Marie Harf
Appearances
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
Well, I think that's a nice line. But then don't accept. I mean, I know we're not talking about the plane, but don't accept a plane from the country that harbors and funds and supports Hamas. He talks a lot about fighting Hamas and supporting Israel. Don't take a plane. Look, I am all for deals that will bring jobs and money to America.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
What I am nervous about, there are two things with Trump in the Middle East. Number one is that these deals just support his friends, Elon, these rich guys, Sam Altman, who are in the room. And actually, that doesn't trickle down to Americans. That they just make rich guys richer and they don't help the middle class back here in the United States.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
If it does help the middle class, great. I am nervous about that because many of these deals Trump has announced in the past either don't come to fruition or actually just make his friends richer and don't help average people. The second thing is we cannot forget that these countries have invested millions and millions of dollars in Trump family businesses.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
And if this were the Biden family, the Biden crime family you all talked about for four years, going to countries and getting millions and millions of dollars from the same people who are investing those millions to personally enrich Donald Trump, You would be furious.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
Well, and the just because you see the corruption doesn't mean it's not corrupt.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
I agree with him on everything he just said. What I do know is that the DNC isn't winning us elections. Right. Like this rule change in this vote about whether he should be the vice chair. I don't really care about that. I wish the DNC was more effective. We win elections with good candidates on the ground who match their districts and their states.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
I like the idea of making members fight for their seats. Some of the best members of Congress we've had, and I know you will probably disagree with me, people like AOC won their seats in contested primaries. And if the Democratic Party is going to win in the midterms, which I think we can and we should and we will. It will be with good candidates who aren't sleepwalking through elections.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
And if we're talking about Joe Biden today, we're talking about the fact that too many Democrats are just complacent with the senior leaders at the top and there's not enough youthful energy. I don't know if David Hogg's doing it the right way. I don't know if he's the standard bearer, but I know we need to do it. And this DNC fight, to the extent that anyone cares at all, is just a distraction.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
Well, it's amazing that Republicans in Congress now are trying to basically take back all of that money that was earmarked for infrastructure instead of actually trying to fix the problem.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
You know, Sean, Sean, also Duffy also said talked about how that, you know, that when covid lockdowns would have been a good time to upgrade infrastructure. That's when Donald Trump was president, man. That's when people weren't traveling. So I get the urge that every administration has to blame their predecessors. As Katie said, people are scared.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
What's coming out of Newark is very disconcerting. And they just need to fix it and stop playing the... playing the blame game. And quite frankly, this bill, we're looking at these big bills that are coming out of Congress. They are talking about rolling back spending on infrastructure. You know, the answer here is not Doge. The answer here is not cutting the workforce from the FAA.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
We need people working there. And so I don't need to hear Sean Duffy talk about how he doesn't like Joe Biden. I need him to fix the problem.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
Welcome back. HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is testing his immunity this weekend by jumping into a sewage-filled creek in Washington, D.C., deemed unsafe due to its high levels of bacteria. But RFK, who's allegedly already survived a brain worm... clearly isn't worried. Katie, I think he also took his grandkids in with him.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
It can't be worse than the tap water. Come on. Jesse, would you swim in a sewage-filled creek?
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
Dana, you have lived in Washington, D.C. The water is not great there to drink, to swim. I mean, it's kind of gross. Tap water's fine. Tap water's fine.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
Are those the two options, bacteria or? Pretty much. Yeah. These days, especially in D.C., it's the only place to go outside. OK. This is a black and white show. One more thing is up next.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
We hope not. We hope there are bathrooms, too. So an unknowing woman shared a very touching moment with recently drafted Jacksonville Jaguars star player Travis Hunter on a flight from Denver. Sandy Hawkins said she was seated next to the nicest young man who was extremely polite. He helped her with her bags.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
It was only when the other travelers kept stopping to ask for photos that she realized she was sitting next to a professional athlete. What a lovely guy coming back from his college graduation. That happens to Greg all the time.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
And I think because I want Democrats to win and because I think Donald Trump is an existential threat to many of the things we care about. And the fact that that the people in the White House who agree with me on that in the Biden White House, they believed this about Trump winning again. They knew how problematic that would be for so many of the things they have fought for.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
And yet in 2017 and 18, 19, 20, they saw that, you know, they got him elected and then they saw the decline continue. And after the midterms, I've talked to lots of my friends who've worked in that White House. After the midterms, there was never a conversation about whether he should run again because Democrats overperformed. Right. We did better than people thought we would.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
Biden took credit and nobody had the courage in that White House to stand up to him and Jill Biden and say, if you run again. We will lose. And the fact that got to the June of the election year and that disastrous debate performance for him to be forced out. I mean, there we had no chance at that point. Right. Kamala, you can't run a campaign with no primary being anointed in 100 days.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
And I am I am the fact that George Clooney had more courage than every elected Democrat. They made fun of Dean Phillips. Right.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
The ultimate insult in Hollywood. It sounds like he didn't recognize a lot of people that worked for him. The fact that he was the only one to say, I need to write a New York Times op-ed. And all these people, now they're coming out, most of them anonymously, which I agree is I don't like. David Plouffe, you know, God bless him. At least he's willing to be on the record.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
You don't even know who I am. And I there's so much anger. And I like Joe Biden a lot. I don't like that his legacy will always be. It will always be this. And his team did that to him.
The Five
The Five 05-13-2025
It's very clearly a cognitive decline. That's what I'm referring to. It makes me uncomfortable to watch the man on stage search for questions.