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Dana Perino
Hello, everybody. I'm Dana Perino along with Kennedy, Jessica Tarloff, Jesse Waters and Greg Gutfeld. It's five o' clock in New York City. This is the five.
Jesse
I'm going to be going out tonight, I think with the, with the police, with the. And with the military, of course. So we're going to do a job. The National Guard is great. They've done a fantastic job.
Dana Perino
At any moment, President Trump is expected to go on patrol in D.C. riding alongside law enforcement and military personnel to witness firsthand the impact of his law and order crackdown, which so far it has delivered results. D.C. had a murder free week as Attorney General Pam Bondi touted 77 more arrests last night in the federal takeover. Trump is following in the footsteps of his cabinet who showed up at union station in D.C. yesterday. Vice President Fance, Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller, visiting guardsmen. But they also got heckled by left wing protesters.
Jesse Waters
The voices families. They're raising this city. They're the ones who've been advocating for the 1%, the criminals, the killers, the rapists, the drug dealers. So we're going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap. That goes because they're all over 90 years old and we're going to get back to the business of protecting the American people and the citizens of Washington.
Dana Perino
D.C. the media also expressing some outrage at Vance and Company. For them to talk about that these policies or bringing the National Guard is to actually make it safer for black communities is actually insulting.
Jesse
But J.D. vance took his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination to Union Station today to bring Shake Shack burgers to the National Guard troops.
Jessica Tarloff
They did not go to Union Station yesterday for fun. They did not go there to talk to the National Guard. They knew there were protesters there. They knew that. They went there to be on TV and to get these moments and get everyone talking about it.
Dana Perino
Greg, it occurs to me that the Democrats are going back in time, not just to 2020 when they wanted to defund the police, but farther back in time, like the 60s or 70s when they were against military.
Greg Gutfeld
Yeah, they can't win because the reflex is instinctive support for the bad guy because they've been brainwashed by their hatred for law enforcement, their hatred for Trump. So they end up def. Defending the worst of the worst. You know, carjackers are just misguided teens. Spousal abusers are. The Maryland dad, an alleged pedophile. He almost made it to be D.C. dad, but then he got caught. If terrorists flew planes into the building, they would blame it on Trump's love for tall buildings. They'd find a way. I don't think that the media has gotten to the realization that they can't do what they used to do. You know, you can't just grab disturbing footage of an arrest and portray the arrestee as a victim, because in a few hours, we always find out the guy is bad news. I love the ride. Along with Trump, he should try to make an arrest, maybe tase a molester. I would like that. And what Stephen Miller said, you know, it's ironic. Those are the guys that are defending the Black citizens of D.C. it's not white liberals. Those are the guys. You can paint them in their dark light as some kind of evil fascist, but they're the people that are actually making the city safer. And he's right about those protesters. We get them out here, not one of them is under the age of 77. And if you go up, it's sad. And if you go up to one of the women, because they'll be yelling and you go, excuse me, madam, where is your husband? Their heads will explode. One last thing. That the Dems willfully assume that systems cannot be corrupted, no matter what it is, whether it's asylum or transgenders in prison, illegals, criminal justice reform, they just think everybody's going to play by the rules. One guy actually claimed that ICE abducted his wife, and everybody freaked out. Until you saw video Dragging of him dragging something that looked like a body from his house. But Democrats can't assume that, like, they know how to game the system, because you will believe any lie that comes your way. That guy ended up fleeing the country because he was able to lie about what happened to his wife, which he obviously killed.
Dana Perino
Controller Own, could you please play the other sound bite from Vice President Vance talking about taking back cities?
Jesse Waters
If you've got the political will to enforce the law, you can make even cities like DC safe again, and that's what we're demonstrating. I hope the American people just recognize that you don't have to live with lawlessness.
Greg Gutfeld
You don't have to live with third world murder rates.
Jesse Waters
If you just take control of these cities, you can make them safe places to live in.
Dana Perino
Jesse, this reminded me of something that used to drive me a little bit crazy during the Biden administration, which, like, when, you know, when they weren't doing anything for, like, a long time, and you think, well, didn't you go there to solve problems? Like, isn't that what you want to do? And they're solving problems maybe on warp speed. Might make some people uncomfortable. But I do imagine that there are people in other cities like Philly that you're familiar with saying, could we get some help around here?
Jesse Waters
Yeah, they should send the guard everywhere. Biden could never walk the beat because he couldn't walk. And Kamala never did it because she was afraid of her prosecutor's shadow. I. I love that Trump's going out there like a general to inspect the troops. Sometimes I go walking through my pod to see my team booking and cutting tape, and I shake their hands and I introduce myself, and they're inspired. I'm inspired. I'm with Greg. This is the best episode of Cops we're ever gonna see. I hope he does a field sobriety test on some sloppy drunk kid from Georgetown. I hope someone they arrest and they pull drugs out of their pocket. And Trump's like, that's a lot of crack. I hope he goes out with the vice squad and finds Adam Schiff trying to score some dope and some women at some seedy hotel on the wrong side of the tracks. Women didn't say that. Not that there's anything wrong with that. And the media's all worried about them getting heckled. Of course it's D.C. any other politician would have astroturfed the station and had a bunch of guys in MAGA hats saying, 4 more years. These guys didn't care. They rolled up. They rolled, rolled out and that's fine. They keep saying the left, even though she's to my right, that crime is down. Okay. Homicides hit a 30 year high in 2023 in D.C. so they're down a little bit this last year. In an election year that's suspicious because they just started juicing the numbers. We just found out they had to suspend a guy for going into the computers at his precinct and downgrading felonies to misdemeanors. Jessica, did you see my show last?
Jessica Tarloff
Yeah, I was glued to the tv.
