gop presidential primary debate is now in the books. the five candidates talked about banning tik tok, killing cartel members and how they would respond to the abortion debate. the presidential hopefuls spent plenty of time attacking each other and they also attacked the former president who happens to be the current gop front runner. fox coverage, political anchor bret baier will give us his top three moments but we begin with aishah hasnie in miami where nobody was pulling any punches. issue a, good evening. >> reporter: trace, good evening to you. we were warned and told ahead of time that the knives were going to come outen boy did they come out. knives especially held by vivek ramaswamy tonight as he attacked nikki haley over and over again, even getting personal at one point going after her daughter over her daughter's tik tok use. here are some of the most tense

moments of the night. >> do you want a leader from a different generation who's going to put this country first or do you want dick cheyney in three-inch heels. >> i wear heels they're not for a fashion snowbelt they're for ammunition. >> ambassador haley said i wasn't doing -- she welcomed them into south carolina, gave them land near a military base, wrote the chinese ambassador a love letter saying what a great friend they were. >> i negotiate wind china and russia the largest set of sanctions against north korea in a generation. that is literally the reason north korea stopped testing ballistic missiles. >> don't lie to people what you said or what you've done in south carolina. >> my entire career is united nations. every day i fought china but on the energy side it cracks me up that ron continues to do this. he has opposed fracking, he's opposed drilling. last time he said it wasn't true and everybody found out that it was true. >> reporter: so, trace, i asked ramaswamy here in the spin room right after why he was going

after haley so hard. his answer was because he's afraid she's going to start world war three. now, trace, the entire first hour of the debate was spent on foreign policy starting with the israel war with hamas, what to do about iran, what to do about china and only in the final 20 minutes of this debate did the candidates finally have a chance to tackle abortion which, of course, is that perplexing issue for republicans. >> you've got to work from the bottom up. you've got to do a better job on these referenda. all the stuff that has happened to the pro-life cause they have been caught flatfoot order the referenda. >> we need a 15-week federal limit, three out of four americans agree with the 15-week limit. 47 out of 50 countries in europe agree with a 15-week limit. >> the republicans did not have an alternative amendment or vision on the table. i know i was born raised and lived there, it's representative

of the country. >> reporter: now the only candidate not on the stage tonight, the front runner, of course, former president donald trump was holding a counter programming rally just about 30 miles away, and it's really begging the question as those polls continue to show that he is still leading and beating the current president, begs the question, trace, how long do these candidates stick it out and stay in this race despite those polls. i asked ramaswamy about that. he simply said i don't disagree with the former president's policies, i just have younger legs. trace. >> trace: we're doing to talk about that later, aishah hasnie live for us in miami. expert debate analysis from the chief political anchor and host of special report bret baier. bret great to have you on the show as always. issue a was talking about the knives being out. was it mainly nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy or was this across the board in your opinion? >> reporter: there was some across the board. ron desantis and nikki haley,

there was some back and forth. the structure of the debate, they didn't go back to someone who was mentioned many times. they kind of went formula. it was a different feel, fewer candidates on the stage so there weren't as many explosive moments and sometimes that's a good thing. but there were explosive moments. one i should mention at the beginning was talking about tik tok and whether they should ban it or notment ramaswamy reflecting back on when nikki haley said that ramaswamy was on tik tok making fun of that. here's his answer. >> well, i want to laugh at why nikki haley didn't answer your question which is about looking at families in the eye. in the last debate she made fun of me for joining tik tok while her own daughter was using the app for a long time so you might want to take care of your family first. >> leave my family out of your voice. >> the next generation is using it. that's actually the point.

