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President Trump stands firm on national emergency declaration; Pelosi announces vote to override veto

Trump issues first veto of his presidency over border security; reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'

This is a rush transcript from "The Five," March 15, 2019. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

JESSE WATTERS, HOST: Hello, everybody. I'm Jesse Watters along with Dagen McDowell, Juan Williams, Lisa Boothe, and Greg. It's 5 o'clock in New York City, and this is “The Five.”

This is a Fox News alert, President Trump refusing to back down on his border battle to build the wall, Trump issuing the first veto of his presidency to overrule a resolution that blocks his national emergency declaration at the border.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT: The protection of the nation is my highest duty. Yesterday, Congress passed a dangerous resolution that if sign into law would put countless Americans in danger, very grave danger. It is definitely a national emergency. Rarely have we had such a national emergency.

Therefore, to defend the safety and security of all Americans, I will be signing and issuing a formal veto of this reckless resolution at -- Congress has vote to deny the crisis on the southern border is a vote against reality, it's against reality. It is a tremendous national emergency.

It is a tremendous crisis. People hate the word invasion, but that's what it is. It's an invasion of drugs and criminals and people. Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution, and I have the duty to veto it, and I'm very proud to veto it.

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WATTERS: So, Mr. Gutfeld, I watched this press conference in full and I think he stole one of your lines.

GREG GUTFELD, HOST: What did he say?

WATTERS: He said they were border deniers, and then even reality deniers, I think. What do you think? Do you think he's watching “The Five?”

GUTFELD: Maybe, perhaps. I don't think he watches much Fox though.

(LAUGHTER)

GUTFELD: You know -- you look back at an era growing up, the 90's would be grunge, you know, the 80's acid wash, the 70's Jimmy Carter. This year is going to be the wall. Because I feel like -- that's every day we're always talking about the wall. It's part of his kind of -- like the bigger picture which is safe at home, an appreciation of law enforcement, so you have a lot of the police there. You have -- trying to eradicate the terror threat and you have military -- the military buildup, so all these things are part of one vision.

So he tends to see it as that. And other people see it as fear mongering because that kind of belief can be seen as fear mongering. You want a strong military. You want a wall. You want law enforcement -- oh, my God, you're scaring people. So, unfortunately something that he believes in can be recast as something wrong. They brought up a fact in there that I -- you know, made me think about the other half of this story, the number one leading cause of death for people under 50 -- what he said drug overdose. One of the officers said that there.

So I say, what about that? You know, the fault isn't in the dealers alone. You know, the drugs keep coming because we keep using. And I think there is -- there's a refusal to admit that often the drug war doesn't make things any better. We're seeing this with the opioid mess where we're trying to reduce -- we're reducing the legal ways to get opioids and that ends up in overdoses on fentanyl, which is one of the gentlemen spoke about his son dying on fentanyl. So we still haven't addressed maybe the underpinnings of this story which is our desire for oblivion.

WATTERS: That's right. People like to get zonked out of their minds and, you know --

GUTFELD: Great summary.

WATTERS: You've done it. You've done it. I'm sure Juan has done it.

GUTFELD: Agree on my point.

WATTERS: Juan, now, speaking of zonked out of their minds, Nancy Pelosi says she's going to hold a vote to overturn this veto, but she needs, I guess, two thirds of the Senate to uphold the override and that's just not possible mathematically.

JUAN WILLIAMS, HOST: Not at the moment. But what we saw was the tremendous number -- I think it was 13 Republicans who voted with the 40 -- with the Democrats in the Senate. And so what you're getting there is not veto-proof majority, but you're getting in that direction.

WATTERS: Right.

WILLIAMS: And what you've got to understand here is that you have essentially a manufactured crisis --

WATTERS: Juan?

WILLIAMS: -- you have 50 --

WATTERS: Juan?

WILLIAMS: Remember, I'm zonked out.

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WILLIAMS: Because in Trump world I'm zonked out. So allow me to speak.

WATTERS: OK.

WILLIAMS: But you get 58 national security officials saying this is not right. Don't do it. You have in terms of the polling in the country, 64 percent oppose the emergency declaration, 58 percent oppose the wall. This isn't close, folks. But for Trump it's all about Trump and Trump's political promises --

WATTERS: I'll hit you back with that line.

WILLIAMS: I'm shocked. I'm amazed that we're here on day 30 of the national emergency. Cover your head.

WATTERS: Those 50 people were mostly Obama people. And if you listen to the actual sheriffs --

WILLIAMS: Oh, yeah.

WATTERS: -- if you watch the press conference, they don't say it's manufactured. They say it's a huge crisis, Lisa.

LISA BOOTHE, HOST: Yeah.

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WATTERS: And they invited a lot of these congressmen and women and senators to come down and see it for themselves before they cast their next vote.

