more on this tonight at 8:00. >> hello, everyone, i'm with bob beckel, dana perino. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." supreme court hobby lobby decision ignite ad firestorm of reactions across the political spectrum yesterday with the most wild reactions coming from the left. listen to this claim by the front-runner in 2016 election. >> it is a disturbing trend that you see in a lot of societies that are very unstable, anti-democratic and frankly prone to extremism. it's very troubling that a sales

clerk at hobby lobby who needs contraception which is pretty expensive is not going to get that service through her employer's health care plan because her employer doesn't think she should be using contraception. >> well it's no surprise the dangerous comments like those from hillary clinton would filter down to the rest of the liberal chattering class. >> apartheid in south africa was justified on religious grounds. the southern baptist convention justified slavery and later jim crow and segregation on religious grounds. >> somebody will say that's against my religious beliefs, or cases involving gays and lesbians or cases involving people from different foreign origins. >> republicans want to do everything they can to have the long hand of government and now the long hand of business reach into a woman's body and make health care decisions for her.

>> reach inside a woman's body. wow. that's pretty graphic. dana, i have a theory. i think they are excited about this. i think the left is secretly deep, deep down these radical feminists are jumping up down and this raulg even though they are delighted to mischaracterize because it gives them something not to talk about like the irs or va scandal it gives them something to now lie about. >> right. heads they win, tails they win. they always win. win-win. if they had prevailed in the court they would have tried to run with that ball. losing in the court politically for them gives them a lot more reason to turn out the vote in november and then going into a possible hillary clinton candidacy. it's interesting so many lawyers who have been elected leaders or public servants seem totally unable to digest the law and dissect it in a way that's rational and says what the court

intended which was not at all comparable to apartheid or are sharia wall. it works well in campaigns. doesn't work when you're talking about a supreme court decision. when todd akin the senate candidate in missouri said the stupid thing about rape democrats were able to pin every republican with that. a supreme court decision that was well reasoned it doesn't work as well. i think the emotionalism will have to come out a little bit of the balloon before november because the supreme court speaks and that's just the way it's going to be. >> eric, honor killings, female genital mutilation, that's what they are conflating this ruling which is a very narrowly tailored ruling. what's ironic to me the law that the supreme court was considering was a clinton signed

law. the religion freedom restoration act was designed to protect people from any kind of persecution. >> it was very disingenuous. she lumped all contraception together. contraception is contraception, right. hobby lobby and this is really important. 16 of the 20 forms of contraception they are providing. they disagreed with the four types that kill a fetus after conception. that was the issue. so for hillary clinton to lump them all together that's disingenuous. the bottom line is what the court did, what the supreme court did we're applying the same standard to individuals, we're going to apply that to corporations, tightly held small corporations with the religious beliefs, have the same rights as the individual does. now, the good news is why is it only tightly held?

why only small corporations? think about this. if you're out there, a lawyer and bigger employer and you disagree with this on a religious basis, why not? bigger corporations should get involved too. i think the supreme court has done a fantastic thing for people who are in favor of religious freedom in america, more and more corporations should sign on to that with that precedent. >> greg, how can they argue this anyway. the administration has given carve outs for churns and religious organizations. this wasn't part of obamacare. this was hhs using an executive power overreach according to justice kennedy to subsidize and they could subsidize these women's sex lives, the government, there's a thousand ways they could have done this. they chose not to on unintended consequence of obamacare law. why would they argue against this. >> i don't know. i thought they wanted government out of these choices. fox news won't let me swear on the air. is that denying my first

amendment rights? no. i can go outside and swear. where i work i can't use certain phrases that i love so much because i would lose my job. but that does not infringe on my reits. for feminist bloggers this is their world cup. their world cup semiti. talk about overblown. they make linda player from "the exorcsit" like audrey hepburn. these women who are activist, screaming is what they majored in. campuses provide degrees in grievance. and there's no skill, into a lent just petulance. women have fought the stigma of fragile emotional behavior for decades. for being accused of not being able to handle things. this is stereotype by peopleist that setback their cause for decades. they are truly resembling

