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guy who never forgot his roots and tried to let people know "all view politicians, don't forget the base, the people." it is his legacy, his single greatest triumph. ♪ ♪ >> dana: hello. it's 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ radio legend, conservative icon, and american original rush limbaugh is dead at the age of 70. his wife making the announcement on his show today. he had stage four lung cancer, revealed one year ago, but he continued to host a top-rated program until the very end. reaction pouring in from top conservative voices and former president trump on what rush
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meant to them and the country. >> she made it cool to >> he made it cool to be a patriot. he showed people how to stand up to tierney. >> there is no talk radio, as we it with rush limbaugh. without rush limbaugh. it changed the life of americans single-handedly. >> rush was a happy warrior. so many times, people wanted to give up on conservativism. rush was the person you could turn on the radio and realize "we are america. >> he is a legend. to those people that listened to him every day, it was like a religious experience a lot of people. his fans, they wouldn't miss him. a very unique person. >> dana: going to spend some time with our reflections. jesse watters, i've always loved your story about the summer job
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you had when you first got introduced to rush limbaugh, and the impact that had on your life. i thought i would ask you if you could retell that story. >> jesse: i don't remember exactly what the story was, dana, but i remember listening to him in college and got hooked immediately, and would make my liberal mother listen to rush on long car rides. she nearly drove us into a ditch one time during a monologue on welfare reform. when that happens, i knew something was right. he said he had a phd in liberalism. he got inside the psyche of liberals. he made us understand what motivated them, the guilt about america's success, the way they use race to divide people, the way they use dependency to push their ideology. the insecurity that they had about the foundation of america,
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and why that insecurity motivated them to try to assume so much power over other people's lives. that was eye-opening for people. a lot of people that don't listen to him don't understand that listening to rush was educational. half the show was opinion, but the other half was information. he used that information to build a foundation for that opinion. after three hours of listening, you felt enriched. his opinion was based upon the fact, articles, statements the democrats had made, statistics, american history. it wasn't intellectually rigorous program, and he answered the question "why?" no one else does that. people left the show feeling confident in their opinion, because it was based on logic and reason.
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the last thing that separated rush from everybody else was his sense of humor. the guy had a great wit, sarcastic. he was able to ridicule his political enemies in a way that was pleasant and fun, and it made it conservatism fun. turn on, listen to him make fun of al gore or jesse jackson, bill clinton, and it made you feel like you are part of something. those three components, the psychological intuition, the fact-based opinion, and the sense of humor created a combination which was unstoppable. that's why he was a threat to democrats, and they kept trying to shut him down and never could. they said he had talent -- alone are from god. as he opened the gates of heaven, i can hear the sounds of the bump in music playing, and god has some talent back.
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>> dana: [laughs] greg, to jesse's point, former vice president mike pence said that rush made it conservatism fun, something jesse just set as well. he was a giant in his career, an icon. it's a lot of work to do that every day for as many years as he did. >> greg: the reason he was so successful is there was this idea of what was missing: humor, satire, a sense of the absurd, and he was basically a one-man counterbalance to a declining intellectual culture. it was the one man standing at the clifton shouting "stop." but, with humor. i was working at a mailroom -- not a bar. [laughter] at the american spectator in '87, i was an intern. we used to get unsolicited articles. a few were written by rush
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limbaugh. i remember -- you are not supposed to do anything with them, i'm not supposed to read them, you put them in a reject pile. a year later, i go back, and i used to get his mail. within a year, he gets millions of viewers. it's an immediate success, and it tells you how large that gap was that he was filling, because there was no one else. it was a precursor to fox. no one expected fox news to dominate like it did until it did, and it revealed that what had been missing the entire time, which was in this media landscape, no counterbalance -- you did say something about the amount of work. the first time i hosted a radio show, and for dennis miller, i was doing it with somebody else -- andrew breitbart. we were guest hosting, and we were terrified for three hours. how do you fill three hours? and you realize, rush has been filling thousands and thousands
