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I said unconditionally, I said unconditional is where they cry uncle. Or when they can't fight any longer, there's nobody around to cry uncle. That could happen too because you know, we've wiped out their leadership numerous times already. So it's if they surrender or if there is nobody around to surrender, but, but they're rendered useless in terms of military this.
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As Democrats and many in the media ramping up their criticisms of Epic Fury with some folks accusing the President of being drunk on power.
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This is Wilsonian adventurism at its very worst. Something that conservatives, real conservatives like me have long feared and loathed.
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Sort of drunk on power. This sort of drunk on, on, on
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militarism always leads to disaster.
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If you support the troops, then you should be voting against funding this war. The President has not even tried to convince the American people.
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And now listen to the President from just moments ago, doing really well.
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I mean at a level that nobody thought. We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil. And I think you'll see it's going to be a short Term excursion. How good is our military? Right. Amazing. How good? Short term. Short term.
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You would like to think, Jesse, that everybody could agree that our military is extraordinary.
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Of course, Afghanistan was a 20 year war. We are now in day eight of this operation. He says it's ahead of schedule because they have very little air Force or navy left and the missile launches and drone launches are down 90%. Has the regime collapsed yet? No. And that was part of the strategy going in. The deputy commanders were given full authority that if their bosses were killed, they could continue to wage war independently. So that's what you're seeing here. And those deputies obviously are going to have to be dealt with also. Someone who has to be dealt with is the son of the Ayatollah. And once he is dealt with, I think that will hopefully send a message to the regime remnants that there's a new reality and they're going to have to give up their ambitions. But the big question is, Dana, will a militant theocratic police state that's been ruled by clerics and militia and army for 40 years all of a sudden change their stripes under pressure? I think we're about to find out. But they are losing the war very badly. So now they're waging an economic war and they're starting to hit Arab oil infrastructure and they hit a few tankers. So they've closed the strait effectively. A couple cargo ships are going through, but not enough. So the President is very sensitive to the price of oil. He's gotten the Europeans to signal that they may release some of their reserves. But I don't think you're going to see oil at 150 or 200. That would be a catastrophe. And right now it looked like it was up over 110 and it then closed below 90 and the market rallied. So I think you'll hear from the president at 5:30 when he speaks to the country, that message that we are way ahead of schedule. He's got a control of the world energy oil market and we should be hopefully wrapping this operation up very soon. I hope he's right. You never know.
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Harold, what are you thinking today?
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It's good to be back. I think Jesse is largely right. I would say the President took a hard look at the economic. The strategy pursued by the Iranians, which to Jesse's point was largely to impart economic pain on us and the world, even though we in the United States don't use as much oil as we did 20 years ago or 40 years ago. And our economy, as I tried to say Last week has grown considerably over the last 50 years. But our consumption of oil has not for a variety of good reasons. Oil is a global commodity, so it's affecting global markets. And in addition, it affects us because of the reverberations it has in the transportation and agricultural sector. So everything we consume or eat, everything we need to live oil is impacted, oil prices impacted by that. And I think the President. The President saw that today, so I'm glad he pursued the off ramp. The question for me will be sort of twofold here in the next several days. First is we have to pursue the off ramp. And it sounds like the President who is moved by the markets in numbers as much as any president in recent memory sees that. How does Israel react and respond to this? And two, how does Europe react? Remember, the reverberations with the oil market are not just one day. You can't flip a light switch off and flip it on and expect this infrastructure and its ecosystem just to turn back on. It will take a little time, I think, about what may happen in the Middle East. Dubai has been a haven for, for economic innovation, for progress and for safety. You have to wonder over the next several months, and I hope they get back there the next few months, the next several years, does that economic hub in Saudi and the uae, how are they able to reclaim the credibility that they had prior to this war? And finally, I hope Congress does take an account of this because we need to understand where we are, how much progress we made. It sounds like we hit a lot of targets. If the President's right, we depleted their military, but we thought we had depleted the nuclear capabilities back in June. So I just hope we are accountable and honest about it and that way moving forward, we can have the right munitions and right strategy.
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Setting Herald aside Kennedy, it is a little amusing to see Democrats be throwing a bit of a hissy fit over gas prices because when it was Biden's administration, do you remember the Putin price hike? Oh no, that was that over and over again. It wasn't Biden's fault. And the Inflation Reduction act, it was Putin's fault.
