Harold Ford Jr.
Appearances
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
It's a new... It's faithfully with Willie Nelson and the original thing. Anyway, I thought it would be better. I'm sure it's great. Anyway, there's a new talking point emerging from the Democrats who are looking to get away from the barrage of brutal Biden decline headlines. The bat signal going out for the word forward.
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The Five 05-14-2025
Not so fast. It's hard to escape your past, especially when there's a new book on the cover, and it's of Joe Biden's decline, and there's a new one every week. Now we're learning how Team Biden brought in Steven Spielberg to use his Hollywood magic and help coach the former president for the State of the Union and that ill-fated debate.
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The Five 05-14-2025
Now Democratic 2028 hopefuls are being forced to address the revelations. Here's Mayor Pete.
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The Five 05-14-2025
But Greg, it's not like Mayor Pete was a governor. He was in the cabinet.
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The Five 05-14-2025
They are not. And this is what's pretty crazy. The leader of the Democratic Party on the House side, maybe Chuck Schumer, they could arm wrestle for, but that's basically who they are, right? So they took the posture of threatening federal agents. Now, let's just posit that we have video. So normally, in a normal environment, you see one of your members
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The Five 05-14-2025
I want to ask about the Hollywood, because at this point, George Clooney is like, well, he doesn't even recognize me. So I'm not coming in to help. Yeah.
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The Five 05-14-2025
Harold, you do not have yet a Democrat that wants to run for president, that is public about wanting to run for president, who has said that was wrong. And does that need to happen in order for them to actually be able to move forward? Because they can say all day long, we are looking forward. We are trying to move forward. But you're not actually taking a step until you deal with it.
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The Five 05-14-2025
Actually, you know what you can tell? Yours aren't written for you because it's not part of the bat signal that everyone else pays attention to. Okay, ahead, structural and intersectionality. Move over, Greg. James Carville has a list of banned words and phrases that the Democrats should ditch.
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The Five 05-14-2025
attacking an ICE agent, you might say, I've instructed all members to follow the law. End of story. But instead, they want to basically take them on. And 90% of the country wants the illegal immigrants to get out. Maybe Hakeem Jeffries could take them aside and say, guys, this place has been open since 2014. None of you ever went there. Why? Why all of a sudden now?
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The Five 05-14-2025
Yes, you do. Yes, I do. So here's the thing. Carville, these are the dumbest debates. Internal Democratic debates are the worst. Because they'll say, stop saying oligarchy. And Bernie says, I'm going to say oligarchy more. And then they just have this fight back and forth. But the advice shouldn't be stop using the words. It's about stop using the ideas. Stop believing the ideas.
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The Five 05-14-2025
When this is the issue that President Trump actually succeeds on. Let's talk about inflation. Let's talk about those prices. He's not doing any of that. I think that he sounds very hollow. Pete Buttigieg yesterday. Remember him? Mayor Pete? He was in Iowa yesterday. Why Iowa? Well, he wants to give a rally in 2028. He's got it in his sights.
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The Five 05-14-2025
If you take a look at the fact that President Trump did the EO, the executive order on diversity, equity, and inclusion. So a lot of companies were like, actually, I think a lot of companies were relieved. Yeah. Oh, sorry. We have to get rid of these. Sorry. But Disney, Kohl's, Dollar Tree and others, they just change the name to belonging. So the ideas still exist.
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The Five 05-14-2025
The problem is what he said about Abrego Garcia, you know, Maryland man, Maryland dad. He said... They're saying like, oh, this guy is a criminal. No one person, least of all, no one politician gets to decide that you are a criminal. Now, this is not a rally because he wants to be the president of the United States. And you have judges that make that determination all the time.
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The Five 05-14-2025
I would just say this. I think Lee Zeldin gets phrase of the week. Climate participation trophy. Excellent. That's a choice.
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The Five 05-14-2025
Yes, one person, one man, one woman. gets to decide if you are a criminal. He came into the country illegally, and we know that that is a crime. If they don't agree that that's a crime, they should raise their hand and make that clear. And the other thing is they're digging in on a serial domestic abuser. So once again, the women aren't protected by the party.
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The Five 05-14-2025
Oh, I don't know who's driving this train. Another day, another wild video out of Florida. This time, a golden retriever ditched the doggy paddle for a ride on a jet ski. Instead, the aquatic pup was spotted in a marina sporting a yellow life vest and being towed by his owner. Florida dog.
