>> greg: out of time! next trace gallagher on "fox news @ night." i love you, america. [applause] >> trace: good evening. i'm trace gallagher. it's 8:00 p.m. on the west coast, 11:00 here in

new york city, and this is america's late news, "fox news @ night." breaking tonight, america is now responding to the attacks that killed three u.s. soldiers in jordan. so far the u.s. military launching 85 retaliatory air strikes against iranian targets in iraq and syria, and there could be many more rounds ahead. but iran is responding now with defiance, saying they knew then u.s. would not dare attack inside iran. mike tobin is live in tel aviv with breaking developments and reaction to the first round of air strikes. what are you hearing? >> we are hearing that and iran backed shiite military group inside of iraq is claiming they launched a barrage of rockets at the u.s. airbase in iraq, response to the u.s. strikes earlier today. this as we are getting the first images out of western iraq, very near the syrian border.

this as the u.s. has battle mat rrently underway. we know that iraq is not happy with the strikes inside of iraq. a spokesperson for the iraqi military says that iraqi sovereignty has been violated, and the u.s. action threatens to drag the entire region into "unforeseen consequences." u.s. central command said some 85 targets were hit in seven locations, four in syria, three inside iraq. they included command-and-control, intelligent facilities, weapons storage, and logistics support for the iranian revolutionary guard and the proxies they support. john kirby said the strikes were not about sending a message. this was about degrading the capability of the revolutionary guard and the militant group. with tensions very high, all eyes are on hezbollah, hamas, and the houthis here in israel to see if they launch any kind of retaliatory strikes. that being said, we know that hamas' capacity to fire rockets is severely degraded at this

point. the houthis at least claimed responsibility for firing at israel earlier today. all of this tension, while u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is expected in the region trying to push forward a hostage release deal. trace, back to you. >> trace: mike, thank you. let's bring in nascent sales and former marine corps special operations officer garrett exner. thank you for coming on. we appreciate it. he said you believe president biden has done everything he can to soften the blow of these retaliatory attacks. do you still believe that? >> absolutely. we gave warning before you launch the strikes, and then we gave them prior warning as is reported that when the bombers took off from the united states that they could get out of the way. we effectively traded three k.i.a. and wounded service

members from ammunition and missiles that were in the desert somewhere in syria and iraq. that's not an equal trade and i think it sent the wrong message to our own service members here in the united states. >> trace: and the white house has responded, nathan, by saying we are not looking for war. as mike tobin was just reporting, there is concern about the possibility of hezbollah and hamas and even the houthis to a certain extent to respond to this. >> well, trace, nobody wants another war in the middle east, but the way to avoid getting dragged into a war is to dominate the escalation ladder, and that is to say tell iran in no unmistakable terms that they will have to pay an overwhelming catastrophic price if they continue to take shots at our soldiers. that's what they have been doing since joe biden took office. since october 7th we have seen over 160 attacks by iranian-backed terrorists on our men and women. before that, there were at least

83, so we are approaching 250. white house needs to take the gloves off. that doesn't mean we need to go into iran the way we went into iraq or afghanistan, but it does mean we need to impose significant costs on iran. they are not going to stop until he make him stop. >> trace: i don't think anybody is really talking about shock and awe, garrett, but the iranian president now says, defiantly, the u.s. would not dare come inside iran. listen to him. >> interpreter: we will not initiate any war. if anyone wants to bully, iran will respond firmly. before, whenever they wanted to talk to iran, like other countries, they said military option is on the table. now you do not hear these words anymore. they even say we have no intention of any conflict with iran. our armed forces are powerful and always present. >> trace: and so far he appears to be right. >> absolutely. everything we have done so far has portrayed weakness to the