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Yes, and there was nothing wrong with it. In fact, high gas prices were great for ultra progressives because it just allowed them to force their green agenda down the country's throat. It's very interesting that the Democrat party is sort of remoderating as the anti war party because they had become so hawkish for so long. But what I always worry about here are the unintended consequences, like the price of gas, like the price of oil. We don't know how long the war is going to be. And, you know, Pete Hegseth took some incoming for going on 60 Minutes and saying, we're not going to telegraph exactly what we're doing. We're not going to tell you if there's going to be a ground invasion, because there has to be an element of unpredictability. I don't blame him for that. What I worry about are the things that we don't see coming, the things that are not anticipateable and the things that could really wreak havoc, havoc in the United States of America and with our economy. So I hope, to Jesse's point, I hope it's going better than expected. I hope this is done sooner than we could have imagined. But we are dealing with theocratic psychos. They don't care about their own people. They slaughtered tens of thousands of Iranians without batting an eyelash. So the fact that they are holding on for the hereafter means that they are far more dangerous than Venezuela or any other anticipatable fool.
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The new guy, Khomeini's son. It's like new boss is the same as the old boss.
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You know, Must be thrilled. Is driver. These guys, like, let's just stay in. Yeah, Ayatollah Junior's gonna get a lot of rain checks on his calendar. Like, I don't think I'm gonna meet you for lunch this week. And can we do zoo instead of boom? But whoever they slot in to be in this role has to meet the approval of one person, Trump. I mean, talk about a challenge for a new hire. You got a job and your boss can kill you at any minute. It's a lot like working here. But we worried about being fired. He's gotta be worried about being fired upon. There is no verbal warning. There is no written reprimand. It's just kaboom. But if you don't interfere with the Persian Gulf or the Middle east, you stop being an a hole. You might actually survive. Because my feeling is that the more you see about this, it's not about regime change at all. It's about neutralizing a bully. Iran bullied its neighbors. It bullied its people. It bullied the United States for 47 years. Finally, there's a new student at school, Trump, and he hits him hard in the face. First time anybody's ever really done that. And now they can't take lunch money from people for a long time. Of course you want to get the bully expelled, but maybe that won't happen. If you can remove the impact of the bully, you're doing the job. I think the idea of regime change is like, oh, if that happens, it happens. But as long as we can do anything we want in the region, which was previously hampered by Iran, that's a win. You could replace ayatollah with anything. It doesn't really matter to us. I'm amazed that Kennedy brought up the slaughter of thousands, how all the female leaders here and abroad aren't rejoicing over this, over the decapitation of the most brutal, misogynistic regime you've ever seen. They executed women over what they wore and what they said. Trump has done more for women's rights than, I don't know, Planned Parenthood, Michelle Obama and Hillary combined. And they don't say a thing about it.
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So the story that's been on my mind all day is that during newsroom, President Trump put out a true social saying that the Australians should not send back the Iranian women's soccer team because they did not sing for the national anthem last week. So now they are. They would get killed. So he said to the Australians, you need to offer them asylum. And I was like, I wonder if Megan Rapinoe would love to come on America's NEWSROOM tomorrow and say that she agrees with President. Put her in a seat to do that. That would be great. We hope that that ends up happening. Apparently, Australians say they are on it. We'll keep an eye on it. Up next, bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing, chilling new details as a pair of suspects get charged in an ISIS inspired IED attack in New York. Everybody dies faceless in a small town.
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A suspect allegedly telling police he wanted a bigger body count than the Boston Marathon bombing as two Pennsylvania men face federal charges tied to an ISIS inspired terror plot. Right here in New York City. They're being accused of lobbing two homemade IED explosive devices near Mayor Zoran Mamdani's home. Devices packed with nuts, bolts, screws and a very dangerous chemical. That happened during a clash between dueling protests right outside Gracie Mansion. One of the suspects shouted Allahu Akbar. And according to court documents, one of them said they pledged allegiance to isis. Mayor Mamdani failing to mention ISIS earlier today, but he made sure to call out white supremacy Watch.
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This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy entitled Stop the Islamic takeover of New York City. I am the first Muslim mayor of our city. Anti Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me. Many of the counter protesters met this display of bigotry peacefully with a vision of a city that is welcoming to all. But a few did not. Two men, Amir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, traveled from Pennsylvania and attempted to bring violence to New York City.
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They are suspected of coming here to
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commit an act of terrorism.
