Violent Left-Wing Agitators Cause Mayhem In MN

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Five

Episode: Violent Left-Wing Agitators Cause Mayhem In MN
Date: January 16, 2026
Host / Panel: Kayleigh McEnany, Harold Ford Jr., Jesse Watters, Dana Brino, Greg Gutfeld

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Overview

In this episode, "The Five" panel takes on the escalating violence and protests in Minneapolis, especially targeting left-wing agitators and the response to ICE-involved shootings. The discussion also explores broader cultural and political divides, how the media covers these incidents, skepticism about left-wing talking points from gender to climate, and a dose of personal banter and humorous commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Mayhem in Minneapolis: ICE-Involved Incidents and Political Fallout

[00:34 – 08:58]

• Violence in Minnesota:
  The show opens discussing violent riots in Minneapolis after a second ICE-involved shooting, including protestors ransacking an FBI vehicle, stealing weapons, and burning documents.
• White House/Media Critique:
  The hosts critique the media and Biden administration for their framing and perceived bias regarding the incidents.
  • Quote (Kayleigh McEnany, 02:11):
    "You're a left wing hack. You're not a reporter. You're posing in this room as a journalist."
• Governor Tim Walz and Mayoral Messaging:
  The panel slams Governor Walz for a "mixed message"—fanning the flames with calls to resist and record ICE agents, then asking the public to "turn down the temperature."
  • Quote (Kayleigh McEnany, 03:17):
    "It's a little odd to say resist ICE and then the next morning turn down the temperature, right?"
• The ‘Sanctuary State’ Contagion:
  Dana Brino reports New Jersey is passing a sanctuary bill despite Minneapolis chaos, expressing disbelief at leaders following failed policies.
• Insurrection Act Debate:
  Panelists debate whether Trump should invoke the Insurrection Act, with McEnany citing Section 332 to suggest these are clear obstructionists.
• Critical View of Law Enforcement Retreat:
  Dana Brino draws parallels with post-George Floyd policy, criticizing what she sees as attacks on policing leading to urban chaos.
  • Quote (Dana Brino, 07:00):
    "You defund the police, you say you're gonna prosecute the bad apples and then they have to retreat and they're forced into early retirement. And then all hell breaks loose on the streets."

2. Political and Media Handling of the Crisis

[08:58 – 14:54]

• Call for Presidential Leadership:
  Harold Ford Jr. suggests convening state and local leaders at the White House rather than escalating.
  • Quote (Harold Ford Jr., 09:03):
    "We've reached a point where the convening power of the President is probably the most powerful and corrective and healing thing we can do."
• Media Framing and Ilhan Omar:
  The panel spotlights Ilhan Omar’s demand for ICE to leave, mocking her statements and alleging she misleads about ICE arrests.
  • Quote (Greg Gutfeld, 11:34):
    "Next thing she's gonna tell us is she didn't marry her brother."
• Motivations of Protesters:
  Gutfeld offers a psychological take, asserting for many agitators, “the confrontation… is their therapy,” and their objectives are ever-moving.
  • Quote (Greg Gutfeld, 12:40):
    "It will never be enough, because that's their gift... the agitation is their therapy."

3. Gender, Science, and Language in the Culture Wars

[15:46 – 22:44]

• Can Men Get Pregnant?
  The group ridicules a Senate hearing where Dr. Nisha Verma avoided giving a yes/no answer on whether men can get pregnant, equating the incident with erosion of scientific clarity and common sense.
  • Quote (Kayleigh McEnany, 16:43):
    "As a woman who's been pregnant three times, it's deeply insulting to suggest that Greg or Jesse or Harold could endure what we women endure. It is ten months of hell."
  • Quote (Greg Gutfeld, 19:00):
    "The right uses language as it's intended to convey direct meaning, sometimes to a fault... The left uses language in reverse to confuse or obscure meaning."
• Political Ramifications:
  Jesse Watters predicts Democrats will be pressed on issues like transgender participation in sports and language around pregnancy in the 2026 election cycle.
• Medical Establishment Critique:
  Dana Brino accuses the medical profession of bowing to politics instead of standing up for truth on gender and health.

4. Democracy and Media: Fears of Martial Law and Election Cancellation

[23:30 – 29:54]

• Democrats’ Anxiety Over Trump:
  The panel lampoons prominent Democrats (and Joy Behar) for allegedly stoking fears Trump could cancel elections or declare martial law—a scenario they dismiss as paranoid hyperbole.
  • Quote (Greg Gutfeld, 28:24):
    "The resistance media personalities of the first term are dying to get back into business."
• Panel's Push for Focusing on Real Issues:
  Harold Ford Jr. urges Democrats to focus on “what voters are most concerned about”—housing, AI, and prices—not “weird, massive, outrageous conspiracy theories.”
• Hyperbole Overload:
  The group pokes fun at the rhetorical excesses—like “greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War”—observing that such statements don’t match reality.

5. Kamala Harris’ "Cam-a-Lago" Mansion Purchase and Climate Hypocrisy

[30:17 – 34:15]

• Kamala Harris’ Real Estate Decision:
  Segment explores Kamala Harris’ new $8 million Malibu home, mocking the contradiction between her climate rhetoric and coastal living.
  • Quote (Jesse Watters, 31:51):
    "They don't believe that climate change is going to lead to flooding on the coast. They don't believe that and so we shouldn't believe them."
• Politicians and Wealth:
  Gutfeld generalizes that Democratic politicians become wealthy through political careers, while Republicans "didn't do it for the dough. They did it because they were patriots."
• Discussion of Kamala's Future:
  Kayleigh McEnany claims Harris is plotting her next run for office from her new mansion.