Jesse Waters
Good. So you saw the guy who runs the police union in D.C. say that when they get onto a scene and there's a kid with bullet holes all in his abdomen and one of the witnesses won't cooperate because it's gang related, a captain will come onto the scene and say, you know what, we're not going to call it a shooting, we're just calling it taking an injured guy to the hospital or if there's a stick up, armed robbery, guy's a gun, takes your cash and your phone, they'll come along and say, you know what? Not armed robbery, we'll just call it a theft, it's a misdemeanor. I wouldn't be surprised if the word went out in an election year last year in D.C. from maybe somebody in the White House. They have to make the crime numbers go down. And I bet it's bigger than just Washington D.C. i bet the word went out and that's why you had all these, oh, crimes down. Trust me, Jessica, you guys, when we start looking under the hood, you're going to see a bunch of fake numbers.
Dana Perino
One thing that amazes me about the contours of this debate as it unfolds is that the right is making it about crime and public safety. I'm not sure what the left is trying to make it about, but Jessica, I'll give you a shot.
Jessica Tarloff
I think that the left is trying to make it about states rights and being able to be in control of your own cities. J.D. vance makes that argument to Laura Ingraham. Like if you just let us in to take control, but it's states rights when it suits the right and then they don't care about it at all when it doesn't suit them. And we should be able to take care of our own cities. That doesn't mean that everything has been run perfectly, of course. But in terms of these doctored numbers, for instance, and the trend lines, while they were good enough to do President Trump and Cash Patel, I mean Cash Patel stood up in that press conference.
Greg Gutfeld
They didn't know they were doctored.
Jessica Tarloff
But he shouldn't. They know. Okay, sorry. Well, but J.D. vance is talking about the whole country, that if they just let them in and they went into Los Angeles as well. Anyway, I think Donald Trump going out on patrol will be a huge win for him. It'll be like McDonald's. It'll be like the garbage man. And we'll be talking about it for a long time. It's made for social media. It's perfect in that sense. And I defended an alleged child rapist yesterday by accident. So I don't really have many legs to stand on. But I go into which. Which I apologize for, and I would like that to be duly noted. But, you know, you say, like, it's all old white hippies that are protesting this, but there's mass disapproval of what they're doing within D.C. and it's not just from old white people, it's from black people, it's from Latino people.
Greg Gutfeld
And whenever they're interviewed, they're like, thank God I can actually, like, use the subway.
Jessica Tarloff
They took a billion dollars out of the D.C. budget, and they said they were going to put it back and they haven't. And that money would have gone to supporting school programs. It would have been going to pay cops, for instance. Donald Trump should work with Muriel Bowser and the police Chief to make D.C. safer instead of this authoritarian takeover.
Dana Perino
I lived there for many years. It doesn't matter how much money you throw at it, Kennedy, it doesn't get better. It hadn't gotten better.
Kennedy
Well, I think you can look at public safety the same way you look at schools. And no matter how much money, how many millions of dollars you put into a student throughout their life in that system, they don't come out literate on the other end. Muriel Bowser had an opportunity to work with the president. And at first she said she was going to, and then she did an about face. I don't disagree with you. I actually don't like the National Guard being the ones who are in charge of law enforcement. I think if you are looking at D.C. under the federal umbrella as part of home rule, then I think it should be federal law enforcement. And, you know, that may be splitting hairs, but I've always had an issue with the militarization of law enforcement. And I think we have enough federal law enforcement that they could be doing a great job right now. And, you know, you've got Homeland Security agents, you've got U.S. marshals, you've got FBI agents and I think you could make a coalition and do the same thing. And I think what the vice President is saying is if this has been so effective in a week that every crime plagued city in America can do the same thing with, without federal law enforcement, without militarization, and they should be doing that, but they have abdicated their responsibility to the citizens of these cities, especially in the poorest districts. So you get to a point where you know when you only have just shy of 300 homicides in a year, we want to throw a parade. No, every single one of those lives meant something. But not when you're trying to fudge the numbers with fuzzy math in order to show a better case for yourself. Because the bad case is what people feel when they walk around. People feel unsafe in D.C. you can say whatever you want, but if you feel bad, you're not going to want to live there and you're not going to want to visit.
Dana Perino
All right. At any moment, President Trump is set to go on patrol with law enforcement. So we will keep an eye on that and bring it to you. But coming up next, Gavin Newsom is going nuclear in the gerrymander arms race.
Greg Gutfeld
Gerrymander Want to punch these sons of.
Jesse
B in the mouth.
Greg Gutfeld
At the swim.
Jesse Waters
A bar with my waterproof credit car.
Jesse
Got the breeze and the hell on their feet.
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At any moment, President Trump will walk the beat with law enforcement. His motorcade is currently moving with Pam Bondi and Stephen Miller. But in the meantime, it's a full blown gerrymander arms race. The Texas House passing a redistricting map with five potential new red seats for Republicans. In retaliation, the California assembly passed their redistricting plan aimed at giving Dems five more seats in the House. Greasy got so mad he dropped 2R words. This is radical rigging of a midterm.
Jesse
Election, Radical rigging of an election, destroying.
Greg Gutfeld
Vandalizing this democracy, the rule of law. So I'm sorry, I know some people's sensibilities.
Jesse
I respect and appreciate that.
Greg Gutfeld
But right now, with all due respect, we're walking down a damn different path. We're fighting fire with fire and we're going to punch these sons in the mouth again. Fight fire with fire. Kind of doesn't really work after what you did to California. Barry O. Is giving Gavin's gambit and attaboy. Barack Obama says California's redistricting move is a race responsible approach to Republican tactics. And libs were reacting to the Texas maps by calling it racist.
Jesse
It is clear that the districts they're going after are not only Democratic, but they're mostly black or brown, a part.
Jesse Waters
Of racial gerrymandering as part of the racialist and racist agenda of the Trump administration.
Dana Perino
You can wave all the flags you want to, but I am telling you right now that the most unpatriotic people that we have in this country are.
Jessica Tarloff
MAGA and, and this president.
Dana Perino
We are the real patriots.
Jesse Waters
Donald Trump's rigged maps that disenfranchise black and brown voters.
Greg Gutfeld
This is more of an action of an authoritarian.
