i am dana perino with judge jeanine pirro, harold ford jr. jesse watters and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ ."to use the season, america. in 30 minutes from now "the five" will be dashing our way to fox square for the all-american christmas tree fivwalighting. all of your favorite fox newsho hosts are going to be there. there will be plenty of fun and some surprises. before we had outside let's get to some big news of the day. it was not the kind of birthday he was hoping for. president biden turning 81 years ol d today. just cannot catch a break from the avalanche of the headlines surrounding his election campaign. just about every mainstream outlet writing articles about his advanced age. former seniorou advisor to president obama, david axelrod a calling thdve president to old saying that biden has a 50/50 shot at reelection axe.0 check out this "wall street journal" headline which says "biden keeps talkingu about the old dayst . young voters, they don't like it." "biun the president is brushing ofg f those concerns while at the thanksgiving turkey pardon. >> it's my birthday today. [applause] i just want you to know it's difficult turning 60. difficult. national turkey presentation and pardon marks the unofficial start of the holiday season.tioa we are here in washington. a time to share joy and gratitude and have a little bit of funhingshar. this is a 76th anniversary of .his event i want you to know i wasn't there. i was too young to make it up. >> dana: president biden has been trying to make some jokes about his age bu>>t it's no j laughing matter to hisok white house. accordin nog to a new report staffers have launched their own operation dubbed "the bubble wrap" strategy in regard protect the oldest ever president from dripping into public. if you remember, mike and joe on msnbc, when he tripped, they blamed the staff. how dare you not have a way for him to be protected from falls like that.amed but happy birthday to the president.ho >> greg: are you looking at me? i really wish i was at the hd children's tableay. joe's age is his biggest liability besides the open borderonom, the bad economy, th we're in ukraine, the war in israel, the botched afghanistan was straw, crime rate, payouts from wor china, the price of gam the corrupt family. really worried about his age. i think this story is a bit a scam. there's a better argument to be made than aging. it can b.ument toe bounced back. trump is a few years behind. if you focus on confidence and function, that's the real argument because biden is olif i but so ions bernie sanders and o is mick jagger. trump is doing stand up while joe can barely stand up.ick as for the bubble wrap, that was a good line, thank you. more like trouble wrap. what's the bubble wrap protecting? is it joe or who's controlling joe? i i think the greater mission hern is to protect those who are behind the scenes telling him whatotec to do and what to say.w i thinhak the feebleness argumet now, the age argument, is there to kind of keep us busy as in misdirection from the fact that ther face are whole group of peo basically directing his every movement. more worried about that than i am hist m age. >> dana: let me show dan you the nbc poll. trump leading biden with younger people ages 18 to 34. that percentage with trump at 46, biden at 44. that's the presidential preference poll. 18 to 24-year-olds, it's 46-42 so that's a key voting bloc for the president. when it comes to a close electioners , if you lose just of thosefo fighters it could be bad news for biden. >> jesse: has based its fracturing. the palestinian situation is not helping..n is neither is crime, the border high prices.g. it doesn't also help in every story he tells is about a lunch he hady with a segregationist or satchel paige. these things aren't connecting with people.re they used to compare joe bidenn' to fdr, remember that? because of his great domestic accomplishments. i think the comparison is with fdr, but it's about how both of these presidents concealed thei health from voters. fdr was in a wheelchair and chaialways tried to cover that . joe biden, the bubble wrap campaign is the same thing. the guy has brunch lids. if it's not a 40 weekend, it's a three day weekend. he never talks to us through the american people feel deceived and want the to feel connected o the present. anwant to feel like we know the president, we understand him ank nohe's on our face. this guy doesn't ever appear in public and when he does he won't take questions fac.pu if he does, he goes, i'm going to get in trouble. won makes us feel like he's not reallyes in charge. the american people ar e realizing and especially the democrats that the only reason joe won in the first place was because of covid and the fbi.of this election, c there will note covid, and the fbi, well elon musk bought twitter scoo there's not the infrastructure there to help joe biden win. the focus is on joe biden'e ins performance and everyone is focused on his age, his gait his speech, his performance is just not inspiring confidence everybody is going to try to hide him. i see donald trump less to run against the world and he has a better shot running against the world and joe biden has running against father time because no one has ever beaten father time. >>ag dana: harold ford jr.er listened to bill maher this weekend.im he had some.e tough words for te president. >> i have said it before. do i think joe biden can do the job?id absolutely. i don't think he can win the job and that's what i care about. he's going to lose because the people think he's to.o old and perception is reality. i'm sorry.on >> dana: hearing from democratic circles i.