hello everyone i'm dan gentleman perino along with kimberly guilfoyle, bob beckel, eric bolling and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." secretary of state john kerry arrived back in washington yesterday after a week of negotiations that failed to result in a permanent cease-fire between israel and hamas. israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu said brokering peace is impossible if hamas continues on its current path. >> do you want to close this with the state of israel? do you want to represent -- do you want to recognize israel as a jewish state

>> no. >> translator: no. i said i do not want to live with a state of occupiers. >> that was hamas leader who was rejecting the idea of an israeli jewish state. listen now to benjamin netanyahu of israel. >> hamas has broken five cease-fires that we accepted and we actually implemented. they rejected all of them, violated all of them, including two humanitarian cease-fires in the last 24 hours. now they come with their own cease-fire proposal and believe it or not they violated even their own cease-fire proposal. they are shooting at us as we speak. israel is not obliged and is not going to let a terrorist organization determine when it's convenient for them to fire at our cities, at our people. we'll take the necessary action to protect our people, including, by the way, dismantling the tunnels. that's my policy. >> hamas has another weakness.

the fledgling support of the palestinian people who are war weary. i want to play one more sound bite for you from representative mike rogers who this morning talked about how israel feels like they are going at this alone. >> i think there's always been a little bit of friction between netanyahu and this administration, and i think early on some of the, some of the early cease-fire requirem israel's perspective didn't recognize their security concerns about them continuing anti-tunnelling operations. with that lack of consideration i think they believe they were going this alone. >> let me start with you, eric. i want to ask about the idea that israel who said it was willing to do a cease-fire but then hamas broke its own cease-fire how are they supposed to negotiate and work what is a terrorist organization that think they don't have a right to exist. >> it's baffling. the only way i can see anything coming out of that as far as a

cease-fire and resolution would probably be through someone else, through egypt, through another country. the united states -- what john kerry did was laughable. on one hand we have a recognized terrorist organization in conflict with one of our greatest allies if not our greatest ally and the deal that kerry put together friday night that came out number one, israel lift its gaza blockade. number two we supply billions of foreign aid to the palestinian authority. number three, hamas is not required to dismantle their tunnel system or their missile set ups. it was all -- everything hamas wanted so, of course, saturday morning israel says, you know, we're not playing this game. hamas fires the first shot, israel continues. if the obama administration thinks this is where the american people are, i don't. don't forget there's 1300 or 1,200 palestinians who are dead now. how many thousands of people

have hamas, hezbollah, al qaeda, iranian terrorists killed? compare that to the israeli numbers, not 1300. >> that's a good transition for my question for bob about the clarity of war for the gaza people. regardless of what the israelis want and the americans want, the gazans themselves are starting to realize maybe hamas is not the savior they were hoping to it be and using gaza civilians as targets in its war with israel. >> that's what happened when the plo sort of broke off from hamas and established themselves in the west bank area. so, i'm not surprised. at a certain point these people are the once suffering because hamas is using them for their own shield, if you will. but let me go back to kerry for a second. there's not been a successful

u.s. negotiation for a cease-fire. the united states has a miserable track record because the united states is part of or at least perceived to be by the arabs as part of the problem. so i'm not so sure that it ought to be done that way. eric might be right. egypt tried to do a cease-fire. it didn't work. head of the u.n. security council gave a unanimous resolution to cease and desist. it's time for the united states to make it clear that israel is getting the bad end of this. but put it in someone else's hand. >> can i follow up on that? how is this going to work? i hear what you're saying. i don't think it's the person doing the ask or trying to meet in the middle. it's not a problem because it's the united states that might be behind it and see us as more pro israel or sympathizers. hamas in its charter calls for the destruction of israel.