6. Lighthearted Segment: "Choremance" and Panel Banter

[34:36 – 36:36]

• Is Doing Chores Romantic?
  The team riff on a "choremance" trend—doing chores as a couple. It spirals into jokes, innuendo, and personal anecdotes, providing comic relief.
  • Quote (Greg Gutfeld, 34:49):
    "Yes, we do it naked. No, actually... it reminds you that you're a team."
  • Quote (Kayleigh McEnany, 36:13):
    "There's nothing more romantic than a clean house. And that is spoken like a true trad wife."

7. End Notes: “One More Thing” and Human Interest

[37:28 – End]

• Human Interest and Recommendations:
  Segment features lighter stories: European traditions, a walrus from the Indianapolis Zoo, a heroic rideshare driver saving dogs, police officers helping Kayleigh McEnany, and book recommendations.
• Commemorating MLK Day:
  Harold Ford Jr. honors Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday, highlighting acts of kindness in his spirit.
• Book Plug:
  Jesse Watters plugs “Mean Dads for a Better America” as a fun, cross-partisan read.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Media Bias and Messaging:

  • Kayleigh McEnany [02:11]: "You're a left wing hack. You're not a reporter. You're posing in this room as a journalist."
  • Jesse Watters [02:20]: "The people in the media who have such biases, you should be reporting on the facts."

• On Political Leadership:

  • Harold Ford Jr. [09:03]: "The convening power of the President is probably the most powerful and corrective and healing thing we can do at the moment."

• On Language and Debate:

  • Greg Gutfeld [19:00]: "The left uses language in reverse to confuse or obscure meaning. It's like they throw a smoke bomb in a debate class."

• On "Cancel the Midterms" Fears:

  • Greg Gutfeld [28:24]: "The resistance media personalities of the first term are dying to get back into business."

• On Politicians and Wealth:

  • Greg Gutfeld [31:52]: "If you look at Obama, if you look at the Clintons, Biden, all Democrats and all poor until they got into politics and then they got rich. But Republicans, the Bushes, Trump, Reagan, they didn't do it for the dough. They did it because they were patriots."

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Minnesota Violence & ICE Shootings: 00:34 – 08:58
• Media & Political Reactions: 08:58 – 14:54
• Ilhan Omar/Protest Motives: 11:09 – 14:54
• ‘Can Men Get Pregnant’ Senate Hearing: 15:46 – 22:44
• Martial Law / Midterm Fears: 23:30 – 29:54
• Kamala Harris’ Mansion / Climate Policy: 30:17 – 34:15
• ‘Choremance’ Trend & Personal Jokes: 34:36 – 36:36
• Lighter ‘One More Thing’ Stories: 37:28 – End

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Tone and Language

Throughout, the panel employs sarcasm, pointed humor, and combative banter, with a clear conservative viewpoint and a frequent skewering of left-leaning politicians, activists, and media narratives. Jokes, pop culture references, and playful ribbing provide comic relief amid serious topics.

Transcript

[Kayleigh McEnany]

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[Jesse Waters]

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[Greg Gutfeld]

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[Kayleigh McEnany]

Hello everyone. I'm kayleigh mcenany along with harold ford jr. Jesse waters, dana brino and greg gutfeld. It's five o' clock in new york city and this is the five. Brand new clashes in Minneapolis as President Trump threatens to unleash the insurrection act on Minnesota. After seems a pure anarchy that you're looking at broke out violent rioters ransacking what has now been confirmed as an FBI vehicle leaving sensitive documents all over the place and ripping out a weapons locker safe watch here. Looks like January 6th peaceful. Well, that chaos erupting after a second ice involved shooting in Minneapolis and you're looking at the smiling face of a Venezuelan national in the back of an ambulance. He is the illegal immigrant who got shot in the leg after DHS says an agent was attacked with a snow shovel and broom handle. That comes just one week after the first ICE involved shooting of Renee Good, who DHS says tried to ram her car into an officer and in fact did so, leaving him with internal injuries to his torso. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt ripping a reporter who asked this question.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Renee Goode was shot in the head.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

And killed by an ICE agent. How does that equate to them doing everything correctly?

[Jesse Waters]

Why was Renee Goode unfortunately and tragically killed?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Are you asking me my opinion? Because an ICE agent acted recklessly until they weren't justified.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Oh, okay, so you're a biased reporter.

[Jesse Waters]

With a left wing opinion.

[Greg Gutfeld]

What do you want me to do?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yeah, because you're a left wing hack. You're not a reporter. You're posing in this room as a journalist.

[Jesse Waters]

And it's so clear by the premise of your question and you and the people in the media who have such biases, you should be reporting on the facts.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

You should be reporting on the cases.

[Jesse Waters]

Do you have the numbers of how.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Many American citizens were killed at the hands of illegal aliens who ICE is trying to remove from this country?

[Jesse Waters]

I bet you don't.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Earlier today, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz posted on X making a direct appeal to President Trump to turn down the temperature. Last night, Governor Waltz himself was fanning the flames, literally urging people to go out and film ICE agents so that they could be prosecuted in the future.

[Greg Gutfeld]

If you see these ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record.