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Zoran later putting out a statement that finally acknowledged isis. And it looks like the media bent over backwards to downplay the role of Radical Islam. NBC's headline reads, Two in Custody after suspicious devices lit outside Gracie Mansion amid anti Islam protest. And the New York Times first line on their story reads, at least one counter protester threw a homemade bomb on Saturday during a violent clash with far right protesters outside Gracie Mansion in Manhattan. Harold, I have some difficulty with this because it's bad enough when the mayor minimizes things. When he first said that it was a display of bigotry that was met peacefully. That's what he said at first and could barely bring himself to admit that it was terrorism. But then you have the New York Times, our own city publication, the mainstream media, carrying water for the mayor and minimizing it as well. Is that a good strategy?
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I don't know.
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I think that I watched Paul Morrow and I don't mean to. Look, it's hard for me to get in other people's heads. And your take on him, Kendi, could very well be exactly the right one. But my takeaways were a little different. I saw Paul, I think, on with you, Dana, earlier today, and he said, look, these moments, we should be thankful. And I know you are. We all are. We have the best police force in combating terrorism in the country. They spare us and save lives every single day from efforts like this. I do hope I was glad the mayor came back out to say what he said was equally impressive, not more so with Commissioner Tisch earlier. Two, I thought the most important thing that Paul said earlier was we have to be willing to step back and even those inspectors and those in NYPD and figure out what we're doing well and what we're not doing well. And I say we because we as New Yorkers have to Understand that as the nation is on higher alert, in light of what we're faced with overseas and in light of our posture overseas, we're going to have to be even better than the best that we've been. I am so delighted also that the mayor, I give him another piece of credit. He praised those police officers who saved his life and perhaps saved he and his wife's life. And I only hope that this will cause him to rethink any cuts he may want to make in New York Police Department. New York City Police Department, because we may be facing more of this than less over the next few weeks or months.
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Yes, absolutely. I'm surprised he didn't ask for more social workers to be there in order to act as his shield against these Islamists.
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We saw this under Barack Obama when he would downplay radical Islamic terrorism, and then he would almost blame Islamophobia for justifying it. You saw Benghazi. He blamed it on some dude on YouTube. And in a way, it kind of rhetorically justifies the terrorism. Oh, come on. Responding to some haters. That's kind of when you read between the lines. And did that work?
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No.
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For eight years, this country was riddled with a series of domestic terror attacks. Never went away all over the world. And it wasn't until Donald Trump came on that attacked it directly, verbally, explicitly, and physically. He bombed the bejesus out of ISIS and then slapped the travel ban on. So we've now had two domestic terror attacks here since the war began, one attempted, one deadly. And the Democrats have defunded Homeland Security, which is completely irrational. And the right thing to do here is to praise the nypd, because if those guys hadn't been there on the front lines, I mean, that would have been a disaster.
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I agree.
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God bless them.
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I mean, they were attacking a Muslim mayor's house. And when they were asked by, you know, the counter protesters were almost outnumbered by press there. And when he was being apprehended, one of the suspects, they said, why did you do this? And he said, isis. And the mayor has a hard time bringing himself to say that as if it's a mystery.
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Well, it should be no surprise to anybody that the guy who called to globalize the intifada thinks that the protest was the problem in the first place. And, you know, I'm glad that the FBI has taken the lead on this, because would you want Alvin Bragg to be the one prosecuting these guys? Plus, they pulled up for me. I just had this thought. Apparently in their questioning, they said that they wanted to be like the Boston bombers. Well, guess what the media did with the Boston bombers. Here's the COVID of the Rolling Stone magazine. Think about that one guy. Like he wants to look like him. His hair's like his. They want the glory, not only apparently from Allah, but also from the media. And unfortunately they're too often likely to get it. The counter protest. I'm sorry, the original protest. I don't care about Jack Lang. He might be a lunatic, but you don't get blown up because you have controversial views. And there was only one side in this protest that got violent and it wasn't Jack Lang.
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And it wasn't just violence. It wasn't. And that's what the mayor was trying to say. Like, you know, there were threats and there was some violence and we don't. It was murder, it was intended murder. And that's what terrorism is. And these guys are going to be pretty severely charged.
