where macedonia is, the language of macedonia?> um, i think that i enlightened them a little pit once i got going. you know, there wasn't anything really surprising about what they were saying. but, you seem to know somewhat of what was going on. if those that didn't, i, you know, told them and they had an opinion after that. >> boy, you arer a beacon of truth in aha dark city. thanks a lot for joining us. >> thank you. >> it took awhile, but we finally tracked down a representative from macedonia, president of united macedonian diaspora. what was your reaction to senator clinton's remarks the other day? >> well, first macedonia is an important ally to the united states and every time the u.s. has askedte for support it's delivered in bosnia, kosov o, afghanistan andnd iraq. it's kd of absurd to believe that these macedonian students that are trying to make some extra cash by creating fake news sites from macedonia were the cause of were the down fall of a well-funded, um, well-staffed campaign here in the u.s. >> okay, so you're

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the young director sees macedonia as a multi-ethnic republic.he population is about a quarter ethnic albanian, plus a few smaller minorities alongside a slavic macedonian majority, which the nationalists are trying to rally. irina: they teach them, practically, with everything -- with media, with propaganda, with their speeches -- they teach them that they don't have to do anything, just be macedonian. and by being macedonian, you are right by any case. reporter: irina sterijovic is certain the nationalist wave is part of a plan -- that those in power are trying to cover up shady construction deals. irina: half of this that is still on building -- now it's considered illegal buildings. reporter: special prosecutors have since been assigned to investigate the allegations of corruption. these three women are working to build a case against the country's long-serving former prime minister. many see it as a ray of hope for change. katica: we have to hand our list of indictments -- the ones that we gathered evidence for -- to the courts. but the deci

like all legitimate countries, macedonia once had big macs.within its borders and average macedonians were of course, very pleased by that. why wouldn't they be? four years ago, the franchise operator got into some kind of dispute with a mcdonald's european subsidy and the golden age of macedonian fast food swiftly came to an end. the franchise license was pulled. mcdonald's left the country, maybe forever, putting macedonia in the same happy meal-free category as north korea and iran. not a category you want to be in.anin that was in 2013. 2016 was the first presidential election since then. we are not asserting this as facts because we would never do that. but alert viewers may connect the dots. macedonians lost their fries and in retaliation, we lost our democracy. crazy, you say? no crazier than hillary clinton's theory. that's about it for us tonight. tune in every night for the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink.ne dvr it. and stay tuned for "the five."r >> greg: hi, i am greg gutfeld.un with kimber

putting macedonia in the same a happy meal free category as north korea and iran.you want to be in. that was in 2013. 2016 was the first presidential election since then. alert viewers may connect the dots. macedonians lost their fries and in retaliation, we lost our democracy. crazy, you say? no crazier than hillary clinton's three. that's about it for us tonight. tune in every night for the show that is the sworn lying lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. dvr it. stay tuned for "the five" ." >> greg: hi, i am greg gutfeld greg gutfeld. we are "the five" ." yet again, after the latest attacks in the u.k., we find out the one of the terrorists has been reported to police at least twice before. this is crazy. he was reportedly in a documentary on jihad -- british jihadists. at the attack still happened. how could that be? we know the answer. no one wants to go after these goals and be wrong because then you are suddenly labeled a bigot.

so i shortly arrived in macedonia where now i have a new u.s. embassy team to put together phone numbers and made connections for me too. i spoke i believe it was from macedonia to the tanzanian embassy, u.s. embassy in tanzania. and i want to thank anthony paglia. anthony paglia is the officer who issued the visas and he was johnny on the spot. he couldn't have moved any more quickly or with any more conviction once i convinced him this was for real. it was interesting how that happened, mr. speaker, that the -- when a congressman calls a staff person in an embassy in tanzania, he doesn't know if it is a member of congress for one thing and what is the level of urgency and credibility of that call. i told him i can vouch for dr. steve meyer. and i've known him for a long time. i know the level of his credibility and his conviction, his heart. i've spoken to that, mr. speaker. relayed that to anthony paglia. and it seemed like the message wasn't clearly resonating because he didn't know dr. steve meyer. i said steve meyer is also working with --

