Harold Ford Jr.
Appearances
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The Five 05-21-2025
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The Five 05-21-2025
I have to tell you directly and personally that I regret voting for you for Secretary of State.
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The Five 05-21-2025
Mr. Chairman. I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman. Secretary Rubio has the floor. Mr. Chairman, he can't make unsubstantiated comments like that.
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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 05-27-2025
They knew he was wrong on immigration. They knew he was wrong on things that were dear to them. I happen to think that for Republicans, I sometimes give advice to Democrats. If I were Republicans... I'd stop with him because at the end of the day, the midterm is going to be won. And usually, as we all know, the midterm is a referendum on the incumbent in the White House.
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The Five 05-27-2025
Doesn't matter whom the incumbent is, Democrat or Republican. It's been that way for a long, long time. And I happen to think two things. One, if the tariffs don't produce more good manufacturing jobs, if the tariffs don't produce a great amount of revenue,
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The Five 05-27-2025
for the country, or if the tariffs don't produce new trade deals that are beneficial to the country, President Trump will have a lot of explaining to do, and so will Republicans.
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The Five 05-27-2025
Secondarily, and I think equally important, if Putin is as strong as he is today, if he continues, I'm going to use President Trump's words, tag him along, if we're here having this conversation three to six months from now, Kayleigh, and or if she is continuing to make deals in South America and Africa and Europe and Asia because he thinks that we are weaker,
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The Five 05-27-2025
then I think it doesn't matter if his name is Trump or Biden, whomever the incumbent is, it happens to be President Trump, his party will be disadvantaged as we head into the fall. The one thing you have working in your favor is that Democrats suck, and we have no real alternative.
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The Five 05-27-2025
The things we've been trying to address around the table, there's an opening if we are willing to get the substance and the purpose and the reasons right, and then you focus on the language. But an opening is there if Democrats are willing to take it.
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The Five 05-27-2025
I don't know. I hope they were able to quickly, Jesse, because I agree. There's so many great Americans who've come from that university. And I think they are becoming a little bit of a metaphor for some of the things that the Trump administration. I think largely we've had a conversation around this table and Dana has been an instigator and a leader in this regard.
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The Five 05-27-2025
We've talked about the cost of higher education. And, you know, even in the Biden administration, this is when they try to retire all of the all of American student debt was unconstitutional. Shouldn't have done it. They kept doing it. I would say to Democrats, you you supported that, but you don't support. Some of you did.
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The Five 05-27-2025
I hope everybody had a good weekend. I don't think Democrats are wasting money on this effort if the effort is organized and designed right. I think if the effort is trying to come up with new words or words that you think will appeal to people, then it will be a waste of money. If the exercise to try to figure out how you develop democracy
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The Five 05-27-2025
You don't support when Trump is, I think, violating what the court is saying by doing some of the things he's doing. But we have to be consistent in that regard.
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The Five 05-27-2025
But we shouldn't conflate the fact that we do need more engineers and plumbers and electricians in the country, that we do need to provide more routes into the employment ranks in our country by educating and training young people, for the amount of middle-aged people who may want to switch professions. But where I differ with the president, this isn't the way to do it.
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The Five 05-27-2025
The way to do it is to actually drill down and get very specific. The example that Kayleigh gave regarding Bill Ackman, maybe there's a reason the president of the school has not contacted Bill, but Bill makes some good points. I disagree with him on a lot of things, but I think he's a really smart guy and I think he loves his university. We are the most innovative country in the world.
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The Five 05-27-2025
We are the most important country in the world. We have the greatest military in the world. We have the best universities in the world. This is what provides us leverage as a nation. And I would only hope that saner minds, saner heads, because President Trump, I think, is trying to get at something good here. I just don't like the way he's doing it.
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The Five 05-27-2025
There's no need to go after these universities, these top research centers like you are, because you may have a political issue. Cleaning up and making them be stronger and how they protect students on campus, be they Jewish students or any students, is something they must do. But when you take a school like Harvard, which I don't believe we have a greater.
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The Five 05-27-2025
And this is I went to University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, and I love these schools. But there's not a university asset, a college asset in the world that is more aligned with excellence than Harvard has been throughout its existence. We had to fix it and not destroy it. And I think what President Trump is doing is bordering on something not good here.
