>> neil: you took my line, i always say, you never know, time will tell. great seeing you again, rachel, president and ceo, things are so bad here that they were going to get help from politicians who would not even normally care. here is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> hi, i am greg "watters' gutfh katie pavlich, jessica tarlov, dana perino and its "the five." ♪ ♪ the media rushing to defend joe biden as he pushes the same old tired plan to deal with the new covid variant. to the president implementing new testing requirements adding additional mandates and of course telling americans to mass up and get their boosters. now complaining that covid has

become too politicized as if he had nothing to do with it. >> it was a plan that i think should unite us. i know that covid-19 has been very divisive in this country. it has become a political issue which is a sad, sad commentary good it shouldn't be, but it has been. this is a moment where we can do what we have not been able to do enough love through this whole pandemic, get the nation to come together, unite the nation with a common purpose to fight this fire to protect one another and protect our economic recovery, and to think of it in terms of literally a patriotic responsibility rather than somehow you're denying people their basic rights. >> greg: sure, joe claims that the pandemic has been politicized which is hilarious coming from a guy who told people not to trust a vaccine because it was coming from a republican president. how many people died because of that political smear? and predictably the media going into overdrive because the cover

was the latest failures. >> they see political advantage in covid continuing to be a problem, because they know that it hurts joe biden, and in it continuing, because it hurts the economy. they think if kobe goes on longer put some in a better political position, and people feel dr. fauci there's a likelihood that kobe will go away, and if it goes away, it's bad for republicans, it's a political math that is not hard to figure out. >> greg: the white house has a reassuring message to the american people, just do more. >> whatever happened to president biden's promise to shut down the virus? >> we are working on it, peter, but we need the american people to do more who are not vaccinated to help us continue to fight the virus. >> greg: dana, how can he accuse anyone of politicizing the pandemic when that was the game plan for all of 2020 including telling people that i would not get the vaccine,

because it came from trump. >> dana: even after he was elected, he has an office, remember how we used to go after states like florida and arizona, and say, basically that they were fortunes of death, and they were the problem and then it turns up this exchange, but they never say they were sorry. the idea that covid is good for the republican party is hilarious to me. the party literally lost the white house and the senate over covid. so i don't know whether he has talked to a republican in three years, everybody wants the virus to go away. i believe, truly believe that everyone does. the thing that is kind of shocking is president joe biden says i'm going to crush the virus, and then blaming everybody else, that is hard to take. and i agree that more vaccines are a good idea, but i also think that jumping the gun on this omicron variant is going way too far too fast until we know more, it could be that to

because it's more mild and because it transmits more easily to more people, more people will have immunity and then we should be able to have some sort of leeway to get back to normal. like today that psa just announced that we are going to have to wear masks on planes until march 18th 2022, and probably be on there, because i feel like it will never end. >> greg: these are cowards chasing the fear of litigation, that's all this is, jessica, i have a question, it's a multiple-choice question for you. will you put the question up there, please above? >> jessica: if you like the

producers like you more than me, handing you these things and i am left out of, none of the above, obviously, e, new invention to your game. a couple of things that i think are really important with what is happening, the politicized nation, that he and kamala harris were talking about a trump recommendation versus a scientist recommendation, but the increase in testing sites and their reimbursement for home testing kits is going to be really crucial here. the difference in price between what it costs for us to get in with europe, and germany you can get a home test for one euro, here it is $24, that's a huge differential, so making this more equitable that people cannot only get vaccinated and get boosted, which seems like the key to keeping yourself healthy with the delta variant which seems much more powerful than omicron and having these cheaper kits is going to make a huge difference. so i was really thrilled to see that. >> greg: all right, we will let you slide on that one per jesse, the only administration that passes the buck onto the american people? it's always on us to do more.

>> jesse: i've always said that you have to pass the buck to china, it's so obvious, i don't know why he does not take my political advice. speaking of political advice i would like to talk about john, jesse jr. has spit up more analysis than what i just heard this guy, whatever he is getting paid is overpaid, i'm confident in saying that. joe biden, the only thing keeping him in the low 40s is covid. you get rid of covid, he is in the 30s in the 20s on inflation, crime, immigration. you don't think the republican party wants to knock out covid? second of all, covid is his excuse for everything. he blames smash and grab robberies on covid, supply chain crisis on covid. you knock out covid you knock out all of his excuses. do you remember how much mileage joe biden got politically by going after ron desantis when cases were high in florida? now they are dead load in