iranian regime. they feel emboldened. if they're going to kill our service members, and we're just going to strike the ammunition dumps, that's a great trade for them. they get to do whatever they want to do in the region, they feel like they're pushing us back, and all the supporters of the iranian regime are cheering at their efforts right now. eventually something has to happen, the biden administration needs to get much tougher to stop this. >> trace: you talk about being much tougher and that's why i want to put this statement up on the screen. this is biden statement, and it reads as follows, quoting here. "our response began today. it will continue at times and places of our choosing." nathan, we have heard this phrase, "time and place of our choosing," a hundred times in the past three and half months, and it doesn't really seem to strike fear into the hearts of our adversaries. what do you think? >> yeah, really nice words, but let's see the deeds now. it is really embarrassing for the united states, for the

administration, for the iranian regime to openly taught us like this. the reason we are not hitting iran is not because of the might reagan sank half their navy and one day back in 1988. they haven't gotten that much better since then. the reason we are not hitting iran hard has nothing to do with the strength of iran and it has everything to do with the weakness of this white house. let's be clear, iran is not shy about operating in our territory. as we speak right now, they are plotting to kill former u.s. officials, plotting to kidnap dissident iranian american citizens. so if it's good enough for them, we shouldn't take anything off the table in terms of imposing costs on our adversaries. >> trace: thank you both. good analysis as always. we will continue with updates on the u.s. air strikes in the middle east, but we are also covering another major story in the u.s. the four illegal immigrants accused of beating new york police officers now reportedly headed to california after being

arrested and set free without bail. and if you are an illegal migrant needing protection from law enforcement and a lot of other things, there's no better place to go than california. bill melugin is live for us for more on the suspects. >> good evening to you. police in new york believe several of those illegal immigrants charged in the mob beating of those officers may have fled the state via bus. as you mentioned, could be on the way to right here in california. police were apparently told by a nonprofit he recognized the men's mug shots that they got onto a bus in new york city, believed to be headed to calexico, california, a city on the border with mexico. if the men decide to stay in california, the sanctuary state here is a very welcoming environment. california currently offers certain illegal immigrants free health care, food stamps, benefits, financial aid for college, and housing assistance, that we should say it is unclear if any of these men would qualify given their charges and

their current status. several of those men involved in the mob beating reportedly have lengthy rap sheets that began shortly after their illegal arrivals to the united states. >> they can go anywhere in the universe right now. they have to come back for court in about a month. if they don't, there will be a warrant issued and we will take it from there. >> in the meantime, cbp data obtained by fox news shows the large majority of illegal crossings at the southern border have shifted to arizona and california, away from texas. take a look at the numbers. cbp sources telling fox, in the last week of january, border patrol apprehended just over 32,800 illegal immigrants. of that, more than 23,500 were in arizona and california. that is 71% of all the crossings. trace, so far, governor gavin newsom hasn't made any statement about reports the illegal immigrants involved in the new york city beating our reportedly heading here or that illegal crossings are starting to spike here in the golden state. i'll send it back to you.

>> trace: bill melugin live for us in los angeles. it's great to have you on the show again. in roxbury, massachusetts, just like in a lot of places around the country, you have seen this in chicago, as well, they took away -- the local city council took away the local recreation complex so they could has migrants there. here is one protester complaining, and i want to see if this strikes a nerve with you. watch. >> we have seen this all across massachusetts and the country where these illegal immigrants are coming in here taking all of our resources, and people who have been fighting for their own piece of the pie are being left out in the cold. >> trace: he's saying, listen, we are paying our taxes, we are struggling, we are trying to work our jobs and we can barely afford to live here, and they are giving these migrants are stuffed. what do you think? >> i think it's the same thing we saw here in chicago, and what they're going to have to do is stand up, and they are going to have to fight against the administration.