he is going into coalition with parties representing macedonia's ethnic albanian minority. in a massive bomb attack in kabul has been described as a crime against humanity by the afghan president, ashraf ghani. the un secretary general has also which injured more than 400 others. a bbc driver, mohammed nazir, is among the dead. 0n the line from kabul is the bbc‘s mahfouz zubaide. we still don't know who is responsible for this? no, but the afg ha n responsible for this? no, but the afghan intelligence service has issued a statement last night. they have said that the attack was supported by pakistani insurgents. that is what they are claiming, in terms of the explosion itself, it was absolutely massive, caused by 150 kilograms of explosives? yes, it was huge. it was full of explosives, and as you mentioned, the explosive was enormous. i and as you mentioned, the explosive was enormous. i was and as you mentioned, the explosive was enormous. i was at about seven kilometres away from where the blast was. we heard the blast. this morning when i came into the office, the taxi d

he is going into coalition with parties representing macedonia's ethnic albanian minority.y breast operations has been jailed series of unnecessary breast operations has beenjailed for 15 yea rs. operations has beenjailed for 15 years. thejudge told ian paterson he had deliberately played on patients' worst fear, inventing or exaggerating their symptoms. sri la nka exaggerating their symptoms. sri lanka is to speed up flood relief. heavy monsoon rains have now killed over 200 people. the storm hit sri la nka over 200 people. the storm hit sri lanka on friday, then turned into cyclone mora. sarah corker reports. these are the worst torrential rains to hit sri lanka in more than a0 yea rs. to hit sri lanka in more than a0 years. and more than five days since the first heavy downpours began, many areas are still severely flooded. heavy equipment has been brought in to clear roads and unblock wells. huge mudslides have wiped out entire villages, and 600,000 people are now living in temporary shelters. translation: until now, we have had no relief from the government. everything

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thank you, mike macedonia. that's about it for us tonight.:00 for the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. don't forget the dvr if you haven't already. have a wonderful night. and more than anything, stay tuned for our friends in new york city, "the five." they are up next. ♪ >> kimberly: >> dana: , hello ei am dana perino. it is 9:00 in new york city and this is "the five" ." the democrats are on a losing streak to fight the near incessant accusations of presidential obstruction of justice and unconstitutional actions. they are now 0 for 4 and special elections. the democrats issues were on full display after the g.o.p. netted to go wins in georgia and south carolina. this is despite unprecedented spending by liberals.

do you have any connections to secret agents in macedonia?i only wish i had to because life would be so much more exciting, i'm afraid not guilty on both questions. it >> tucker: were laughing about this because it is so ludicrous. it's a definition of ludacris. it's also damaging to accuse people in public, even anonymously of a reputation destroying act like collaborating with an authoritarian government such as putin's. we've seen a lot of this, i don't know if we've ever had political witch hunts in great britain but we have here, and this looks like one of them to be. the >> this is far bigger than anything i've seen in britain certainly since brexit, they tro apportion blame. they try to make out a net worth of hate, they haven't gotten very far with it. the concern with this one is that it's actually gaining some traction in the usa among a lot of democrats who are beginning to believe this constant stream of rubbish that is put out about the russian conspiracy. the difficulty is, put yourself in my shoes, just what do you do when "the

