"Working Out Very Well"

Summary

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The Five – "Working Out Very Well"

Date: June 22, 2026
Host: Greg Gutfeld, with Dana Perino, Charlie Hurt, Jessica Tarloff, and Jesse Waters
Podcast Theme:
This episode digs into several of the week's political flashpoints, from Trump’s Iran dealings, Democratic party intrigue, and left/right culture clashes, to quirkier stories trending in the media. The panel’s signature banter and pointed commentary give viewers a mix of sharp critique, humor, and ideological debate.

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Main Themes & Focus

• Analysis of President Trump's Iran negotiations and their outcomes.
• The political dynamics shaping the Democratic Party’s 2028 presidential jockeying.
• Media fixation on the reflecting pool algae "scandal" as a metaphor for political obsession.
• Critique and satire of recent progressive cultural narratives, including Father's Day trans coverage and Gen Z dating trends.

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In-Depth Segment Summaries

1. Trump & Iran: "Working Out Very Well?"

Timestamps: 01:00–14:05

Key Points & Insights:

• Trump’s Negotiation Results:
  Trump claims progress with Iran, citing a demolition of Iran's nuclear and missile programs and re-entry of inspectors (01:21). Dana Perino summarizes Trump’s optimism—negotiating a fair deal, but promising action if Iran misbehaves.
• Skepticism & Critique:
  The panel is divided on the realism of the optimism. Charlie Hurt highlights political flip-flopping and media criticism, cautioning against quick judgment (“If you are gonna ask for 60 days from the Iranians, let’s take it. Take a minute. Everybody take a beat.” – Charlie Hurt, 06:24).
• Democratic Response:
  The group lampoons Democratic figures like Susan Rice and Cory Booker for criticizing the deal without nuance.
  Greg: “That’s like giving somebody credit for literally an arsonist starting a fire and getting credit for running out of the burning building.” (02:08)
• Israeli Angle:
  Discussion on the difficulties Netanyahu faces managing domestic pressures with Iran and Lebanon (09:08–10:00).
• Sanctions Debate:
  Jessica Tarloff raises concerns about Iran now being able to freely sell oil—“It is estimated they will get $5 billion a month from being able to sell that oil on the open market. …That is genuine cause for concern.” (12:22)
• Memorable Analogy:
  Dana compares Iran to “the uncooperative drunk guy at a bar who steals your phone” but now “just got his ass kicked” (04:32).

Notable Quotes:

• “Most people are open to the idea that actually Trump is making a negotiation that could wind up being smarter than any of his predecessors.” – Greg Gutfeld (03:30)
• “If they do say at the end of 60 days, go F yourself, all the uranium’s buried, they can’t touch it—so does it even really matter?” – Jesse Waters (07:53)

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2. 2028 Democratic Race: Hope, Loyalty, and Political Instincts

Timestamps: 15:32–19:44

Key Points & Insights:

• Kamala vs. Newsom Dynamics:
  The panel mocks Kamala Harris's interview answers and Newsom’s effusive praise for Biden (“I’ll never turn my back on Joe Biden. I see my father in so many ways the way I see President Biden.” – Gavin Newsom, 16:21).
• Strategic Calculations:
  Charlie Hurt notes Newsom’s calculation to shore up goodwill with black voters loyal to Biden, while Kamala distances herself (17:00).
• Panel Satire:
  Jessica Tarloff responds to accusations of “blind loyalty to an idiot” with, “Well, you do blind loyalty to an idiot every day,” sparking playful jabs (17:55).

Notable Quotes:

• “She’s like that guy at the Port Authority bus station who used to make a lot of money telling everybody… he just needs $35 for a bus ticket. And it worked. … But then after a while, people just stopped.” – Dana Perino on Kamala Harris (21:17)
• “They’re running a guy who can’t read and a woman who can’t talk. Yeah, it’d be a really fun race.” – Jesse Waters (22:44)

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3. Reflecting Pool Algae: Media Obsession and Metaphors

Timestamps: 23:40–33:18

Key Points & Insights:

• Algae Scandal Satire:
  The reflecting pool’s algae and peeling paint become a proxy for media fixation and “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
• Media Distraction:
  Greg: “It’s almost like he intentionally threw this out to occupy all the media … and what they’ve done is created a kids table for all these people while the rest of us are over here talking about … preventing World War 4” (25:03).
• Panel Meta-Analysis:
  Dana characterizes the algae as a metaphor for leftwing politics—persistent, opportunistic, and living off others' creations (26:08).
• Vandalism vs. Negligence:
  Jesse Waters asserts, “Trump said that they have evidence of someone slicing and dicing the bottom of the pool and that evidence will be shown in court…” but suspects the left is reaching for scandals (29:53).

