showing you the finger. just back to try to save the world, and i've got so much to work on. but we've got a whole new year. we can do this. hello, eric along with kimberly guilfoyle, bob, and dana. this is "the five." bone chilling cold in the midwest. anyone who saw the packers gament last night knows it's not a good time to be outside, and a rare poller vortez is headed east in its path. 2,000 flights have been canceled. in chicago, temperatures approaching minus 50. skins will freeze in a mere minutes. to indianapolis, where the mayor declared it illegal to drive on the roads. check out this highway video from colorado springs. >> here comes a truck.

oh, my god, those people were not even expecting it. >> dangerous weather events, folks. pay attention because it can be deadly. janice dean is keeping an eye on all of it from the fox news extreme weather center. the situation seems to be deteriorating for a lot of the folks on the east coast especially. >> all of this cold air is moving southward and eastward, and look at the windchills. this is all coming from the arctic, the polar vortex, a piece of energy from the arctic is now swooping southward with the polar jet stream. that's why we're getting windchills around minus 11 in kansas city, memphis, tennessee, i believe you set a record today. it hasn't been this cold in over up with00 years. they're shutting down schools in and around the atlanta, georgia, area. they will continue to shut schools down across the upper midwest and the great lakes. again, where windchills are minus 20, minus 30.

your skin will freeze in just a matter of minutes if you're outdoors. and i haven't seen this many windchill advoozryes, watches, and warnings in my ten years of studying meteorology. it's incredible. it goes as far south as florida. dangerous cold that's going to continue for the next 24 to 48 hours, and as eric mentioned, it's going to move eastward. folks across the northeast, in some cases we're in the 40s today here in new york city, the 50s. in boston, we're going to see windchills of minus 10 and minus 20 degrees. chicago really got the brunt of the storm or that polar vortex today, with temperatures, daytime temperatures around minus 14 to minus 16, which i believe is a record. low high of the day with windchills of minus 40, minus 50. so people are urged to stay indoors. you shouldn't be out there cleaning your cars. you need to be inside. this is dangerous and potentially deadly cold that we're talking about that is, you

know, moving southward and eastward, and then i want to mention we had a bit of a wet day across the northeast. as this arctic front moves through, it brought up all this moisture from the south, and all of that moisture is going to freeze on the roads. and on the sidewalks, and that's the danger tomorrow, eric, as we go into tomorrow, it's going to be really, really slippery, icy. they're going to be working overnight to try to get the salt on the road, and in some cases, it's not going to work, it's going to be too cold. >> the phrase polar vortex, it sounds like a mad plan devised by a bond villain to freeze the world. how do we know that's not true? >> i can't disproof it at this point. >> i think that's a yes. >> you know, i'm being sarcastic. the polar vortex is something that the media is using quite a bit of. it's an interesting meteorological term, but it's been there since the beginning of time, an area of low pressure

in the north pole, and a piece of energy has been caught up in the polar jet, and it's been pushed southward, as far south as florida, so that's the weird part of it, the rare part of it is the cold air has sunk as far south as the gulf, and florida, but it does happen. it's not like has never happened before. >> well, janice, this is beckel. i don't think it has happened before because i have never heard, and i go back to lincoln. i have never heard of a polar vortex before. >> you also never did the weather before. >> that's true. a serious question, what about florida and the vegetables and fruits? aren't they goes to freeze? >> i mean, sure, if you have temperatures dipping below freezing, which is what is going to happen across central and southern florida. >> bring them indoors. >> the good news is it's a short-lived polar vortex part of energy that is moving into the deep south. the temperatures are going to rebound by wednesday, thursday, and friday, so a quick shot of polar vortex, and then we're out of it.