florida, you think that desantis is sitting around hoping for a winter surge for political purposes? of course not. republicans don't want a permanent pandemic, we don't want to see fauci on tv anymore, they want him in prison. it's the democrats that want to the permanent pandemic, they are the ones that wanted to shut the schools in the small businesses and use the thing as an excuse to bail out the blue states and spend trillions of dollars, republicans don't want cases to go up, democrats just use that excuse to grow government. and i don't know if he has spoken to a republican recently, but they don't act like there is a pandemic anymore. we have not after we have been vaccinated, and a lot of us weren't before, we were going to holiday parties, going to the beach, going flying, see someone with a double mask and a face shield on, that is a democrat. that is not a republican, all right? and not an nbc news political

analyst, i'm just a "new york times" number one best-selling author, that's the best -- >> greg: and i think he has deluded himself into that role of trying to outdo something previously hysterical that he said, because when you get a reaction on tv for saying something not so, then the next time he has to up the ante and get to this weird cycle. this happens to what is called mid-wit, it's not a nitwit, it's not an 88, but it's not a smart person. he is a mid-wit. you can look it up in any science book. [laughter] spewing i would say any time a politician pretends to be god it goes poorly for them, barack obama said he was going to calm the rising seas, president biden said that he was going to take out the virus and here we are now, there are more under his watch and in their was for a trump, which they do not have tickers on their screens to count everything the day, but

the issue of politics when i was listening to him speak today and when i read thereof read out and the details of what he was going to say, i noticed there is an emphasis on keeping schools open so long as parents vaccinate their children. now they're up in a number of stories in places like "the new york times" saying the parents got vaccinated, but they have concerns and questions about running out and vaccinating their children, and at today you have the president saying, we will keep schools open so long as -- now given the track record of that with the teachers unions, the tweet about how these new -- this new plan is necessary to keep schools open safely for all the kids to get vaccinated, i would watch that to see what the teachers unions do if parents decide that they are not quite ready for that and whether they again tried to distort the system and say we are not going to go into the classrooms because we don't feel like that is safe. because they did that for so long and they are pushing it around on opening guises earlier this year.

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♪ ♪ >> katie: top aides can't get off kamala harris' ship fast enough. with another major parts or after three high-level staffers have already said they are leaving. this time at simone sanders, one of harris' most trusted advisors, she feared the plan for handling the border crisis, but now she is hitting the road as it looks like harris' ship is sinking. they defend the shake-up as perfectly normal. >> if the vice president is not satisfied with the staffing she has had so far or people just don't want to work for her anymore? >> the work in the white house is exciting and rewarding but also grueling and hard.

it's normal for them to move on to a new challenge after a few years. >> i love kamala and i can't wait to see what she will do next. and it has been three years of a lot of jumping on and off planes and going around the country and she worked very hard and i can't wait to see what she will do next. and i mean that sincerely. >> katie: jesse, i mean that sincerely. >> jesse: when anybody says that, it means they don't. spilling with all due respect or bless your heart. >> jesse: as a mid-wit, i will give you my best analysis, one, the mainstream media is maneuvering the 2024 democratic primary, and they are doing it in the first year of joe biden's presidency. they are basically saying that joe is toast, this is how we are going to mess with the field in 2024, it's amazing to happen so soon. and then we have people that can read the writing on the wall, kamala is not the heir apparent,

so they are trying to get out before the kamala stench sinks into deeply, a lot of them are about resume building coming in all these people in d.c., it's about where he went to college, who you work for in the campaign, what your title is in the vps office, and the minute it looks like she is not going to be the one, they are out. she is also pushing people out and that's how she has done her thing the whole time she has been in public life. whenever there is a problem with her, no, no, it's the staff's problem. it's kind of like me and "watters' world," whenever there is a problem that i had because it's the producer's fault. and now you're saying that it's so thin with mayor pete and kamala, it's going to be a bloodbath in a couple of years, because he would have i would say gay white male intellectual versus a woman of color, this is

going to be the most delicious divisive, drama you could ever imagine. and at the end of it, i am here for it. >> katie: great mid-wit analysis from jesse watters. so working for any administration is stressful and difficult, but as we have seen a lot of reports sneaking out about how terrible her office is and people are upset. it seems like nothing happens to change that. >> dana: if you think back to her campaign and then the mystery center article, the chaos follows her wherever she goes. and you don't just have like a couple of staffers on background telling reporters, they will have 30-40 sources. so then we found out in august that they are putting on a new image consultant and remember that was when we had the safe space video that was a child actor. and it has been building. i think that simone sanders is way talented for her age, only 31 years old, she was also a

