you're great, eric bolling. finally a guy who says what only ass (bleep)s are thinking.lause) who? too soon? just kidding. jon? >> jon: (cheers and applause). >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight served for 18 years as a united states senator from wisconsin. his new book is called "while america sleeps: a wakeup call for the post-9/11 era." welcome back to the program russ feingold. (cheers and applause) how are you? >> very good. thanks for having me on. >> jon: the book is called "while america sleeps." it is one of the scariest bedtime stories you could ever read. (laughter) it's a children's book, am i right? pictures to come. >> absolutely. >> jon: it sort of begins 9/11 and sort of how... talks about how the government lost our minds a little bit, went into iraq, did a lot of things. as you're watching now-- and we were talking about this with the audience earlier-- do you feel us moving in that direction again with iran? and do you think... is it easy for america to bomb them since it's only really one letter off anyway? (laughter) >> there might be some confusi

eric bolling from fox news. dat he had something despicable to say about a sitting congressional woman who is black and that's maxine waters. she said john boehner and eric cantor looked like demons in a photo. >> what is going on in california? how is this? congresswoman, you saw what happened to whitney houston. step away from the crack pipe. step away from the xanax. it's going to get you in trouble. >> we should mention that his show was canceled on fox business but he's still on the other fox network. how is it acceptable to tell an african-american congressional member, a woman, to put down the crack pipe? later, bolling said, he was just kidding around. but he has a history of comments like this. >> mr. obama, you've decided that chugging a few 40s and rediscovering your irish is more important than a presidential visit to a community trying to figure out what just hit them. what's with all of the hoods a month after the white house hosted the rapper common the president opened his doors to one of africa's

captioned by closed captioning services, inc >> eric: hello, i'm eric bolling with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino, greg gutfeld. it's 1:30 in the morning in tehran. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> eric: gasoline hitting $3.52 a gallon for the first time ever in february. if they include all surcharges $1 a barrel to staggering $102 a barrel. meaning much more pain at the pump headed our way. what is causing run-up in prices? tensions in the middle east are palpable. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad personall personal g the switch on the nuclear plant and showing the bird to israel. they are announcing that they are ready, able and able to drop a bomb on iran. how does the tension translate to high gas prices here? take a look at the telestrator. we broke out the telestrator for the first time. check out the world's most sensitive and dangerous oil choke point. 17 million-barrels pass through the strait of hormuz. more than 20% of all the world's consuming ability. all the production in the world passes right through the area there. 20 miles wide. here is the problem, though. h

i'm dana perino, along with kimberly guilfoyle, bob beckel, eric bolling, greg gutfeld, who have already tried to make me mess up. then we also have andrea tantaros in washington at the cpac conference. she will be with us in a minute. he is talked to rick santorum, allen west and more. you will hear from all of them. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ so the big news today the so-called compromise over the contraception mandate. the administration announcing instead of making religious institutions provide birth control, insurance companies will be responsible. president obama spoke on the issue earlier today. >> if a woman employer is a charity or hospital that has a religious objection to providing contraceptive services as part of the health plan, the insurance company, not the hospital, not the charity, will be required to reach out and offer the woman contraceptive carefree of charge. >> dana: okay. the more i look into this, the more it didn't sound like much of a compromise to me at all. the administration was facing extraordinary and growing backlash. we have be

i'm andrea tantaros with bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in the big apple. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ c'mon ♪ baby don't you want to go ♪ ♪ we don't; chicago ♪ >> andrea: that was president obama singing "sweet home, chicago" and that's where republicans want him to go come november. the question is who is the best man for the job? yesterday we were talking about what the conservative base wants on "the five" versus what the republican establishment wants in a candidate. rush limbaugh spent a lot of time talking about our conversation today on his radio show. here is part of it. >> the establishment really care more about the independent vote than they do the base. at this point in time. it may not have always been the case. right now it's the case. they are more worried about losing independents than they are securing the support of the conservative base. the question is how do you get them? this notion that you force them to run away from you by fighting back, that has always been absurd to me. they try to tell us these i

. >> eric bolling has made air ball racially charged comments on a network and gets away with it. i don't think these comments will go away any time soon. i think we'll see more. it reminds me of the atmosphere in america from about four years ago when barack obama was going full steam ahead toward the presidency. we saw a lot of stuff like this. >> this is little hussein who wanted to see truth and good americans. >> it seems like the more president obama achieves, accomplishes, the frequency of the racial overtones just increasing everywhere. unemployment is going down, the economy is recovering, our foreign policy pretty successful but comments about race can motivate people who are unhappy that we have black man in the white house. get your cell phones out. i want to know what you think. tonight's question will racially charged comments in the media increase during the election season? text a for yes and text b for no to 622639. you can go to our blog and leave a comment. we'll bring you results on the poll later in the show. i'm joined by dr. james peterson. associate profess

