Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everyone. I'm Emily Campagno, along with Jessica Tarloff, Jesse Waters, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld. It's 5 o'clock in New York City, and this is The Five. We begin with a Fox News alert. President Trump is currently speaking in Kentucky for his affordability tour. Much more on that later. So first, to the latest on Epic Fury. As U.S.
forces decimate Iran's navy, CENTCOM announcing it took out 16 Iranian mine lane ships, with Trump telling Axios about the operation's resounding success, saying this, quote, that the war with Iran will end soon because there is practically nothing left to target.
The president also putting Iran amid reports the terror regime is putting mines in the Strait of Hormuz, threatening Iran with destruction on a, quote, level never seen before. Here's the president today with the latest.
The military is unbelievable, the job they're doing. I would say, to put it mildly, way ahead of schedule. We've knocked out their Navy, their military in all forms. We've knocked out just about everything there is, including their leadership. twice. We knocked out twice their leadership. And now they have a new group coming up. Let's see what happens to them.
But 47 bad years we suffered with them, not only us, the rest of the world. And we're doing our job.
And as the war rages on, Democrats and their allies in the media are cooking up bizarre new conspiracy theories like The View, thinking that Trump started a war in order to distract from the Nancy Guthrie case. Why haven't we been talking about Savannah Guthrie and what's going on there? This is meant to get us so worked up that we are unable to see anything else.
I just came from a two-hour closed-door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not going to be able to achieve any of our stated objectives. This is a disaster of epic proportions.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are freaking out over our troops getting some surf and turf. A new watchdog report claiming that Secretary Hegseth's Department of War spent ninety three point four billion dollars on grants and contracts last September. Money that had to be spent due to a use it or lose it policy, similar to what previous administrations have done.
And the big liberal outrage was over the food policy. $2 million on Alaskan king crab, nearly $7 million on lobster tail, and $15 million on ribeye steak. Oh, and there's also ice cream.
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Chapter 2: What recent military actions have U.S. forces taken against Iran?
Gavin Newsom's press office pounced by saying this, quote, Hegseth blowing $93 billion of taxpayer money in one month. And Kamala's HQ staff joined in, tweeting, hey, Doge, where you at? But Jesse, isn't lobster tail worth it? Yeah, I mean, what are Democrats arguing? That troops don't deserve surf and turf? What should they be eating? Pita? Come on. Every Pentagon does this.
Biden just spent billions on ribeyes and lobster in 2024. right when he was going out the door. It's actually history in the United States military. Usually when you get surf and turf, you're about to deploy overseas or you're about to go on a dangerous mission. So when everybody gets their food, they're like, oh, where are we going? And where did they go? I think we can all see.
The United States is the best military in the world. We have the number one economy. We have the most advanced technology. We issue the world's reserve currency. A small, weeks-long bombing campaign of the Iranians does not qualify as a quagmire, does not qualify as a catastrophe or a strategic failure. Let me see if I understand this correctly.
The Democrats bribed the Iranians, and they said that was working. And they took the money and they built missiles and buried their nukes deeper underground. So Trump bombed the nukes and the missiles and Democrats say that's not working. That doesn't make any sense. The mission is very clear.
You disarm the regime so they can't threaten Americans and they can't use the weapons to protect their nuclear program. I don't know when the regime is going to collapse. I don't know even if it's going to collapse. But I do know Ayatollah Jr. hasn't been seen. He hasn't even said a word. We think he's underground with broken legs. Who knows? He barely won the vote with the clerics.
They don't like him either. And I do know over the last 24 hours, the Iranians fired seven missiles. Seven. This is the most accurate aerial campaign in the history of warfare. We are pin prick precise. It has been surgical. Is it perfect? Absolutely not. And it's not surgical. Absolutely not.
OK, Obama's drone campaign annihilated countless innocent civilians, Jessica, and then he hid it from the American public. Don't talk to me about that since this war started. There has been less civilian casualties in Iran. The death toll in Iran has gone down since Trump launched this war because they were slaughtering people in the streets. Think about that for a second.
We have to do this properly because there are three outstanding issues. One, this junior Ayatollah, he's probably going to have to go pretty soon. Next, whatever remains of the nuclear program is going to have to get figured out. And the straight.
And it looks like after they attacked a few tankers, we've just warned every civilian that works in an Iranian port to skedaddle because we're going to light them up tonight. I feel like. Sure. I'll go. I look forward to the lighting them up tonight, but it's definitely not going to plan if Iran is now exporting more oil than they were before the war after.