[Dana Brino]

Help us create a database of the.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Atrocities against Minnesotans, not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

To Donald Trump and Kristi Noemi, end this occupation. You've done enough.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I mean, Dana, in the messaging world, it's a little odd to say resist ICE and then the next morning turn down the temperature. Right?

[Jesse Waters]

And so.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I don't.

[Jesse Waters]

This can't continue to go on as it is. If it does, then it's just going to escalate or there's going to be a climb down. And at this point, it seems like Tim Walls has certainly made up his mind and Jacob Fry kind of walked back a tiny bit. President Trump has said, okay, if this continues, I could use the Insurrection Act. But he also has the ability to convene. And it's. Maybe there's a way to say, okay, Jacob Fry, you seem like you're willing to talk. Let's talk. See if we can figure out a way to get the criminals out of your city and move on. But the thing that's really disturbing about this is how many of these protesters are being trained and paid, and then they're just ginning each other up and making it much worse. And Greg, I keep thinking about the point you made yesterday, that all of this media that's there in Minnesota, that none of them ever went to the border. And we'd ask Bill Melusian every day. Any other reporters there today? Nope, but they were all over it when the Whipgate thing happened. They were not there for the apology for Whipgate because guess what? The Biden administration never apologized. And also, we asked this yesterday, and I keep thinking about this as well. Where is Mayorkas, right? I mean, I'm sure he's got some great cushy job right now. And they kept saying that the border was secure, there was no problem, and all of this was happening across the board. Last thing I would say is that if you see a state doing something stupid, you probably shouldn't follow it. This morning I sent a note to Jesse, well, guess what? Looks like New Jersey is going to pass a state sanctuary bill after all of this. And instead of doing that, it would be great if the president said in my office Monday morning, 8am we're going to figure out a way where we can work together to get the criminals out and then move on from there. I just feel like we're at the precipice of something bad, really bad, or it could get better.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yeah. And we hope those temperatures come down. I love that question. Where's my orchestras? I had not thought of that. He could have disappeared, Jesse. The BBC had a headline. I mean, case in point of the media just misconduct characterizing things. ICE agent shoots Minneapolis man in the leg. I mean, there was a little more to that story, but we've got the Minneapolis man.

[Dana Brino]

Now, the Minneapolis man, he's actually a Venezuelan national, and he was caught and released by Joe Biden, was not held in jail by Minneapolis police, so that's why he was out. And he's got his two bad hombre buddies, both caught and released by Joe Biden as well, both in and out of the justice system. Known fugitives. And so there is a vehicle pursuit, there's a foot pursuit, and then there's an assault, and then there's an assault with a shovel. So the officer has to discharge his firearm to defend his life. Now, can you imagine if some of these women had gotten in the middle of that action? These are the kind of raids that are taking place, dangerous raids. And so you don't get in the middle of that, and that's obvious. Now, if you look at the film last night, it's getting a little rioty. You know, the first couple weeks, you get the street action. Now I'm labeling it a riot. When you have fires, fireworks, assaults on agents, and they are vandalizing a car owned by the feds, looting it, stealing weapons and Kevlar vests and government documents and lighting them on fire. Okay? Donald Trump has every right to bring in the guard if he needs to and defend his people and defend law and order.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

So.

[Dana Brino]

So Walls gets out last night, and the video's garbage. You can't even hear it. There's echoes. So this guy's amateur hour immediately. And he calls it an atrocity. What's taking place now, the atrocities are committed by MS.13 and Trend, not ICE agents. They're there to defend themselves. And he's asking people to film peacefully. Now, I don't have a problem with that. If you have women out there with the phones filming, that's fine with me. That's legal. But that's not what's happening. We've seen what's happening, and that's not it, and he knows it. So he's turning these ladies loose into a dangerous situation, and he's trying to demoralize the ICE agents because now that they think they're gonna get Prosecuted. And this is the same thing that happened after Floyd. It's the same playbook. You defund the police, you say you're gonna prosecute the bad apples and then they have to retreat and they're forced into early retirement. And then all hell breaks loose on the streets. They' the same thing all over again. And we're watching it. And this failed governor. Now he's got two riots on his watch. The Chinese filmed his honeymoon in Beijing and he drinks with a straw. He is a sanctuary state for child sex change operations. Tampons in the boys bathroom. Says he's friends with school shooters, bombs. The debate missed 8 billion stolen under his nose. This is the worst governor in the history of the country. We don't even have to listen to him. We shouldn't.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yeah, I mean, it's not great what's going on in his state. And Harold, those images we just had up, maybe we could pull them back up. Because section to Jesse's point about the Insurrection Act. Look at this. I mean, section 332 of the Insurrection act literally says whenever the President considers unlawful obstructionists, making it impracticable to enforce the laws of the US he may call into federal service each of the militias of any state. I mean, these are obstructionists. They are stopping the enforcement of law.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Right. So I think the better. It's good to be with you. Good to be back around the table. Hadn't seen everybody in several days. I think I agree with Dana's construct of this and just I think what you were saying, there's a lot of truth to it, but I think we've reached a point where the convening power of the President is probably the most powerful and corrective and healing thing we can do at the moment. One thing we don't want to do this is this is damaging to the country. Minneapolis is a great city. Minnesota is a great state. I think what the President's trying to do, I understand it's noble, but it's not working the way he wants it to work. And I understand by Governor Walts and Mayor Fry, who I was pleased to hear after his comments last week about asking him to get the F out, for him to say, we need to calm down a bit here, let's get urgent to protest, but we have to do it peacefully. The President has met with President Putin, who's a thug, to try to bring peace. He's met with his political advocacy, including Mr. Madame, and just recently has called Senator Warren to say he'd like to work with her. On trying to make credit cards more affordable for people, maybe even housing. It would seem to me that we've reached a point to Dana's. I thought the cellulit model, the frame she laid out, the president ought to call them to the White House and said, look, I'm willing to say to you guys, we'll let the state and locals share in the investigation of what happened to Ms. Good, but I need you guys to cooperate with me in the best of ways to figure out how to. To your point, just how we get the worst off the street and where we want to do more, let's do it together. The BBC reporting or just the reporting on social media? I think that's why I said even last week, we got to wait until all the facts come in. The guy that got shot in the leg, he might have deserved to get shot in the leg. It was certainly not the way they described. Now, we still don't have all the facts, but I do know the headline that was given to us 24 hours ago or less, or whenever it was, was not fully accurate. So, Mr. President, if you're listening, take Dana's advice. Don't let it come from me. Convene these guys, and let's get an end to this. This is not help. These images being sent around the globe do not help our law enforcement. Do not help our ice, do not help citizens, and frankly, do not help the greatest brand in the world and the most important country in the world. Ours.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Well, Greg, I wanted to end the segment with the wise words of Ilhan Omar, followed by the wiser words of Greg Gutfeld. So let's watch. We want ICE out of our district.