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and thousands of hours. he never seemed to get tired. of course, he made mistakes, but it's kind of -- it's like being a pro athlete. >> dana: he's a tom brady of talk radio. juan, rush didn't even go by both names. he was just known as "rush." he drove a lot of the left crazy. everyone can agree, very consequential life. >> juan: absolutely. he's a game changer. he took conservatism into talk radio in a way no one had. and he came along, a.m. was dying. rush limbaugh was the one-man solution. you start that show, combine it with the fcc doing away with the fair balanced doctrine, and i think rush limbaugh has made talk radio into a conservative
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media. all the top of talk shows these days are conservative, and i think they are basically in the model of rush limbaugh. he did that, as jesse and greg have said, with caustic comments sometimes, ridiculing people. he could be mocking people. he was also great at mimicry. he could mimic people and talk about them in a way that made people laugh, and feel like it was a fun time, even though he was delivering a strong political message. he tried tv at times, but it didn't stick in the way radio did. he even tried espn. with a general audience, a lot of the edgy comments, especially about race, didn't play in the way that they did -- i shared a cigar with rush. i'm a big fan of his top producer. i think for a lot of people,
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rush limbaugh was bigger than life. he was a nice guy! i've got to tell you. i could count on rush to give a call at times when things were crazy, and much appreciated. >> dana: i heard a lot about that today, people sang at times when they were down, down, all of a sudden they would get a call from rush. erick erickson, talk show host georgia, said something like that. katie, he was also generationally timeless. here younger conservative you are younger conservative. the icon lived up with younger folks as well? >> katie: yes. my great aunt would listen to rush limbaugh every day. when i was in her car when we were going to lunch or dinner, sometimes i would hear. i sometimes had a rash on my ipod that i would take to the gym in college, i had to rush on there. i was in the 2009 impact speech
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rush limbaugh gave. if you listen to that speech what he said, telling people who they are, standing up for who we are, but making fun of himself and being self deprecating, that opened the door to the tea party movement and a number of things for conservative media. you can say that his pioneering and radio opened the door for other conservative media to take hold and be successful. i remember being in that room. what happened at cpac that year, he was the last speaker of the event on saturday. you had to go in early and you couldn't leave. if you left, he lost the receipt. people sat in there for 6-8 hours waiting for rush limbaugh to speak. the fire marshal was freaking out, telling everybody there were also so many people. it was so much fun. he made a joke about how he loves when he gets applause, and although it happens all the time, it's still special for him. [laughter]
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it was a good time and i will never forget. >> dana: our condolences to his wife and everyone that worked with him. may he rest in peace. conservative radio icon rush limbaugh dead at the age of 70. we will be right back with more of "the five."
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♪ ♪ >> juan: president joe biden creating controversy during a town hall last night. biden taking heat over this claim about the trump trump administration in the vaccine. >> president biden: i should say it that way, but when you and i talked last, we talked about this one thing about the
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vaccine, which we didn't have when we came into office, but a vaccinated. how to get the vaccine in someone's arm? you need to have the mechanism, people who can injected into people. >> juan: the president contradicting his press secretary on reopening schools. biden sang jen saki made a "mistake" when she said to have schools open one day a week in his first 100 days. dana, the biggest controversy is about what he said regarding the vaccines and the trump administration. he seems to say that trump left no stockpile of vaccines and no federal strategy for distributing the vaccine. is that right? >> dana: it's not true, and we know that. we were reporting in the vaccines being administered from december all the way through the inauguration.
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this is quite common. after you have an event like the town hall last night, you send out lots of different people from your administration's team to blanket the airwaves, try to keep the good times going. they had a hard time today. vice president kamala harris on "the today show" got caught up in a whirlwind of nonanswers when he came to school closures and reopening's. i think simone sanders on cnn, a similar thing. in my experience, it means -- munication is easy when the facts are correct. when you're trying to talk about cc guidance, things that changed -- i think they're in for a rough patch. everyone in the country needs to seems to be taking a breather after the inauguration, but the biden team is going to be judged on things out of their control, but they are making promises on covid that they might not be able to fulfill.