they refuse to recognize israel. they don't want israel to exist. that's like a dale breaker right out from the get go. how is israel who is trying to negotiate in good faith but as you see netanyahu pointing out hamas violates the cease-fires they propose this is a very difficult situation. i don't think they are doing it because it's us. >> part of it is that. the answer to that is that israel needs to do a two state resolution with the plo in the west bank territories and let gaza continue to fight. eventually they will be war weary and won't be able to get enough missiles. we have to accept the fact that gaza should not be part avenue palestinian state. >> let me get greg in here. i like it when you go last in the first-round. >> me too. >> you can clarify everything for us. i want to get your take. the media's perception of how the war is going. i've watched network news last

night. i was surprised. what was being reported online didn't seem to match what was being said on television and in some ways the media is saying that israel is actually losing the longer war and so they are trying to say that they are not in a strong position. >> yesterday i think candy crowley said israel is losing the media war. she's in the media. essentially self-fulfilling. she's saying it and she's in the media. john kerry doesn't inspire confidence. he inspires sleep apnea. i don't understand why as we have radicals running around the world killing innocent people we have decided to broker a deal which actually hog-ties israel. i believe israel should go it alone in the sense they should be allowed to win. cease-fire only helps a weak aggressor. it's like a referee separating two brawlers when one is losing when in fact you should stay out of it and let the fight end

quickly. that's more merciful. right now a cease-fire is just a speed bump. a speed bump that slows and lengthens the suffering. you can't trust the untrustable. these are people violating their own cease-fires. they call a time-out and then punch you feigns. >> that's an interesting thing, eric. i want your take on this. there have been flare ups like this before. but then israel says this is somewhat different in that even their intel which is very good and ours did not understand the extent to the sophistication of the tunnels that hamas has been able to build and they were planning a major disruption, major terrorist attack with the aim of killing thousands of israelis on rosh hashana. >> they have the right to do it. the media war that you talked about, this afternoon on msnbc i couldn't believe they started using a new term called

proportionately. disproportionate deaths on one side. they are trying to spin the debate against israel which is absolutely foolish. there's no reason that israel shouldn't go in there and destroy these tunnel structures. here's what needs happen. on one side you have egypt. on the other side you have jordan. what was going on in the gaza strip the palestinians or hamas was bringing terrorists, whatever, guns, kidnappings through the tunnels from jordan. stop it. through egypt and jordan. sure, bob. one is water the other is israel. >> i don't want to correct you but jordan is -- >> yes. but they were saying they were bringing people through tunnels under the border. iran and syria are supplying missiles. laugh all you want. >> i'm not laughing. >> after the show google it or call the brain room and find

out. iran and syria were providing military weaponry including missiles through jordan through the tunnels. >> this was the question i was going to raise. where do these missiles come from. we know they come from the iranians. and perhaps the syrians. i just don't know how they get in. you can tunnel under israel to do that. >> we know there are tunnels. >> tunnels in gaza, that's right. >> let me ask you, kimberly as a negotiator. the united states is somewhat of a third-party but an active one. john kerry as a senator wasn't known as a great negotiator. he's trying to assemble some sort of a peace he dale. that was recognized as a failure. we're back to the drawing board. if you're john kerry's team what's the best negotiating ability right now? he's made everybody in the

region mad. designee certainly has. he's poking the cage a lot and not getting a good result. he's in a very difficult position as we talked about earlier to try to broker some kind of negotiation or peace between two sections that don't want peace. they both feel they are in the right. the problem is he has to go behind-the-scenes to put support and pressure in that area in a way he thinks would be meaningful because the guy who is sitting in a luxury hotel in qatar, completely removed and profited off the misery and suffering of gazans. he has no motivation to broker peace because he doesn't have to. >> there's an intricate map being drawn at the table, a collaborative effort between beckel and bolling. i don't know if we can bring you the results before the end of the show. as long as militants have

christians terrified for their lives in iraq and pressure is mounting on president obama to address the crisis. that's next on "the five."