BOOTHE: Juan, you're zonked out, my friend, because even President Obama in 2014 was talking about the crisis we had along the border. He did so in the Rose Garden. He talked about traffickers bringing unaccompanied minors across the border, calling on Congress to do something because we had a humanitarian crisis. That humanitarian crisis remains today.

There's been 260,000 illegal immigrants apprehended at the border. Ninety percent -- since October, 90 percent increase from last year. ICE is giving pregnancy tests to young girls over the age of 10 because of the amount of rapes and sexual assaults that are experienced along the journey. So, of course, we have a humanitarian crisis. The question is if a national emergency the way to solve it? I don't know.

But the point being is that what we're seeing right now is everyone exercising their authority under the national emergencies act. President Trump has broad authority to declare a national emergency under the act. Congress also gave themselves the authority to try to rescind that national emergency. President Trump has the authority to then veto, and then Congress can try to find the votes, two thirds in the House and Senate to override it.

So, essentially, everyone is exercising the authorities that they have under the act.

WILLIAMS: What you just said, though, if this is not the caravan. This is not like someone invading our country, Lisa. We have a humanitarian --

GUTFELD: But you saw the caravan (INAUDIBLE) crisis first off, Juan. You were the first person.

WILLIAMS: Yeah, I say -- look --

BOOTHE: How is it not a crisis?

WILLIAMS: That's so different than talking about --

GUTFELD: How is it?

WILLIAMS: -- an invasion where you send troops and you declare a national --

GUTFELD: People die no matter what you call it. People die.

WILLIAMS: By the way, never, never has any national emergency been declared to get around the fact that Congress won't fund. This is an exceptional --

WATTERS: Why did they write the act that way, Juan? I mean, did Congress write an unconstitutional act?

WILLIAMS: No, no, no. They say it's never been done is all I'm saying. They wrote it.

WATTERS: Dagen, I don't see how this plays out in any other way that it gets just tied up in the courts.

DAGEN MCDOWELL, HOST: Yeah, it will get tied up in the courts. I think that there were four additional states that signed on to this lawsuit challenging the emergency order bringing it to 20. You could get an emergency injunction that stops this in its tracks for the time being. But, listen, Juan doesn't recognize what's going on here with the Republicans because they're not being hypocritical unlike the Democrats.

Unlike Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi who basically just sat back and let President Obama violate the separation of powers. Let's go through the list. As the Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote, a blank check on recess appointments, environmental and financial regulations, Obamacare spending without appropriations, work permits for illegal immigrants and more all rebuked by the court system.

WILLIAMS: So that's why you have --

MCDOWELL: That's why -- at least the Republicans who voted against the president are voting based on their concern that the Democrats will then turn around and abuse the emergency power.

WILLIAMS: That's my point to you. So what you're saying is he shouldn't be doing it.

MCDOWELL: Where were you guys when Obama was doing this over and over and over again.

WILLIAMS: Nobody has ever, including Obama, ever said I'm going around the constitution --

MCDOWELL: No, Juan --

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MCDOWELL: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

BOOTHE: What do you think happened with DACA, Juan?

WILLIAMS: That was not about funding.

BOOTHE: It was a massive overreach with DACA --

(CROSSTALK)

BOOTHE: -- and DACA got stuck by the courts because --

WILLIAMS: I'm just saying it wasn't about the constitution --

MCDOWELL: You know what -- why President Trump at least so far doesn't seem to be annoyed with these Republicans because he ain't calling them name on twitter yet. Maybe Mitt Romney deserves that stupid op-ed in blowing out the birthday candles individually.

WATTERS: You know he mentioned that, actually. He goes, if I wanted to pressure him I would have brought the pressure. He goes, I didn't need it because we had the votes. But if they want to see pressure, they'll know what pressure is.

GUTFELD: The only reason why we're here is that the Democrats can't admit that they want what Trump wants because they can't admit that they agree with him. We're all talking about the same thing. We want an enforced border but they can't admit it because that means Trump's right. That's all this is about. It's petty political team sport.

WILLIAMS: I'm glad you said that because I think Democrats do want it, but I think for the longest time what you hear from Republicans, oh, Democrats don't. But you're right, Greg.

GUTFELD: Thank you.

WILLIAMS: We have a history here -- a history of Democrats funding this kind of stuff --

WATTERS: I'm not so sure the Democrats really want --

(CROSSTALK)

WILLIAMS: Trump has made it about him and his political promise --

GUTFELD: But Democrats made it about him as well.

WATTERS: All right.

GUTFELD: Let's face it, they've made it about him. He is a large character, Juan. So it's hard not to --

WILLIAMS: Wait, it was his campaign promise.

GUTFELD: Yes. And so they've made it about him.