bernie sanders person for a long time, and worked tirelessly for him, then in the 2020 election she swallowed hard and said, i actually want to win and i think that joe biden is the one that can do that. so she decided to go in joe biden. she was actually physically blocking him from protesters at events. she was on television for him every day doing a great job and was up for the press secretary job. it did not get ed to, and graciously went over to work for the vice president. i don't know if they ever got to know the vice president very well. that's one of the complaints you can read about in the multitude of blind sources that happens in this administration. however i would say this, people who are big-time campaigners go into the white house and it's like, i don't like it, because it is such a straitjacket. they are all of these rules and you have to be there on time, and you can't like freelance and be creative, and that's really more of her style, so she has a big bright future ahead of her,

i don't know what you will do with it, but i think that it's probably time for her to leave. >> katie: jessica, what is going on? who is going to replace the staffers that are leaving? >> jessica: there are plenty of people that want to these jobs and to do them for however long, year, two years, and actually working on the white house knows how difficult it is. i'm sorry, what administration where you are a part of? >> greg: nixon, i was young but i was there. >> jessica: as his chief mid-wit. >> greg: stop it with the lovefest. >> jessica: i sometimes say "greg made a good point too." the free styling, that's when she is so great on cnn as well, coming up on cnn, and she really cuts to the heart of what people are thinking. she expresses herself in a normal person way. fiercely loyal, and i do think that it stung to not get the press secretary job after blocking for joe biden, but i

see it as culture and they will have the midterm staff. >> jesse: the mid-level term. >> katie: you never know, maybe she will be back. greg. >> greg: i don't know, man, probably one of the greatest people. i don't know how they are going to replace her. it just a phenomenal leader, and just incredible. i don't know what else to say! but what are you going to do if you are offered that job? now, right? it's like being asked to direct the next alec baldwin western, no one wants it. >> jesse: very good, greg. >> greg: what a disaster kamala has been given that there really isn't any piling on from the media. of course there is us having fun, but from day one it was always kid gloves, right? and it just shows you you can end up on the rocks if you take all the boxes but you don't think about who the person really is. it just becomes a bashing of a

buffoonery even with people cheering her on. she is going to do good, she's going to do good, the thing is this could be a great opportunity for some need to take this job, because it can only improve. it's like eric adams being mayor, all you have to do is appear normal and try to make this person normal and will do a better job. >> katie: yep, that is true, the crime wave getting worse, scenes are targeting moms and their babies. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> jesse: california's crime wave is not showing any signs of slowing down, smash and grab rampages happening all over the state and we can blame the democrats soft on crime cases

for the anarchy. proposition 47 lets shoplifters avoid jail time as long as they don't steal more than $950 worth of stuff. >> is it time to revisit proposition 147? >> there are laws against a shoplifting. that individual should be arrested, if the first time they should've been arrested, the second, third, fourth time. >> do you think that scares people? >> to be arrested, certainly. >> but they don't spend time in jail, governor. >> it's not just looters ransacking stores, showing robbers cornering a mother and her baby in her own driveway and stealing her diaper bag. and bottle cooler, which i hear is very expensive. so these are your people, jessica tarlov. >> jessica: the shoplifters? >> jesse: the shoplifters, the

democrats, everybody bad in the world is your people. >> dana: none of the above. >> jesse: how do you explain gavin newsom? what is that? >> jessica: it's not great, but it does not convert people who believe in democratic policies at large to vote for republicans, and that's the thing that i think people get wrong about this, when we have the recall and the larry elder campaign, the ground swallow support, and gavin newsom got a larger share of the vote than he did. >> jesse: california's crazy. it >> jessica: where we live. we both live here, not at this table -- >> jesse: and living around here -- >> jessica: excuse me, come on? >> greg: that's my neighborhood. >> jesse: your neighborhood, that's fine. >> jessica: greg and i live

downtown. viewers don't care about that. but the point is -- this is so annoying. >> jesse: i'm sorry i am being mean. i was told not to be mean. >> jessica: it's really working out. it is a problem that something that people are living in these cities, my sister lives in los angeles, she has a friend whose baby was almost stolen out of a parking lot and turned around and this woman have been caught trying to steal nine babies. people are following the social media accounts to see where these people are checking in. i'm at starbucks, i met cafe, don't do that, stop doing that and posting pictures of your kids at this moment, it's an extremely scary time and he would've thought it was because of covid, but now we are in a technically post-pandemic world getting back to normal, people are back at work, et cetera. >> jesse: i'm glad you mention that, because our very own steve doocy asked jen psaki about that, let's pull it in. >> a huge group of criminals

