Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everybody. I'm Jesse Waters, along with Kennedy, Harold Ford Jr., Dana Perino and Greg Gutfeld. It's five o'clock in New York City, and this is The Five. President Trump addressing House Republicans touting the military operation that took Venezuela's dancing dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from the palace in Caracas to Diddy's cellmate at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center.
It was an amazing military feat that took place yesterday. Schumer, he's such a bad guy. I mean, I've known the guy for a long time. And he's such a bad guy. You know, at some point they should say, you know, you did a great job. Thank you. Congratulations. Wouldn't it be good? They've been after this guy for years and years and years. And, you know, he's a violent guy.
He gets up there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit. They have brand new, beautiful printed signs by like the highest quality printer. And you have a woman, free Maduro. And the sign is before we even did the attack. Free Maduro. We should all have quality signage like that.
Chapter 2: What military operation did President Trump discuss regarding Venezuela?
The one thing I want, I want their sign making. The guy is great.
President Trump laying out the rules of the road for Venezuela after warning its leaders to cooperate or risk getting another Delta Force courtesy wake up call. Politico reports Trump has a list of demands for the interim president, Delce Rodriguez. He wants them to crack down on drug flows, kick out Iranian, Cuban and other operatives out of countries or networks hostile to Washington.
stop the sale of oil to U.S. adversaries. They also expect Delcy to eventually facilitate free elections and step aside. Meanwhile, it looks like Jazzy Crockett and the ladies of The View are still in mourning at the arrest of Mad Dog Maduro.
Maduro is a bad guy. We took him out. So was Kim Jong-un. So was Putin. So was... What's that other guy in Hungary? Are we going to go into all these countries and just kidnap the leaders? The way he was removed from that country matters. We are supposed to be a nation of laws. The way we did it was against... international criminal law. It's against the United Nations.
We can't do it.
Somebody coming into the United States and grabbing our leader in the middle of the night and killing people in this country. I'm sure everybody would be outraged at them doing it that way.
All right, Dana, I don't think that's going to win her a Senate seat in Texas.
I know. I was just thinking of her constituents in Houston. Right. And actually, today, polling is not necessarily reliable in the region. But Costa Rica, there's an 80% approval rating for the action. And as you mentioned yesterday, a lot of these governments have recently switched over from being very leftist to being more favorable towards the United States.
And they're sick of the situations that they're dealing with. They don't all want to be narco-run. And so... They maybe see a little bit of hope here. I. You know, I'm not against America being the policeman of the world, but certainly the policeman of the hemisphere. I'm for it. I think it's fair to ask what's next. And Marco Rubio and the president have said we're getting there.
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Chapter 3: What demands did Trump make to Venezuela's interim president?
They were offering twenty five million dollars to capture Maduro here. We captured Maduro and we don't have to pay the twenty five million dollars unless, as Greg says, you give it to the Delta Force. And that was a precision strike. So I on the on the politics of it. OK, fine. It is fair to ask what the solutions are. The solutions are complicated. The problems are complicated.
But at least there's movement.
A lot of action down south, Greg. The signage. A lot of action down south. How do they get the signage, free Maduro, before the operation? It's incredible. They're like half psychic, half sign makers. I want to get in on that. You know what's interesting about Trump? So he's not an... It confuses old minds. He's not a neocon, but he's not an isolationist. He's our first non-binary president ever.
It's not like any other president. You know, there are no boxes for him. That's kind of a good thing, because when you think about it, weren't we all like that once? before we felt compelled to put ourselves in these labels of being, I'm a conservative. Like I was, I was a liberal. Then I was a conservative. Then I was a libertarian. I thought it was an anarchist for a while.
Then I thought I was a woodland creature until I got into therapy. Trump, he's not into foreign war forever wars, but he's also not into hibernation. He's just got one filter and that is America first. And if you're going to pick any filter, it's not a bad one to have.
I mean, to be a new con, you have to be for exporting democracy, no matter what, to be in isolation is you have to be against doing anything, but just staying home and, you know, not keeping your eyes closed. But he is like, You can't put him in a box, and that forces you to look at every independent action, you know, outside of some high-minded principle.
It's like, is this thing good for America? Does it allow for a clean exit? When he says we're taking the oil, we can go, wow, that's kind of brash.
