Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everyone. I'm Kaylee McEnany, along with Jessica Tarlow, Jesse Waters, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld. It's 5 o'clock in New York City, and this is The Five. A few hours from now, President Trump will address the nation on critical developments on Operation Epic Fury. Earlier today, he said Iran is begging for a ceasefire, but the U.S.
will bomb the regime, quote, back to the Stone Ages until the Strait of Hormuz opens. Here's the president promising to finish the job.
We're finishing the job. And I think within maybe two weeks, maybe a couple of days longer to do the job. but we want to knock out every single thing they have. Now, it's possible that we'll make a deal before that, because we'll hit bridges, and we've hit some. We'll hit some bridges. We've got a couple of nice bridges in mind. But if they come to the table, that'll be good.
President Trump also putting NATO allies on notice, suggesting that he may pull the U.S. out of the alliance if they aren't pulling their weight. Secretary of State Marco Rubio echoing those concerns last night.
Unfortunately, we are going to have to reexamine whether or not this alliance that has served this country well for a while is still serving that purpose, or is it now become a one-way street where America is simply in a position to defend Europe, but when we need the help of our allies, they're going to deny us basing rights and they're going to deny us overflight.
And Democrats are pouncing on gas prices hitting $4, but the president is firing back, saying the pain at the pump will be over in no time.
Gas prices.
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Chapter 2: What critical developments will President Trump address regarding Operation Epic Fury?
Today they hit $4.
We're at $4, yeah, and we have a country that's not going to be throwing a nuclear weapon at us in six months.
Of course, but Americans are feeling the effects in the interim.
And they're also feeling a lot safer.
What is the plan to bring them back down?
All I have to do is leave Iran, and we'll be doing that very soon. And they'll become tumbling down. And stock prices were up today almost to a record.
Dana, it's a big thing anytime a commander in chief asks for prime time, which is what he's getting.
So only a commander in chief can ask and be granted this opportunity to speak to this many people. And he did it in December, I believe, on affordability. And it helped for a little bit. He had the State of the Union help for a little bit. And then we had this. And this is now we've been a month in. I think tonight will be very valuable.
And as somebody who covers the news, I feel like I'm pretty clear on affordability. what we are doing there in Iran and what we want to accomplish. I read this stuff all day long. I listen to everything I can. But as you get farther out into the country, that's not necessarily the case.
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Chapter 3: How is President Trump handling NATO allies and military alliances?
Do they still get the capabilities to have a nuclear weapon? I thought that was the thing. And the president says in that clip there that the American people feel more safe now. Not sure that everyone feels that way at the moment. But he has a chance to help them tonight to understand. The last thing I would say is there's so many different audiences for this speech tonight.
There's the American people. There's the U.S. military, the U.S. military's families who are like, well, wait, my child just got sent over. What are we doing? There's, of course, our allies, our disenfranchised allies, our adversaries, our enemies. And there's also the Iranian people.
And what's really sad is that because the Iranians are so awful to their citizens, that no one in Iran will be able to hear what the president says tonight.
Yeah, that's a great point. 12,300 targets struck, 13,000 combat flights, 155 Iranian vessels sunk. Jesse, we'll no doubt hear about the extraordinary success of our military.
Yeah, he's going to say we're dominating and we're almost done. The regime decapitated the missiles, the Air Force, the Navy pretty much eradicated. And we've all hit their defense industrial base so they can't rearm. And the proxy is severely weakened. We haven't heard a word from Hamas. Hezbollah is getting crushed in Lebanon. And the Houthis only fired four missiles since the start of the war.
The... So that's the wild card. We have hit those sites extremely hard. So there's a lot of rubble that's covering up a lot of this stuff. And we have the right to seize it, and that's out there. I don't know if he's going to pull the trigger or not, but...
The uranium that's left over, the Uranians are going to have to negotiate what we're going to do with that from an extremely weakened and vulnerable position. Now, I don't know what could happen in the next two weeks.