organizes themselves and they want to go loot a store, cbs, nordstrom, a home depot until the shelves are clean, do you think that's because of the pandemic? >> i think a root cause and a lot of communities as the pandemic, yes. >> dana: steve doocy does not age much. >> katie: i don't know about you, whenever i am trying to fight off covid, i don't take medicine, i steal a $2,000 person that's why. exactly the same thing. first i would say, mom, there are a lot of training horses out there for you in terms of self-defense and awareness and posts on the internet that you can take show you how to walk with your stroller, get your baby in and out of the car. even in california they have them come and take advantage, the other thing is that these are feel-good policies that leftist campaign on, oh, it will be more humane when there are fewer people in prison and we are going to release people not

on bail because it's nicer, this is the result because criminals are emboldened, they are not keeping them in jail, and the left tends to care about crime when it comes to their neighborhood. they are fine in places like chicago, washington, d.c., but once it starts coming into their neighborhood they amount a recall and are frustrated, when everybody deserves no matter where you live or what your zip code is or income level deserves to live in a safe society free from criminal activity. but the people who are running the cities believe that crime should be legalized and we are seeing the results of that and it's getting worse. people are getting killed as a result. >> jesse: will anything change in california? >> dana: to the point of people getting killed, the music legends wife that was murdered during a home invasion was that aunt of our very own harold ford jr. so when you get crimes that are hitting at that level with that kind of publicity and that kind of pressure, hopefully on the governor or the prosecutors to make a change, then yes, there is a possibility there will be

change. >> jesse: greg gutfeld. >> greg: remember how any time you would bring up george soros people would grant you some aluminum foil-wearing hubert, but then you look at every one of these cities where there is explosive crime and behind it is a progressive d.a. who god's hefty cash from a soros foundation. and even when you say -- you go, oh, my god, people will consider it anti-semitic. no, it's basically just connecting the dots. he is not the only variable, he is the owner of a football team. he pays the players. but the players engage in certain things that have nothing to do with covid, nothing to do with covid. probably one of the worst ideas in modern history, d.a.'s not prosecuting crimes whether it has to do with transients or public or whatever. we have the reverse from the broken window's philosophy and accusations of racism when you discuss law and order, because we have turned it into a press

versus perera oppressor, if you're pro-police you must be a racist, that worked during the riots when you define violence as mostly peaceful. if you define the riot, you're going after protesters, this is the problem with perception, you said that crime is no longer a problem that needs to be eradicated. and you see the victims as acceptable consequence to these progressive agendas. the idea of making an omelette you have to break some eggs, in this case you are cracking eggs. >> jesse: if you said we need to stop crime, it would be something we could support. the "movie accident" for the first time, does his explanation of how it happen hold up? ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> jessica: alec baldwin describing what happened during the deadly movie set for the first time, defending himself after killing the cinematographer and wounding the director. >> was not in the script for the trigger to be pulled. >> i did not pull the trigger. it's because you never pulled the trigger? >> no, no, i would never point a gun at someone and pull the trigger. somebody put a live bullet and a gun, the gun that was not supposed to be on the property. >> jessica: telling fox news "guns just don't go off" whatever needs to happen to manipulate the firearm, he did that and it was in his hands. is it possible that he did not pull the trigger? spin on the chances are very,

very slim. there is a chance that the weapon he was using was a replica of some kind of older version of a revolver and it did not transfer any new safety technology, and you could -- there's all kinds of things i could go into that. but that is so rare that i don't buy that. and even if it went off by itself, which is so rare, it does not take away this idea that he was negligent in not checking the firearm for live ammunition, claiming that he was handed the gun and no one told him it was loaded with live ammunition, it is his job as an actor to understand how to safely handle firearms and was his obligation to check and make sure that there was not live ammunition in the gun, not to mention was talking about, well, there was live ammunition on the set and he should not been, he was in charge of this production and allegedly the day before there was shooting practice going on. so he is also negligent and responsible for that as well. i just have to say that the music in the drama surrounding

