Kennedy
Appearances
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
Would the party have been better off if we had just not run for re-election?
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
Now they have to hire Steven Spielberg. So Steven Spielberg took over for the movie A.I. from Stanley Kubrick, who passed away and he had to finish the film. So I think someone in the Biden administration or in his inner circle was so dumb. They saw A.I. and thought, well, let's just do that with Joe.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
We'll have Steven Spielberg manage the whole thing and maybe get ourselves a handsome animatron like Joe. Jude Law and he could play the part of the president because voters would love a 50 years younger Joe Biden, Amtrak Joe. And the other great nugget that came out today was at that June fundraiser.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
This is June of last year where Julia Roberts and George Clooney raised tens of millions of dollars for this ticket. Joe Biden didn't even know who George Clooney was. And his little minder had to go, Mr. President, this is George. And it's like, no, George Clooney. And they couldn't even acknowledge that. So he truly is a zombie. He is unkillable. He is doing so much damage.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
And the whole look forward thing is even worse because if you don't examine your mistakes, you are going to repeat them. And if there is threat of that, voters will never trust your party. Good.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
Ford for president. You should write their talking points. That's a much better thing to say than, all right, let's look forward.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
Well, you know who is a hollaback girl? I'm about to tell you. The Democrats' Krusty Cajun is back. James Carbo's poking his shiny bald head out with a list of lefty buzzwords Democrats need to toss if they want to win again.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
Intersectionality. Harold, do Democrats just need a thesaurus? Will that magically fix all the problems?
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
Get rid of TikTok and bring back manufacturing. Cut taxes. Absolutely right. And cut spending. So, Jesse, I didn't realize that James Carville has a special brand of love for you. When you see him talking like this, does it warm your cockles?
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
So you've always said that if you control language, you control society.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
David Hogg should have said that. I think if I woke up in the middle of the night and James Carville was hovering over my bed, I would ready myself for a probe. Up next, the Trump administration is about to fix your car's most annoying feature. You're about to love it. Stay with us.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
I know you can turn the feature off, but it is still so annoying. And if we're actually doing something measurable, I think I'd be OK with it. But the fact that the gains are really theoretical, it's not enough to justify it. But it's these little things like that and also taking a shower that's got some water pressure and flushing a toilet where you only have to flush it once.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
Those are little things that have a big impact on people's lives and how they feel.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
Don't get me started. I mean, the proof is in the pudding when you look at outcomes where there is school choice. And those are the kind of issues that nonpolitical parents have woken up to really, really care about. One of the other ones, unfortunately for Democrats, is immigration. And they look at this because it was the forgotten voter who was activated during the 2024 election cycle.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
The person who was like, well, they closed my covid business. They kept my kid out of school. You know, my prices have gone up. George Clooney doesn't care. You know, he's endorsing a corpse until he decided that it wasn't politically convenient for him and the Democrat establishment. So they need to I think you're absolutely right.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
They need to refocus on those forgotten voters because they're like, you forgot about us. There's only so much political energy you have to spend, and they are spending it like attention tramps on this one issue at this one facility instead of putting up the kind of plan that Harold's talking about, because all of that.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
manufacturing, immigration, economics, that has been co-opted by the Republican Party. And if Republicans keep winning the way they have in the last two weeks, and I mean the Trump administration specifically, watch Democrats' numbers continue to go down because they are falling into the trap and they're pulling themselves further left, which means further off the cliff.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
And the fact that they don't recognize the rational play that they have to make right now to those rational voters, to those forgotten voters, I don't care. Shame on them. They don't deserve a spot at the table. Shame on them. Shame. Shame.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
Yes. But if you if you read the left leaning media, they're like, well, he hasn't really done any deals with with Syria and Iran. And he called the new Syrian president a terrorist, a jihadist not long ago. But the plane, I don't think the plane is that great of an idea to accept, because I think that if we are forcing Democrats and the Biden family, which was famous for decades of grift,
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
And if we're holding them to account, then I think it's a political mistake to be doing something that could be construed as the same thing.
The Five
The Five 05-14-2025
Yes. And you have to be able to employ the political golden rule, which is if it's wrong for them, it's wrong for us. And why distract from the the phenomenal wins that have happened over the last 10 days?