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Chapter 3: How does President Trump's rhetoric shape perceptions of the Iran conflict?
But listening to Trump say it's a little excursion, actually it's a war, and this turned out to be easier than we thought, feels very akin to that mission accomplished banner, which what you're saying, Jesse, is basically backing it up. There are massive military accomplishments, especially when it comes to downing the big Iranian vessels in particular.
Some of those smaller boats are still giving us trouble. Cutting down the number of missiles that they're firing, also incredibly important. But we haven't been able to stop their production, and we haven't been able to stop the drones. So the Ukrainians are helping us do that, even though they came to us in August of last year.
They had a PowerPoint presentation saying, we've got the right tech to sell you that will actually help you if you get into a conflict like this. And we said, no, moving on, we're not going to do anything with that. And now we need them, especially because the Russians are helping the Iranians, even though Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff gave Putin a call and said, stop doing that.
The goalposts have shifted further than a football field. Like Rubio started out, we're talking about ending nuclear programs. We don't talk about that anymore. Talking about regime change. You call him Ayatollah Jr.
Chapter 4: What conspiracy theories are being circulated regarding the Iran war?
That's fine. His legs, it sounds like it's bad, but he's also more of a hardliner than his father. His dad has been killed. His wife has been killed. His son has been killed and his mother has been killed. He's mad. He's solidifying power. And if he does come out of there, then they're going to put someone else in. The Israelis are even saying we won't be able to go for regime change anymore.
So now we're just talking about destroying the ability to launch the missiles. We have to destroy the missile factories. We haven't been able to do that and destroy the Navy. That one looks like it's good. So the point about it's surgical, but never mind the 180 that died in the Iranian school, over 100 schoolchildren.
And by the way, the preliminary inquiry report is out and it does look like it was our missile and that we were going on bad intel. So they need to figure out how that happened. CBS is reporting that that drone attack that killed six American soldiers in Kuwait. actually far more serious. There are 30 people right now in hospitals. They have brain trauma, burns, shrapnel in them.
And we'll see again about the lighting it up tonight.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of the U.S. military's successes in Iran?
But the cast of characters, when you listen to Steve Witkoff saying, I trust the Russians, he gave an interview yesterday on CNBC and reporting around what was going on in these actual nuclear negotiations, where it indicates that Steve Witkoff didn't actually even know the terms well enough to understand what the Iranians were offering, does not give me a tremendous amount of confidence.
Dana, success does not mean, however, immediate obliteration. I mean, really, obviously it's not perfect, but my gosh, Jessica, I won't go through all of it because we don't have enough time. I would recommend, I haven't done this in a long time, recommended reading. Noah Rothman at National Review has a piece called What's Gone Right in the Iran War.
Highly recommend it to everybody because that could be the counter to what you just heard. I was also wrote down here that the Ayatollah Jr., we need to have proof of life because is he really the person that we're supposed to be believing that is in charge of the country? And how are they communicating even internally to the people there?
There was a Democrat earlier today who said, why aren't the people out? Taking over. They have this opportunity. President Trump has this opportunity. Why aren't they leaving their houses and taking over? Because, well, one, the regime is still entrenched in charge and says that they'll kill them if they do.
Chapter 6: How is the Biden administration handling military spending and troop morale?
And President Trump has said, stay inside. It's not it's not safe for you yet. It will be hopefully in the future on the surf and turf thing. But I think it's so interesting is that the Democrats complain about that and not one of them complained about Governor Tim Walz and Minnesota fraud and Somali fraud record record recruitment.
at the Pentagon right now, record morale at the Pentagon right now. And you just think about what they spent on surf and turf is $7 million less than a doctor charged in a year to treat fake autism patients. And that was in the Wall Street Journal today. Last thing I would say is I did not know what WYA meant. but now I do. And I appreciate that, Emily.
I feel much more, you know, I'll just take a point of personal privilege for one second as well, because the mission accomplished banner, just so everybody knows like that. It drives me crazy that people don't seem to know this. So there's millions of people watching. Here you go. President George W. Bush was not declaring mission accomplished.
What happened was that that particular ship had been on the longest mission that it had ever been on. And the guys on the Admiral said, is it OK if we put like mission accomplished for this particular ship? It was a mistake. It never should have happened. That was a wrong banner. But it was not a declaration that the war was over. Greg, a lot that we have just covered.
