in i will be back here tomorrow with republican senator pat toomey sounding the alarm over the fed and inflation and as always you can catch me and john roberts on america reports weekdays live from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. eastern time we would love to have you. tune in, we will see you there tomorrow and see you on gutfeld tonight. "the five" starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: that's why i got out of jail. i'm greg gutfeld along with richard fowler. back from extended rehab dana perino. "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: a new poll says americans think the country is moving in the wrong direction, optimism about where we are headed as a nation over the next year dropping nearly 20 points since may with 55% saying they felt pessimistic about the future. but can you blame them? try walking down the street in any major liberal city.

nypd releasing new video of a brutal mugging showing the effects of an unpoliced city a low life repeatedly punching and kicking a 68-year-old man. as old as kilmeade. knocking him unconscious and then rifling through his pockets. i wonder if the press will be as attentive to these videos as they were for those in which police were involved. but progressive democrat who push for less police are too busy hiring their own private security to keep them safe. campaign filings reveal squad member cory bush spent 70 grand on private security while calling on defund the police. trey gowdy ripping into the hypocrisy. >> i don't know about your city or state, but $70,000 would get you your own personal police officer in south carolina. 24 hours a day, seven days a week. cori bush tells us she is progressive. the better word might be hypocritical. she wants to defund your police

while she has a robust personal security detail in washington and st. louis. >> greg: that's trey fouady, dana, you are aware of him. great show on the weekends. welcome back. you are so brave. >> dana: thank you, i feel better now. help me keep strong. >> greg: that's good. anyway, seeing videos now. the police are realizing how important it is to show what's going on on the street because, for so long, all you saw were the things in which they were involved in and now we are seeing what happens when the police -- >> dana: coin a phrase this is what you do when you fight fire with fire. the videos are the things that the people are reacting to. and we saw that, as you mentioned, obviously when there have been videotape of police brutality, we have seen that and there is a big reaction to it. i think that some of these videos, i don't know why all of a sudden the nypd is doing this but i would imagine it's because

they realize that we need to be explicit and be persuasive. one of the ways you are persuasive is to show. they have the video and there for everyone to see. and something like that can spur action. can i comment on the poll? >> greg: yes. >> dana: it takes a long time to build up enough trust to get to a 64% approval rating and a moment to lose it but they are blowing past all the stop signs. i guess they don't watch fox. need to do a fox news alert. fyi, immigration, sign, the pandemic response, the inflation, education, all these things, but they are so focused on trying to pass $5 trillion in long-term spending and all these things that they want to do which on the merits have a fight about it. but if that doesn't pass, even if it does pass, all of these other things are happening and we are living in the middle of this political realignment that they might really have something that they are going to have to deal with. the fact that they are at the

white house thinking oh gosh, maybe we should do something. a speech is not going to fix this the only thing that can fix this is a policy pivot and i don't think we are going to get one. >> greg: they can't admit they were so wrong. brian, you are used to that. [laughter] >> greg: experts say the rise in perform is to you hosting the 7:00 p.m. primary. >> brian: i wrote this study -- i didn't say anything about it. notice i'm not doing it this week. a couple of things do i have to ask permission every time i want to follow up like dana gut you can do whatever you want. >> brian: okay, fine. the people mess mystic issues gone wrong not little things cultural issue on the other side of it sit there and have a good debate like a barbecue. can i continue? >> greg: yes. >> brian: you talk about voting that's fundamental part of our democracy. debating that totally inaccurate way they are being portrayed. when you talk about crime, that's a fundamental way in which we live.

when you talk about inflation that's things we buy from the smallest to the biggest things challenged on a regular basis. i do no longer feel confident. just from talking to people and when it comes to crime, this really has changed. remember six months ago it was all about the cops are the problem. and the cops just took a step back and say take my badge and i'm going to retire or i quit. and now every single one of these major cities is depleted. it's like breaking up with a girl and say see how life is like without me. and then watching her life spiral down. >> greg: that's never happened to you. >> dana: ask permission use analogy. >> greg: do you assume when they break up with you their life gets worse? >> brian: i'm just saying. every guy thinks that way. >> dana: and it's not true. [laughter] >> brian: ruining my analogy. that's the thing. you watch that person miss you in front of you and say do you want back in?