they're going to have to be vocal the way i've been vocal, and you're going to have to stand up against the mayor of that city, against the governor of that state, and against president biden. i know there's a lot going on in the country right now, and i know that biden has his hands full. but there is a crisis at the border, and it needs to be dealt with. and i don't think he can continue to pretend like that's not an issue across this country. as i have said, many times now, it's the biden administration is not going to listen to the people of this country, then we are certainly not going to be supporting the biden administration and this upcoming election. and i want to say to those people who are going through the same things that we've gone through here in chicago, if the administration continues to not listen to you, continue to not want to value your voices, then we have to take our votes

elsewhere. listen, it is time out for the going along to get along. we cannot continue to be pushed aside. we cannot continue to allow the resources, not just of these particular sanctuary cities, but of the states, and in this country, to be given away to other people while we stand idly by in need of things. >> trace: it's a very fair assessment. i wondered, because last time you are on this child, you are furious at the way the chicago politicians, and the national politicians, were handling things in your area. since you spoke up, has anything changed? >> nothing has changed, unfortunately. but, as i said before, i'm not looking for the democratic party to change, so that means i have to change. that means that inner-city voters, voters in sanctuary cities, we are going to have to be the ones to change.

as you see here, i am wearing red, representing red, because this is going to be the new face of a lot of chicagoans. it's going to have to be the face of a lot of people who were formerly democrats. >> trace: i'm wearing red, as well. for a different reason, but i appreciate your color support and i certainly appreciate the fact that you come on the show. we look forward to getting an update from you in the weeks ahead. thank you. >> thank you so much for having me. ♪ ♪ >> trace: well, the "fox news @ night" fox, common sense apartment was among those who come after 9/11, thou did never forget, yet, 22 plus years later, many of us have trouble remembering, especially when it comes to the first respr lives, including 79 police officers who died on 9/11, and 229 others who have since died of a related illness.

they were hailed as heroes, respected, revered. they were vital. until they were villains. police officers became expendable, constantly defunded, rarely defended, and now they are fair game, beaten and battered with impunity, beaten and battered by those who were given sanctuary, and in return, these illegal coddled criminals offered americans a double dose of "f you," and instead of being tossed in jail, they hopped on a bus, gus, and set themselves free. remember, they have dreams to pursue, crimes to commit, cops to pummel. we wonder why nobody wants to be a police officer, even at the highest rate of pay, because when the crime rate went up, police funding came back. police officers did not. it is unlikely they will pay but there will be another massive attack or great disaster, except this time those in blue won't be

bounding into any buildings. common sense thinks maybe then and only then we will all remember that we all forgot. we also had some breaking news that got a bit lost in the shuffle. embattled fulton county district attorney fani willis made some big time admissions about her past relationship with the special prosecutor she to help pull the case against foformer president donald trump. kevin corke is live in d.c. with the breaking information on this. good evening. >> evening, trace. fulton county d.a. fani willis admitting to a personal relationship with the prosecutor investigating for president trump. but, as of this very hour, she refuses to recuse herself from that case. today was the deadline for willis to respond to the accusations from one of the former president's codefendants who claimed prosecutor nathan wade used taxpayer money to take his paramour, willis, on lavish vacations and luxe cruises.

there are allegations based in part upon banking records that wade used the money to fly them to vacation hot spots, places like miami, for example. georgia state lawmakers also allege money was spent for security detail to accompany the two on many of the trips that they took. now, willis' admission marks the very first time she has directly acknowledged any kind of personal relationship with the man she hired and paid more than $650,000, and in her 176-page response, willis defended wade's qualifications and said she won't step down despite growing pressure to do so. still, this is a far cry from what she had to say about inter-office romance. just a few years ago. >> i would certainly not be choosing people to date who work under me. let me just say that. i think what citizens are really concerned about is if you chose

to have inappropriate contact with employees. there's nothing i can say on it other than it is distracting, and it is certainly inappropriate for the number one law enforcement officer in the state. >> distracting, inappropriate, unethical. and that's not the only legal headache for willis. she's also been subpoenaed by house republicans who claim that her office used $400,000 of federal money intended for at risk youth, and apparently they claim that she used it to buy anything from macbooks to travel, even a bit of swag. so the legal battles continued. >> indeed they do, kevin corke live for us in d.c. let's bring attorney and "washington times" legal affairs report alex sawyer, and contributing writer stephanie hamel. thank you both are coming on tonight. to you first, alex. foxnews.com writes the following. d.a. fani willis admits personal relationship with prosecutor but denies completive interest, going on to say, in a court