hysterics. they represent a small group of women who do this for a living. >> this has gone i'm woman hear me roar, to i am woman hear me beg. women who agree with this court decision are stronger women than liberal women? i don't need a government or boss or anyone to pay for my birth control but it seems these radical feminists are far weaker than other women out there. >> this is so funny as greg said. this is separate but equal. i can swear on the air. >> why is that, bob? >> just like plessy, separate but equal. let me tell you why they are shrieking about this. let's assume for a second that you god forbid go to what eric

said go to big corporations doing this. let's assume these people were christian scientists. christian scientists do not believe in having children bled, taking blood out of them. if you want to have religious decisions made by the corporations for 13,000 of people that work for them it's obscene. i can't believe -- i can't believe the court would go this way. >> this is the inherent flaw in slippery slope arguments and why i banned that phrase. the slippery slope is if you don't pay for these pills what else won't you pay for, i.e. vaccines or any other kind of life-saving thing. you could say for the same thing if the ruling went the opposite way. if you forced us to pay for this what would you force us to pay for now? it's a self-cancelling argument. just throw it away because it's pointless. >> answer my question about christian scientist. >> die. you weren't listening.

the point is because the argument can be used in both directions. it's inherently meaningless. >> bob, you use this analogy. you used it yesterday. and you used analogy also about hassidic jews. the act was designed to protect christian scientists. this case, part of this case was amish, mennonites. >> i think that law was meant to protect your right to freedom of religion. >> if you didn't want to work on a saturday, bob, because of your religion -- >> if you want contraception you can. >> you can buy it yourself. >> what if you can't afford it. >> what if this group didn't believe in blood transfusions. how many eliminating the law completely because the only reason we're having this

discussion is because president obama insisted the whole country have health care and it be paid for by the employer. if that weren't the requirement this issue wouldn't have gone to the supreme court and you wouldn't have to come up with these arguments, if there's three guys on the street are offended. >> by the way, what is wrong with all people getting health insurance. >> it wasn't part of the law. kathleen sebelius designed this using executive power to implement these essential benefits. >> the secretary of health and human services was tasked with implementing the law and writing rules and as the president admitted today or the spokesperson did nothing that the executive does without congress will be as strong in the eyes of the court which is why you go back, on the bigger picture it shows how wise our founding fathers were to set up the supreme court so we could have how a bill becomes a law and a check from the supreme court that's measured and narrowed and much more mature

than any of the hysterical debates. >> you assume this is mature supreme court. >> that's the thing about the supreme court. is that bob if you like their ruling you're for them. >> up loved john roberts. >> no, go ahead. >> the supreme court deserves and was set up to be respected and to be that last stop. >> can i make one very quick point. bob, you're right. you have to be careful why every single election counts. in 2014 if you don't be careful, you could have more supreme court judges that are in favor, in the same camp. look -- >> i hope so. >> if you don't believe in this you don't want more supreme court judges. ruth bader ginsberg is sick may step down. president obama has the senate. if president obama doesn't have the senate that would be hard to get someone through. >> they compared this to jim

crow and the apartheid. i don't know why they left out though holocaust. a lot of people are offended by these comparisons. the bigger point is this isn't that really big of a win for the right. they slightly slowed down the coercive progression of government but it reflects the intolerrance of the other side how they are reacting. they are reacting as if the world is coming to an end. the final argument is people are upset men made the decision. what's the alternative? should women judges only be allowed in matters that pertain to women and anything that has to do with men only men should judge on that? is that the kind of world we want? >> it also shows, i think, a strengthening of the first amendment and how much the left hiatus it by all accounts. >> the connection between apartheid and jim crow is very tenuous to say the least. >> when we come back tensions in the middle east are escalating after isis declared caliphate in

parts of syria and iraq. disturbing new details next.

♪ after declaring a caliphate in areas of syria and iraq, officials say isis is beefing up their military capabilities and cultivating a new wave of suicide bombers. the threat to american interests is extremely high and as a result the u.s. is sending more troops to baghdad to protect our embassies. former cia and nsa director michael hayden issued a chilling warning about iraq. >> you said this week that iraq as we know it has ceased to exist. what do you mean by that, general? >> well, first of all, chris, i think i'm right and i hope i'm wrong. i certainly wish my mind wasn't leading this progression of thought but we're seeing the creation of another ungoverned area and unlike afghanistan which is kind of in the middle of nowhere as you already