that's what the cops are doing. they are out there going what is life without me? >> dana: in baltimore asking for 100 federal agents to come in and help. >> greg: i don't think that the opposite of optimism is perform. it's hopelessness, you know. and hopelessness, richard, arrives when you feel like you have no impact or your influence is futile. like you are talking about how much crime there is but no one is doing anything. that's more hopelessness and this pessimism. i think that might be driving this what do you think? >> richard: when you watch videos like we saw there or video of a police officer beating somebody up. it doesn't matter disgusting to watch each. none of this should be happening in our streets. that's, i think, where people are where people are and gallup poll points done last year especially in black communities saying look we like the presence of police. oftentimes we feel like we are not treated with respected and dignity how do we create a balance here. how do we ensure in when police are in our communities and treated with respect but how do we deal with crime that's happening in our community

whether it's solving the case in nyiah in washington where i live or ensuring in new york city 65-year-old men don't get beat up by crazy people which is what is happening. we have to figure out how to rebalance this. right now the system is unbalanced to some extent to dana's point, you know, yes, i think the white house has to do a little bit more and the president has to have more of a stronger footing he has put out a plan. >> brian: only about guns. that's part of the problem. >> dagen: covid relief money. >> richard: you have to hire more police. the number one killer of police last year is coronavirus. that's according to officer down. number one kill early of police officers last year was covid-19. in order to get more boots on the ground we have to hire more police. that's what muriel bowser is doing in d.c. taking the money from the american rescue plan and using it to put more police on the ground. >> greg: i want to get to dagen. richard block up the black

communities. i find it interesting that you are right, it's the black communities that are concerned about crime. buff all you see are the white leftists the antifa and activists out there talking about defunding more than anybody and they don't have to live with the consequences. >> dagen: right, i use the term soft bigot trip. the soft bigotry that people on the left ignored this for the last year and a half when it was hurting communities throughout major cities particularly black and latino communities. but only when it arrives at their doorstep like the shooting down in d.c. did they start giving a flying damn about it o, oh, okay. i left my -- >> greg: might have heard of that restaurant, dana, jim acosta goes there he is a lousy tipper. >> i left my doorman building and i heard shots when i was out dining with my fancy friends. >> greg: had a great meal there. >> dagen: you admit to that? what amplifies the pessimism or

is the total disconnect between what people are seeing and hearing in every day lives. otherwise known as reality. and the garbage that the left and liberals in power have been regurgitating. in people's faces. and what i mean is our city is dangerous -- let me -- you just don't understand or gavin newsom saying well, crime -- i don't know what you are talking about. crime is down in the last 30 years. or joe biden saying defund the police, we never said defund the police. they are lying about it or inflation. oh, it's running at the fastest pace in 1 years to 30 years if you look at-that's just transitory. that's just a right wing talking point. the left, they're compulsively dishonest and also retrievably stupid that they can't see what is in the face of every american and just one thing that's happening i found this really interesting. gallup did a poll on confidence

in institutions that came out a couple of weeks ago. confidence for all institutions is down this year except for one. the police. down the most for public schools because the teachers unions essentially trampled on children across the country for their own power. and the medical system in part because of the poor messaging from washington. >> richard: think about it just the police is not the way to look at it think about a community where little nyiah died in washington. broadband internet. right? this is a community that doesn't have resources they don't have jobs. if you look at -- >> greg: there is a killer. >> richard: i'm talking about a broader problem that exists in this community if you just think about. >> greg: focus on the problem just a broad issue. >> richard: if you are sitting here just having a conversation about oh, how do we solve the crime, one way to solve the crime is by providing opportunity. if you can't get online and look for a job in community because you don't have broadband internet that's a problem. >> dana: i'm for opportunity and badded guys staying in jail.