♪ on "the five" we've been highlighting the persecution of christians in iraq and other parts of the world at the hands of islamic militants. the calls are coming to the guess of the white house as pressure continues to grow for the obama administration to address this dire issue. >> help the christians in iraq. help them before it's too late. >> this message also reached capitol hill where republican virginia congressman frank wolf this had message for president obama about what he sees as the ethnic cleansing of christians. >> there's no doubt about it, religious cleansing is continuing to occur in iraq. the christian property has been seized, looted and given to others. the president of the united states needs to speak out. time is of the essence. we cannot afford to wait any longer.

christianity as we now know it is being wiped out before our very eyes in iraq. >> very impassioned statement there and one that i think has been a long time coming, somebody taking this issue out on the forefront, greg. >> murderous behavior is exacerbated by our behavior. the anti-semitism being expressed in our own country and abroad. as long as you say it's not fight that's music to madmen's ears. we'll be living in a dome because as long as we don't take the fight to terror the terror will come to our shores. so if you want to sacrifice world travel and your spring breaks abroad, you better learn -- you're going to have to build your defenses here if you're not going to go out and

fight what's out there in the world. >> like israel. they have to build their defenses and now they are in a tenable position. >> one of the articles here from the "the washington times" the lady says hundreds of iraqi christians staged a protest outside of the white house. cpis are slow to anger. that's my perception. others would disagree. they are slow to anger but alarmed. that's why you don't see a lot of christians doing protests a lot. this is a cry for help. interesting to me the reports out today that about over a year ago the iraqi government was asking for help to try to do these air strikes against isis before it got a foot hold. now we're at a point where they have such a foot hold there might not be anything more we can do. i would still do the air strikes but i'm not calling the shots. >> eric how serious is this situation >> here's the thing about radical islam. if you don't believe in their god you don't worship the way they worship you get either

persecuted, exiled or murdered whether you're a christian in iraq or a jew in israel. they treat you the same way. if you don't believe in the koran you're an infidel. there's 1.3 billion muslims in the world. 25% of them could be radicalized. if it's only 10% that's 130 million people who want to wipe out western civilization. here's why israel is so important. in israel's constitution they are required to protect christians from persecution. that's why that little country of israel is so important in the middle east where everybody else is trying to wipe out christians. >> which begs the question what else can we do to support them given this is in their constitution. bob you've been very vocal. >> i agree with eric. the definition for them is that if you don't believe in the koran then you really don't have

a faith. now let's keep in mind that the three great religions, i use that in quotes occur within 100 square miles of each other. israeli, jewish religion, christian religion and muslims. they all believe it or not all worship the same god. the difference is that the jews are waiting for the messiah to come, the christians believe christ came and they believe mohamed is god. now it seems to me -- not just obama and i couldn't agree more they -- i'm not sure what they can at a minimum they should say something. when cameron came out and talked about christianity and doing away with christians in muslim territory he was besieged by people by the press and others. i give him credit for doing that. where are the rest of the european allies, where is the

catholic church. where is the christian churches. nobody is speaking out. it's outrageous to me. it's not genocide. you might as well be taken to the death chambers in world war ii. >> you are seeing believe it or not muslims finally getting upset or isis because basically they are hijacking that religion. your question is if no one ends this, then where does it end? >> where does it go? >> it ends at your door step. radical islam to me is the yule brenner character in "west world." he followed you relentlessly until he killed you. that's what radical islam is. they are in no rush. they have a singular purpose of taking control of everything. if we don't address that goal we'll address it down the road. >> that's why this policy of

disengagement is not one that is smart in terms of a world view in going forward. coming up, are american bvoters feeling buyer's remorse. what does it say about president obama's leadership in the wake of all these crises when "the five" returns.

♪ according to a cnn poll romney would beat obama in a rematch. no surprise. an empty tube of poly grip could beat obama. we bought a lemon and when we

drove it off the lot it fell apart. now his defenders are whining. what would you guys have done instead? >> but what should obama be doing that would make putin respect him because he's slapped all these sanctions on him. >> it's called leadership. >> it's called leadership. remember what i said be specific. [ laughter ] see it's called leadership. [ applause ] excuse my french what the [ expletive ] does that mean. it's called leadership. >> so you're asking for our help now. too late. he's your mess now. fan boys like moyer demand answers. hope and change was enough. solutions abound. negligent independence. increased defense. tax reform. if you like that stuff you wouldn't have voted for captain happy pants. it's like a 10-year-old

realizing santa claus is his drunk uncle. so one looks at putin, a is toy 0 bring viaous to world opinion while pursuing national popularity and obama oblivious to national opinion pursuing world popularity. time for a freaky friday switch. the soul of one inhabits the other and everything from borders to pipeline to external threats fall in line. think nationally and not globally and it makes sense which is why obama doesn't get it. >> could you imagine if putin was in charge? pipeline, stat. >> 2016 is about return to nationalism. it's about thinking about america first and not globally. but k.g. what do you think about this rematch. not much of a surprise. >> i've been dreaming about this at night before i go to bed i light a candle and think what my life would be like with romney.

