“The Five” co-host Jesse Watters addresses the Trump administration’s bombing of a vessel reportedly carrying massive quantities of drugs off the coast of Venezuela.

SANDRA SMITH, FOX NEWS: I guess it never surprise you, where Democrats are go — what they’ll defend or go after. But to the president’s announcement a few moments ago, we all watched it live here on the FOX News Channel. Now we’re talking Department of War. Pete Hegseth, the department — the Secretary of War. What do you think about all this, Jesse? JESSE WATTERS, FOX NEWS CHANNEL HOST: Well, I’m jealous of Pete. I mean, he got a name upgrade. I got to change my show’s name. “JESSE WATTERS PRIMETIME” just doesn’t cut it. GREG GUTFELD, FOX NEWS CHANNEL HOST: Call it torture. WATTERS: Isn’t that what your shows called? So, I don’t know if Truman is a woke guy. From what I understand, after World War II, they needed a standing army to have troops stationed in Asia and Europe to kind of keep the peace and maintain a posture during the Cold War. So, we used to just have the draft every time we went to war. So, even though we weren’t at war, it was still a Cold War, and we needed to defend our interests. So we consolidated the Army, Navy, Marines, and there you go. It was the Defense Department, but it’s now the Department of War. And I think America’s enemies are upset. You know, who’s really upset? Van Hollen, so that just came out today, and I’m sure Jessica saw it. The Democrats are really trying to reconnect with normal people. That was what it says. They’ve lost touch with normal people. Let me just explain how normal people think. When you see a video of a cocaine canoe get smoked out of the water by the U.S. military, normal people say, yes, all right, we’re like, smoke some Narcos. Goodbye. Light them up. See you later. That’s what normal people do. Normal people like to see the war on drugs fought as a war because it hasn’t worked the way before. And a lot of people in America, normal people, have families that have lost people to drugs. So, they see this canoe and they see a potential death coming, and we like to light this guy up. The Democrats see this, and they call it an extrajudicial killing. Normal people don’t talk like that. Normal people don’t talk like extrajudicial. You know who talks like that? Lawyers. They have to stop sounding like lawyers. You sound weak. You sound wily. Lawyers are unpopular, almost as unpopular as pollsters, Jessica. And when you contrast that with Trump, who is taking strong action, and you have a guy that’s saying extrajudicial killing, it just makes you guys look pathetic and not normal.

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