Fox News’s top-rated show, The Five, went off the rails briefly on Tuesday as Jeanine Pirro and Jessica Tarlov sparred over whether or not Democrats and Republicans are comparable when it comes to challenging election results.
The segment began with Jesse Watters lamenting that some on the left are currently refusing to accept the Supreme Court’s decision to keep Donald Trump on the ballot in Colorado.
“It doesn’t make any sense to me, Bill. I remember at one point I was upset with the Supreme Court decision when they wouldn’t take Trump’s challenge to the 2020 election. And as a self-appointed constitutional scholar, I thought Trump had standing. But when the decision came down, I accepted it because that was the end of the line,” Watters began, adding:
This apparently isn’t the end of the line. Keith Olbermann wants to dissolve the court like he dissolved his own career. You cannot say you’re going to save democracy over and over and over again, blow up the court, and then, like Raskin, try to create some rule that if Trump wins, he’s not allowed to take the Oval.
Guest host Bill Hemmer then turned the conversation to Tarlov, who declared, “Keith Olbermann does not speak for the party.”
“Now he does!” interjected a gleeful Dana Perino.
“Okay, and Michael Moore does too, right? We don’t see him until every four years, and then
After a back and forth about the Colorado Supreme Court kicking Trump off the ballot, Tarlov turned to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and his effort to have Congress declare Trump an insurrectionist for January 6th.
“But what Jamie Raskin is doing is what the justices asked him to do. They said, this is Congress that makes the decision. So that is what’s going to happen. And this argument that Democrats are relying on the courts to win is so bizarre to me, considering what happened in 2020. And I hate to rehash. I don’t really hate to rehash this. I love to rehash this. Donald Trump called for recounts everywhere he got his recounts, and he continued to lose,” Tarlov said as Pirro yelled over her.
“So did Raskin, so did Gore,” Pirro declared.
“Stop it! They are not comparable!” Tarlov shot back.
“So did a lot of Democrats,” Pirro added.
“You’re telling me that what Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell and everyone else did,” Tarlov replied as Pirro again cut her off.
“You may hate them,” Pirro could be heard saying over a lot of cross-talk.
“It’s not about hating them,” Tarlov replied as Hemmer tried to get control of the conversation.
“We shant relitigate at the moment,” Hemmer said as the two
“It’s about disenfranchising voters,” Tarlov could be heard saying.
Hemmer finally regained control and gave the Pirro the floor for a final comment.
“The court just said that Congress has the power to do this,” Pirro began as Tarlov demanded, “Is Jamie Raskin not in Congress?”
“Wait a minute,” Pirro replied, concluding:
We know we can’t even get it out of committee. But in addition to that, section three was drafted to ensure an enduring union, not to separate us. And they still need to have the ability to decide whether or not there’s been an insurrection. Donald Trump has never been charged nor convicted of insurrection. So we’re going to do two things, neither of which will happen before this thing can even be an issue.
Watch the clip above via Fox News.