looks pretty good. >> as president. >> as commander-in-chief. listen, this is not surprising to me. this reflects the polls and what we've seen coming along people have a growing disillusionment with president obama. make fun of it if you want but people want leadership. leadership does mean something. i think it's a word that has value attached to it. someone who is going take charge. not operate from behind. get behind the wheel of the car not sit in the back seat so that not only your allies but enemies show a healthy amount of fear and respect. could romney have done that? perhaps. i think he would have been very helpful with the economy and i would have hoped he would have had a firmer hand with respect to foreign policy and had a world view about it that would be helpful. >> but, dana, hillary would still cream him according to the same poll, i think hillary would beat romney in double digits. is that because they haven't seen enough of hillary? >> that's further proof in year

six of any presidency pretty much anybody could beat you because you just become unpopular and you wear on people's nerves. they are tired of seeing you in their living room. i would disagree with you. the next election could be about nationalism except if it's not. if there are reasons around the world for it not to be. then you have a whole different election. >> what do you mean by that? >> if concerns across the middle east and northern africa or even in asia escalate to a point where you need have a different kind of president in office then your domestic -- what you just said, though, is if you don't act globally thinks will happen to you locally. you have to think locally so you don't have the global problem. am i following you >> yes. yes. >> take the path of least resistance. >> eric is it still amazing 44% still would have voted for obama? >> his approval ratings are in

the tank. so he was asked, matt wasn't ready. matt next time he invites you on here's the ideas. oil sector, capital sector where they need to brother money to build out their infrastructure. put clamps on all three of those sectors. sanctions work. that's how you do it. everyone hates boots on the ground. that's how you send a message to putin and the rest of the world. america means business and we will take your oil revenues away from you if we need. >> you don't think anybody thinks that now >> obama administration are trying to make nice every where. they don't want to pick a fight. >> this hasn't slowed down. >> every president, go on back from obama, george bush, bill clinton, every one of them were beaten in polls by the people

they beat. >> and reagan. >> in reagan's case yes. not in '84. hell no. we couldn't -- i was talking the last three presidents had two terms they all were beaten in polls worst than this by the person who ran

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no surprise i usually disagree with those on the right side of the aisle but here's a refreshing example of common sense from george will on how we should hand tell thousands of unaccompanied children at the border. >> we ought to say to these children welcome to america you'll go to school and become

americans. we have 3,141 counties. 20 per county. the idea we can't assimilate them is preposterous. >> i couldn't agree with george will more. the problem is if you do that it invites more people to come in to the country. if you do secure the border in a way that we find that acceptable, he's absolutely right. the idea of sending children back, we can take these kids in. for the most part if you find they are criminal send them back home. we can take them in. the idea we turn them away is hatred. >> bob that's not what he said. he implemented some mental math. he missed the primary point. it's illegal. you have to get in line. what he said is insulting to everybody who legally immigrated. so, george, george loves

baseball. he writes books about baseball. you see him in the stands. he's a chicago cubs fan. not sure. what if i bring a family to your luxury box and demand that they sit there in front of you and they haven't paid. no big deal. 162 games. plenty much seats. you would have me escorted out. people wait in line. he implies being against this is against immigration. it's against illegal immigration. he was trying to score not common sense but points of compassion. >> everybody who is in favor of bringing undocumented workers here they want them behind the line. go ahead, what do you think? >> i'm trying to figure why george will went there. he calls himself a conservative columnist. it's shocking. i disagree with him. i agree with greg. they break the law they got to go back across. you want to make it a bigger line make it a bigger line. wait your turn, mortelers to