Notable Quotes:

• “If Trump cured cancer, they’d call it an attack on funeral homes.” – Dana Perino (27:32)
• “Come on, Jessica.” – Jesse Waters, pressing on liberal cities’ conditions (30:38)

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4. New York Times and Trans Father's Day Essay

Timestamps: 35:03–39:00

Key Points & Insights:

• Father's Day Essay Reaction:
  The panel reacts skeptically and satirically to a New York Times Father’s Day essay by a trans dad, with Greg and Charlie questioning its relevance to most Americans.
• Satire on Virtue Signaling:
  Dana calls the piece “a 1:1 editorial” that’s “a huge virtue signal” with little general resonance (35:41).
• Broader Commentary on Gender Identity:
  Discussion of confusion, impact on children, and crime narratives in trans coverage, with Jessica Tarloff offering the counterpoint that “when you are in a position where you feel like you are really fighting for your life … this kind of thing does not help.” (38:25)

Notable Quotes:

• “Maybe the daughter does [find it normal], but maybe the daughter does because you’re with the daughter …” – Charlie Hurt (37:17)

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5. Gen Z Dating Trends – “Practice Dates”

Timestamps: 40:40–42:46

Key Points & Insights:

• Story Setup:
  Jessica presents the trend of Gen Zers going on “practice dates” with people they’re not interested in, for experience or a meal.
• Ethical and Generational Takes:
  The panel’s advice ranges from “you’re wasting that person’s time” (Charlie Hurt) to Greg’s satirical advice: “There is no Gandhi for the homely... Dates aren’t practice. They’re recitals.” (41:20)
• Lighthearted Banter:
  Jesse jokes, “Practice dates lead to practice sex… Trust me, I’ve tried it all. Doesn’t work.” (42:22)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Iran is like the uncooperative drunk guy at a bar who steals your phone. He could give it back or get his ass kicked and then give it back. Either way, it’s the same outcome." – Dana Perino (04:32)
• “If Trump said, ‘I love food,’ would these idiots starve themselves to death?” – Dana Perino (26:08)
• “She reminds me of the drunk lady at the hotel bar. Doesn’t matter who’s in front of her. She’ll just say the same old crap.” – Dana Perino on Kamala Harris (21:17)
• “You do blind loyalty to an idiot every day.” – Jessica Tarloff to Jesse Waters (17:55)

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Segment Timestamps

• Trump/Iran Deal & Foreign Policy: 01:00–14:05
• Democratic 2028 Race & Kamala/Newsom: 15:32–19:44
• Reflecting Pool/Algae & Media Satire: 23:40–33:18
• NYT Father’s Day Trans Essay: 35:03–39:00
• Gen Z "Practice Dating": 40:40–42:46

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Tone & Style

The discussion is sharply partisan, with FOX’s characteristic blend of satire, sarcasm, and lively intra-panel jabs. There is notable interplay between serious policy analysis and irreverent political/cultural critique, maintaining an energetic, bantering tone.

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Takeaways

• The panel remains deeply skeptical of mainstream media narratives around both foreign and domestic topics.
• Trump’s Iran policy, while criticized by “mainstream” voices, is defended as pragmatic and potentially historically significant.
• Democratic leadership appears directionless and driven by both internal rivalry and performative signaling, as viewed by the panel.
• American media obsessions—whether with algae or trans issues—are mocked as distractions from what the panel deems more substantive policy failures.

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This summary captures the tone, major themes, and specific exchanges of "The Five", providing context and clarity for listeners who missed the episode or want a focused recap of the panel's debates and satire.

Transcript

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[Greg Gutfeld]

I think Iran, I can say on a sort of a different scale, is

[Dana Perino]

in its own way working out very well.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Maybe it's hard to say just as well, but maybe almost just as well. And we're doing very well in terms of negotiating a fair and reasonable deal. But no, if Iran doesn't live up to their agreement or if they're not behaving, I will do what I have to do. But as long as they respect us, we're not going to have any trouble.

[Dana Perino]

Trump's optimism comes as JD Wraps up a second day in negotiations in Switzerland. He claims that Iran will let nuke inspectors back in and the terror regime could buy American crops with billions of unfrozen assets. But all that's lost on the Dems, who are now the party of forever wars.

[Greg Gutfeld]

That's like giving somebody credit for literally an arsonist starting a fire and getting credit for running out of the burning building. This president has led this nation into a disaster. We have surrendered our power, we have capitulated to the enemy and they now are mocking us.

[Charlie Hurt]

What we've got as a result of that war, which President Trump was the first to take the bait on what is a strengthened Iran in terms of its geopolitical stature in the region.

[Dana Perino]

So Charlie, this is interesting because there's a lot of we see a lot of criticism and you have the neocons who want a regime change, ground troops, forever wars, but people say you shouldn't have done this. And now you haven't done enough. And then you have the media trying to figure out who they should be backing in the criticism, but they don't care. As long as it's criticism.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah, as long as it's criticism against Donald Trump. Whereas in Trump's party is the only, like, reasonable debate that's going on anywhere. But this thing about how trying, you know, they're so desperate to try to compare this deal to the deal with Obama. And you have Susan Rice talking about how Iran is somehow strengthened now and accuses Trump of having been the first person to take the bait, which to me, I think is her way. She's constantly trying to rewrite history, constantly trying to revise the very, very bad deal that Obama gave us. And so then you have the New York Times piling on, trying to claim that the situation now that we're in at the beginning of this 60 day period of negotiation is no different from where we were at the beginning of the war, which is total bs. You mean it's not changed at all in that their nuclear program has been demolished, their missile program has been decimated, their top 40 leaders have all been annihilated, and they want to act like this is already a failure. And I honestly don't believe that normal people are buying it. I think a lot of people are sort of. They're tired of the wars. They're tired. And they don't like gas prices going up. But I think most people are open to the idea that actually Trump is making a negotiation that could wind up being smarter than any of his predecessors.

