Eric Bolling Outraged by Clinton Audio on The Five; No One Else Agrees

The Five co-host Eric Bolling was absolutely fired up about the leaked audio of Bill Clinton talking on September 10th, 2001 about why he didn’t take out Osama bin Laden when he had the shot. (If nothing else, the timing is kind of eerie.) Bolling called this “bombshell audio” and described it as “absolutely stunning.” He was joined in his outrage by… no one else. The rest of the Five hosts honestly didn’t really find anything too outrageous, and there were even some defensive words spoken in favor of Clinton.

Andrea Tantaros said that Clinton, while a horrible president foreign policy-wise, was being “thoughtful” about that tough decision in the audio, and told Bolling, “I don’t see what is so terrible here.”

Greg Gutfeld and Dana Perino also weren’t too sure about this being a big story. Gutfeld said he can’t really “condemn Clinton for this,” while Perino suggested there’s definitely more to the intel than Clinton simply just having bin Laden in his sights.

Bolling was bothered that Clinton was “laughing it off,” but Tantaros continued to defend the former president. She admitted maybe Clinton shouldn’t have been laughing, but otherwise he was “very thoughtful” about why he didn’t pull the trigger.

At the end of the discussion, Bolling acknowledged he was alone in this, and wryly said, “Now I know how Bob feels.”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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