[Jesse Waters]

We want them out of our state.

[Greg Gutfeld]

We want this terror to stop. They have not been able to tell.

[Jesse Waters]

Us what is the purpose for this search. They haven't been able to produce any.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Evidence that they are finding people who.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Are undocumented who have committed crimes. So she's saying there have been no arrests of criminals in Minneapolis. Next thing she's gonna tell us is she didn't marry her brother. It's funny, though. Why does she say that stuff? It's because she knows that she can. She's arrogant enough to think that she owns them. It's like she just insulted the person interviewing her. It's like, what are you gonna do?

[Harold Ford Jr.]

The impact.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Anybody could do a search right now and find a dozen arrests of violent criminals, rapists and murderers like that. But she assumes that you're not going to do it. She treats the media kind of like the way a suspect on the first 48 treats a cop. Like, I didn't see anything. Yeah, well, it's like, you go ahead and do the work. I'm going to deny it. If you want to go look for it, that's fine, but I'm not going to help you. And then she knows that they're terrified of questioning her because she will call them a racist. This is a really simple puzzle to solve. You just have to ask the agitators one question. What do you want? Right.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Just.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Okay, you guys, what would it get for you guys to stop? Because they're so highly promiscuous in their crusades, whether it's trans, racism, Trump, ice, climate change, Palestine, animal rights, that it's constantly switching to a point where you realize that the solution is not specific to the cause. It's actually the confrontation that they really, really like. The agitation is for them, it is their therapy. So whatever. If you said, what do you want? And they say, do you want us to get ICE out? That won't be enough. They would also want the police out, they want Israel out of Gaza, they want Trump out of the White House. It will never be enough, because that's their gift. Now, you know, we talked about, like, why do they. What happened to the Iran? Why do they not care about Iran? You know, they cared about Israel and they care about ice, but they don't care about Iran. And I think it's because they can't find daddy in this issue. They can't find the one that they can yell at and they could blame at in Iran, but they do it with ICE and they do it with Israel. They do it with Trump. They do with the trans. They see the daddy and they yell at him. So if. If Trump really wants to help the people of Iran, really, and wants to get our chattering classes of mainstream media on the people's side, he should come out on the side of the ayatollahs. You should defend them to the hilt. Lastly, I want to talk about the hired Patsy Waltz. He's that guy that's outlived his usefulness, but he's the last person to know. So he reminds me of the guy that's in a work meeting and he's doing a presentation, and he's the only one there that doesn't realize he's been fired. Like, it's over except for the packed boxes. You're looking at a fired man. And I love how he uses the word atrocity. Does he even know what that word means? Libs employ language the way monkeys fling feces. They just have. It's one speed. One speed, one speed. They don't know what the words mean. And I end with one question. When did Minneapolis go bad? What was the thing that turned the corner? It wasn't Republicans, it wasn't conservatives. It wasn't religion. It wasn't capitalism. What was it? It's everything that is the opposite of that.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Liberalism.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yes, yes.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Best thing in Minneapolis is Prince. I mean. Yeah.

[Greg Gutfeld]

And look what you did to him, Harold.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

All right. Well, coming up. Here we go again. A liberal doctor getting stumped over whether men can get pregnant.

[Dana Brino]

Excuse me.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You look like you love me. You look like you want me to watch you to.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Come on.

[Jesse Waters]

Five years ago, the US Brought leaders.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

From Israel, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain together to sign the Abraham Accords. I'm Megan Alexander and this is Middle East.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Tomorrow, go to partners.fox news.com met.

[Dana Brino]

Just like that.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You're six years old and you take.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

A nap and you.

[Jesse Waters]

Can men get pregnant? I think a pretty basic question is leading to a stunning moment during a Senate hearing. Dr. Nisha Burma, she actually refused to give a straight answer when questioned by Senators Josh Hawley and Ashley Moody.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Give me your opinion as a doctor.

