bob beckel, andrea tantaros, dana perino and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: the obama administration and the department of justice are on the defense after the president took a sot at the supreme court this week. just this afternoon, attorney general eric holder was forced to respond to a question from the fifth circuit court of appeals after the president said this. >> for year what is we heard is the biggest problem on the bench is judicial activism for lack of judicial restraint. an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. >> kimberly: the court demanded a letter from the department of justice to clarify whether the administration respects the authority of the judicial branch.

i'm eric bolling, with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> eric: well, you are looking at president obama making unscheduled remarks today regarding gasoline prices. suggesting congress address oil speculation. funny, governor sarah palin and i spent the weekend offering the president some of our expertise for lowering gasoline prices. drill our own vast natural resources, embrace natural gas. fix the e.p.a. and address oil speculation. do you think he was listening? who knows? but let's ask governor palin herself who joins us via phone. governor, thank you for joining us. how are you? >> i'm doing great. thank you so much. >> eric: all right. so you heard him address oil speculation, but that was one part. is that enough to solve our energy crisis, gor? what did he miss? >> no. not even close to solving if problem here. the other night, we proposed an all of the above solution. we challenged the president to apply common sense and pro-american industry principles. no, today's speech refl

panel this week, writer and fox news contributor judy miller, and new york daily news columnist andrea tantaros, jim pinkerton, american conservative editor magazine and talk radio service, ellen ratner, i'm rick folbaum. fox news watch is on right now. ♪ . >> we're here on behalf of our people and that means that we conduct ourselves with-- with the utmost dignity and obviously, what's been reported doesn't match up with those standards, but again, i think i'll wait until the full investigation is completed before i pass final judgment. >> that of course the president reacting to the news about u.s. secret service agents. and the elite force, assigned to protect the president and his family caught up in a scandal, involving prostitutes and access to their hotel in colombia and of course, because the media loves salacious scandals, the story making big news as did the colombian escort who ignited the scandal and there she is. and what happens in colombia doesn't stay in colombia. >> and a sign of how the media operates now days, some of these evidenced here for both the gsa and secret service c

>> kimberly: hello, everyone, i'm kimberly guilfoyle with bob beckel, eric bolling, andrea tantaros and greg gutfeld. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ democracy you won't believe president obama's latest insult to the troops. we'll get to it. but rush limbaugh is saying the 2012 election could be a blow-out for romney. >> do you think romney has a chance to win? that was the question everybody at the table, does romney have a chance? i appreciate the question. a great question to get discussion going. i think obama will lose in a landslide. >> kimberly: prediction, do you think it will come true? is rush right? >> andrea: too soon to tell, but romney has a very, very good chance. if you look at the daily tracking polls he is doing very well. just look at the enthusiasm. remember, obama was elected, you can go downtown to new york city. people were setting their motorcycles on fire. people were going crazy. the question -- >> greg: other people's motorcycles. >> andrea: or setting their aunt's garage on fire if they were bob beckel, with their excitement. i'm not sure they are going to do it this

. >> i'm andrea tantaros with kimberly guilfoyle, bob beckel, brian kilmeade and dana perino. 's 5:00 on this good friday and passover. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> andrea: we're wondering tonight, are americans just too dumb to understand our president's position on the supreme court and obamacare? well, that is what the white house apparently thinks. >> on monday, the president does not clearly understood by some people, because he is a law professor, he spoke in shorshorthand. >> andrea: yes, we didn't understand. carney was referring to these comments by mr. obama earlier in the week. >> for year what is we heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint. that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. >> andrea: kimberly, they said we misunderstood the president. did you understand what he was saying? >> kimberly: no, barely. i have a dra a law degree. for 22 years. do the math, it's not on my side. how can i have a horrible situation coming off that not only the american people don't

i'm eric bolling with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino, greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> eric: to crucify, treat with gross injustice,orment and evidently policy at the epa. >> everyone has their own, you know -- [ inaudible ] >> eric: what set off a fire storm from americans who suspected all along that the e.p.a. has had an agenda to crucify oil companies. white house mouthpiece jay carney is running for cover from their e.p.a. guy. listen. >> he said it clearly not representative of the president's belief in a way to approach the matters or the way he has approached the matters, either from this office in the white house or the epa. >> eric: hold on there, jay-vo. president obama has been crucifying oil companies for three years. >> do we tant to keep give -- do we want to keep giving taxpayer give-away to big oiler invest in clean energy? >> we have been subsidizing oil companies for 100 years now. >> oil companies are making record profits. that's good. but we don't need to subsidize them. >> his energy policy is

