This is a rush transcript from "The Five," July 18, 2019. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

JESSE WATTERS, HOST: Hello, everybody. I'm Jesse Watters along and Emily, Juan, Kennedy, and Greg. It's 5 o'clock in New York City, and this is “The Five.”

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT: Democrats have never been further outside of the mainstream. They're going crazy. Their party is afflicted with an ideological sickness that protects foreign borders, but refuses to protect our own. These left-wing ideologues see our nation as a force of evil. Vote for any Democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of the American dream.

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WATTERS: President Trump holding a raucous rally in North Carolina where he battered Democrats' embrace of socialism and other far-left policies. But, the big moment everyone is talking about is the crowd's reaction to Trump's attacking the four socialist congresswomen known as the squad.

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TRUMP: Tonight, I have a suggestion for the hate-filled extremists who are constantly trying to tear our country down. They never have anything good to say. That's why I say, hey, if they don't like it, let them leave. Let them leave. Let them leave. Obviously, and importantly, Omar has a history of launching vicious anti-Semitic screams.

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WATTERS: The crowd's chant igniting a liberal media firestorm. President Trump responding to all the criticism a little earlier.

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TRUMP: I was not happy when I heard that chant.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Will you stop them if they try to do it again?

TRUMP: Well, I didn't like that they did it, and I started speaking very quickly. I could have stood back — excuse me, well, really? If you would have heard there was a tremendous amount of noise and action and everything else. I started very quickly, and I think you know that. Maybe you're giving me too much credit.

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WATTERS: One of the things, Juan, the chant did was it distracted the media from having to cover this big political rap sheet about Omar and the Democrats that he ran down last night, and they're just focusing on a chant instead.

JUAN WILLIAMS, HOST: Well, I don't think you want him to focus on that, Jesse, because it doesn't help the president. I mean, he literally lied when he said this woman has supported al-Qaeda, terrorist group. To say that about an American and a member of Congress, that's pretty damning but it's not true. But, you know, I mean, again, so I don't think you want to go through that.

I think this was vile. And I think that it's not just, as you portray it, you know, Democrats or that crazy liberal media. I think the reason that he spoke out today was because there were a number of Republicans in Congress who said to Vice President Pence, and possibly directly to Mr. Trump, you know, Mr. President, this …