WILLIAMS: Well, no. He says --

GUTFELD: They can't give it to him.

WILLIAMS: -- because, guess what, Republicans in the first two years didn't do this, did they?

WATTERS: Yeah, because they needed more votes in the Senate.

WILLIAMS: Oh.

WATTERS: Disturbing new details in the New Zealand terror attack that killed 49 people, plus President Trump's reaction to that up next.

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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT: Earlier today, I spoke with Prime Minister Arden of New Zealand to express the sorrow of our entire nation following the monstrous terror attacks at two mosques. These sacred places of worship were turned into scenes of evil killing. You've all been seeing what went on. It's a horrible, horrible thing. I told the prime minister that the United States is with them all the way.

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MCDOWELL: President Trump reacting to the horrific New Zealand terror attacks. The prime minister there calling it one of her country's darkest days after a gunman opened fire in two mosques killing 49 people. A suspect has been arrested and charged with murder, as reports indicate he live streamed the murders on social media, on Facebook. Jonathan Hunt has more of the details. Jonathan, what can you tell us?

JONATHAN HUNT, CORRESPONDENT: Dagen, the live streamed video of this attack is horrific to watch. We will not show it but we have watched it for the sake of accurately reporting what happened. You see on the video the gunman drive calmly toward the mosque, playing music and talking to himself. He approaches the entrance and fires his first shots at two men. They drop to the ground. One tries to crawl away desperately.

The gunman walks up behind him and fires several more shots. The man stops moving. Then the gunman moves into the main prayer room where two large groups of worshipers are already cowering in two separate corners. The shooter fires dozens of rounds into each group. One man appears to run at the gunman but is shot at point blank range. The shooter then turns his attention to the groups again firing even more shots.

He reloads several times, walks back into the hallway and then back into the main room. Many of the men there are already dead. Some appear to be wounded. The gunman walks slowly toward them taking kill shots finishing off his victims with bullets to the head or body. By our count, the gunman fires around 187 rounds within just the first two and a half minutes of the attack.

Once he leaves the mosque, he shoots several people on the street. Including a woman wearing traditional Muslim dress. She's wounded. She lies on the street crying out for help. The gunman walks up to her and once again delivers the final shots directly to the woman's head. He then gets back in his car. He drives over that woman's body and continues to shoot other people from his vehicle.

There is no sign at that point of any police officers. The video stops after about 16 gut-wrenching minutes and by our count, 236 shots fired. Now the gunman also left online a manifesto of sorts. It's long, it's rambling in places, precise in others. The gunman makes his motivation very clear, intimidating, repelling, and killing what he repeatedly calls Muslim invaders.

He says mass immigration is a threat to civilization. And at one point he poses a question to himself are you a supporter of President Trump? His answer, quote, as a symbol of renewed white entity and common purpose, sure, as a policy maker and leader, dear God, no. The gunman who was taken into custody alive also said in his manifesto that he hopes to go to trial where he will plead not guilty because in his view he was taking action against what he calls an occupying force.

Leaders around the world, including President Trump have refuted that idea saying it was an act of pure hate, pure evil. I used to live in Christchurch for a time after 9/11, Dagen. I can tell you it is a beautiful and peaceful place. It is like a snapshot from the 1950's, immune, somehow, to the problems of the modern world. Well, it is around 10 AM Saturday in Christchurch right now and everybody there and across New Zealand is literally and figuratively waking up to a whole new reality. Dagen.

MCDOWELL: Jonathan, thank you so much. Greg, I want to focus on the social media aspect of this that this was live streamed on Facebook and only removed by Facebook after it was flagged to them by the New Zealand police. It showed up on other social media sites on YouTube and on Twitter. They're not doing anything to stop this.

GUTFELD: Well, I don't -- two things. I don't know what you can do right now -- a few weeks ago on Twitter they were suspending people for tweeting the phrase learn to code. So if you're spreading yourself that thin chasing that stuff, it's like having the FBI go after gum chewing on the subway. You're not going to get the real crime. They're trying to figure this out. I've said this a couple of days ago, technology is ahead of humanity. We aren't catching up to it so we have this vulnerability.

The biggest issue -- we talk about this after every shooting is the copycat effect. That's why we never mention the guy's name. That's why we try not to cover it, blanket coverage, because blanket coverage enlarges the spotlight which is what they want. Each shooter cites previous shooters. That is a fact. Each one inspires the next.

My worry is that because he filmed it he gave it a wider -- wider reach for more people to see, expanding his footprint and it is our -- I wound not just go after social media, it is our responsibility in the media to shrink that footprint to as small as possible.