[Dana Perino]

Yeah, change the negotiation stance. Dana. What Charlie said reminds. It's like an analogy. Like Iran is like the uncooperative drunk guy at a bar who steals your phone. He could give it back or he could get his ass kicked and then give it back. Either way, it's the same outcome. It's just that Iran now just got his ass kicked and they're at the same place, but worse.

[Charlie Hurt]

Well, now. But he does it every Saturday night.

[Dana Perino]

Yes.

[Charlie Hurt]

And he's limping now because he's been somewhat wounded, but we also don't know what he's got in his pockets. And so I just. Can I go back to one thing? It's interesting to see Susan Rice on television.

[Dana Perino]

Yes.

[Charlie Hurt]

Because during the Biden administration, she was in charge of the Domestic Policy Council.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Right.

[Charlie Hurt]

She had been National Security Council under Obama. Right. And then she was with Biden. You couldn't get her to do an interview during The Biden years and the Biden border crisis. There was none of that. And where is she? I would love to know. Did you have interactions with Biden? That's very interesting to me that all of a sudden she wants to come back and be an expert on all of this. You once called me an optimistic pragmatist. So I would like to look on the bright side. But I also think I reserve the right to be skeptical about all of this. I think the we'll see is what the MOU is supposed to be. It's supposed to be, let's wait 60 days and see. Which is why I think it's a little hard to swallow that this is the best. This is amazing. This is so great. Isn't this amazing? This is so terrific. I'm like, well, hold on a second. Two months ago, you wanted people to defend the President's decisions, and they did. People who support him. And now you want them to completely change their worldview and everything they've said for the last 60 days and that they're jerks and awful and they're gonna be cast aside and out of the party because they don't agree with him. Now, after 24 hours of trying to be spun on this deal, and to me, I just wish that they would give everybody a minute.

[Dana Perino]

Yeah.

[Charlie Hurt]

If you are gonna ask for 60 days from the Iranians, let's take it. Take a minute. Everybody take a beat. Go to your corners. Have a second. Now, that will depend also on Iran doing the right thing, because I don't for a second believe that there was some, like, lone Hezbollah fighter shooting rockets into Israel over the weekend. Those things are done at the top. And Iran wants nothing more than there to be more daylight between the United States and Israel. And they're working really hard at that. So I don't love that Epic Fury was a success, but it will only be an ultimate success if they can complete this thing or, well, finish it one way or the other. And I think it's just way too early to know how it's going to turn out.

[Dana Perino]

Good point. You know, Jesse, they keep asking Trump was it worth it. Well, it's been 110 days. We're supposed to get all of the enriched uranium, which I think would make it an achievement. In 110 days, you have their missiles are depleted. Their capacity to enrich uranium should be thwarted for decades. The real risk of pluripotent proliferation is gone for a long time. Seems to me that was 110 days well worth it.

[Jesse Waters]

Ahoy. Matey.

[Dana Perino]

Yeah, I have a little dog down here pulling on my shorts.

[Jesse Waters]

How was the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend? Yeah. Iran lost the war. They surrendered. And now they're letting the United States and the UN in to look at their sites and their uranium, and then they're going to destroy it. Do I need to keep talking? I mean, that sounds pretty good. Very funny. But Dana's right. If they do say at the end of 60 days, go F yourself, all the uranium's buried. They can't touch it. So does it even really matter? And so now you have people coming out like, what, Booker and Rice? We don't take them seriously. They're buffoons. We only put their sound bites in the segment for friction. The nuke program is destroyed, the military 85% destroyed, and the Straits open. Greg's gone out there peacefully.

[Dana Perino]

Yes.

[Jesse Waters]

He hasn't been attacked. Iran's bluffed their way the last 10 days. There's been no tankers that have been attacked. We're actually gonna wrap this up hopefully pretty soon, and we can move on to Cuba. My banking buddy told me that after we topple Castro, we're gonna be able to buy 100 acres of pristine Cuban coastline for like, 50 GS.

[Charlie Hurt]

Is that insider trading or not?

[Jesse Waters]

Insider trading? That's just. How does it on the Street?

[Dana Perino]

How does this contribute to this segment?

[Jesse Waters]

What I'm saying is Donald Trump is crushing it on the world stage. We now have Latin America and the Middle east under our thumb. We are now OPEC and the Chinese economy struggling, and Putin's losing this war in Ukraine. JD Vance and Marco Rubio are looking really good. Trump's delegated beautifully. They've gotten experience, respect, stature. Meanwhile, Harris and Newsom, what are they cackling and selling? Knee pads. Forget about that. But Dana is right. The Jewish question is going to be a situation with this deal because the population of Israel, they want Netanyahu to go hard in Lebanon, and he's getting probably trounced. If he doesn't go hard, he's up for reelection, and the Iranians know that. So anytime they want to try to rupture our alliance with Israel, they push a button, a rocket comes out of Beirut, and then we have to deal with the Iranians and Israel. And we know that's not very fun to babysit, but that's what's the good part about being a world superpower, is you got the world's currency reserve and you got $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget. So it's in their Court.

[Charlie Hurt]

It's like Mary Poppins bag.

[Jesse Waters]

Exactly. The banks can open or close and the bombs can get dropped or sold.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Yeah.

[Dana Perino]

And you know, Jessica, whenever we think about North Korea, we always go, like, wouldn't it be great if we got to them before they were able to get a nuclear weapon? This was the opportunity to do that with Iran. So what's the problem? Finally, somebody, instead of just, like, mowing the lawn, flattened the garden.

[Charlie Hurt]

Sure.