when a slave master you took out an engine he had to morrow at a certain time of macedonia and took the money so gave me a son. and then. we select is that a new come over you would. you know it is the saying dang. blacks you know its attempts are. in order and pick the best man in man in cinema. he peered into money or no money at all. i mean was different the name has changed but the game's in the saying. is. you know who is king them for the pope this campaign what kind of damage campaign is did we find that. the people making seven out of a bank in there was making two thousand down and that was the c.d.c. this is two thousand and sixteen and all we made from. dallin summer of eighty seven now must be. the campaign that would change. the. believe. the key. to this is really your group's recent. capital of. the city. or capital think any country. during rate is nearly five times your ears and. very profitable business a one hundred eighty two million dollar industry. i really. want to. be by every day. like i walk. by not to go back out the street and it's hard hard hard shot for me

thank you, mikedede macedonia. one of the nice people in this worldon.t's about it for us tonight. tune in every night at 8:00 for the t show that is the sworn eny of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. don't forget to dvr it, if you haven't already. have a wonderful night. and more than anything, stay tuned for our friends in new york city, "the five." they are up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> dana: hello everyone, i am dana perino. along with juan williams, greg jesse watters and kimberly guilfoyle. it is 9:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ the democrats are on a losing streak despite the near incessant accusations of presidential obstruction of justice and unconstitutional actions.ea they are now 0 for 4 in special elections. four seats vacated by trumpti appointees. the democrats' issues were on full display after the g.o.p. netted two wins in georgia and south carolina. this is despite unprecedented spending by liberals. president trump brought up the republican victories last night

the guys in macedonia. here's what hillary clinton is asking for you to believe.ampaign had no message or idea what voters wanted. that didn't matter, any of it. they were going to win. it was guaranteed. at the last minute, the trump campaign, which had half the money that hillary had, almost no staffers, came up with a diabolical idea to reach out directly to the government of vladimir putin and his army of bloggers and hackers, and request emergency help.he putin complied, course, because trump was his puppet, perhaps a secret agent of the clumped on -- of the kremlin. what happens next is history, oi is hillary might put it, "herstory." unnamed members hack to the dncd in the personal gmail accounts of clinton's campaign chairman john podesta, having deduced this might be the best way to hurt her in the campaign. the emails they exposed found a cozy relationship with the media on the democratic party. they showed that the democratic primary premise was rigged. they exposed wall street script transcript that clinton wanted to keep secret. in fact, hillary expla

. >> espaÑa visitando a macedonia. >> no tuvo problemas para derrotarlas 2 a 1 con tanto del canarioel tiempo para conquistar la dÉcima corona al derrotaron wawrinca y sin ceder un set rafa que habÍa destrozado al ganarlo consecutiva en parÍs y en esta superficie, es el mÁs grande de todos los tiempos, seguramente maÑana amaneciÓ rÁ como el nÚmero 2 del mundo. >> un grande. >> sammy me sentÍ orgulloso y felicitaciones a todo el equipo de telemundo deportes por el mundial sub 20 porque se viene la confederaciones. >> a 5 dÍas nada mÁs. >> un abrazo. >> rams owen naciÓ en los estados unidos y creciÓ en guadalajara. >> Él es nuestra gente extraordinaria. >> fue algo desagradable, horrible de este maestro que le hizo a los niÑos, ahÍ estaba mi hija. >> logramos castigar a la entidad escolar econÓmicamente pero mÁs que nada prevenir que esto jamÁs vuelva a suceder que realmente es algo que ninguna cantidad de dinero puede borrar lo sucedido ninguna cantidad de dinero es equivalente a lo que pasaron estos niÑos. >> sin duda el caso que me afectÓ aquÍ mÁs que cualquier otro cuando tuvimos q

when a slave master you took on a jihad tomorrow at a certain time of macedonia and took my money so gave me a son. and then. we select is that a new come over you would. you know it is the saying dang. blacks you know its attempts are. in order and picked the best man to man a pick cinema. he peered into money or no money at all. i mean was different the name has changed but the game still missing. is. you know whose kingdom for the pope this campaign will come and damn campaign is does we find that. the people who make seven out of a bank in that was making two thousand down and. the c.d.c. this is two thousand and sixteen and all we made for. dalin summed it up into seven down as the. campaign that would change. the. believe. the key. to this is your group's recent. capital of the ruled the city. capita than any country. has nearly five times your ears and. our new prisons our very profitable business a one hundred eighty two million dollar industry. really close. if i. like how much. i love to go back out the street and it's far far far shot for me to do what i need to do and the

