. >> eric: we have a fox news alert. the cdc just released new figures showing dramatic and dangerous statistics about this year's flu season that is raging across the united states. 47 states are now dealing with widespread outbreak of the deadly flu. this strain is now officially being called an epidemic. that new designate means more than seven in 100 deaths in the country are caused by the fires. the hardest hit in the midwest, minnesota, 27 people died. in the east, pennsylvania, 22 dead. and down south, 22 people have perished in south carolina. pretty sobering given that this may be another six to eight weeks for the season. we "fivers" want to tell you how we are dealing with the there. greg is handling it from bed. he is recovering and he will be okay. kimberly, we have home medications. how are you handling it? >> kimberly: there are quite a few missing at 6:00 tonight. i could use this at my house. the little guy last night at 1:30, sure enough. started, you know, throwing up. the whole deal. we went to the do

good thing. >> eric: why?hey have been abused, mistreated and not treated as equal citizens and they should be. >> kimberly: greg? >> greg: yes? sorry. can i focus on how the media looks at this. i was at the gym, where i normally am, watching another network i won't name. a commentator there said about the ib august ral address -- inaugural address and democracy in general this is something we often take for granted. i'm thinking no, only the media says that. people anxious over the direction of the country are precisely that way because they are worried about, they aren't taking the country for granted. that is why they are worried. the only people that take it for granted are the people that mock people who concerned about this councilmember. those are -- about this country. they take it for granted because they make fun of people seeing fragility of the country. >> bob: the same democracy elected obama to second term. >> kimberly: greg, for a second, but let's listen to what the president has to say about

the answer is yes. >> eric: the answer is yes? >> bob:be yes. >> eric: anyone else? >> kimberly: i think maybe yes. >> eric: dana is right, no. there are other diseases you can get from or give from pets so no kissing jasper. >> dana: what if you have a pet pig and get swine flu? >> eric: this strain of virus you cannot give to pets and they can't give it to you. >> bob: don't get monkeys. they rip up the entire apartment. >> kimberly: why would you have a monkey? >> dana: this is scary, if you get the flu and you walk around you are paranoid you might get it. i feel bad for people that have it. or even if you sneeze -- this happened today. contained area, this woman sneezed and everyone backed off and didn't want to be near her. could have had something tickling their nose. >> eric: 100 miles per hour the germ spreads. >> kimberly: serious? sent me a message to wear a mass income my house. >> eric: here is why. you said ronin feeling sick. i said put a mask on to protect you from getting what -- >> kimberly: it would freak him out. >> bob: if you have a flu, go to t

>> eric: what happened? >> we had great growth. when the tax cuts took effect, we phased in the tax cuts but when they took effect, it went like a rocket ship. we had 7.35% in 1983 and 5 1/2 in 1984. >> eric: and the tax receipts increase? >> there is some guys curve -- i don't know who the heck it is. we have the highest corporate tax rates in the world and one of the lowest tax revenues. go figure. >> eric: they were spinning all this different directions. do we have it? the g.d.p. report it's negative growth time. how about this one. despite lousy g.d.p. report u.s. economy is primed to expand. it didn't look like it to me. good news in a bad g.d.p. report. good or bad? >> it's ridiculous. we have had --, no, i don't think so. we've had the worse single recovery in the history of the u.s. in fact the recovery is much worse below the next worse than the next worse is below the best. it's tragic. >>> third quarter analyzed 3 pchblt 1% growth to a negative growth, what happens? >> you have the whole out put of the economy shrinking

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eric, what about you?eric: my favorite story, i don't why, but the red bull, the guy who jumped out little space -- there it is. bombgartner, red bull jumped from space. i was glued to the tv when he did it. i think it's fantastic. privately. private money. he just did something that i would love to do some sometime. i couldn't stop watching that. every sometime i see it, i love to see that. >> juan: you want to do that? >> eric: if i didn't have a 14-year-old son i'd do in a heartbeat. >> andrea: how much did it cost him? >> eric: i don't know. whatever it cost red bull they make -- >> andrea: he almost died, right? >> eric: one of the reasons -- he blacked outch he would have broken more -- >> greg: i black out all the time. not from that. >> eric: how can you jump out of is that cast? >> greg: i don't need to do that stuff. i'll tell you why. people like this are selfish. they go off and do the dare del activities. who bails them out and who has to climb up the mountain? poor guys that got to rescue the

