It was a time after Bret Baier’s controversial interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, and the Fox News punditocracy on” The Five”, the show’s most famous present, was celebrating. ” She’s ice-cold, she’s unlikable, and her explanations are incoherent”, sneered Jesse Watters. ” The look and the voice of a D. M. V. assistant who wants to get her break”, scoffed Greg Gutfeld. However, a dissident was present in their area. ” What Kamala Harris needed to do was to exhibit up, to look hard, to not get rattled”, said Jessica Tarlov, the show’s native Democrat and one of Ms. Harris’s most vocal supporters in the grumpy world of wire information. She added,” I think she handled herself really well” .Her co-hosts, avid supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, rolled their eyes. Ms. Tarlov, 40, paid no heed. She told Fox people that Mr. Trump was “unstable”, “unfit” and free of love. She debunked the show’s regular talking details about a migrant-fueled crime storm, pointing out the national increases in deaths. Ms. Tarlov quickly ran a reality check when Mr. Gutfeld claimed that even Republican men were useful around the storage. ” Jesse, can you change a car shoe”? she asked. Mr. Watters laughed:” I have a person for that “.The key progressive has long been a stock figure of Fox News’s continuous opéra comptoir. Alan Colmes and Sean Hannity were paired. The lefty chair on” The Five” cycled through Bob Beckel ( fired ), Juan Williams ( transferred ) and Geraldo Rivera ( who was demoted and then quit ). Some, nevertheless, have broken out like Ms. Tarlov, a dish-it-out Democrat strategist with a C. V. that reads like a movie of a Manhattan elite: training school at Dalton, a amount from Bryn Mawr, a household loft in TriBeCa and a father who produced movies by the progressive provocateur John Waters. (” Right from the heartland”, she jokes. ) ImageMs. Tarlov before a filming with two of her co-hosts, Jeanine Pirro and Jesse Watters. Ms. Pirro called Ms. Tarlov” bright as hell”.Credit… Hiroko Masuike/The New York TimesWe are having difficulty retrieving the post articles. Please make Script available in your browser’s options. Thank you for your patience as we verify exposure. If you are in Audience mode please leave and log into your Times accounts, or listen for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience as we verify exposure. Now a subscription? Register in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.