you have her supporters prepping her up. >> you're just scum. >> reporter: that end part was you're scum. you don't really hear that in debates that often, and you can hear kind of threw the screen the visceral back and forth between candidates. >> trace: you seldom hear that said at a debate. what about chris christie and his take on who should and should not get social security benefits. >> reporter: chris christie it seems like has taken over the role of former vice-president mike pence no longer in this race, dropped out, but talking about social security, medicare entitlements in a way that maybe candidates have not talked about on either party for some time. and there is a void there because it is something you have to turn the aircraft carrier eventually to make it all add up. here's chris christie. >> i've never fortunately in my life ever had me or my family on food stamps but i'm glad it's there so no one in country goes

to bed hungry if they have availability to that program but i don't get a direct benefit. the fact is on social security remember why it was established. it was established as a safety net program to make sure that no one would grow old in this country in poverty. that's what we've got to. rich people should not be collecting social security. >> governor could you give mow a specific age? 69, 70, what would the age be. >> that would be a negotiation with congress, kerr step. >> didn't answer neither did other candidates about age and that's an interesting debate going forward. >> as we found out last night abortion appears to still be a liability for republicans. how did the candidates handle that? >> reporter: look what happened in ohio, it. >> greg: the state constitution amended with the protections for abortion. look what happened in virginia request governor glenn youngkin and how republicans talk about abortion is really going to be interesting because it's a huge issue for democrats. nikki haley has, it seems, found

a sweet spot here in talking about this in a way that is trying to lift women up and get to consensus. here's what she said. >> so let's find consensus. let's agree on how we can ban late term abortions. let's make sure we encourage adoptions and good quality adoptions. let's make sure we make couldn't exception accessible. let's make sure none of these put a woman in jail or give her the death penalty for getting an abortion. let's save as many babies as we can and support as many moms as we can and stop the judgment. we don't need to divide america over this issue anymore. >> reporter: i think there are a lot of republicans that look at that answer and say that's where republicans should be going forward, see what it takes. i want to point out we managed to get ahold of the rnc chair woman ronna mcdaniel. vivek ramaswamy said she should resign because of what's happened last night and what's happened before. shear here's her answer to

ramaswamy. >> reporter: everybody has to get headlines right? i'm going to focus on beating joe biden. i am very proud of the rnc and our staff and the work we've done to win back the house. remember, i am the person who was chair of michigan who flipped that state for the first time in 30 years and am going to continue working hard to beating democrats, and i'm not going to check other republicans. that's a fact. >> reporter: she's not stepping down. one more fun thing and we haven't seen this before. tim scott's girlfriend, mindy, was on the stage at the end of the debate. we got to see her for the first time. the reporters asked, is this the girlfriend? he said yes and they've been dating for about a year. so that mystery is over, and he took her up on stage, took a couple pictures, and there is mindy, tim scott's girlfriend. there you go. it's not people magazine. thought we would wrap it up there. >> trace: close enough for late night television bret, thank you so much for your analysis and for the breakout of mindy. we appreciate that bret, thanks

a lot. >> meantime house republicans now upping the ante in their push to go after president biden issuing subpoenas for the president's son and brother to testify before congress. the senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with the latest on the impeachment inquiry. kevin good evening. >> reporter: tough to top that one trace. good to be with you. now these subpoenas are not only just for the president's son and his brother, but also for his sister-in-law, his daughter-in-law, as well as his former daughter-in-law and even her sister. all from the pen of the house oversight committee chair james comer whose investigation into the biden family business dealings continues to expand. but even as the probe tightens a bit around perhaps the president himself, defenders of mr. biden insist this is nothing more than a political witch hunt. >> i mean, we've had nine months of investigation. we've had tens of thousands of documents, suspicious activity reports, hours upon hours upon

hours of witnesses. and they don't have anything. >> reporter: and raskin' not alone on his sentiment. attorney abby lowell writing in a statement hunter is eager to have the opportunity in a public forum and at the right time to discuss these matters with the committee. meanwhile, the biden camp is also said to be asking the new house speaker mike johnson to put an end to the litany of investigations to which he said they'll do no such thing. quote, president biden and the white house have repeatedly lied to the american people about his involvement and knowledge of the biden family business dealings, receiving millions through their shell companies from foreign adversaries. we have learned this because of the diligent work of house investigators who will continue to follow the facts where they may lead. one subpoena does call for the president's son to appear at a deposition on december 13th. mark your calendars trace. >> trace: one thing is certain the white house story keeps changing. >> reporter: yes indeed. >> trace: kevin corke live in dc