eric, what about you?eric: my favorite story, i don't why, but the red bull, the guy who jumped out little space -- there it is. bombgartner, red bull jumped from space. i was glued to the tv when he did it. i think it's fantastic. privately. private money. he just did something that i would love to do some sometime. i couldn't stop watching that. every sometime i see it, i love to see that. >> juan: you want to do that? >> eric: if i didn't have a 14-year-old son i'd do in a heartbeat. >> andrea: how much did it cost him? >> eric: i don't know. whatever it cost red bull they make -- >> andrea: he almost died, right? >> eric: one of the reasons -- he blacked outch he would have broken more -- >> greg: i black out all the time. not from that. >> eric: how can you jump out of is that cast? >> greg: i don't need to do that stuff. i'll tell you why. people like this are selfish. they go off and do the dare del activities. who bails them out and who has to climb up the mountain? poor guys that got to rescue the

is this such a big deal, eric? >> eric: yeah. it is.e part about saying she was smoking pot on school grounds, i believe. she was high. she was stoned when she was grading papers. that alone, any parent in the world who has a 14-year-old son wants her fired. >> andrea: she was also naked and stoned and wet while grading papers according to her tweet. >> greg: who hasn't been there? can i make a point 23. we have longer life spans now. so 3-year-olds are essentially -- 23-year-olds are essentially 13-year-old. if you look at young adult males they dress at german kids at fat camp with paggy shorts and silly hats. this woman has more in common with high school kids than she does adults in their 30s. >> bob: dana, are you upset by this? >> dana: i grew up in colorado. it must have changed a great deal since i was there. i agree with this school administrators to make the decision. i saw that the kids got together and want a petition to get her back. no. put her on administrative leave. if she is a math teacher add it up that the human body

eric, listen to eric holder in 1995.is the reason why people are slightly nervous. >> what we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns. especially young people. make it something that is not cool, not acceptable. it's not hip to carry a gun. in the way we have changed our attitude about cigarettes. you know, when i was growing up, people smoked all the time. both my parents did. over time we changed the way in which people thought about smoking, so now we have people who cower outside of buildings apt spoke in private and don't want to admit it. >> andrea: all right. he is sake tag smoking used to be cool. when was it ever cool to commit a crime or shoot somebody? >> eric: this is what the obama administration -- allow me. this is what the obama administration does. remember when president obama, i think he was president at the time. he may have been running -- i think he was president at the time, early in the administration saying if you want to be a coal company or a new coal-fired power plant we

face on. >> eric: horrified. >> dana: escapism for an hour. or really trying to figure out a way to degrade other people or humiliate them for your financial well-being? how does a show like this get created? i know we should have people throw chairs and punchs at each other and pull girls' hair, this would be a great show. all the people that work on the show executives made money off of people making fools of themselves. this is their 15 minutes of fame. i sound like a downer but i don't like it. >> bob: people watch it say i'm not as bad as those people are. >> eric: exactly. >> andrea: taking a paternity test on national television is not real. >> bob: thank god for that. >> eric: aren't you the up with that showed us the paternity test on the street in the summer? >> andrea: what? >> dana: look at her face. >> eric: in the van. >> andrea: like the food truck. you have a picture? >> andrea: the who's your daddy truck? >> eric: check out the web site, sugar daddies are matched with sugar babies. they have a li

. >> eric: i got you.nd it amazing how crushed his world was that his girlfriend died who he never met. number one. number two, what would you do, katie? i don't nope, maybe tell the truth. but that is assuming that you believe him. that he learned two days before december 6. i said from the beginning and i'll say it now, his father was worse by the way. he said i have known the i go 21 years of his life. that is his whole life, dad. he is your son. but the fact of the matter is that this guy was setting himself up for the heisman trophy and going to be a close vote. that's why he went along with the deal. >> eric: i'm not sure we set it up properly. what he did is say i found out sometime between december and january when they had the national championship game and he didn't say anything. do you believe him? do you care? thoughts? >> dana: i thought that katie set a good tone for the interview. and that i think he came across as a lot more believable, credible, and more, i guess i was more empatheticbe to