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Is it Islamophobic to wonder or suggest that Islam is not as welcoming to other religions as religions are to them? It's just. I just wonder because I never heard this equation in reverse. I'm glad that the cops might have saved the mayor's wife's life. It's going to make it hard for her to like the ISIS post, though. That's going to be tough for her. Zoran is a naturalized immigrant and many of these violent, hateful people are the same. I don't think that this idealized nation of immigrants that we talk about means anything unless there's a common denominator. We forfeited the expectation of assimilation. We no longer even. It's not like we don't even demand it, we don't even expect it. And we're too scared to reject their anti American positions, all for the sake of appearing tolerant. This is what you get, suicidal empathy. We extend our hand, they want to chop it off. There is a vibe shift going on over the last 20 years. When you see the media covering for terrorists, that's different than say 2006, you know, when the mayor leads with Islamophobia after a terrorist attack. That's interesting. Interesting. Neglecting that this so called Islamophobia actually is arising from America phobia. They don't like the west and this is a public and brazen Persona. We see it and we're not allowed to do anything. But what drives me nuts, and forgive me if I. This is just my opinion, I don't want this to happen. But what drives me, yes, I do.
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Do I?
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I don't know. Anyway, what drives me nuts is we can decapitate Iran, kill their leader, and we can't rub out two parasites on the street who just tried to kill a bunch of people. I mean, I have the feeling that you could have just shot them dead there. You don't know if they have another bomb on them. But what's going on in the cops minds, if I shoot this guy, I'll get in trouble. You know, they. The only reason why these guys lived and nobody died is because their fallibility, you know, their bombs didn't go off. You know, I think. I mean, 20 years ago they would have been shot dead. And that might actually save more lives by sending a message that we will shoot you on sight instead. You know, however, everybody's going like, I can't do that because that'll be brazen as me just saying that is brazen. Islamophobia. Well, call me an Islamophobia Islamophobic. If I want two terrorists ISIS inspired means isis, period. They should be dead.
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You didn't mean that Islam was not welcoming of other faiths. It is. The text affirms that they. I mean, I'm Christian this way. I want to make sure.
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Monotheistic faith, I mean, but not polytheism.
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I just want to make sure you didn't. That's not what you were saying.
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I don't think.
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Yeah, I think there's a lot of Christians. I think there are many who fall short of the text.
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Let me be very clear. I'm a Christian. The Christian text says a lot of things. A lot of Christians fall short. So I just want. I don't want you. You should be. You didn't mean. Because you were saying Islam may not be welcoming.
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I mean, I mean everything that I say, Harold. I mean everything. Look, if I've been around on this country since 2001, I've seen a lot of people bend over backwards to say that this is a religion and peace. And for the large part, I agree with it. But you don't need a lot. You don't need a lot of people. Of course, all practitioners of Islam are not terrorists, but certainly an overwhelming amount of terrorists are Muslim. So we have to live with that. That's a reality. And if we run from that reality, we will never figure this out.
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Hey, Greg. It's mostly peaceful terrorism.
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Yeah, that was a mostly peaceful bomb. It didn't go off.
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The hits just keep coming for the Dempster Dems. According to NBC's God bless you, Dana, just 30% of registered voters view the Democratic Party positively, making them less popular than the agency they constantly smear as Nazis. That's ice. But look on the bright side. The Democrats are more popular than Iran. And it doesn't stop there. The knives are out for party chair Ken Martin for overseeing a dysfunctional dnc. Donors, operatives and some DNC members are questioning his leadership, fundraising ability and handling of the party's still secret autopsy of the 2024 election loss. And Greasy Gab just cooked up a word salad that would put Kamala to shame. What is the thing you want to like, you want to accomplish like, politically in your life?
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I don't have like a brand.
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I'm into that whole 60s of vernacular
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of the 60s, solving for ignorance and poverty and disease and the spirit of
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the 60s, the spirit of King and
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you know, and how the nonviolent movement and Gandhi and, you know, Havel and you know, Mandela, that whole, that moral
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authority now for that whole space, that's the zeitgeist.
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If you had to define it like, I need your help and you get,
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you tell me you're better at this.
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I don't know. I don't know who you my why.
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But how do you translate that into human what?
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So the guy asked you how do you want to deliver the American people? And he said, Gandhi, Havel. Zeitgeist. What was that?
