg Gutfeld
Not all grunge.
- [37:06]
Megan Alexander
I even like Candlebox.
- [37:08]
Greg Gutfeld
No, don't say Candlebox.
- [37:11]
Emily Compagno
And maybe I woke up naked to Candle Box, you know?
- [37:17]
Greg Gutfeld
Sorry. You know Candle Box? Yes, of course.
- [37:19]
Emily Compagno
I know everything.
- [37:20]
Greg Gutfeld
Is there something that you listen to that you were embarrassed?
- [37:22]
Emily Compagno
In fact, everybody. Candlebox went to my sister's birthday party one year and they sang Happy Birthday to her.
- [37:26]
Greg Gutfeld
No way.
- [37:27]
Harold Ford Jr.
No.
- [37:27]
Greg Gutfeld
Oh, my God. What was that?
- [37:28]
Harold Ford Jr.
Like?
- [37:29]
Emily Compagno
I wasn't there. Oh, I know.
- [37:30]
Greg Gutfeld
Well, that's not a story.
- [37:31]
Emily Compagno
Yes, it is.
- [37:32]
Greg Gutfeld
No, it's not. It didn't happen to you.
- [37:33]
Emily Compagno
I too. The answer is no.
- [37:35]
Greg Gutfeld
Stolen story. Valor. No, I was having a stolen story. Valor.
- [37:39]
Emily Compagno
Whatever. I regret.
- [37:41]
Greg Gutfeld
Give me back your medals. Did you say a song or.
- [37:44]
Emily Compagno
No, no, I was saying. I'm like you. I regret nothing.
- [37:46]
Greg Gutfeld
Music is not even yacht rock.
- [37:48]
Megan Alexander
I love it.
- [37:49]
Emily Compagno
I love everything. I'm not ashamed of anything. Yachtly Crue is all amazing, but Norwegian death.
- [37:54]
Jesse Waters
So good.
- [37:55]
Greg Gutfeld
Jesse, do you even listen to music?
- [37:56]
Harold Ford Jr.
Yeah.
- [37:57]
Emily Compagno
No.
- [37:57]
Jesse Waters
I went through a year. I liked Anthrax and Pantera.
- [38:01]
Emily Compagno
I went to Pantera. I saw them in Jersey.
- [38:06]
Jesse Waters
It was the worst year of my life. Yeah, I started listening to it and then I started worshiping the devil and then bad things started happening to me and then I actually burned the cd.
- [38:16]
Greg Gutfeld
Wow, that's.
- [38:16]
Emily Compagno
Are you kidding?
- [38:17]
Jesse Waters
Got rid of.
- [38:18]
Harold Ford Jr.
I agree with Emily and Kennedy. There's nothing. I keep adding music. Yes, I keep adding stuff. So whoever asked that question, bless your heart, but add music to your life, bro.
- [38:27]
Emily Compagno
How about you?
- [38:28]
Greg Gutfeld
I don't know. I listen. I was in a novelty music period. Dr. Demento. I'm not ashamed of it, but I used to record his show on my little tape recorder.
- [38:39]
Jesse Waters
Heads.
- [38:39]
Greg Gutfeld
Roly poly fish heads. They're coming to take me away. Ha ha hee ho. The bunny farm where life is beautiful all the time.
- [38:48]
Jesse Waters
Yeah, that was your pill fizz.
- [38:52]
Harold Ford Jr.
Remember Eddie Murphy song. Remember? Party all the time.
- [38:54]
Greg Gutfeld
Party all the time. Party all the time. I love that song.
- [38:58]
Emily Compagno
Sixteen Candles.
- [39:07]
Greg Gutfeld
Tax act is here anytime you want to easily file your taxes. Tax act is here for the early birds who like to knock them out as soon as the season opens.
- [39:16]
Harold Ford Jr.
And for the procrastinators who like to.
- [39:18]
Greg Gutfeld
Wait until the very last minute.
- [39:20]
Harold Ford Jr.
Tax act is also here for the.
- [39:21]
Greg Gutfeld
Middlers who file right in the middle of tax season.
- [39:25]
Harold Ford Jr.
No one ever talks about the middlers.
- [39:28]
Greg Gutfeld
But taxact sees you and taxact respects you. Tax act. Let's get them over with.
