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>> dana: hello, everyone. dana perino along with judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. it is 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ growing fallout over the newly-released just know mike jeffrey epstein documents, shocking high-profile names being revealed from a list hollywood celebrities to titans of industry and even former u.s. presidents. and that is just the start. a second batch could be released at any moment, well keep an eye on t...

america this weekend. kasie hunt picks up our coverage right now. good afternoon. im kasie hunt here in washington. were going to begin with the scramble for answers after a u.s. fighter jet were scrambled three days in a row this weekend, shooting down three separate aerial objects that were flying over north america. in just moments, the white house is going to take questions on this deepening national security mystery, as president biden faces increasing pressure to address the na...

the sky, but theyve now had to do it four times in less than two weeks. what the heck is going on? is today the day the white house gives the public some answers. dramatic video out of turkey where this woman was pulled from the rubble after spending 175 hours buried alive. shes not the only one. the stories that are providing flickers of joy in the midst of an escalating catastrophe coming up. nikki haley is poised to become the first republican to take on donald trump and she won...

>> and one last one. you said that the other objects shot down were not able to transmit or were not transmitting signals. they did not have any option. did the china balloon, did that have any -- was it emitting signals back? >> im not going to go into more detail about the capabilities of that. we are going to be studying it and analyzing it. there is no question in our minds that that system was designed to surveil, that that was an intelligence asset. ill leave it there. >> has there been ou...

Thats a different category. and both paul whelan in the united states have insisted that he is not a spy for the united states. it just makes it a different kind of negotiation because the russians are maybe seeking other intelligence assets of their own and exchange. they warned to make it into a spy swap and we dont want to acknowledge because we insist its not the case that paul whelan was involved in intelligence. so the doors never closed. the russians always do transaction. i think part of...

Whelan was involved in intelligence. so the doors never closed. the russians always do transaction. i think part of the sticking point is in which theyre insisting on how they categorize paul whelan. >> if they categorize paul whelan as an intelligence asset, theyre going to demand a high priority intelligence asset didnt return. the biden white house is under some amount of scrutiny if not outright criticism for the asymmetry of the trade they just made, victor brick for britney griner. brittne...

Back with the panel. tom. >> i think lindsey graham is actually being too kind when he called the story b.s. earlier. this was an abomination, what cnn did here. the story was long, complicated and all of it took place or most of it took place in 2016 before trump even took office. they asked the spy, they try to get a malcolm he said no, and then they went back to him after they administration -- the obama administration had released this public report on how russia had interfered with the elec...

What do you make of the news and the extraction of this covert agent? >> this has got to be devastating for the intelligence community not because of the political angle and president trump, but the ability to get insights into a closed society like the kremlin at a senior level is really tough. were not talking about looking at russian troops on the ground in syria, intercepting communications. were talking about somebody who might have enabled you to get inside the head of what vladimir putin ...

Administration. i think we all have different now shock response mechanisms to donald trump. i cant think of anything he has said as president that is -- that more violates the trust that that job has imposed on him. to actually say he would not have used this intelligence asset, kim jong-uns half brother, would not have used that as a cia asset. what was your reaction to that today? >> this has so many disastrous implications, lawrence. obviously if the president of the united states is into ki...

And wendy sherman, i want to begin with you. you have experience dealing with north korea when you were working back in the clinton administration. i think we all have different now shock response mechanisms to donald trump. i cant think of anything he has said as president that is -- that more violates the trust that that job has imposed on him. to actually say he would not have used this intelligence asset, kim jong-uns half brother, would not have used that as a cia asset. what was your react...