suggested, this is in the middle of the middle east. this is quite a dangerous thing that we're seeing unfold here. it's probably not 9/11 but it certainly is in the same area code. >> greg, let me start with you. when president obama says that we're going to the end war in iraq and try to contain terrorism there without a political solution left behind and then in syria does a similar thing and now those borders are erased and we have a situation that general hayden who is not a political guy. his job has always been, he's now not in the government but his career was in the military and cia. what's frustrating republicans are asked the question then what would do you? but they didn't -- they weren't advocate the president's foreign policy to begin with. where is the demonstration that our government is actually going to do something to either prove to us that they can contain it or do something to take it out? >> i don't know what they are doing. i mean, it really isn't our

problem until it becomes our problem. and i often ask myself could 9/11 have been prevented. we knew the islamic threat but we didn't act. that's a lesson here. it's all about keeping a presence, air strikes, drones, doing what can you. it really is about a presence. saying no boots on the ground is not a stance. we had boots on the ground for seven decades and remained safe and won the cold war. if you don't see the link between that, congratulations, you'll get tenure at any major campus. >> this is something the obama administration has gotten a pass on and something that taxpayers may regardless of your party affiliation want to look at and that is the failure of intelligence to predict this threat. government petraeus says he could have seen this coming, the administration was warned, there was testimony in front of congress trying to raise a red flag to say we think isis is gaining in strength. do you think the intelligence,

something here that the media hasn't focused on enough? >> i do. i think that there was plenty of heads up given to president obama if he were to read his intelligence briefings. there were warnings that this country could fall. every time that he talked about troop withdrawal and drawing down the war there were people that spoke up and said iraq will fall. again i don't think the president cares. if he were a very strong president -- if i were him i would stand up and say look, this is an area decently rooted with ethnic hatred. it is not our issue yet. if isis begins to march on baghdad it will be a full blown civil war. it will be a huge problem and that's not our problem yet. if i were president obama i would continue with that statement by saying if isis or any other entities in the middle east begin to target the united states of america then it becomes our problem and we'll wipe you out. we'll return and wipe you out and leave. no democracy.

i would wait. isis is deeply entrenched in that population. they infiltrated it. wrapped hair arms around you want. without any presence on the ground i'm not sure what it would do. it will turn into a bloody civil war. i don't want our troops to be caught and beheaded and killed for their civil war. >> bob, the president has been very emphatic no boots on the ground. today we hear a few more troops going in to protect. are they trying to inch in. they won't send 100,000 troops. at what point do the democrats say to the president i think you're going too far. >> not much farther than where he's going now. let's keep something in mind. historically this has been a religious conflict well before the british drew the lines and said this is iraq. they sat down, some civil servant in britain said here's iraq. frankly i hate to say this, i'm missing the bad old days of

saddam hussein. only a strong dictator can keep these religious fanatics from each other's throats. the fact america can go in the middle of this thing and solve it is crazing. >> the kurds have a fairly peaceful existence. they are glad. >> that's right. >> can i get eric in here. from president obama's standpoint in some ways i feel we've talked about this for six years. he spent so much time fighting president bush now he's back to almost in the position where he has to take some radical action to have a course correction in order to fulfill his oath to protect the country. >> okay. here's what i wouldn't do. i certainly wouldn't be sending any more troops other than you need to the protect our embassy in baghdad. that's the first and foremost and that's what he's doing. also what i would do is beef up what ever we need to do with israel. if isis had any inclination going anywhere near israel

that's cause for a lot of things including boots on the ground. i would certainly stop this idea of sending $500 million of aid to rebels in syria we don't know who we're arming. sometimes we're arming syrian rebels and it ends up the same people we're fighting in iraq. >> john mccain, a republican -- this is where republicans and democrats got this issue wrong. just a couple of months ago john mccain was calling to arm isis and said it's going the moderates. good luck with that. >> going back two years is when that original request to push for it. >> your associates in the u.s. military can beat these grounds if they were on the ground. >> we can beat them. >> we can destroy them. >> how >> quickly. >> really? with big bombs. >> oh, yeah. annihilate. >> we have done it before. we won the war, president obama wasn't interested in -- we won

the iraq war and he was interested in ending it rather than winning it which is why it's falling apart. >> you think that was one war -- >> the war was won and if we kept the pressure there it would have stayed that way. >> isis declared this caliphate. the caliphate being an islamic state that is recognized by its own size. they have a lot of enemies. the u.s. is their enemy. iraqis are their enemies. the saudis their enemy. let these people kill each other. >> perhaps it is a lot of chest thumping but i don't know how we protect ourselves if they are serious. i rather err on the side of caution. okay. directly ahead stunning revelations from unrepentant domestic terrorist bill ayers explaining why he thinks american deserters including

bowe bergdahl to be war heroes.