>> hello, i'm eric bolling along with andrea tantaros, bob beckel, dana perino and greg gutfeld. it's five o'clock in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ >> well, it's election day primaries in arizona and michigan. polls close in just a few hours. while arizona should go solidly romney, michigan, a completely different primary, and the candidates, they're going rogue to win the wolverines state. listen to the the robo call that's got conservatives like me scratching our heads. >> romney supported the bailouts for his wall street buddies. opposed to the auto bailouts and that's a slap in the face to every michigan worker and we're not going to let romney get away with it. >> and romney fighting back with harsh words for santorum's tactics. >> it's a dirty trick, outrageous, to see rick santorum team up with the obama people and go after union labor people in detroit and try it get them to vote against me. i think it's outrageous and disgusting, a terrible dirty trick. >> all right. while santorum and romney slugged it out in michigan, president obama addressed the united auto

bill: thank you, eric bolling.ck santorum comparing this latest jump in gas prices to what was happening before the last election as he takes aim at president obama from the campaign trail in ohio. >> there is a head wind ahead of it right now and it's called energy prices. the same thing that happened in 2008 that led us in to this recession in the first place. it's coming back, why? because this president is doing everything he can to hurt energy production in this country, to drive up the cost of energy. there are -- if you look at alaska, mexico and venezuela, between those three countries in the next five years, five to ten years we're going to lose between 4 and 5 billion barrels a day coming into this country. patti ann: newt gingrich also weighing in this morning. he claims the president actually wants gas prices to be even higher to reach the european level, which is 9 or $10 a gallon. bill: some pe perspective how it's affecting people around the country. 27 states pay 2.50 a gallon or more. at the moment

violence that plagues our country the ballot box so-called news on fox and friends this morning host eric bolling steve doocy and gretchen carlson actually suggested that the bureau of labor statistics was cooking the books when it came to the new unemployment figures here's what the talking heads had to say. are they playing around the numbers look it's the bureau of labor statistics it's supposed to be nonpartisan but that's the department of labor hilda solis heads the partner of labor hilda solis works directly for obama you know our goals are kind of what i'm saying there's there's room for error there's room there's a but when you talk about four million people how do you know how do you how do you know how to make it and i don't think anything anyone should be surprised e-mailing us you know your articles french openly suggesting that the obama administration's engaging in a propaganda like campaign just doesn't seem very fair and balanced and the very very ugly u.s. senate candidate pete hoekstra books throws running against incumbent debbie debbie stabenow in michigan or as his campaign

lot of words but i will say that take a listen to eric bolling today when he was speaking to maxine waters or about the congresswoman you saw what happened to whitney houston stepped away from the crack pipe stowing away from. going to get in trouble. how would she explain those cuts. and that was in reference to her strong rhetoric against the banks and then afterwards he didn't apologize he just said i was joking yeah only fox news could take something that they claim is controversial and. and have their coverage be that fully more controversial it should be even be honestly if fox news anchor says something racist is news at this point should be just we should just this new should have you know way they say something when they just listen to her and then responded to her with like whatever she was talking about that that part could have to go by the media for ever everyone to see but it's just . third ok this is kind of depressing i have to say about the u.s. but first before we get into the study of what exactly are fields there are benefits to alcohol we just learned this recently. if

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i'm eric bolling with kimberly guilfoyle, bob beckel, dana perino and greg gutfeld. 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> eric: the big day, america. three years ago today, president obama spent hundreds of billions of your tax dollars to "stimulate the economy." well, feel stimulated yet? me neither. we thought it would be nice to wish the president a happy birthday, so we had this cake made, so to speak. but we wanted, bob, appropriately -- >> dana: to give you the honor. >> eric: we love you. blow it out. >> bob: i got to make a wish? >> dana: don't spit all over it. good job! you're getting married? what was that? >> bob: you know what i wish it was. >> eric: i'll wait for the break. all right. we blew out the candle. >> bob: you want to know my wish? >> dana: have you been planning that all day? >> bob: yes. that was great! my wish was all of your right wingers would realize how successful the stimulus was. >> dana: even the white house doesn't say -- even the white house doesn't try to claim it's successful. >> greg: a 3-year-old hasn't smelled this

right wing eric bolling and the nation snow globe dana perino. it's 5:00 p.m. in new york city. 1:00 a.m. in my heart. this is "the five." this show is packed tighter than rosie's sweatpants so let's do this america. ♪ ♪ >> greg: the national nightmare is over. it finally got my teeth cleaned but also the last republican debate occurred. we have wanted fireworks and got black snakes instead. all ash, no fire. odd moments like when john king asked the men to name their favorite color. >> courage. >> consistent. >> resolute. >> cheerful. >> greg: i never heard of those color. as usual, newt was newty. >> you are told you have self-esteem, even if you can't read the word self-esteem. >> greg: that is a great line. yet, he still felt out of place, like an ex that keeps showing up at bowling night though the new guy is there. then there is ron paul who reminded me of ron paul. >> congressman paul, you question the fiscal conservative credentials of all the gentlemen, but particularly rick santorum. you have have a new television ad that labels him a fake. why? >> be

