possibly there could be a one-time change to senate rules to prevent a filibuster of legislation to suspend the debt limit saying that moments ago. we will have more that news on fox news tonight. "fox news primetime" hosted by ben domenech starts right now. >> ben: thank you, shannon. good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime." ♪ ♪ >> ben: of all the things that unites americans nothing compares to sports. sports are how we mark the changing of the seasons. sports draw us to the sounds of rubber on the court in spring, the greenest fields you have ever seen in the summer. the crisp fall days of crisp college chants cold snow days of winter where you can't feel your toes but you won't sit down. a connection to the past and the future. generations of fans from all background all walks of life who find themselves together to

share in sorrow or glory as the day decides. sports is our great teacher. offering us lessons that guide us from a young age for the rest of our lives. lessons about courage and grit, the importance of team work and diligence. how to play like a champion, even in a loss. sports has been at the center of american understanding about race, immigration, religion, and meritocracy. the baseball playoffs begin tonight and from jackie robinson to sandy koufax to clementy, children learned what it mean to be a good american watch these figures give their all in the field of play. so why is it that sports today seems to be a place of division not unity? something used to break us further apart not bring us together? when did competition become such a bad thing? 20 years ago after 9/11 getting back to sports was incredibly important it wasn't just a sign that america was going to continue. it was a sign that we were confident and unafraid. eight years ago tears turned to

cheers and roars when david ortiz told those cowardly marathon terrorists who city of boston was. the same motivation exists today as we were first coming back from lockdowns we all joined the crowds of fans whose proud voices carried our national anthem. but this creates an extreme division between what we're told and what we see on the screen. you probably heard on sunday dr. anthony fauci talking about whether we can have christmas gatherings or not. well, he did that on cbs. between this and this. as much as media fear mongers decry these college and pro-football games as super spreader events the evidence showed they don't have a leg to stand on in. recent weeks, the use of sports to divide us has moved to individual players and their perm beliefs about vaccination. nba players like jonathan isaac and draymond green mounted eloquent defenses on the right to make their own medical decisions making it clear that, yes, they have taught this through much to the frustration of the overwhelmingly sports

journalists who want them to go along with the narrative. and let's talk about those journalists. particularly espn. the worldwide leader has been a constant force for division in recent years. driving race and gender focused narratives, lauding acts of leftist political protests, and even sidelining qualified reporters like rachel nichols in service of the woke agenda. just today the excellent and talented sage steele is facing enormous backlash for her comments on race, vaccine mandates and more. failed former espn host turned colin kaepernick bio-pic producer jamel hill called her a clown for expressing those views. espn said they embrace different points of view in a statement. but do they really? this would be a good test. let's consider someone who espn has had on their programming for years. journalism professor kevin blackstone of maryland. what are some of his views? well he has repeatedly called for boycotting israel from all sports and banning them from the olympics as ar par tied state. is he has called for pulling the all star team from atlanta and

nine future sports events to georgia over election law. banned flyovers and playing of the national anthem which he calls a war anthem before games. even complained about being forced to sit through it that's a leftist academic espn thinks you need to hear. that's not a problem like when sage steele shares her opinions. she broke rule number 1. she talked and she said something woke corporate didn't agree with americans are tired of this woke crap. particularly when it's filled with the underlying hypocrisy of kowtowing to the interest of china. by now you know all about that story. how an american sports league with a corrupt relationship with shoe makers made in horrible overseas conditions had to engage in all manner of song and dance pretending to look the other way because of gm had the audacity to send one tweet. lebron james has lots of opinions but china, what does he know about china? as author ethan straus, long time nba reporter writes: it could be argued that the nba fix

states more on china an on america even if the vast majority of tv money comes from the u.s. viewership. the league fields hit a ceiling in home country china becomes obsession as massive theoretical growth engine. this isn't a question about republicans or democrats. at some point you have to ask do they hate their customers for being american? is what's really going on here wishful thinking? the desiring to descrofl that dr action series wnba outsells michael jordan newly toxic mass could you little bit. the institution of sports is being turned against the very people who go to the games and buy the tickets and cheer. it is driven both by globalist corporations who no longer think of themselves as innately american and by a leftist dominated media complex who despises the fans of the very games they cover. closer to home, parents must worry about their daughters competing against their neighbors' sons because of