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The Five 05-27-2025
and implement an affordability agenda for every working American, be they middle class Americans, wealthy Americans, Americans trying to enter and graduate into the middle class.
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The Five 05-27-2025
If the effort is to find ways in which to show that not investing in critical research, not investing in things that so many of our universities from the University of Florida to Harvard University to the University of Michigan are engaged in that are making the world a safer place, America's safer place and healthier place.
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The Five 05-27-2025
You know, I try... So I watched over the weekend. I think it was this weekend. I watched President Trump. I watch a lot of lacrosse. Congratulations to Cornell, by the way. I watched President Trump. I do. This is the weekend to do it because of the Final Four and the finals. But I watched President Trump give a speech at West Point.
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The Five 05-27-2025
And I thought some of it was inspiring and some of it was a challenge to those young men and women. And other parts were not. I went back and watched a little bit of this afternoon. We were going to talk about him today. And look, he spoke from... a place that he thought was honest and true. It's not what I would do.
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The Five 05-27-2025
And I just think graduates deserve to have commencement addresses where there's no doubt you want the person giving the address to give a little sense of whom they are and have some of that be a part of their speech, which is why I think we accept a lot of how President Trump presents. But I would have done this a little differently. I understand.
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The Five 05-27-2025
I think he believes honestly that journalism is under attack, and he has every right to say it. But tell these graduates what they can do to reverse the things that he believes are going wrong in the country. That's what I think every commencement address should be about.
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The Five 05-27-2025
And if I get to give one again, I'll do what I've always done, which is to try to provide a little humor, try to provide a challenge, and try to provide a little magnanimous state of myself about what I didn't do right and how they can do better. That's what we need more of.
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The Five 05-27-2025
If the focus is there, then you begin to try to populate words around that agenda that will resonate and connect with voters. That's one thing. But if you're only looking to trying to find find words that may make you seem more masculine or may make you seem more manly, I'm using the terminology they're using. I think not only will you not persuade voters, you'll just continue to confuse yourself.
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The Five 05-27-2025
It's a slap scene around the world. French President Emmanuel Macron breaking his silence on the bizarre moment when his wife, Brigitte, appeared to shove him in the face. The president claims, quote, we were just horsing around. Dana, do you and Peter horse around like this? No, I mean, Peter probably couldn't.
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The Five 05-27-2025
So affordability. What's going to make America stronger and smarter over the next 25, 50 years? And what's going to make our national security better? If we figure that out first, then you can develop the words and the language that can help you convey that, but not in reverse order. Then it would be a waste of money.
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The Five 05-27-2025
USA Hockey Team won its first world title in 92 years. It was a world championship. And they beat Switzerland in overtime, two minutes in overtime. Tate Thompson, a Buffalo Sabre kid, scored it. But I tell you, it was so exciting also. They helped the jersey of Johnny Gaudreau, who died last year. The Columbus Blue Jackets player drafted by Calgary. Congrats to these boys. Go, boy.
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The Five 05-27-2025
Yeah, they were. As I've said many times, this story is not getting any better for those around President Biden, for his family or for him. But I'm not stuck here. I think going forward is the midterm elections. And you can't win a midterm election by reminding people that they did the right thing by voting the other guy out. They knew that he was wrong on the border.
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The Five 05-22-2025
No, I do think that Greg's broader point, I think the thrust of his point is that if you are not able to differentiate and distinguish yourself from this and then begin to talk about a vision for the country that's populated with ideas to make the country stronger and healthy and great, a lot of the things that the president talks about, you're not going to win.
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The Five 05-22-2025
No one knows what goes on in anyone's marriage. I don't know what she told him or what she was suggesting he do. I do believe that she had great some great influence in that White House. And she probably if she'd said we shouldn't run, he might have decided not to run. But he chose to. And we're now hearing all these things.
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The Five 05-22-2025
I come back to where we've dealt with this story now for for a good little while. And I know this book is out and I still don't understand how these people who wrote the book. who covered all this, this campaign and this White House, uncovered all this over the last five or six months and are now going to make a lot of money off for telling us things that I wish they had reported.
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The Five 05-22-2025
We were talking about it around this table. We joked a little bit the day or so ago about maybe you and I said you said you wanted to thank a note of apology. Greg said he wanted the money.