>> hi, janice. it's kimberly. this morning, i don't know, i should have watched more of the weather forecast because i got caught, which was something close to a monsoon wedding minus the marriage, but i have never gotten so soaked and wet by the rain. unbelievable to the point when i brought digs to school, i had to bring a separate change of clothes. was that expected? >> where did you change? >> like a personal weather forecast? you want a personal weather forecast? >> no, but i wasn't anticipating it to be that bad. >> i'm glad you weren't here. that's the most fortunate thing. but we have this arctic front that moved across the east coast. and brought up all of this moisture from the south. and if you recall, 40 to 50 degree temperatures here along the east coast. so that was the other rare part of this, that all of this moisture and southern air was forced up because this arctic air is pushing eastward. so we got a lot of that moisture, yes, a lot of areas

got a lot of wet weather and kimberly, the thing i want to point to is that tomorrow, because we get all of this cold, actic air moving in, i'm really concerned that it's going to freeze like a skating rink on all of the roads and the sidewalks. it's going to be really dangerous. >> they have to close school. >> we have to go. >> i have a flight tonight. >> you have a flight tonight? >> tonight. >> i hope you're going to california. >> but what's the point? i'm going to florida, when basically, bob's new diet, the fruit and vegetables, are all going to freeze. >> we'll get all of the fruits and vegetables from california, which is very warm right now. >> we have to leave it there. we'll check in with you tomorrow. no matter the weather, americans love our football. last night, 47 million americans tuned in to fox to see the san francisco 49ers take on the green bay packers in the bitter cold. windchills at minus 15 degrees. the freezing temps didn't stop san fran, led by their tattooed

and tough guy colin kaepernick, who dominated the lambeau field sans sleeves. all performance, the guy is a baller. >> what have i been telling you? >> he can make it happen. >> first of all, you got to ask yourself why. i mean, i can understand why they would wear gloves, they don't want to wear gloves because you can't grip the ball, but why you wouldn't put on a long sleeve shirt, unless he wants to show off his tats. >> it's not about that. >> what a performance, and to do that coming out of san francisco. >> you and i, things were going well, but now i'm going to have to break up with you to do new year's next year with him, sleeveless. i mean, what a man. come on. >> i tell you one thing about this weekend, have you ever seen so many good games back to back? >> great, great football. i would think he sends a message to the defense that he's willing to go sleeveless, he's a tough guy. >> he did his interviews after

the show with eric andrews like this, like hey, it's mental. >> some people don't feel the cold like others. >> that's true. >> you complain about how cold it is in the studio. >> i'm cold in august in the studio, at least, when greg is in charge of the thermostat. >> isn't it funny. >> you're like the deep freeze. >> went for five minutes saying stay indoors, unless it's a game. then go outside. >> i played pro football for ten years and it is tough in cold weather. >> what were you, the ball? >> terrible joke. awful, i'm disgusted, you know what i don't understand about football? >> everything? >> grown men wearing other men's jerseys with their names on it. how different from gay marriage is that? it's so romantic. it really is. >> it's a commitment when you buy the jersey. >> it means you have an emotional, romantic connection to that man. i think it's beautiful. >> 47 million, let's talk about that. >> huge numbers. >> it was -- you knew it was coming with the weather being the way it was and the big ball game. >> people were indoors.

what better way to spend the time with the niners and the pack is back. that was going head to head, and she's worried about the 49ers. you have to understand, green bay is used to that weather. san francisco, not so much. >> you ever play in weather like that, bobby? >> worst day i played in was about 10 degrees and it was rough. the ground was frozen. we had helmets, but literally, before you had all the stuff to protect your elbows and your hands and everything. i mean, i can't imagine. i cannot imagine. >> with the kick at the end. >> when i was a kid, we used to feed the calves when it was this cold. >> the calves? >> the calves. the little cows. >> and then you would pour the extra warm milk after you fed the calves into the iron skillet so the barn cats would drink that. >> all right. >> very kind to animals. >> let's move on to this one. alabama fans like to say roll tide. how about roll tape? check out this videotape of bama

girl, the mom fan who lost it. roll it. [ bleep ] >> hey. hey. >> there must be more, right? [ bleep ] >> by the way, she claims she wasn't intoxicated. greg, you pointed this out over the weekend. bama girl. >> she said she would do it again because their were taunting her son. this is an interesting point. sporting events are the only place left where you can taunt people. taunting never leads to anything positive. it's one thing that can make you violent. you may be a nonviolent person,