just had a press conference this weekend he is furious about it. >> richard: absolutely. >> greg: i think we have to make a right wing talking point pro-crime. because that's the only way the democrats are going to be anticrime because this is all politically motivated. coming up next, dr. fauci, aka, the pope, says mask mandates for vaccinated are now under active consideration. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ will. >> dana: masks for vaccinated americans gabeing momentum amid rising covid cases. st. louis becoming the latest city revive mask mandate that goes into effect today leaving many to wonder if moves like that could actually end up disincentivize people from getting the jab. dr. fauci says changes could be

coming at the federal level. >> this is under active consideration if you are asking am i part of the discussion. yes i am part of the discussion. i think what you are seeing, even though as of our conversation at this moment, the cdc still says and recommends that if you are vaccinated fully that you do not need to wear a mask indoors. >> dana: so far the white house says they will lee it to local officials on what to restrict. >> for many of these recommendations, we are always going to be guided by our north star and that is the cdc and our health and medical experts there, of course, is an active discussion about a range of steps that can be taken as there has been from the first day of this administration there are going to be localities that have higher rates of outbreaks that they may make additional recommendations. they may take steps to keep their communities safe. >> dana: but it's not bawl masks, the nfl will reportedly fine unvaccinated players nearly

$15,000 for each violation of the league's covid protocols. let's go sports expert dagen. you are the sports expert you want to talk about the nfl? >> brian: i do. they are leading the charge and a lot of the controversy. the same controversy you would have if you mandated i need proof we have vaccinations. we don't be have that if you don't have that we are taking your word you are supposed to wear a mask. the nfl is so -- there is so much money on the line they came out and said if you are not vaccinated tough wear a mask and have all these other protocols. your team has to actually forfeit a game we are not moving a game. you guys lost. standing says i'm not doing it and you have other players that have said i'm just not going to get vaccinated. instead of mandating and yelling at them. you should do what chris christie mentioned on sunday the focus group reveals. they don't want to hear from politicians and coaches. they want to hear from expert. ron rivera of the washington redskins got a doctor in and he put the doctor in front of hits

team and he said ask any questions you want. go over the technology. it's not because people aren't educated. they are not educated in what this vaccine is and the emergency use people freaked out to a degree. so by putting people down or having politicians yell into a microphone or anchors or hosts, i think it's a problem. and you are not convincing anyone. if you put a mask on the american people that got vac sin flighted, you will get any more people vaccinated. one of the main reasons people did it because they want to get back to their life. you start taking their life away again, goodbye. >> richard: this is a rarity i agree with brian kilmeade jesus take the wheel. >> dana: what else do you want to say? >> richard: i actually agree with that part of the problem here, i agree. you need to go have a conversation with your medical professional whether that's a doctor or nurse in your family or nurse in your community, ask them all the questions you need to ask them about the vaccine and if you can, you should go get the vaccine. if your health allows you if you are not immunocompromised go talk to that person and get it

the only way we will stop the delta variant stop in many of these communities now seeing a high spread of it mask mandates going back in place more and more folks getting vaccinated and that's where these deaths are happening. i agree with you. >> brian: can i add real quick? i have a good friend 17 and 1-year-old goethe got the shot. 19-year-old no problem. 17-year-old swelling of the heart. he can't take a deep breath for two weeks it hurt every time his heart beat. is he 100 percent healthy and elite athlete. the dad feels terrible. how could i sit here with a microphone and say go get vaccinated a what if you listen to me and i'm responsible for the swelling of that kid's heart. i don't want that responsibility because i'm not qualified to give you medical advice. i'm willing to admit that. >> greg: i'm not. up am an expert. >> brian: take it away, greg. >> greg: you make my heart swell. >> brian: thank you very much. that's for another time and another show. >> dana: you make his head