MCDOWELL: Jesse, and I should correct myself, I said they're not doing anything. Facebook says that it has 15,000 contractors and employees reviewing content as part of a 30,000 person team working on it. But I can say this, since they launched livestreaming there have been murders. There have been suicides. In fact, there was a man in Thailand who killed his 11-month-old daughter in a live video and that was two years ago, and we still have this going on.

WATTERS: Well, I don't know what anybody can do about that because we live in a free society. So people can use technology however they want, and you have to catch up with the fact afterwards. And that's the unfortunate situation. Now, I don't understand how the media can lie about this guy's manifesto. I read it. The manifesto, if you read it, does not attribute this guy's philosophy to Donald Trump. This is a direct quote, the nation with the closest political and social values to my own is the People's Republic of China.

This guy was an eco-nationalist. Meaning, he was a racist and thought that the immigrant population of the earth was too fertile and they were overpopulating everything and were causing climate change and they needed to be eradicated. He said he's not a conservative. He's not a Nazi. And like Greg said, he was celebrating these wacko European mass shooters more than anything.

So for the media to link Donald Trump and frame Donald Trump for some lunatic's actions halfway around the world is so irresponsible and it's exactly what the guy wanted. If you read the manifesto the guy wanted division in his country. He wanted the left to overreact and take away guns from Republicans, and wanted to balkanize North America because that would create more racial purity in his opinion.

So, we were very responsible when the Bernie bro shot up Steve Scalise's baseball game. We didn't attribute that to Bernie. We didn't attribute that to the left-wing media. We've said everyone is individually responsible for themselves. But the media doesn't do that when it's on the other side. They only frame Republicans.

MCDOWELL: Because it's easy to tweet that this -- Trump was somehow responsible.

WATTERS: Yeah, I could say the Israeli-Palestinian violence that's happening today, I could point to Omar and say she instigated the anti- Semitism hate against Israel and that's why. But I wouldn't do that because that's not true.

BOOTHE: I would say, one, I think it just takes a special kind of evil to target people in a house of worship that's supposed to be a place of refuge. They were praying. It's absolutely despicable and disgusting. We obviously pray for the victims and their families as well. I'm with Greg. I really struggle in the fact that -- I think there's a responsibility to deny these killers what they want. And this guy wants to live in infamy.

Clearly, he wrote a manifesto because he wanted it out. And I'm all about denying that by not giving the manifesto any time and not giving him what he wants. And to Greg's point about the copy cats, I spent all day today looking at statistics and studies about it and it's real and it's scary. Dr. Steven Pitt who's a psychiatric -- did psychiatric autopsy of the Columbine shooting, he said that the shooters predicted with chilling and stunning accuracy how their actions would encourage other similarly disaffected individuals for doing the same thing.

You'll get things like the Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting. During the trial there were two similar shootings in movie theaters in two weeks after that. ABC in 2014 did an investigation found that 17 school shooters and 36 others that tried were all partially inspired by Columbine. The Newtown shooter had clippings, as you've said, of previous mass murders that took place.

So, clearly, these guys want infamy and we should deny it to them. And sometimes we give it to them. The Rolling Stone did that cover of the Boston bomber, put them on the cover. Remember after the Virginia Tech shooting, images of the guys with the gun. Let's deny them what they want. Don't give them the infamy.

MCDOWELL: Juan, what about shutting down people's ability to use social media? Is that something the Democrats would be on board with?

WILLIAMS: We're going to talk about that -- we're going to talk about later in this show because what we're seeing is an increased emphasis on either regulating or moderating, or even in Elizabeth Warren's terms breaking up some of the power because these folks are interested in money. It's unbelievable that this 17-minute video, the police want it stopped. It just keeps running and, of course, it spreads and it spreads to a specific niche population that's interested, you know, kind of the gamers and a little bit of a hate people all combined here for young men. I think it's very troubling.

I just want to say, I think, imagine if a Muslim had committed such an act, I can imagine that there are a lot of people who would have gone bananas on the Muslim community here in the United States and around the world. But what I think is the reality is, we have white nationalists anger spreading globally, his manifesto was called the great replacement and they're talking about, you know, just like we saw in Charlottesville, you will not replace us.

And we see this kind of anger being spread in such a way that I think we have to address the idea that this white nationalist fervor is now without borders because of the internet, and because -- we can't ignore it or play it down because it doesn't fit one ideology or the other --

MCDOWELL: We need to go. But the problem is after the rage that you saw here in the United States was directed at President Trump for something -- a massacre that happened in New Zealand. Some in the media can't get enough of Beto O'Rourke or how the heck you say his first name. He's all the buzz over the 2020 candidates. Is it overblown?