Kennedy
I have to leave.
Dana Perino
They said it's a felony for me to do this.
Jessica Tarloff
Apparently, I can't be on the floor.
Dana Perino
Or in the bathroom.
Greg Gutfeld
Kennedy. What kills me is I never see Democrats this passionate about anything. It's not about, I don't know, crime or immigration. It's about their vulnerability to some kind of little strategy that they've been doing for years. What gets them really passionate is power.
Kennedy
Yes, it is. That's all it is. It has always been a power grab. No matter where there has been redistricting, which has happened for years and years and years, the Supreme Court hasn't wanted to take it up and Gavin Newsom is being incredibly disingenuous here. Now, of course, California is run by Democrats. They have a Citizens Redistricting Commission and they're the ones who decide the maps. They say it's not partisan, but everything is partisan in California and it is all dictated by one side. But they can't just do it the way they did in Texas. They actually have to put this on the ballot. So the assembly has to vote to make this a ballot measure and then the citizens will decide. But since California is overwhelmingly Democratic, the chances of them getting an even bigger slice of the congressional pie is very, very high. There's already a higher number of Democrat congressional seats in California then there are Democrats in California. There aren't as many Republicans, but they do not have appropriate representation here. Democrats have been waiting for this. Unfortunately, the math is not on their side because they've already gerrymandered their state. So since Republicans haven't been playing this hand, they actually have more cards to play here with places like Indiana and Florida and, you know, some of the other states that are trending red.
Greg Gutfeld
That's a good point. The Dems are just mad that the Republicans are playing the game that they've been playing. Now they say it's not fair because we kind of wised up.
Dana Perino
There was this hearing today also where the Democrats in the legislature wouldn't want to answer any questions. And they brought in this witness who would not tell them who he was, where he was from, or who was funding him. And I think that if the people of California are going to have to go through this, they deserve to know that information. But there's one other thing that really is interesting about the Gavin Newsom piece. Aside from the performative antics from the week, people can decide what they think about it. But do you remember we Talked about Prop 36? This was the legislation that passed by 70% a bipartisan deal to make crime illegal again in California. And he is refusing to fund it. He won't put the funds towards implementing it. And guess what? The funds that would go towards implementing it, it's the same exact cost as this redistricting. That's pretty rich.
Greg Gutfeld
That's true, Jessica. In a way, if they just paid attention to voters concerns and less on redistricting, they wouldn't even need to redistrict.
Jessica Tarloff
No, that's absolutely not true.
Greg Gutfeld
Is it racist? I don't know. I mean, if gerrymandering is racist, then it was racist when they did it. We're all racist, Jessica. Just admit it.
Jessica Tarloff
I am not a racist.
Greg Gutfeld
And that's what a racist would say.
Jessica Tarloff
Do you guys rehearse this stuff before you come out here? I heard this is a Power grab on the part of the Democrats. And they've been doing this. We do not redistrict mid cycle. We do not elect people to the Oval Office who call up governors and say, get me five more seats, no matter what you have to do. We also don't elect people who ask for more votes than they actually earned. This is about what the Republicans are doing because they know that they're going to lose the midterms. No, And I get it.
Jesse Waters
Because you can't beat them.
Jessica Tarloff
Oh, stop it.
Greg Gutfeld
Yeah. You just swing an election so you get a dead guy in the office.
Jessica Tarloff
He's not dead. There's footage of him all the time, Greg.
Greg Gutfeld
Yes. That's deep face.
Jessica Tarloff
I get it. Some people might not like how Gavin Newsom is talking. You might not find his posts funny. It is absolutely working. His fundraising numbers for this just came out. 6.2 million from this week. 200,000 individual donors. And we have been having a problem in activating these.
Greg Gutfeld
You want him to be. You're nominated. Is he the guy?
Jessica Tarloff
I don't know if he's gonna have to be primary with everyone.
Greg Gutfeld
He has no achievements.
Jessica Tarloff
I'm just. He is eating up the attention right now. He is on every single show Jesse's talking.
Greg Gutfeld
Nobody.
Jessica Tarloff
Nobody who votes like you likes him. But every Democrat that I've spoken to has said, finally, someone is fighting.
Greg Gutfeld
Yeah, but he hasn't. The thing is, you can't. He can't point to anything he's done. What about fire? What about crime? What about homelessness? He can't. What about businesses leaving? I mean, you can fall in love with the performance. I get it, but there's nothing underneath in. Come on.
Jessica Tarloff
In this.
Greg Gutfeld
Give me one thing he's done besides his hair and his best friend's wife.
Jesse Waters
Wow.
Jessica Tarloff
Even talking about.
Greg Gutfeld
I'm just trying to think of his achievements, and that's the only thing I could do.
Jesse Waters
I got.
Greg Gutfeld
I got one deep.
Jessica Tarloff
He is making you talk about him all the time, which is what he wants to do. And Donald Trump.
Greg Gutfeld
I know.
Jesse Waters
He's the topic again.
Greg Gutfeld
I didn't.
Jessica Tarloff
Donald Trump, of all people, knows that if they're talking about you, that that's a good thing for you.
Jesse
Yeah.
Greg Gutfeld
But the difference is Trump actually did things in his life that were good for people. Not bad to his friends, Jesse.
Jessica Tarloff
Not bad to his friends.
Greg Gutfeld
Yeah.
Jessica Tarloff
Really? He stiffed, like, every contractor who's worked for him.
Dana Perino
Stiff people.
Kennedy
All right.
Greg Gutfeld
Jesse.
Jesse Waters
Yes.
Greg Gutfeld
I'm gonna go to you.
Jesse Waters
Okay.
Greg Gutfeld
And ask you this question.
Jesse Waters
Please don't ask me about redistricting.
Greg Gutfeld
All right, what do you have to say on this topic?
Jesse Waters
I was gonna say that I've never seen anybody de transition like Evan Newsom. The guy was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle. Okay.
Greg Gutfeld
Yeah.