- [39:40]
Emily Compagno
It's time for one more thing. Kennedy.
- [39:43]
Megan Alexander
So sad that we celebrate the incredible life and the tragic passing of Catherine o'. Hara. Her mark on culture is absolutely indelible. A brilliant comedian and comedy writer. Emmy winning writer for sctv. You know her from home alone, obviously. Moira Rose from Schitt's Creek best in show, Cookie Googleman. She will be so deeply missed. 71 way too soon. God bless her.
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Emily Compagno
Kevin, Greg.
- [40:13]
Greg Gutfeld
All right tonight, what a great show. We've got Kennedy, Kennedy, Adam Carolla, Andrew Gruel, Tom slew tonight at 10. Also here's my tour promo. Go to ggutvel.com I'll be in Westbury in February, Medford in March, Luth in April. In April. Let's do this.
- [40:33]
Emily Compagno
I went to space camp.
- [40:34]
Greg Gutfeld
Shut up, Greg. Sexy polar bear news. Let's roll it. Let's show them coda. Doing what.
- [40:44]
Jesse Waters
Part of the.
- [40:45]
Emily Compagno
I think we need to have that.
- [40:46]
Greg Gutfeld
It's a 21 year old Polar bear again at the Memphis zoo. Harold, you guys got this. You have the sexiest animals but I don't even have to tell you that. How many times were you arrested in the lion cage, huh? This hair of the polar bear is transparent and hollow. Much like Harold.
- [41:02]
Harold Ford Jr.
Oh my God.
- [41:03]
Greg Gutfeld
The white. You see is from the light being refracted through the fur. Look at that. Show me some more. I gladly will. Let it out, baby. Let it air out.
- [41:13]
Megan Alexander
I can't.
- [41:13]
Emily Compagno
I need to take a shower. Jesse, you're next.
- [41:15]
Jesse Waters
I actually saw that thing's penis. I had never seen polar bear penis before. But that you could not avoid that.
- [41:23]
Greg Gutfeld
You should come by my place.
- [41:26]
Jesse Waters
The judge said I can't go anywhere near your place. Let's go to Germany. The cultural festivities continue. Stag hunters.
- [41:33]
Emily Compagno
Nice.
- [41:34]
Jesse Waters
Centuries old deer calling competition. Special instruments like ox horns, snail shells, glass cylinders to mimic the sounds of a bellowing deer. I could do this all day. Look at how she blows that horn. Tonight. Jesse Waters, primetime Sydney Sweeney stands up to Hollywood.
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Greg Gutfeld
She's on your show.
- [41:54]
Jesse Waters
Yes.
- [41:55]
Greg Gutfeld
Oh, my God.
- [41:56]
Jesse Waters
In a way, she is.
- [41:58]
Emily Compagno
In a way, she is.
- [41:58]
Harold Ford Jr.
Harold, say that Tony feenow hit the first hole in one of the 2026 season out at the Farmers Insurance at Torrey Pines. Here it is right here. To par 16. I mean, the 16th hole. Part three. 216. Congrats, brother. Congrats. Here we go.
- [42:12]
Emily Compagno
Look at this calf with the babies on the couch, snuggling in from the cold. Put it up. There you go.
- [42:16]
Greg Gutfeld
Boom.
- [42:18]
Jesse Waters
Reggie, I just sold my car online.
- [42:20]
Greg Gutfeld
Let's go, grandpa. Wait, you did?
- [42:23]
Jesse Waters
Yep.
- [42:23]
Harold Ford Jr.
On Carvana.
- [42:24]
Jesse Waters
Just put in the license plate, answered.
- [42:26]
Greg Gutfeld
A few questions, got an offer in minutes.
- [42:28]
Jesse Waters
Easier than setting up that new digital picture frame.
- [42:31]
Greg Gutfeld
You don't say.
- [42:32]
Jesse Waters
Yeah, they're even picking it up tomorrow. Talk about fast.
- [42:35]
Greg Gutfeld
Wow. Way to go.
- [42:36]
Jesse Waters
So, about that picture frame. Forget about it. Until Carvana makes one, I'm not interested.
- [42:42]
Emily Compagno
Car selling made easy on Carvana. Pickup fees may apply.
- [42:48]
Harold Ford Jr.
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- [42:52]
Greg Gutfeld
Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.