[Jesse Waters]

Can men get pregnant?

[Greg Gutfeld]

I mean, based on the science. Can men get pregnant? That's a yes or no question. It really is.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I think.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I think you're trying to reduce the complexity of.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

It's not complex.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I'm trying to get to an answer as a medical professional and as a scientist.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Can men get pregnant?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I think you're also conflating male.

[Jesse Waters]

Okay, first of all, there's the up talking, Kaylee, which that drives me crazy. But also Josh Hawley is one of the most effective cross examiners. You have to come more prepared than that. And clearly because it's nonsense. She didn't have anything else to say.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yeah, he asked her 11 times for a basic scientifically based answer from a doctor who presumably follows the science. I mean, look, as a woman who's been pregnant three times, it is deeply insulting to suggest that Greg or Jesse or Harold could endure what we women endure. It is ten months of hell. Let's just be real. And we earn the right to say we are the gender that gets pregnant. We are the gender that can endure it. But the left won't give us that. But it's crazy to me, the science. Like I was beaten over the head with the science at the podium, but it's only the convenience science. The science that shows kids should go back to school. During COVID They just threw that out, discarded it. The science that shows only women can get pregnant, you have to have a uterus, ovaries to get pregnant. They just throw that out the window, and then they jump through the hoops. I mean, NPR at one point called us menstruating people. Like, what does that mean? And the cdc, this is the worst part. The CDC under Biden actually called pregnant women pregnant people. So the science is great, but for the left, it's only the science that's convenient.

[Jesse Waters]

What do you think of all of this, Greg? But you have some thoughts?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Maybe it's my pms, but I get really irritated when I see people like Dr. Verma in action. She's a woman and a doctor who's operating in the outer layer of linguistic deception, you know, where every answer is an obstructive maneuver to keep out the. You know, you keep you from getting close to what she really thinks when you. And when Holly asks her about the truth, her response is to respond from this outer layer, layer of deflection. Maybe we can go offline and have a discussion. We should have that conversation. I can't help. No, you could have just answered the question. But I think she doesn't realize that this whole kind of mode of deflection is defunct, that the wokeism in this particular issue is dead and she's the last person to know. I mean, what other health fads is she still holding onto that have been debunked? You know, like sitting too close to the TV makes you blind, or, you know, I don't know, swallowing gum stays in your stomach, you know, you know. Or masturbation makes you short. Did you notice that one is true?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

All right.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Did you notice the difference between the left and right and how they use language? Even if you look at the A block with waltz and now this. The right uses language as it's intended to convey direct meaning, sometimes to a fault. Trump, he doesn't obviously obfuscate. Thank you. It's direct language. You may not like it, but it's direct. The left uses language in reverse to confuse or obscure meaning. It's like they throw a smoke bomb in a debate class. That is the way you win, rather than use the real, actual words. And if you cannot use words to reveal truth, then you can't have the debate. And that was her intention. She didn't want the debate to begin. And they're talking about abortion drugs. You got to be, you know, men don't take abortion drugs.

[Jesse Waters]

Hmm. I Was talking to my husband last night, and his friend's son, girlfriend's a nurse at a hospital in San Antonio, and there's a man in the labor delivery, and all the nurses were required to refer to him as he and her as he.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Him.

[Jesse Waters]

As this person gave birth to a baby.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Wow.

[Jesse Waters]

And they were not happy.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Wow.

[Dana Brino]

I just want to make sure everybody knows how tall I am, Greg.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Exception proves the rule.

[Dana Brino]

Remember, remember when Democrats thought they had like, that gotcha question with Republicans who won the 2020 election? And the Republicans would be like, well, Joe Biden is president now. Well, did he win? Well, he was certified. It's like the same thing. They think. They think they had you. This is the question. Johnny is now gonna go out and he's gonna ask everybody this question. You have common sense, and then you have education. And the higher you go up in education, the more they beat the common sense out of you. Because when you get into a professional job, they don't want common sense. They want you to tow the company line. And this is what they've done to doctors. Now the medical profession has become corrupted by politics which fire doctors. And now you have them you think are quacks, because what did they do? The whole country got fat, sick, and obese, and no one said anything for four decades except Kennedy, who's not a doctor. And then you had Joe Biden walking around and no one said, guys, he's losing it. What did they say? They said, trump's mentally ill. And then you had Covid come around and like the one time we needed doctors to step up, no one stepped up and said something. The ones who did got excommunicated from the business. And then finally, you have these sex change operations. You'd think someone would say, you're massacring little boys and girls bodies. And they went along with it because their executives were making cold, hard cash. That's why the best doctor in the country is Dr. Mark Siegel.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Ah, yes.

[Dana Brino]

You gotta listen to Siegel.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Didn't you have a dream about the election?

[Dana Brino]

I did. I dreamed that Trump won the election.

[Greg Gutfeld]

2020.

[Dana Brino]

2020. And there was just massive fraud. It was a dream.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Harold.

[Jesse Waters]

The Democrats embraced all men cannot get pregnant. Okay.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Okay, Good. This is not the Democratic company line. This is a line being promulgated by a bunch of people who are on the periphery of. On the periphery of the periphery. We won't be taken seriously. Any Democrat that adopts this, you're not going to be taken seriously when you talk about housing and taxes and education and affordability if we can't agree that if you're not a biological woman, you can't have kids, thank God Jesse and Greg can't have kids.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You know that Joe Biden came out on behalf of pregnant men. He actually stated how happy trans he was. It wasn't periphery of periphery. Mr. Harold Ford lost. Yes.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Not in your dream.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Jesse told me about his dream and I, I was glad it wasn't I had a dream.