intersectional madness masquerading. even proud lesbian athletes martine into nated leave have a allowing transgirls to compete against biological girls. but despite all of this. sports finds a way. there is still that human desire for the connection that brings us together as fans despite all the efforts to divide us. my mom is a dedicated baseball fan. here she is with her friend scooter and bobby. for years they sat together and share stories and gripes and cheered on the nationals throughout the season. they have strong opinions about everything in d.c. sports for the past 50 years. there is no reason that people from such different walks of life should end up as friends but that's the power of sports. it brings us together in ways that surprise us. it gives us ideals to strive for. and each if the left has sought to corrupt sports with their woke agenda, their mission is ultimately doomed. they view sports as a tool to use against the people. whether we know it binds us

together as citizens and friends. dr. fauci can't stand in front of 100,000 joyous penn state champions, i would like to see him try. i'm ben domenech and this is the american crisis. joining me now is "fox & friends weekend" co-host will cain along with the co-host of the clay travis and buck sexton show clay travis. thank you both for joining me tonight. will, i want to start with you, you're obviously someone who according to the parameters of sports i ought to hate as a dallas cowboys fan and, yet, it's something where we have found mutual sadness in the plights of our own teams over the year. sports does have this power of bringing people together and the fact that it's become used in some ways in recent years to try to divide us as a nation is troubling to me. what do you think is really going on throw and is behind these efforts? will: first of all, ben, i can't

pay you the compliment of returning mutual hatred. your team simply not good enough for my team and fan base to hate. [laughter] will: i maintain those divisions. those healthy guesses within sports. what's going on different economic strata and different geopolitical ideas as well it also elevates everything we think of and what we line nice as virtue. i know clay and i both have sons and we have talked about the way we want to raise our boys and sports is the prism through which we teach those lessons. why is atlantic corrupted? i do believe that sports media is probably at the center of this there is no more mono litt thickly sports than sports media. it has no room for diversity of thought. the oil and gas industry is not as reliably conservative as sports media is as reliably left. and i think that, honestly, sets

the stage for everyone else to sort of fit in or get booted out. >> ben: clay, i want to ask you about this most recent story obviously something being talked about today involving sage steele and the reaction to her comments that were made on the jay cutler podcast. let's go ahead and play those. >> i didn't want to do it but i referred [inaudible] to get it odone or i'm out. i think to mandate. i respect everyone's decision. i really do. but to mandate it is sick. and it's scary. >> ben: there was apology put out by sage and comment by espn she said i know my recent comments created controversy for the company. we are in the midst of challenging time and impacts all of us more important than ever to communicate thoughtfully. what are your thoughts as we are seeing it play out in front of us. >> i think sage is really brave

because what will said is 100 percent right. i'm not sure that there is any industry in america that is mormon litt thickly left wing than the sports media and for people like will, for people like me, for people like sage who sometimes have opinions that aren't considered to be mainstream and appropriate. i agree with everything sage said. i don't think it makes sense for espn to be mandating the vaccine for employees. i think they should be allowing employees to make their choices. by the way sage got the vaccine and now has tested positive for covid and while dr. fauci has acknowledged that we may not be counting all the break through cases. it sure is amazing how many people in the public eye have gotten the vaccine and still tested positive for covid. it makes it sound like maybe that vaccine break through cases aren't abnormal in many different walks of life. and so, look, i think sage is brave for being willing to say exactly what she thinks. it's easy to attack her as jamel hill, a former espn employee has already done.

because it's a mob rule system. the blue check brigade on social media on twitter where all these people in sports media are active insist that you have one opinion, the right opinion. and if you step just outside the boundaries of what that acceptable opinion is, they lash out at you with a maddening fury. and i think we need more diversity of thought. less focus on diversity of color. and more acknowledgment that sports represents everything that's great about america. it is a meritocracy. we don't start with different scores on the scoreboard, ben. and, will. we don't worry about what the background is of anyone. the best man or woman wins. and i think that's why sports is so important in bringing us back to normalcy. i'm glad we got full football stadiums because i think it's hard to argue you can't hang out with your family at christmas when you sit with 100,000 fans watching a football game like did i on saturday. >> ben: will, the profit motive is very tempting, of course though for these leagues.