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The Five 05-14-2025
I think that Hakeem Jeffries gets it... And they are really needing somebody like the Obama of 2008 to be like, who is the Obama of 2026 that is going to come forward? I'm not saying it's Michelle Obama. Don't get any ideas.
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The Five 05-14-2025
It would be fun if President Trump came and we were like, sir, can we walk? Will you walk with me to my dance lesson today? Because you've got to see this and do something about it. I'm dying for him to go on the subway and then it'll get fixed. And that would be an amazing thing. I wrote down distraction. I'm crossing it off. No need to talk about that because she said it.
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The Five 05-14-2025
I think this is remarkable what he's done with Syria. So, yes, yes, jihadists. Yes, prisoner at Abu Ghraib. Yes, somebody who got rid of Assad. Everybody forgets that Assad is cooling his heels in Moscow, hasn't been thrown out of a window yet. So I guess that's a plus for him. But in Syria, it's remarkable that President Trump would say, OK, I'll give you here's a deal.
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The Five 05-14-2025
If you meet these benchmarks, you've got to get rid of terrorism, you've got to do several other things, and they're tough requirements, then no more sanctions on you. So this is a chance for Syria, for the first time since 1979, to join the rest of the world. And you can see, putting these pieces together, what I do like about... Economic diplomacy is that it is our superpower.
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The Five 05-14-2025
We can use it very well. And they want to invest in America. We can invest in them. I think economic ties are very, very good. I also believe in medical ties and the health ties. Bow ties? No, bow ties I'm not really for. I mean, on some people they're fine. Bolo ties, though, I really like. The last thing I would say is we said that he said that there is wiggle room on Iran.
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The Five 05-14-2025
But he says a lot of things about making a deal with Iran. But he does always say that they should not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon. But that gets sort of pushed to the side because people want to play and suggest that he is going to be willing to allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon. I don't think that's fair to him.
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The Five 05-14-2025
But I think that the White House comms people need to understand, and maybe they do, that he has to say that over and over again because the media or the left or whoever it is wants to try to pull him back from that red line.
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The Five 05-15-2025
The challenge the president has, as we sit here this evening, and I don't disagree with a lot what you said, but some of it I do. And here's where it is that the president has a great advantage because Democrats suck. You're absolutely right there. But on on in a day in which Wal-Mart said they're going to raise prices on a day after
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The Five 05-15-2025
Microsoft laid off 3% of its workers on a day in which I am so happy last week the president decided to reverse the tariffs because that's why you're getting some confidence back and indeed the market has reacted like it has. I hope he takes it a step further. We need a pro-growth transformation of the tax code. I've said it here before.
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The Five 05-15-2025
Democrats offer the first 50K of income for Americans to be tax-free. Offer the first 100K of business revenue to be tax-free. Raise taxes on those earning over $5 million a year and pay for no taxes on tips. And over time, you want to do something on government reform. Ask every government head, meaning the cabinet heads that come before Congress and give us a five percent cut in their budgets.
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The Five 05-15-2025
And it tells us why, why it works and scale the things that are not and scrap the things that are not working. You're right in one regard. We don't have a leader, but there is an opening in Democrats. If you don't take the opening in a substantive way, we're going to find ourselves sentenced to what what what Greg Gutfeld said throughout here for.
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The Five 05-15-2025
It's been one brutal headline after another for former President Biden. Now we're learning top Biden cabinet members privately worried he couldn't handle a 2 a.m. crisis. And Biden's inner circle allegedly froze out key members of his cabinet during the back half of his term. Another bombshell.
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The Five 05-15-2025
Former President Biden apparently forgot the name of his longtime aide, Jake Sullivan, and called him Steve. Earlier, Jake Sullivan got grilled about Biden's mental decline. Watch this.
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The Five 05-15-2025
PP, I'll come to you first on this. Is Jake Sullivan's answer there, do you believe, believable or credible?
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The Five 05-15-2025
Greg, you've been eloquent about the media should share more blame here. Do you still is this continues to be your point? Is that some kind of racist comment?
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The Five 05-15-2025
Yeah, Harold. In your face. I like moving forward. Up next, total chaos erupting at RFK Jr. 's hearing on Capitol Hill.