[Jessica Tarloff]

I don't know about flattening the garden or what kind of coat rack Jesse just pulled out of his bag. But you're not also supposed to say Jews instead of Israel. That's. They're separate things.

[Jesse Waters]

Israel or Jews.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Just say Israel.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Okay.

[Jessica Tarloff]

No, I'm just giving you some. I'm giving you some Jew advice. Don't conflate those things.

[Charlie Hurt]

Now, you.

[Dana Perino]

Platner,

[Jessica Tarloff]

please excuse me while I show you my Totenkopf. What are you talking about? The tattoo is bad, obviously, but you.

[Dana Perino]

Well, never mind.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Enough.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Go ahead.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Okay. I would rather people be talking than not talking. So this is a net positive. Obviously, the Iranians are out there with their PR from the weekend saying, we walked away from the table when reality, they were at the table. I think the Qatari and Pakistani statement, you know, suggests that there was some real headway made. But there were only a couple of item lines in the MOU that actually had any specific. Any specificity to them. And both of them are not going particularly well so far. So Jesse says the strait is open, but they closed the strait two or three times in the last couple of days, showing that they can still do that. CNBC said, how open is open? I don't know. That's a big question. And it's also lot fewer tankers than what you need to be able to getting through to get the world's economy back going. But the biggest win for Iran in

[Jesse Waters]

this 75 a barrel, just. I think everybody realizes it's open.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Just go ahead and ignore the fact that Iran closed it when it felt like it and then reopened it.

[Greg Gutfeld]

They said they closed it, but them saying they closed and it being closed only three tanks.

[Dana Perino]

But CNN asked a valuable question.

[Jesse Waters]

What are you talking about?

[Charlie Hurt]

65.

[Jesse Waters]

Yes.

[Jessica Tarloff]

The biggest win in the MoU, the thing that aggravates the strongest supporters of the president the most, is Iran being able to sell oil on the open market, essentially rolling back 40 years of sanctions. I mean, even entities that were sanctioned under this global terrorism sanction regulations, meaning that that money can be used directly to fund terrorism. And that was Our big problem why we went in to do this. So we need to stop the funding of proxies like Hezbollah. It is estimated they will get $5 billion a month from being able to sell that oil on the open market. And there is a reason that Democratic and Republican presidents for four decades didn't want that to be the case. And so if you look at those two factors that Iran is still in control of the strait and that they are now making money day one off of this MoU, that is genuine cause for concern. Also talking about what you might get

[Dana Perino]

out of the they're still losing money every day. What 400 million. Was that what they no.

[Jessica Tarloff]

And Charlie saying I think normal people are with Donald Trump about this. 69% say the war wasn't worth the cost, which is estimated $132 billion.

[Jesse Waters]

Did you listen to why JD said that they lifted the sanctions on the oil? Did you hear what he said?

[Jessica Tarloff]

You tell me.

[Jesse Waters]

No, no, tell me, tell me what you heard him say the rationale for lifting oil sanctions.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Oh, so that they the money can go to support the people inside there instead of giving them the regime change. You tell, tell me what you he

[Jesse Waters]

said it gives us more visibility and where the money's going because right now it's on the black market just like sanctions haven't.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Write to Hezbollah instead of going in

[Jesse Waters]

the secret corridor, you actually can because now it's not on the black market and you can see it go through our banks.

[Dana Perino]

Jesse, not everything race about race. Jesse. All right, we gotta move on. Coming up next, Kamala and Gavin are trying to out stupid one another.

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The Democrats aren't sending their best and brightest for 2028. Kamala and Gavin are currently battling over who has worst political instincts with Mamala. Stopping by Don Lemon's podcast for some deep thoughts on the word hope.

[Charlie Hurt]

Let that light kind of carry us in particular through moments of darkness that that we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope. Hope in each other and in particular at this moment. It is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a verb.

[Jesse Waters]

And knee pads is getting down on his knees for the big guy. Gavin Newsom getting called out by Axios for embracing Joe Biden in the run up to the 28 primary. Watch this.

[Dana Perino]

Our former president, who I think was one of the most successful presidents in the last century, and that is Jo Biden. And I will defend that to my grave. I'll never turn my back on Joe Biden. I see my father in so many ways the way I see President Biden. That's one of the reasons I was so loyal to the end.

[Jesse Waters]

Dana, did you catch Carl's reaction?

[Charlie Hurt]

Yes, I think Carl's great. He's like, what you just said.

[Greg Gutfeld]

What?

[Charlie Hurt]

I like Lemon's reaction, too. As Kamala Harris was go. He just was saying like, lady, I gave you a light. You basically are hanging yourself here. I tried to help you. I'm going to do something I don't always do. And I'm going to say I think, even though I think on the merits and in reality, and in fact, Gavin Newsom is wrong and that this is likely a bad strategy. However, he knows that Kamala is distancing herself from Biden. She's throwing Biden under the bus. Biden still has a lot of goodwill with the black community. Gavin Newsom's numbers with the black community are very low. Kamala Harris's are still fairly high, relatively high. So he is trying to figure out a way to position himself in a way that says, let me be your champion, because she won't be.

[Jesse Waters]

That is. I hadn't thought about it that way. Jessica, that makes a lot of sense. Or is like blind loyalty to an idiot. Does that override that?

[Jessica Tarloff]

Well, you do blind loyalty to an idiot every day,

[Jesse Waters]

two in a row.