filing friday, willis told the superior court, while the allegations are salacious, they have no merit. so i hired my boyfriend to prosecute a rico case he wasn't really qualified for, for an exorbitant amount of money, but so what? what's the big deal, alex? >> right, and in her filings she actually details that the pay is negotiated between the d.a. and the appointee. so there's reports out there that he is actually being paid i think double what others in her office are. and both of them have a financial incentive to see this prosecution move forward. therefore, there is a conflict of interest. as well as the important thing when you are a prosecutor, to make sure that there is no signs of impropriety. you want a conviction to stick, and here there's all sorts of sketchiness happening. on appeal, it gives donald trump and his allies and fellow defendants even more reason to be overturned.

>> trace: i want to move back to our breaking story at the top, the migrants who beat up the police and are now headed to california. if they're on their way to california, bill melugin touched on this a little bit, i want to put it back up on the screen. this is what california migrants get to look forward to. health care, food stamps, benefits, college financial aid, housing assistance. doesn't go to all, goes to many. they can see all they want, and what a great place to go hang out for a while. >> yeah, what a great country, what a great state. this is absolute insanity, what has happened this week, and it is sending a bad message across the world, not only can you break into this country, break our laws, assault police officers. you will get released with no bail, and then you can head to california and get all the freebies. this is a horrible look, so much so that some in the mainstream media finally got the hint and are starting to talk about the

truth of what's going on. but the thing is the migrants are showing up at literally people's front doors, so this has to be a conversation that will be had nationally, and we have seen that is 2 2024 goes o. >> trace: i'll ask you more about that and a second, because we had cnn stuff that was invaluable. meantime, he's talking about the records of these migrants who beat up the police officer. they literally had criminal records and they walked free. it's kind of amazing to me. what do you think about that? >> we even saw some of these zero bail policies. what would happen is those would be released, even low-level offenders who had already served time, and they would rep repeat-offend at three times the regular level rate. so increased recidivism. it's a problem not just for those here illegally or those on a certain status, but across the nation we see it in places like washington, d.c., as well. >> trace: lastly, john miller,

who worked for years with the new york police department, said this. he was on the set and he kind of shock to the anchor. watch. >> what the detectives are telling me is they have crews here that operate in new york, do all their stealing, then go to florida to spend the money and come back. why don't they just stay and still in florida? and they say, because there you go to jail. >> trace: we didn't pause long enough, but for three seconds she didn't know what to say. they go to jail in florida? who puts people in jail anymore? your final thoughts? >> her reaction says it all. she's just like, "oh." and then silence. these reporters and those in the mainstream media are smarter than this, they do know what's going on, they're just being dishonest for whatever reason. but the criminals got the word that they can commit crimes in certain states more than others, and that's why they're going out shopping sprees in florida and stealing from new york and california. >> trace: bingo. steal it in one place, go back to the other. alex, thank you. great to see you both.

coming up, the results from the toxicology reports are in for the three chiefs fans found frozen to death outside a friend's home. it appears drug and alcohol were a big factor. dr. marc siegel joins us next. later, in the nightcap, billionaire peter teal is backing the enhanced games, olympic level athletes who can compete while using performance-enhancing drugs. literally, the limbic's on steroids. would you watch it? tell us why are we not. we will read the best responses in the nightcap. 11:21 on the east coast. "fox news @ night" trip across america, a live look at nahant massachusetts, originally used as a grazing pasture for cattle and dogs. and south bend, indiana, touchdown, jesus. the fighting irish come university of notre dame. we'll come right back. feel safe asking questions about spirituality. i try to provide a really accessible way of them