[Jesse Waters]

I still think that this issue and the going into 2026, every Democrat's going to be asked do you support this kind of nonsense or what about men playing in girls sports? It's going to be an issue. And I listen to 10 minute drill this morning. They have all this tape of Democrats who are running for Senate right now saying why they were voting those ways and it's going to come back to bite them.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yes, fight them where we shall see.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Right ahead.

[Jesse Waters]

Joy Behar and other Democrats have convinced themselves that President Trump is going to cancel the midterm elections after all the bars are closed.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Tell me where you want to go.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52 episode podcast series the Life of.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Jesus A Listening Experience.

[Dana Brino]

Experience that will provide hope, comfort and.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow [e-mail] or wherever you listen to podcasts. Dems have worked themselves into a real lather that Trump is going to cancel the midterms. Joy Behar completely stuffed herself with martial law fears.

[Jesse Waters]

I really worry about that.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Trump is looking for this kind of.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Pandemonium to go on like you just described, so that he could declare martial.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Law or something and, and also cancel the midterms.

[Dana Brino]

Well, under martial law, you won't have.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Republicans know that if a free and fair election takes place, they're losing. This is the most serious threat to democracy since the Civil War. I think that we are at a.

[Greg Gutfeld]

50, 50 moment right now.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I think the chances are high that we could lose our democracy between now and next November.

[Greg Gutfeld]

That is the greatest threat. I was, I missed threat to democracy. So what's got them all hot and bothered? Trump choking to Reuters about the midterm election saying, quote, it's some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms. When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election. Carolyn blasting this weenie. You didn't get the joke.

[Dana Brino]

She said that he was joking about canceling the elections. But Americans for generations have fought and.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Died for Democracy for this democracy.

[Dana Brino]

Are you saying the president finds the idea of canceling elections funny?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Andrew, were you in the room?

[Jesse Waters]

No.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

You weren't?

[Jesse Waters]

I was in the room.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I heard the conversation.

[Jesse Waters]

And only someone like you would take.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

That so seriously, impose it at question in that way.

[Greg Gutfeld]

So, Jesse, that guy's from the Independent, a British paper, and he is actually a weenie and hope that gets back to him. You know, people fought and died for the democracy. How dare you make a lighthearted joke that I'm deliberately and deliberately mistakenly taking is serious.

[Dana Brino]

That guy is such a nerd. People like that. I mean, that's why we hate the media. They're just nerds. Lighten up. He's not canceling anything. He's endorsing people. He's giving them money. Susie told him he had to go out and campaign and he was like annoyed about it, but he has to do it. This is why the Democrats have no credibility, Greg, is because everything they predict is wrong. Remember global warming? We're supposed to be underwater here in Manhattan. They said Trump was going to cause World War three and a recession. Stock market's up. I haven't seen a lot of war here. At least they said democracy was going to die if the Republicans took the House. Last time we took it, the only one who died was Kevin McCarthy. I haven't seen him. Is he still around?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yes, still around.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Got it.

[Dana Brino]

This is like what you said in the A block. These are feces, fastballs. Okay? No one believes it. They just throw it out there because they think their voters are that dumb. And are they, Harold? Are they that dumb?

[Harold Ford Jr.]

By no means.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Well, continue, Harold, with your deep thoughts.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

No, no. I think that the president was joking when he made the comment about. And we all got. Everybody's got to have a sense of humor here. I think I've said all along, I think Democrats got to get back to talking about the things that voters are most concerned about. I'm not one that points to polling this early in elections in an election cycle, but if you look at what Charlie Cook's group, the Cook Political Report says, and I think that they are the best at handicapping and understanding these midterm at these congressional races, Democrats are faring well. They're faring well at this point not because they're saying they want to indict or impeach President Trump if they get the majority, but because they're talking about federal housing permits so we can increase housing supply. They're talking about ways in which we can adjust to AI becoming A bigger part of our workforce. How do we educate and train people going forward? Do we lift tariffs on everything? The President has indicated he wants to lift tariffs on certain food items. Let's lift them on all these things so we can lower prices for everyday Americans. That's what Democrats need to be talking about. Not these weird, massive, outrageous conspiracy theories. The president, even if he wanted, he couldn't do it. And I'm not saying he wants to.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You know, Janet, I was like going, what happened to a threat to democracy? Since the Civil War? It's back and better than ever.

[Jesse Waters]

The resistance media personalities of the first term are dying to get back into business. A lot of them you don't hear from anymore. Yeah, and I agree with Harold. Of all the topics that Democrats have to talk about, where they, it shows, polls are like, well, you know, we kind of like the Democrats better now on this or that issue. They can't stick to that message. They always have to revert back to he's going to destroy the country. And it's actually very funny that the British guy is saying that people fought and died for democracy.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yes, it's incredible. I have a great idea for Trump, Kayleigh, if you can get it to him. Cuz I know you still talk. He should find somebody named Marshall Law. Marshall.

[Dana Brino]

Marshall Law.