they're looking all around the world trying to find more markets to make more money. they would basically make the argument well, we are just trying to sell our product overseas. why do we have to be political about things. and, yet, there seems to be a double standard there where they way in on politics here at home all the time but then when it comes to overseas they just pretend like the problems don't exist. >> will: and it's nothing more complicated than following what they believe to be the downstream fashionable opinion. they believe the path of least resistance to neglect to criticize china. they also believe it's the path of least resistance to criticize the united states of america. but, here's the thing, ben, they are out of touch. clay has done a great job of pointing this out there. is no more out-of-touch industry, they are not just monolithic they are out of touch with the fan base. what does that mean? it leaves entrepreneurial opening for sports media company or sports league to speak directly to america on the level that america feels. and i would just point to the other panelists on this show right now. i just point right over here

whichever way he is from me clay and say look at the entrepreneurial success story of creating a company that doesn't hate its customer base. look at the reward for simply not hating your customer base. >> ben: it's an amazing -- it's a revolutionary idea, really. thank you so much. clay clay will is right. i was at that game, ben with 100,000 people there do you know the only people in the entire state of alabama, ben, that i saw wearing masks the sports media in the press box. there's no greater divergence that covid just loaded up between fans and media than sports right now. >> ben: i have got to go but thank you so much for joining me tonight. coming up, teachers and healthcare workers around the only ones who have to choose between vaccine status and a paycheck. why nba stars are speaking out against mandates, too. nba champion andrew joins us next. ♪ ♪

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[shouting] >> ben: hundreds of protesters in las vegas took to the streets this weekend to protest their governor's authoritarian vaccine mandates. but it's not just everyday americans being forced to choose between their jobs and their medical freedom. professional athletes are now caught in the vaccinated crosshairs. facing an ultimatum get the shot or get out. high caliber nba players like kyree erving, jonathan isaac and andrew wiggins being forced into a corner about vaccination decision. at this point they feel like they have no choice. here is what warriors star andrew wiggins has to say.

>> option get vaccinated to do certain stuff. work and all of that. i guess you don't own your body. they make the rules what goes in your body and whether a you do. and hopefully there is a lot of people out there that are stronger than me and keep fighting. >> ben: joining me now is former nba champion and number one draft pick andrew bogut also host of the road bog podcast. what will are your thoughts you are seeing from fellow players wrestling from this decision frowble a perspective when your body -- as an athlete is at the center of whether a you do, it's an incredibly important decision. >> yeah. it's very, very important. and argue outside of being an athlete, i think every person has the right to pro-choice and that's kind of what the debate has come down. to say the fact that the mandates are coming by cities

and states and then put pressure on the nba to now, you know, sit out road games in certain cities or even home games if their city got the mandate is pretty unfair. especially when you consider the restrictions on those players that were unvaccinated last season. i mean, i don't understand why they, you know, if those restrictions worked so well last year, talking about masks, not being able to leave the hotel, why can't the unvaccinated play still have those restrictions on them it makes no sense. either it didn't d. work last time or more theatrics and it does work. if it does work in that case it should be a blanket rule for the unvaccinated they have to jump through a few more hoops. >> ben: one of the things that i detected in the coverage of the stories is the frustration on the part of the journalists asking the question kind of surprised that the players are giving these intelligent balanced answers that clearly show that they have thought through the pros and cons of the decisions that they're making.

it seems to me though that that's something, you know, as you say, everyone has to make up their own mind for themselves. what do you think when you see these athletes being put in this position and do you think that this is going to become sort of a point of continued contention not just in the nba but across boards? >> yeah, i think it's going to be a debate for the future generations as well. this sets a huge precedent in not only american history and australian history world history to see what is done. once these mandates historically can be forced and coerced on to people, they will continue. this isn't to be a one off. it's highly disappointing. i think the players are in a tough spot. i don't believe i will go on record and say i don't believe 95% of the nba is vaccinated. i think that number is heavily inflated in my opinion. that's what they're claiming the number. it's just disappointing that players, even journalists to ask that question, that's the first

question you asking every player on the first day of training camp. just absolutely bonkers in my mind ridiculous. clay clay i think a lot of americans have become aware of certain situations that are playing out in australia that are raising a lot of concerns. 9 video footage that i'm sure you are familiar with of people being, you know, tackled of being mistreated by the authorities, given their lack of compliance with various rules of deep concern. what are your thoughts on those images? >> yes. that's my home city. melbourne, australia. born and bred there. pro-vaccination, anti-vaccination. most people in the middle. they haven't decided and now they are being forced lose their jobs. the protests broke out a couple weeks ago. and mostly peaceful. there were some antagonistic protesters but a really small percentage. but the police were also at