. >> hello, i'm dana perino, along with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, eric boling and greg gutfeld. it's 5:in new york city and this is the five. >> democratic strategist hillary rosen started a firestorm and her comments were amplified when learned she was a frequent visitor to the white house, at least 35 times and met with president obama personally five times. the obama campaign distanced themself. jim messina and david axlerod played defense within an hour and vice president joe biden tried to change the suspect. >> subject. >> the war on women is real. it's been intensified. the next president of the united states is going to get one and possibly two or more members of the supreme court. >> in an interview last night president obama delivered the final blow. >> i think it was an ill-advised statement by somebody on television, it's not something that i subscribe to. >> did you catch that? he pretended he didn't know her, which is the ultimate washington, d.c. insult. that's happened to you a bunch. >> meantimes. >> people pretend they don't know you. >> thanks for bringing tha

hello, i'm kimberly guilfoyle with bob beckel, eric bolling, andrea tantaros and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: game on for white house in 2012. and president and romney have come out swinging. >> the president will use all terms we'll be more fair in the model he has. >> are we better off when everybody gets a fair shot and everybody does a fair share? >> this is a president who is driving us to become more and more like the social welfare state of europe. >> these investors, things like education and research and healthcare. they haven't been made some grand scheme, to redistribute wealth. this is not some socialist dream. >> 2012, our job to make sure he is out of office. let's get him out. >> kimberly: who won day one, bob, of the rock 'em, sock 'em punch-up? >> bob: it's even, actually. romney did one thing we didn't catch that part of it. he talked about women a lot, which is one of his biggest problems. he went so far to say that obama is waging a war on women, which is extreme. he has to do it because he is so far down

. >> andrea: governor, it's andrea tantaros. you said that the president doesn't understand.you really believe that he is that naive to energy policy? or really is he just a liberal at heart? and he's bound by the departmental lobby and other lobbyists? is it politics or is he just ignorant on the issue? >> i think he is ignorant on the issue, andrea. i believe that those who he has surrounded himself with, do not understand that t geology and the geography to talk about, and talk about what the potential is for american energy independence. he doesn't understand free market principles. there are so many things that contribute to his terrifying naive and purposeful assault on our energy production that it puts us in a pretty scary place. >> eric: governor, we want to get to another topic here. everybody wants to jump in on. this we have want to get to this. rnc put out a web ad today we found very interesting. can we roll that web ad? governor, take a listen. >> i'm not going to make any excuses. >> i'm not going to make any excuses. >> i will be held accountable. >> that's e

. >> eric: i'm eric bolling with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino, greg gutfeld. all right, just yesterday. we were asking if fat lady was singing? but we were talking about whether newt gingrich was about to drop out of the race for the g.o.p. nomination. surprise announcement, minutes ago, rick santorum stepped aside. bring in now karl rove. known as the architect for reaction to news. karl, good to have you here. >> thank you for having me. >> eric: surprised? >> yeah. i thought the events last week where he met with conservative leaders, including some that launched out on his behalf over the weekend he would stay until pennsylvania. it suspect the campaign, literally consists of santorum, his family and two close advisors, john braybender and mark rogers came to the realization they were in danger of losing pennsylvania, at least the delegate count. even if they won the beauty contest and decided to pull the rip cord. >> eric: what do you think? >> bob: to suspend your campaign means you're in debt. you could keep it going the see if you get the debt paid off