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Chapter 4: How do the panelists view the implications of Maduro's removal?
Yeah, but, you know, it's honest. And is that good for America? Well, yeah, it was our oil. I mean, he not only staunched the flow of drugs, he also is getting our oil back. That's what I coined this phrase this morning. Killing two birds with one stone. Never heard that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Write it down. Yeah. But you know what? Can you get that? Got you. Thank you. Thank you.
But it's like I'll finish on it. You know.
Chapter 5: What are the potential consequences of U.S. intervention in Venezuela?
I think that Trump has always looked at ideology as narrowing choices and he doesn't like narrow choices. It's like having one setting on your blow dryer, Jesse, or, you know, one setting on your neck massager, Dana. It's just like it's like you want to be able to have the flexibility to do what you want. And and that's how you live a life. You don't live a life.
And so I think it's hard for a lot of people. To figure this out, because ideology and systems like that make you feel smarter because you don't have to think too hard. You just say, oh, this is what we do. And I know best and I don't have to argue it. But he just goes, he zigs and he zags. But he has principle. The principle is America first. The principle is America first.
And it can look amoral to other people. But America first, we don't give an F. How many settings do you have on your neck massager, Kennedy?
Well, it was sold to me as a neck massager. But it turns out it has a number of settings, which makes it a multi-tool player. Thank you, Nabisco.
Nabisco? You know, the president's asking for a thank you. Do you think we're ever going to get a thank you from the opposing party?
We did from Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Saturday. So she was very enthusiastic because a lot of her constituents, not just Venezuelans, but there were Cuban-Americans who had... left their homeland to find freedom and riches in America. And they were also applauding their oppressed brothers and sisters. So she took that as a sign that she should also be applauding.
And then, you know, the virulent, angry people in her party turned to her and with the line they always use. And it's like because Trump, you know, because Trump, this has to be bad because Trump Maduro has to be good. If Trump hates him, then he must be a wonderful person and a comrade in arms.
But if you look at the people who were oppressed under Maduro's leadership, why would they be celebrating if this were such an awful thing? So I think in the short term, you can find some positive aspects here.
My problem as someone who does have an ideology and an operating principle, which is led by freedom, is that this could drag on into something that is incredibly expensive and worst case scenario, a proxy war with Iran and China. I have more faith than some of my fellow libertarians do in Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio. What worries me is this president is going to be president for three years.
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Chapter 6: How does the political landscape in Latin America affect U.S. interests?
How would that inform what you would do now? Would you try to do as much as you can, whether it would be a Democrat?
I would do as much as I can to bring about peace and prosperity. That is my operating principle. I would not do as much as I could militarily because I think that is what gets people killed. It's what gets us killed. Americans killed, especially, you know, people who have signed up with the better angels of their nature to serve in uniform for the United States and to have those people killed.
That's what breaks my heart. That's what I don't want to see. But if we can somehow turn this into stabilization, peace and prosperity, I would love to see the president put forth a plan that says just that.
It's a lot. It's a lot to do. Please say Greenland again. I just want Greenland. We must take over Greenland. That sounds like a German. Yes. Well, that's the move. Katie's point is where the White House is now. Dana was touching on it. It's fair to ask what comes next. I think that the president clearly has a hemispheric focus.
We've been talking around his table about how critical that is for a number of things. Foremost, we talked about it helping to stem the flow of illegal immigration from some of these countries where there's not a lot of opportunities, not rule of law. And frankly, it's just dangerous. I think we give the president some time. I think this this issue here.
deserves a transition period for him to be able to begin to articulate some of the things that, if not all the things that Kennedy mentioned, because if we're going to get rule of law there, if we're going to get a decrease in drug flows there, if not an altogether elimination, if we're going to get electoral and political integrity, it's going to take some time, but it's also going to take a president.
I hate to repeat what I said yesterday, but I will. He had an opportunity today before the House Republicans to begin to lay out a vision, to begin to lay out what the plan is going to look like. I hope it does not involve a massive military presence. But if his plan needs that, we should know, as the American people, what it is he wants to accomplish intermediately there and long term.
Because if long term we want peace and prosperity, that may cost a lot of money. Because it's not just going to be Venezuela we have to do it. They can't sit as an island. We would hope they would serve as a template for the entire hemisphere. So I applaud his hemispheric focus. I don't know what the plan is. I don't know what the doctrine is. It can't be mess around with me and find out.