[Greg Gutfeld]

And invite him to the White House and go and then announce to the press that he's bringing in martial law.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I heard Stephen Miller was already on that, Greg, so no worries there. Miller's got you covered. But Democrats, I mean, Harold, they should leave these talking points in the past. I know you would agree the threat to democracy stuff, but it seems like they can't resist a superlative. Like they see a superlative dangling and they have to grab it. Like, greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War. I mean I could think of maybe times that threatened our country more. Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, 2,400Americans died. Feminism. Yeah, you said that out loud. Nine, 11.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Do you agree with the feminism?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

No, I don't agree with the feminism part. However, there are greater threats. But it reminds me, Pelosi, what it was like the day after the election. Calling Trump the most vile creature, the worst human being to ever walk the earth. It's like the superlative is there and they have to grab it every time.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Yeah, there you go.

[Greg Gutfeld]

All right, up next, Kamala setting up her own Kamalago.

[Dana Brino]

Krilla's now got her own Cam a lago. The ex veep just bought an 8 million dollar mega mansion in Malibu's Celeb packed point dune one of the few areas in LA that didn't get torched during Karen Bass and Greasy's fire mismanagement. But wait a minute. Isn't a ritzy seaside mansion exactly the sort of thing Kamala warned us climate.

[Jesse Waters]

Change would obliterate extreme weather events which are increasing. Climate change is real. Climate change has become a climate crisis. I was in Portsmouth yesterday. Within a relatively short period of time we'll be underwater.

[Dana Brino]

So she moves on the coast.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Dana?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yeah.

[Dana Brino]

Eight million's it's not pocket change. If you were a Democrat donor, how would you feel about this?

[Jesse Waters]

First of all, I would say I want all the money back because you said that that Joe Biden was fully capable of being president for another four years and none of you changed. None of you changed your opinion on that, including George Clooney and Barack Obama until the debate with Trump where it was obvious to everybody and they continued to ask for money, people's hard earned money and now they're pretending to be soak the rich populace like Liz Warren, Bernie Sanders, Mamdani, his housing advisor and they're going to continue to do these things. They don't believe that climate change is going to lead to flooding on the coast. They don't believe that and so we shouldn't believe them.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Greg?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah, it's a big house. It's like 4,000 square feet. Kama is probably picking out the beach furniture. Doug Emoff has already picked out a nanny. But this is the kind of payoff that the most cynical politicians work for. You know, if you look at Obama, if you look at the Clintons, Biden, all Democrats and all poor until they got into politics and then they got rich. But Republicans, the Bushes, Trump, Reagan, they didn't do it for the dough. They didn't need to. They did it because they were patriots. So this is exactly what to expect. I think the climate change is a climate crisis was a scam to lower the cost of coastal homes for them. But it's imploded now. No one talks about climate change anymore. The stats have been exp is fraudulent. Any 10th grader could now destroy a climate scholar in one push of send on Grok Harold.

[Dana Brino]

So she had the DNC pay down her debt and then she buys an $8 million mansion on the coast.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

We shouldn't kid ourselves. This is a long held political tradition in our country where people run campaigns, they run a little debt. I mean President Trump is wealthy. He didn't pay his debt personally, nor did anyone expect him to, nor am I criticizing him for it. Look, I don't begrudge her buying wherever she wants to buy. She'll have to answer the questions that have been raised here about whether the purchase of this home is reconcilable with some of her political positions. But I got to tell you, if I had an extra 8 million, I might. I might buy a place next to her. It's pretty. It's pretty nice.

[Dana Brino]

Beautiful place out there.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You had money before you got into politics.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I did not.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yes, you did not.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

My parents were nice to me. We were middle class. Upper middle class families.

[Greg Gutfeld]

But you didn't do it for the money is what I did. Not complimenting you, Harold.

[Dana Brino]

So yes, you were right, Haley, I.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Disagree with Greg a little. I don't think Kamala is being out beach furniture. I think it's Doug that's doing the furniture picking. That personal opinion there. It's interesting because I thought she wanted Kamalot, which was this mythical image she was putting forward about what she'd do as president. She traded Kamalot for Kama Lago. And I think she's sitting in Cam A Lago and she's plotting her run. I have said for the last year. She's running for office. She's in there. She's calling donors. She's putting her feet to the ground. She's running. She sees the polls, she sees she's near the top of them. She's plotting a run from Cam A Lago. Will it work? I doubt.

[Dana Brino]

All right, we'll find out.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Will we?

[Dana Brino]

Yeah, we will.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

We will.

[Dana Brino]

Yeah, we actually will. And we'll cover it the fastest is up next.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Good music.

[Dana Brino]

That's sweet.

[Greg Gutfeld]

So, music.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Welcome back. Can doing the laundry together be romantic? Choremance is a new dating trend where you do chores together. Mr. Gutfeld, is this a. Is this a trend in the Gutfeld household?

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yes, we do it naked. No, actually, you know, I don't think it's romantic. But it reminds you that you're a team. And that way you can. Instead of beginning a sentence with you, which as everybody who's married gets tired of, it's we like you. That if you do more we's and less yous life is better. I can't believe I was serious there. I guess because I was gonna say something really disgusting.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Peter.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I mean, dp do you and Peter, is this the way you.

[Jesse Waters]

Well, no, I was just thinking. So if you are dating someone. We were just giving Kate dating advice in the green room. And if this were to happen, one thing you have to check is the woman should load the dishwasher and then just see if he tries to correct it and reload it. Because you didn't do it correctly. Because he has a different vision in his mind. And then the key is, if you end up getting married, he always does the dishes. It's perfect. You see how that works?