[Jessica Tarloff]

I'm just Gonna leave. I think I'm done for the day. And it's only Monday.

[Jesse Waters]

That idiot's running circles around you guys.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Okay, whatever. Let's talk about that reflecting pool.

[Jesse Waters]

We will.

[Charlie Hurt]

We will.

[Jesse Waters]

Dee, block what you vandalized.

[Jessica Tarloff]

It's like Dana and I were sharing notes today. Probably also doesn't wanna alienate older black voters who feel warmly about Biden from 2020. Also, I think that what Newsom understands, and it's interesting for someone who is so hyper online, but also gets that Twitter isn't real life, Right? And there are all of these people out in the country who show up to vote every single time, right? Midterms, primaries, general elections, and not following every single plot line. They're annoyed at Joe Biden. Right? They say, like, I really wish he had gotten out earlier. Some of them might be in the crazy camp and even say, Joe. If Joe Biden had stayed on the top of the ticket, maybe we would have done better. I think that that's totally absurd, but I think that Newsom is aware of that. I think it will also be distinguishing in a primary, not just with Kamala, who's running away from him, but Josh Shapiro, Pete Buttigieg. You know, people are going to have to make smart criticism of aspects of the Biden administration, but I think that there is also this genuine affection that they have for one another. They've known each other a long time. And I think that Newsom also just respects service at that level, that the guy spent five decades serving the country and that that's meaningful.

[Jesse Waters]

Does that work? Maybe in a primary? Yeah, but maybe when you get to the general, you look kind of foolish.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah, I don't think it's going to work. It might work in a primary, I guess, and Dana's analysis is the smartest thing of any of it. But I still don't actually think it's going to actually make a difference.

[Charlie Hurt]

Right.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I think that it's not going to work because, look, Gavin Newsom will say absolutely whatever he needs to say to try to win the nomination. And it's particularly funny given the fact that Kamala Harris just 10 minutes ago couldn't find a single thing to criticize about Joe Biden when she. During the last election. I think that it's all a calculation by Newsom that he recognizes that the upcoming primary for Democrats is going to be. All the enthusiasm is on the commie side of the party with the Platner aoc, Bernie Sanders. He recognizes that the party has twice rigged their own primaries in order to Keep Bernie from getting the nomination. And he figures, okay, well, I'll be the guy over here in the, you know, claiming to be in the sane wing of the party, which is hysterical. He's from California, but it's no more hysterical than when Nancy Pelosi was supposedly from the sane wing of the party after the lunatics took over the asylum. But how funny is it going to be if we wind up with a situation where you have, after all of the race baiting of the Democrat party, they hand the nomination to Joe Biden, an old white guy, and then the old white guy taps a younger old white guy to be the next nominee.

[Charlie Hurt]

Exactly.

[Jesse Waters]

All right. Speaking of old white guys, do you need a tissue? Greg?

[Dana Perino]

I've been doing this show for 15 years, and I have hay fever. And this is the first time it's ever happened on a show.

[Jessica Tarloff]

It's so bad right now.

[Dana Perino]

It's an unbelievable. My. I could. I. I'm not going to even try to comment on this topic, except to say that why does Kamala's thing no longer work on people? I find that interesting. She's like that guy at the Port Authority bus station who makes, like. Who used to make a lot of money telling everybody that he just got mugged and he has to get to a job interview and he just needs $35 for a bus ticket. And it worked. It worked, like, every day. But then after a while, people just stopped. Started. Like, I see this guy, he gets mugged a lot. So it all wears off. It all wears off. People. Other people are using the same story. So it's kind of like this Obama babble. And it was pretty rich for a while. People could get away with it, but it's like a magic trick that only works on infants and people with head injuries. Everybody else is, like, going, what the hell's going on? She reminds me of the drunk lady at the hotel bar. Doesn't matter who's in front of her. She'll just say the same old crap. The bartender's already moved to the other side of the bar, polishing a clean glass. Lemon, however, loves this because for once, he's the smart guy in the room. He's like, I can't believe this. I'm actually a scholar compared to her. And she's like. It's also kind of like, imagine having. This is like office hours with a drunk professor come after class. She just forces you to sit there, and she just gets loaded and tells you garbage.

[Jesse Waters]

Yeah, they're running a guy who can't read And a woman who can't talk. Yeah, it'd be a really fun race. We're going to get Greg a tissue in the break because in tight. Gutfeld.

[Dana Perino]

Thank you.

[Jesse Waters]

Must have caught something in the straight over the weekend. It's coming up next. The liberal media treating algae like the biggest threat to democracy.

[Charlie Hurt]

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[Jesse Waters]

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[Greg Gutfeld]

Whoa, that's good. This might be the drink of the summer. Okay, I like this one, too. I'm rocking with it.

[Charlie Hurt]

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[Greg Gutfeld]

Barack Hussein Obama, have you ever heard of him? Yeah. He spent two years and over $100 million on trying to fix it. You know what happened to it never even opened. He took the water from the river. You know about that, right? It turned out to be putrid and it destroyed the whole thing. President Trump sounding off on the scandal that liberals think could finally sink his administration once and for all. The green algae in the reflecting pool. The recently renovated reflective pool faces scrutiny over appealing paint and algae growth. Just weeks after a $14.8 million restoration project was completed, Democrats and the media can't seem to stop sticking their hands in the pool.

[Jesse Waters]

Check this out. That American flag blue paint, it's peeling away.

