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00:00Help. Dana Perino, The Five.
00:08President Trump hitting the road again next week, back on Tour de Selle's economic agenda
00:12and hammered the Democrats who gave America the worst inflation in decades.
00:17Chuck and Akeem leading the charge to pin their mess on Trump.
00:22He is in such an effing bubble that he doesn't even know what average people go through.
00:27He's a billionaire. He doesn't worry about paying for groceries.
00:31I don't know if he's ever been in a grocery store.
00:33Our country is far too expensive.
00:36Donald Trump and Republicans promised to lower costs on day one.
00:39Costs haven't gone down. Costs have gone up across the board.
00:43Thank you, straight Obama.
00:45So President Trump is getting prices down by a rolling back Biden era fuel efficiency standards for vehicles.
00:51Here's DJT and the Ford CEO.
00:54I think affordability is the greatest kind of gift.
00:58They look at you and they say, affordability.
01:01They don't say anything else.
01:03Everyone says, oh, their prices were so low.
01:05No, they had the worst inflation.
01:08We had the highest prices we ever had.
01:11And now they're all coming down.
01:13Today is a victory of common sense and affordability.
01:16We believe that people should be able to make a choice, as you said, Mr. President, and we will invest more in affordable vehicles.
01:24So, Kennedy, this is pretty big news for the auto industry and for the purchaser of autos because Trump is rescinding these CAFE standards,
01:33which would end up fining hundreds of millions, even over a billion dollars to Ford and GM.
01:38That goes away due to their draconian emission standards.
01:43What say you?
01:44How important is this?
01:45Well, it's important if you're an automaker and you want to make money and if you want to make affordable cars that people can make and buy in the United States.
01:53I think that's priority number one for GM and Ford.
01:58But unfortunately, they have been beholden to these standards, these ultra leftist standards that are telling car manufacturers,
02:06you know, we have to have an arbitrary fuel economy number by the year 2031, 50 miles per gallon.
02:14It's a great pie in the sky dream.
02:16We're not there yet.
02:17We are not on track to do that.
02:19So, they were forced to make electric vehicles that drivers didn't want to buy.
02:24They're expensive.
02:25The tax credits weren't enough to offset the cost.
02:29And, you know, it's word of mouth from other people wasn't enough to boost that part of the industry.
02:35And Ford stopped making a lot of those EVs knowing that they were going to get penalized with these Biden-era fees.
02:41But now what they can do is actually respond to the market, which is what they should be doing.
02:46Right.
02:47People are a lot smarter and a lot more sophisticated than they were 10 years ago.
02:51And they know, people know, based on other people who bought electric vehicles and people who bought cars recently,
02:58hybrids right now are the way to go, where you can still put fuel.
03:02You can go to a gas station and still put fuel in your car.
03:05It's under $3 a gallon for the first time.
03:07Amazing.
03:08Yeah, March of 2021.
03:10And you can go home and charge it.
03:12So that's how you get better fuel economy.
03:14And that will put us on a more rational road to eventually having lower emissions or give everyone a nuclear reactor for their own.
03:22Oh, that would go great with my EV Bentley.
03:25So, Dana, let's talk about these Dell accounts.
03:28They're incredible.
03:29It seems like something like Trump.
03:31Like, why did anybody think about this before?
03:33Talk to the billionaires, make a deal with them.
03:36And all of a sudden you've got 25 million accounts for kids, cash for kids that they invest.
03:42Explain it to me.
03:43OK, I don't I'm not saying I know all the details, but basically the idea is for any kid that is born between January 1st of 2025 and then goes through 2028,
03:52they will automatically get a thousand dollars in an account.
03:56Yeah.
03:56And then that that money stays there and they and parents can add to it.
04:01Sort of like, you know, the education accounts.
04:03Right.
04:03A 529 account.
04:04You can add to it tax free.
04:06Employers, your employer like the Fox News could say, OK, we'll add to it so that you start to get a little bit of a nest egg for a kid that I don't think they can nudge it till they're 18.
04:17They might use it for education.
04:18They might not.
04:18They might continue to invest.
04:19We know that over time, the best way to compound wealth is to invest.
04:25Right.
04:26Starting early and rather than starting at the age 26, it's going to make a huge difference.
04:30The interesting thing on this one is you do have at least the first billionaires, Michael and Susan Dell, saying, OK, here's six point five billion dollars to get us started.
04:42And remember when Warren Buffett started the giving pledge and this was to ask all the billionaires and pressure all of them to say,
04:49you're going to give away all your wealth before you die.
04:51And so that's what Bill Gates and all of them are not maybe not all, but many of these billionaires signed up for the giving pledge.
04:59I think that this is very interesting because maybe this could be part of the giving pledge where you can fulfill it.
05:04But you know that your legacy is moving forward rather than you are giving it to, you know, the blah, blah, the blah, blah.
05:11What's that?
05:11You mean cars for kids?
05:13No, it's interesting because we don't like people just don't really look into charities.
05:17And this is so simple.
05:18My question is and Jesse, you're probably wondering the same thing.