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Chapter 4: What are the Democrats' reactions to rising gas prices and President Trump's statements?
We're seeing we're doubling the amount of warthogs in theater. Those guys you're using when you have a ground assault on the coastline or an island. Those are the guys that do the close air support when you strafe the straight. And then you also see this submarine carrying probably Navy SEAL teams, which you use to insert secretively on a coastline in the dark at night.
So he has a lot of options. I have no clue what he's going to do. NATO, let's just say I'm very disappointed. Need we go through how much they owe us? We saved them twice from world wars. We bailed them out with the Marshall Plan. We even lowered our tariffs to zero so they could recover for decades. And then we helped them out with Ukraine. And all we want is a base.
All we want is airspace for a little bit to knock out the world's number one sponsor of terror. They can't give us that. These missiles... are in range of their capitals, not ours. They get their oil from that straight. We don't. The least they could do is say, OK, and deal with the domestic blowback.
But to say no, well, like their economies are getting kind of murdered because they can't even sustain four weeks from an oil supply shock. Like, come on, you're not going to send one vessel to the straight. You're going to wait till the hostilities are over. Well, that's the Navy. That's what a Navy's for, to end hostilities. You don't get to play cleanup when we do all the heavy lifting.
This has become very entitled, parasitic, and I'm not going to stand for it anymore. Wow. I don't know what that means.
Sounded good. You know, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, Jessica. That's a premise we've agreed upon for decades. And this is the first president that's come from a position of strength to put facts and a footnote to that premise. But Democrats are pouncing. So you may pounce if you so choose.
In an effort. To have something new to say today, we replay the tapes of all of the Republicans that have been critical of this or at least had some very serious questions that I think is fair when your country is engaged in a war that hasn't been pitched, sold to the American public and when the approval is so low. And.
What I think about this evening's address is that the president is frustrated by the other messengers who have been out here talking about this, that he gets the feedback that the goals have not been properly communicated, that the American public doesn't understand why he went in, why he did it this way, what we have accomplished and what the exit strategy is.
And then he thinks he is his best advocate and the best advocate for the American military and for our mission there. And so he's out there doing it. And the four goals that have been outlined, at least in what they leaked to the press, are even different from what Secretary Rubio said just two days ago, because on Rubio's list, he did not have anything about a nuclear weapon.
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Chapter 5: What strategies does President Trump plan to implement to ensure U.S. safety?
And 65% say that his policies are making their economic conditions worse. That is unsustainable. Not even if you're thinking about a midterm, you just can't go through the rest of an administration like that. Two big questions for me. What does he say about the NATO alliance? We talked about the impact of the Strait of Hormuz on our European partners there in the region.
That's a very serious thing to be lobbying that we would want to leave. He needs Senate approval. McConnell and Chris Coons are out with a statement saying that you need Senate approval for that, which Marco Rubio knows. Secondly,
The same polymarket wallet that put a $500,000 bet on the exact timing of the first bomb that we dropped in Iran has put an $800,000 bet that there's going to be a ground invasion. So are we now looking at a ground invasion that's coming through? And also, I would love to know. who has this information and is playing the betting markets. Who knows?
I hate the prediction markets.
I know. Well, but. I would also just note the other argument is the Iran nuclear deal, the weak one from Obama that gave billions of dollars to Iran, had sunset losses, and Iran violated repeatedly.
We just gave them $14 billion in sanctions easing, which is way more than they got back with a $1.7 billion. Billions of cash. Billions of cash.
More sanctions to keep the oil prices in check, Jessica.
Okay, I get it. You know, when it's you, everything's great, but it was a fraction of the amount of money, and they didn't have a nuclear weapon. We also bombed them back into the Stone Age. I was completely reasonable. You can't say who's not being tough. You were reasonable, I will say.