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The Five 05-22-2025
I do. And reparations. And it's only reparations he likes. But I do think that this story, the Bidens are going to have to live with it. And those around him who saw this and who didn't come forward and say, maybe you should do what you said from the outset, which was to be a transitional figure in politics. Had he done that, none of this would be being talked about now.
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The Five 05-22-2025
We'll be back. But right now, we're not taken seriously. It's interesting. As you look at the numbers, there's always a correlation in every poll I've seen since I've been an adult in politics. that shows that when one party's numbers are going down or the favorabilities are going down, they generally correlate to the other party's numbers going up. In this instance, it's not happening at all.
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The Five 05-22-2025
Both parties are just going down. The Democrats have less credibility on issues that matter. You think about what's happened, Kayleigh, over the last few weeks. It's been reported by in-house newspaper here at our own station here that President Trump has told European leaders that he has no intention of increasing sanctions against Putin if Putin doesn't capitulate right away.
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The Five 05-22-2025
He accepted a plane from Qatar for $400 million, which people have raised some questions about. Walmart and Nike announced that they were raising prices or intend to raise prices over the next few weeks. And Moody's downgraded our debt, largely because they don't believe we're serious as a nation about paying down our debt.
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The Five 05-22-2025
But having said all that, in a normal time, the other party would pick up some. Democrats, if you don't get serious about the cultural issues, you won't be taken seriously. or perceived to be serious on issues that matter to people when it comes to their wallets and their pocketbooks and their kids and their future. So I don't disagree with your proposition at all.
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The Five 05-22-2025
But I do believe that there's going to be a Democrat that finds the lane that Greg, I think, articulated very clearly and well. And then they're going to, again, populate that lane with real ideas and answers to people's challenges.
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The Five 05-22-2025
I do. It tells me a couple of things. President Trump is going to be hard to replace. And in this regard, I mean, here's a here's a president who hails as a Republican, who is pro Kennedy, pro union, pro tariff. pro-deficit spending. And if you were just to look at it on paper and say, wait a sec, how could that be?
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The Five 05-22-2025
He has upended the Republican Party and totally puzzled and confounded the Democratic Party. To hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr., there's no greater name in American politics in the last 75 years. You don't have to agree with him. But the Kennedy name is as prominent a name in politics and certainly in the Democratic Party.
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The Five 05-22-2025
For him to say, he said, other than my uncle, I've never seen a president, Democrat or Republican, willing to stand up to corporate interests. You would think he'd be talking about a Democrat. Yeah. So in one regard, I love the fact that they're talking about ways to help kids in urban and rural areas who come from middle class families to eat better and healthier.
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The Five 05-22-2025
I hope he achieves everything he wants. I have some concerns about some of the vaccine stuff he talks about. But you can't quarrel with a president and a secretary of health and human services who wants to make our food chain, our food ecosystem healthier for every American. Democrats.
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The Five 05-22-2025
If you don't start talking about cultural issues in a way that connect with every that resonates with Americans and stop being on the fringes, if you don't begin to talk about an affordability agenda for every American. not only will Donald Trump continue to serve out these three years with popularity, he'll pick the next president of the United States.
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The Five 05-22-2025
And Democrats, you ought to be hoping, we ought to be hoping he picks one of us if a Republican can't live up to what he is, the standard he's trying to set for the country. And I don't agree with him on everything, but I think the standard, Greg, is a huge standard. And it defies what we think of in conventional politics today.
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The Five 05-22-2025
Welcome back. Boredom. It's not that bad. And science says it's actually good for us. Apparently, there are several benefits. It makes us more creative, allows more independence in our thinking, it supports self-esteem, and it calms anxiety. You find yourself looking like that guy in the picture there, Jesse, as you think about when you're bored? Or do you agree with some of this?
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The Five 05-22-2025
I guess I'm kind of boring because when I'm bored, I read. One more thing is up next.
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The Five 05-22-2025
I mean, my kids love animals. They're great. That's how I got introduced to the show at Rollins College in Florida. It was a special moment. This service dog, Canela, was honored with an honorary diploma as her owner, Cecilia Hernandez, whose side she had been by since her freshman year, graduated. The school did that. Couldn't have been sweeter. Congratulations to both.