swell. people in the media who lied to us about crime. who have been lying to us about decades about climate and ginning up a racial war why should we listen to them. you have shouldn't listen to us. you shouldn't listen to anybody. on top of that you have the government in bed with these people pushing all sorts of phony narratives or insurrection or hoax or big lie. don't listen to them. the american public has had their chain yanked so often the chain is broken. now what they are doing to your point they start yelling at you and lecturing you and hectoring you and judging you as if that's going to help in reality most of the morons from cable news and from network news they just like they like feeling superior. this is what it is about. they lo telling people in rural america you suck. people are going to do the right thing. they are going to get the vaccine. people are getting the vaccine. and we hope that's the case. i am obviously very pro-vaccine

i have been for awhile. i think we need to stop pitting people against each other. >> brian: yep. >> we have to stop worrying about who is vaccinated and who is not. just if you talk about it with friends. you give them your advice and you say i'm no expert, do you what you think is right. it's true, like if people are having side effects, you don't want to be the person responsible for that either. >> brian: 30% of the healthcare workers have not gotten vaccinated flipped me out. >> greg: same thing with the small pox vaccine. those were healthcare professionals. the people who know. >> dana: other thing is dagen politically or even from the business perspective, masks and mandates are not going to get you out of phase four of this virus. >> dana: all these mask mandates do is punish the people who got the shot. and then it basically says we don't trust unvaccinated people to mask up. so, if you got the jab, then you need to start wearing a mask.

may i use a sports analogy? sports analogy and you can tell me if this is not a good one. this is like the coach who makes the whole team run three miles when two players show up late. when they are tardy. so, the entire-what it does is you are trying to create anger among the most of the team who did the right -- you know, they were on time, but they want to make the team then put pressure on the minority to fall in line. it's extremely divisive and extremely dangerous. and can we give a fox news alert to governor gavin newsom who continues to prove that he is a royal idiot every day. on cnn earlier he compared unvaccinated people to drunk driver. he said this: it's like drunk drivers, you don't have the right to go out and drink and drive and put everybody else at risk including your own life you

are telling them the vaccine doesn't work. that basically says don't get the shot. shut the hell up. >> dana: that was a much better analogy than brian's in the a block. >> greg: is he a sports guy. ains. >> dana: ex-girlfriend's whose live went down in flames when he broke up with them. brian one more thing people be the judge. >> dana: now asking supporters to send run away lawmakers care packages. ♪ ♪ border town ♪ asking about a diamond ring ♪ liberty mutual customizes car insurance so you only pay for what you need. how much money can liberty mutual save you? one! two! three! four! five! 72,807!

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can only be found in texas, food dr. pepper, salsa, hard candy, hair spray, toiletries and sanitizers and sewing kits. but that's not all. one texas state rep has been making outrageous claim about governor greg abbott. >> the governor put out the call and he said that he was going to round us up and corral us up and bring us back. my son drives my car which has state plates. and i just don't want some reporting live cop or some fanatic of the republican guy that listens to governor abbott as they say they need to bring us back because we are fugitives. >> brian: wow, this is so poorly played over the last two weeks. can anyone play this game? dana, what's going on?

how does texas -- how do these texas democrats plan on winning over the american public between the covid-19 and now their desperate plea for basic goods. >> dana: hard to imagine a publicity stunt ever going worse than this one. they are the tiktok texas democrats. they got on a plane without a plan. >> right. >> dana: completely ineffective and had to ask for hair spray? that is something. kudos to that texas democrat who tweeted that they need hair spray. here's the thing. these people are still getting -- do you know what? they have a point about the salsa in tennessee not good. except one place. amazing. but, wait, no. i want to tell you this. do you realize they are getting $221 a day per diem from the taxpayers. if you are somebody going to put together a care package for these people, think about the homeless in your area. the people that are going food bank in your area. do not send one thing to these tiktok texas democrats.