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
Well, they're trying to, at least in the case of the Congress people, and there were three of them that went down there. They're trying to exercise their right to conduct oversight. And they're arguing that they were prevented. They got it eventually. But there's no question. The scuffle outside appears to be quite messy on both sides of it.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
And I'm not saying that Congresswoman McIver is not really pushing her way in. And there are eyewitnesses there who say that it was ICE agents who initiated the physical contact. They had seen the mayor of Newark being taken away and Alina Haba, the interim secretary, U.S. attorney for New Jersey has now dropped the charges against him in the hopes of being able to move forward.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
And I think that's the way that the government is indicating that they know that they have been overplaying their hand on this and that public opinion is shifting against ICE and what the DHS is doing here. So we will see what happens with Congresswoman McIver. But I know that she was trying to get in there to see what's actually going on at this point.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
And you say, well, they weren't doing this under the Biden administration. There weren't people with green cards being picked up off the street and held in detention facilities under the Biden administration.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
A lot of them are gang members. But that's the thing. On an almost daily basis, we are finding out that there are people who are being detained unlawfully, that they should not be in there, that they are innocent if they came here illegally, that they actually went through the asylum system, that they were due their day in court.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
And now they're in a detention facility here or they've been sent to El Salvador. And you can understand why people are skeptical of this and why people are honestly pushing back on certainly this aspect of Donald Trump's immigration policy. And you hear Kristi Noem today in front of the Senate, who can't define what habeas corpus is, is being pushed and pushed and pushed about what they're doing.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
You don't. Yeah, you've made that. Basically, every day now you say you don't believe me. But if you just want to read the data, you don't have to believe me. You can just read what's printed.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
Yeah. I'm no Jim Comey defender. He's one of the only figures in politics right now where Democrats and Republicans are, you know, what is that common, you know, the emoji, like we shake the hands and no one likes Jim Comey. I thought it was a waste of a segment on Nicole Wallace's show to have him come out and talk about it. He went in, he talked to the FBI.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
Okay. I mean, Anyway, he said his wife used to work in food service a lot. 86 does come from get that off the menu. He's old and a grandpa that wears sweaters, whatever, cue the Robert Herr jokes. He should go away.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
Well, I wouldn't go that far, but Bernie's the genuine article. He's completely authentic. He has always been this way. you know, like it or don't like it. And one of the risks that you do run if you want to go on podcasts with people who have different political views as you is that some Democrats may say some things that you don't agree with.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
And that net net, if you sit there for a couple hours, it's going to say 90 percent of the things that you do like and 10 percent of the things that you don't. And I still think that it's a win because it also represents to people who maybe didn't vote for Kamala Harris or become disenchanted Democrats to say, oh, there's someone in this party that I think is great.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
But on the merits of this argument that he's making and that Andrew Schultz is making that we haven't had a fair primary since 2008, I call BS. Bernie Sanders has never been able to get a strong base of support with black voters in this country. They are too conservative for him. They're conservative on immigration. They're conservative on health care. He comes in. He runs as a socialist.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
He's a democratic socialist. He's not even a straight Democrat. He says Medicare for all health care for people who are here undocumented. So, you know, in 2016, did the DNC want Hillary to win? One hundred percent. But they didn't. fake those extra 4 million votes than she got. And in 2020, Biden won as well by millions of votes because he was the centrist moderate candidate.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
Welcome back. Denzel Washington blowing up at a photographer who appeared to grab him by the arm to get his attention while on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. We cut that short because we want to talk about this. Greg, he got very mad, but I think deservedly so.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
No one believes you. If you're running from commitment, look away now, because one New York City gal is running straight towards it in a wedding dress over the weekend, 34-year-old comedian. Is this Merle or Merle? I don't know. Levin sprinted through the Brooklyn Half Marathon decked out in full bridal attire, veil, bouquet, and all on a quest to find Mr. Right.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
Yeah, I do believe that it's. There are a lot of doctors who have been talking about the fact that now, after the age of 70, that they don't recommend that you test your PSA levels. Now, I think that if you are the commander-in-chief and the leader of the free world, you should probably have some extra tests than the average 75, 78-year-old. But...
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
You know, I have no reason to not believe them about that. And even Scott Adams, who's a good friend of Greg's and created Dilbert, who is unfortunately also dying of the same cancer. He posted a video saying he was going to pass away this summer. And he's no fan of Joe Biden, but he said it is completely feasible that they did just find out about this. And it wasn't some big cover up.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
And even Zeke Emanuel, who went on morning, Joe was trying to said he had to have known for 10 years. A guy who actually has the same disease is saying his story could possibly check out. But he wasn't president. Scott Adams wasn't president. But Scott Adams is sick. I led with I'm not saying that someone who has the most important job in the entire world shouldn't have extra testing.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
I'm just saying that going to this is a massive cover up is going on for years and that he knew that he had cancer and he still ran for reelection. That seems like a bridge too far. Democrats were very good at self-flagellation. It's like our favorite thing to do. I feel like Republicans, they suffer a setback, something bad happens, they just move on.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
They plow through and oftentimes they go with the same behavior and they don't care. And Democrats, we love to wallow. We love to say, oh, woe is us. This is what we did here. But I understand what Hakeem Jeffries is talking about. We cannot go back. 2024 cannot be undone. There are people who won't trust the media again.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
That's all well and good, but we still have elections to win and we're staring down the barrel of this. GOP resolution, the big reconciliation bill, the big, beautiful bill that favors the wealthiest Americans and penalizes the poor. And Donald Trump, I get it, he's very high energy.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
But when you actually read the transcripts of what he's talking about, he says, oh, Joe Biden's brain is absolute mush. He has stage nine cancer, which is not real. Oh, by the way, I just aced a cognitive test. He loves bragging about that, you know, man, woman, person, camera, TV. And we are also supposed to believe that he's 6'3 and 224 pounds, which makes him an NFL wide receiver.
The Five
The Five 05-20-2025
There are, and we forgot, remember his original doctor who forged that letter about him? Like, come on here.