thank you. fox news contributor leslie marshall and cal berkeley professor john yoo welcome both. house oversight chair james comer for clarity is a banker had this to say. watch. >> we've already been very transparent with the american people. we've disclosed four bank memorandums, very specific, very detailed bank memorandums that provide evidence that this family was influence peddling on a scale we've never seen before in america, to the tune of tens of millions of dollars that they took in from our enemies around the world. >> trace: and now john yoo he would like to ask the biden family directly. >> i'm very encouraged to see mr. comer and his staff doing this in a careful, deliberate way. they didn't rush to call these witnesses right away. instead they built a document taker record. remember, we saw that chart where the money came from china through shell companies through

individual accounts and then ended up, 10% of it, in joe biden's checking account. >> trace: right. >> that's what you now have to confront the witnesses with and say, under oath are you really going to say that's just paying back a personal loan? under oath did you really earn this money? did you really perform a service for this? or were you really influence peddling? were you really promising to try to influence the united states government and gather information in exchange for that money? there's a big difference between sending people out into the press and making the claim that you were just making money normally and there's nothing to hide here and then saying it under oath under threat of perjury or obstruction of justice before congress. >> trace: yeah, especially when there is very little evidence, in fact no evidence that we have seen of this loan process. hunter biden's attorney, kevin touched on this, abby lowell said this is nothing more than a political stunt but also said quoting, nevertheless, hunter is eager to have the opportunity in a public forum and at the right time to discuss these matters with the committee.

man, i would-leslie i would love to see hunter biden jump on the stand and explain his end of this. >> well, apparently he will be. >> trace: i love it. >> i don't think most of us democrats, unlike republicans, ignore subpoenas. even though they're not criminal in nature, it's an investigation from congress, which is, whether people like it or not, because it's not criminal, it is a political investigation. and here are the two things i want to point out. one is, they are going to -- they are definitely going to impeach joe biden. they don't have a reason to impeach joe biden and they're trying to find one but i don't think they will. after yesterday's elections with the exception of one seat in new hampshire democrats did very well in the election yesterday and this is not what the american people want, their tax dollars and time spent on, and that's republicans as well. so i want to thank the republicans for having all these investigations because it's going to help my party in the next election.

>> trace: yeah but they have a lot of evidence building against them. to bring this to the border now, here's lindsay graham questioning the dhs secretary on the explosion of the terror watch list suspects. watch. >> there's 280 something people on the terror watch list that we know of. where are they? >> that are the terrorist screening data set. >> where are the people. >> the individuals that we encounter that are the terror screening data. set. >> reporter: are they out of the country. >> are sdmreend are they out of the country or in the country. >> they very well may be out of the country. >> reporter: but you don't know. >> trace: the truth is john knocked knows if they're in or out of the country, no way to vet any of these. nobody knows. >> this is a really, really terrible story for the secretary of the department of homeland security because either he does know and he's stone walling, doesn't want the american people to know where they are, or he has no idea what his department's actually doing. either way these answers he's

providing are astounding. trace, you were over in the middle east. this is a time when we have to be actually more vigilant than normal at the border because we know that hamas, iran, would love to slip terrorists into the united states right now. this is when we have to be watching more closely. the fact that the department of homeland security is not aware of where these people are is shocking. >> trace: the same guy whoent waked to build a wall a couple months ago, we need to build a wall. okay. your thoughts leslie. >> two things, first i think it's a stooped question sorry senator graham because nobody in their right mind in the administration is going to say where they are. two, if we know where they are they're not going to be on the watch list they're going to be in custody with one of the nations the looking them down and three not knowing where terrorists are on the watch list is not a seoul joe biden presidency or democrat presidency. >> trace: it's a big part. >> we don't know where the terrorists on the watch list are because if we did they wouldn't

be on the list they would be in handcuffs behind bars. >> trace: huge part of the problem more terrorist watch list people in september and october than during the entire trump administration. leslie john thank you both. we appreciate it >> meantime the war in the middle east sparking fierce incident on college campuses across the country, much of it in favor of the palestinians. today the house judiciary committee took a closer look at the issue of free speech on campus and the rise of anti-semitism. matt finn is live with an emotional day on capitol hill. good evening. >> reporter: good evening trace that evening on capitol hill examined free speech violations and the arrive anti-semitism on college campus it was interrupted off the bat by pro palestinian demonstrators. >> we will not be silenced. >> reporter: capitol police say ten protesters were arrested for crowding or obstructing a public building during the how judiciary committee meeting today. the committee was reviewing the first amendment on college