05:21Is that just the kids money?
05:23I mean, can we take it if we want it?
05:24I thought they were getting their own set of wheels.
05:26I thought that's what it didn't matter if the kid was seven or 17.
05:30He was going to get a hot rod.
05:31Yeah.
05:32I don't know.
05:33A lot of things are scams.
05:34I give my money to different types of charities.
05:37Really?
05:37Like what?
05:38The Jesse Waters Foundation.
05:40The Jesse Waters Foundation.
05:40Yes.
05:41Those are for a week.
05:42No, I actually am so generous.
05:44For some reason, that's not what generous people say.
05:48I know, but for some reason, over the years, I've gotten such a bad rap, mostly because
05:52of you, about how I don't tip.
05:54You said you don't tip.
05:56That's not true.
05:58I'm such a generous tipper.
06:01I am.
06:02That's like one of my best qualities.
06:04You once door dashed for like a $5 coffee.
06:08Do you remember that?
06:09No.
06:10No.
06:11What's the question?
06:12I don't remember.
06:12I don't care.
06:13Talk about.
06:16What do you want me to talk about?
06:17Gas prices are insane, but the media won't talk about it because the media doesn't drive.
06:21That's a good point.
06:22They Uber or they're driven.
06:24Yes.
06:24But gas prices are down, rents down, and mortgage rates are coming down.
06:28If I were Trump, I wouldn't say everything's great all at once because it's not.
06:33It's getting great, and there are certain things that are amazing, but there are such
06:38thorny problems because Biden drove up prices so high that it's difficult to get out of
06:49this.
06:49So if I were the president, I would just say, listen, hold my hand.
06:53I will take you to the golden age.
06:54This is what I've done.
06:55This is what I'm doing.
06:56This is what's going to happen.
06:58I would not say affordability hoax.
07:00Yes, it's a hoax that the Democrats are politicking on the issue of affordability because they're
07:05the ones that made it unaffordable, but you can't say the issue's a hoax because there's
07:10things that are unaffordable, and they're just going to run ads that say affordability
07:15hoax, and you're going to get killed.
07:16I would just hammer these things.
07:21Energy, stock market, jobs, jobs, jobs.
07:25This AI situation, the data centers, if you're a blue-collar guy, you're making six figures
07:31doing business with these data centers.
07:33They can't even find enough blue-collar workers to do the job.
07:37The amount of foreign investment that's pouring in, the mineral deals, it's an incredible amount
07:41of investment that's taking place.
07:43Is that going to be enough to change people's attitudes before the midterms?
07:47Maybe not, but if you have some sort of solution for health care, I don't know what it is.
07:54Cut out the middle, man of Obamacare.
07:56If you have a solution for the insurance rates, which are out of control, or the cost of tuition,
08:01which is out of control, you talk about it, and you talk about it over and over and over
08:06and over again.
08:07Schumer talking about high prices is insane.
08:09He made the prices high, but you know what?
08:11It's Trump's economy now.
08:12Well, that's politics.
08:14He owns it now.
08:15And for better or for worse, it's going to be the Trump economy.
08:18So that's what I would do.
08:19I would hit those, and I would hit them hard.
08:21Wow.
08:21All right.
08:22You know, Harold, speaking of Chuck, he said that Trump lives in an effing bubble.
08:27My theory is either you swear or you don't, right?
08:30What does effing stand for?
08:31I'm not sure.
08:32It's good to be back.
08:33I haven't seen you guys in a while.
08:35I'm happy to be back around the table.
08:36We missed you, Harold.
08:36I'd answer, you asked a question about why didn't anyone come up with this, but the risk
08:39of sounding completely self-serving.
08:4125 years ago, I did in Congress.
08:43We introduced a baby account bill.
08:44We were inspired by something that happened in Australia.
08:46President Bush was in office, and there was an effort to try to be helpful to us.
08:50Larry Cutlow, who is in this building also, was a big proponent of what we were trying
08:54to do.
08:54I cannot be more thrilled that Democrats, Republicans alike, and President Trump is doing this.
08:59I hope they do it even more.
09:00What I think it does is it gives kids who feel left out, who feel left behind, who feel
09:04divorced from the American dream, more Americans today feel that the American dream is out of
09:09reach for their kids, and even their kids feel that way.
09:11We've got to keep people not only involved, but invested in believing they can be owners,
09:16and this is one way to do it.
09:17Two, I agree with you about 100% on what you just said.
09:20I think that Democrats are right to talk about affordability, and I'm concerned that President
09:25Trump doesn't understand how serious this issue is.
09:28Now, maybe he's playing politics with it at the moment.
09:30This reminds me of when many around this table often incorrectly talked last year, year and
09:35a half ago, about the importance, the power of the issue of the border, when Democrats,
09:40including Joe Biden, were saying, we have it under control, when the Secretary of Homeland
09:43Security said, there's no problem here.
09:45We often around this table were critical of them.