>> brian: do you know who is running this beto o'rourke. he is their coach zoom calling demand president biden get on a zoom call with you. that's kind of scary your quarterback stands on counter tops. >> richard: i can't speak to beto o'rourke or the texas democrats. i will talk about the issue they are fighting for i think it's an important issue. >> greg: hard candy? >> richard: no, i think we do. listen, the john lewis voting rights act which is the voting rights act that we have passed in this country from 165 on wards, every president whether they were democrats or republicans i'm pretty sure dana worked on that bill when george bush was president. it is something that every party has signed this bill. why we can't get it done in this congress is beyond me. why mitch mcconnell is standing in the way of this bill which is something that the foundation. >> brian: you mean not for the people act. >> i'm talking about the john lewis voting rights act. >> greg: tell us what's different? >> richard: what's wrong with the john lewis voting rights act. >> greg: you know there is something different about this bill?

>> richard: no, there is nothing different. >> brian: go take a look. >> greg: we had this same conversation last week. >> richard: yeah, i will continue to have this conversation until we pass the john lewis voting rights act. history of voter suppression. have a history of voting rights enfranchisement. voting rights states should have preclearance justice department or republican justice department on how their voting laws passed they should be basic and fundamental. >> greg: why do you think it's not being passed i'm curious. >> richard: you should ask mitch mcconnell i don't know. >> greg: i would assume you have the answer because you keep bringing it up you don't know why. >> we can't get republicans to vote on this. >> richard: why? they voted on it every presidency before why not now? >> greg: that's my question why? >> brian: in highwayer nation for 24 hour voting. almost no state or county has that drive-thru voting. since when do you have to be in a car of four.

private voting. why do you want to have pressure from the backseat to. >> dagen: that was for social distancing. they have expanded the what hours of voting. demanded to giving a day off for voting. what's the problem here? >> dagen: there is no problem. like, oh, in middle of the night voting, drive-thru voting? >> brian: regular voting booths. >> dagen: that doesn't disenfranchise individuals if you don't have 24 hour voting, period. i have got the floor. these texas democrats are doing nobody any favor. i did some research and tried to figure out the last time that people after taking a private jet flight halfway across the country requested care packages even though they were making money. i will end with this to give greg the floor in the words of olivia soprano poor you. >> brian: really? which episode was that. >> dagen: a lot of them. i have no sympathy at all for

these -- >> greg: if i were a real jerk i would find out and probably easy to find out the addresses for the care package and send i don't care packages. [laughter] >> greg: be creative. it could be empty and filled can something fun and cheeky and clever. but i would never tell people to do that but i'm sure it's very easy to find the address and send it i don't care package. oddly very specific, dr. pepper? why dr. pepper? it's ironic given the fact that they didn't listen to their doctors to begin with and had covid and then you have hard candy and hair spray. sounds like a scavenger hunt for a carnival sex worker not that i would know. >> brian: going to be doing this another two weeks, dagen. >> dagen: i do have ideas for what possibly could go in the care package. i can't share it though. >> brian: okay. >> greg: you don't set it on fire.

>> dagen: not today. >> brian: 26 minutes before the top of the hour. >> greg: did you really say that? this is not "fox & friends." >> brian: can i finish? >> greg: no. >> brian: radical democrats want you for civilian climate core and wait until you hear the staggering price tag. you are not going to believe it at least i hope you are not going to believe it because that's what i said. ♪ ♪ we made usaa insurance for members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. ♪ usaa ♪

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beneficial one where we put people to work and well paying union jobs in service of our planet. i'm excited about the climate civilian climate corps that connects environmental justice with economic and racial justice. >> richard: multiple bills going around. this one is a $0 billion price tag. the biden house what is another bill moving $10 billion price tag very similar to this. all of these ideals came from a program created by fdr after the great depression which built 100,000 roads and bridges. 318,000 dams also pipelines and telephone poles. et cetera. >> dana: riverwalk in san antonio. >> richard: riverwalk is overrated. >> greg: what does that have to do with this. >> richard: revive. >> greg: she didn't say any of that. >> richard: biden white house is