campuses. jewish students shared their stories about harassment and anti-semitism. one young woman testifying she's distraught and the anti is really chant from the river to the sea has become common place. >> professors and student organizations have been fueling due hatred and sprigged it across campus with disregard or potentially even with deliberate intent to insight. >> today's meeting calms as anti israeli mars have been going on from here in los angeles to new york and all across the country. some protests leading to violence and assaults and tonight the justice department is now investigating threats against the jewish and arab muslim communities and according to the anti defamation league, since the october 7th terrorist attack there's been a pow four hundred % increase in anti-semitic incidents across the country trace. >> trace: that is a spike. matt thank you. bring in fox news contributor joe concha. great to have you the. nbc news headline about the man

killed here in los angeles a couple of days ago, he's an israeli man, he died, you know, this is -- we're talking about at an anti -- or an anti-semitic rally. and the headline says man dies after hitting dead during israel and palestinian flaels california officials say followed by the rolling stone headline that says this, young activist to joe bidenen change course on gaza or lose in 2024. both of these headlines, it's amazing how the media is just so eager, right, so eager to take a hit and a swing at israel and so red sent to say anything negative about hamas. >> air not alone in that perception trace. a palpable anti israel tone among many news organizations examples to high to count. man dies after hitting head after israeli and palestinian rallies in california? that man, you might want to next

the headline was elderly and jewish. he didn't fall down a flight of stairs during a pro palestinian rally and died. multiple witnesses say he was hit in the head with a microphone and it was a homicide due to blunt force trauma to the head, according to local officials. we also saw with the hospital bombing in gaza a few weeks ago where israel was blamed, where hundreds were reported killed. how anybody can get that kind of information out of a war zone that quickly, our news organizations should have been like wait how do you have that snobol hamas is telling you that and you're believing them. like believing al qaeda after 9/11. this cannot continue stressed crazy. meantime i want to say the biden campaign is now complaining sending notes out to me complaining about the disparity in polling coverage, right? quoting here, despite the hair on fire sky is falling tone we've seen from media coverage over the last few days, political predictions more than a year out tend to look a little different a year later. so they're saying, the polls don't matter.

but if you're going to put polls up can you at least put beneficial polls to the president? it's just laughable joe. >> reporter: yeah, and the wording there is interesting. it's not a prediction a year out. these are the way america is thinking right now and is feeling according to polls and they're multiple not like it's being cherry picked. there's definitely a pattern here. this is the biden administration trying to work the refs. it would be, you're right, certainly different if the results were different. they would be asking the media to promote these numbers as much as possible. but what are these news organizations supposed to do? they conduct all these surveys and polls and bury it because they're horrific to president biden? the bottom line is new york times has joe biden down in five swing states he won over bramante and shows one quarter black voters support president trump. unheard of number, cnn poll propped is looking joe biden under 35. these are big numbers and

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potential ceasefire in its war with hamas as israeli defense forces push further into the heart of gaza. jeff paul is live with the latest on the ground in tel aviv. jeff. >> reporter: well, yeah, trace, and that fighting only getting more intense in gaza as israeli troops press deeper and deeper into the center of gaza city. and as that ground assault continues and gets stronger, it's also forcing many more palestinian civilians to flee their homes in the north. a big part of the reason that is happening is the idf says their troops have basically circled the northern portion of gaza cutting off many of the main roads that lead from the north to the south. some of the most heated face no face combat taking place less than one mile from the largest hospital in gaza, the al sheep a hospital. at he considered by the israeli military as the central command center for hamas and its senior leaders operating as a shield. hamas, however, denies that claim. the idf's movement not only putting pressure on hamas but

also many civilians, more and more palestinians are now abandoning their homes in the north to move to the south. chouse once again using the humanitarian corridor opened up by israeli forces, whose forces again right now are showing no signs of backing down. >> there is no ceasefire. we are battling hamas. there is no ceasefire. civilians are fleeing from the north to the south because they understand hamas is using them as human shields. >> reporter: meanwhile using two f-15s the us military carried out two air strikes on iranian targets on northeastern syria today, defense secretary lloyd austin calling it a self-defense strike conducted against a weapons storage facility often adding this was in response to a series of attacks in iraq and syria and since october 17th officials say an estimated 42 attacks have been carried out on