but if someone starts taunting you because your only difference is you like a different team, you could kill a person. it has happened. i think she's mother of the year. >> if i was the son, i would be so embarrassed my mom is so selfish, she had to fight the battle. >> they had no idea she was going to fight, which is why i couldn't of like her. >> you don't think she was drinking? >> she said she had a couple, but she wasn't intoxicated. >> alabama fans are unbelievable. >> where is her husband? what happened? he's like, go, babe, get them. i don't know. >> you don't want to be the coach of alabama if you lose a game because they're taunt you for the entire season. >> that was the expected national championship team that wound up losing two games. >> that's right. >> that was a big leap. >> i like watching it on tv, the whole thing. all the football is good on tv, not outside. >> a great weekend for football. >> you have a beautiful screen to watch it on. >> your denver broncos are going

to play. >> i have anxiety already, but my sister and her husband are going to the game, they're looking at the forecast. they're ready. they're game ready. denver, i hope they can win. >> do you need a call from jd, get the weather update? >> personal weather forecast. >> love it. >> you're talking about the super bowl champions. they're going to win, unless manning gets hurt. nothing stops him, particularly san francisco. >> you know the one variable you're not counting, the legalization of marijuana. >> that's a good point. >> and mile high stadium, then you smoke dope and you're higher. >> exactly. >> how phelpful "the five" is. >> then you can go to the snack bar and buy things and help the economy. >> football weekend of the year coming up this weekend. >> tough to beat this past weekend. >> fsu/auburn. >> auburn. >> florida. >> auburn. >> auburn. >> we're talking college, right? >> yeah. >> can i make a point about college really quick? there are activist groups on college, especially university

of wisconsin, that are advocating that their college divest from fossil fuel, any companies that have to do with fossil fuel. how are they heating their dorms? burning copies of "an inconvenient truth"? they should be forced to sit outsides and let their nipple and nose rings fall off. >> if that's the reason this is happening -- >> bob has come full circle. >> al qaeda makes a major come back in iraq. their black flag is rising in places where hundreds of americans gave their life. is the president shooting straight about the al qaeda threat? and later, mama mcdonagh under fire for posting a picture of her 13-year-old posing with a bottle of booze. that, pluz her response to critics coming up. [ female announcer ] who are we?

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♪ over and over again >> all right, thank you, greg, for that musical intro. back in 2010, the obama administration made this prediction about the future of iraq. >> i am very optimistic about iraq, i think it's going to be one of the great achievements of this administration. you're going to see a stable government in iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government. >> nearly four years later, al qaeda is in control of key parts of the country. nearly all of fallujah, parts of ramadi, and the town of car ma. our trooped works alongside iraqis to secure it in the war. 1,300 americans gave their lives. the u.s. is concern recent uprisings and will try to help but without sending back any troops. >> this is a fight that belongs to the iraqis. that's exactly what the president and the world decided some time ago. when we left iraq. so we're not obviously contemplating returning. we're not contemplating putting

boots on the ground. this is their fight, but we're going to help them in their fight. >> before we start this, i want to stipulate there are people at the table, including bob, legitimate critics of the war, who think we never should have gone there. that's a legitimate position, but let's try to stay on this topic, because i think -- i'm saying, you have a legitimate point, but i don't want to argue about march of 2003. bret hume made a point yesterday, and let's listen to that and take it around the table. >> the tide of that war in iraq was turned in part by what was called the awakening in anbar province, and al qaeda suffered during the surge of american troops. now they're back. they're back in no small measure because we left. american people are never happy with foreign interventions. it's the job of a president as leader to bring people along about such things. it's a role from which this president has shrunk, and it is -- and the consequences of that are now becoming clear.

>> so eric, america could be left a little confused because we have been told that al qaeda is on the run. it is certainly it's different and it's evolved, but now to have fallujah possibly fall to the iraqis, what do you make of that? >> we haven't been told -- president obama outright said al qaeda is on the run. osama bin laden is dead, and he pronounced that as fact. unfortunately, only half of that was fact. osama bin laden is in fact dead, i think, and al qaeda is actually not on the run. they're resurging throughout the middle east, not just in fallujah, iraq. we have to be kafrl how we state it. we have to be vigilant on al qaeda. more concerning to me is what happens in afghanistan. if we start to pull out of afghanistan, without having defeated al qaeda, what do you do? do we end up with another country we spend trillions of dollars and thousands of lives and having to divert back to al qaeda? >> how long are we going to stay in the wars.