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The Five 05-15-2025
So I think you have to divorce yourself from that. I think that hearing was a great opportunity for Democrats to ask some pretty straightforward questions and put the administration on record on the cuts to Medicaid that are coming down through this reconciliation bill. One out of three Americans who live in red states Rely on Medicaid for health insurance.
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The Five 05-15-2025
How are you thinking about this going forward, Mr. Secretary? The cuts of NIH. Give us specifically why you think those cuts are going to benefit the things you want to do in the food space. And for that matter, in the health space, they're simple and straightforward and can be tough and partisan questions. And they're questions that Americans want answers to. I don't think I think you're right.
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The Five 05-15-2025
Whether they're having fun and we're not having fun. We can debate, but I know one thing. We're not giving anything constructive to the country, anything constructive to our supporters, or for that matter, those who want to support us a year and a half from now or two and a half years from now.
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The Five 05-15-2025
I wouldn't go that far, but I'm all for dress codes. I grew up from seventh grade on. I had to wear shirt and tie and a jacket to middle school and high school. I think it was important. It helped me to get focused. There was no competition what kids were going to wear.
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The Five 05-15-2025
And I'd say to anybody, a union or employer, if your employer wants you to dress a certain way and you don't want to, you know what? Don't work there.
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The Five 05-15-2025
The Cincinnati Reds honored baseball icon Pete Rose on Wednesday after he was reinstated by MLB Commissioner Rob Manford. Family, fans, and players gathered to celebrate his remarkable career and celebrate what many consider to be long overdue justice.
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The Five 05-15-2025
Remember, he was banned from baseball for gambling on his sport in the 80s, but the commissioner's decision underscores the public's perception of his legacy. I think he should get in the hall. If we can lift sanctions on Syria, do a deal with Iran, and even talk to the Soviet Union, Pete Rose, what he did for baseball, he deserves to be in the hall.
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The Five 05-15-2025
No, no, no. I think whenever an American president succeeds, it's going to be back around the table. Whenever an American president succeeds, I applaud them. And I think it's very hard not to see some of the things that Jesse just outlined that the president and his team have been able to accomplish on this amazing trip. You know, the president did a little of everything he normally does.
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The Five 05-15-2025
There's a great showmanship and a great theater. There's great substance. You have a trillion dollars. It sounds like if not more of investment opportunities and commitments to invest in the United States from our allies there in the region. I'm still it's still not totally clear to me what we get for the lifting the sanctions on Syria. But I like the progress.
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The Five 05-15-2025
I think you have to be willing to make peace. with your enemies because you don't need to make peace with your friends. So finding ways in which to advance us commercially is a really, really smart thing. As he gets home, I'll be interested to hear the Israel party. And I disagree with you, Jesse, on that part. I agree with Dana.
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The Five 05-15-2025
So I think all and thank you. I'll just take back what little time I have left. I think all of this all of this is a positive. And I think. I'm looking forward to the next, I think, which is equally important because we've had such we've had such chaos and turmoil in that region of the world for a long time. I'm looking forward to how the president approaches the Ukraine Russia negotiation.
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The Five 05-15-2025
I hope that we still are able to get the rare earth minerals deal from them, because I think that's so important to us being able to counter China going forward. And if this trip is any indication of what the president's able to accomplish, I'm optimistic about what he'll be able to get done.
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The Five 05-15-2025
If you get all the Republicans, I'll get three Democrats if you get every Republican. Okay, I'm working on it.
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The Five 05-19-2025
What stuck out to me was the eliminating women comment as I interviewed the father of a seventh grader today, a seventh grade girl who was put out of metal contention running in her 200 meter race on the track against a biological boy. And it took this suburban father to take to the national airwaves to bring attention to the matter because people like Hillary Clinton are not
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The Five 05-19-2025
As far as Tim Walz is concerned, he's got a captive audience when it comes to the graduation speeches. I mean, if we're up to him, I think we'd see him all over the place. I think Democrats might be holding back on him.
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The Five 05-19-2025
But if you look at the last election and you look at the response he gets when he gets out there, Republicans should probably be happy that he keeps himself out there in the forefront. But Hillary Clinton's words. I got me today talking to watching that girl not be able to get a third place finish because she has to race against a boy.