Jesse Waters
And then goes crazy, starts marching in gay pride par. Starts locking down like Fauci and crying on television. Now he's talking like Mike Tyson. Give me a break. Jessica is right, though. His media team has game. They're spitting all this hot stuff, these memes. I think it's funny. He said, all your audience does is fake laugh at your dumb jokes. I think that's hilarious.
Jessica Tarloff
But we had daddy stuff with you.
Jesse Waters
We had the governor of Florida on last night, and Desantis said, you know, this guy talks a big game, but no one can get a permit to rebuild their house in the Palisade.
Kennedy
Thank you.
Jesse Waters
So it's all sizzle, no steak. I have a feeling like this guy reminds me of Beto o'.
Greg Gutfeld
Rourke.
Jesse Waters
He's like the Beto of San Francisco. You know, tall, slim, moves his hands a lot, but, like, makes noise, but no one respects him. Gavin's like the guy that always wanted to be a politician and just happened to grow up in San Francisco. So he's like, all right, I'll just be a Democrat. If I got my hands on him, I could totally bring out the potential in him. He is like one of those guys that, like, you know, first round draft pick, kind of a risky move. Lot of potential, but also poor work ethic, a lot of baggage. But if you could just get him in front of some good coaching, maybe send him to the combine. He's got a fast mouth, hot wife, looks good in a suit. But the problem is he doesn't have that first round quarterback moxie that can rally a locker room. And that's really what you do when you gamble on these guys. Two problems. Big Nancy Pelosi is his mentor. You never want to have a female mentor if you're a guy.
Greg Gutfeld
Really?
Jesse Waters
Yes, it's obvious. Second, he's not strong enough. Americans want power, and Democrats really want power. They want an fdr, they want a Trump. They want a Teddy Roosevelt. Someone to come in and knock heads together. Gavin Newsom has never shown an ability to not care what the radical left thinks and just do what he thinks is right. So until he gets that, he's got nothing.
Kennedy
He's the Shador Sanders of presidential politics.
Jesse Waters
Hey, it's still early.
Greg Gutfeld
All right. We are waiting for Trump to go on patrol. He's arrived at a park police operations facility or PUFF in Southeast D.C. up next, grab your earplugs. Kamala's booked herself a loser tour.
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Kennedy
Hello. President Trump is at a police facility in Southeast D.C. and earlier, he was sizing up the 2028 Democratic bench.
Jesse
Watch this come. And this guy, Pritzker. Big slob. Big slob. Terrible Governor. Too much deep. They don't have much of a bench. Yeah, put it mildly. Well said. I think they should go with Jasmine Crockett.
Kennedy
Well, by Jessica's logic, they should, because she gets a lot of airtime. Well, that comes as the ghosts of elections pass come back to haunt them like a game of whack. A loser. Kamala Harris is popping her head up again. Yesterday, she did a fake swearing in for Congressman Robert Garcia as ranking member of the House Oversight Committee. But Cam's not stopping there. She's also hitting the road for a 15 city book tour to pedal her lesser hyped memoir, 107 Days. There are international stops in the UK and Canada. She even put out this hype video to get you guys so pumped. Watch.
Jesse
It's good to be home.
Greg Gutfeld
Shortest presidential campaign of all time.
Dana Perino
Live from New York in 79.
Kennedy
107 days. Should be called $1.5 billion, shouldn't it? Because no matter how much money you raise, you still can't buy the presidency.
Dana Perino
Huh.
Jessica Tarloff
Well, isn't that a good thing?
Dana Perino
Sure it is.
Kennedy
Yeah.
Dana Perino
This is some work.
Kennedy
I mean, but you just said Gavin Newsom's raising all this money.
Jessica Tarloff
Well, you need it.
Kennedy
As if fundraising automatically gets you the White House.
Jessica Tarloff
No, but it shows that people do want you to continue doing whatever it is that you're doing. That was the point. I mean, he was out there talking like that, and no one was giving him any money, and he wasn't getting any social media hype. Then I'd say it's obviously a completely lost cause. It's not a slam dunk that this is going to work, though. He has 60% approval from California residents on it. And the same thing with Kamala. Like, what's the big deal? She wrote a book. Everyone writes a book. I don't, I don't get why it's so embarrassing, honestly.
Kennedy
I mean, if you write a book about the worst period, political period of your life and you're not honest about.
Jessica Tarloff
Your failures, know what's in the book, first of all. And second of all, Kamala Harris, when she took over being top of the ticket, saved us from losing Senate seats all across this country. Like Ruben Gallego would have lost. Jackie Rosen could have lost Tammy Baldwin, Alyssa Slotkin. Like, she lifted a lot of boats. And we are thankful for that part of it.
Kennedy
You raise me. Okay, let's, let's go from a big loser to a big slob. The president not mincing words about JB Pritzker. What do you have to say about his most recent comments? Jesse?
Jesse Waters
JB back ribs. You know, he's a non issue for me. Chris Matthews is right. Like we just checked to see what the Democrats have been talking about. Could we, could we throw to that? They know that surge at the border.
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Jesse Waters
The, on the issue of trans people playing women's sports. That ad ran in every sports event. People in the Democratic Party said to me, that's not my Democratic Party. Why are we fighting for that? It's an 80, 20% issue. They've got to pick three hard economic issues. Interest rates, inflation, tariff. And they've got to say that's what we're running on, not all this other crap. So the Democrats over the last couple of months have talked about redistricting, Jeffrey Epstein, Elon Musk, mass deportations. They mentioned the cost of living once for a week about eggs. And then Trump stopped killing chickens and the egg prices dropped. And now they don't talk about it at all. You might be the only one that ever jimmies in a cost of living analysis, Jessica. And usually it's bogus.
Greg Gutfeld
That's voters.