u.s. troops at various bases in the region. trace. >> trace: jeff paul live for us in tel aviv jeff thank you. let's bring in the founder of left people forget elizabeth pipko and host of the watchman erick stakelbeck. elizabeth i want to play this sound from a cornell university sophomore testifying before congress today. and then i'll get your response on the back half. watch. >> professors and student organizations have been fueling due hatred and spreading it across campus with disregard or potentially even with deliberate intent to incite. >> free palestinian! >> trace: even at the congressional meeting, you have this force, this -- it's unbelievable to know that it's almost growing elizabeth. you thought that this was going to fade out it's actually getting stronger and friends of people i talked to, the jewish people, are frightened. >> yeah, trace, we are genuinely

terrified. look, i want people to understand the generational divide that we're seeing here when it comes to how this war in israel is being perceived. we're seeing young people everywhere in the united states, not only finding it difficult to just proudly stand with innocent palestinians and israelis but actually finding it difficult to condemn hamas and condemn some of the worst atrocities many of us have ever seen in our life times which were plastered all over the internet on october 7th for all of us to see. a serious problem and i hope institutions all across the country realize the problems they created. >> trace: i thought it was going to go away but seems to be getting bigger. on another note john kirby sound bite talking about a ceasefire and kind of the definition of a ceasefire. watch this erick. >> talk about a ceasefire, when you use that term, when that term is applied, a general ceasefire, it connotes a cessation of hostilities a

indefinite period with the purpose of finding an end to the conflict. >> trace: when you have to keep redefining what a ceasefire is it's getting close to a ceasefire erick and the whole thing is the pressure on the biden administration is mounting. >> it is, trace. look, there's nashing of teeth in europe and the halls of un demanding a ceasefire just as israel is encircling gaza city putting the squeeze on hamas, hamas's backs are against the wall and now of all times the world is calling for a ceasefire, the biden administration calling for humanitarian pauses. trace if israel were to let hamas off the hook and let them live to fight another day this would send exactly the wrong message to iran and hezbollah and israel would be attacked again if hamas were left to fight another day. >> trace: yep. and elizabeth i know that you believe there's generational divide on the war. rolling stone magazine had the following to say. young activists to biden, change course on gaza or lose in 2024.

going on to say, many say the gaza attack is galvanizing young americans on a scale they haven't seen before. one year out from the election the president's support among young people is slipping and the white house's reluctance to call for a ceasefire in gaza risks further alienating this important cohort. from tik tok to rolling stone, young people are being targeted wind this stuff. >> they are. look, you said that people are complaining that the white house was reluctant to call for a ceasefire. i'm complaining that the white house was reluctant to stand up against anti-semitism. this should have been an easy slam dunk for professors around the country and political leaders everywhere it should be so simple and expected at this point for america of all places to be able to stand on the front lines and say we want jewish students, jewish americans to feel safe and the fact they couldn't do that proves how upside down we are as a society. >> trace: yeah. i want to play some of this video very quickly eric, because this is tonight at a rally grand central 700 people or so pro

palestinian and 40 or 50 pro israel. when you talk about being frightening, this growing movement is it. your final thoughts? >> yeah, there's a darkness descending upon the world, trace. that is not an exaggeration, the greatest levels of anti-semitism since the 1930s and we have a duty, i believe, to stand up, to be a light in this darkness, to stand against it because it's only growing. >> trace: and the white house has that same duty. erick, elizabeth, thank you both. >> thanks trace. >> trace: coming up an exclusive look at the most dangerous place along the u.s./mexico border a place where the cartels battle the u.s. and battle each other. and later the nightcap is back. the next debate is a month away in alabama. who's in and who's out? and why? tell us what you think on x and instagram at trace gallagher. weigh in, we'll show you the results and read the responses in the long-awaited return of the nightcap. ♪