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I don't know. I can watch that again. Because he was like, wait, what? It's the same interesting about the Democrats. Like they have time to try to pull it together and maybe they will, but that poll is not good for them. I did note that the only thing lower than that is AI and that was on a bipartisan basis. Let that be a note to everybody watching here. Indeed. The other thing that they're wanting to do here is to, I think, just separate themselves so much from President Trump that I'm not saying they're rooting for America to lose, but they're not saying America wants to win, and I get it, that America tired of forever wars, but they also really want to win. They don't like losing. And rooting for failure is a terrible idea.
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And that answer to that question was a failure. Greg, he might need to workshop that.
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Yeah, it's true. Just another thing about the Muslims. Trump is, dare I say it, radically normal, almost extreme extreme in his normalcy. And because of that, he's forced his haters to reject not just the man, but just the normal common sense positions that he takes. You can't share the lane with him because you're embarrassed that you're in the lane with them. So you end up embracing men in female sports, men in locker rooms, men in women's bathrooms, drag queen story hour, open borders, criminal justice reform that borders on idiocy. These are all things they take because Trump isn't there next to them. They will harbor deadly killers because Trump wants to imprison them. That's where they've gotten. So this is where you got to remind people and maybe just listen and do this experiment. Trump is the most, and I think you'd agree with me, Danny, because we talked about this for years. He's the most centrist president we probably ever had since maybe Gerald Ford. If Democrats had let go of their irrational hatred, they would see that they have way more in common with Trump than they do with their activist component of their own party. If they had read Trump's position pages, positions on a blank page, they would think it was Bill Clinton. And this is why Trump wins on the 80, 20 issues. Because what's 80? It's mainstream. What's 20? It ain't stream. I don't know what that means either, but it's weird how you see people and Harold, you're getting there, but you're not quite there.
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Did you want to say something else about the Muslims?
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Yes.
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People who you would assume are normal don't act normal anymore. Gavin Newsom was normal 15 years ago. Spanberger seemed normal. Now they would rather die on the most absurd hills because the hills bill doesn't have the orange devil on it.
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Don't forget Mayor Pete.
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Mayor Pete, your name was invoked, Harold.
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So first, I would say the most, the most centrist president we've had, and I say this just out of, maybe you can correct me, is with Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton, a Democrat, passed a crime bill, reformed welfare, balanced the budget, and said that abortions have to be rare, legal and safe. So we can debate about the Ford thing. I'd say to both parties right now, anybody that thinks that you are competing for an electorate that is partisan, meaning they're anti Trump only or they're anti Democrat only, you're going to lose. You're competing for an electorate that is struggling, struggling to pay bills, struggling to think about their future, struggling how their future is going to include their kids and themselves in a way that makes them happy and safe and for that matter, great. Again, that's what we have to be focused on. Democrat and Republican. The polls. Dana said it well. Democrats may figure this out or they may not. I think Republicans have to be mindful of this as well. You have 55 people retiring from the Congress, 34 Republicans. Many of those seats are seats that Democrats lost by one or two points in the last cycle. Democrats were running competitive people in those races. Democrats shouldn't feel overconfident because of the 2025 results and even the last few weeks results, because if you don't have answers, either party, if you think it's all partisanship, you're not going to win. What I do agree with Greg on is that Donald Trump is a transformational figure in politics. He upended the normal vernacular. He's aligned with Republicans, but he has Democrat views and he has Republican views, and he has some views that defy both parties. You're going to win the electorate if you answer, if you take seriously their concerns.
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Kennedy, it's really interesting because I think you're absolutely right here. And we have just these shifting coalitions and that's what people have to build upon. But they're making the mistake. You have voters from both parties and especially independents, saying, we want someone who fights for us. And what they want someone to fight for is their version of the American dream and their own success. They don't necessarily want someone who's fighting against Donald Trump. And that's what people like Gavin Newsom. That's the mistake that they're making. You know, that is that's the only thing that he's got going for him. But it is also his fatal flaw. I think what you're seeing now with Newsom is he doesn't know who he is. And a lot of Democrats are just standing by and letting him chop off his own body parts one by one. And they're hoping that the first in, first out strategy is a winning one for them because he doesn't have any longevity in this race because he is showing himself to be as illiterate and dumb as he claimed on that stage about a week and a half ago.
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All right, anything else on the Muslims, Greg?
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Well, it's a good question.
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We gotta go.
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Check in on the cuckoo Cajun in the coal mine. Carvel doesn't want to be cured at tds.
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Trump, if you listen to this, you listen good.
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You right. I got Trump derangement syndrome.