Jesse Waters
I don't think they're going to trust the Democrats when they're talking about inflation. Why should they? The Democrats never cared when they were the ones that jacked it up from the spending and the lockdowns. Now they're just pretending to care. Give me a break. Inflation right now is at 2.7%. That is the lowest rate of any of the four Biden years. It looks like a lot of these companies, a majority are eating the tariffs, but it doesn't mean that it's not still an issue. Jessica, I will concede that we still have to get the cost of living under control. And Donald Trump has to be a lot more aggressive. That's why I'd fire Powell tomorrow.
Dana Perino
And speaking of that, we have a FOX News alert now. President Trump is on patrol in D.C. with law enforcement and military personnel. And we can listen in here as he's talking.
Jesse
Right where. Okay. Hello. It's a healthy, attractive looking group of people. That's good. Well, I just want to thank everybody very much for being here. I wanted to do this. We've had some incredible results. The results have come out and it's like a different place. It's like a different city. It's the capital. It's going to be the best in the world. We're going to do what you're doing with law enforcement. And very importantly also, we're going to physically do it. We're going back to Congress for some money and we're going to redo a lot of the pavement, a lot of the medians, a lot of the, the graffiti is all coming off real fast. It's going to come down real fast. We're working with Clark Construction. They're one of the big ones. They're the biggest here by far, actually. And we're going to be not so much building. It's cleaning and fixing and redoing and putting brand new surfaces down on your roads and streets. And when people come in from the airport all the way to the Capitol or the White House or anyplace else, they go and they're going to say, boy, this place is spotless. So we're doing that. Most importantly, though, we're going to have a crowd of people that are going to be happy. You know, I've received more phone calls from people in the last four days than I ever have. I've been here now four years plus. And by the way, I think we had about the best seven months they're saying that any president's had. We've done a lot of work. We've done a lot of good work, including the biggest tax cuts that you've ever had. I know you guys don't care about taxes, so you don't care about saving a little tax, but you saved a lot of tax, actually. But we've had a great, great period of time. But I've never received so many phone calls thanking me for what we've done in Washington, D.C. from people that haven't gone to a restaurant in literally in four years. And they said, you know, what you've done is. It's unprecedented. Because what they. They. They said it was just unsafe. We couldn't do it. We'd go out and you'd see the stories, you'd read the stories. You'd see all of the things that are happening. And they said, we just. We couldn't. We couldn't stand it, sir. Now I take my wife and my kids to dinner. One of them said, he's gone out four nights in a row, and he hadn't gone out for four years. So it's. It's a great tribute to you. And when I look at you people, I understand why. Because there's no games, right? We're not playing games. We're going to make it safe, and we're going to then go on to other places, but we're going to stay here for a while. We want to make this absolutely perfect. It's our capital, and I guess it used to be many years ago, say, but it's certainly not had a very good run. And you got to be strong, you got to be tough. You got to do your job. Whatever it takes to do your job, you got to do your job. But the crime numbers are way down. I'm looking at. You saw some of the stats. They just read them out to me inside the numbers that we haven't seen here ever, actually, ever. And I think it's probably right now, it's. To me, I feel very safe now, and I'm hearing people are very safe. But I know within two weeks, it's going to be. Pam, it's going to be at a level that's even far superior. So I just came. I just wanted to thank you all. You're doing incredible. You're incredible people. You make the country run, frankly, you make the whole place run. We're going to have the best capital ever. We're going to have the. It's going to look better than it ever did, even at the White House. I'm building a ballroom. They've been after a ballroom for 150 years, but they never had a real estate guy as a president. You know, I've done a lot of ballrooms, and we're going to make this one the best of them all. But we're doing a real job. As far as the country is concerned, we're respected again. We had a country that was laughed at a year ago. They were. They thought they couldn't understand what was happening. And it's about leadership. But we had a country that was A dead country in many ways. Went to Saudi Arabia, I went to Qatar, I went to UAE. We came back with $5.1 trillion of investment in this country. And we're over 17 trillion now. A lot of you don't know what that means. And nobody knows what it means because it's never happened before in five months because really it's a five month, even though we're here seven but we started five months ago in terms of investment and we have, because they see what's happened to our country. We're going to be over 17 trillion trillion with a T dollars of investment. There's never been anything close. If we did 1 trillion in a year and we're talking about over a five month period, maybe six months if you look at it. But seven, over $17 trillion. We're building plants, auto plants, AI plants, all sorts of plants all over the country. I'm giving them the right. Lee Zeldin's done a fantastic job. We're giving the right to build electric plants. They become almost like a public utility because we have old grids, we have a lot of stuff that's old. We wouldn't be able to compete with China AI and now we're totally leading the AI race and the artificial intelligence. It's a big deal and it's the hottest thing there is for probably in 35, 40 years. It's a lot of people don't know what it is. Just trust me, it's very hot, it's big. But they need massive amounts of electricity. They need more electricity than we have right now in the whole country, servicing everything. In other words, we have to at least double it up to be competitive and to be leading. And we're more than doubling it up. And what I'm doing is I'm letting all of these very rich companies and they've got nothing, but they got a lot of money and they want to invest it in the United States and they're building big plants, but they're building electric plants with it. I said you build your, your building and these are buildings that cost 30, 40, $50 billion when you include everything that's inside, all the technology. I said I'm going to let you build electric plants to fire your own electricity. And anything that you have left over, you sell it back into the grid. So all of these big factories that are being built are building their own electric plants fired by oil and gas. They're not fired by wind, by the way, because wind doesn't work. But we won't say that it destroys everything. It looks terrible. It's a very expensive form of energy. And we're not doing the wind. We're going back to fossil fuel. I hope not too many of you people are going to be upset, but we have to go back to what works. We can't be foolish. But we are. We're building massive electric plants all over the country. The companies are building and then they sell it back into the grid. But we're building numbers that nobody's ever seen. We're auto plants. We have many auto plants going up. Whereas during the last four years, as you know, we had like, none. We people