09:47I've said for a long time, politicians who ignore voters, who believe they know what's
09:52best for voters or believe that the numbers show that voters are living a better life
09:56than they are, those politicians end up at home.
09:58The last election, just a few weeks ago, showed us that people are concerned about this issue,
10:02and even the Tennessee congressional race, although the Democrat didn't win, that race
10:06probably should not have been as close as it was, and I think it was because of affordability.
10:10The only message I have for President Trump is what Jesse just said.
10:13You've got to get out and give answers, because if you believe you can say, just wait and wait
10:17and wait, people will wait, but your party will lose.
10:21I think the winners in this whole thing, Greg, are the voters, the American public, because
10:24if Republicans start focusing on affordability and Democrats, you've got to hope that they're
10:28able to create a set of outcomes that improve the lives of every American.
10:32Well, since you brought up immigration, I think there's a better analogy here that, like,
10:37if the Democrats suddenly came up and said we're fighting illegal immigration, we would
10:42laugh at them.
10:44That's why we're laughing at them now when they talk about affordability, because they
10:47created the spike in prices.
10:49You may be, I don't disagree with that, but my point is different.
10:52Let's just end it there.
10:53When Democrats said that the border was under control, for President Trump to say that this
10:57is a con job or a hoax, that's what you were saying.
10:59This is not a con job or a hoax.
11:01This is real.
11:02Democrats ignored the border at their peril.
11:04And, you know, the partisan in me says that I should tell President Trump to ignore it
11:08so Democrats can win.
11:10I want more Americans to be able to afford their lives.
11:13And to say it's not a problem, that it's a hoax, I think politically that's a problem
11:18for the president, but more importantly, substantively, it's a problem for the country.
11:21All right, then.
11:23Well, that was exciting, wasn't it?
11:24Yeah, yeah.
11:25Very green today.
11:26You're very green.
11:27No, but you're very, very green, Kermit.
11:29All right.
11:30Up next, the Pentagon blowing the liberal media narrative on Coke boats to smithereens.
11:50Brand new information blowing a huge hole in the Washington Post reporting of a double
11:54tap strike on a suspected narco boat in the Caribbean.
11:57Navy Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley telling lawmakers that there was no kill them all order from
12:03Secretary of War Pete Hegseth in the September 2nd attack that killed two suspected drug boat
12:08traffickers.
12:09And ABC News now reporting those survivors were actually trying to salvage the drugs.
12:14And Senator Tom Cotton, who saw the video with his own eyes, backs up that account.
12:19I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat loaded with drugs down for the United States back
12:27over so they could stay in the fight and potentially, given all the context we heard of other narco
12:34terrorist boats in the area coming to their aid to recover their cargo and recover those
12:39narco terrorists.
12:40And Democratic Congressman Jim Himes, who was in the room for Admiral Bradley's testimony,
12:45even he admits that the second strike was indeed on drug traffickers.
12:48What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in
12:54public service.
12:55The United States military attacking shipwrecked sailors.
12:59Bad guys.
13:00Bad guys.
13:01But attacking shipwrecked sailors.
13:04Yes, they were carrying drugs.
13:05They were not in the position to continue their mission.
13:08The last thing I'm going to say is that the Admiral confirmed that there had not been a
13:14kill them all order and that there was not an order to grant no quarter.
13:18So does it exaggerate?
13:21Greg, knowing all of this now, it gives you it gives me an understanding of why when Bradley
13:27was walking into the Capitol this morning, he looked very confident.
13:30This guy douchebag.
13:32Yeah.
13:33Shipwrecked sailors.
13:34They're narco terrorists, you bonehead.
13:37That guy had to roll back everything he said.
13:41And while he was rolling it back, he still kept digging a grave.
13:44What an idiot.
13:45I love watching people who were suddenly experts at war crimes because they have like
13:50Grok or AI.
13:51You got to remember, what were these people experts at before?
13:55Right.
13:56Climate.
13:57They were experts at that.
13:58Lecturing us on climate.
13:59Gender.
14:00Race.
14:01Presidential competence.
14:02They built a by corrupting the media industry.
14:07They built this house where they have no credibility for the future, especially this
14:12story.
14:12It's like it's it was so on the nose, like six Democrats release a video suggesting that
14:19there will be could be possibly an illegal military action coming soon.
14:24And then just like magic, you get this story just appears.
14:27This is too engineered to be real.
14:29It's like a boss coming up to you and saying, you know, I wouldn't buy a new car if I were
14:33you because he knows you're not getting a raise.
14:35This is so it's almost unbelievable how stupid they think we are.
14:41And yet they keep pulling these hoaxes over and over again.
14:44It does show, Kennedy, that we have a big blockbuster story with one anonymous source.
14:50Like maybe take a beat before you comment on it.
14:53Well, the problem is and this is what often happens is they can easily be proven wrong.
14:59And, you know, what they didn't realize was everyone who had seen the footage corroborated
15:04what the admiral is testifying before Congress that, you know, yes, there were survivors and
15:10they were obviously, you know, their lives depend on whether or not they get the drugs
15:14from point A to point B.
