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i'm greg gutfeld along with roseanna scotto and dana perino, it's 5:00 in n.y.c. this is "the five." >> greg: the white house cranking up the spin cycle after a whirlwind 24 hours for america's foreign cash guzzling father-son duo. republicans launching their inquiry into president biden. and hunter playing a risky game of contempt chicken blowing off a congressional subpoena, team biden spewing out the talking points. spewing? >> wow! >> they've come up with not a single shred of evidence of any wrongdoing of any kind by president biden. yet, they're storming ahead with this impeachment stunt anyway to please their far right base and play politics and it really cheapens what a historically grave constitutional remedy of last resort. >> there's no evidence that the president has done wrongdoing. there's none. absolutely none. they are wasting their time instead of doing the work on behalf of the american people. they go after the president's family. >> greg: and while they claim there's no evidence, something is seriously spooking the bidens. president has been reportedly freaking out behind the scenes over hunter's criminal escapades. barking like a commander at aides who call it an electoral liability. that same report says hunter is worried that he may have to flee the country if trump is elected again. but if they're feeling down in the dumps, the bidens can count on the media for some tender loving care. >> 221 people without evidence voted to launch an impeachment inquiry. they merely want to tarnish his political opponent and make biden and trump all even steven impeachment wise. >> this is not a serious impeachment inquiry. >> we've seen no evidence. >> this is just storytelling. >> so patently fraudulent and mirrorless. >> they have precisely zero evidence. >> democrats tried to drill down on what exactly biden is being impeached for and, well, the well was dry. >> so transparent that this is just political retribution. they're playing politics. >> there's no evidence that president biden committed a crime. >> greg: the shoe is on the other foot, jesse. you have to admit this is pretty ballsy even for hunter and he knows balls. i think he's kind of emulating trump in the sense that let's go public. let's air it out, so to speak. let's open that robe. >> jesse: please don't go there. trump, if he had done that, he would have taken questions from the press for an hour. hunter read a prepared statement and scurried to lunch. >> greg: what about all the people saying there's no evidence? >> jesse: we've documented that. so what about let's hold 10% for the big guy? they've never even explained the e-mail. but what about when your father flies you to mexico and you get these clients in mexico and then the mexican clients come back to the united states and visit the vice president at the white house? and then hunter demands money? what about if you fly your son to china. he meets all your clients. you come back with the bag of cash, and then your dad does favors for china. and then after you leave the vice presidency, you were supposed to share an office with the chinese guy. what is that? you're not in business? what about when the chinese, he's in business with buy $23 million in diamonds and give one of them to hunter. how do we know it's just one? where are all the rest of the diamonds? how about when hunter takes $1.6 million in cash out of a.t.m.'s for three years? how do we know that joe doesn't have cash at his house? because when the f.b.i. looked at those documents that he wasn't supposed to have, they wouldn't let him go into every room. certain rooms were not allowed to be entered. or how about when joe's sister cuts him a check for 40 grand from the chinese and then the day before, takes out 50 grand in cash. what is his sister-in-law doing taking 50 grand in cash? it wasn't even christmas tip time. so we should take simple things that in an inquiry you'd want to ask why are they doing that? why is hunter biden copied on all of joe biden's ukraine e-mails when he was vice president? why would the vice president use an alias? isn't that strange? why are the bidens going to st. croix year after year after year a notorious tax shelter. why is hunter biden paying for his father's phone line? for eight years. and why is he using burner phones? none of that makes any sense. it's want that joe biden wasn't involved. joe biden is at the center of this. >> greg: is his name really dong? >> jesse: mr. dong. gong dong. >> greg: what is with hunter and dong? >> jesse: i don't know. >> greg: jessica, that was a lot of serious allegations. i would call that a long list of serious infractions. i don't think you have a response for that, do you? care to pass? >> jessica: no. >> greg: professor? >> jessica: i'll collect my $200 and keep going around the board. yeah, it was a lot of stuff. and i hope that all of it gets addressed. i realize that i have been derelict in my duty that i should begin every statement with if president biden is found guilty of whatever high crime and misdemeanor they say they have him on, though none of them can name it, then democrats should abandon him. this is not a cult. he is the leader of our party. he's the president. we like him. but he's not above the law. just like donald trump shouldn't have been above the law. but the segment was premised on this idea of the democrats are out in full force doing a spin cycle. but we're not! we're actually seeing republicans themselves admit that there's nothing to this. james comer, again, on "this morning with maria bartalomo". he switched over to that because he was scared of steve doocy. >> greg: come on! >> jessica: two nights ago. >> greg: i read it three times with different media outlets, jessica. >> jessica: you should expand your reading. thank you. yes. professor is just fine. so james comer, then this guy congressman green who said if we don't go down this impeachment route, the mega base will ststo voting for us. it doesn't sound like we have a legitimate impeachment inquiry going. it sounds like i'm scared of being voted out. and on dana's show this morning, the two whistleblowers were on and bill hemmer was pushing them. they accused biden of influence peddling and didn't have anything to back it up. the story that i think will