Jess, you do bring up a good point. Trump's saying we're going to bomb him back to the Stone Age. But in a Muslim country, what is that, 2010? The Dems like to talk about this war being of low approval. When has low approval ever stopped the Democrats? Every single issue, they're on the low approval side.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of President Trump's address for American military families?
But the numbers and Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts, was batting the government back on that particular issue, saying that you are picking a few isolated incidents for then a sweeping judicial theory and that he wouldn't go along with it.
Nine percent. Of the births are from people that aren't really American citizens.
That's not that's not what I'm saying, which I'm not on the Supreme Court. All I can do is ingest what I saw the exchanges were and then report them. And the evidence that the government was using, talking about birth tourism, talking about how kids of diplomats don't get citizenship. So why should this be different, et cetera? Justice Roberts was poo-pooing it. That's what was happening.
Dana's totally right about the close 70% of people who approve of birthright citizenship right now. I think you get into very sticky territory if you're talking about people who are on even temporary visas. If someone overstays it by a week or two, you have people in the U.S. government right now, Marco Rubio, Cash Fatale, Usha Vance.
These are people who have their citizenship because of birthright citizenship. And you know that today didn't go well because Donald Trump's true social post once he left, was we are the only country in the world stupid enough to allow birthright citizenship. He didn't say the government kicked butt. He didn't say we're going to win this thing. He said, basically, I'm throwing a temper tantrum.
Is that not a fact?
It doesn't matter. No, it actually doesn't matter because you know how he behaves when he's excited about something.
You know, you're focusing on emotion and not the government.
Hold on one second. The government did not seem in certain exchanges to be prepared to come and talk to these justices like Neil Gorsuch is going to ask you about Native Americans. He always talks about Native Americans. No response about what was going to happen there.
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Chapter 7: How does the panel view President Trump's military successes and strategies?
Justice Barrett. Another time that happened.
You're ignoring some of the facts that were laid out today. You say this is a small sliver. False. Go check out the data from the Government Accountability Institute, which they made reference to today. One million people, they believe, went to the Northern Mariana Islands from China and became U.S. citizens. There are 500 firms. This was listed today in China.
that make this a cottage industry, inserting the Chinese Communist Party into our country. Now, what this could translate to, according to Eric Eggers, is one million new voters by 2030. I think we can all agree that that is a perilous state. If you have people from China coming over and giving birth, one million new voters by 2030. That is a big problem.
And it is inconceivable to think that the framers of the 1868 14th Amendment, that's the year it was ratified, had an idea that 4 billion women in the world could come here, give birth, take a plane ride, and boom, you're a U.S. citizen. It's inconceivable on its face.
Greg? Yeah, you're an illegal, and you come here, and you have a baby that is not a citizen. And it amazes me that by saying that you are somehow portrayed as harsh by saying something that is so obviously sensible that like if you it makes it as Donald Trump says, and it's so mean. And I'm going to get to that. No other country does this. No other country does this. And why?
Because nobody wants to do it in those countries. There's nobody clamoring in to try to game the system to have babies in Haiti. All right? So you're saying they're all coming here. What does that tell you? The system is being gamed. So how did this happen when you're talking about these polls?
I don't think the polls are real, but I do think that there has been a shift due to redefining in the last, I would say, 15 or 20 years, redefining common sense, patriotism as intolerant, xenophobic, but most important, mean. So if you think about every segment that we do or every position we're on, we are always portrayed as mean.
So when you say men cannot be women, men cannot be in women's sports, you are intolerant and you are mean. If you say illegals need to be deported, all illegals, I think the worst first, but in the long run, you never know who the worst is first because you let them all in. Yes, that is so mean. You think this guy should go to prison? I mean, he had a terrible upbringing.
Yes, he should go away for 25 years. That is so mean. Every single policy that the Democrats try to shove down your throats is based on the fact that somehow when you take a stand to protect your country or your family, it's somehow mean. This is likeāI really do think this is a dangerous culture. Now, I keep thinking to myself, what ifā
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