[Jessica Tarloff]

And we're going to scoop up a water sample to see if we can get this tested.

[Greg Gutfeld]

People pointed out that, you know, Jenny, if she had run across this reflecting pool, she would have died as a result of that.

[Charlie Hurt]

That had he not messed with pool, you know, it would still be a

[Dana Perino]

reflecting pool instead of a liquid jungle.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Oh, gee.

[Charlie Hurt]

That's all anybody talked about at home this weekend.

[Greg Gutfeld]

And when liberals aren't dunking on the pool, the usual suspects like Joy Reid or are dunking on the Fourth of July.

[Charlie Hurt]

Nobody black I know is really excited about the 4th of July because it is what Frederick Douglass said it is. It is the celebration of slaveholders who

[Dana Perino]

freed themselves from having to pay taxes

[Charlie Hurt]

to the crown for their slave empire.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Truly amazing. And we're going to get to that. But first, Greg, I want to. So this whole thing about the reflecting pool, you know, we talk a lot about Trump derangement syndrome and how Trump manages to take over the brains. But I also sometimes wonder if I don't have a form of Trump derangement syndrome, because I hear a story like this and I think it is so funny. It's almost like he intentionally threw this out to occupy all the media, occupy all the left to the point where you have like otherwise supposedly serious news organizations doing a countdown clock from when they finished the pool to the going out doing algae tests. And what they've done is they've created a kids table for all of these people while the rest of us are over here talking about like, I don't know, Preventing World War 4 with a nuclear weapon.

[Dana Perino]

It is amazing, but at the same time, I love that analogy. These guys missed the border. They missed the victims of illegal gang members, women who were raped and murdered. They missed the entire Covid crime cover up, which right now is exploding. I think, you know, algae is the perfect analogy of left wing politics. You can't. You can get rid of it and make things beautiful, but it's going to grow back. And so you kind of have to constantly battle it because it lives off the things that you make. If there was no reflecting pool, there would have been no algae. If there was no lawn, there would have been no 8647. If there was no wealth and prosperity, there would be no socialism. So you see how they all have to depend on people making and creating things in order for it to survive. It must be weird to hate nice things because people you hate like the nice things. If Trump said, I love food, would these idiots starve themselves to death? Maybe as an experiment he should come out against rat poison just to see if they would sprinkle it on their oatmeal. You know, now they embrace algae, they embrace vandalism because it's anti Trump, but that is nothing new. They've embraced vandalism before. They've torn down statues. The old line. If Trump, you know, if Trump cured cancer, they caught it. An attack on funeral homes.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Dana, I don't know what to make of all of this.

[Charlie Hurt]

No, you don't. Oh, you don't?

[Greg Gutfeld]

I have no idea.

[Charlie Hurt]

I have a feeling you know exactly what to make of.

[Greg Gutfeld]

No, I really don't. I have no idea whether it was a botched job or it wasn't a botched job. And there's.

[Charlie Hurt]

I actually think it's even more simple than that. Okay, let's back up. I lived there a long time. I used to go when I used to run. I don't even run errands anymore. But pretty much when you go by all of these beautiful monuments in Washington, you see for a long time they were. There's weeds growing, the homeless people around. It's not nice. And the pond has had a lot of algae for many years. And at least President Trump was like, this place is adult I want to make it all look better. So he's putting time and effort into it. Now. I think there's nothing wrong with saying, well, shoot, that didn't work. Part of the problem is you have the water that comes in comes from the Tidal Basin. Where does the Tidal Basin water come from? The Potomac. What happened in the Potomac? Just like six months ago, this is what I would have said that. What did we have? We had the Maryland and Virginia with that little whatchamacallit thing, the water deal. They didn't deal with it right. And then all the pollution went into the Potomac and now that's the water that goes in there. Now, I think there's nothing wrong with saying, well, that didn't work, but we're going to get it right. Let's drain it one more time. Let's do it one more time. We're going to do it one more time and see if we can make it work. And there would be nothing wrong with that. President Trump is blessed with the worst opposition. Right. They love to come out and they want to dress up and they want to do these, all of these pictures. They want to go there like, they couldn't even send a single reporter to the border when Bill Melusion was there for months showing them all of these stories that said, this is an administration who has not been shy about showing us the evidence that they have against people who did something wrong. For example, the guy who threw the sandwich at the ice officer. We saw that that video was available. I will be open minded. I would love to see some more evidence before I'm willing to buy that it was vandalism. I think that the dirty water in the Potomac, which you could trace, if you want to blame somebody, you could trace it back. You could find a way to do that. Or you could just say, let's just fix it. We have 4th of July coming up and we want it to look beautiful.

[Greg Gutfeld]

I love that. Blame it on the E. Coli that Democrat politicians allowed in the river. All right, Jesse, go back to Joy Reid. Do you think all black people hate the Fourth of July?

[Jesse Waters]

No, they love it. And she says she celebrates Juneteenth. That's her real Fourth of July. I don't even believe that. Okay. I celebrate Juneteenth. I was off on Juneteenth. Okay. She worked on Juneteenth. So I don't even buy it. On the reflecting pool, Trump said that they have evidence of someone slicing and dicing the bottom of the pool and that evidence will be shown in court and that we have made five arrests, five individuals are under investigation and I'm waiting to see the video evidence of it. Or they botched the redo. Okay, either way, this is all you got on this guy. You guys couldn't even build a charging station.