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also, they are asking taxpayers to spend a lot of money. we should dig into that more over what that's going to go for for covid relief on the economy continues to do fairly well. i think everyone can agree, targeted relief for the people who need it. restaurant owners, service industry people, the single moms had to leave their jobs so they could be had home with kids because they are on zoom all day trying to do classes. i think this bill is going to be expensive, and after this period of everyone taking a breather, i think the biden team's going to have an awakening in the next couple weeks. >> juan: katy, today the president announced a $1 billion spending on the virus testing and expanding testing, and attempting to curb the spread of the virus and homeless shelters and increase the supply of vaccines. a lot of people complain they can't get it.
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what's your reaction? >> katie: joe biden was elected. because he argued on the campaign trail that he was the guy that knew washington, that he would be capable of doing a better job dealing with the pandemic of anna president trump, and because they didn't give operation works be the credit that it deserves, they are in this place where people are saying "you said you were going to be better than the trump administration," when they got a vaccine in under a year, which is a miracle, and had a distribution set up with ups, fedex, the military. now, the biden team is trying to lower expectations. they've been doing it since the cayman's office, and now they're lying about the idea that there was no vaccine. there are multiple vaccines. there are still vaccines waiting for fda approval. is this tough to deal with? sure. is there prioritization process? yes, especially when teachers
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unions', trying to jump in front of the line of vulnerable seniors and others who should get the vaccine first, and then politics get involved. joe biden promised a lot on covid, and they aren't delivering it when they promised to follow the signs, get kids back in school, and deal with this in a better way that a to >> juan: to that, the trump administration points out that the new infection rate is down substantially since an occupation date. biden has pushed social distancing, increased. does he deserve credit for that? >> jesse: i'm not ready to give him credit just yet, juan. [laughter] that was a trend he took advantage of. i did watch this town hall last night, and it was lackluster. this guy is not a strong
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communicator. he struggles to complete sentences, he stops and restarts and restarts back up again. dominic, sometimes meandering from one point to the next, no idea where he's going, having a difficult time putting together persuasive thoughts. maybe once or twice an hour, he will manage a very powerful, strong connection with the audience, how are you and i say "there you go, joe!" 90% of the time, he goes back to listlessly wandering around and not keeping your attention. it makes realize that this guy must need a lot of help to just perform the basic duties of being a chief executive. he's out there bragging that he ordered more doses for the vaccine, as if no other president would have thought to do that. then, he's out there bragging that he had a two our conversation with the leader of
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china, as if that's something to be proud of, and if that's some testimonial to how great he is able to perform at a level that is strong and vibrant. then, he ends up repeating basically chinese propaganda and the saying "the chinese need to crack down, they are always being victimized by foreign powers." well, joe, china has always been dominated by foreign powers. that's the propaganda they use to justify their human rights abuses and crackdowns. i don't know why he said that. >> juan: jesse, let's take a look at that, and i will get greg to respond. >> president biden: the central principle of xi jinping is that there must be a tightly controlled china. he uses his rationale for the things he does based on that. no american president can be sustained as the president if he
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doesn't reflect the values of the united states. not going to out against what he's doing in hong kong, what he's doing in the western mountains of china and taiwan, trying to end the one china policy for making a forceful -- i said -- he said -- he gets it. culturally, their different norms in each country their leaders are expected to follow. >> juan: greg, your reaction. >> greg: what he's doing with the -- somebody should have followed up and asked him "what is he doing with them?" joe is it so well, sees china's treatment of the dash as part of diversity. who are we to judge? he presented a justification for china putting people in concentration camps, killing
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them. days ago, i remember joe biden condemning our administration -- previous administration -- separating children from people who claim to be their parents, putting them in cages. i remember biden calling it "immoral and shameful." this is deliberate and documented evil, and it's like "we do things differently, they do things differently." so, that's garbage. that's worse than his mistakes. he basically gave china a pass. there's another thing about his meandering answers. he's a benefit of the media. if the media had time -- they don't have time to listen to everything, so they edit it for him. you never see the whole thing of what he's going to say. she had scrunched down there, because no network is the time to play his wilderness,
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wandering confusion, which i just did now. he benefits from it. >> juan: coming up, schools across america pushing some controversial curriculum. greg, he's going to explain it for your next home "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ liberty mutual customizes- wait... am i in one of those liberty mutual commercials where they stand in front of the statue of liberty and talk about how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? uhhh... yes. huh... what happens in this one? seagulls. oh, i like it. how are you doing? (seagulls sounds) only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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as a pretense to eradicate it. one new york city school has asked parents to rank their whiteness, from white supremacy to white abolitionist. how is that not systemic racism? if you disagree, aren't you proof of the problem? the oregon department of education concluded that asking students to show their work in math class is evidence of white supremacy. this would be laughable if it weren't so damaging. on a global math rankings, america's 25th. who's on top of reading, science, and math? it rhymes with china. instead of lessons in something that matters, we let these gobble up our kids. then there's the teachers who probably never read shakespeare, demanding they cut him from courses, because he is a tool of white oppression. remember that san francisco school board wanted to rename those schools? we laughed, but they were serious.
