Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everyone. I'm Dana Perino, along with Kennedy, Harold Ford Jr., Jesse Waters and Greg Gutfeld. It's five o'clock in New York City, and this is The Five. Happening right now, President Trump is speaking at the House Republican Conference's member retreat in Doral, Florida.
And later this hour, he will be holding a news conference where I'm sure he will talk about the latest in Operation Epic Fury. He just told CBS in a phone interview this. I think the war is very complete, pretty much. They have no Navy, no communications. They've got no Air Force. He added that the U.S. is very far ahead of his initial four to five week estimated time frame.
The president says he has someone in mind to replace the new supreme leader, but he did not elaborate. Iran just selected the son of their slain former supreme leader. Over the weekend, the president was making clear the terror regime only has one option. I said unconditionally, I said unconditionally. It's whether he
That could happen, too, because we've wiped out their leadership numerous times already. So it's if they surrender or if there is nobody around to surrender, but they're rendered useless in terms of military. This, as Democrats and many in the media ramping up their criticisms of Epic Fury, with some folks accusing the president of being drunk on power.
Chapter 2: What recent events is President Trump addressing at the House Republican Conference?
This is Wilsonian adventurism at its very worst, something that conservatives, real conservatives like me, have long feared and loathed. Sort of drunk on power, this sort of drunk on militarism always leads to disaster. If you support the troops, then you should be voting against funding this war. The president has not even tried to convince the American people.
And now listen to the president from just moments ago. Doing really well.
Chapter 3: What does President Trump mean by Operation Epic Fury?
I mean, at a level that nobody thought. We took a little excursion because we felt we had to do that to get rid of some evil. And I think you'll see it's going to be a short-term excursion. How good is our military, right? Amazing. How good. Short-term. Short-term. Short-term. You would like to think, Jesse, that everybody could agree that our military is extraordinary. Of course.
Afghanistan was a 20 year war. We are now in day eight of this operation. He says it's ahead of schedule because they have very little air force or Navy left. And the missile launches and drone launches are down 90 percent. Has the regime collapsed yet? No. And that was part of the strategy going in.
The deputy commanders were given full authority that if their bosses were killed, they could continue to wage war independently. So that's what you're seeing here. And those deputies obviously are going to have to be dealt with. Also, someone who has to be dealt with is the son of the Ayatollah.
And once he is dealt with, I think that will hopefully send a message to the regime remnants that there's a new reality and they're going to have to give up their ambitions. But the big question is, Dana, will a militant, theocratic police state that's been ruled by clerics and militia and army for 40 years... All of a sudden changed their stripes under pressure. I think we're about to find out.
But they are losing the war very badly. So now they're waging an economic war and they're starting to hit Arab oil infrastructure and they hit a few tankers. So they've closed the strait effectively. A couple of cargo ships are going through, but not enough. So the president is very sensitive to the price of oil. He's gotten the Europeans to signal that they may release some of their reserves.
But I don't think you're going to see oil at 150 or 200. That would be a catastrophe. And right now it looked like it was up over 110 and then closed below 90. And the market rallied. So I think you'll hear from the president at 530 when he speaks to the country that message, that we are way ahead of schedule. He's got a control of the world energy oil market.
And we should be hopefully wrapping this operation up very soon. I hope he's right. You never know. Harold, what are you thinking today? It's good to be back. I think Jesse is is is largely right. I would I would say the president took a hard look at the economic strategy, the strategy pursued by the Iranians, which to Jesse's point was largely to impart economic pain on us and the world.
Even though we in the United States don't use as much oil as we did 20 years ago or 40 years ago, and our economy, as I tried to say last week, has grown considerably over the last 50 years, but our consumption of oil has not for a variety of good reasons. Oil is a global commodity, so it's affecting global markets.
And in addition, it affects us because of the reverberations it has in the transportation and agricultural sector. So everything we consume or eat uh, uh, everything we need to live. Uh, oil is, is impacted. Oil prices impacted by that. And I think the president, the president saw that today. So I'm glad he pursued the off ramp.
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Chapter 4: What criticisms are being leveled against President Trump's military actions?
I think about what may happen in the Middle East. Dubai has been a haven for economic innovation, for progress and for safety. You have to wonder over the next several months and I hope they get back there. The next few months, the next several years, does that economic hub in Saudi and the UAE, How are they able to reclaim the credibility that they had prior to this war?
And finally, I hope Congress does take an account of this because we need to understand where we are, how much progress we made. It sounds like we hit a lot of targets. If the president's right, we depleted their military. But we thought we had depleted the nuclear capabilities back in June. So I just hope we are accountable and honest about it.