>> eric: time to go.ing up, if you are up with of the people who likes to pick up road kill, good news for you. dana is going to explain. later, antigun crowd in hollywood has a public service announcement. mr. gutfeld has an announcement. stick around. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> dana: if you think lawmakers never get anything done, think again. thousands of new laws and regulations went in effect yesterday, including the following. in illinois, it's now perfectly legal for you to pick up road kill from the street or the highway. some people might find that a little disgusting. in concorde, massachusetts, put down your spring water. you cannot have plastic bottles up there anymore. from now on you can only have four cats in your home. what? >> dana: you can't make this stuff up. you can't ban phrases until the end of the show. illinois is one of the states that has the worst mention problem. they have time to do all the other laws. including the one you brought up. strip clubs explain. >> they charge patron $3 a head

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eric? >> eric: manti teo hit the late night talk circuit.yer need imaginary girlfriend? math major, sure. but middle linebacker, no it doesn't make sense. >> he thought necessary a relationship with a womaned like this but in reality he was in a relationship with a woman looking more like this. >> imaginary girlfriend. but in his defense, present musberger said she was really hot. >> eric: poor guy. give him a break. let's move on. >> dana:be what? >> andrea: okay. earlier in the week i talked about how mitt romney was right during the campaign trail when he said chrysler was going to be moving jeeps to china. it turns out romney was right about something else. take a listen to him talking during one of the debates that got him a lot of mockery from the left. >> we want to make sure we are seeing progress throughout the middle east, mali and north mali taken over by al-qaeda. >> andrea: they laughed at him then for bringing up mali. now al-qaeda moved to mali though the administration says al-qaeda is on the run. we diminished them. no, gain

>> eric: two issues. didn't notre dame assuming they had investigators like the gentleman says they did, why didn't they complain? why did they wait when they knew more than a month before the national title game -- >> kimberly: distracting from -- >> dana: good question. such a great question. >> bob: i agree. to stand out there and say this and the overwhelming amount of evidence is against you. they may have said hoax some place. clearly the woman whose picture taken and shocked by it, the hoax is somebody lifted her picture. every time a good looking girl on campus, i used to say i had a date with her. >> kimberly: one of his close friends tuisosopo. >> eric: nice. >> bob: you're from hawaii? you're from puerto rico, right? >> bob: is this real, snob what is wrong with you. >> dana: what was your point? what did he say? >> kimberly: my point is he went to high school with the girl whose picture was used. there is a web of characters involved in this. somebody pulled the picture, put it up. buddy, it's

eric? >> eric: kind of a hard story for me to talk about.lled 100 plus abandoned dogs of the everglades. the founder or one of the people who run the foundation is amy ronin. they go in the ever glades and save dog. people who don't want the dog or cats go in and leave the animals die, in some cases they get bit by snakes and die. they rescued 23 dogs over the weekend. if you have an animal that you don't want, bring it to a shelter. number two, if you have room, rescue an animal, florida, or -- >> greg: who rescues the snakes? >> eric: they stay there. >> dana: i saw a snake on fox and friends. scary. i'm going to go next. i found out about the story, max park who is a young boy, he has autism. he wanted to, went to a rubix cube competition. he wanted to watch it but he is amazing at it. watch this. >> beating them bay minute. >> division title and placeded him among the best 100 players in the world. >> some of the kids were like college age kids. wait a second. really? that was a surprise. >> dana: go. i had a

>> eric: no. >> bob:be we don't do them. >> dana: not doing them well is different that not doing them. >> bob: trying to tighten up the rules aboutbe the mental health and exchange the information. one thing the cdc,be republican congress saw fit to cut their funding but they would be back dealing with what gun control -- i mean what gun advocacy has done to the guys that have the mental illnesses. >> andrea: gun advocacy? >> bob: the gun advocates are againstbe the cdc having the money to do a study with the mental health information. >> another washington study. you don't need a washington study to figure out a lot of the killers were loners, that weren't included. maybe the recommendation should be simple as if you see somebody, alone on the playground as a kid, maybe invite them to the circle. don't isolate them. i don't know. >> bob: what is your answer to the mental health problem? >> dana: it's not her responsibility to come up with an answer. >> andrea: i don't think there is one single a