the implication is if we had troops on the ground, it wouldn't have happened? the war is going on for ten years now. american people have every right to be tired of it. you're not going to get american soldier s back there. we trained them to fight their own battles. kerry is right. it's their battle. anything we can do to help them, fine, short of committing troops is the right thing to do. here's a place to use drones, i guess, but the idea that somehow this is an endless war between afghanistan and iraq is crazy, and it's al qaeda in iraq. can i make that point? it's not the original structure that brought 9/11. >> okay, kimberly. >> new coke, old coke, same type of terrorist. bottom line is the obama administration abandoned iraq to its fate when it refused to noel negotiate a proper status agreement. they didn't button up. they said, we're pulling out. we're not going to have u.s. forces. this is what was forecast. there's no surprise, so they can take own ership of this because

this is on their hands. >> can i get greg in here? >> bob is going to explode. >> i want to know what you expected them to do? to keep -- you say -- >> a slower rollout. so they could have the gain. >> it was awfully slow. the idea that somehow this is the fault of obama is just absolutely insane. >> they didn't button it up. you can't pull out and expect everything is going to stay okay. >> alow me. here's the thing, i don't like getting into wars any more than you do. >> me, either. >> if you're going to do it and spent trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, finish the job. finish the job before you come back and make sure they're done. >> one of the strategies that has been most sungsisful is denying al qaeda a safe haven. if you look at this from a geopolitical standpoint, in addition to the situation in iraq, you have a problem of it possibly spreading to syria. and then you is a completely different problem. and this would be a big victory for iran. i think we have every reason to

try to fight them, because they are -- we are expecting the iraqis to fight our enemy, so we should help them, i think. greg, i want to ask you about a media perspective. this is a pattern, if you oppose a policy of the obama administration, say obamacare or the stimulus program, and even on this, on the pullout of iraq, if you thought it was too premature, you were labeled all sorts of things, one of them, racist, and you were just rooting for failure of the obama administration. does the media have to look back, and say wait, perhaps some of these critics did have a point back then? >> but they won't. does anybody remember how the media was around 2004, cheering for defeat. i wrote at the huffington post, there was a parade of patriotic terrorism. these are idiots who wish ill will on the united states as a learning experience, and also so they can say, so, we were right, you shouldn't have done that. where real patriots would say i would rather be wrong and win the war, which i think president

obama should have been, i'm happy i was wrong about iraq. remember, he wasn't for the surge. wars don't end, even when you win them, especially when you've got a president and a party who really didn't want to win. >> well, this is not right. it's not a question of not wanting to win. there's a huge power vacuum. >> they didn't like it under bush. >> i understand. >> there is a power vacuum in the middle east now, which is significant. there's no real leadership in the middle east. the army controls egypt. think about it. if you know one major player in the middle east who is left to help bring control over the situation? >> the saudis. >> but they play in the ba background. >> before we go, prime minister maliki of iraq does deserve some of the blame because the sunnis believed they weren't protected enough by the shia government. >> rolling stone magazine encourages america's use to reject capitalism and embrace

socialism, maybe even communism, and it's not a parody. greg's reaction to that advice when we come back. ♪ [ male announcer ] to truck guys, the truck is everything. and when you put them in charge of making an unbeable truck, good things happen. this is the ram 1500. the 2014 motor trend truck of the year. ♪ and first ever back-to-back champion. guts. glory. ram.

110 million, that's how many people died under communism last century. an impressive number. one that rolling stone forgot when they promoted principles that helped fill the gravstones. one, guaranteed work for everybody. two, social security for all. three, take back the land. four, make everything owned by everyone. five, having a public bank in every state. no it's not a parody. i thought it was, but it's real.

they left out the message of coergz needed to keep citizens from leaving this state. a threat of deft can prop up a dream like that. forget this genocidal amnesia. what about the death of "rolling stone." sure, they can tell themselves this is edgy, but it's so old, even older than their brain-dead publisher. you find riskier stories in highlights. the magazine used to give to the man. now it bends over and takes it. a charge of heart because of who's in the white house now. when you ask what killed roller stone, it's who? president obama, once elected, he helped turn a venerable rag into propaganda for force. and he didn't even have to ask them to do it. they did it themselves like all good cultests would. >> i blame president obama for this. >> hey, bob -- >> and also for the cold