times, you know, will throwing down the gauntlet to protest as well. bad mix from both sides. the reality of it is our government is saying we can't protest. that's a huge concern because these people that are losing everything. they are losing their small businesses. they are losing their jobs. they have written a letter to their local council. they have written letter to local senator or premier. wrote to a politician. ranted on instagram facebook and twitter. what do they have left? what they have left is protest. now they are shooting people with rubber bullets and the most concerning thing out of all of that is we have people in this country and that state that is supporting that. and there was footage where protesters were literally running away from the police and getting shot in the back with rubber bullets and tear gas. that's not the country i grew up in. like i said, the most disappointing part of all of that is there is actually people that are saying they deserve it. they shouldn't be protesting. that's a huge concern.

>> ben: that's something that should disturb us just as citizens but also as people in the free western world. that something like that can happen. it's not a scene that anyone wants to see. thank you so much, andrew for joining me tonight. >> no worries. thank you. >> ben: also here with me tonight, fox news senior political analyst brit hume. brit, thank you so much for taking the time to join me. i'm concerned by these developments in australia and that we're going to see some similar things go on here. perhaps not to the same degree. but you know that as people start to resist these mandates, resist going along with what they're being told to do in america, there's going to be people who call for crackdowns, who call for punishments. we already see, you know, are celebrity and, you know, fools in the media saying things like they should be denied access to care if they don't go along with mandates and that type of thing. do you believe that this is a concern in terms of the immediate future here in america? >> brit: i think it is a concern

and i think that, in australia is a little bit different situation. there is no first amendment protecting the rights of free speech and protests and so forth there. there is certainly a tradition of open speech and that is certainly being flung down and danced upon by the authorities over there now. i don't think it will get that bad here but you are right that to be concerned, ben, that people are being -- you are hearing people saying i have had it with these anti-vaxers. i have it with the unvaccinated and to say as you suggest some people are saying they should be denied care if they don't get vaccinated and they get sick. amp all, you know, we are in a situation where i have been vaccinated. i have had two shots but the shot that i got was from moderna and that is not even yet received full final approval from the fda and now they are talking about a booster shot. well, you know, people have, you know, reason for doubt and concern. and it's not -- it's not a slam dunk that these drugs are

entirely safe. and we certainly don't know what their long-term consequences are i'm vaccinated and glad of it you can't rule out the possibility that people's worries about it have validity. >> ben: i get whiplash every sunday morning when i see dr. fauci go on being asked some kind of question about, you know, when can we do this or when can we do that? i'm waiting to see right after that 80,000 people in a stadium, you know, cheering for their respective teams against each other. and i know, because i have friends who are on the left who feel this way, that they see those images and that they are horrified by them. they feel like that's not something that should be going on. >> brit: oh, i'm sure that's true. i'm sure these are people who by and large don't have much sympathy for sports fans anyway who think that, you know, football is barbaric and there shouldn't -- there shouldn't be football. and it's exployive and the rest of it what this comes down to, ben is this. we made a lot of mistakes with

the first round of this pandemic the reason we made them utter failures to balance the risk. yes, covid-19 is a dangerous disease major risks associated with it but we have known from the start hot people who are most at risk were. and we have known from the start basically who weren't. a lot of information we got in the early going turned out to be wrong. buff the fact that children aren't particularly to return this disease has stood all through this whole epic saga and so has the fact that it is the elderly and particularly those with certain co-morbidities that have been at risk. so what we could have done, of course, ben, was to weigh the risk and say we can't shut down society completely. we can't shut down the schools. that would be foolish and breakless because there are serious risks associated with that we didn't do that and weigh those risks. we acted as though we could stamp this disease out. i never thought it was possible and turned out not to be possible. that's where we are. >> ben: the ramifications of lost school, of lost sports, of

all these things that this generation of children has lost. i think we are going to be measuring it for a long time. brit, thank you so much for joining me tonight. >> brit: you bet. you bet, ben. >> ben: so much for the national past time. major league baseball sells out the american worker to the red chinese. we talked to a congressman fighting to keep those jobs here in the u.s. that and more next on "fox news primetime." . >> happy 25th anniversary to all my friends at fox news. ♪