>> >> harold: good to be back d. he reflects what a lot of people in the party believe, what a lot of people in the party are starting to believe. david axelrod said it a few weekartys ago and was criticizey people are saying this. thres cre takeaways from the poi find most interesting. he's losing to trump. this was not happening three or fourg to months ago and his polg dataas. the president would say i could beat trumps .th i deserve the opportunity to go after, to have this rematch. the key issues that you mentioned.o ha i've always thought it was policy acuity more so than age acuity or mental acuity that really mattered and you touched on mic ageattek jagger and otheo of the same age but seem more youthful. these are serious things and got tomore figure out how to addres. if you take out trump and you have another republican against by them, they win. if you take on biden and go againt trump, they win. a democrat. the point that axelrod was making is one democrats willng i have to grapple with. much sooner rather than later.oo whatne president biden constantl of the last two weeks has pointed to,, the last two weeks, has been on we election day, the only datae have, polling data we have election day data and democrats did fairly well two weeks ago. they win in virginia. theytion ago. win won the abortion battln ohio and reelected the kentucky governor. the question is does it translate joe biden?he k joe biden argues it does on his team argues it does. the most recent data says the president is losing toe bi donald trump in one of the most important agents, 18 to 2034. >> dana: in the fox news poll republicans were doing better on everyone o f those important issues than democrats. al l of them by double digits. t >> judge jeanine: we are talking about joe biden.he in "the new york times" he had the poll of the battleground tastates. 71% said biden was too old. by contrast 39% said the same thing about donald. trump. the public recognizes this isg about cognition.ab it's not about age. the public has been watching this man falling down, tripping stumbling, slurring his words n wanot going to dinners and international events and they'r not going to be full by this ne bubblewrap campaign strategy. we got conned by the first one when it was a basement campaign. fool me once, shame on you. it ampafool me twice, shame oni thin.k the american people, what they believe is reflected in this "new york times" siena pollamer. in addition to the fact he's not getting any younger. we can refer to people like mea. jagger and everybody else. last week we had a 99-year-old world war ii veteran who came on stage and walked out, he didn't stumble out through we were waiting for him to trip. he gave a speech, ad-lib, have the audience standing, standing ovation. that's what america needs, not thisaudi. >> dana: andy negra. don't go anywhere. we are counting down to the christmas tree lighting. next, the border crisis hittingo cities hard. a cardi b unleashing. ♪ ♪ . ♪ ♪ sofia vergara: dwight was a 13-year-old kid with cancer, when he came to st. jude. dwight: this kid is now 73 years old. sofia vergara: that's what we do at st. jude. marlo thomas: give thanks for the healthy kids in your life, and give a gift that could last a lifetime. liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. with the money i saved, i started a 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[dog barks] no it's just a bunny! only pay for what you need. ♪liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: a little holiday music for you. joe biden's border crisis is bleeding liberal cities drive. new york city ready to cut billions from its budget srderoy can paney for illegal immigrants seeking santuary . it would severely reduce funding for schools and libraries and slash nypd officers on the streets to their lowest levels since the 1990s. more new yorkers will be getting slashed on the subway. cardi b is blasting president biden and nyc mayor eric adams over the cuts. >> how is it a $100 billion budget cut in new york city for [bleep] schools, libraries police safety and sanitation. joe biden is talking about yeah we can find two wars. new york is already [bleep] weper dirty. crime is going to go through the roof because there's a police safety budget cut. >> greg: judge, i love the fact that this is somebody who generally is against the police. dy wthere's a lot of people thae against the police who aree's w whining that they arpoe literaly defundinlig the police. >> judge jeanine: i was thinking the same thing. she's on top of her game. her music ison t great. look, she's right, since theislo 1980oks we haven't had the numbers of police officers this low.hi highest crime in new york city sest was in the '80s. we are teed up to have the same level of crimewa as we did in ti worst crime we can remember.me in addition to that, we are making up -- career giving up schools and giving up police budgets and giving up safety because we are a sanctuary city so that the american taxpayers are taking second seat to illegal immigrants who were not invited here. w the mayor wahos looking for volunteers to put the illegals in their homes. now we've got to give up our own safetyir h, our schools. as if we are not homeschooling them higher than we ever have to it's really a tragedy. it's got to changef we.ag >> greg: harold,ed gt tb? g i think, great to be back. a i think you have to credit hear adams for giving his allies in reality check. wouldn't you say that the progressive ideal he's showing is not sustainable because you're going to destroy the goose that laid the golden egg. teaching them there are finite ehe's resources. something that they denied for decades. what say you? gt tb. >> harold: i think you're right.i gi i give them a lot of credit, the mirror, front and center with the challenges are and how we pay for.t this is one of the reasons why biden is facing so much pressure. m i believe this will be theiruc number one issue, this and women's health, reproductive rights issues coming next