weren't investing here. So where they weren't investing and they were leaving. But I just finished by saying this. So I was with the king of Saudi Arabia, I was with all of the NATO leaders a couple of weeks ago, and they are putting up not 2% but 5%, they said 5% of GDP. That's a lot of money. They'll have trillions of dollars put up. They were putting up two, but they weren't paying it. Now they're putting up five, and they're all paying it. And they all said the same thing. They said one year ago your country was dead. We never thought it was coming back. And now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world. These are the leaders of other countries, the prime ministers and the presidents all, every one of them said essentially the same thing, said we had a dead country. And we were, we felt that way. And we were. And this place was emblematic of it, with the crime, the horrible crime. And, you know, I, I watch these phony reports. Oh, we were on the way back. They weren't on the way back. They were. It was worse than ever just a short while ago. But now it's going to be, I think now, right now it's better than it has been in years. And in a couple of weeks it's going to be even far better than that. And everybody is safe now. Everybody feels safe. And they're all coming in. And people are now coming in, they're making reservations to come in, and they want to be in Washington D.C. one of the things we're going to be redoing is your parks. I'm very good at grass because I have a lot of golf courses all over the place. I know more about grass than any human being, I think, anywhere in the world. And we're going to be regressing all of your parks, all brand new sprinkler systems, the best that you can buy. Just Like Augusta. It'll look like Augusta. It'll look like, more importantly, Trump National Golf Club. That's even better. But we're going to look. We're going to have all brand new, beautiful grass. You know, like everything else, grass has a life. Do you know that grass is alive? You know, we have a life and grass has a life. And the grass here died about 40 years ago. So we're going to be rebuilding all of your parks, and it's going to happen fast. It's going to go up like a miracle. So you do the job on safety, and I'll get this place fixed up physically, and we're going to be so proud of it at the end of six months. But let's say at the end of a year, this place will be maxed out in terms of beauty. You'll have all new surfaces. You'll have all new. And medians. Everything's going to look beautiful. A lot of your signs are going to be taken down. They've been up for 40 years. They look like hell. They look. They're barely standing up. They're falling off the. Off their holders. And we're going to have all new everything. And I want to just thank Doug for doing such an incredible job. You've been unbelievable. You're a popular guy. No, he's an amazing guy. He's an amazing guy. Everybody love. We love you. And his wife is so unbelievable. Incredible. But thank you very much. I appreciate it. And then Pam, thank you very much. What a job. She's. People don't realize they're going to see. She'll go down as the greatest attorney general we've had. I really mean it, too. And where's my Christie? You're dear. Thank you very much. She's been incredible. And she can ride a horse like nobody. She gets on those horses. She rips those horses around. But I want to thank you very much. And Steve Miller, so, so fantastic. And Todd. Todd Blanche, who's been with me so long, and he's one of the best lawyers you'll ever find. And we're having a lot of victories. I had a victory today. You know, they stole $550 million from me with a fake case and it was overturned. They said this was a fake case. It's terrible thing. But that's a nice victory. You know, I mean, it's not bad. You know, we all have. We all have our limits, but this was a terrible thing that done. It was a witch hunt. And I've had more witch hunts than any human Being, I think, in history. And here we are with the President of the United States. So it didn't work out too well for them, but maybe now it's turned a little bit. These are very dishonest people. We have to fight. We have to win because we have to win and you people are winners. And I just think it's really, it's such an honor to be with you. And, and we're going to make Washington D.C. great again. We're making our country great again. The country is very close to being great. When they say it's the hottest country in the world, they mean it. And this capital is right now, after four days, five days, it's at a level that you haven't seen in a long time. And it's all because of you. So I want to thank you all very much. It's an honor to be with you and we'll always be with you. We're going to be with you for as long as I'm around. You're going to be treated. There's nobody more important. And thank you all very much for being here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Doug, would you like to say something? Thank you, everyone. President Trump.
Dana Perino
President Trump handing the microphone to the Interior Secretary, Doug Burgum. Of course, the Interior Secretary oversees all of the D.C. parks, and that's where a lot of this crime and homelessness has been taking place. So that's one of the reasons that he has gathered there. They're at the police station in Anacostia, that's just across the river from the Capitol, and one of the areas, especially in Ward 7 and 8, that have a lot of the crime. He went there to thank everybody, to highlight the results, but also talked about a lot of different things that's going on in his administration. So we'll take it on the table real quick and get thoughts on this. Hands on President.
Greg Gutfeld
I think it's just rude that we didn't listen to Doug Burgum. I needed to hear from Doug. You know, he's the boss. He's like, I don't know if you've ever. I've had bosses that when they come, they like to come down, they like to talk to the troops, and you gotta listen and they, and no matter what they say, you gotta go, mm, grass has life. Grass has life. But I, you know, I think it's like everywhere. I don't think he gets fazed by this stuff, but I think the people around him are always kinda like, this is kind of amazing that you could tell Your kids or whatever that I had. President Trump came to where I worked.
Dana Perino
Right.
Greg Gutfeld
And talk to us, and he repeats stuff that we've heard. But there's three rules to persuasion, repetition, repetition, and repetition. Repetition. And he always takes every opportunity to repeat things that maybe we've heard, but maybe somebody else hasn't. And it just kind of like, sinks in over time.
Dana Perino
I think he also has a special way Kennedy of like, a little bit of a touch to say thank you.
Jesse
Right.
Dana Perino
And that's one of the things that, as you said, these guys never thought they'd meet the President of the United States, but he's there. He's probably shaking hands after this for a long time.
Kennedy
Yes. And you know, he loves the military, he loves law enforcement. So he is definitely going to spend time with some of those people. As you were saying, it would have been nice if they had had some questions for him. We might see that a little later on. But. And I also think that in the softening since the assassination attempt, the first assassination attempt, you have seen a more effusive president. And, you know, he is softer and much more likely to tell someone like Doug Burnham, who at one point ran for president against President Trump, that he loves him.
Dana Perino
Yeah.
Kennedy
And it's also interesting to see two former Dakota governors right there in a federal park next to the President of the United States, part of his cabinet.