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they delayed it reopening classrooms to tackle this priority. this has become the new curriculum. race warfare using identity politics to give power to a click of petty dictators. it's brainwashing and washes away the brains. they are spending your tax dollars to make your kid dumber. cnn can do that for free. we were talking about the school board, and we thought they are marginal, won't have an impact. they're going to delay discussing putting kids back in class, and tackled the name change first. >> juan: i don't think that's right. that priority is out of place. it's about getting kids back in school first and foremost. to me, they are marginal in some ways. i don't think this would go in most of the country. to your larger point, i think we are more diverse than ever.
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you see rising numbers of minorities, especially hispanics, asians in american society. with that comes people who didn't have a voice before, asking to be heard. also puts pressure on the majority population, white america, because they are asked to be more aware of how they treat the people who are not white in this society. to ask them to think about how they deal with the other. i don't think "racist." right now, there's a lot of discussion about what it means to be antiracist in this society. it means being aggressively, looking forward, taking a step in terms of trying to make sure that we are treated equally. i don't think that's a bad thing. >> greg: i think you might be soft peddling this a bit. this is more like an indoctrination.
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if you disagree, you are in trouble. >> katie: i don't think the majority of white americans see people different than them as the other. think most people treat them as fellow americans, their friends, and with respect, instead of treating them as the other, looking at them differently because of the color of their skin, where they are from. i know we've been talking about schools come but maybe we should keep them closed. students are not engaged. i remember the beginning of the pandemic, teachers didn't want parents sitting in on their kid's prism glasses? this is what they are teaching in kid's school classes? you are paying for every penny of it, which is what teachers are fighting school choice. there are alternative, real educations they should be getting.
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>> greg: if you couple this development with what's been happening, coming out of campuses, with the pandemic, this seems like an ideal time for a national rethink on the future of education. what can we do? >> any time there's been a pandemic or plague, there's always been some big, massive change. the point you made about the oregon department of education segment showing your work in math is white supremacy, we are making this for our own back. these kids are the future of this country. they are not going to be able to compete. young people might think "what a bunch of old people, they don't understand." believe us. it's a competitive world, we have to act like it in our schools. colleges, student at -- i feel like we do not spend enough time talking about k-12. >> i'm going to try to overlook
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your foul language. this is a family show. we are going to [bleep] you. [laughter] jesse, you are the most woke person at fox. this can't be good. they're going to eat our lunch in the 20-30 years. >> dana: that's what biden said. >> jesse: the most offensive thing about this is the school trying to give parents homework. if you are not sending me homework! i'm not taking homework to reflect on my whiteness, my blackness, whatever. i'm done reflecting. i'm working. you reflect on how you can make my son or daughter get into a great college so i don't have to grease the university with a generous donation. [laughter] if i want to reflect on how bad my race is, i can watch cnn all day. [laughter] this is an attack on western civilization. it has contributed so much to
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the world, the american experiment in terms of prosperity, individual rights, freedom. there is no problem with adding more voices to western civilization, black voices, hispanic voices. we don't need to tear down western civilization like math and shakespeare and abe lincoln to accomplish creating more diversity. we can just add more voices. that's not threatening anybody. >> for the past minute or two, i've heard nothing jesse said, so i'm assuming it was all good. i can't hear anything. coming up, claimant crusader bill gates says we need meat to save the planet. ♪ ♪