f.b.i., vladimir putin, third from the bottom content farms in macedonia. hit them all. >> she really did. what it suggests -- she is writing a book about this and she referenced that she will be discussing this at greater length in her book but what it suggests is that she is definitely not moving on. she is deep into the weeds of the russia investigation. this was something we know, by the way, from the only and best book published so far about the clinton campaign. a decision to blame the russians on the defeat was made the day after by the defeated clinton campaign. and it ignores so many of the actual political reasons for her loss. as a matter of fact, when she blamed the democratic party's data operation, the people who ran that data operation are now pushing back saying wait a minute. we did a good job. >> bill: that's to be debated, too. she was also asked why she was not in wisconsin and she blames scott walker the republican governor there. a bit more about how she forecasts into the future and how she sees power in congress in 2018. >> if we can

. >> this costume is from macedonia in the northern part of the greece. >> this is also from northerne, from the region of upontos. >> each of these costumes does that mean you each do different dances. >> i guess, yeah. each comes with a different dance, i guess you can say. >> wonderful. >> i have to ask you are you incredibly hot in those costumes. >> very hot. >> you were saying they each weigh 5-pound. >> very we havey how long does it take to you get dressed. >> about 25 or 30 minutes. >> it tease a whiley can see that. you look absolutely beautiful. is what the dance you will teach me. >> so this one is probably the most common one that you see at weddings, you'll see here throughout the night many times. >> so if i'm going anywhere greek this is what you need to do. >> you want to know this dance for sure. >> what i will do is, can i give the microphone to one of you and then you can instruct us how we are doing things is that okay. i'm volunteering you. >> all right. >> so the dances are generally like referred to as a step dance. so we have to count up to 12 steps. this is h

from its lee certainly did and he dreamt big french annotates claim to be the hereditary prince of macedonia and serbia in fact and albania and montenegro even though montenegro hasn't had a moment the since one nine hundred eighteen but the information on his official website begs to differ still not buying it while many high ranking officials and celebrities did including the archbishop of monaco and the vatican secretary of state mr czerny just didn't lose any time to enter his life into a stereotype one thousand former baywatch star power anderson could think bigger bestowing five orders of chivalry upon himself again check including julius caesar in his list of ancestors sounds more like you and no one bothered to check his documents from fake passports to the license plates on these cars which he drove around with his self-proclaimed ambassador they've been traveling around europe since twenty fourteen but it was only when they refused to pay for a weeklong stay at a luxury resort in italy that people finally caught on the guest asked for the bill to be sent to the macedonian embassy i

>> jesse: macedonia. >> kimberly: low information voters, do you remember them?f we did a drinking game, we would be hammered. >> kimberly: i don't think i'm playing that game. that's a very dangerous game for me to play. bitter, who is better now? holding on, can't let it go. it's like pin the tail on the klinger. they can finally rest assured they can blame the entire election on, right? this is what's happening. she can't handle it. she's blowing it with her supporters. >> jesse: the chinese and the 1996 clinton reelection campaign, they put all that shady dough in the clinton coffers. >> dana: she's on this tour partly because she selling her book. millions of dollars for a book that's coming out. it's basically the expo. she comes in and previews it for all of the booksellers. one of my favorite quotes from a presidential autobiography was when president bush wrote self-pity is a pathetic quality in a leader. i had a former senior advisor emailed me last night and said it simply the most embarrassing i have ever seen her, filled with unsubstantiated conspira