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BOOTHE: Some in the media are overcome with Beto mania after the guy who lost to Ted Cruz officially announced he's running for president. Take a look at this.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look, I'm a little light hearted today because I like this feeling. It got a new levity to it. But it's not like we in the press created it. There's something out there that is magical.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, he has a vibrancy, a youthfulness to him. He has a message which is largely cheerful.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Seeing him is like -- it's like a Jesus Christ Superstar seeing this guy in front of people. He's got that celebrity aura about him. And in that moment he was owning that.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BOOTHE: Safe to say they like him. But the question a lot of us are asking is what has he actually accomplished. Here's Nancy Pelosi responding, attempting to answer the question.

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REP. NANCY PELOSI, D-CALIF., SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: -- brought vitality to Congress. When he came, he came as a real champion for the environment. He got a great deal of support from the environmental community in his district. Preserving our planet and protecting our people, there are at least two areas in addition to his vitality in so many other ways.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BOOTHE: So, Juan, to me it looks like she's struggling to answer the question. So why Beto what has he done?

WILLIAMS: Well, I think -- around town the big cliche was Abe Lincoln he only had one term as the Congressman before he became President. But, I think clearly, the voters in El Paso liked him. And I think if you wanted to look at the actual record he was pretty good, not only on environment, but on military spending.

Today, though, I must say the guns out for Robert Francis or that's what White House likes to call him or Beto, The Washington Post had a front page story about how Republican donors had been key to the start of his camp -- of his career as a politician. And he had backed spending for some malls that pushed people out of low-income neighborhoods.

And then you also have to keep in mind that he, and I think this is really important, Lisa, sometimes I think the Right can't hear this, but he did lose to Ted Cruz. But for the people for people on the Left the idea that in Texas he challenged Ted Cruz and raised a record amount of money like $80 million, I think, really makes him a superstar.

BOOTHE: Well, you're right, he did raise a record amount of money, Jesse, but part of that was because he was running against Ted Cruz, someone that the media hates, that the left hates, so they really protected him, and his record really wasn't examined.

Now that's going to be a little bit different, Jesse. I was talking yesterday about the fact that he supports the Green New Deal allegedly, but took more money from the fossil fuel industry than anyone else besides Ted Cruz. So this stuff is going to surface and do you think it's going to end up having an impact on him?

WATTERS: Yes, it will. He will not release his new fundraising numbers, which is interesting. I'm not so sure they're going to beat Sanders'. They might not even beat Kamala's. Like you said, if he doesn't have a demon as the Left sees Ted Cruz as, maybe they're not going to put money in his pockets, but we'll see.

I think Chris Matthews has another throw up of his leg. It's clear he's the media darling right now and there's already Beto backlash. POLITICO says no woman got that kind of coverage and they don't like how this white male who has this privilege is being romanticized in the media. He's got the Vanity Fair cover.

They had all the reporters down there in El Paso for the counter Trump rally, and he's only been to Iowa once. And when he got up on that table in the coffee shop there were more media reporters than there were voters. So we'll see about him. The weirder he gets, I kind of like him, to be honest with you.

He was in a hacking group. He wrote some crazy stuff about murder. I don't know, he's kind of unpredictable, and that's kind of interesting and he's more fun to cover than some of the other candidates.

BOOTHE: Interesting. So the hacking group is what that just does it for you.

WATTERS: Yes, it -- that does it for me.

BOOTHE: All right. Greg, there's a Morning Consult poll that found that 49 percent of those polled either hadn't heard of him or have no opinion on him. Do you think he's going to be able to differentiate himself?

GUTFELD: Those people are idiots, because Beto is awesome. You guys are so mean to the guy. Look, you know what? Why does the media love him? Because he is them.

WATTERS: Yes.

GUTFELD: If you look at him, he's just lily-white, non-threatening, liberal who likes their kind of music, right. He's kind of edgy in an inoffensive way. He looks like he probably does Pilates, I don't know. Or maybe has one of those new bikes that everybody's talking about.

WATTERS: Yes, the Peloton.

GUTFELD: Peloton, thank you.

WATTERS: Why are you looking at me? I don't know that --

MCDOWELL: -- like he runs the Peloton --

WATTERS: No, no, no.

GUTFELD: But he is the Republican with his minuses, would get nowhere. Obviously, the drunk driving arrests and they're running away from the scene, and the fact that he married an heiress. I mean, that's stuff. But if you're a Republican, would be endless --

WILLIAMS: Wait a second, wait a second -- I know what you're going to say to me. But I believe we have a President who has no political experience.

GUTFELD: Right.

WILLIAMS: And who has a lot of problem --

GUTFELD: Yes, but he hasn't been arrested.

WILLIAMS: OK.

GUTFELD: But you want to talk, yes, yes.

WATTERS: The Mueller report is not out.

GUTFELD: The Mueller report -- you want to talk collusion. Now you want to talk collusion, look at the -- like how -- what a coincidence that he declared when the cover came out. I mean, that's -- so that's with Vanity Fair.

