AFTER a long absence due to breaking news coverage on the war in Ukraine, Greg Gutfeld returned to Fox News and opened up about his mother-in-law.
He took a few seconds to speak about his absence, saying that it was for "good reason."
“We’ve been off for a few weeks and for good reason,” he said in his opening monologue. “This is a news channel and war is news, actually it’s breaking news and it’s breaking all the time.
“But you can’t spell ‘breaking news’ without a break and sometimes we do need a break.”
With his normal quick-witted sarcasm, Gutfeld spoke about his absence from the air as well his personal life.
Gutfeld said his wife, Elena Moussa, was in Warsaw with his mother-in-law. He thanked his colleagues at Fox News, who he says helped his mother-in-law escape the country.
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“And meanwhile my mother escaped from Ukraine to Poland and no, she didn’t ride out on her broom,” he said to laughter in response.
“Thanks to Fox, I was able to get my mother-in-law out of Kyiv, it’s a pretty amazing tale.”
He added that his mother-in-law was picked up in a small village and made an hours-long journey to Poland.
According to tweets from the show’s official Twitter account, Gutfeld was briefly taken off the air.
He further explained the show would skip its normal airings to provide more time for coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Greg's mother-in-law was able to evacuate Ukraine into Poland and reunite with her daughter in Warsaw.
During a segment on The Five, he played a clip of the tearful reunion between his wife, Elena Gutfeld, and her mother, in front of the Renaissance Hotel in Warsaw, telling her mother in Russian: “Thank God."
Elena said waiting for her mother was "absolutely awful."
GUTFELD TALKS
Gutfeld was joined by Dagen McDowell, Bill Hemmer, Kat Timpf and current NWA World Television Champion Tyrus to speak about the latest in news and pop culture.
Gutfeld tackled multiple subjects but mostly the Russian invasion of Ukraine and President Joe Biden's handling of it.
He also took shots on former Empire actor Jussie Smollett, who was sentenced Thursday after faking a "racist and homophobic" hate crime against himself in 2019.
Gutfeld argued that Smollett should have faced a harsher punishment for his crimes.
"His greed and lust for fame made America's race relations worse," he said.
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