to destroy the republican party, a lot of that content is fueled by fake news coming from russia, macedonia. people that are wholesale making up stories and trying to stoke anger and figure out a way they can make money because of the clicks. there's a whole sort of media thing that it wasn't there 60 years ago that it's building. and basically throwing fuel on the fire. >> greg: juan, can i ask you about the golden state warriors? in terms of discourse, can they go and talk to the guy and say here is why we are mad at you? people avoid that because what if they are wrong or what if they find out he's not so bad? >> juan: i think people have a legitimate right to say i don't like your politics and your fear mongering. >> greg: then go and say it. >> juan: i think by their actions, it's being said very loudly. i look at daily politics. i see tens of millions of dollars being spent down in georgia to demonize nancy pelosi. she has become the opposite of a whipping boy -- a pinata for the right. what's the basis of this? it doesn't matter anymore. in the minds of the right wing, she is bad. th

. >> heather: macedonia operatives. russian president leonard putin says that russia has never engaged in hacking, suggesting instead that evidence pointing towards moscow was rigged. but he did not rule out the possibility that individuals could have a cyber attack given the frosty relations. >> we wake up in the morning today -- if they are patriots, they start to contribute opinions and fight against those who speak against us. theoretically, it's possible. we don't engage in that on a state level. >> heather: amy joins us live from milan with more. the >> that wording does recall a recent kremlin statement that there wasn't any truth, but it couldn't prevent volunteers from going there on their own to fight against perceived injustices they are again, today putin denied that he managed in a hackers, but he also said that hackers, no matter how clever would not ultimately be able to influence the results of an election because the public would be too smart to be hoodwinked. he fielded questions about a number of othe

apparently datamining in macedonia, that was a problem as well. the dnc, she threw her own committee under the bus. kennedy: that's a really important point to let's talk about that. she said she was the one who had to come up with resources because the dnc had nothing. their data was mediocre and their operation was substandard. if this is someone like bernie sanders could say the dnc did nothing for him. >> they ran out of resources that they use them all to take a bernie sanders. democrats are saying we wanted a free and fair election and the russians intervene but they didn't seem to have a problem with the fact that they are on democratic national committee took their election away from bernie sanders. they didn't have a problem with that election process. kennedy: can you imagine if ernie were giving a speech over and over again talking about all the ways he lost the nomination and blaming the real causes for some of his primary defeats? >> i didn't hear word from after a loss and john mccain i didn't hear from after a loss. you have the pen

. >> content farms in macedonia. even know what that means. >> i did know what that means. >> she left off her husband. >> low information voters, remember them? >> yup. kimberly, and if a you and i were to take a drinking game and take a shot for every time hillary made an excuse for losing we'd be hammered. >> a very dangerous game for me to play. who's the bitter clingers now? >> yeah, right. great point. >> hold on to it, pin the tail on the clinger. which one of them are they going to say that sticks that they can finally rest assured they can blame the entire election on, right? this is what's happening.ha she's super upset but i think she's blowing it with her supporters. >> you know who else? the chinese in the 1996 clinton re-election campaign when they funneled all that shady dough into the d nc coughers. >> remember she'sth on this tour partly because she is selling her book. she is at the event she's at today is called book pro or basically the expo. she previews it all of the book sellers. one of my favo

he and donald tusk and the eu head of foreign affairs meeting with the prime minister of macedonia, another region of the european continent. it's the balkans, not just the irish border we have to worry about. >> how does the dup coming in with ten mps complicate the brexit talks they want that open border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. >> it puts a bit of a spin in the works. it takes that option of negotiations off the table for theresa may's conservatives. the dup have been in favor of brexit, but they're much more worried about staying part of the customs union for trade and also to avoid the hardening of that border. very, very difficult for theresa may to navigate through the shifting concerns on both sides. that's something she will have to try to do starting next monday >> willem, the clock is ticking. thank you very much for that >>> earlier steve sedgwick asked an influential investor if he was changing his strategy given the election result. >> uk generally will become very cheap. from an investment point of view, hold back a bit, but at some point step in