[Charlie Hurt]

That's true.

[Jesse Waters]

Obama's library, have you seen that? 20 years a billion dollar later and they stiff the black contractors and it looks like garbage, Jessica. And oh my God, liberals would never vandalize public works. Did you see blm? The statues, the graffiti go to skid row. I mean, you guys are disgusting. You guys make a job out of destroying cities. Look at Penn Station. It's a horrible place to be. And you're pointing a finger at a pool he's trying to make better. Come on, Jessica.

[Jessica Tarloff]

But liberals built Moynihan Station, which is train paradise.

[Jesse Waters]

It is beautiful.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Okay, so it is. Okay, the reason, and I'm not pro wearing like frog costumes or whatever, like people should work more and whatever, but the reason that the pool matters to people. Putting aside someone who might have your odd case of tds, is that Trump came out and said Obama, Biden, none of them, none of them could make it nice. I make everything nice. I'm the best builder in the whole world. And guess what? His poll is full of algae too. Right? So he bragged about how it was impossible for anyone but him. He alone can fix it. Well, obviously not.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Have you seen the murder rate in

[Jessica Tarloff]

D.C. just keep deflecting. Number two reason.

[Greg Gutfeld]

How is that deflecting?

[Dana Perino]

I'm just asking. We're talking about algae, not murder.

[Jessica Tarloff]

And it's not reflecting. They are arresting people on fake vandalism charges like the subway sandwich man. And it is going to end up the guy.

[Charlie Hurt]

The subway sandwich. The guy did actually throw the subway, but it wasn't.

[Jessica Tarloff]

He wasn't going to be thrown in jail for.

[Charlie Hurt]

Well, I didn't know, but I saw the evidence.

[Greg Gutfeld]

But do you think actually Trump called up the.

[Jessica Tarloff]

I think that he.

[Greg Gutfeld]

You need to go and arrest the guy in the bike shorts.

[Jessica Tarloff]

I think that someone told him, by the way. And the guy in the bike shorts, you should think. You think a three time Olympian, a canoeist. There's David.

[Dana Perino]

Not a canoeist. Oh, my God. That changes everything. Get me on the Canoeist association line.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Showed him pictures, Natalie Harp, or whoever it is, and it's like, look what they're doing to your pool. The third element that matters in this, and it is so unsurprising, is that the money spent on this went to no bid contracts. Again. One of which to one of Donald Trump's big donors should have given it

[Jesse Waters]

to an indigenous contractor. That would have taken a year.

[Jessica Tarloff]

There are pool people who are posting on social media.

[Jesse Waters]

Those gender pool people, those are the people that deserve it.

[Charlie Hurt]

You're right.

[Jessica Tarloff]

You should just give a contract to all of your friends so you can have a pool covered in algae.

[Charlie Hurt]

But the water was still coming from the Potomac.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Fine. And it's all Wes Moore's fault, right? Isn't that where we're going with this?

[Jesse Waters]

No, but I like that.

[Greg Gutfeld]

And the guy that got arrested in the bike shorts. All I'm gonna say is the canoeist. The canoeist. The Olympic canoeist who got arrested in his bike shorts. Donald Trump does a much better mug shot. I would far rather have Trump's mug shot than that. All right, coming up, the Times goes trans for Father's Day.

[Dana Perino]

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[Jesse Waters]

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[Dana Perino]

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[Jesse Waters]

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[Charlie Hurt]

The New York Times had a rather odd way to celebrate Father's Day. They published an opinion guest essay titled to my Daughter, My Gender was Never Complicated. The comic style essay was written by a biological woman who identifies as male and describes the experience of becoming a trans dad, including a conversation with the author's daughter with quotes like these. How long did you have breasts for, dad? How did you grow a mustache? If you're a lady, you can't grow a beard. You're a girl. And the daughter replies, my dad did, and he was a girl. And of course, there you had the little drawings that went along with it. It's still. It's always 2020 at the new York Times, Greg.

[Dana Perino]

It's amazing. You know what? I think this is beautiful. There must have been hundreds of thousands of readers who said, wow, this captures my father's Day to a T. This is exactly like my experience at home. No, this is like one of the. This is a one to one editorial. It pleases only the person doing it. It was a huge virtue. Signal. Signal for it to make you look good. Look how smart and open minded my daughter is. Of course, what they wouldn't do is a Mother's Day version of this, my mommy is my daddy. Because that's a little bit creepier. It's interesting how in this day and age, the female to male trans doesn't get any press because they're not the ones committing the crimes. We just got a New Hampshire Democrat who's going away for 35 years, a transsexual. Actually just a guy in a dress for child porn. You're watching the amount of crime that's going on in prisons, from male to female sexual felons going into jails. You're seeing these crimes being documented by Redux every day. So this is like still considered, like, okay, but it's still just 2020. It's like they're absolutely. This is like for them to feel, oh, I'm so open minded. Why not do it from the perspective of the child? Maybe the child should be talking and not the mommy.