pushing a program a smaller price tag that would actually help the country and benefit the fact that, you know, high unemployment amongst young people. dana, what's your take on this. >> dana: longer the infrastructure bill hangs out there and really hanging out there now. >> brian: the bipartisan one? >> dana: not so bipartisan at this point and it's having trouble. the longer it hangs out there the more difficult it is for the biden team to actually get it done when things like this are going to get attached to it. will they will say this is environmental justice. how can you be against that are you not for the environment and justice extremely vegas. we are going to create these jobs and they are going to be union jobs and everything is going to be great. what is actually are you going to be able to do. i'm not against the country deciding to do things like shoring up subway systems or infrastructure programs because if we do have rising seas or we have problems with additional problems with extreme weather as this thing goes on then you

could actually pay for things like that. just promising green jobs. one, it won't work and also the american people have said over and over again they don't want to pay for it pew study if you want to pay sore something like this they say no. >> richard: is there a middle ground potential for middle ground. >> greening two bills we were supposed to see today. doesn't look like something we will see today. something over transit and the other one everything democrats want. i heard about the civilian climate corps and i always wonder what exactly is it? so president biden saw it and he goes i say 10 billion. okay what's that going to be? then i was stunned to see that aoc and company want 132 billion. what are you going to get for 132 billion? can you please put something underneath the check and tell me what exactly you are going to do? >> greg: you know shew she said in supervisors of our planet. it's in service of the radical left. i don't even think democrats are

for this. it used to be so much more clever about this. it's so obvious. what this is it's like the theory of everything. they want to connect climate to economic inequality to race and why? because then there would only be one solution for all of it. and it would be their solution. right? and that would be taking trillions from taxpayer to fund the radical policies. that's how -- that's all this is about. that's why it's intentionally vegas. they probably could have dressed it up a little bit they are more than willing. no mention of crime in that why couldn't they put the crime in the theory of everything, right? they left that out. because they know that they're tied to that they are responsible for the crime epidemic. so they would rather sacrifice the lives of minorities in elderly trapped in their cities who can't leave to go to their second home to pour all the money in this total left wing boon dolg. and i don't use the word boondoggle lightly. >> dana: that's a big word. >> brian: you can use it a lot. can you overuse boondoggle.

>> richard: i agree with that that sounded like a boon dog. >> greg: it made sense. >> richard: dagen? >> dagen: i find it astonishing that they want to take money from taxpayers and use our money to take our rights away and tell us what kind of automobile to drive and impose fines if we don't bend to their will. this is hiring potentially a few million socialists. oh, do you get a castro cap or barbera beret. this i make a joke but this is incredibly frightening what they're talking about. this is out there. there was a bill that was introduced by oregon senator jeff markley and four other democrats to take away gasoline powered vehicles in this country. that mandate that you have to buy -- mandate 100 percent cars sold by 2035 would be electric. do you know what that would do without government subsidies these cars are exceedingly expensive.

do you know what that would could to people who actually have to commute to work. and kamala harris proposed the exact same thing when she was campaigning. >> brian: power plants to charge the cars. >> dagen: this sex extremely. it's an army of socialists. i guess they can't watch the news and see what's going on in cuba. >> brian: reconciliation package. >> richard: i'm not sure if that's going to be in the reconciliation package. >> richard: the $10 billion proposal put out by joe biden would actually put young people back to work. many of them from inner cities who don't have jobs in the country fixing up a lot of the roads that need to be fixed already. >> greg: gut young people make up the largest percentage of who is working right now. will. >> richard: they still have high unemployment. and college enrollment is down. ahead, americans are glued to their phones more than ever. why are they doing this? we'll find out why we can't survive a day without being glued to our screen. ♪ ♪

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>> dagen: how glued are we to our devices exactly? a whopping 73% of adults say they can't imagine going a full day without looking at a screen which is terrible news for our eyesight. dry eye, greg. do you have dry eye. >> greg: yes, i have a lot of problems. i won't get into it here. if you see these as a separate entiti' then it does seem kind of weird. if you were to frame it and see it as part of you because really it is part of you, we now have two brains the one up here and then the one in our hand. so it's almost like a shiny limb that can think for itself. so you have all the information in the world in the history of the world in the palm of your hand. that's why we can't think without it. >> dana: all that knowledge and all tie is look at dog videos. >> dagen: is it a clutch? makes you less smart? >> dana: do you know how i found out about this segment? because i was reading my phone while i was walking and i tripped as i was reading what the segments were going to be today. i must be addicted to my phone.