WATTERS: Yes, media loves him.

GUTFELD: So they like -- the thing that gets me mad -- not mad, but I find it humorous actually. How does the media not notice when they're fanboying. Like -- how can they -- when they are talking about somebody they love, do they go death, and they can't hear how hilarious they sound when they're talking about.

They're basically vomiting Valentine's -- projectile Valentine's and it's like --

MCDOWELL: I have more man talk about how he's kind of a himbo and women don't see that. Quite frankly --

GUTFELD: The men, you're right the men.

WILLIAMS: What like --

MCDOWELL: Himbo, it's like a male bimbo.

GUTFELD: The men are more into him than the women.

WATTERS: That's a fancy thing.

MCDOWELL: And by the way is just want to say couple of things. Well, Jesse, if I squint move my chair way, you kind of look like --

WATTERS: Oh, don't you dare.

WILLIAMS: Oh, my god.

MCDOWELL: So I looked at their website, there's nothing about policy. There's just some merch for sale and a couple of photos of Beto, one where he has sweat dripping down his face.

GUTFELD: We're going to get that.

MCDOWELL: Yes, exactly. So here are -- I wrote some suggestions of things he could sell on his website to raise more money. How about a beard kit that you staple on, so you at least, look like you can split wood? I think that's his voting bus --

MCDOWELL: All right. Well, maybe he'll show up in Iowa like that, maybe we'll see. All right. Well, America's top general is ripping Google, find out why next. Stay with us.

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WILLIAMS: America's top general warning about the potential dangers of Google's relationship China.

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GENERAL JOSEPH DUNFORD, JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, CHAIRMAN: The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military. We watch with great concern when industry partners work in China knowing that there is that indirect benefit.

In fact, frankly, indirect maybe not a full characterization of the way it really is, it's more of a direct benefit to the Chinese military.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WILLIAMS: The company recently dropped its bid for a $10 billion Pentagon contract saying that would conflict with its corporate values, apparently not so with the Chinese. In fact, this is so interesting to me, Dagen, what General Dunford said was, you have a $5 trillion share of the Chinese economy that is state-run.

So when Google does business with the Chinese military, it essentially then is funneling that information, that strategy and technology into the Chinese economy as well. This is all thievery.

MCDOWELL: Yes. And then the company because of outrage within the liberal walls of Google decided to not do business with the U.S. Defense Department. So let's be clear, Google is not in favor of protecting the land and the nation and the people that allowed Google to be formed in the first place.

It is this kind of delusional moralizing from the people at Google. There motto used to be "Don't be Evil", well they got rid of that clearly if they're doing business with the Chinese, and the delusional moralizing that really hurts America.

And I just want to point -- I just quickly do the imitation of Ruth Porat, the CFO, after Hillary Clinton lost and they had this big company meeting. She was talking about Hillary losing and what a massive that it was and it was really painful, that's Google.

BOOTHE: Sounds upset.

MCDOWELL: But I think that's Google. That's who works at Google.

WILLIAMS: Jesse, so what they refused to do for the Pentagon was work on cloud storage type technology and they said it was in violation of the company's principles, a lot of the workers said this. How do you interpret this?

WATTERS: Well, do the company's principles adhere to the Communist Chinese principles?

WILLIAMS: I hope not.

WATTERS: They had some pretty crazy principles over in China -- one-child policy, no freedom of speech. The Chinese have a "Project Dragonfly" that Google was working on with them, where they can censor all sorts of Internet content, and it looks like Google's OK with that.

What they're doing, Juan, is they're putting profits above patriotism. And you have to ask yourself, is Google an American company anymore? Or do they -- are they just this amorphous multinational conglomerate that just does whatever they want to whoever they want in search for the highest bidder?

$21 billion in revenue over there in Asia, that's a pretty penny. And like you said in the beginning, if you invest Google in China, in a commercial enterprise, they just transfer that right to the state-owned corporations. So there's a direct pipeline from commercial interests to the military- industrial complex which is run by the Communist Chinese, and they steal it on top of that.

WILLIAMS: Lisa, Elizabeth Warren has been trying to say we should break up some of the Facebook, Google, Amazon, that they're just too big and too powerful. Jesse, you suggested maybe they don't have any sense of loyalty to the United States?

BOOTHE: Well, and a lot of this comes from the criticism over data, which I think is one of the biggest fake news stories of all time. The Obama team did the exact same thing at Cambridge Analytica did. The only reason anyone cared about it was because they got caught in President Trump's orbit campaigns.

Both the RNC and the DNC have massive databases of consumer information for voters across the country. Every politician that was sitting on those Committees pointing the fingers, has Mark Zuckerberg has used consumer data in way to target voters, it's all such a sham.