be very interesting and it's starting to get a little juicy by jesse's standards is james comer and his shell company. so he's been going on for months about the fact that people who are innocent of these things don't have shell companies. but guess what, james comer does. so he's one of the biggest landowners. >> jesse: does he have 20? >> jessica: oh! >> greg: come on. >> jessica: let me -- >> greg: there's a difference. >> jessica: the belittling that's coming emboldens me because i know it's hurting you. so he has a shell company called farm team properties that he shares with a campaign donor was opened in 2015. his wife is also co-owner and it is masking, of course the fact that he owns more lands than goes on his financial disclosure forms. is someone is trying to run an above board impeachment inquiry and is running around all over television saying innocent people don't do this thing that i'm actually doing myself and maybe there's more, maybe this won't ever be enough for you, that's probably the case. but that's something a.p. reports today, i'm going to go and check it out. >> jesse: you address never of the evidence. >> jessica: i've said every day, the diamonds and the dongs and whatever, lock them up! >> greg: that's a great david bowie song. roseanna, i want to do a call for you. an interesting thing that happened with "the new york times." when they were covering hunter biden's speech, instead of saying -- quoting me as my father was not financially involved in my business. "the new york times" quoted it as my father was not involved in my business. >> i know! >> greg: isn't that bizarre? >> they completely altered what he said. and it was, what, originally at like 9:26 a.m. it took them hours later to put the financially part back in it. but they never corrected him. they never -- you know you on sometimes they have that asterisk with the correction. what happened to "the new york times"? it used to be the paper of record. now it's an advocacy newspaper. and, you know, the people that work there, if the opinions are not what they believe, they throw themselves and start crying on the floor like 12-year-olds. it's very disappointing to see "the new york times" not cover this properly. >> greg: it's weird, though, by admitting it, they just drew attention to it. maybe that was part of the strategy. dana, here's -- you know, so you hear this back story, joe is freaking out. hunter thinks he'll have to leave the country. friend of mine talked about this theory. if you want to throw the dems into chaos, trump should promise to pardon them to see how much pressure would be applied to joe to step aside. but you'd end up with gender newsom. what do you do? >> dana: i actually had a similar thought today, that one of the things you can do is say i will pardon hunter. but this investigation should go on. at least let's get to the truth, joe. don't have to worry about it. if you're not president anymore in january of 2025, i'll pardon him. but trump could say that. we'll see. i think the other thing that's happening is president biden's numbers are so low. i think a poll came out today that had him at 33% approval. that's historically low for an incumbent running for re-election but what people can grasp is this is fundamentally unfair. what hunter biden kept saying yesterday i'm being targeted because my dad is the president. actually, you were not targeted for so many years and got so many passes for things that you should have been busted for because you're the president's son. but now, it's come home to roost because they were doing these things that make you think, well, obviously, if you go through jesse's list, it makes a lot of sense. other thing is i think on the coms front, hunter is digging a page out of trump's playbook. he wants people to know i'll fight. i'll fight. even if i might go down, i will go down swinging. what's curious to me, why would you pitch eric swawell to your wagon? he took him with him everywhere yesterday. is that where your communications strategy is coming from? i thought that was weird. >> greg: china! the china connection. >> dana: i hadn't thought about that. >> jesse: exactly. he's an idiot. >> dana: that's the problem. >> greg: maybe the republicans should copy the dems and hire an abc producer for it. she's not dreaming of a white christmas literally. boston's mayor doubling down on throwing a segregated holiday party. tired muscles and joints were keeping me from doing the things i loved most. not anymore. blue-emu gave me my freedom back. it supports healthy muscles and joints. shop our expanded family of products at major online retailers. sometimes, the lows of bipolar depression feel darkest before dawn. with caplyta, there's a chance to let in the lyte. caplyta is proven to deliver significant relief across bipolar depression. unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta treats both bipolar i and ii depression. and in clinical trials, movement disorders and weight gain were not common. call your doctor about sudden mood changes, behaviors, or suicidal thoughts. antidepressants may increase these risks in young adults. elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. report fever, confusion, stiff or uncontrollable muscle movements which may be life threatening or permanent. these aren't all the serious side effects. caplyta can help you let in the lyte. ask your doctor about caplyta. find savings and support at caplyta.com. he hits his mark —center stage—and is crushed by a baby grand piano. you're replacing me? customize and save with liberty bibberty. he doesn't even have a mustache. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ whenever you're hungry, there's a deal on the subway app. buy one footlong, get one 50% off in the subway app today. now that's a deal worth celebrating. man, what are you doing?! get it before it's gone on the subway app. ♪ with 30 grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. -ahh, -here, i'll take that. woo hoo! ensure max protein 30 grams protein, one gram sugar, 25 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients for immune health. 