♪ welcome back to "the five." we previewed last night megyn kel jays big sit down with bill ayers, the nut job who ran the weather underground, the group who protests everything that makes america great and likes to blow things up. here's why bill ayers say deserters should be considered war heroes. >> one of my brothers went to canada and he's a hero. one joined the democratic party, one joined a commune. >> up think bowe bergdahl is a war hero. >> if he deserted yes he's a war hero. throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters, the people who look

at the craziness they are asked to participate in and say i'm not part of this. >> okay. so our young people are dying on the battlefield so morons like that can say things on television. >> unfortunately it's true. why do we look to him for any kind of reasonable commentary. desertion is a terrible crime in a military unit because that's how you get killed. you have to stick together to stay alive. you know, bill ayers, he should not be, really, i know we've given him time on the show but he should not be the one we look to from any kind of guidance. i won't say all the left. but it is true that many on the left agree with him. agree with this crazy thinking and do believe that what bowe bergdahl did was heroic and many said it and blogged about it and tweeted it and facebooked it when the whole bergdahl issue was happening. it's a huge -- it's a huge flaw

in the democratic party that thinking. >> bob, do you want to respond to that or do you want to explain how this guy can be held in such high esteem on the left. >> he's being held in high esteem on fox. but desertion is a crime, it's treasonous, you should be punished for it. refusing to join the military especially around vietnam was the right thing to do. >> the topic is bill ayers. >> that's what i'm saying. >> i think for the desertion party for using your conscience to stay out of the military for an illegal war like vietnam yes. >> i want to talk about the interview because i was intrigued by what megyn had to say yesterday on our show and i interview. holy cow it's high quality, presentation was great, editing is very good and she's the only one that has done interviews him in the last few years that held him to account.

one of my favorite parts he said i never said that. she goes it's in your book. i thought it was extremely well done. >> greg, would you agree with bob or disagree with bob. isn't he a professor at the university of chicago. >> yeah. he has tenure at a university and the only role he should be playing on campus is as one of those classroom skeletons in a medical college. he should be dead. ayers is beliefs are shared by some in the administration. >> he made connections through the bombs. >> speaking of that second of a two part series megyn sat down with bill ayers that airs tonight in a back and forth that greg alludes to and megyn aske about his relationship with obama. >> good friends. >> i knew him as he knew so

er,000 people. i wish he would listen to me. >> did he ever contact you once you became the story in his presidential race. >> it's university of illinois not university of chicago. talk to me a little bit about that. aren't there a lot of links between obama and ayers. >> this always undermines bill ayers is old news story. the relationship was bury preponderance of the evidence the link was the first cover up by a complicit media. media loves ayers remember he was roughly their age and they liked him. >> bill ayers -- barack obama denied the relationship when he was running and now we're finding -- ayers didn't confirm i want but we find out there's a lot more a lot more closer. >> ayers agrees and megyn spend an appropriate time on it and focused on ayers what he did and why he has an answer for those things. >> he had no relationship except being on a couple of committees and a couple of fundraisers. >> it wasn't fundraisers.

>> couple of committees. >> handing out a lot of money. that matters. that's ideology. >> that make you friends. that's good. >> i didn't say friends. >> they are not close friends. they share an ideological mindset about this country. they do. he can run from it all he wants. but look at the people he hung out with. take bill ayers out of it. look at the rest of the people in the president's life. >> you think the president of the united states thinks desertion is a heroic think to do? >> if you asked him in private yeah. >> the two of them may agree on certain parts of the economy. what's right for free markets. i think they were married. >> part two of megyn's interview at 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight. up next a surprising new poll say young americans think more about the world cup than the

latest scandals plaguing our country. we'll break it down. speaking of soccer usa versus belgium showdown is under way and bob is still not