Dana Perino
Let's go, Dakotas. Any thoughts, Jessica? I. Oh, well, dip back in when president. Here we go, the hamburgers.
Jesse
Have a good time, everybody. Thank you very much, Christy. Thank you very much, darling. Thank you, everybody. Thank you.
Dana Perino
All right, so he was wrapping it up there. He bought everybody pizza. And you know, that's always crowd favorite. We just have about 45 seconds left. Go ahead, Jessica.
Jessica Tarloff
I thought there were like 100 pizzas that came in here yesterday. I'm sure there were some happy people on another floor. If this is all that the patrol is, then I'm disappointed because I thought it was going to be, like, in a vest and like driving around with. Well, that would have been the most memeable version of this time.
Dana Perino
The night is young.
Jessica Tarloff
Maybe he'll do it later. But you just got to point out, he says, you know, people going out to restaurants, restaurant reservations are 31% down year over year compared to.
Greg Gutfeld
What did you hear about year over year?
Jesse Waters
You're comparing restaurants, restaurant week from last.
Jesse
Year to this year.
Greg Gutfeld
That's why the numbers went down.
Jesse Waters
That's already been debunked. What? God, debunking you is so difficult.
Greg Gutfeld
God, they come to Peter Baker story. He compared the week of this crackdown with restaurant restaurant week last year, and he didn't tell you. So it's kind of on Peter Baker. But we did the research and we found out. Yeah.
Dana Perino
Jesse, what last words do you have before I mean that?
Jesse Waters
Well, that's just a great last word. Anytime you debunk a Jessica hoax, we can just end on that. I would say one thing in all seriousness. Jessica called this guy an authoritarian, okay? He's getting rid of graffiti, homeless people, illegal aliens, and criminals. And he's making your parks more beautiful. And he's just bringing in the National Guard to stand by the monument so they can free up the D.C. police to do sweeps in the hardcore neighborhoods. If that's authoritarianism, I like it.
Jessica Tarloff
You've always liked authoritarianism.
Jesse Waters
Okay, give me more.
Greg Gutfeld
What's your alternative? That's all. I just want to know your alternative to any of this. And it can't be a hoax.
Jessica Tarloff
Kennedy laid it out very nicely that you don't need to be using federal troops for this.
Dana Perino
Okay? We are monitoring this law enforcement visit in D.C. there might be more to come on that. And we also have one more thing up next.
Jesse Waters
Yay.
Greg Gutfeld
Finally, from the Fox News Podcasts Network.
Kennedy
Hey there, it's me, Kennedy. Make sure to check out my podcast, Kennedy Saves the World. It is five days a week, week, every week. Download and listen@foxnewspodcast.com or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.
Dana Perino
It's time now for one more thing. Greg.
Greg Gutfeld
Oh, is it me? Tonight we have cat camp, Jim Florentine, Liz McDonald, Tyrus. Tonight, 10pm hey, let's do this. Greg's absolutely disgusting news with Rhetts in. Hey, you know what's disgusting? Disgusting? A bunch of pricks. Check out this baby porcupine. It's called a porcupet. Isn't it adorable? It's. Yes. It's a prehensile tailed porcupet at the San Diego. You don't think that's adorable?
Dana Perino
Nope.
Greg Gutfeld
What's wrong with you? Their quills are soft like hair, but they quickly sharpen a few weeks after birth. Imagine falling on that in the shower. Jesse. Huh? That's gonna be hard to explain to your wife. I fell on it. Not anymore. The zoo is asking the public to pick a name. The options are Piquito, Pimento, and Peking.
Dana Perino
Hmm.
Greg Gutfeld
I go with Pimento. I say Pimento. That's a great name.
Dana Perino
Are they gonna eat it?
Greg Gutfeld
You don't eat porcupine.
Jesse
Look at that.
Greg Gutfeld
What A doll. How can you not like that? Dana, you are a heartless fiend from hell.
Dana Perino
Yep. Finally the truth is out. Okay. A robot went rogue at one at a home in Australia. Check this out. So this little vacuum cleaner, he decided to go take himself for a walk and. Well, let's just say it didn't go that well. Let's see if we can go. Wow. Okay.
Greg Gutfeld
Anyway, so that's funny to you?
Dana Perino
Yeah, that's funn to me.
Greg Gutfeld
That's funny. A robot is murdered.
Dana Perino
That's right. Exactly.
Greg Gutfeld
30 years from now, they're going to look at this like slavery.
Dana Perino
Yep. Well, hopefully I'll still be here. All right, Jessica.
Jessica Tarloff
Okay. Happy 106th birthday to March Madness legend, Sister Jean. Love her. Jean is the chaplain for the Loyola Chicago Ramblers men's basketball team, who shot to fame during their 2018 Final Four push. Sister Jean is a viral part of the Ramblers team, offering scouting reports and courtside prayers. The beloved nuns virality stretched internationally, making news in Mexico and Britain. Happy birthday, Sister Jean.
Dana Perino
Happy birthday. Okay, what do we got, Kennedy?
Kennedy
Well, bears. They're not just for breakfast anymore. They're breaking into homes. This is a bear breaking into a home in Pine Mountain Club, California. Like, oh, hey, what do we have in here? He found cookies and dog kibble and.
Dana Perino
Even a. Oh, look at that backside.
Greg Gutfeld
Does he have a collar?
Jesse Waters
No.
Dana Perino
I love is that he gets a basket collar.
Kennedy
Daddy.
Dana Perino
He just takes the whole basket.
Kennedy
Yeah, takes it all outside. Takes the sugar, the cookies, the dog food, and enjoys a nice plentiful feast under the California stars.
Greg Gutfeld
I say that's barely legal.
Dana Perino
Kill me, Jessie.
Jesse Waters
Well, Sister Jean's gonna be excited about this because Grandparents Day is right around the corner. Did you even know Grandparents Day existed? I don't even know what the date is, but Fox Shop's got you covered. New and exclusive gifts for grandparents collection is now available. We got blankets. You can snuggle under those blankets and get frisky with your grandparents mugs.