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>> trace: democrats are now claiming election victories in kentucky, ohio and virginia while a republican in mississippi captured the night's other big contest. jackie ibanez is live in new york with a look at the final numbers jackie good evening. >> reporter: good evening trace virginia governor glenn youngkin says republicans were able to take 13 districts president biden won in 2020 and flip seven districts won by democrats in 2022. it was not enough to take control of both chambers of the state assembly to eventually pass a 15-week abortion ban. while youngkin says he's disappointed with the results, he's now looking for ways to find consensus on issues like abortion. >> i think virginians don't want to be extreme either direction. i think they actually want to find a place to come together and that's what i think we tried to represent, reasonableness. >> in ohio senator jd vance

called the passage of issue one which enslurs abortion rights into the constitution a gut punch but says republicans need to understand why they lost the battle so they can win the war. tonight a major pro life group warns if republicans want to win in 2024 they need to reconsider how they frame the issue. >> push to be as pro life as you can possibly be and still win. it's ours to win. at he the other side's to lose. >> reporter: in deep red kentucky democrat andy brashear won reelection, that was a contest that saw many attacks against daniel cameron for wanting to limit abortion. meanwhile in philadelphia democrat cherelle parker will become the first female mayor of the city of brotherly love. she campaigned heavily on getting tougher on crime and hiring more cops. and right here in new york, trace, republicans were able to flip a city council seat in the bronx that's been held by democrats for the past 40 years.

how about that? >> trace: didn't get much attention but it's a trend. jackie ibanez live in new york, thank you. now to an exclusive look at the crisis on our southern u.s./mexico borderer. tonight for the first time we take you to what many consider the most perilous place on the u.s. mexico border. here's bill melugin. >> reporter: despite its beauty and serenity texas's fronten island is considered the most dangerous spot on the southern border. it's here where cartel gunmen have repeatedly seen wandering through the brush after crossing into the u.s. illegally and where border patrol vehicles have been shot. just across the river yards from u.s. soil, cartel gunmen stroll along the river bank armed with rifles. they control the border in mexico. some aim ak-47s at texas dps helicopters. others go war with each other. with texas dps thermal drone video showing cartels throwing explosives at each other during a battle for control of the area. >> all the activity that's

happening all the violence taking place across river several hundreds yards where we're at now. >> reporter: texas dps chris ole vareries said in october texas had enough. they declared fronten island texas property and began bulldozing it. brush was cleared razor wire was deployed and the area was fortified. this is what it looks like now, a 171 acre barren landscaped secured by texas with texas troopers on patrol and texas national guard soldiers deployed with loaded weapons. this is one of the cartel buildings directly across the river in mexico. you can see cartel graffiti on it as well as bullet holes riddling it. on the u.s. side you can see what they've done with the island, completely cleared it out deployed razor wire and there is nowhere for the cartel gun known hide if they want to cross here illegally. >> they have no fear of the federal government because they know there's no consequences and

the fact they have allowed mexican gun cartels to gain control of the border, that yeahs texas is stepping in to the regain control. >> reporter: in fronten texas bill melugin fox news. >> trace: now let's get to where we have the border meeting the debate, bringing in criminal defense attorney vik bajaj and the author of what's killing america, seattle talk radio host jason rantz. vik i want to put this up ron desantis in tonight's debate talking about what bill melugin was just talking about there. the cartel members. >> tell you this if someone in the drug cartels is sneaking physician known no across the boarder when i'm president that's the last thing they'll do. we will he shoot them stone cold dead. >> bluster or can you really do that. >> the answer is yes you can really do that. if you look at the regulations of the department of homeland security which allows them to do what they need to do to protect the boarders, you need a policy

statement saying this is a national security issue, therefore if you are smuggling across the border and you're properly warned, if you're properly warned, and you continue to make your way, reasonable force can be used. now, it's not as though someone has a backpack trace and they're saying, hey, excuse me, i just have a couple kilos of fentanyl don't mind me. usually these cartel members are significantly and dangerously armed. >> trace: right. >> and willing to use that, either with speeding vehicles or with the arm a meants they have. so deadly force, reasonable force can be used when you take into effect weapons, the time of night, the environment and potential harm to officials. my answer's yes but many fs. >> trace: yes with caveats. nikki haley talked about an issue that's still apparently a liability for the republican party, abortion. here she is jason. watch. >> let's agree on how we can ban late term abortion. let's make sure we encourage adoptions and good quality