this is pretty gross considering what happened, and like it's this big dramatic thing that he is the victim here, not taking any responsibility when he was in charge of the set, so it's highly, highly unlikely. but he is trying to get in front of the public opinion on this, but the courts on the fbi and the sheriff in new mexico will get to the bottom of this. >> jessica: i have this in my notes, and my two hormonal for the times or is this gross? >> greg: it feels like gma is making some serious coin off of this tragedy. it's like the well produced at -- everybody is made up, they look great. it does feel a little bit -- yeah, it feels kind of cold to the victims. we are living in a time where objects have a life of their own and an suv just murdered a bunch of people and now a gun can shoot itself, so this is the new trend. the obvious question is, why didn't this come out earlier? if you are actually holding a gun, like you said it was a rare

chance, i would be screaming that appeared to like yelling at, everybody would be going, he was going, i did not touch it! but there is nobody who has actually said that yet, so that's kind of interesting and i go back to my repeated suggestion, the nra instructor showed up in there, because there is no wiggle room with their obsessiveness over safety and you can mock that, but the obsession is there for a reason so that these things don't happen. >> jesse: it's a very good point, apparently he was saying, nobody told me it was loaded, who gave me a hot gun? he was never saying, i did not pull the trigger. that's a very good point. this is where democrats in trouble, run go, run to, they run to little george. this is where joe biden went during afghanistan, this is where kamala ones, now he runs out there for the p.r., and legal move, they got the lighting, they got that abc five camera shoot going on, he has his glasses with his things crossed and his pen, it's not a

tough interview, it's a tender interview, he's not going to push him that far. it's only going to push him so far when he can look like the victim, and rehabbed by his friends and show business, i think he is going to skate. >> dana: the discrepancy from what happened that day and the public sympathy for it being an accident was already there, now you have this new thing, i never pulled the trigger, and that comes after a lot of lawyers got involved and we know that other people are being investigated as well and it seems a little far-fetched. if they have video or don't -- >> jessica: we understand why the fbi report has it. "the fastest" is straight ahead. ♪ ♪ as i observe investors balance risk and reward, i see one element securing portfolios, time after time.

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♪ ♪ >> dana: welcome back, time for "the fastest" first up the holiday season can be stressful. 3 out of 4 say holiday shopping is harder than an olympic sport. it's hard to say that with a

straight face, greg? >> greg: why, that's because the olympics are easy, it's not that chopping is hard. if you do one thing every day for ten years and you are not number one at it, you are a loser. seriously. holidays essentially erase your savings from the year. this is what kills me. if you saved a few grand, let's say a couple of hundred bucks a month, and it's all gone on travel, gifts, and food. so i always believe that christmas should be celebrated like the original olympics once every four years so people can save their money. >> dana: are you stressed buying gifts? >> jesse: i don't stress about much, so i'm having emma do the shopping for the family and i will approve the gifts. >> dana: you approve? >> jesse: yeah, that's a good idea or no, they won't like that. >> katie: i am surprised he has not stressed since his ipad is not coming in on time? >> jesse: my ipad many -- hope she is not walking don't

neck watching it's delayed. >> katie: i think buying gifts for people is fun. i don't think it's stressful. >> jessica: i have seen kids not enjoying their gifts and that is stressful. it's about buying something that is like i hate my parents. >> dana: one thing i do is buying gifts all year planning ahead, so like today i went through my little cabinet and pulled everything out. and by the way, you said that i only gave you that little bike thing, i gave you that peloton jacket. and that little snack. i have been talking about that for two weeks. everybody knows how i feel about exclamation points, now a new email says that people should avoid using emojis in the workplaces, because males and females have different views on the implications. us before we could blame men on this, we definitely have it

right, i think about your exclamation points when i text you. but i do wonder how unprofessional i look personally and new generations with the exclamation points and emojis. >> dana: i feel like sometimes a emoji can lighten the mood. >> katie: i sent both of you a emoji about what we were wearing, how professional is that for the show? >> dana: what about you, are you a emoji person? >> jesse: i do not do heart emojis at work... anymore. just the crying emoji. >> greg: i think that cavemen had it right, emojis are the greatest communicative tool in history especially if you don't know how to end a conversation.

you just put one out there and it's like if you can button up almost anything, i also love using emojis incorrectly or inappropriately. there so many of them and i just clicked weird things to make people think that maybe -- what is he trying to -- >> dana: sometimes emojis mean something and you don't know, especially when you are an older person like me. >> katie: i got busted by that. you know what his go to emoji's? >> jesse: what is it? >> katie: i think i know. >> greg: i know exactly what he is saying. >> dana: i do a lot of laughing emoji. poop. >> katie: i knew it was that. >> dana: we will do the other one another time. maybe tomorrow. "one more thing" is up next. ♪ ♪