15:17But I think we're getting distracted by this.
15:19I think this is one of these stories where we're getting so distracted in the hair splitting
15:24that we're losing sight of the bigger picture.
15:27And the bigger picture should be, is this really the best way to combat narco terrorism?
15:32And, you know, I will continue to argue that the best way to do that is to reduce demand
15:38in this country.
15:39And we don't talk about that enough.
15:41We don't talk about it with our kids.
15:42We don't admit that people have a massive appetite for drugs in this country.
15:48And even if we're blowing the living crap out of boats in the Caribbean, they will find
15:53another way.
15:54It is incredibly lucrative.
15:56These are multi-billion dollar agencies.
15:59These are not just cartel families that we saw in Narcos Mexico, which is one of my favorite
16:04series on Netflix ever.
16:05These are massive enterprises that are incredibly creative and adept at finding new ways to deliver
16:13to American noses exactly what they want.
16:17And that's what we have to deal with in this country, because going drugs are bad, OK, it
16:23has not been enough of a deterrent.
16:24That's the that's the I have to disagree.
16:26That is what makes this so different.
16:28It's not just saying drugs are bad.
16:30It's like, no, we'd realize the war on drugs was a failure.
16:36This is an actual literal.
16:39We're taking it to them.
16:40And especially since we're not talking about drugs anymore, we're talking about really
16:44destruct one little fentanyl, like a kid going and getting coke or Xanax and dying.
16:51That is not what we that's not what we're talking.
16:53That's not recreational partying drug drugs.
16:56This is basically homicide.
16:58You're killing hundreds of guy goes out, does does buys a Xanax off a friend and he dies.
17:04That's not recreational drugs.
17:05That's murder.
17:06So I think it's a different thing than the way you portray it.
17:08And how dare you?
17:10I agree with you there.
17:11And that's what's so scary is kids have an appetite for doing things that are dangerous,
17:17that cross the line, make their parents really upset.
17:19And it's like, I have a child in college and it scares the crap out of me because this stuff
17:25is so incredibly pervasive.
17:27And it doesn't matter the lectures or how you raise them.
17:30It is a moment of curiosity.
17:31You're absolutely right.
17:32That takes someone's life.
17:34And I cannot tell you how many people I know who've either lost a family member to fentanyl
17:38overdose.
17:39You know, a good friend of mine lost her stepson because he did cocaine for the first time
17:43that was laced with fentanyl.
17:44And those are the people who were dying.
17:46But it's still an appetite and a curiosity and a form of rebellion that we have not gotten
17:53our heads around.
17:54If I could, just before I go to Harold and Jesse, I'm just going to play this because
17:57in 1989, somebody that we used to see on TV periodically when he was at the White House,
18:03he said this in 1989, Joe Biden.
18:07Let's go after the drug lords where they live with an international strike force.
18:13There must be no safe haven for these narco-terrorists, and they must know it.
18:20Isn't that the same policy?
18:21Sort of.
18:22I agree with Kennedy.
18:24I hate to disagree with my pal up in the table, but I agree with you.
18:27You said it well.
18:27The appetite and curiosity.
18:29It has to be both.
18:30I don't have an issue at the same time of going after these narco-terrorists in these
18:34boats.
18:35But it would seem to me, DP, what might be better and to reconcile, I think, even what
18:39then-Senator Biden was saying, maybe intercept these guys.
18:42Find out who the big guys are behind them.
18:44They're not the ones.
18:45These guys in these little boats, I want to stop them, but they're not the guys that
18:49are behind these massive criminal enterprises that are flooding our country with these drugs.
18:54And we are kidding ourselves if we don't address what Kennedy so eloquently laid out.
19:00My kids are only 11 and 10, but you just don't know what they're going to touch or what's
19:04going to happen.
19:04You've got to drill in them that appetite and that curiosity.
19:07We've got to figure out how we stop that.
19:08You can do both.
19:09I know, but I don't think this is necessarily the best way to do it.
19:14So you can't do both?
19:15No, no.
19:16The best way.
19:16No, no, no, no, no, no.
19:17When I say I don't think blowing up these boats, sure, some of them, but figure out who's
19:21behind all of this is all I'm saying.
19:22I think you can do that and you can do what you're talking about.
19:24You can do three things.
19:25You can do four or five.
19:26I agree with you.
19:26I agree with you.
19:27Now, I will say this.
19:28I remember after Operation Midnight Hammer, there was a lot of media frenzy and speculation
19:33from the left and the right and about what happened, how successful the mission was.
19:39And Secretary Hexeth and Lieutenant General Cain, who I think at the time I called him
19:43Raising Cain, might have been the Joint Chiefs already.
19:45They stood before the press corps and took a variety of questions.
19:49As I listened to Secretary Hexeth and President Trump and Ms. Levitt and Admiral Bradley, they
19:54don't all seem to be on the same page over the last few days.
19:56DP would have a much better and smarter perspective on this than I do.