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The Five 05-22-2025
Well, I don't I don't have any. Well, first of all, it's going to be back around the table. I don't I don't answer for her. I'm a Democrat and a proud Democrat. What happened in Washington, D.C. has nothing to do with my party. This was an act of hatred that should be condemned. We are human beings. And when human beings treat human beings like this, they should be punished.
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The Five 05-22-2025
Hatred, unfortunately, Sandra, is bipartisan. But we shouldn't even be talking about the political leaning of it either way. I hear what I hear what we're saying. And I think I understand a little bit of it. But this this I think I understand where you're coming from.
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The Five 05-22-2025
But this act here, whomever is unable to condemn this, who is whoever is unable to speak about how we shouldn't be talking this way and we should be trying to heal and not divide. That person should be punished. And if you act violently, whether it's Luigi or whomever, what I don't understand with Luigi, there are people who are supporting this guy. There are people who are sending money to him.
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The Five 05-22-2025
Something's deeper and rotten in our society when someone in broad daylight, the beginning of the morning, shoots down a person and people are supporting that person because they tend to think his ideas around something or something they may support. He killed someone. And this person who's been accused of this, the young man there in the image there, he shot down and killed two people.
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The Five 05-22-2025
I don't care what his politics are. He should be punished. So I just caution all of us. I think I understand a little bit what we're doing here. But this is an act of hatred and an act of violence. I wish it was all just one party. Even if it was my party, we could figure out a way to deal with it. But unfortunately, hatred... And division and violence knows no political party, knows no geography.
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The Five 05-22-2025
There's something rotten and something wrong, and we've got to figure out how we address it as a society.
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The Five 05-22-2025
But, Greg, the only other thing I say is these pro-Hamas people, they came and protested Kamala Harris's events. They came and protested Pelosi's events. And if I remember correctly, President Trump went to Dearborn, Michigan because so many of that group was mad at Democrats. Look, I just don't think – I think it's bipartisan.
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The Five 05-22-2025
We can differ on that, but I just – what I want to be clear about, I don't answer for this organization. This Omar Congress, the Congresswoman Omar and none of my Democratic friends do. And I am not only appalled, I share Greg's position, which you shared there about the Palestinians. I couldn't agree with you more.
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The Five 05-22-2025
And I hope at a minimum that nothing changes on our government's part in our support.
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The Five 05-22-2025
But I could point to Republicans that are part of that, that did things.
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The Five 05-22-2025
But President Trump went to Dearborn and embraced that mayor and those others there who had been saying that Democrats were not enough in favor of the Palestinians.
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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 05-26-2025
And the butler took the poodle to the vet there. You're one to talk, Harold. I'll never forget second grade. It was biggest and most memorable. In second grade, I played somewhere at school, and my principal, a woman named Hattie Jackson, brought me into her office, and she said, this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you. And she hit me seven times with a wooden paddle.
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The Five 05-26-2025
He lost the race. I think one of the reasons he's probably out these these days is because Biden, that is because the books are coming out and he wants to show that he was not that he was not out of it. He said when he ran in 2020, Greg, that he would be a transitional figure. and he wanted to beat Donald Trump and move the country to a new generation of leadership.
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The Five 05-26-2025
And I think a lot of people took him at his word, and that didn't happen. And if President Biden wants to continue to go on shows to help himself, I think one of the guys there at the end said this is all about Biden and not about anything else. Let him do that. That will run its course. Let us go forward with a set of ideas and what our priorities are, laying it out for the country.
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The Five 05-26-2025
I never went back to the principal's office again. I never played in the woods again. We were not allowed to play in some area, and I did it. And then I got home, and my mom used the belt. Because I embarrassed my parents at school by getting paddled.
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The Five 05-26-2025
So I think the country settled that for us. They elected Donald Trump again, and they said that close the door on that and move forward. Democrats, there's so much there for us to be doing. If we continue to fall in the trap of talking about Joe Biden, bless his heart, he gave 40-plus years to this country of service, and I'm grateful for it.
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The Five 05-26-2025
But we have a country, we have people in this country who are expecting leadership and ideas from us. And until we do that, we don't deserve to represent them anymore if we continue to fall into these traps.
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The Five 05-26-2025
I think that The fact that the president of the United States is not getting as exhaustive of a review of a physical of the kind of medical examination one would expect and then to have all of that revealed to the public in 2025, 25 years into the 21st century.
