The Five 01-06-2026

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Jesse Waters 0:04

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.

Jesse Waters 0:20

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.

Donald Trump 0:33

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.

What military operation did President Trump discuss regarding Venezuela?

Donald Trump 1:16

The one thing I want, I want their sign making. The guy is great.

Jesse Waters 1:20

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.

Greg Gutfeld 2:00

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.

Unknown 2:22

We can't do it.

Greg Gutfeld 2:24

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.

Jesse Waters 2:37

All right, Dana, I don't think that's going to win her a Senate seat in Texas.

Kennedy 2:41

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.

Kennedy 3:21

We've got a plan. I think that the unsung hero of a lot of this is John Ratcliffe at the CIA, who. Bill impressively stays out of the limelight. You never see him. He doesn't do an interview. He's secret squirrel over at the CIA. And they obviously had a very good approval rating after this because there was a 25 percent surge that was reported by CNN today supporting this. And why is that, Bill? I think that you have a successful operation that makes it look like peace through strength. America's in charge. And you know what? We're not going to take it anymore. There's Number one. Number two, people learning more about Maduro and how he's a bad guy. By the way, Johnny at the beach last night with all of these young people who thought Maduro was a place or a thing.

Kennedy 4:00

It was very disturbing.

Jesse Waters 4:02

Before he went out, Johnny also thought Maduro was a place.

Kennedy 4:06

I don't know. I don't I wouldn't say that. But the other thing is.