20:00But as I just listened to them, I think it would behoove the Secretary and Ms. Admiral Bradley
20:05to stand before and answer some of these questions, the questions they can answer, so we can get
20:09some of the nonsense behind this.
20:11You don't think they did that today?
20:12They didn't do it publicly.
20:13They did it before the Senate.
20:14I know, but maybe they, I mean, but if you, but.
20:16But all I'm saying is Lieutenant General Cain and Secretary, well, Hexeth and Cain went before
20:20the country and answered questions about Operation Midnight Hammer.
20:23Why can't they go before the country and the press and answer some of these questions?
20:28It's a one-shot deal.
20:29This is an ongoing operation.
20:31Iranian thing's an ongoing operation.
20:32Not anymore.
20:33I'm different with you guys.
20:34We blew it to smithereens.
20:36I agree with you.
20:37I agree with you.
20:38I disagree with you.
20:40Why do you disagree with him?
20:41Well, because, you know, you can deal with it on the demand side.
20:44You've got to stop doing the cocaine.
20:45But you also have to take it to the supply side.
20:48But, Harold, we've been interdicting these ships for four decades as it hasn't worked.
20:54I know.
20:54We've been having Coast Guard cutters go off into the Caribbean and Pacific and capture
20:58these boats.
20:59And do these guys ever sing to who's the boss?
21:03No, they don't do anything.
21:04And then we send them back and we lock them up and they escape.
21:06Don't you remember Miami Vice?
21:08We have to do something different.
21:09The argument the Democrats are making is we have to do the same thing we've been doing
21:13since 1980, which is treat this as a police action.
21:16And it hasn't worked.
21:18So now we're taking the fight to the enemy and we can already tell it's working because
21:22Maduro's scared.
21:23He might leave to the Middle East.
21:25Mexico's shaking in their boots.
21:26They know that they could be next.
21:28And the Colombian guy's like on his last leg.
21:31So I like the policy and it's not a controversial policy.
21:35You know, Mark Thiessen, Dana, he did an interview today with the acting director of the Defense
21:40Intelligence Agency under Barack Hussein Obama.
21:43For five years, this guy was calling all the shots.
21:46This is what he said at the heart of it.
21:48We use double taps all the time.
21:51I mean, some of them probably were injured, yet you hit him again.
21:55And it was something that had bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.
21:59How about this?
22:00Dan Crenshaw.
22:01I can't recall any time in my history of doing counterterrorism ops where we strike a group,
22:06whether it's a building or a boat or a vehicle.
22:08And then we were like, oh, there's survivors.
22:10We have to go.
22:11We can't kill them.
22:12Of course we killed them.
22:15This is not even a debatable issue.
22:18If these guys are radioing the cartel and are climbing back, not injured, into the boat
22:23and about to pick up the dope and send it back to another boat, then the boat's still operational
22:29and the coke is still there and it's a deadly poison to the United States.
22:33Let me be clear.
22:34I don't mind them blowing it up.
22:35I think they were right.
22:36My only point is Kennedy raises the point we're trying to figure out is how do we combat and reduce drug use and deaths in our country?
22:43And we have to do all of this.
22:44Yes, we have to stop doing so much flow.
22:46You need to correct yourself because I said exactly that.
22:48Charlie Sheen already quit, so we're on our way.
22:52Harold, it only took us 27 minutes to get your blood pressure up.
22:56No, my blood pressure is fine.
22:57Trust me.
22:57He's fine.
22:58He's fine, everybody.
22:59Up next in Halle Berry, just nuke Gavin Newsom's presidential ambitions.
23:14Hello.
23:19Oscar winner Halle Berry nuking Gavin Newsom's presidential dreams right before he even stepped on stage at the New York Times Dealbook Summit.
23:28And here's why.
23:31Back in my great state of California, my very own governor, Gavin Newsom, has vetoed our menopause bill.
23:39Not one, but two years in a row.
23:42But that's okay.
23:44Because he's not going to be governor forever.
23:47And with the way he's overlooked women, half the population, by devaluing us in midlife, he probably should not be our next president either.
23:56Just saying.
23:59And I'm just listening, Halle.
24:01Well said.
24:02Greasy, then doing his usual Trump-bashing routine and claiming Democrats need to be more culturally normal with his one foot twisted up like a pretzel at Auntie Anne's.
24:14What is going on there?
24:16That's the strangest thing with his appendages, Jesse.
24:18Yeah, that was like a yoga position.
24:21No real man sits like that.
24:23And that's going to haunt him in this campaign.
24:25I will make it haunt him.
24:27He's got a lot of problems.
24:28One, the Halle Berry problem.
24:30I don't understand the problem because I don't know what menopause is.
24:33I know you're not supposed to admit you don't know things on cable news, but I do not know what menopause is.
24:40I know it's something that happens to women in their 60s.
24:43No.
24:44Earlier.
24:45Could be even 40s.
24:46Go back to not knowing.
24:47How do you?
24:49Thank you, Harold.
24:50Anyway, it seems to be a big problem.
24:54I'm going to probably read up about it.
24:57Affordability problem.
24:58That's another huge problem.