♪ >> according to a new poll young americans care more about the world cup than they do about the va, iraq mess, irs scam, upcoming mid-terms and recent supreme court rulings. should we care? no. sports and things like soccer are appealing more appealing than political issues because they aren't political issues. this is more fun to look at than this. it's that simple. more important politics is boring and complicated which is why so many bad things happen within it. politics is a game bad people play when good people aren't

looking. as you get on with your life they get on with yours creating new taxes, expanding their power, creating new methods of greed. tedi mumpb enables their success. explain the irs scandal to anyone under 25 and their first question will be do you have an iphone charger. obama knows this which is why he hops to scandal to scandal leaving a trail of messes like an incontinent gerbil. how do you get people interested. you find lead towers explain why they should care. you need to find your obamas. if you don't the other obama will find you and you'll be watching soccer as he steals your pants. that's a metaphor. he doesn't really steal your pants. andrea is this finding at all surprising. people like sports. >> it's the euphemism. >> sometimes.

>> yeah. i mean i'm not surprised by this. and i look back. i don't know if my generation was necessarily as plugged in as other generations were, more active in the '60s. but president obama is very shrewd when it comes to getting young people involved and he has celebrity on his side. he's done it better than any president even better than president clinton. how do you get people interested in the jobs and economy and irs when most of these kids don't have jobs so they are not paying taxes and allowed to stay on their parents' health care. he figured that out. if he can keep them down. if he can keep all people down and dependent on the government instead of themselves they won't figure out there's a lot of other things going on they should be caring about. >> bob, does andrea have a point that people opted out of current issues because current issues have no impact on them any more? >> no, i think it's because if you look at any poll except maybe during the '60s most young people don't care about this stuff. if you look at the rest of the

poll, the upper ages they get more engaged. which is nothing new. hopped in american politics as long as i was in it. it's no surprise to me at all. >> eric, soccer, is easier than reading. >> yeah. some of your monologue don't worry about the ratings. >> nobody is watching us right now. something is going on it's still 0-0. >> but here's the thing. wait until they start having jobs. wait until these young people you speak of and wait until they start paying taxes and wait until they start realizing how intrusive government is stealing their money, wasting it on stuff, then they might care about the va, the irs and all the other three letter skajs. >> would you like government to go away. >> i would like it to be smaller. i rather privatize. >> you don't have to have either

or. there's something in between. >> don't you think it's all of us. we can't blame one generation. we're all pretty bad. >> at least with soccer there's the element of surprise. there's no surprise when it comes to government corruption. that's an interesting thing about president obama. he was supposed to be the one that changed everything, that restored america's faith in government, that the government could solve your problems and six years in the utter disappointment can be heard all across age groups and is reflected in this poll. >> maybe they should combine politics and soccer. >> make them run. could we win? >> no. >> maybe you are our obama. you keep telling everybody else to get out there and explain things. maybe you're our obama. >> i quit smoking. i'm not smoking any more. >> you're the one we've been waiting for. >> i'm very sad. >> i couldn't run a sea lab. coming up, those little independent places in the ocean.

fans are going wild for the world cup as usa takes on belgium. bob's got the latest on the big game that you're probably watching and can't

>> big usa versus belgium show is under way with a score of 0-0. 90 minutes watching grass grow and hadn't scored any points. i'm not a soccer fan and neither is kareem abdul jabbar.

soccer doesn't express the american ethos. we're a couldn't of pioneers and we like to see extraordinary effort rewarded with points. exactly right with points. nil. nil this. eric. >> look, i've been with you on this. i got to tell you, once every four years you got to be patriotic, got to root for your team, this is compelling stuff watching this team. we're holding our own. still 0-0. we're doing great. i have an idea. cameras guys before the show we were watching the game. you know what would help soccer to get more americans tuned into soccer if they use close shots like they do in football and basketball -- >> of the players butts. >> so when they kick the ball up the field. most of that game you're watching 22 players you can't see any one of them. >> cameras on their sneakers.