Not only that, there's literally no privacy anymore. You look at location services, it's a $21 billion industry in 2018, people following, you what you're doing via apps to reach you via advertising and things of that nature. Vizio was caught two years ago of like collecting data on people via smart TV.

So point is, there's no privacy, the whole thing's a sham. And the only reason anyone cared about it was because of President Trump.

WILLIAMS: Well, I think Greg disagrees. Because Greg thinks that, in fact, we should -- a lot of times people don't realize they're giving up their privacy.

GUTFELD: You have read my mind, just like Facebook. It's true. I hate Google for two reasons. The one reason that Juan is talking about is because they got me, right? I got suckered into the free Google which is -- look at this marvelous search engine. It's all your, search away, search away, and then you are the product. Because once every -- once you're using, they're just mining you, so you become the product.

#2, their employees were -- a few of their employees were upset, because they were helping with the drone -- making the drone program in the Pentagon more precise. Precise drones will help eliminate mass warfare, that's what it's about. You don't have to carpet-bomb anymore if you have precise drones.

So what they were arguing about was -- I mean, what they were defined was actually, progress that would help save millions of lives.

WATTERS: Instead of Google, Ask Jeeves --

GUTFELD: Yes, yes.

WATTERS: Let's go back.

WILLIAMS: All right. They're rushing us, because there's so much fun about to happen, an explosion of "Fan Mail Friday", with maestro Gutfeld next on “The Five.”

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GUTFELD: Oh, yes, Fan Mail Friday, let's get started. We don't have enough time here. Instagram question. If you were a college professor, Juan, what would you teach?

WILLIAMS: Well, I was a philosophy major in college and I -- but I don't know much about philosophy these days. I discovered my thesis the other day in the basement. I couldn't even understand what's this guy is writing about.

GUTFELD: We feel that same way.

WILLIAMS: But now it's like I'm all steeped in politics and history, I should have majored in something that would have been useful. My mom would have appreciated it.

GUTFELD: How about you Lisa?

BOOTHE: I would do like history of rock and roll or bowling or something like that.

GUTFELD: Bowling, interesting.

BOOTHE: -- you still get paid and it's not really -- its I mean --

WILLIAMS: Wait a minute, were you in that College scam?

GUTFELD: Dagen?

BOOTHE: I deny it.

MCDOWELL: I would teach --

BOOTHE: Not that you know of.

MCDOWELL: I would teach speech to everybody.

GUTFELD: Speech.

MCDOWELL: -- in an Ivy League school.

GUTFELD: Very good, very good. Jesse?

WATTERS: I wouldn't teach. I would coach.

BOOTHE: Which sport?

GUTFELD: Why don't you teach coaching? How about that?

WATTERS: Not qualified.

GUTFELD: See, I would do a class called errands.

WATTERS: Errands?

GUTFELD: Errands. And then I would show up and just give each student an errand to run, and then I would just kick back.

WATTERS: OK.

GUTFELD: And they've learned, yes, right. There you go. Quick one. All right Sherry U. writes, "What is the nicest thing you have done for someone else this week?

WATTERS: Why are you looking at me like that?

GUTFELD: Jesse?

WATTERS: You know, I can't come up with anything. Jesus -- god, did I give a homeless guy anything? I might have -- I tipped. OK. When I get change at the Starbucks, I put the rest of the change in the tip jar.

GUTFELD: That's very good.

WATTERS: Because you probably pocket it.

GUTFELD: Yes, when they're not looking, I take the whole tip jar.

WILLIAMS: You know, I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit. I bet people in your life appreciate.

WATTERS: I must have done something.

GUTFELD: You know what the thing -- the problem with Jesse is he's done so much, he can't remember. He can't remember.

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GUTFELD: Have you Dagen?

MCDOWELL: I always do this. I stopped a lady in the street who looked really nice -- perfect stranger and told her that she looked really pretty.

GUTFELD: See, we can't do that. If I do that, I'm like -- I'm gone. Did you just told that woman she looked good?

MCDOWELL: That's how you get arrested.

GUTFELD: Yes, yes. Juan?

WILLIAMS: So I going to get two things, one, I mentored a young man. I took him to dinner and hung out with him. But secondly, I agreed to give us free speech at event.

GUTFELD: That's really good. Wow. Lisa.

WATTERS: He's like the Dana of the table now.

GUTFELD: Lisa.

BOOTHE: I don't know this week, but next month I'm watching my special- needs aunt for my parents, so they can go on vacation.

WILLIAMS: Oh, that's real good.

BOOTHE: And it's a vacation I bought for them.

GUTFELD: The question has said what "Have you done this week", so you cheated --

BOOTHE: I know.

GUTFELD: -- by looking ahead. I could do that too. Like, next week I'm planning on schooling these orphans on errands.