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(gentle music) >> ♪ always talk to god when i need a favor ♪ >> rosanna: the democrat mayor michelle wu coming under fire for holding a holiday party that excluded white people. the controversy all started with the mistaken e-mail the mayor's office accidentally sent an invite intended only for several people on the city council. the minority members on the city council asking them to attend "the electeds of color holiday party." minutes later, all white councilors had their party invitations rescinded getting this follow-up e-mail apologizing if they were offended. mayor wu calling the misfired invite an honest mistake but is defending. >> we celebrate all kinds of connection and identity and culture and heritage in the city. just yesterday, we hosted our official city hall hanukkah celebration. we have had tree lightings and we bring in -- we want to make -- we want to be a city where everyone's identity is embraced. >> rosanna: ok, so she had a hanukkah celebration. now the elected celebration. i mean, greg, this could be the way to do it, just have separate parties for everybody. >> greg: i love that she is celebrating all different identities including racists. because that's what this is. by the way, i'll be hosting an all white kwanzaa after this show. no anchors of color. just me, the doocys and the little fellow from fbn. >> dana: who is that? >> greg: i don't know. we were going to do a muslim hanukkah but we don't know how to sing from the river to the sea in hebrew. but we're working on. it you know, it shows how far we've come from a nation where we condemned separate but equal to now enforcing it. it's like what's next? are we going to start wearing white hoods because the left is going to tell us it's good for the environment? or wear white hoods because that enforces equity among the physically attractive? d.e.i.'s goals, one of the goals is to eliminate a hostile workplace. i don't know if there's anything more hostile than this! but no one complains about it because in a hostile workplace, it's hostile! >> rosanna: the white council members did not complain. >> greg: they can't. the hostility turns back to them. guess where she went to school. harvard! tells you this is a coordinated mindset and enforced ideology when three college presidents and progressive mayors all work from the same script, you know that this is an idealogical meat finder that turns it into mulch. >> rosanna: this reminded me of high school when everybody is invited to the party except you. >> dana: right. >> rosanna: now, what do you do? i don't know, i grew up -- i admired the politicians on both sides of the aisle. because they always tried to bring everybody together. >> dana: yeah, that's -- usually, that's the reason that you run for office is that you have some sort of aspiration to do that. i think it would be fun to see her testify in front of congress and explain all of this and see like under oath, what she was thinking. and you do have to wonder, if you think of martin luther king jr. i have a dream speech. this was not the dream. this was not supposed to be the dream and the melting pot and all of that. but i have to say, i am at the point of the holiday season where i would do anything to get uninvited to something except for on saturday night, please don't uninvite me. it's just been a tough holiday season. but i feel for the people that didn't get invited because you're right. >> rosanna: they were invited. >> dana: to get the invite rescinded. for that reason, imagine what the working environment is in that city council, it must be terrible. >> rosanna: is that a civil rights violation? or should i ask the doctor? >> jesse: i'll take a stab. i'm going to go with yes. i don't know if you know this, roseanna, but i am .1% black. so this wouldn't affect me. i'd get to go to the electeds of color party. but for someone that is 100% caucasian like dana, sorry, you're excluded. i want to know if the electeds of color get to go to two christmas parties. we're assuming there's going to be one big council party. so they get to go to two parties and we get to go to one? if i was white, i would -->> jessica: have to get there. >> jesse: i would try to spy on the electeds of color party to see if they were talking about us. and then what i would do is then i would crash the electeds of colors christmas party. and then i'd start drinking all their alcohol. and then i'd make the electeds of color kick me out. and if they tried, i'd sit in. sit down! that's your civil rights moment right there. >> rosanna: i was wondering how it was coming around again. so jessica, this is what i want to know. the electeds party did have a plus one. >> jessica: right? >> rosanna: were you only allowed to bring of color because the mayor's husband is white! now, i was looking -- i was trying to see who walked into that room, it was hard to see. i don't know the husband that well. but the plus one. >> jessica: i think you can bring your white husband would be my guess. they have very cute holiday cards. they're very nice looking couple. i'm sure she's -- it's the holidays. like you say we had a hanukkah celebration. i stood up there for the tree lighting. in front of millions of people, and behind me was the archdiocese, rabbi, like the holidays are about everybody together. and i don't know anybody who doesn't enjoy the holiday of another group. like do you love going to christmas parties? we lit the menorah my husband who grew up catholic loves that. it's just -- it's the wrong time for this. it's also only 13 people. that's what i can't get over. we can't fit everyone in here. it's like two people. >> greg: to your point, the mayor wu went to the st. patrick's day parade. her name isn't owu. >> rosanna: good point. >> jessica: not really. >> greg: that would have been better. >> dana: that was good. >> rosanna: before we have another civil rights, you know, violation, let's move on. up next, shocking video from our southern border, thousands of migrants in mexico trying to catch a train to america. >> tech: when you get a chip in your windshield... trust safelite. ♪ upbeat, catchy music ♪ >> tech vo: this couple counts on their suv... as they travel for their small business. so when they got a chip in their windshield... they brought it to safelite... for a same-day in-shop repair. we repaired the chip right away. and with their insurance, it was no cost to them. >> woman: really? 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