[Harold Ford Jr.]

I dated before. I'm married. I never did that when I was married. I've never. Have you ever done that?

[Dana Brino]

I had a dream.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Tell me about your dream.

[Dana Brino]

I put Emma in this little French maid outfit. She had the little dust thing like that. I smothered myself in dust, and she covered every inch of my dirty body.

[Greg Gutfeld]

But that was a dream.

[Dana Brino]

And then I woke up and I was like, oh, my God, that was disgusting. Jesse, on that.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

On that note, Kaylee, Yikes. How do you think about choremance? This is gonna be a thing.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yeah. So I've had any dreams. No dreams like that, Jesse. I'm gonna leave the dreams to Jesse. I'm just gonna try to get through this last minute. Look, I cleaned the kitchen. My husband unpacked. Like, vice versa. We did this when we got back from Disney World. It was great. And like, there's nothing more romantic than a clean house. And that is spoken like a true trad wife. And I'll take the title.

[Dana Brino]

There's nothing more romantic than a clean house.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

You women, you having another dream. One more thing is up next. Oh, man.

[Greg Gutfeld]

God made you.

[Dana Brino]

I wonder if he kept them all you. Just a show.

[Greg Gutfeld]

It's about to go down. All grind.

[Dana Brino]

They look like spark. Absolutely incredible.

[Greg Gutfeld]

All grit.

[Jesse Waters]

Downey, that was so nice.

[Greg Gutfeld]

All American.

[Dana Brino]

That is why you tuned in to Fox Nation.

[Greg Gutfeld]

This is the next great American sport. Make your move. This is real American freestyle. And Fox Nation is its home.

[Dana Brino]

Let's go, baby.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

It's time now for one more thing. Jesse, you're up.

[Dana Brino]

All right, we're gonna return to our travels in Eastern Europe. Yesterday we did Bulgaria. Today, Macedonia. Another just very unique Eastern European tradition where villagers dress up in unusual costumes to chase off the spirits of winter. And this stretches back 1400 years. You always don't think the white people are crazy. You think they're like a little, you know. And then you see things like this.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Speak for yourself.

[Dana Brino]

Okay, tonight just worst prom time. A very big DEI Thursday.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Big mmm. All right.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

That is kind of tease, Greg.

[Greg Gutfeld]

So tonight we got a great show. Kennedy, Michael Loftus, Andrew Gruelin, Charles Payne. Bring in the pain. Let's do this. Greg. Sexy Walrus News.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Roll it Baby, this is Ginger, who's.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Read in all the right places. The Indianapolis Zoo, relaxing. Loves to roll over to scratch the hard to reach places. Because rolling is often faster than waddling. And there's nothing sexy about waddling. But rolling. I could roll all night with Ginger.

[Jesse Waters]

Wow. Look how she looks at you, too.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah, exactly.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

I thought that was a fox. It appears to be a walrus, though.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yes.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Okay, Harold.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

Wow, what a segue. It was beautiful. Happy birthday, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Today, January 15th, is actually his birthday. In that spirit, his life was about service and humanity and love and in Cocoa Beach, Florida, an auroric driver named John Burningham stopped his car and ran into a busy highway after spotting two towers. Look at this guy wandering along in the middle of the road. In just seconds, he waved off traffic and carried both of them. Both of them to safety. God bless you and happy birthday, AI.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

What a hero.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

He's a heck of an AI.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Well, let me tell you about two other heroes. These guys are amazing. These are two Orlando police officers. It's Officer Troy Ake and Bobby Schellhorn. I was alone with three kids in the After Disney. My husband was driving home. They helped me all the way through the gate, all the way onto the airplane. And Jesse, bottom right corner. Yes. That is a leash that my daughter was on. On the other side was a blue leash. You can judge all you want, but my kids. Where was your husband safely? He was driving home.

[Dana Brino]

Just left you.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

This was the better play.

[Dana Brino]

Your husband drove home from Orlando?

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yes, we were down there for three weeks.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Oh, he was so sick and tired of you.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yeah, he had the better play. I'm driving next year. And then finally, I just want to say, this Saturday, in America, this weekend, tune in. We have James Car. It'll be a great discussion.

[Jesse Waters]

And that show's done in the morning. Yes.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

It'll be hot.

[Jesse Waters]

Coherent.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Yes. Dana. Okay.

[Jesse Waters]

Tom Shalhou. You all know Tom Shalhou. He is coming to Uncle Vinny's in Point Pleasant beach this weekend, Friday and Saturday night. And then at 2pm he's written this 2pm at the Little Point Bookshop. I'm going to do a chat with him for this book called Mean Dads for a Better America. It's a great book. He's a great storyteller. Is before the football game.

[Dana Brino]

Good.

[Jesse Waters]

So it's like a little appetizer. Get out of the house, stretch your legs, get some fresh air. Come see us at the Little Point Bookshop. You get tickets at their website.

[Greg Gutfeld]

That is a great book.

[Dana Brino]

It's a good title.

[Greg Gutfeld]

No, but you get. I mean, it's like it doesn't matter what your politics are. It's such a fun, smart book.

[Harold Ford Jr.]

He's a smart guy.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Being in the 70s. Basically living in the 70s.

[Kayleigh McEnany]

Absolutely great guy. Check out that book if you haven't gotten it already. That's it for us. Have a great night, everyone.

[Greg Gutfeld]

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