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The Five 05-19-2025
Hindsight is 2020. Obviously, if we could redo this tape and play it over again, we would do things differently. It's hard to convince somebody to give up their car keys.
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The Five 05-19-2025
Yeah, Jesse, we all wish the former president well. I mean, it's just absolutely awful for any family to learn this about their loved one. But there's a lot it seems that we are learning in the last 24 hours. A lot it seems that perhaps we didn't know along the way. What do you make of all this?
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The Five 05-19-2025
But if you don't extend the 2017 tax cuts, you're raising taxes on essentially everybody.
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The Five 05-19-2025
He is targeting some of those people, then taxes on tips, overtime wages that Katie mentioned as well. Also, they want to direct a lot of this money, billions, in fact, to immigration enforcement after the crisis that we all just lived through of the past few years. Just one last point on the tariffs. Because there's a lot of fear mongering over this, similar to the tariffs.
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The Five 05-19-2025
What I don't hear Democrats talking about right now, they love to talk about the drop in the stock market as fear built over the tariffs. And now the stock market has not only built back, rallied back all the losses since Liberation Day, it's now higher than when they even announced those tariffs to begin with. And I don't hear a peep from Democrats on that.
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The Five 05-19-2025
I don't know. I just I think that I have a feeling my friend Katie is going to agree with me on this. But we all love to go to our concerts and take in our art and our music and our shows. And we want the politics to be left out of it. And I don't know. I haven't heard reaction. I haven't heard reaction from the crowd.
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The Five 05-19-2025
But I mean, have you heard from anyone who was like, I, you know, I love that speech. I love that he did that in the middle of this concert that I saved all my dollars for to come to this concert. I'm so glad he did. No, you haven't heard.
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The Five 05-19-2025
But watch this. So then. OK, so then he has a few fingers. OK. And then it goes down to one. I think he's like finishing a point. He's pulling on him. So I just watch this like a third time.
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The Five 05-19-2025
Okay. Sandra, back in 1946, Harvard Law School purchased what it thought was a cheap copy of the Magna Carta for $27. Turns out the school's copy is a rare issue of the iconic British document and could be worth millions. The original Magna Carta was written in 1215 and served as a great influence on many of America's own founding documents like the Constitution. I love that.
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The Five 05-19-2025
A key ally of the Obama administration is asking why it wasn't caught sooner.
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The Five 05-19-2025
Well, Howard, there are multiple experts who have lined up in the wake of this news to say, you know, it would be shocking that this kind of cancer wasn't noticed during recent checkups that it had to have been developing for quite some time. Howard Foreman, Yale Law School, Yale Medical School. It's inconceivable that this was not being followed before he left the presidency.
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The Five 05-19-2025
Urologist David Shusterman says it's insanely unlikely someone who gets annual checkups would not have noticed this developing cancer.
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The Five 05-19-2025
Hello, everyone. I'm Sandra Smith, along with Katie Pavlich, Harold Ford Jr., Jesse Waters and Greg Gutfeld. It is five o'clock in New York City and this is. All right. Well, questions are mounting over former President Joe Biden's shocking stage four prostate cancer diagnosis, which has aggressively spread to his bones. Well, we wish the former president well.
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The Five 05-19-2025
And again, we wish him the absolute best. Greg, is it fair for some of the media, including David Axelrod, now to be saying that we should set aside any talk about the cognitive cover up during his presidency as he battles this cancer?
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The Five 05-19-2025
So the shocking cancer diagnosis follows a brutal week for President, former President Biden, as a new book and the release of the long awaited Her tapes exposed more troubling. The media are already suggesting the cancer diagnosis might earn the former president a little breathing room from all the scrutiny.
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The Five 05-19-2025
Well, we did see the media having to deal with the release of the Her audio and the Her tape today in what appears to be the many stages of coping, Katie. Van Jones said that Democrats will pay for covering up Biden's decline for a, quote, long time.
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The Five 05-19-2025
Those conversations are going to. But they should be more muted and set aside for now as he's struggling through this.
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The Five 05-19-2025
Those questions will be asked for a long time. Many people watching right now go out and get those tests on a regular basis. Katie, thank you for that. Up next, Hillary Clinton and Tim Walz taking aim at President Trump with some really wild accusations.
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The Five 05-19-2025
But the her audio release continues to reverberate as Democrats and the media try to learn lessons from the cover up.