information and the ntent of it and they were running -- there's all these stories about guys over in macedonia running these fake news sites. i've seen them now. you sit there and it looks like a low level cnn operation. >> or fake newspaper. like the guardian. >> or a fake newspaper. the russians, in my opinion, and based on the intel and counter-intel, people i've talked to, could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided? >> guided by americans? >> guided by americans and guided by people who had polling and data information. >> who is that? >> let me just finish. this is the second and third step. we know that they did that. we understand it. best example, so within one hour, one hour of the "access hollywood" tapes being leaked, within one hour the russians, let's say wikileaks, same thing, dumped the john podesta e-mail. if you've ever read the john podesta e-mails, they are anadine to boredom. they dumped them and began to weaponize them and began to have some of their allies within the internet world like infowars, take out pieces and say the mos

. >> and macedonia church here next door. >> this is the executive administrator of the islamic center we have the islamic church next to that and -- >> i've heard of auto road, you go to the stretch of the roadway where you buy cars. i've heard of alter cars. where do we begin today, more islam or more your child star. talk about this for a second. the american flag ask right here. not every church has an american flag in front of it, why is there an american flag here? >> we're muslims. >> at that moment i still felt pretty dumb. i know it' better to ask questions than to have a head made up of dumb questions you could have had answered yourself. it's long past time to skip the profits who study put or -- >> in fact, way more muslim dates and if you don't do believe the preponderance of the evidence that says they're peaceful producting people and you don't believe muslim when they try to tell you about their experiences of being profiled and harassed, hate by americans in the name of the flag. you have to ask yourself, why are you being dumb. it's loud become here. the mode of four

where is macedonia? >> happy friday to you, ambassador. thank you very much. >> all right. as we said, my colleague megyn kelly just wrap up her exclusive sit-down one-on-one. we're going to bring you some of that in a few minutes. and of course, you can see all of megayinl kelly's exclusive interview sunday night at 7:00 p.m. on your nbc station. we'll be right back. ♪ this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than mail they're handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you ♪ when a fire destroyedwith us everything in our living room. we replaced it all without touching our savings. yeah, our insurance won't do that. no. you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. for years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many bus

including content farms in macedonia. see you in ten minutes.player takes it literally. [whistling] [applause] >> i mean, this man can whistle. chris has been a top staffer on capitol hill and the chief spokesman for the scc that currently runs in washington. brian: but that's not also he does. he's also four time whistle champion in the world. ainsley: and he's out with a brand-new book called finding your whistle. chris joins us right now. how are you? >> immigrate. i couldn't be better and thanks for letting me talk about my book. >> is it phone call whistlers? >> no. this book is not only about whistling. it's about love, joy, and making the world a better place. because whistle is just metaphor for what is your simple gift? and i think you don't have to be a hero to make the world a better place, and i've been able to take this super simple gift just whistling, whistle for the president in the oval office. i whistled happy birthday 400 times a year for people. i whistle for handicap kids, one of whom can't speak but being whistle. i've been

a signal that nato membership was a real possibility for other nations of the western balkans -- macedonia, bosnia-herzegovina, kosovo, and according to some optimistic voices in the region, perhaps even serbia. that's why montenegro's october 16 election was no ordinary one. in russia's eyes, it was a last chance to stop montenegro from joining nato to thwart montenegro's pursuit of a euroatlantic future and rye assert fiewrn influence in southeastern europe. that's why there was little doubt that russia would exert heavy pressure on montenegro ahead of the election. russia had already been accused of fomenting antigovernment demonstrations and funding opposition parties, yet few would have guessed how far russia was willing to go, but now we know. this april as part of my visit to several countries in southeastern europe to reaffirm america's commitment to the region, i visited montenegro and was briefed by montenegran officials on the status of the investigation into the coup attempt. on april 14, montenegro's special prosecutor filed indictments against two russians and 12 other people