one of those people. i was proud myself last week the weekly screen thing said i was down 18%. britain brian i actually check it more. do you know why your eyes are try you normally blink 20 times per minute. when you are on a screen it's only three times per minute. that's why all i ask from you is to blink. number two is i have a question for myself if you -- how much why look at this if we didn't need it for work? i don't look for work it does save a lot of time. >> dana: do you want me to show you how to look at dog video? >> brian: i have my own dog video lives in my house. >> greg: dress up as dogs. >> richard: cat video. youngest person i have 1, 2, 3 screens. >> dagen: i will take one screen a tv. can't do without that. bribe brian no one put it on in the 20-something generation.

>> richard: i have tvs too. >> dagen: your tv is a smart device too. one more thing up next. ♪ ♪

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the neutral is down in the south. not too hot on josh groban change that alaska still maintaining strong dedication to him. some josh groban facts. he defies characterization. dana. he often sings in italian which is a language, brian. his middle name is winslow. we will be doing this all week. >> dana: how do you persuade colorado? >> greg: if they don't understand josh groban, that's on them. >> dana: how about dana's crazy tricks? [laughter] >> greg: i hope it's with an animal. >> dana: it is, well, not really. it's a human. tom brady, did you check this out. is he taken the internet by storm. breaking the internet. okay, real or a trick? do you think this is real when he throws that ball? >> brian: i think it's real. got to be real. >> greg: that's what he does for a living. >> brian: that throws. >> dana: i don't know.

i think -- i thought that was kind of cool. >> greg: do you know him and i went to the same high school? >> dana: i did. in case you get tired going to greg's book events. we did one -- when did we do that march and april? so this is going to be ashbury park, new jersey this is where greg gutfeld. >> greg: great place. >> dana: paramount theater get tickets at brian kilmeade.com or even ticket master. >> brian: yeah, it's going to be fun. laughter and liberty. [laughter] >> greg: laughter, liberty and love. >> brian: i have never seen greg jealous. >> dana: i don't think is he happy. >> greg: the more you talk the less time these people have. >> brian: while, at the olympics, while the u.s. was losing to france at halftime this 6'10" robot came out. >> greg: stole my show. >> brian: this is q. three versions 1, 2, and 3.

>> dana: named it q.? are you kidding me? >> brian: absolutely crazy he does not miss. then goes deep into 3 point land and gets a shot from half court. people didn't know where to cheer or not because it's hard to believe that this is happening. where do we get the technology on this and why do we waste it on basketball players. already have people make shots like that. work on other war type device to beat china. >> dana: you are upset. >> richard: intelligent robot. >> greg: where did this come from it's a robot. it's a roomba. >> dana: i know you are asking how should i eat a blue berry, cuddles rescued owe possum this comes via the wild bird fund in new york city. they rescue mostly birds that are injured. he was injured and caught in a rat trap. is he in the hands an experienced owe possummists. i love them they are marsupials. they eat ticks and don't get rainies. only marsupials that live in the united states.

>> greg: you have 20 seconds. >> richard: tony playing the piano she has kidney disease and this amazing motivational speaker carlos, whitaker saw her, posted on instagram and raised her $70,000. >> very good. >> greg: all right, that's it for us. "special report" is up next. hey, bret. >> bret: hi, greg. >> greg: how are you? >> bret: i'm good. how are you? >> greg: i haven't heard from you in a while let's catch up. good evening, welcome to washington. i'm bret baier. breaking tonight, the resurgence of the coronavirus, the theresurrection of pandemic reld restrictions and reemphasis on vaccinations while the administration tries to light a fire under reason naught to take resonate to take a shot. reconsider imposing mandates. peter doocy starts us off tonight from the north lawn. good evening, peter. >> peter: good evening, bret.