Hello, everybody. I'm Jesse Waters, along with Kaylee McInney, Jessica

Tarloff, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld. It's 5 o'clock in New York City, and this is the 5.

Open mic at the Rose Garden.

President Trump was throwing back Diet Coke in the Oval,

then stepping out to serve up some insults as he hosted a lunch with Republican senators. In the beautifully renovated space, 47 blasting the Democrats for keeping the government shut down

and sicking Darth Vader on them.

We have Darth Vader. You know Darth Vader, right?

Darth Vader is a man who, I think he's sitting right. Is that Darth? Stand up, please,

Darth Vader. Stand up. Does everybody know? This is, they call him Darth Vader. I call him a fine man.

But he's cutting Democrat priorities, and they're never going to get him back.

But Darth will be the least of the Democrats' worries.

Democrat senators are, quote, terrified of getting the guillotine if they vote to end the shutdown.

Meanwhile, the no-kings boomers might break a hip after hearing this news.

President Trump is winning the shutdown battle, and the numbers prove it.

This shutdown hasn't eaten in the Donald Trump support at all.

Isn't that approval rating?

It's actually up a point in terms of his popular

support? So the bottom line is this. The first shutdown during Trump's first term, 2018, 2019,

was hurting Donald Trump. This one is not hurting him at all. There's no real reason Donald Trump

might say, at least when it comes to popular support, I want to get out of the shutdown.

And despite the fawning coverage of the No King's protests, Crazy Bernie actually thinks the media is on Trump's side.

What they are trying to do, and I touched on this a little bit of my remarks, is to say to ordinary people, hey, look, we got ICE agents breaking down doors. We got U.S. troops in Portland and

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