eric, what about you?eric: my favorite story, i don't why, but the red bull, the guy who jumped out little space -- there it is. bombgartner, red bull jumped from space. i was glued to the tv when he did it. i think it's fantastic. privately. private money. he just did something that i would love to do some sometime. i couldn't stop watching that. every sometime i see it, i love to see that. >> juan: you want to do that? >> eric: if i didn't have a 14-year-old son i'd do in a heartbeat. >> andrea: how much did it cost him? >> eric: i don't know. whatever it cost red bull they make -- >> andrea: he almost died, right? >> eric: one of the reasons -- he blacked outch he would have broken more -- >> greg: i black out all the time. not from that. >> eric: how can you jump out of is that cast? >> greg: i don't need to do that stuff. i'll tell you why. people like this are selfish. they go off and do the dare del activities. who bails them out and who has to climb up the mountain? poor guys that got to rescue the

>> eric: nothing.nk there is a problem with droning, and i'm for killing the bad guys via drones but the thing is he was against this type of -- wate waterboarding, he is against it. but drone is better. >> bob: kill the guy that is a number two -- >> i'm for it, bob. i'm all thumbs up for the drone program. >> kimberly: we support it but saying it's inconsistent policy. it smacks of hypocrisy that the man said it's unlawful and you shouldn't torture people, bad, bad, shame on you, burned. he puts out his own form of the roach motel if pre predator drone. you check in and you don't check out. >> greg: i promised i would do something in the block for you. new popularity polls for obama. favorable 60%. unfavorable 37%. no opinion, 3%. >> dana: they're like we don't care. >> greg: he is asked to be part of a poll and you have no opinion, what is wrong with you? what are your thoughts on it? it seems high. >> bob: very high. historically, extremely high for second-term president. two things. one, on the ec

>> eric: we need to point this out. the f.b.i. office because he has, there is an $11 million lien that he is not paying his taxes. there may be questionable contributions gip on >> kimberly: there are e-mails posted and they may corroborate the information given from the e-mail to tip tipster. >> dana: i am just listening. i'm cautious when it comes to getting in front of the f.b.i. let them do their investigation. it was reported in the "miriam herald" today -- miami herald" today. comment about the press. it's dangerous when you decide who is and is not a reporter. one that you would or would not deal with. when the dan rathertory broke about the documents being forged that was not because of intrepid reporter. take your pick of any of the big papers. it would be depicted as a blogger in the pajamas. he found that. stories pop up anywhere. journalists work for liberal or conservative newspapers or has conservative news editorial page. you bet every pay attention to all of them because where there is smoke there is fire. >> kimb

i am with eric, though. can you have a comprehensive immigration plan without a boarder in place. it's like buying a truckload of stuff and realizing you don't a truck. then you to take all of that stuff and carry it outside. what do you do? nothing. i am going to beat the metaphor to ground. half of the immigrants are coming from a country and it's not canada. it's like a kid that came to play at your house but never played at his house because it didn't have a pool. mexico has to figure out what they will do after the comprehensive immigration plan because they will lose everybody. they have to fix their country. people are great. the councilmembe country not so. i have an above ground pool. >> bob: a great start but obstacles. first, the definition of what secures the border will be difficult one to determine. they will leave it up to governors of the southwest to do that. it could be politically difficult. right time to do it. republicans know they have to have more hispanic voters. that is propelling th

. >> eric: i'm eric bolling with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino, greg gutfeld.t's 5:00 in new york city, and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> eric: liberals reignite the gun debate hitting the airwaves. vice president joe biden had a fireside hangout this afternoon after wasting 30 minutes of our time, here is the take-away. >> i don't agree with gun control. i agree with gun safety. making sure your keep the weapon out of the reach of kids, making sure that we are able to make sure bad guys don't, they get in registry so they can't buy a gun. >> eric: wow! don't let your kids play with guns and don't let psychos get guns. okay. got you, uncle joe. thank you for all you do. then there was a good senator from california, dianne feinstein. listen to her. >> the weak gun laws allow the mass killings to be carried out again and again and again. in our country. >> eric: senator wasn't always so antigun. listen. >> i know the urge to arm yourself. because that is what i did. i was trained in firearms. i walked to the hospital when my husband was sick. i carried a concealed