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The Five 05-26-2025
You combine that with some of the things that we people were saying about President Biden throughout his presidency, questioning the cognitive abilities, some of the mental health abilities, and then the physical things that happened when he fell down, fell up the stairs, down the stairs, off his bike.
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The Five 05-26-2025
We deserve better when you are the president of the United States with the kind of care the president should get. We should not be surprised by these things. But I'm like you. My thoughts and prayers are with he and his family. I know this road ahead is going to be is going to be a difficult one.
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The Five 05-26-2025
Those D-bags. I didn't realize that she was a graduate of Red Eye. Yes. I'm glad to hear that, too, other than when I got my notes earlier.
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The Five 05-26-2025
She was very good. I switched between her and the Lions game. I watched the opening, and I thought she nailed it. And I thought the people in the room handled it pretty well also. But kudos to her, and hopefully those in Hollywood learned a little lesson.
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The Five 05-26-2025
Welcome back on this Memorial Day. It's no secret that America loves our one more things here on The Five. Let's watch some of our favorites.
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The Five 05-26-2025
I mean, Kate, this is the tear-jerking moment the president of Clemson University's daughter met him on the graduation stage. Grace Clements leapt into her dad's gym's arms, taking him to the ground in the middle of the ceremony. Grace is a graduate of the Clemson Life Program, which provides higher education to those with intellectual disabilities.
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The Five 05-26-2025
The hope is that Clemson Life alum will learn to live independently and gain social employment skills. Congratulations to Grace, her family, and the rest of their graduating class.
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The Five 05-26-2025
This is the moment a few lucky ducklings were rescued from a busy freeway in Tacoma. After reports of concerned drivers, a Washington State trooper teamed up with the Department of Transportation worker and safely carried wayward babies across the highway. They were reunited with their mama just in time for Mother's Day.
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The Five 05-26-2025
One more fan mail question is up next on this special edition of The Five. Happy Memorial Day.
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The Five 05-26-2025
Barbecue? I love cheeseburgers and I love barbecue. I don't call it barbecue is what I call it. What about you, Jesse?
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The Five 05-26-2025
If I didn't worry about my vanity, if I was not worried about my weight, I would have ice cream and chocolate chip cookies every day. But even so, I'd eat sweet potatoes. I love sweet potatoes. I only get them on Thanksgiving, really, but I love sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes. That's so lame.
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The Five 05-26-2025
1984, George Orwell. I read it in seventh grade. I got a B on the test, but it changed my life. It really got me into reading and got me into critical thinking.
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The Five 05-26-2025
I don't know. I didn't ask. I've eaten a lot, but I won't eat black olives, and I'm allergic to shellfish. Black olives doesn't agree with me. Just doesn't, whatever, it makes my, it's not good.
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The Five 05-26-2025
It was Mussolini. Harold? I thought that I could be Evel Knievel on a moped.
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The Five 05-26-2025
And I went, and we went, and my brothers and I made this little thing. The ramp didn't really last, and I got, I fell off. Thank God I didn't break my neck, but it was fun. It was fun. I'm not Evel Knievel, I realize. Oh, you aren't. Thank you. Kennedy.
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The Five 05-26-2025
I remember at five years old, my dad dropping me off at kindergarten and my mom in the drive. And I used to be able to sit in the middle of those cars and have seatbelts. I was like that thing that came down that foot. So I sat in the middle there and we pulled up and literally almost rammed into the radio, into the face. And my dad was on a cell phone. A happy memory, my family.
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The Five 05-26-2025
The same woman who patted on me, my elementary school teacher, was my first campaign manager. Oh. And she got me 32 graduation speeches when no one would invite me to speak when I was running for Congress. There were 28 kindergarten speeches and five elementary school speeches.
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The Five 05-26-2025
I thought that was a complete waste of time, but it turned my career around, turned my campaign around, and got me to where I am. And I love her to this day for that reason.
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The Five 05-26-2025
The thing I the gripe I have with the producers in this show is that there are too many topics that promote Democrats. I wish there were not so many topics that promote Democrats. That's the hardest part. I love preparing. So it's like I love I love seeing the topics and thinking about what everybody around the table might say.
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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.