weather. let's not forget that. that's obama's brb. >> he's in hawaii working the weather machine. the polar vortex. >> he tells michelle, you stay back here. it's going to get cold out there. >> watch me freeze middle america as they cling to religion and guns. >> you think that happened? >> that absolutely happened. the kenyan-born interloper. even this is too left wing for you. >> most of it is, but part of it is not. i think a state-run bank in every state is good. it keeps them against these profit-seeking -- >> like obama care? >> what's wrong with a public bank? >> you now want socialized medicine and socialized finances? >> why would you do it? >> why not? because a public bank would not take a mortgage and slice it into a bunch of pieces and sell it as an investment tool when they know full well it's a louz

apiece. >> is it something you're complaining about, 4% interest rate? >> i'm complaining about every bank. >> it's cheaper to do business here than any other country on the planet. >> it works. >> it really worked well when it put us in the great recession. >> did it? what's the alternative in. >> maybe to have a public bank. i also like the idea of trying to figure out a way like they did in the '30s with rose vel, where you could get people who were unemployed to do public work. >> how much more public can the public bank be when you have a trillion bailing out the bank. >> this is a fux news uz lurt. >> isn't this the kind of thing a kid would write in a high school civics class? >> i did think it was a gag. >> i did, too. >> i think he should run for president now while he still knows everything. that would be great. >> he's the guy who is going to make communism work. it's killed 110 million people at a minimum, but he can make people work.

kimberly, people thought it was a parody. isn't that the worst insult you can pay to someone when you did this on purpose? >> yeah, exactly. and i don't understand. we still talk about this whole situation. how about keep taxes low. how about keep regulations low? let's stimulate the economy. what about the rising tide? let the free market operate. that's a proven formula. this other nonsense is just getting us in trouble over time. i don't know why we have to play around with this. >> a rising tide in our economy lifts all yachts, there's no question about that. >> and all boats. >> sure, it does. sure, it does. >> and surfboards. >> by the way, i think it's probably not fair to equate this with communism. they didn't have social security, they didn't have take back the land, that's for sure. public banks they did not have, guaranteed work for everybody was not -- >> part of the dream that wasn't realized. >> but not all of this is a definition of communism. >> 2014, two issues that are -- financial issues popping up. one is the minimum wage.

the other is this income inequality. president obama is going to come back from two weeks in hawaii with the family, leave michelle back behind, cost the taxpayers millions of dollars to send air force two there and bring her back, because it's her birthday present. it's a gift. yet he's going to talk about income inequality. a little hypocritical, no? >> can we show that tape of him bashing republicans for going home for christmas. >> just a few days after christmas, more than 1 million of our americans lost a vital economic lifeline. the temporary insurance that helps folks make end meets while they look for a job. republicans in congress went home for the holidays and left that lifeline expire, and for many of their constituents who are unemployed through no fault of their own, that decision will leave them with no fault of their own. >> dana, kienltd of weird after a two-week vacation to come back and give people grief. >> yes, weird. i also think on the minimum wage piece, that their policy -- i

can understand wanting to tackle the issue, but their policy prescriptions are really quite pedestrian, very boring. no creativity. i think that people who are long-term unemployed and on minimum wage are used as political pawns in an election year. >> they may be pawns, but let the republics keep stopping this unemployment insurance and see what happens to them. republicans will sit back and try to cut off the money for people who don't have work is cheap, and let them try to do it. they'll jam it down their throats. >> bob, they said they would extend it. as long as it's paid for. >> three months. >> what's going to happen in three months? does anyone think it's temporary. >> if that's the compromise, is that the compromise that president obama wants to offer? >> you're not offering any compromise. the republicans are working -- >> but more pain to people who aren't in their wealthy sect. >> we're evil rich jirks. >> correct. >> there you go. >> coming up, another msnbc host

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other families formed through interrational -- because they're no way funny. >> he responded with grace and class. >> i recognize that people make mistakes. and the folks at msnbc made a big mistake, and they have apologized for it. and that's all you can ask for. i'm going to move on from that. i think it's a heartfelt apol y apology, and for that reason, we hold no ill will whatsoever. >> no one is surprised, i think, a eric, at the reaction of mitt romney. some feel he didn't get in tough enough to do battle against obama to win it. but he's a class act. >> class act. you expect him to react that way, and he did. regarding melissa harris-perry, look, i'm not sure if it's heartfelt. it seemed heartfelt, it may have been, but she did the right thing. we all blurt of stuff that sometimes we wish we --

