Jessica Tarlov Hits Back Hard at Fox News Co-Hosts Bashing Biden-Harris, Praising Trump On Hurricane Helene Response

Fox News host Jessica Tarlov hit back after her co-hosts bashed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris over Hurricane Helene, rattling off a stunning stream of rejoinders — and securing something approaching agreement from Greg Gutfeld.

Former President Donald Trump and others have launched false attacks on Biden and Harris, who have been very publicly involved in the response to Hurricane Helene — a response that has received praise from officials like Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA).

Fox co-hosts Jesse Watters and Jeanine Pirro took shots at Biden and Harris — and praised Trump — on Monday’s edition of Fox News Channel’s The Five as Harris’s live briefing wrapped up:

But Tarlov was ready with facts to refute her co-hosts and Trump, after which Gutfeld spoke out against “framing the hurricane in any kind of political way”:

DANA PERINO: Jessica, how do you see it?

JESSICA TARLOV: Dramatically differently from how my colleagues see it. Just a couple notes. Trump closes strong in Georgia. He lost Georgia, so I guess if someone had found him 11,237 votes, it would have gone better. But he’s a loser there. Starlink–

JESSE WATTERS: I meant by campaign activity.

JESSICA TARLOV: Oh he shows up a lot. And people see him and then they vote against him.

JESSE WATTERS: (INAUDIBLE)

JESSICA TARLOV: StarLink, There are 40 satellites that are already going.

In Maui, by the way. The $700 was the FEMA limit.

So Donald Trump and his supporters are running the same old tired playbook that they did with Maui and they did with East Palestine.

So not only was Joe Biden on top of this, he signed the disaster declarations even before the storms hit to make sure that there would be no delay in goods and services.

Donald Trump’s social media posts contain blatant lies, like Governor Kemp can’t reach the president. Governor Kemp gave a press conference yesterday where he said, “I just spoke to the president. He has promised me every single thing that I need.”.

McMaster from South Carolina, also a conservative getting everything that he wants, and then Roy Cooper as well.

And there’s only one president that we are talking about who actually has denied relief for one of these states. In 2017 roy Cooper asked after Hurricane Matthew for a lot of money and he got 1% of his ask.

They denied 99% of what he was asking for after that hurricane came.

There are 3300 FEMA personnel there, 5500 National Guardsmen from 11 states and search and rescue from 19 states.

That doesn’t reduce the devastation of this and how horrific it is. But to say that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are out to lunch during this or they’re sitting on a beach reclining there, they are clearly giving them what they need, they will be showing up when it is appropriate.

And it’s different for Donald Trump who is not in office. He’s just a guy trying to be president again to show up and throw some Bounty at people versus someone who’s actually the commander in chief and doesn’t want to distract from what’s going on.

And as Dana said, Governor Cooper said, I will let you know when it is appropriate for you to come in. Same goes for Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee.

DANA PERINO: Tennessee also. Yeah, in South Carolina, had several people die as well. Greg, last word to you before the next block.

GREG GUTFELD: Yeah, I don’t really have much to say. I mean, I’m not crazy about framing the hurricane in any kind of political way.

Watch above via Fox News Channel’s The Five.