take your information and make you a legal immigrant. i'm for quadrupling the legal immigration into the country. one to four million. so what. you let four million people in it's good for the economy. do it legally. >> there's not a bill on capitol hill or anybody that's come up that does not put them at the back of the line and make them pay. >> that's not what he said. the reason i followed george will for so long he's a conservative columnist who speaks his mind. i think he was speaking from that's right. of course we can pick apart the feasibility of it but what if other parents send their kids here. at the core he's saying we're a compassionate nation i think we can absorb these kids. i don't think it's inconsistent with his conservative views. it's out of step if you run for office in certain districts. he's speaking his mind. he doesn't have to do the governing part. easy to make statements like that but then putting it in

practice is much more difficult. >> look. his heart is in the right place and applaud him for speaking his mind. we're a nation of laws and we work for a good reason. we have this order, we have this structure so the laws are respected and people should come in and follow rules like others before them. also you have to be more realistic. it's noc not as simple as putting 20 kids in each county we have. there's a slight drop because it's a hot time of the year in the desert. you'll see the numbers drop-off. wait until it gets cooler you'll see it rise again. you have to think about the long term impact and the needs of children many of which reported to be special needs, developmental challenges, they need special care and attention. what about the parents? >> i wish we spent as much time with boston logan to get the irish come in here legally and never coming home. >> what's wrong@pp@paúq÷wxw

♪ time for one more thing. i'll kick it off with a story about a kid named sean. he's a 15-year-old. from canada. all of a sudden over the weekend his songs that he played on social media ended up as number one. take a listen to sean menendez. we might have it. how could we not have it. this is the thing about music. >> i love it. >> okay. anyway, i guess you can go online because it's number one itunes. i can't sing it. i'm sorry, sean. i was going to help you retain that status. hopefully everybody will go and see it out of curiosity. kimberly save the segment. just when you thought you didn't have enough peyton

manning you wonder if the man can dance. this is peyton himself doing the tennessee fight song, rocky top and dancing it out. thank god he can throw the ball. his dance cigarette better than i thought it would be. i like his wide stance. >> greg, you're next. >> take a look at this. i'm just kidding. i don't have anything. i hate these people. all right. new study finds fist pumps are cleaner than hand shakes and prevents the spreading of germs. i hate -- i don't hate people to fist pump i believe a strong hand shake is a great way to figure out strong character and when you're eliminating the hand shake you're eliminating one avenue to figure out what the person is like. i hate high fiving.

i don't like fist pumps. whenever there's a weak hand shake it's a weak >> gross. can't stand it. bob. >> this is the end of this week begins august and august is the day that most kids who are going to college start off and my daughter is leaving for colorado. this is her graduation picture. and it's going to be very, very difficult and i think every parent out there who is going through what i'm going through right now which is not very easy will agree with me. let them go. they have a world in front of them. i wish them all the luck. >> congratulations, bob. maybe we can take a road trip and go see her. can we go visit. road trip. >> where, in bowler? >> not boulder. >> why do you hate boulder. >> dana hates boulder. >> that's why we should go

there. >> let's change hearts and minds, dana. >> good transition. federal judge struck down a ban in d.c. for hand guns outside the house that happened yesterday believe it or not on sunday. that in conjunction with chris christie a couple of weeks ago struck down a band on magazines of 15 down to ten. he said no. the pendulum is swinging back to constitution and second amendment. good news. >> next time i do a segment about a song you could do the sound effects. we don't have video. don't forget to set your dvr so you never miss >> july 29th, twister trouble coast to coast, one side of the

country, ripped apart. >> police examine a brand new piece of evidence. they claim she used a formula to make a perfect match. fox and friends first starts right now. still dark out here on the east coast. granted it is 4:59 in the morning. not many people out on the street this morning but that will change in 30 minutes.

good morning to you. >> thank you so much for starting your day with us. we did begin with some extreme weather. a rare tornado barrelling through a massachusetts suburb just five miles from boston. the twister packing winds up to 120 miles per hour and ripping a path of destruction nearly two miles long. check out this we're about to show you right here. that car flipped over on a sidewalk from up above. you can see roofs torn right off buildings. the national weather service says this is the first twister to hit the area since they began keeping records back in 1950. and out west, at least three tornadoes touching down in denver, one near the airport. no reports of major damage. an