mo elleithee and erin mcpike. i saw on every major newspaper, this is the first big natural disaster test for president trump. it occurred to me that on some level the media has to make everything into a trump story. erin: i would say in this case donald trump took the bait the media put out there. many people are saying this is the worst form hurricane we have ever seen. now experts are calling harvey a once in a 500-year flood. he's playing right into media's hands there. i thought that was over the top on his part. howie: the white house trying to show he's on the job. the white house releasing photos from camp david to show he's on the job. if there were to be a government mishap or failure to respond on the scale of katrina, that would be a huge story. but framing it that way in advance was too much. emily: we elected a man who was not a poll figure beforehand. he has no natural disaster experience. but to the tweets. if i'm on the ground in houston, that's not bothering me. i want to hear that the president

steve hayes, mollie hemingway, mo elleithee, and charles krauthammer. good evening. steve, would you like to begin? >> the president's silence over the first two days of the controversy said more than his words earlier today. whenever you have white supremacists and neo-nazis holding hate rallies that lead to violence and eventually committing acts of domestic terrorism, you denounce them partially. you denounce them specifically and then you do it again and again and again and then you do it one more time for good measure. that's what presidential leadership would have looked like and we didn't have it. you had it for many members of the senate, republicans and democrats. tom cotton called out white supremacists specifically. said what they were preaching was an anathema to the united states. the problem for president trump beyond this missed opportunity and great moral failure is that we know what it looks like when donald trump wants to call somebody out. we know what it looks like when he wants to condemn somebody. he's done it for journalists. he's done it to hi

i am jesse watters, along with mo elleithee, kimberly guilfoyle, dana perino, greg gutfeld. 9:00 in newve." ♪ president trump turning up the heat. and doubling down on the fire and fury warning to north korea. threatening to fire missiles towards the base in guam. >> frankly the people who were questioning that was it too tough, maybe it was not tough enough. they've been doing this to our country for a long time. many years. and it is about time that somebody stuck up for the people of this country and for the people of other countries.

i am jesse watters, along with mo elleithee, kimberly guilfoyle, dana perino, greg gutfeld. 9:00 in nework city. this is "the five." ♪ president trump turning up the heat. and doubling down on the fire and fury warning to north korea. threatening to fire missiles towards the base in guam. >> frankly the people who were questioning that was it too tough, maybe it was not tough enough. they've been doing this to our country for a long time. many years. and it is about time that somebody stuck up for the people of this country and for the people of other countries. so if anything, maybe that wasou not tough enough. >> jesse: later this afternoon, the president continued his tough talk sending a strong message to dictator kim jong un. >> he has disrespected our country greatly. he has said things that are horrific. and with me, he is not getting away with it. i've read about where in guam by august 15th, let's see what he does with guam. if he does something in guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody has seen before what will happen in north korea. >> when you say that, what do