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>> greg: there we go. it's time now for one more thing. i think i shall go first. greg's chris cuomo replacement news. i have been helping out cnn unofficially trying to find a replacement. i have been trying to tell them they need somebody strong, firm objective so, of course, i have nailed -- i think this kind timothy the hippo could be a great. look at him, taking an underwater nap enjoying a spa in the san antonio zoo. he is only 6 years old but already learned the value of self-care. this is a perfect addition to the cnn line up. anybody who can snooze under water as his tank mates eat away at his dead skin going to get better ratings than chris cuomo. i support people who don't miss

their nap time. he weighs 3,000 pounds, which is like three brian stelters. >> jesse: so cruel. >> dana: let's get after it indeed. this one thing i wanted to mention there is a national christmas tree lighting happening in washington, d.c. tonight. so, the president and the first lady and i'm assuming the vice president and the second gentleman will be there. check that out if you want. always a lovely ceremony when the christmas tree is lit there at the white house. there he is. all right. my one more thing. this is what it is like when greg sees himself every morning in the mirror. this little guy. look at him. is he like walking along. wow, that's a lamb la that seeing his reflection. animals don't recognize their reflection. i don't know what it is but this llama is also highly intelligent just like greg. >> gregg: thank you very much. jessica? >> jessica: people were making fun of me i probably hate

christmas and i don't. to the point that i'm excited about a different way to decorate your christmas day this basketball fan made a tree completely out of basketballs. showed up on espn feed. feels inventive. i'm huge basketball fan this would be the kind of tree that a just loves basketball would want. >> jesse: you are jewish? >> jessica: yes, you want to go back to the soros? >> jesse: you never told me that. >> jessica: have you been sitting next to me this long? i'm comfortable who is next? >> greg: the daily beast actually thought that that i sent to jessica was real? how stupid do you have to be? you are working for the daily beast so you are stupid. how stupid do you have to take that seriously? >> jesse: all right. so we have a now segment, i guess, that we are debuting here jesse's rush a watch. keep an eye on these people. never know what they're going to do.

getting married in the cold. these things happen. >> greg: why do you always pick groups? [laughter] >> jesse: we don't believe they have been drinking anything. we don't believe that and they are fine. we have checked. >> greg: now didn't. we called a bunch of hospitals in russia and minks,. >> dana: that russian bear lady? that russian bear lady. johnny on facetime with the russian bear lady is he real? >> jesse: they are fine. be careful. >> greg: katie, you have a whole 1 minute and 30 seconds. >> katie: i have a lot to say about this man in massachusetts who was recuperating from cardiac surgery. he won a million dollars prize on a gifted instant ticket that contained the word heart. coincidence this is one.

alexander mclash i think is how you say his name. double bypass heart surgery earlier this month and got a good well card lifelong friend as he recovered answered was given three of these $5 million tickets answered scratched off three letters and ended up taking home $650,000 free tax. so he will probably only take home of a half of that he works for coca-cola in massachusetts and plans to give some of his winnings to his son larry, to larry and his sons, the guy who give him the gifts and intends to spend more of it on upcoming caribbean vacation. >> greg: true irony if he had won and had a heart attack. >> dana: probably wouldn't have made it one more thing. >> greg: all one more things have to have a happy ending or we don't do them. >> jesse: did the russian fall have a happy ending. >> katie: hippo is having a happy ending. >> greg: i think the walrus has a chance.

>> katie: hippo. >> greg: let daily beast know. i'm just kidding. you can't really have a hippo host a tv show on cnn. all right? i know you will have to fact check that later. >> dana: don't tweet him. >> greg: don't tweet at me. what a wonderful show. >> dana: amazing. >> greg: "special report" is up next with mike emanuel. hi, mike. >> mike: hello, greg. >> dana: that's it. ♪ >> mike: good evening, welcome to washington. i'm mike emanuel in for bret baier. breaking tonight, president biden is trying to unify the country behind his new pandemic strategy as we learn of two more confirmed cases of the omicron variant in the u.s. the president outlined his plan to deal with the new strain during a visit to the national institutes of health. meanwhile, health officials confirm vaccinated individuals in minnesota and colorado have tested positive. senior news correspondent rich edson starts us off tonight from the white house. good evening, rich. >> good evening, mike. president biden dondz he is