24:59So he's going to run in an era of affordability.
25:02And it is the least affordable state in the union.
25:05And it's the biggest separation between rich and poor in the union.
25:07So I don't know how he can go around bragging he's the guy when he's not the guy.
25:12Third, the Palisades problem.
25:13You were talking about this yesterday in the commercial.
25:16I was listening to this on the radio today.
25:18They have still not approved one permit.
25:20Not one single house has been rebuilt.
25:22Trump is going to build the ballroom before one single house is built in the Palisades.
25:27The L.A. City Council just yesterday voted to not waive fees to rebuild because they want the money.
25:35Well, they wouldn't have gotten the money if the whole place hadn't burned down.
25:38So it's not their money to begin with.
25:40This is going to kill Gavin Newsom if he's president.
25:44Well, it's interesting because Jesse brings up the voters, the Democrats, the wealthy people who've lost their homes, who are going to turn their back on the governor.
25:53How did they not know that Halle Berry had an axe to grind with Gavin Newsom before she went out to introduce him?
26:00And is this problematic in terms of other women in the state who might have fallen out of love?
26:05I tell you, don't mess with women going through menopause, right, Jesse?
26:09Oh, it's a hot flash.
26:11Yeah, it is.
26:12So Governor U-Haul is basically like, how do you make your state with that kind of weather, with that kind of beauty?
26:20And it's the one that people want to leave the most.
26:22The other thing is that we haven't talked about yet is so she has a menopause company.
26:26OK, and it's this type of company is becoming very popular, Jesse.
26:31I will be an investor to talk about these things in this company, an investor.
26:35And so I don't know why they didn't know.
26:38But here's what I would imagine is they didn't think to look.
26:42And that is her point, is that women like her continue to be overlooked.
26:46Yes.
26:46And I think that's one of those things that will stick with him.
26:49You know, the idea that he devalues women.
26:53Harold, I hear this over and over again about the governor of California.
26:57It's a problem.
26:58Look, it appears that there's an issue between he and Ms. Barry.
27:00He should get that issue worked out.
27:02I do believe that the issues that are also going to be on this ballot, if he decides to run and who knows if he will be successful or not.
27:10But the president of the United States has given you the affordability issue.
27:13The elections have told you that's what the issue is.
27:14Can you imagine if he was talking about housing and talking about easing permitting there in California, for that matter, around the country?
27:20If he said we're going to get down payment assistance for those who are engaged in work in air traffic and maritime professions,
27:26where we need a larger group of Americans to devote energy and resources to doing.
27:31What if we said we're going to lift tariffs on all food to try to help reduce prices in our grocery stores as a part of an effort to do this?
27:38The president said he was going to try to lift tariffs on some food products.
27:41It'd be great to lift them on all food products.
27:43This is what I would be talking about if I were Democrats in our education system.
27:46Dana talks about it all the time, and we echo it on this show.
27:50We need a greater emphasis on vocational schools, a greater emphasis on helping people learn trades.
27:56This is something that AI cannot replace.
27:58I don't hear any Democrat talking about this in any sustained way.
28:02Maybe if we played the whole interview at the DealBook Summit there, he might have gotten to it.
28:06But that's all I would be talking about if I were Governor Newsom.
28:10I mean, I would advise him one more time, I'd try to have a quick sit-down with Halle Berry and figure this thing out.
28:15I'm sure you would.
28:16No, not like that.
28:18All right, Greg, it would be...
28:20What is menopause?
28:25What does it say?
28:26What is menopause?
28:27Come on, Grok.
28:31This has been a problem with Grok all day.
28:33Probably doesn't know what it is.
28:35He's AI.
28:36Probably a dude.
28:36Elon Musk doesn't know.
28:38Again, they don't care.
28:39They don't care.
28:39Okay, I don't care either.
28:41I'm going to tell you, I don't care about menopause as much as I care about men in sports.
28:46Oh, here she is.
28:47Holly, in March 2021, Halle Berry signed an open letter put out by GLAAD that blasted anti-trans legislation.
28:58They denounced efforts to keep boys who think they're girls out of women's sports.
29:04She backed the wrong team.
29:07She didn't back women.
29:08She didn't back girls.
29:09She also apologized to the trans community because she said she would consider playing a trans man, and then she misgendered him.
29:17So now, okay, we're supposed to care about...
29:20You're not a feminist.
29:22You are not a feminist if you do not defend young women in sports.
29:27Now you got a company, oh, menopause, menopause.
29:30Fine, that's great.
29:31Why don't you deal with young women now?
29:33They're the ones who are immediately being threatened by predatory men in women's sports, in women's safe spaces, in women's shelters.
29:42I mean, Holly, Google women's shelters and trans females crime.
29:50Just Google it.
29:51It'll blow your mind.
29:52Women's lock, like I said, and women's prisons.
29:54They're putting male rapists in women's prisons, and you're going to come here and lecture us about menopause.
30:00No thanks.
30:00Menopause is a natural biological stage in a woman's life when menstrual periods permanently stop justice.