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." >> eric: hello, i'm eric bolling with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino, greg gutfeld. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> eric: this is a great day. i'm so happy. i can't even explain where do we folks get such inside the mentality of the left wing, their motives, their agenda and the real plan for america. first up, the national organization of for and by women has a pro-abortion agenda. is willing to do anything to silence conservatives who get in their way. case and point, now national smear campaign against rush limbaugh. we contacted now four times today, 11:20 a.m., 12:45 a.m., 2:25 p.m., and just about two hours ago. the press secretary told us, president terry o'nei guess what? our folks never rang. because greg, i wanted to ask her, how she could call for a boycott, how they could call for boycott of rush limbaugh with the sandra fluke comments and ignore bill maher's comments calling palin the "c" word. and recently, hillary rosen's war on working for sorry, stay-at-home moms. >> greg: first, boycott? why can't it be a girlcott. >> eric: sorry. >> greg: make me sick t

i'm bob beckel with andrea tantaros, eric bolling, dana perino and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> bob: now my friends you know the old complaint from republicans. president obama always gets good press from the mainstream media. poor republicans get dumped on, blah, blah, blah. republicans whine about it, including my brothers and sisters at "the five." put down your crying towel and pick up a copy of the highly respected and independent study by the pew research center. they did exhaustive study. guess what? the press loves romney. he get better press coverage in ten of the last 15 weeks. president obama got more negative press than positive press in the entire 15 weeks. in fact, a week of positive coverage. put that in your pipe and smoke it. what do you say about that? >> eric: a lot of stuff to say about it. what they did is polled every time someone said something negative about president obam obama. that was considered a negative piece on obama. we know there were four viable candidates taking shots at obama. number two,

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andrea tantaros is here and the author of hopelessly divided, doug schoen.there are two americas when can testimonies to getting hair cuts. gito super cuts sometimes. i have a wonderful person here at fox -- we have to have the music, it goes to the song "i'm so pretty." all right. but, you know, he had a $4 mon. hair cut. there's two americas. now that i have had my fun, here's an important question. this was brought up by rich lowrie in his column -- is there a possibility he didn't break campaign finance laws because it didn't get funneled through his campaign? >> that's a big possibility. yes. look, we don't know what the court is going to decide. in all likelihood, is there shady money, bunny money, going to his misstress? yes. that, we do know. we also know that he is, in all likelihood, his approval ratings are 3%-- >>> in all likelihood. >> the public opinion is out. what is so confusing to so many are campaign finance laws. he is looking at 30 years for this. you talked about hypocrisy, there is hypocrisy in the republican party on sex scandals, too

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joining us right now for a fair and balanced review, co-host of "the five" juan williams and andrea tantaros by rush or way off base? >> you know, it's always interesting listening to rush but i think there's a big difference between investing and speculating. everybody, i think, would agree that given the high cost of oil and its links to terrorism, it's a good idea to invest in alternative energy, speculating would suggest that you are doing what some of these oil speculators are doing much to our, you know, negative impact which is they drive up the market. they create false scarcity and then, of course, that leads to profits for them but higher costs at the pumps for all of us which negatively impacts our economy so it's not -- it's not speculating to say that if the u.s. government decides to invest in alternative energy, that that's the same of what a speculator is doing. >> do you agree? one big difference is it's not the president's money, correct? >> that's true! you know, any investment is a speculation. anyone with a 401k or a mutual fund or anyone who owns a house and has a mortg

joining us now with more on this the co-host of "the five" andrea tantaros. know you've written an article in "the daily news" in new york city, nobody has looked into this. everybody is in agreement, let's reduce the loan, the interest rates for kids. but what effect does that have on tuition? >> well, it makes student loans easier. it's cheap, easy credit which that's what got us into the mortgage meltdown. so what the president is doing and if republicans go along with him, they're making it easier for future student, not students that have already graduated to go out and get student loans at a cheap and easy rate. not everybody should be taking out these loans, gretchen. and think about it, the real issue here is if you're a university, a college or university, what's to stop you from raising your tuition every year? this is just a symptom of the larger problem. and that's rising tuition rates. and that affects everybody. now, student loan debt has actually surpassed credit card debt in this country. a lot of people don't know that. >> since 2000 it was 2