november. depending on which one is more n poor into the statexe people lie it could tip the election. if you're the white house, give us a bill. make more people to qualify for asylum wait outside the u.s. t two or three times the number of dorder patrol an law enforcement at the border and use every technology to ma p how people are coming in. finally, pass a new crime bill. provide every mayor what they need in order to make their city safe. you do that we have a fighting chance to win that great >> greg: we would have a fighting chance to win i a tf you ran for mayor or president. asking mayor adams the same question tonight when it comes to the tree lighting. jesse can progressives always save got to break a few eggs to smae an omelette but those egg are everybody's. police, education, social programs. they broke these eggs because of the progressivms.e disasters. >> jesse: if you have an open border you are forced to makesa decisionsts pretty of a certain amount of money and people and we've decided that if you're a politician you care about foreign nationals instead of american people. see you have a six-pack. six of you iix-pn the house. >> greg: do you mean abs?e. >> jesse: of michelob. all of a sudden some idiot opens the door andall doesn't shut id people just keep flooding into the house. shu you're going to have some decisions about who gets beersi and people are just handinongdo beer to people who don't live ih the house. that's a shame because everybody wants to have a good time. >> greg:ave exactly. >> jesse: and we paid for the beer. g >> greg: we paid for the beer!re dana, even though this is a goo. plan, with the mayor is doing the city's b going to max out ad eet worse for us which means w are all going to be able to move.wo >> jesse: and i'm not going tors be able to go to the library! >> greg: that's where you get your best work done. >> dana: her point about police and sanitation is a huge problem.er you have a city with this much litter on the streets it degrades the quality of life. don't have enough police officersades. this happens on the same day that "the new york times" finally notices in an editorialn that covid learning loss is creating a two decade gap for people.of need to spend a bunch of money on that. he's going to cut money of schools because of this. katiehe arizona governor, hobbs has sent 26 out thousand migrants out. >> judge jeanine: what did she send them question work >> dana: i don't know. out. not here. >> greg: lambert gavin newsom sent the homeless. there's a magical place. >> dana: alcatraz. rt gse i wish.atra yeah, i set i wished it up next: smells like woke spirit. ii wi high school bans "usa day." ♪ ♪ the chase ink business premier card is made for people like sam, who make- everyday products, designed smarter. like a smart coffee grinder, that orders fresh beans for you. oh, genius! for more breakthroughs like that- i need a breakthrough card. like ours! with 2.5% cash back on purchases of $5,000 or more. plus unlimited 2% cash back on all other purchases. and with greater spending potential, sam can keep making smart ideas- a brilliant reality! the ink business premier card from chase for business. make more of what's yours. my mom's life is the most important thing to me. hi mom! i called my mom, "i have this gene and i think you need to get tested." she feels like it was truly lifesaving. ♪ ♪ >> jesse: welcome to our brave woke world where celebrating america is somehow offensive. a high school in massachusetts is banning "usa day" permits spirit week activities because it's too political. students can enjoy mismatched monday or tropical tuesday but a day devoted to the red, white and blue, to offensive, too offensive. >> i hate to break it to this principle, but nixing usa today they had pride month and they put out statements promoting pride parades. , but not the united states of america. it was big of them to do that. >> jesse: you can wear pink but you can't wear the red white, and blue, harold. >> harold: i am patriotic and i hope they find a way to fix this. reschedule the day and that kids celebrate. >> jesse: you're going to refrain? >> harold: i hope he changes his mind. it's wellesley high school. >> dana: the student union said the administration didn't allow a discussion. if you trace it back, it is the adults making these decisions arbitrarily not giving students a chance. also have u.s.a. day. why do they care? even if is political. schedule and debate. they try to keep these kids in a cocoon and they're just going to have more rebellion. you tell kids they can't have u.s.a. day, they're going to have u.s.a. day and it's going to be big. look out for the fireworks. >> jesse: that's right. >> greg: i fired my assistant because she told me they were banning "usa today." there go my talking points. patriotism was never a political stance. it was a shared assumptions so you could have disagreements on stuff because it was part of america's greatness. the disagreements were the foundation for the patriotism but it was academia that succeeded in subverting this notion is america as a shining city on the hill i now have generations to believe that we are the problem. they live in comfort while supporting regimes that would destroy that convert. too dumb to know any better but i am optimistic like you are. the only thing we can hope for is the tendency of youth to rebel against conformity. if the conformist is a drone that hates america the anti-west perspective will become stale and i predict a trend young smart rebellious kids who will embrace america for what it is which is edgy and rebellious. that's why america is here. the new black panthers really are black conservatives like tyrus. the new radicals. joe grogan, elon musk, the gutfeld show. you're seeing this happening. 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