30:06Oh, I knew that.
30:06It usually happens between ages 45 and 55 and is diagnosed after 12 consecutive months without a period.
30:12If I had gotten that as a multiple-choice question, I would have gotten that right.
30:17Thank goodness.
30:19And next time on Biology at 5, ahead, Trump's Money Pit Bull takes a chunk out of the New York Times.
30:26Stay with us.
30:26The voice of time, Bob, back in the hole when they got him in.
30:32But that's your remedy.
30:33But I told me, you better shop around.
30:37Oh, yeah.
30:38President Trump's Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, ripping into a New York Times reporter over a major double standard on Trump's health coverage.
30:46Watch.
30:47I actually don't read the New York Times anymore.
30:50You had what was one of the greatest scandals of all time, that the coverage of the Biden administration, Joe Biden's diminished capacity, and the cover-up.
31:02And that's why it's probably fair to raise these questions.
31:04Where was the New York Times?
31:05We just had a three-hour cabinet meeting yesterday, Andrew.
31:08For 10 months, the Biden administration did not have a cabinet meeting.
31:13How are you going to invoke the 25th Amendment if the cabinet secretaries never see the president, which they didn't?
31:20Do you think Andrew's OK?
31:24No, Andrew's not OK after that.
31:25He got a little bit of a whooping.
31:27And I wouldn't be surprised if he's having a hard time sitting down today.
31:29And the point that Scott Besant raises is very, very important, because I think the press should be skeptical.
31:37The press should ask questions.
31:39And they did that during the first Trump administration, if you remember, the press conference with Ronnie Jackson, when they were lobbying everything at him.
31:47You know, does he have schizophrenia?
31:49Does he have herpes?
31:50And they went on and on and on trying to get him to stumble.
31:54And then nothing during the Biden administration.
31:56I was hopeful that this is what the press would become after the first Trump administration.
32:01But then they completely receded, which means they're hypocritical and untrustworthy.
32:06And now all of a sudden they're activating to ask these questions.
32:10I don't have a problem with it if they do this for every single president, regardless of gender or age or ideology or party.
32:18And, Harold, every time anyone comes face to face with a liberal journalist, they should pull a Besant.
32:24Because they really haven't still been held to account.
32:28So I don't know if they should pull a Besant.
32:30I think the secretary was very clever there in answering that question.
32:34I think it's legitimate.
32:35I think I agree with Kennedy.
32:36It's appropriate and legitimate to ask questions of any president.
32:39And there's no doubt the media failed during during the Biden era.
32:43It was not until President Biden, it's not until his poor performance against President Trump in that debate that you begin to see in mass, a chorus of Democrats say he should not be the nominee.
32:55If I was Secretary Besant, what I was hoping to hear also from that are just some some more ideas, some more of their ideas about reducing prices.
33:02That's what I'd be focused on.
33:04But look, he was clever to do that.
33:05And you know what?
33:06Not only was he clever, he was right.
33:07The media didn't ask those questions of President Biden, but that shouldn't preclude them from asking questions about President Trump.
33:13Dana.
33:13Well, the thing is that the Trump administration, the entire cabinet is willing to go and talk to anybody like Tom Homan does the daily podcast.
33:20That's the New York Times podcast.
33:22He does it regularly.
33:23And they ask him very tough questions and he's willing to do it.
33:26The Biden administration didn't do any of that.
33:28They would they would they would get so mad if you didn't ask them softball questions.
33:32When it comes to Trump's health versus Biden's health, I think if I were Andrew, I would have just skipped that question.
33:37You know, you don't have to ask every question.
33:38I think one thing he could have asked him is about Andrew Sorkin just wrote a book.
33:43It's a bestseller.
33:43It's called 1929.
33:44And it looks at the year before the crash.
33:46I would I would have loved to ask Besson, where do you think if we take lessons from history, where are we right now when it comes to the stock market and see what he thinks about the A.I.
33:56bubble like that would have been very and maybe he didn't also not playing the whole clip.
34:01Maybe they did ask about that as well.
34:03Greg Gutfeld.
34:04You know, the secret to effective persuasion is when you go for the throat, you smile.
34:09I love I love Besson because whenever he's making his point, he's enjoying it.
34:16You know, he's he eviscerates people, but he's just having a great time when he does it.
34:21There's I've really never seen him angry when he's doing this.
34:25And that's it's a testament to some of the people that Trump has picked this time around.
34:29They're effective and they're smart.
34:31How did Sorkin not see this coming?
34:33It was like Jerry Nadler walking down a desert.
34:35It's like you could see it a mile away.
34:38You know, are you that like, you know, out trapped in your close circle of friends?
34:44Every liberal should know by now that after the Biden cover up, any time you mention Trump's cognitive ability, you will be humiliated.
34:52It's like O.J. Simpson coming up to you and saying, hey, should you treat your wife better?
34:56It doesn't work.
34:59He's dead, by the way, so it's impossible.
35:01Coming up next.
35:02Do you buy this?
35:03Taylor and Travis never had a fight.