>> the guy mowing the grass. >> why stop at the game. have cameras in the locker rooms. people should know what's going on in there. >> that way it would be out in the open. >> i like where your head is at. you too, bolling. they don't get down in that huddle position like football players. >> if the soccer teams had cheerleaders would you watch it? >> probably. yeah. i would. but what i want to say right now to my good friend greg, you're sitting right now and exposing yourself. yes, you are. okay. now it drove a lot of you wild. the thing about soccer, though, it's got a lot of people playing. 13 million. used to be 100,000, 200,000. 13 million kids play it now. >> in america. >> not everybody can afford golf

soccer is a ball for the poor. >> that's like some of these countries can compete because they have no money. >> why such hispanic tread for it. i don't understand the vitriol very much. >> i don't hate it. i don't want to watch it. >> watching golf on tv -- >> i love that. >> there's some great shots. >> talk about watching grass grow. >> golf is great. lie on the couch. fall asleep. wake up. nothing happened. >> same with soccer. >> that's the players. >> that's right. >> i don't know what else to say about this topic so i have a question. i report you decide. someone compared the belgium coach to a one eric bolling. >> i thought about that earlier. >> he's not as tan as bolling. doesn't he look a little bit like bolling. a little bit. >> very good.

that's very good. >> now since eric has stucked up to to the soccer people which he didn't do early on -- that's all right. >> i'm too patriotic. >> let me put you all on the record here. let's have the prediction. what's the score going be when this is all said and done. >> this game >> yeah. >> realistic. >> i'll be patriotic. 0-0 but we'll win on penalty kicks. >> if this thing ends at 90 minutes they have to add on the extra time that the referee decides then you go to 15 minute playoff and add the extra time and another 15 minutes and then you got to go to the other stuff and then you have a kick-off and then if that doesn't happen everybody goes to burger king. i don't know. what do you think >> america 1-0. >> i have 53-35. >> that's good. by the way, you know where it comes from.

nihilistic. belief in nothing. >> i don't know what to say. i just like places you can go and get together and drink without judgment. it's perfect. >> you know what i love about soccer? talking about it. >> to be patriotic i hope united states wins but my guess is it's nil? nil when all is said and done. somebody has to win.

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♪ time now for one more thing and the best part about soccer besides the players is insults. part two. take a look. >> i understand all the wagers here, all the italian wagers have respect for the game. are only groping the women with their feet. that's right.

score! score! [ speaking foreign language ] goal. i think they got the goal. goal. tell me what happened. what happened. ivory coast won the coin toss. >> very funny. more videos you should google them. >> you all remember i think the republican representative from illinois vance mcallister. we got it. there's vance with a staffer. married with kids. oh, my is that a good night kiss or is that just a hug. we all hug each other. guess what? there you go, vance, boy. louisiana, that's good. and so vance has decided now that the people of i had district really need him back. he said he wouldn't run for re-election. now vance is back and running again and i can say that i wish

him extremely well because he's representative of those representatives. >> can we run all the footage of, i don't know, all the democrats that have had lewd experiences. >> excuse me. let's move on. >> moving right along, eric. >> so another example of the left media sucking up to obama administration. nbc did a four minute puff piece for senior adviser for president obama. they aired this picture. she has a picture of herself but three guys are bowing to that picture. i'm wondering. her boss has a tendency to bow a lot. i wonder if that was supposed to be -- >> symbolic? it is very symbolic. yeah. i expected that from my staff. i expect it from you.

let's go. >> she does bow down. talk about the lap dog media. the inspector general at health and human services department came out with a doozy of a report. the obama administration cannot verify 2.8 million irregularities. they can't find -- they have inconsistencies on citizenship, lawful presence, residency, family size, household income. they can't fix that out. when they did that big victory lap that can't be true with this inspector general's report and deserves some more attention. >> go obamacare. >> yep. >> your up? >> i believe so. >> i hate these people. >> i'm a fan of public transportation. but not when there are teenage girls on it. they do not or should not be allowed on public transportation because they are loud, they talk

too loud about their personal problems, they chew gum, always talking about boys. i don't care. i have to take the subway to work. i don't need to know your stupid stories. so if you're a teenage girl who takes the subway shut up. >> okay. we're celebrating the fourth of july all week long right here on the fox news channel so if you're a proud american tweet us at "the five" using the #proud american and tell us why you're a proud american too. don't forget to set your dvr so you never miss an episode of "the five." up next, "special report." >> 4th ch july turns into a super ir soaker for millions of

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