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>> trace: we have breaking video coming into "fox news @ night." this is from central command coming into fox news, showing a plane taking off, presumably to conduct one of the air strikes as the u.s. launches this barrage of retaliatory strikes across iraq and syria. we believe this was part of the original 85 targets that were hit earlier today, because the pentagon has come out and said that, for now, the strikes are over, but we continue to watch as the military is still moving into different positions, and it will be fascinating to see if this goes on for the days and weeks to come, because there's been every indication that this will be a prolonged attack on these various targets of iranian proxies. we'll keep you up to speed when they come in to "fox news @ night." meantime, we have been following the mysterious deaths of three

kansas city chiefs fans. police now have the toxicology results and they appear to be very telling. bill melugin back live with what we are learning tonight. >> trace, these initial toxicology reports are very revealing. according to reports, they show each of these men had traces of thc, cocaine, and three times the amount of speed he needed to kill somebody in their systems. kansas city pd confirmed they've talked to the victims' families and they are still calling this a death investigation rather than a homicide investigation, with police telling fox in part that they have been at no additional details or reports of this case revealed to any media, nor are there plans to at this time. the case remains an ongoing death investigation. police found the three men's bodies and their friend jordan willis' backyard just over three weeks ago. then when watching a chiefs together two days prior. police handcuffed willis but kansas city police say he is not considered suspect. a source close to the suspect

describes them as devastated. he has reportedly since checked himself into drug rehab. the examiner's office tells fox the full autopsy results are expected sometime in late march or early april. those results will determine if the men died of drug overdoses or something else, like cardiac arrest from hypothermia. >> it would be extremely unusual for a true overdose to have killed them, but they would all get sleepy, and if they pass out in the snow, they die. one of the factors is it is a painless death. they don't have any pain when they pass out. >> and that dr. also points out it is possible that jordan willis took laced drugs with his friends but survived because he stayed inside and slipped it off. kansas city police do not suspect any foul play in the deaths of these three men. trace? >> trace: all very good questions. bill melugin live for us in l.a., which is why we have brought in fox news medical

contributor dr. marc siegel. thc, cocaine, cetane, lethal levels of fentanyl, but it seems to me very oddly of three grown men, good-sized men, that go out in the backyard and simultaneously die. >> and as you pointed out before he came on, we don't know anything about this yet, but the other person stays inside the house. some kind of a scientist. that is all going to come out in the months to come. what is really interesting to me is kansas city is a hotbed, trace, for fentanyl deaths. 845 of them over the past five years. that went up a thousand times from the five years before that. in the state of missouri, there is rampant fentanyl. but it was also fentanyl plus cocaine, this polydrug situation is becoming a huge epidemic in this country also. 50 times increased. >> trace: meaning it exacerbates the cause by the power of fentanyl or thc? >> let me explain that, because i think drug dealers may think the opposite. cocaine pounds the heart, causes the heart to go more rapidly.

puts more pressure on the heart. fentanyl suppresses heart function and can lead to cardiac or respiratory arrest. to be out in the snow, and the cold weather contributes to that. your breathing goes way down when you take this amount of fentanyl. most fentanyl overdoses died because the person stops breathing or their heart stops beating. why did they die at the exact same time connect to me it means they took a ton of these drugs at the same time. >> trace: does the cold have something to do with the reaction in the body, if you have one person who presumably took what they took, and he sleeps it off or 48 hours, and they go out in the backyard? is it the cold that might trigger that or am i reading too much into it? >> perfectly stated. if you stay in the backyard long enough death the temperatures were actually in the low 30s at night. but he stayed there for hours, eventually you could become cold enough to die. so the fentanyl might have put them to sleep in and they never woke up.

that's another possibility. they also have to date the bodies to figure out the exact time of death. that will come out with the full autopsy report. again, fentanyl is where the focus should be. lethal doses, according to bill melugin. that stops breathing. >> trace: i want to swap subjects if i can. we are all wearing red, you, as well, dr. siegel. it is red for women's cardiovascular disease, the number one killer of females in america. i had no idea. >> not only females, men. we didn't entirely swap subjects, because i'm talking about potential cardiac death here, and half of americans, according to the american heart association, don't know that heart disease is the number one killer. by far, 700,000 per year. and that is shocking that people out there don't know that. so here's what i want to tell everybody. as an internist, i look at it this way. i look your blood pressure, your cholesterol, how much exercise you do, how much you weigh, whether you have diabetes or not. if you are gaining weight, you have more of a tendency toward that. those factors lead to heart