35:08That time of year when the world falls in love, every song.
35:23Welcome back.
35:24Now, do you buy this?
35:26Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey have never had a fight.
35:29Watch this.
35:30Well, it's only been two and a half years, and you're right.
35:34I haven't gotten an argument into it.
35:37All right.
35:38Never once.
35:40Jesse, is he brilliant or is he not telling us the truth?
35:43Well, I don't know.
35:43I'm trying to think of the last time Emma and I had a fight.
35:46We don't fight ever, but there was something.
35:49I wouldn't call it a fight.
35:51Come to me last.
35:52Let me think about it.
35:53Let me think.
35:53Let me think about it.
35:54I think there was a fight recently.
35:55He's terrified of her.
35:57That's why he will never fight back, because she's a billionaire.
36:00And he is on the waning end of his career.
36:04DP, you believe this?
36:05I think that people who never have even tussles or disagreements, maybe he thinks of a fight
36:08as something else, however he defines it.
36:10That's a good point.
36:11Maybe he defines it.
36:11If you don't ever have sort of with your spouse, and it makes it harder when the big
36:18things come up.
36:19Mr. Gutfeld, your thoughts are wrong.
36:20Yeah.
36:20I mean, basically saying he's going to learn how to fight while he's fighting with her
36:24when they're married, because you will.
36:26That's like imagine a football player approaching the field and then looking at you.
36:32You know, I never played a lick of football.
36:34That's exactly what he just said.
36:36You know, arguing to women is what sports is to men.
36:40No, Greg is absolutely right.
36:43You never argue with a woman.
36:45You turn into a woman.
36:46What you want to do with a woman.
36:48Is that what I said?
36:49Yeah, no, it's true.
36:50You can't argue with them.
36:51You just have to not fight.
36:52You just have to be silent.
36:54Give her the silent treatment.
36:55Just breathe.
36:56Maybe go into the other room.
36:58You don't say yes.
36:58You don't say yes, Dana.
37:00See, that's her advice.
37:02Guys, don't listen to her.
37:03Listen to me.
37:04And then eventually they calm down.
37:06You think Travis listened to that?
37:12We'll see.
37:12One more thing.
37:13One more thing is up next.
37:26Dana.
37:26Okay.
37:27I saw this today and I thought you might want to see.
37:29It's a tough.
37:29It's not always easy being a reporter out in the field.
37:32Watch here.
37:32What happened to this young woman?
37:33Oh, what's that?
37:35That's a bird.
37:37Ow.
37:37They call that a Fabio.
37:38You think that Johnny's ever been through something like that?
37:41That's a real veteran right there.
37:43Glad she's okay.
37:44Are you?
37:45Yeah.
37:45I don't believe that for a second.
37:47All right.
37:48It's me.
37:49Okay.
37:49Tonight, Michael Loftus, Tudor Dixon, Cat Tim, Tyrus.
37:53That's tonight.
37:54Let's do this.
37:55Greg's absolutely disgusting news with Brett Hume.
37:59Check out this baby kangaroo peeking out of his mom's pouch.
38:05See that little thing?
38:06Oh, whoa.
38:07You think it's a belly button, but it's a newborn pre-kangaroo at the Chester Zoo.
38:13No, it's not a penis, Jesse.
38:16Baby kangaroos are called Joey's, much like my good friend from New Kids on the Block,
38:21Joey McIntyre.
38:22Kangaroos are born into their mother's pouches.
38:24Stay there six to nine months, like my good friend Juan Williams does when he's on vacation.
38:29Anyway, it's safe and it's warm and it's well-fed.
38:32Look at that little thing poking out of there.
38:34Ah, yeah.
38:35I see what you mean, Jesse.
38:36It does look like a penis.
38:39All right, Jesse.
38:41Do they stay in the pouch for nine months?
38:43Yes.
38:43Yes.
38:45Dana, you're right.
38:48I think we know what's going on there.
38:54Tonight, Jesse Waters primetime, Tony Robbins has a big announcement.
38:598 p.m.
39:018 p.m.
39:04Harold.
39:05Wow, I don't even know how to get into my thing.
39:07But University of Michigan, we lost Ohio State over the last weekend, but our basketball team
39:10is now ranked number one in the country.
39:12Had three big wins over the Thanksgiving weekend against San Diego State, Auburn, Gonzaga.
39:16We're the first team in AP poll era to ever win two consecutive games, about 30 points
39:20or more, and they were both ranked teams.
39:21Go blue.
39:21Don't let Chris Webber call a timeout.
39:23Yeah, look at this tiny seal, walked into a bar in New Zealand, said, bartender says,
39:29we have a drink named after you.
39:30He said, really, you have a drink called Chauncey?
39:33He crawled under the dishwasher, and they got him out with salmon.
39:35That really happened.
39:36Oh, wow.
39:36Salmon.
39:37That's it for us.
39:38Have a great night, everyone.
39:41Hello, Greg.
39:42Hello, Brett.
39:44Good evening.
39:45You're welcome.
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