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♪ ♪ >> katie: to say goodbye to your burger. bill gates says we need to ditch beef to fight global warming. he said "i think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. you can use to the taste, and the claim as they will make it taste better over time." there might be a conflict of interest. gates reportedly has invested in plant-based foods and beyond meat. people who warned they were coming after our cheeseburgers and their stakes were made fun of and called conspiracy theorists, and here we are. >> dana: if he wants to >> dana: he wants to put his money where his mouth is, go for it, it could work for some people. his book is about concern of an
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existential crisis from climate change. remember when aoc put out the green of new deal, and it said they were going to do the same thing, and it was mocked relentlessly? then they said "it was a draft." this is what they believed, this is the plan. as we head into the fourth night of people in texas freezing, having to figure out a way to boil water, and a lot of them are also raising cattle, it's a tragedy. mr. gates' self admittedly a little socially awkward. needs to learn how to read the room. >> katie: greg, you are a meat eater. are you going to eat fake meat? >> greg: i'm up for trying. i have moral issues with eating meat. we are eating earthlings. that fact is based on a hierarchy.
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we are on top and we eat everything on bottom. if you're good with that, which i am, fine, but then you have to eliminate the idea of sentence, that these animals are conscious beings, and possibly it could happen to you. let's say in 1 million years -- [laughter] -- summit being could come out of the earth and have an iq of 1,000 and aside we are going to be there if you will, and we become animals to them. i think about it too much, but i'm having a steak tonight, so that makes me a hypocrite. >> dana: that's what i had last night. [laughter] >> katie: the robots are going to eat us first. they will be here before we know it. >> juan: that's what greg tells me. [laughter] i think bill gates is a smart, rich guy. he's not the president, and he's not a governor. he's a private citizen. i don't think any state or federal government has interest in taking away anybody's burger or steak.
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i think there's big concern about climate change. look at texas, a once in a century climate catastrophe. people are talking about a climate change proposal in congress, but it really is about, from their perspective, necessary change, job at producing change in terms of doing things like infrastructure, broadband, building highways that can cope with the coming of electric cars, doing more in terms of our structure to deal with energy and improve our electric grids to help texas. >> jesse: just because you're rich doesn't mean you're right. history is filled with wealthy men with horrible ideas, trying to help the masses. just because he has an expertise in one area doesn't transfer that to another area. getting rid of fossil fuels and meats, those are dangerous,
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radical ideas. he should be called out for that just like anybody that doesn't have the kind of money. >> katie: he is also a hypocrite, which we don't have time to talk about. next, or more of the of conservative icon rush limbaugh. don't miss hannity tonight. he will have a look back at the life and legacy of the conservative trailblazer realleged. good morning, blair. [ chuckles ] whoo. i'm gonna grow big and strong. yes, you are. i'm gonna get this place all clean. i'll give you a hand. and i'm gonna put lisa on crutches! wait, what? said she's gonna need crutches. she fell pretty hard. you might want to clean that up, girl. excuse us. when owning a small business gets real, progressive helps protect what you built with customizable coverage. -and i'm gonna -- -eh, eh, eh. -donny, no. -oh. -and i'm gonna -- -eh, eh, eh. my body is truly powerful. i have the power to lower my a1c. because my body can still make its own insulin.