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I hate the mother.
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And you know what? I don't want to get rid of it. I don't want to get better. I want to get worse. I want to hate him more. I pray to God in heaven, God reign the righteous reign of Trump derangement syndrome. Pray for me, Lord.
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I'm your vessel on this earth.
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We want more. We want to hate the son of a. So much that we can't see straight. This does not make me miss day drinking. Meanwhile, Bruce Springsteen is getting slammed by fans over sky high ticket prices for his anti Trump democracy tour launch. Reportedly going to cost you three grand a ticket to see. Is that Mick Rapateau? Go back to that picture. Rapidoe Rapatee. Is that Megan Rapinoe? Not that.
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What?
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Is that Megan Rapinoe?
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Yep.
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How could she be on tour? Dana and. And play soccer. I liked her other picture. Yeah. Megan Rapinoe.
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She is aged in our hour of need.
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Yes.
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Gonna happen. Well, hopefully she'll be on America's newsroom and tomorrow we'll see how she's.
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So pick either topic. Why is Carville? Is something wrong with him?
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So I think Carville used to be the kind of guy that when he was going to talk, you would tell everybody else in the room, shh, I want to hear this.
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Yeah. Now it's the opposite.
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And now I just want, like, I can't take it. And he's made great contributions to the country and to the Democratic party, but at this point, I think enough's enough.
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Yeah.
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He's turning into Skeletor. Harold, do you think maybe if he converted to the Muslim religion it would help him?
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He.
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You know one thing about James, he's probably not going to pass of a heart attack because he gets everything off his chest. And he's another example of it. Of it right here. I wouldn't. Wouldn't quite express it that way. I go back to what I was saying in the last segment. I think Democrats, we have to get answers. And there was. There was a guy in my party in the 90s who ran for president who had this young man right here at the time. Explain to him in the country, in a very short way of saying it. It's the economy, stupid. We Democrats have to come up with.
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He has dined off that line.
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All you need is one line.
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All you need one line. Not according to Hunter Biden. You know, Kennedy. Imagine being in front of that like you're having a. It's like a lot of spinning. That's a lot of spit.
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Yeah. Hopefully someone's got the COVID suit.
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Yes.
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The full hazmat gear. In order to help James Calville broadcast. He doesn't have Trump derangement syndrome. He's got Tito's derangement. I think he borrowed some of Tim Wallace's boy tampons and soaked them in vodka and put them somewhere to make him a little extra saucy. Before, it was Cameron. At least it's entertaining. He has lost his mind. His prayers have been answered, and he is truly deranged. Well done.
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Well done, son.
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Kennedy. Fun fact. When he drinks a bottle of tequila, the worm eats him. You're a fan of Springsteen, aren't you?
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Yeah, I like him.
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Yeah. You're both Jersey boys, huh?
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Yeah.
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Both worked in a factory till it closed down.
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I work in a BS factory called Fox News. Clip that, Greg. I've seen the prices for your shows. It's like it's bordering 3,000.
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You get. How dare you get a meet and greet with me for three grand?
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I mean, people should pay less for meeting you. You stink. This guy, obviously, he was on the five last week. I think you were off that day. Were you even on the show at all last week?
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I had bronchitis. Thank you for caring.
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Okay. Yeah. You took the week off during the war. Good job, Greg. And we covered this guy because he was. Was praising people that said nice things about white people.
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Yes.
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Remember, he was like, omar, stop trashing the whites. They're 30% of the voters. And we were like, good job, Carville. Well, that got back to him and his crew. So now he's auditioning for TDS Tuesday. Happy TDS Tuesday.
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All right, Any more stuff about Muslims?
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Yes.
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I wanted to go get her started. Up next, nobody's reading your crappy resumes anymore. Gotta get a haircut.
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Oh, my God.
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All right, I'm peeing.
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Welcome back. Is a good old fashioned resume dead? Thanks to AI slop flooding the job market listings and everybody using ChatGPT, hiring managers aren't reading your resume. And said some employers are focusing more on a person's enthusiasm and skills than their shiny credentials. Greg, is that all bad?
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No, I think it's really good to get out of the resume world and get into just pure looks. How attractive are you?
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You?
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This reminds me, I'm one of the oldest people here. 80s and 90s. I had to go to the copy shop and make copies of my resume 10 cents a pop, wait there and like send them out. I didn't have a Kinko. These were like these little storefront copies of. And you always use these, these verbs that meant nothing. Facilitate, utilize, oversaw, manage, implemented, coordinated.