What do you want to talk about? Well, you know, I... What has gone on in the last seven or eight days is pretty majestic. And I think Jesse lays it out pretty clear. And then what Jessica does was list these details that she's amassed together, downloaded into one thing, like look at all of these little problems. Once again, it's like the process is more important than the outcome.
And it reminds me of the deportations. Seems like a millennia ago when that was the worst thing ever.
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Chapter 7: What criticisms are being leveled at the Democrats regarding military strategies?
You remember these were the people who didn't care who got in. Now arguing how we're getting them out and saying, but you said it was the worst first. Of course, they didn't check to see who the worst was when they let them in. So the point being is you need to figure out your own mess before you criticize ours. Keep your side of the street clean and we'll keep our side of the street clean.
And that's kind of the funny thing about Republicans is that, you know, you lost your seat at the table because Republicans do serious things. The border, crime, foreign policy. The last 10 years, your party, Jessica, preoccupied yourself with identity politics, pronouns, trans, body positivity. That's not our fault. So when we're doing adult stuff, you go to the kiddie table.
The Democrats are like a brat that just completed a semester at Yale lecturing Gramps on white privilege. We don't need to hear it. Everyone, it's... By the way, I hate this practice where they all try to spend money at the very end of the year, but we didn't invent that. You can guess who invented that.
And I'm not taking any guff from people who had taxpayers paying for drag queen story hour in Cambodia. At least the surf and turf went to our troops. And at least – I mean, again – You have no credibility on any of these things because you were never at the adult table. Instead, you chase these things that were nothing but virtue signal that weren't even for the American people.
You know, Sesame Street for Iraqis like that wasn't for us. That's where you spent the money. So all I'm saying is we're good at the big picture until you guys can prove to us. that you are too, you're going to sit at the little table and you're going to sit there and you know, but this happened. Oh, but this happened. Remember this. Oh, this is bad. It's like that. You guys do that. We're good.
Should we get a little table for Jessica? I'm going to put you on a little table. I don't want to sit at a little table. People will realize how large I actually am. All right, guys. Up next, the Democrats exposed as hypocrites over high gas prices as Trump's midterms affordability swing continues. Yeah. Join Fox in supporting our troops from daily needs to global emergencies.
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Now, again, the midterms are coming. They want to raise your taxes higher than you've ever had before. We have to win. The midterms are going to be very, very important to keep it going.
And remember the Putin price hike crap the Dems tried pushing under Sleepy Joe? Now those same geniuses think they've got credibility to complain about high gas prices.
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Chapter 8: What are the key points of contention in the current political climate?
International Women's Day was only 23 hours. I know, because you know why?
I mean, Matt, daylight savings.
It's been more than that. Points deducted. Yes, points deducted for nagging. All right, coming up, Tampon Tim's fraud scandal spreads to Greasy's backyard.
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A listening experience that will provide hope, comfort, and understanding of the greatest story ever told. Listen and follow now at FoxNewsPodcasts.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. All right, blue states seem to be getting slammed by a surge of scams. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, who oversaw a $9 billion Medicaid fraud scandal, he's now bragging that he was the guy locking people up.
I think Minnesotans have to recognize this. You're hearing about fraud in Minnesota because we are prosecuting people. You're going to hear about it in other states. You're going to continue to see it. But the fix is you don't want to hear about fraud not because somebody's not prosecuting somebody. You don't want to hear about fraud because you know the safeguards and the systems are in place.
And over in Gavin Newsom's backyard, the mainstream media is catching up to Fox reporting on alleged billions in rampant hospice fraud in California. A CBS report claiming over 700 of the roughly 1,800 hospices in L.A. County trigger multiple red flags for fraud as defined by the state.
And Governor Newsom's office telling CBS that he has it all under control, saying in a statement, Under Governor Newsom's administration, California has cracked down on hospice fraud, launched partnerships across state agencies, and the California Department of Justice has arrested criminals to hold them accountable. Let's talk about your favorite politician, Jesse Tim Walz.
He's got to be one of the luckiest guys alive. All of the news of the recent weeks has taken the spotlight off of him. However, he did withdraw from... running for reelection because of the fraud in his state. Well, he said the safeguards are in place in the system. What is he talking about? This fraud was happening for like 10 years and people were blowing the whistle.
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