Dana Perino
What?
Jesse Waters
Frisky.
Greg Gutfeld
You know, Jesse, we know what it means.
Jesse Waters
Matching grandma grandpa sweatshirts. Greg hands.
Greg Gutfeld
Jesse, you know what this is great for?
Jesse Waters
Tell us. Take a look. Take a look.
Greg Gutfeld
So maybe, just maybe, your grandfather is a meth head and he stays up all day and all night doing drugs. This is a perfect thing to cover the window in his studio apartment downtown.
Dana Perino
Yeah, look at that.
Greg Gutfeld
You can put this on the outside.
Dana Perino
On the other side. It's fuzzy.
Greg Gutfeld
Yeah, it's fuzzy. This is. Oh, this is fantastic.
Jessica Tarloff
Or to get frisky with him.
Dana Perino
But there are onesies as well.
Jesse Waters
Greg, you do realize the more stuff we sell, the more money you make.
Greg Gutfeld
No, this doesn't go to us. This does not go to us.
Jesse Waters
You don't get a check.
Greg Gutfeld
We don't get a check.
Jesse Waters
I get a check.
Greg Gutfeld
No, I don't.
Jesse Waters
I get checks. That's probably because you isn't great, though.
Greg Gutfeld
They just took all the swag that we already had and added the word grandpa to it, basically. To go. Let's do Half Sisters next week. This is for your. It's half sisters. Do you have a step. Do you have a step for that? I don't know. Yes.
Dana Perino
I don't know what the date is.
Jesse Waters
They're telling me to interrupt qvc. Okay. You know, we sell Gutfeld merch, too. I guess you don't want to sell that, dude. I love that. And a lot of grandparents watch that, too. Tonight, Jesse Waters primetime. Johnny was in D.C. asking about Crime Watch.
Greg Gutfeld
Is D.C. a safe place?
Dana Perino
I got junk at the corner store right there by the gas station.
Jesse Waters
Greenway. Why the is this not locked up? She even pepper sprayed her own daughter.
Dana Perino
What you mean?
Jesse Waters
What you mean? Johnny's here?
Kennedy
Now I know why Dana says I want to see Johnny's package.
Dana Perino
I definitely do. All right. Has been quite a show.
Jesse Waters
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Jesse
And don't miss the show.
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FOX News Podcasts — August 21, 2025
This episode centers on President Trump's unprecedented decision to join Washington D.C. police and military personnel for a “ride-along” patrol, highlighting his administration's law-and-order crackdown in the capital. The Five panel debates the motivations and impact of this visible intervention, broader questions of urban crime, federal versus local control, and Democratic responses. In the second half, attention turns to high-stakes gerrymandering battles in Texas and California—and speculation around key political figures on both sides. The panel also discusses the effectiveness of Trump’s highly visible leadership approach and closes with lighter, offbeat stories and inside banter.
Segment start: [01:19]
"We're going to ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap… we're going to get back to the business of protecting the American people and the citizens of Washington." ([02:04])
"You can paint them in their dark light as evil fascist, but they're the people actually making the city safer." ([03:07])
"In a few hours, we always find out the guy is bad news. I love the ride-along with Trump; he should try to make an arrest, maybe tase a molester." (Greg, [03:40])
"They didn't go to Union Station yesterday for fun... They knew there were protesters there. They went there to be on TV." ([02:47])
Key Quote:
“If you've got the political will to enforce the law, you can make even cities like D.C. safe again, and that's what we're demonstrating.”
— Vice President Vance, played at [05:28]
Trump’s address begins: [29:37]
"We're not playing games. We're going to make it safe, and then go on to other places, but we're going to stay here for a while." ([around 30:30])
“There’s three rules to persuasion—repetition, repetition, and repetition." ([42:19])
"If that’s authoritarianism, I like it." ([44:58])
Segment start: [14:35]
Key Quotes:
“It is clear that the districts they're going after are not only Democratic, but they're mostly black or brown, as part of the racialist and racist agenda of the Trump administration.”
— Jesse, summarizing Democratic critiques ([15:49])
“The Dems are just mad that the Republicans are playing the game that they've been playing.”
— Greg ([18:06])
Kamala Harris’s “107 Days” Book Tour: ([25:21])
Democratic Messaging Critique:
“People in the Democratic Party said to me, that's not my Democratic Party. Why are we fighting for that? It's an 80-20 issue. They've got to pick three hard economic issues: interest rates, inflation, tariffs…” ([28:00])
Greg (on crime reporting):
“If terrorists flew planes into the building, they would blame it on Trump's love for tall buildings.” ([03:07])
Jesse (on morale and optics):
“I love that Trump's going out there like a general to inspect the troops. … This is the best episode of Cops we're ever gonna see.” ([06:05])
Jessica (on the show's spectacle):
“I think Donald Trump going out on patrol will be a huge win for him. ... It’s made for social media.” ([09:26])
Greg (on repetition):
"There’s three rules to persuasion—repetition, repetition, and repetition." ([42:19])
Kennedy (on militarization):
“I’ve always had an issue with the militarization of law enforcement.” ([10:53])
Lively, combative, and satirical; consistent with The Five's signature banter. Panelists tease one another, intersperse sharp criticism of Democrats, and frequently break the fourth wall with jokes and personal asides. The tone is openly partisan but also self-aware, with moments of levity even in heated debates.
The episode foregrounds the dramatic optics and political maneuvering around Trump’s direct engagement with law enforcement as proof of his “hands-on leadership.” The panel is united in skepticism toward Democratic leadership, crime statistics, and redistricting rhetoric, but Kennedy and Jessica provide internal dissent around the use of federal force and the dangers of spin. Trump’s presence in D.C. is repeatedly held up as both symbolic and substantively effective—a “reality show” leadership style for a polarized era.
Summary prepared for listeners seeking a robust, timestamped overview of the episode's core debates, highlights, and recurring themes, with key quotes for reference.