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The strategy.
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Yes. And they all meant one thing. Did.
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Yeah.
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But you all, you always had to change did to something else.
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You are the oldest person at the table. What are your thoughts about this?
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It's really interesting because all that's happening is you've got your AI that's helping you craft a resume that you don't even write anymore with the company's AI. So it's basically just like robots making out with each other and, you know, trying to spit out. So they're going to have to go to free throw contests, a blood test, or you're going to have to assemble a puzzle in person. That's the only way they're going to be able to determine any cognitive function.
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Is this a cow? That'll have to be. Are you a bot?
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DP your thoughts on this?
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Well, I really hate it. There's another thing that I hate as well, and that is that many companies, a lot of companies are using AI screeners. Okay? So when you do your first interview, it's not actually with the human, it's with the robot. And you don't know it. I don't like it, but this is what I would say. I guess this is the way the world is going. So if you are a young person or anybody looking for a job, I think you have to redouble your efforts, rethink your strategy. You have to go out and meet actual people. You have to join the running club. You have to be a part of the Toastmasters, whatever it is that's happening. You have to meet people. You have to put out your hand, firm handshake. I'm Dana. I would love to talk to you about your job market, your job openings at your company. You have to actually be a human.
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Stop Dana on the street.
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Yeah, please do. Because I could really use some more mentoring opportunities. That would be great. Right now we have a Fox News alert. President Trump is holding the news conferences around Florida. Let's get right to it.
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And I'd like to wish everyone a very good evening. And over the weekend, the United States military and the Israeli Defense Forces continued Operation Epic Fury. Very successful. Over the past nine days, we've carried out some of the most powerful and complex military strikes and maneuvers the world has ever seen. Now, you add that up to all of the other things. Midnight Hammer, getting rid of the nuclear threat from Iran, which is a big moment in history, in my opinion, and the great success we've had in Venezuela and all other places, every place we've gone, we've had tremendous success. But while we're doing all of these things, we're achieving major strides toward completing our military objective. And some people could say they're pretty well complete. We've wiped every single force in Iran out very completely. Most of Iran's naval power has been sunk. It's on the bottom of the sea. It's almost 50 ships. I was just notified. It's 51 ships. I didn't know they had that many. Didn't last very long. And these are fighting vessels. They're meant to fight, but they're not meant to fight against us. We continue to target Iran's drone and missile capabilities. Their drones are way down. Their drone manufacturing has been hit. Starting today, we know all of the places they manufacture the drones and they're being hit one after another. Their missile capability is down to about 10%, maybe less. We're also hitting where they make missiles and where they deliver missiles. We've struck over 5,000 targets to date, some of them very major targets. And we've left some of the most important targets for later in case we need to do it. It if we hit them, it's going to take many years for them to be rebuilt, having to do with electricity production and many other things. So we're not looking to do that. If we don't have to. But they're the kind of things that are very easy to hit but very devastating if they are hit. We are waiting to see what happens before we hit them. We could take them all out in one day, but it's all resulting in a 90% decline in various things, but in particular Iranian missile launches and 83% drop in drone launches. As you know, the drone launches are pretty well shot, but we're at over 90% decline in the Iranian missile launchers, which is very hard to reproduce and very hard to get. And usually what we were able to do through great equipment, a lot of smart people, as soon as they sent a missile up from a launcher, we were able to knock out that launcher within a period of 5 minutes or less accurately right on the noggin. So now we have low cost interceptors effectively combating Iranian drones. And our B2 bombers recently dropped dozens of 2,000 pound bombs to destroy missile launchers all over Iran. And buried deep under Iranian soil, in many cases, the soil was no match. And we're also annihilating the manufacturing base that the regime uses to build drones and missiles at a rate that nobody thought was possible. We're knocking them out. We know where they all are. We're knocking them out very quickly. We're ahead of our initial timeline by a lot. I would say that we probably would not have thought after a month we'd be here. In addition to the fact that we've taken out the leadership twice and