adoptions and make sure we make contraception accessible and none of these state laws put a woman in jail or give her the death penalty for getting abortion. >> trace: lot of republicans asking is there middle ground on this issue? >> there should be but that's going to be up to the republican voters who are going to have to accept the fact that this country right now is not in favor of a full-blown ban. that's the unfortunate reality for folks who are pro life. i consider myself very much pro life but i also understand that the enemy of this cannot simply be our reluctance to accept that we do have to have some sort of compromise if we want to win these debates around the issue, then ultimately win these election and then ultimately change the minds of the american people. they're not there yet, and unless they come to it on their own, rather than perceive the positions of republicans as just too extreme, we're not going to win this. >> trace: i've got 30 seconds for both of you here. chris christie says this about

tik tok. watch. >> so in my first week as president, we would ban tik tok. they want to go ahead and sell it? let them go ahead and sell it. >> trace: easier said than done legally vik. >> yes, you need corporations of many institutions including federal courts which have traditionally banned the mandatory sale of assets, however cloaked under the umbrella of national security and ip theft issues, it absolutely can be mandated by the federal government if that policy is something the president wants to push. >> trace: socially, is it cultural needed? jason? >> cultural neededed? yes, probably. but the problem is, the culture, the young folks who are dictating the culture, don't want to see tik tok banned so we're going to have to have some conversation about what it's going to be, if you're messaging this to young people. on the one hand say we need to take this away from you but also can you vote for us because we

need younger voters on the republican side. that's not really a winning issue. >> trace: it's not. jason vik thank you. which candidates will make the cut for the debate next month? who's in and who's out. weigh in on x and instagram at trace gallagher. our fan favorite nightcap segment is back and we have a special appearance from one of our correspondents joining the nightcap crew for the very first time. coming up.

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♪ >> trace: we are back with the nightcap crew, kevin corke, matt finn, vik bajaj, jason rantz and for the very first time, aishah hasnie. and tonight's topic political wins. we are less than a month from the next republican debate in alabama, tuscaloosa roll tide. after tonight, which candidates do you think are in or out for the next one? let's start with the person who's actually covering this in miami, aishah hasnie. your thoughts? >> trace thanks for everything me. a lot of folks are looking at tim scott right now. he said tonight he's going to be there at the next debate i would go further and say i think all five will not only be at the next debate, i think you're going to see them even go past the holidays here. i know a lot of folks are wondering, oh, my gosh where are these folks still in this trump's leading the polls. it all comes down to money,

money, money and right now they all have enough money to at least get them to the iowa caucus. chris christie you have to watch him his funds might dry out, nikki haley as well just hired a brand new communications director i'm thinking she wants to get to super tuesday at the very least if she doesn't bomb south carolina. but i think they're going to get to iowa, maybe new hampshire >> trace: jason rantz, your thoughts. >> there should only be three on the stage. it should be ramaswamy, desantis and haley. everyone else does not need to be there. but the fact of the matter is we still have one who should be on the stage, is not on the stage, and it's donald trump who's likely to be the nominee. >> trace: matt finn. >> all things considered it seems like tim scott and chris christie are not tracking well. >> trace: i would think so, too. vik bajaj your thoughts? >> post october 7th we have a different answer than pre october 7th. i think the constituency really appreciates military and foreign relations experience. i think we see ron desantis and we see nikki haley. >> trace: kevin corke, you've covered this stuff for a long

time. use you are thoughts on who makes it and who doesn't? >> i think chris christie should certainly be out. i think tim scott probably the same. but i agree with issue a, i think at the end of the day, make it to iowa and let the chips go where they may. >> trace: i think that is kind of the struggle. i think we got everybody right? it is a struggle because you want to make it to iowa and to make it to iowa you have to go to tuscaloosa roll tide again because we're bama fans around here. i still say i think nikki haley and ron desantis are in, the rest are on the bubble. we shall find out. issue a, great to have you on for the first time, kevin, jason, matt and vik bajaj, and thank you all for watching america's late news. fox news at night. i'm trace gallagher in los angeles, we will continue our coverage of the war and breaking news on fox news at night and we'll see you right back here tomorrow night. ♪ moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq.

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