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♪ ♪ >> let me tell you who we conservatives are. we love people. when we look out over the united states of america, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people such as this or anywhere, we see americans, human beings. we don't see groups. >> jesse: america mourning the loss of rush limbaugh, who passed away today at the age of 70, after a year long battle with lung cancer. you mentioned at the top of the show, katie, you were at that rush limbaugh speech in 2009. >> katie: you are hearing all day today about how much input
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he had on so many people's lives. all the people in that room left wanting to go do something for the conservative movement. i think in a time when politics is a tough force, and we are divided, is friendship with elton john, who disagreed with him vehemently politically, but he played his wedding. they had a friendship. i think if they can be friends, we can all move forward and try to have dialogue. when it comes to people like rush limbaugh who may enrage you, dialogue is the only way. that's a good life lesson for everybody. >> jesse: that is a lesson that juan talked about earlier, smoking cigars with el-rushbo'. that must've been an experience. >> juan: it was. people forget that in the mid-'90s when newt gingrich had his contract of american,
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use of publicans retake the house and threaten wilkinson. rush limbaugh was a key part in that, the threatening of bill clinton by republicans retaking the house. he turned away, rush limbaugh. he demonstrated that talk radio and the media, using the media to stir conservative voters may have been more potent than being a congressman. >> jesse: i thank god he didn't do that. he probably wouldn't have lasted long in congress. your former boss, dana, george w. bush, released a statement today. as he said, he was a listener himself. >> dana: absolutely. there were times where needed to get legislation across the finish line. what was the last time you what was the last tool you had? that was to call in to rush
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limbaugh's show if he would have you. that legislation would get past. rush limbaugh wrote a series of children's books. if you are listening and didn't know that, they are wonderful, about american heroes, well illustrated. i recommend them to you. >> jesse: last word to you, greg. >> greg: children's history books seems like something jesse could really dig into. [laughter] i have to say, i probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't for rush limbaugh. he opened the door for people like me, who weren't entirely the bread and butter-type conservative. i'm a quirky weirdo. [laughter] bizarre sense of humor. he helped. i don't know if fox would be around if it wasn't for rush limbaugh. he opened a pretty big door.
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i think the real tribute to him is how cathartic his demise is for his critics. if you go on twitter, you can see people who are -- it's the only relief they could find from rush limbaugh, was in his death. what a salute! they could find no joy in his life! >> jesse: i want to salute juan williams for a classy analysis at the top and bottom of the show. that was much needed and appreciated here on "the five." thank you, juan. fox nation also honoring the legacy of rush limbaugh. they have a collection of shows and specials streaming now. make sure to check that out. "one more thing" up next. thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, are living in the moment and taking ibrance.
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"one more thing." if there's a heartwarming video if a nurse who had some good news for her dad. she wanted to have some fun, she wanted to him to read lips while he listen to music through his air pods. >> i'm cancer free. >> i can't understand. >> i'm cancer free. did you have your scan? >> dana: victoria was finishing up her third semester of nursing school when she got the diagnosis of hodgkin's lymphoma. she battled cancer for a year and a half, she is now cancer, her dad is obviously very happy. congratulations. >> jesse: greg posted a very important question, elevator door open, mask on, and they say they preferred to ride alone. is that the right thing to do?
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we polled you, instagram says 84% said that behavior is not cool. only 60% said -- >> dana: i asked him today. >> jesse: two people with masks ten ride an elevator at the same time. >> greg: there something wrong about hammer, now i know what it is. i knew something was off. before the number one of album in the america today is janet jackson's control. you say, that came out 35 years ago, yeah, here is jackson reacting to the surprising news. >> i want to thank all of you for making control number one once again after 35 years. before the album rocketed to the top after justin timberlake
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apologized to jackson and britney spears for what he says was, not respecting them in a system that condones misogyny ad racism. but your dancing shoes on for the control album, which contains hits like what have you done for me lately. >> dana: 35 years, i'm feeling the age. that's it for us, special report is up next. >> bret: good evening, i'm bret baier. breaking tonight come at the of the conservative icon, rush limbaugh that ignited conservative talk radio and change the american political landscape has died. he was 70 years old. last night he told his listeners he was diagnosed with lung cancer. he used unbounded enthusiasm along with humor and intellect to entertain millions on more than 600 radio stations for decades. limbaugh was controversial, drawing the wrath of democrats and others, jokingly calling himself the

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