And that way, moving forward, we can have the right munitions and right strategy. Setting Harold aside, Kennedy, it is a little amusing to see Democrats be throwing a bit of a hissy fit over gas prices because when it was Biden's administration, do you remember the Putin price hike? Oh, no, that was over and over again. It wasn't Biden's fault and the Inflation Reduction Act.
It was Putin's fault. Yes. And there was nothing wrong with it. In fact, high gas prices were great for ultra progressives because it just allowed them to force their green agenda down the country's throat. It's very interesting that the Democrat Party is sort of remoderating. as the anti-war party because they had become so hawkish for so long.
But what I always worry about here are the unintended consequences, like the price of gas, like the price of oil. We don't know how long the war is going to be. And, you know, Pete Hegseth took some incoming for going on 60 Minutes and saying, we're not going to telegraph exactly what we're doing. We're not going to tell you if there's going to be a ground invasion—
because there has to be an element of unpredictability. I don't blame him for that. What I worry about are the things that we don't see coming, the things that are not anticipatable, and the things that could really wreak havoc in the United States of America and with our economy. So I hope, to Jesse's point, I hope it's going better than expected.
I hope this is done sooner than we could have imagined. But we are dealing with theocratic psychos. They don't care about their own people. They slaughtered tens of thousands of Iranians without batting an eyelash. So the fact that they are holding on for the hereafter means that they are far more dangerous than Venezuela or any other anticipatable foe.
The new guy, Khomeini's son, it's like new boss is the same as the old boss. You know who must be thrilled? His driver. Like, let's just stay in. Yeah, Ayatollah Jr. is going to get a lot of rain checks on his calendar. Like, I don't think I'm going to meet you for lunch this weekend. Can we do Zoom instead of Boom?
But whoever they slot in to be in this role has to meet the approval of one person. Trump, I mean, talk about a challenge for a new hire. You got a job and your boss can kill you at any minute. It's a lot like working here. But, you know, we worried about being fired. He's got to be worried about being fired upon. There is no verbal warning. There is no written reprimand. It's just kaboom.
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Chapter 5: How does the panel view the effectiveness of the U.S. military in the current operation?
But. If you don't interfere with the Persian Gulf or the Middle East, you stop being an a-hole, you might actually survive. Because my feeling is that the more you see about this, it's not about regime change at all. It's about neutralizing a bully. You know, Iran bullied its neighbors. It bullied its people. It bullied the United States for 47 years.
Finally, there's a new student at school, Trump, and he hits him hard in the face. First time anybody's ever really done that. And now they can't take lunch money from people. For a long time. Of course, you want to get the bully expelled, but maybe that won't happen. If you can remove the impact of the bully, you're doing the job.
I think the idea of regime change is like, oh, if that happens, it happens. But as long as we can do anything we want in the region, which was previously hampered by Iran, that's a win. You can replace Ayatollah with anything. It doesn't really matter to us. You know, I'm amazed that Kennedy brought up the slaughter of thousands. How...
All the female leaders here and abroad aren't rejoicing over this, over the decapitation of the most brutal, misogynistic regime you've ever seen. They executed women over what they wore and what they said. Trump has done more for women's rights than, I don't know, Planned Parenthood, Michelle Obama and Hillary combined. And they don't say a thing about it.
So the story that's been on my mind all day is that during newsroom, President Trump put out a true social saying that the Australians should not send back the Iranian women's soccer team because they did not sing for the national anthem last week. So now they are getting they would get killed. So he said to the Australians, you need to offer them asylum.
And I was like, I wonder if Megan Rapinoe would love to come on America's Newsroom tomorrow and say that she agrees. The president would be welcome to do that. That would be great. We hope that that ends up happening. Apparently, Australians say they are on it. We'll keep an eye on it. Up next, bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing.
Chilling new details as a pair of suspects get charged in an ISIS-inspired IED attack in New York. This is Ainsley Earhart. Thank you for joining me for the 52-episode podcast series, The Life of Jesus.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Iran's military capabilities being targeted?
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. A suspect allegedly telling police he wanted a bigger body count than the Boston Marathon bombing as two Pennsylvania men face federal charges tied to an ISIS-inspired terror plot right here in New York City.
They're being accused of lobbing two homemade IED explosive devices near Mayor Zoran Mamdani's home. Devices packed with nuts, bolts, screws, and a very dangerous chemical. It happened during a clash between dueling protests right outside Gracie Mansion. One of the suspects shouted Allahu Akbar. And according to court documents, one of them said they pledged allegiance to ISIS.