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges facing the Biden administration in handling Venezuela?
That can be a consequence of the doctrine. But we need something fuller and, frankly, that explains better where we're headed as a country, militarily, economically, as it relates to our hemisphere. Well, obviously, you missed primetime last night because I explained it pretty well. I watched you. I watched you. Up next, Tampon Tim is blowing his top off after aborting his reelection campaign.
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So Minnesota Governor Tim Walz lashing out at President Trump as he faced the press just a day after announcing that he won't seek reelection for a third term amid growing fallout from a massive welfare fraud scandal.
Have I been perfect in this? God dang no. I wasn't perfect as a teacher. I wasn't perfect as a coach. I wasn't perfect as a soldier, but I was pretty damn good at all those things. Game's over for him now. It was all me. I was the bad guy or whatever. Well, put up or shut up now and tell us what you're going to do to make this state better. Answer these tough questions.
Quit hiding behind this and expect for the next 11 months for me to ride you like you've never been ridden. To make sure that you're doing your job, I'm not going anywhere. And you can make all your requests for me to resign over my dead body. Will that happen? I will fight this thing till the very end to make this state better.
And the question that I think they need to decide is, is when did the guy in the White House resign? Anytime I get drug into being next to Donald Trump, God help me, I don't want to be judged against that guy.
And Axios is pointing out Waltz's falls from grace. Alex Thompson says 14 months ago, Waltz almost became VP and then flirted with a 2028 run. Now, Waltz is ending his political career amid scandal, personal burnout and feuds with former allies, including Kamala Harris. Greg, he made some threats there.
He's threatened to ride me like you've never like I've never been ridden. Oh, man. Camp on Tim is seeing red. You know what the biggest achievement is for him? Electing Trump. Imagine if Kamala had chosen Josh Shapiro or Harold Ford and said he took that slot and steered that ticket into the sea. And I credit him for his honesty. Remember when he said most white men commit crimes?
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Chapter 8: How do the panelists perceive the media's coverage of political issues?
Greg's right. It's not a spending problem. This country is the richest country in the world. And we're in debt up to our eyebrows. And I got big eyebrows. The Democrats want. substitute teachers in charge, right? Remember these people come in one day a year and all hell breaks loose because no one respects them.
They want weak men and women running the show so they can steal everything from the taxpayer. And this is what they did with Joe Biden. You know what Joe Biden did? And I don't even know he did this. They stopped checking daycare centers to see if anybody was there for the last year, and they gave these people $19 billion.
$19 billion went out the door, and there was no checking to see if there's any even kids there. That's why Caroline Levitt said on my show last night, Harold, you'd know this if you were watching, that the DOJ is investigating Walsh and all these people, and people are under indictment, and we don't even know about it yet.
Harold, how damaging is this writ large? I mean, do you think it's bigger than Tim Walz in Minnesota? I do.
I think it happens. I think this kind of mismanagement of funds, if not stealing of funds, happens in states across the country. I think that this story here, as I shared yesterday, I think you let the chips fall where they may. I think there is a little bit of politics here, but the politics are completely overwhelmed by what looks like the facts are taking us.
So I hope that the young man that helped expose this, I hope he gets out across the country. I hope he doesn't just go to Democrats. Let's go to all the states. I think we will find COVID dollars having been mismanaged from California to Maine, unfortunately. Now, I don't think that that I do agree with Greg in a huge regard around what Musk, what the impulse of Musk is effort.
Musk is efforts to find overspending, excessive spending, redundancies in government. I hope they continue to do that. The thing that got all the attention was the closing of the USAID. But we've yet to really talk about some of these other things, and this is one of them that should be talked about.
Kennedy spending and corruption go hand in hand. You know, Greg brings that up. But whenever you have that kind of taxation and that kind of spending, that's what it's there for. I mean, it is designed by socialists as a taking in order to enrich their cronies. And that's what they've done. They've done that here in Minnesota. Can I add something?
It's because they they have they put names on it and they use language to make you think that it's for good reasons. That they care. That they care about people. Because you look at the potential softest targets for corruption. I mean, there's nothing softer than feeding the hungry and taking care of children in need. It's like, of course people want to do that.
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