eric, i was sitting there thinking the same reaction i had when i saw obama's -- sorry, madonna's world peace illuminated field. i thought bollingwhat is dirty harry doing in an ad, put out by chrysler when they still us some dough? >> eric: we excused $1 $1.2 billion in loans that we gave chrysler. it has to be upward of $25 million. the question, what do you mean it's halftime in america? none of the 250, 260 years it's game over? what does halftime -- >> dana: halfway through obama's term. >> eric: of course. that is the only interpretation. clint eastwood who says he didn't know knew or not, who cares? the producers of the commercial, people behind the promo, of course that's what they are saying. >> greg: do you think they tricked east wond told them they were films "fast and furious 6"? >> eric: sure. >> greg: he didn't know. >> eric: he may or may not have known. >> greg: the perception is there. that is the problem. they say it has nothing to do with obama. >> dana: here is why there is a big perception problem. white house can never leave well enough alone. they should have not said anything. but instead immediately the

. >> hello, i'm eric bolling with kimberly guilfoyle, bob beckel, dana perino and andrea an taros. this is the fife. the five. >> our the santorum surge is the republican establishment aphrase of a rick santorum candidacy? rush limbaugh says they might be. >> the establishment republicans are scared if romney loses michigan, they think he's going to lose the nomination. we're seeing the republican establishment force a candidate down the throats of the republican base that the republican base is obviously saying, from primary to primary to primary, they're not really sure, they're really not all that sold on romney. so the establishment says, okay, we have to find somebody else you don't like that might be able to win it. which is what it boils down to. >> rick santorum says the media isn't going to give any conservative a fair shake. >> will you be the generation that sat on the sidelines and watched as candidate after candidate comes up in the national media, takes their wax out to destroy them in any way possible as they have done with every single republican candidate and they

i'm kimberly guilfoyle, along with bob beckel, eric bolling, dana perino and greg gutfeld.t's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: our top story tonight, the death of whitney houston. the pop star died on the eve of biggest night. but she was found in a bathtub. investigators are holding the results of her autopsy pending the toxicology report. as you probably know, houston has struggled with a long battle with drug addiction. it's unclear at this time if that played a role in her death. her personal life filled with trouble but her music was an inspiration to people across the globe. how should he is be remembered? >> dana: he is was obviously a beautiful, talented woman. discovered, she was from newark, new jersey. he is has a talented family. interesting to hear this morning on "fox and friends" one of the first people that heard her sing, she was 14. her mom was singing and her mom said why don't you have to your daughter sing? she is good. he is turned out to be an amazing singer. i had a cassette tape in the day "the greatest love of all" and i

i'm kimberly guilfoyle with bob beckel, eric bolling, andrea tantaros and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: well, the fight to preseven religious freedom in america isn't letting up up with bit. today, archbishop timothy dolan set to become a cardinal next week said that president obama broke his promise to the catholic church imposing the obamacare mandate on contraceptives. >> it seems to be at odds with the sincere assurance he gave me that he wanted to continue to work with the church in endeavors and views and projects that he shared. passionate interest in it. i can't figure it out. that's why i am hoping in the massive negative reaction to this ruling, i'm hoping he will go back to the assurances he gave me. we can't have government bureaucracy invading the privacy and the independent pep dense of autonomy and integrity that the constitution gives to religion. >> kimberly: andrea, the catholic church at war with the obama administration. >> andrea: they are. a terrible place for the administration to be. battling the hi

we're going to report and you decide, eric bolling. >> eric: i'm taking one for the team today.e's sort of attractive. >> eric: you think? "fox & friends" starts -- >> juliet: she's a child! >> eric: right now. >> steve: bill o'reilly will be with us in a moment to tell us what happened in the last half hour over on the today show. it was explosive. >> juliet: hi, steve. i'm juliet. >> eric: i'll be eric. >> juliet: let's get to some headlines. we need to bring bill in. he had the audacity to say he was glad to try to kill nearly 300 americans on christmas day in an attempt to blow up a plane with a bomb hidden in his underwear. you know the story. today a judge is going to try to wipe that smirk off his face. he be sentenced for the botched plot in 2009. he's facing a mandatory sentence. abdulmutallab will be sent to federal max prison in colorado, the most secure prison in the u.s., but he's not expected to go quietly. alligate last chance to rail against the united states. when he pleaded guilty last year , he called osama bin laden a blessing. >>> house panel threatening to