MCDOWELL: I think there was a pregnant lady on the subway who got on and you didn't get your -- out of the seat and give her the seat, I'm just --

GUTFELD: I give money to the guys that play music on the subway, because I like the music.

WATTERS: I thought you will do fine with the guy that plays music on the subway.

GUTFELD: Damn it Jesse, "One More Thing" is next.

WILLIAMS: And usurped his money.

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WATTERS: Time now for "One More Thing". Bernie Sanders has a big bandage on his head. Check out the Senator from Vermont there, gashed his head on the corner of the glass shower door. He's got seven stitches. Went to a walk-in clinic, keeps campaigning in South Carolina.

GUTFELD: Tough guy.

WATTERS: He's a very tough guy. Now I actually understand what happened. I myself too gashed my head --

GUTFELD: Yes.

WATTERS: -- in the bathroom on Black Friday about two years ago. They did a great job with the makeup there. But there is a Band-Aid on my head, so Bernie and I have a lot in common.

GUTFELD: Run with him.

BOOTHE: Jesse that could be your nice thing this week that you just did for Bernie.

WATTERS: That's right.

BOOTHE: You may feel better.

WATTERS: I made feel better Bernie, wow, that's a low bar. All right, Juan.

WILLIAMS: All right, take a look at this scene from a month ago. Yes, that's Duke basketball star Zion Williamson falling to the floor as his Nikes tore apart. Will now take a look at this video as the star returns to the court last night

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WILLIAMS: 29 points with a perfect night of shooting. 13 for 13, he also had 14 rebounds 5 steals. That kind of performance is going to put him at the center of March Madness. And guess what he was wearing Nikes. Yes, he's stuck with the brand. The shoemaker made a special size 15 with extra padding for the 6'7'', 285 pound college freshman. By the way NCAA tournament teams will be selected this weekend good luck to your team guys.

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WATTERS: And they have Tar Heels this weekend too, I think.

WILLIAMS: Yes.

WATTERS: Big game. All right, Greg.

GUTFELD: All right. Tomorrow night, Saturday, March 16th, 10:00 p.m. another Greg Gutfeld Show with Johnny Joey Jones, Jimmy Failla, Kat Timpf, Tyrus. And I think Jesse has a show too, but he forgot to--

WATTERS: I did.

GUTFELD: He forgot to promote it. So Jesse Show as well which is on at 8:00. Anyway animals are great, right?

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Animals are Great!

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GUTFELD: Every now and then you find an animal that's not just strange, but strangely sexy. Check out the dance of the Bateleur eagle -- Bateleur is French for tightrope walker. And I got to tell you something, there's something really interesting. I want one of these.

WATTERS: Is that a real thing?

GUTFELD: That is a real thing. That is not a man in a furry suit, although, I have been known to dress up like that on the weekends, downtown just to make some extra money.

WATTERS: OK. That's -- it's called the

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Animals are Great!

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GUTFELD: That was real. I think might be high.

WATTERS: Before we get to dig and I'm going to plug my show. 8:00 p.m. we have Dana Loesch and we have Kellyanne Conway in. I interview a birth striker, she won't have kids, because she's afraid the climate is going to kill the earth. All right, there it is.

WILLIAMS: There you go.

WATTERS: Dagen McDowell.

MCDOWELL: So man's flying into the Berlin Airport from Cairo with, what he says, were some cakes, little chocolate cakes. Officers stopped him and said -- he said, "I have nothing to declare". And they said, "Let's look in this box". They're not cakes, they were tortoises -- living Moroccan tortoises.

WATTERS: That's trouble.

MCDOWELL: That the border veterinarian, who knew there were veterinarians at the border, that's good to hear, confiscated the animals. Hopefully, they're safe. The guy faces up to $56,000 fine, could end up in prison. If you love tortoises and turtles, go to the turtle conservancy to figure out how to save them all.

BOOTHE: So real quick, so I wouldn't go out of time. But tune in next Thursday to Fox & Friends our March 21st -- Thursday, March 21st, I'm doing the interview with John's Crazy Socks with Co-Founder John Lee Cronin and a young man an entrepreneur with Down Syndrome. I hung out with him, his dad and the rest of the team. Please tune in, it's really special.

WATTERS: Oh, that is nice.

WILLIAMS: I think I met him in the green room.

BOOTHE: He's lovely. It was a beautiful day. It was really cool.

WATTERS: Can you score me some free socks --

GUTFELD: Of course, Jesse. You always want the free stuff, don't you?

WATTERS: Don't you?

BOOTHE: You wear socks? What kind -- what kind, I can put a word in.

WATTERS: Anything that matches like a nice navy suit.

BOOTHE: OK.

WATTERS: That's it for us. We'll see you back here on Monday. Have a nice weekend everybody.

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