disease. how much stress are you under? how much alcohol do you drink? a simple blood pressure check and save lives, so people out there, for this month and this day, wear red to remember your heart and get into see a physician. >> trace: it's been a long time, my friend. >> good to see you. you look like you have that l.a. ten. >> trace: a little bit of makeup they put on to make you look good. thank you, dr. siegel. coming up, the fight for religious freedom taking center stage in a court battle in california. it's the state versus a christian baker who said baking a cake for a same-sex wedding goes against her religious beliefs. that baker and her attorney's before next, and bad weather rolling into california already causing delays. who says groundhogs are the only ones who can predict whether? we will see six more weeks of winter. the day's best viral videos are next, but finally a live look at hawaii, live at 6:34 in the

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♪ ♪ >> trace: well, now to the latest legal battle that's been going on since 2017. the owner of kathy's creations, kathy miller, was taken to court by the state of california after she refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple because of her religious beliefs. a lower court judge ruled in her favor and now she is hoping an appeals court will do the very same. let's bring in kathy miller and her attorney. thank you both are coming on. we very much appreciate it. cathy, to you first. tell us why you are fighting this, and why this is so important for you, because a lot of people we have seen in these types of cases say, why not just bake the thing for the same-sex marriage? >> thank you, trace, for asking.

baking the cake for an lgbt couple would be a violation of my deeply held religious convictions. the bible states very clearly that there's things i should and should not do come and i love my lord and savior and i'm not going to hurt him. so i could not make the cake. i arranged for another bakery to do an excellent job on any cakes i couldn't bake, and when i offered that to this couple, they rejected it. but the sad thing is that the state of california is choosing to continuously discriminate against me by not even interviewing or talking to me before they took me to court. >> trace: that's the state of california for you. it's kind of lost its mind. i look at this and i thought a lot of people i know is not the same thing. didn't we settle this? didn't the supreme court in this

whole thing? >> absolutely, that's a lot of people asking themselves. california should be asking itself, too. they ruled not once but twice in the past five years in favor of wedding vendors like betaine that have deeply held religious beliefs, that california just doesn't get the message. it spent six years investigating her. it was who through a full trial on the merits, and you know it they found after all that effort to prosecute cathy? they found nothing. the district court said there was no evidence that she discriminated against anyone in the lgbt community. they found she employed people in the community, that she served people in the community, and it held that the only intent she had in all of this was to follow her own deeply held religious beliefs. that's it, trace. >> trace: it really is amazing. i wonder what happens. have you thought about what you will do if this goes to the

appeals court? if you lose at the appeals court, what is next for you? do you acquiesce? what's happening? >> i will continue to follow the path god has before me and i will trust my lawyers to take this where it needs to go, and i'm going to trust that our government will come through and recognize our constitutional rights as well as our deeply held religious convictions. >> trace: it's amazing to me because they were saying this is comparing your beliefs about marriage to racism, that you made it very clear that you won't bake anything that has anything to do with promoting racism or gory stuff or anything, so that's part of this whole process. and i wonder, if you think there might be ulterior motives for the people bringing this case, why not just accept the other baker? somebody is going to bake your cake for you. accept it, thank cathy, move on,

and have a great life. >> the biggest bully on the playground here is the state of california. they're the ones who have gone to court again and again. they are the ones who have used inflammatory comparisons, who have denigrated her religious beliefs, who have said her beliefs are the affront to the dignity of all californians. if cathy's belief that she has to do what our lord and savior asks her to do no matter what is an affront to all californians, then california needs to get another idea of human dignity. >> trace: final thoughts? avenue at 15 seconds. is it worth it? >> it is worth it. it is worth it to stand in love and respect each other and work together so that everybody is served, but you don't have to give up your faith or honoring our lord. >> trace: cathy miller, adele, best of luck. we want to hear how this comes out. keep us up to speed and we will bring you back on. thank you both.