>> eric: three times.s is what he said when asked if jay carney saw the president with fun in hand. >> how often make? >> bob: do you worry if he has guns or not? >> this tells me there is a minute left in the segment. stretch this out. to see if we can make it -- >> eric: no go ahead. greg. >> greg: i thought we were going to talk about the constitutional -- >> eric: oh, roll the tape. >> let's give up on the constitution. i know it sounds radical. but it's really not. constitutional disobedience is as american as apple pie. >> eric: something is going on at cbs. that is from yesterday. greg, take this. >> greg: if we were liberia or greece i could understand listening to this guy. we are the greatest country that has ever been and probably ever will be. he says to discard the outdated document to make the greatest country it will be. what is it about the academic that look at fruit and causes of the victory and wants to sacrifice them and embrace the ideas of history? >> bob: you missed your normal openi

you'll be up. >> eric: who's up? >> greg: eric. >> eric: i'll do it. quickly. just check this out.. jimmy kimmel. >> welcome to tonight's episode of jimmy kimmel sucks. tonight, cheryl crow is my band leader. [ applause ] jimmy wait, let me ask you something. have you ever had nicole kidman on your show? >> no. >> that is too bad. ♪ ♪ >> eric: actually, matt damon hosted the whole show. jimmy was tied up in the back. one of the fewiest talk shows. you know who else could do is that? greg gutfeld could do that. >> greg: sheryl crow looks great. >> andrea: he does do late night talk. "red eye." >> greg: he was being sarcastic. >> eric: no. being serious. we're lucky to have you. >> greg: oh, jeez. what are you doing later? >> bob: why don't we all go get stoned together and not drive. [ laughter ] okay. >> greg: it's andrea's turn. >> andrea: go ahead. >> bob: no, please. >> no really. go. >> bob: let's not have a -- take the damn thing and put it up. >> andrea: fine. i don't have that much love for you. i'll go first. if you're a waiter at a restaurant a overhear a table saying nega

>> eric: hello. 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: flip on the tv you better have fox news on, but if you change the channel, there is crazy stuff in tv land these days. check out "all my babies' momma" with a reality show starring a rapper sean lowe and ten women with his kids. >> in atlanta he is known for having 11 kids and ten babies' mommas. ♪ >> they say i'm the first lady. the baby momma with the most power because i control sean's finances. everybody good? amanda, the jealous baby bombma. >> yeah, whatever. you better listen. >> it's scheduled to air this spring on the oxygen network, creating controversy already. some claiming it's an attack on african-american families. but folks before you go liberal, tree-huger on me, train wreck tv is watchable. train wreck tv races through the roof. train wreck tv is color blind. >> you better watch out. ♪ ♪ >> no one going on this but me! >> round two. >> dynamic definitely changed. it's not one big happy family anymore. >> i

they are carrying foreign news. >> eric: how about the bbc. >> eric: do they want to tune in their coveragepolicy? >> greg: can i read the code word. they have diverse point of view, left wing to leftist. stories that no one sales telling. stories from the media matters press release. truth to lead to better understanding of the world around us. please, america, bow more. >> dana: al-jazeera is not the only government that is trying to get access to american market. the chinese has the biggest billboard in times square. and trying to make a move. america has done some of this. through the state department. they created al hur nash response to al-jazeera. they cannot get a foothold. it's because it doesn't feed in the biass against america. and against israel. >> bob: you remember "washington times" when it was still around. it still is around. but conservative paper in washington. owned by reverend son muhn, korean. everybody wants a piece of the market. >> greg: you know what you get for $100 million? mini fridge, camera and old page of older men's depends. >> dana: the other thing, look a

>> greg: i disagree with eric. bob as a former addict you can recognize people who are barreling toward addiction. andrea is saying europe as yun keys, governmentune keys look at america as here comes another one hooked on the government syringe. can i say this? i lost my pen. we save europe from nazis and soviet and restored their economy through the marshall pan. we carried the carry -- throughe martial plan. we carry them through a model. >> bob: we are no more going to become like europe -- every time the economy is down it bounces back strongly. take advice from any european is a bad idea. >> greg: not with cheese. >> andrea: and wine. >> bob: i never drank wine. couldn't get drunk enough fast enough on it. germany is the film capital of europe. >> dana: he goes. >> eric: i agree with you. we'll never be like europe. but germany doesn't do things like. certain part of europe do. greece is failing. i am talking about the economy. they work hard and the productivity is strong. we are still 40% higher than the be