maybe three times. And we, as you know, we want to be involved. We don't want another president that maybe wouldn't be willing to do what I'm willing to do for the good of the world, for the good of our nation, to be stuck with the situation in five years or ten years from now. So we think they should put a president in or the head of the country and that's going to be able to do something peacefully for a change. They've been doing this for 47 years, killing people for 47 years. Whether it's the barracks or even the SS Cole, where they were involved very strongly, they always denied it. But where they were very strongly involved in all of the people that died through the roadside bombs, died, and are right now walking around with no legs, no arms, a face that's been so badly damaged, the Iranian regime has been attacking Americans and spreading terror for 47 years. And despite these countless opportunities to renounce their nuclear ambitions, which they had just a short while ago, they told Mr. Witkoff, who is standing right over here, they said. They actually said, we want to keep building. Essentially, in a real nutshell, we want to continue to build nuclear weapons. If we didn't knock out Midnight Hammer, if we didn't knock out their Iranian potential, if we didn't do that with Midnight Hammer, they would have had a nuclear weapon. They would have used it long before now, and at a minimum, Israel would have been annihilated. I was very lucky that we had the courage to do that, that we had the talented pilots and the great equipment. The B2 bombers are unbelievable. We ordered 25 more, by the way, the newer, better version. We have the greatest military in the world. We have the greatest equipment in the world by far. You see that no matter where we go, you still need the people, though, to operate it and to use it. And those are the people that we cherish. Even after we obliterated their key nuclear site in Operation Midnight Hammer, they never negotiated into good faith. They still continued to say, we want to build nuclear. We want enrichment at levels that were unacceptable. And they even turned down an offer for unlimited free nuclear fuel forever for civilian purposes. We had people offering them free nuclear fuel. They weren't interested in that because they wanted to build a nuclear weapon. So instead, the regime was trying to reconstitute its weapons program at a different site. They couldn't go back to where they were, the three sites that we obliterated, but they were starting work at another site, a different site, different kind of a site. And that was protected by granite. They wanted it protected. Granite's pretty good. But they wanted it protected by a lot deeper. They wanted to go a lot deeper. And they started the process while rapidly building conventional ballistic missiles. They were going to do it all at the same time that threatened our overseas bases and soon could have reached even our homeland. The regime's intention was to use this exponentially growing ballistic missile threat to make it virtually impossible to prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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Episode Date: March 9, 2026
This episode of FOX News' "The Five" dives into the most urgent headlines and controversies dominating national conversation. The panel analyzes dramatic developments in the US-led Operation Epic Fury against Iran, the political fallout at home, media coverage and framing of domestic terror incidents, Democratic Party challenges, and societal shifts around technology and hiring. Notably, the episode features President Trump’s live remarks on military progress, spirited debate over gas prices and energy, and unfiltered panel exchanges on terrorism, assimilation, and US politics.
Dana Perino: "They have time...to try to pull it together and maybe they will, but that poll is not good for them." ([25:00])
Greg Gutfeld: "[Trump is] extremely normal in his normalcy...the most centrist president we’ve had since maybe Gerald Ford." ([25:49])
Panel Debates: Trump’s Political Identity
| Timestamp | Segment Highlight | |-----------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | 00:16 | Trump CBS phone interview—"very complete" war status | | 03:06 | Jesse: Iran's military collapse and economic war | | 07:31 | Kennedy: Democrats' shifting position on gas prices and war | | 09:01 | Gutfeld: Regime change vs. neutralizing Iran's bullying | | 12:22 | News on ISIS-inspired bombing attempt in NYC | | 14:48 | Media’s portrayal of domestic terrorism; mayor’s response | | 19:49 | Gutfeld: “Suicidal empathy,” assimilation, and media bias | | 22:00 | Greg & Harold debate Islam, terrorism, and mainstream faiths | | 23:30 | Democratic Party poll ratings, leadership troubles | | 24:19 | Gavin Newsom’s rambling answers; Democrats' identity crisis | | 25:49 | Gutfeld: Trump’s political “normalcy” and centrism | | 31:25 | Carville’s “Trump Derangement Syndrome” monologue | | 34:48 | Banter on celebrity ticket prices, class fractures | | 36:11 | Discussion of AI’s impact on résumés and job markets | | 38:45 | Trump’s live press conference on Operation Epic Fury progress |
“The Five” continues to combine hot takes, argument, and banter around pressing political and cultural news. This episode is especially significant for its timely look at military developments with Iran, US domestic reactions, and evolving divides within both American political parties and broader civil society. The hosts’ personalities and unfiltered style drive home critical and controversial messages, ensuring engaged—and occasionally provoked—listeners.
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