meantime, washington is a cauldron of political animosity and turmoil, that the nation's top political leaders recently gathered at the u.s. capitol to pray. it was the national prayer breakfast, a custom which dates back to the 1950s. here is the senior congressional correspondent, chad pergram. >> ♪ "amazing grace" ♪ ♪ how sweet the sound ♪ >> washington's movers and shakers, moved by a joyful noise. >> thank you all for being here. maestro bocelli, we left on the front row. >> the capitol dome doubling as a sanctuary. >> we have really tough differences. we really go at one another. my prayer, my hope, is that we continue to believe our best days are ahead of us. that, as a nation, we continue

to believe in honesty, decency, dignity and respect. >> the president praying for peace in the middle east, the return of hostages, and honoring soldiers killed in jordan. senate chaplain barry black told the multitude about a conversation with his aunt about pastoring to the congressional flock. >> she said, "barry, how do you survive the insanity?" and i responded, "you know, we have some saints in the household." >> he said what people don't see our bipartisan lawmakers meeting for prayer each week at the capitol. he spoke of how there was one senator who only missed a single bible study in 19 years. when asked to that was, black replied its classified. trace? >> trace: chad pergram, thank you. ♪ ♪ first up into nine viral videos, a driver shot this video of an abandoned car on a flooded road

in california. the state is bracing for an atmospheric river this weekend in los angeles. by the way, los angeles under a flash flood warnings sunday through monday, hoping the rain holds off long enough to get me back to california. firefighters rescued a cat from an rv involved in a collision causing it to roll over. the unhappy kitty was ready to get out of there, but held very still during the rescue. as still as a cat can hold. and a flock of penguins took over for the milwaukee zoo's deceased groundhog today in predicting an early spring. their prediction was corroborated by punxsutawney phil, the official groundhog in pennsylvania, and a duck named scramble in connecticut. if you have a viral video to share, share it with us on social media. coming up, how do you feel about the olympic games on steroids, literally? would you watch?

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♪ ♪ >> trace: we are back with the nightcap crew. kevin corke, bill melugin, dr. marc siegel, and alex swoyer. tonight's topic, the enhanced games. billionaire peter teal is backing what is believed to be the olympics on steroids. literally. athletes can compete while taking performance-enhancing drugs. would you watch the enhanced games? what you maybe trained to be involved in the enhanced games? what do you say, bill melugin? >> i'd watch it 100%. imagine some of these guys on bath salts doing the javelin. someone in the stands is going to get impaled the way they throw those things. i'd watch it 100%. >> trace: that's a "yes" for bill. kevin corke it? >> i probably would watch it, but i would probably privately feel like i'm in protest, because i want to see people do it the clean way. but if you're honest about whether or not you would watch, i think a lot of people would watch, including me. >> trace: i think a lot of

people would be kind of curious to see how big and buff these people got and how far they could really throw the javelin or, you know, do some of the stuff. dr. siegel? >> i'm against it. it's cheating! first of all, it's cheating. >> trace: is it cheating? you think it's cheating? >> medically, it affects different people in different ways. so some people can't even keep their steroids down, so they would have no advantage paid other people have a huge reaction. so as not leveling the playing field. >> trace: can you imagine the penalties, that you have to clean up? alex swoyer? >> it doesn't seem healthy, but i think i would watch. i would want to see the traditional olympics and compared to those doping. it would be an interesting compare and contrast. a little science experiment. >> trace: major league baseball circa 1998-2003, lee played this game already. we asked x and instagram

followers if they would watch the enhanced games, and the results are yes, 17% on x. yes, 14% on instagram. that's not very rousing. doug says the following year, "adult 18 and over have the right to abuse their bodies if they choose to do so. as an athlete myself, there is no way i would do this, but it would be interesting to watch these monsters. i would be curious enough to watch but it shouldn't be the norm." dylan, "yes, i would. it already happens in the real olympics. have it be supervised by medical pros." and veronica says, "true athletes, no enhancers, doesn't substantiate talent." like the doctor says, talent will always prevail. thank you all. have a great week. i'm back in los angeles on monday if i can get back from the rain. thank you for watching america's late news, "fox news @ night." have a great weekend. ♪ ♪ >> we start this friday