>> not like that. >> you know, the only thing about her is it keeps happening. she keeps doing it over and over. >> she's a recidivist. >> you make a mistake, you go on air and apologize and say i screwed up, a made a mistake. if you mean it, move on. let's move on. >> i don't have enough time to make all those apologies. i make those mistakes, too, but i will say this -- >> you don't say stuff like this. romney was a class act. in her case, she was crying near the end of the apology, if i'm not mistaken, or beginning to well up. if that is so emotional for her, why did she say it in the first place? >> i have a theory. >> when she -- when it happened, she had on a panel of comedians. and it is not easy, greg, to have comedians on. you have no control over them and you get caught up in the moment and you're trying to illicit laughs when your job is not to make the jokes. you want your comedians to make

the jokes. i think she got a little carried away, i hope. >> i think you're right, because that's happened many times on red eye. but the one thing -- >> but that's a different kiejd of show. >> yeah, but -- >> what show? >> some show late at night. the one that drives me crazy is i think she was sun sear, the crying was heartfelt, but isn't the sexist for us to feel better about it that she cried because it shouldn't matter. alec baldwin in a way was right when she said -- oh, that's your next topic? but he was saying, like, if i cried, i would have been ridiculed. in a weird way, melissa, who is a feminist, kind of defeated her own purpose. >> look at the double standard. she cries, it's okay? >> you've cried. >> if greg cries, i would would die. >> if you cried, if you got emotional and welled up, people would be, what a great guy. >> listen, i think it's a double

standard. she's a lady, she cries, and it's okay. look at alec baldwin, this one smart thing he said, if he cried about it, could he be forgiven? because the point is, a little bit of a double standard there. a gender double standard. he was treated differently than something that she said. i think what she said was really bad. she should have known better. why did it take her so long to apologize. you guys are kind of soft giving her a pass. >> i disagree with probably every single thing she's said in her life. but i can't help but like her. i don't know why. i don't even like her. >> i disagree with every single thing that comes out of her mouth, i don't like her. i think she's ridiculous, provocative, for the sake of being provocative, not because she even believes half of the stuff. wearing tampons on her ears, come on. >> what? >> you make a mistake, you look at the camera, and you apologize and move on. >> the point i'm making, it's the difference between the left and the right is that the right things the left is wrong, but

the left things we're evil. i look at it and go i think she's wrong, but i still think she's a decent person, and i give her a pass. they wouldn't do that to you or me. >> martin bashir walked the plank, alec baldwin walked the plank. i think three strikes you're out. >> who's the basketball player with baldwin? >> what? >> i think it was his wife. >> his wife? or daughter? >> could mcdonald's be good for you? we'll tell you about one science teacher who went on a mickey d's dies for three months. >> the fast food health debate coming up on "the five." [ me announcer ] this is the story of the dusty basement at 06 35th street the old dining table at 25th and hoffman.

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who knew that mcdonald's might be healthy. get this, an iowa sequence teacher only ate mcdonald's for three months, and the results are amazing. he lost 37 points and his cholesterol dropped nearly 80 points. here's john cisna explaining his diet to neil cavuto.

>> two egg delights, the fruit and maple oatmeal and 1% milk. at lunch, i would have a bacon ranch solid with a fruit parfait, and at dinner, i would have one of the meals. i started realizing results after 30 days. >> anything you want in moderation? >> absolutely. >> a couple things we should fill in. this guy was cut to 2,000 calories a day. his students put it together, and he walked 45 minutes a day, neither of what he was doing before. is it a surprise he lost weight? >> no he walked 45 minutes and tried to adhere to the recommended allow nls of carbs, fats, proteins. basically, he put himself on a healthy diet and exercise. it really doesn't matter, i'm guessing, what carb, what calorie you put in, not how you got it. >> you're a big health freak. >> the risk here is people would think they can just eat anything they want at any time and not change anything else. but he changed two things. the calorie intake, 2,000