[Charlie Hurt]

Charlie, you've been an editor and so if somebody came, put yourself in that editor's shoes and says, yeah, this sounds like a great idea, we'll run it on Father's Day.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Yeah. And you know that I don't. There aren't. I don't think that this speaks to a lot of people. I don't think there are a lot of people out there going, how do you know? This is some. And one weird part of it, like, why is it in a cartoon form? And I don't know the answer, but it's just kind of weird. Why? It's the New York Times newspaper Point. Why is it in a cartoon? Interestingly, the cartoonist claims that the cartoonist talked to the cartoonist's daughter and that the daughter thinks that all this is totally normal. And I'm like, I don't know that I trust your reporting that the daughter thinks that this is totally normal. Maybe the daughter does, but maybe the daughter does because you're with the daughter. I don't know, but it is. But I love that they go out and they do things like they turn over rotten logs to look at termites and they Feed the ducks and all. You know, who's not confused about all this called science? It's the ducks and the termites. They're not confused by this. The only person who's confused about this is the. Is the poor daughter.

[Charlie Hurt]

Yeah. And maybe the. And the dad, father, mother, whatever. Jessica.

[Jessica Tarloff]

It didn't speak to me personally, you know, and it's not. I think if you surveyed a good chunk of transgender people, they would not think that this helps. I mean, not that they would necessarily say I hate this or make fun of it, but, you know, when you are in a position where you feel like you are really fighting for your life and for your identity and to be able to freely exist in society, this kind of thing does not help.

[Dana Perino]

Jesse, are they really fighting for their life? I'm just waiting for that data, but go ahead.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Okay.

[Dana Perino]

Well, yeah, that's part of the hoax. We're, like, all out to get them.

[Jessica Tarloff]

And a transsexual and a transgender person are very different things. And there is a heightened level of violence against transgender people from other places.

[Charlie Hurt]

We're in on our lower third that our producers produce perfectly.

[Jesse Waters]

So I had a normal Father's Day, played golf with my kids. I didn't talk to.

[Dana Perino]

Were you in a dress?

[Jesse Waters]

Breast implants. My daughter said something really strange today. She goes, you better watch out. You better not cry. Santa Claus is going to hit you. And I had to talk about, like, Santa doesn't hit. What are we dealing with here? Kids are very confused enough. And, like, we can't introduce women with mustaches. Right. Which is like, it's already confusing.

[Charlie Hurt]

Okay.

[Jesse Waters]

I think I speak for language.

[Charlie Hurt]

Coming up, Gen Z is rehearsing for romance. We'll be right back. This one's for the good. Who've ever had a broken heart?

[Dana Perino]

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[Charlie Hurt]

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[Jessica Tarloff]

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[Greg Gutfeld]

the only one that I want.

[Jessica Tarloff]

The hottest new dating trend for Gen Z. A growing number of young New Yorkers and zoomers nationwide are admitting they're going on, quote, practice dates with potential suitors they don't find attractive, all in the name of becoming better daters. And I feel like they also just want dinner.

[Charlie Hurt]

Well, we've done that story before, and I do think that there might be a little bit of that. I think if you don't think that somebody's attractive and you. I think that it's wrong then to go on a date with them because you're wasting that person's time and money. If you think you need practice going on dates, I guess just say yes to the ones that you match with and don't waste other people's time. I don't know how to date. It's been 30 years.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Greg. Attraction can grow, though.

[Dana Perino]

I feel like you go, it certainly can. I mean, I've never had this problem being a strong 9.7. But you know what? There is no Gandhi for the homely. And I've said that many times. And until we have a movement for the unattractive, we're still all going to be treated like crap. Dates aren't practice. They're recitals. That's when people show up at their very best to trick you into going to bed with them, and it's wrong. And then after each subsequent date, you get less and less perfect until you're the real you and you're like algae. I haven't thought about it. Yeah, so you're just crawling around in 20 years. So I think the first thing you should come out as the real you, be as offensive as possible. And then if they fall in love with you, you're set.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Is that how you got Emma?

[Jesse Waters]

I got Emma differently.

[Dana Perino]

Yeah, you let the air out of her tires.

[Jessica Tarloff]

I heard that.

[Jesse Waters]

I wasn't gonna say it, but. Not true.

[Dana Perino]

I know. I'm kidding.

[Jesse Waters]

You know what happens with practice dates? They lead to practice sex. And sure, you can't take a girl out as practice. She's not going to agree to that. All right? Trust me, I've tried it. I've tried everything. It doesn't work.

[Greg Gutfeld]

Charlie10 I've always told my kids that you take advantage of every job interview, so I would think it would be the same thing. There's no such thing as a bad job interview.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Sexy interview. That's what it is. One more thing's up next.

[Charlie Hurt]

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[Dana Perino]

One more thing. I go first tonight. We got a great show. Kat Tiff, Adam Hunder, Aaron McGuire, Joe Mackey. You, Jesse. Go.

[Jesse Waters]

All right. Broke up over the weekend. It was a doozy. There are the champions, Sadowski and the Albanian sensation.

[Dana Perino]

Orgy of Khakis.

[Jesse Waters]

PJ And I took them. The original. Broke up the tournament within the tournament. Too bad for Felice and Rocco. Tonight, Jesse Waters Primetime Johnny at the Mermaid Parade.

[Dana Perino]

Iran recently got a new ayatollah. Ayatollah? No, but there's good news.

[Greg Gutfeld]

This ayatollah is gay.

[Jessica Tarloff]

Oh, I like that. Okay. I like that.

[Jesse Waters]

She likes that.

[Dana Perino]

Wow.

[Charlie Hurt]

We're just waiting on that evidence, too.

[Jesse Waters]

Dana.

[Charlie Hurt]

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[Greg Gutfeld]

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[Jesse Waters]

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[Greg Gutfeld]

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