Mayor Mamdani failing to mention ISIS earlier today, but he made sure to call out white supremacy. Watch. This was a vile protest rooted in white supremacy entitled Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City. I'm the first Muslim mayor of our city. Anti-Muslim bigotry is nothing new to me.
Many of the counter-protesters met this display of bigotry peacefully, with a vision of a city that is welcoming to all. But a few did not. Two men, Amir Balat and Ibrahim Kayyumi, traveled from Pennsylvania and attempted to bring violence to New York City. They are suspected of coming here to commit an act of terrorism. Zoran later putting out a statement that finally acknowledged ISIS.
And it looks like the media bent over backwards to downplay the role of radical Islam. NBC's headline reads, two in custody after suspicious devices lit outside Gracie Mansion.
Amid anti-Islam protests and the New York Times first line on their story reads at least one counter protester threw a homemade bomb on Saturday during a violent clash with far right protesters outside Gracie Mansion in Manhattan. Harold, I have. Some difficulty with this because it's bad enough when the mayor minimizes things.
When he first said that it was a display of bigotry that was met peacefully. That's what he said at first and could barely bring himself to admit that it was terrorism. But then you have the New York Times, our own city publication, the mainstream media, carrying water for the mayor and minimizing it as well. Is that a good strategy? I don't know.
I think that I watched Paul Morrow and I don't mean to look at it's hard for me to get in other people's heads. And your take on him, Kennedy, could very well be exactly the right one. But my takeaways were were a little different. I saw Paul, I think, on with you earlier today. And he said, look, these moments, we should be thankful. And I know you are. We all are.
We have the best police force in combating terrorism in the country. They they they they spare us and save lives every single day from efforts like this. I do hope I was glad the mayor came back out to say what he said. And I was equally impressed, if not more so, with Commissioner Tisch earlier, too.
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Chapter 7: How are rising oil prices affecting the U.S. economy and military strategy?
I mean, they were attacking a Muslim mayor's house. And when they were asked by, you know, the counter protesters were almost outnumbered by press there. And when he was being apprehended, one of the suspects, they said, why did you do this? And he said, ISIS. And the mayor has a hard time bringing himself to say that as if it's a mystery.
Well, it should be no surprise to anybody that the guy who called to globalize the Intifada thinks that the protest was the problem in the first place. I'm glad that the FBI is taking the lead on this because would you want Alvin Bragg to be the one prosecuting these guys? Plus, they pulled up for me. I just had this thought. Apparently, in their... questioning.
They said that they wanted to be like the Boston bombers. Well, guess what the media did with the Boston bombers. Here's the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine. Think about that one guy. Like he wants to look like him, his hair's like his, this is, they want the glory, not only apparently from Allah, but also from the media. And unfortunately they're too often likely to get it.
Um, the counter pro I'm sorry, the original protest I don't care about Jack Lang. He might be a lunatic, but you don't get blown up because you have controversial views. And there was only one side in this protest that got violent. And it wasn't Jack Lang. And it wasn't just violence. It wasn't. And that's what the mayor was trying to say.
Like, you know, there were threats and there was some violence and we don't. It was murder. It was intended murder. And that's what terrorism is. And these guys are going to be pretty severely charged. Is it Islamophobic to wonder? or suggest that Islam is not as welcoming to other religions as religions are to them. I just wonder, because I never hear this equation in reverse.
I'm glad that the cops might have saved the mayor's wife's life. It's going to make it hard for her to like the ISIS post, though. That's going to be tough for her. Zoran is a naturalized immigrant, and many of these violent, hateful people are the same. I don't think this idealized nation of immigrants that we talk about means anything unless there's a common denominator.
We forfeited the expectation of assimilation. We no longer even we don't sound like we don't even demand it. We don't even expect it. And we're too scared to reject their anti-American positions, all for the sake of appearing tolerant. This is what you get, suicidal empathy. We extend our hand. They want to chop it off. There is a vibe shift going on over the last 20 years.
When you see the media covering for terrorists, that's different than, say, 2006. You know, when the mayor leads with Islamophobia after a terrorist attack, that's interesting. neglecting that this so-called Islamophobia actually is arising from America phobia. They don't like the West. And this is a public and brazen persona. We see it and we're not allowed to do anything.
But what drives me nuts and forgive me if I this is just my opinion. I don't want this to happen. But what drives me? Yes, I do. Do I? I don't know. Anyway. What drives me nuts is we can decapitate Iran, kill their leader, and we can't rub out two parasites on the street who just tried to kill a bunch of people. I mean, I have the feeling that you could have just shot them dead there.
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