calories isn't that much for a man that's that size, and then, if you start even walking 30 minutes, you're going to see a big difference. especially guys. the fitfit is miserable in this weather. >> bouncing around, swinging this arm. i got to get this going. >> greg, you did this yourself, right? >> he obviously read men's health because i did the same thing in 1996. >> is that you? >> i ate nothing but mcdonald's. look it up, called be your own lab rat. so he ripped me off. >> you think of everything. >> the reason why it worked is he ate more calories before. there's all there is to it. if fact he's eating 2,000 is irrelevant unless he's eating 2,500. >> why is everybody a bunch of mcdawn ltd's haters? i love mcdonald's. >> mickey d's does a body good. >> couldn't he have done that anywhere? >> here's the point, like wrap your head around this.

you can go and get healthy food choices at mcdonald's if you want to get food that is affordable. people are on different budgets. not everyone can afford whole foods, but you can eat and swap something out. have a healthy salad with dressing on the side. whatever, pile it on, but the point is, there's options out there that are affordable. if you put your mind to it and actually spend the time to say i'm going to take in less fat, t ss carbs, more greens, you can >> what's your favorite mcdonald's meal? >> i love the quarter pounder with cheese, and i love the number two meal, which is two cheeseburgers that come with a large fries and a diet coke. don't be mad. >> do you realize that nutrition segments are really boring? mcdonald's is fun, but boy, nutrition puts you to sleep. >> what's interesting? do we have ten seconds to put up the guy's before and after. check it out, even the after guy looks fat there, right? >> that's not nice. >> but when you saw him on

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thing. very smart man once told me, democracy doesn't work until the media does its job. keep that in mind.

i was watching the sunday shows. "meet the press" david gregory. look at the screen they put up. 6 million total enrolled in obamacare. now, according to nbc themselves, it's 2.1. they said the white house numbers, not 6 million, 2.1 million. nbc, do your job. you're up. >> i'm glad you worked that in, and bob didn't -- his head didn't explode. i have something, material girl, madonna. there was a lot of uproar over this picture she put up on instagram. a picture of her son rocco ritchie, that she has with guy ritchie. he's 13 years old. he's got two vodka bottles. people were upset, it's not appropriate given the drinking age in the u.s. she addressed this and said on sunday, no one was drinking. we were having fun. calm down and get a sense of humor, and another caption, she said don't start the year off with judgments. think about that. >> bobby, you're up.

>> a guy in on this conversation. mark brown, take a look when he was in the shower with his favorite pet. >> what kind of weirdness. >> oh, my gosh. >> you think that's normal? >> look at -- that's a raccoon. >> that's mark, who had his rucroon taken way from him from the health department after that. he got a bunch of putingzs going, but that didn't work, so now he's announced for governor. he becomes governor, he can get his raccoon back. >> what state? >> tennessee. >> you're up. >> you think that's normal? >> this is part of my new year's resolution, to drive bob more crazy, greg, too. calendars, 2014, i have five extra ones. if you go to my website, danaperino.com, you have a chance to win the calendars if your write a poem about your

dog, a picture, you can also see the jasper year in review there, which is very fun. don't miss it. >> you're up, my man. >> you know what, let's have a resurrected phrase, shall we. it's fresh. and the good old days, if kids gave you any lip, your mom or somebody would say, don't get fresh with me. whack. and then slap you across the face. problem is, kids who walk around all day, they're fresh. they're fresh. we need to -- you see a kid acting up, you say, don't get fresh, and then whack them. >> thank god you're not a parent. >> remember, fresh, but why fresh? why is fresh bad? >> the only -- i want it back. >> where did it come from? >> i don't know where it came from. >> it's old fashioned, like eddy haskell. >> we should bring it back. before we go, we're going to have to say, don't forget to set your dvr. you never want to miss an episode of "the five." "special report" is next, and a

big congratulations to bret bai baier. today is his fifth anniversary hosting the show. stay tuned for a look back at the five years. see you tomorrow. here comes bret baier. >> how cool is that? congress is back. and the countdown begins to the crucial november midterms. the first political ping-pong ball, unemployment benefits. this is "special report." good evening. i'm bret baier. eventually everything congress does in the next ten months will be geared toward seizing or holding on to power on capitol hill. today's focus on jobless benefits and income inequality foreshadowed the democratic strategy. brit hume looks alt the political implications on the fight.