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♪ ♪ >> if you build it, they will come, it was true in field of dreams and it's true now. just ask the folks in caldonia, minnesota, homes to the sports plant manufactures equipment for major league baseball. the plant is shutting down. shipping dozens of jobs of-to-china as part of an mlb effort to partner with president xi and build a, quote, baseball

ecosystem in china. stepping up to the plate it try to keep those jobs here at home is representative hagedorn of minnesota. tell me a little bit what's going on here. >> hey, ben, it's great to be with you here tonight. as you said sports is a company makes all the batting helmets for major league baseball players and some composite softball bats located down in caledonia a town of 2800. they are owned partly by rawlings and major league baseball has a share as well. for whatever reason they decided they want to close the plant down and ship most of those jobs to communist china it doesn't make any sense to us. it's been a great company for 20 years. excellent jobs. it's just -- it's really going to be a tough thing for our community and we are appealing to mlb to change their mind. >> ben: one of the things that we have learned other the years is that with exporting these jobs to communist china we have ended up importing not just their cheap goods but also their values as well.

that's something that i think we have seen happen in a really dangerous way in the nba and in other sports context. is that something you are concerned about in this one? >> well, sure. i mean, 08 jobs is important to a city the size of caledonia. it's going to hurt the main street businesses our schools and everything else. the bigger picture as you said is what can we do to start bringing jobs back from china from the communist to the united states. or at least move the supply chain to countries neutral or pro-west. this is just going the opposite direction. i have no idea why they decided to do this. i suppose there some bottom line to it. but, it's really unnecessary. and the people that have been doing this work in caledonia at mike and sports in the last 20 years. even developed a better batting helmet withstand 105 mile-per-hour fast ball. they improved the game and i guess their reward is they lost their jobs. >> ben: this is the kind of thing we have seen happen in many communities over the years. one that i feel the republican party has only recently woken up

to the negative, the down sides of it i remember, you know, back 20 years ago being promised that you know, communist china would be changed by the trade policies that we had toward it that it would become more and more friendly to freedom and democracy. how do you think that's worked out over the past decade or two? >> well, it hasn't worked out at all. china was dumping steel and destroying steel markets all around the world. the cornering the market on rare everett minerals needed for electric vehicles, for instance. and renewable energy. and now when you look at it, we saw what happened with covid and how they were complicit with that and all the supply chain issues we have had since then. i think president trump did a great job in running and bringing this to the nation's attention and trying to work very hard to go after china with better trade deals. and republicans in our caucus and the house have many ideas on how we can start luring these companies back with jobs and try to basically put america in a better and stronger position moving forward. >> ben: um-huh. that message of big government

socialism unfortunately has a few too many friends on capitol hill for my comfort level at the moment. let's see if that changes in the coming years. congressman, thanks so much for taking the time to join me and tell us about this story tonight. >> it's great to be with you. thank you. >> ben: coming up, a shocking new admission from two top gender reassignment doctors. why they are now saying they made a horrible mistake when it comes to transitioning children. that and more on "fox news primetime." ♪ ♪ >> i'm bret baier. and i have been at fox news for 2 years. i think in 25 years i think about how far we have come. i was hired for the atlanta bureau but there was no atlanta bureau. the atlanta bureau started in my warmth a fax machine and a cell phone. i had not heard of fox news channel and neither had anybody that i was calling for stories. as a reporter early on. it was i'm from fox news and they said is that the simpson's

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two top transgendered doctors are sounding the alarm and putting the well being of the children ahead of the left's agenda. medical experts said we have gone too far when it comes to the use of pursuant blockers and gender in young kids the establishment and the media won't listen to them. why? because whether or not anyone whether a 9-year-old assignment surgery or objects to a biological male competing in women's sports enemy of public mob. no one knows better than these two doctors. fighting back against the up be fair competition. they join me with their attorney

christiana holcomb. thanks for come on. alanna, tell me a little bit about your story and experience has been. >> um, my freshman year of high school i competed against two biological males and it was just really demoralizing to know that all of my hard work and all the other female athletes' hard work wasn't paying off and we were really just racing for second and third place and we weren't going to get the spots that we really truly deserved to get. >> ben: saleenna, tell me about your experience. >> i was forced to compete about blige males against all four years on high school i lost out on countless opportunities primarily the new england champ championships if they weren't there i would have qualified. i have had who compete against these athletes over a dozen times. every single time i lost without feel. fail. >> ben: christianna, it seems like me this is a situation where you are forced to get involved in litigation and in

fights but you never really want to as a distraction during your high school years and the like. what are the legal aspects of these fights as you see them playing out across the country? >> girls lie like celina and alanna have the same opportunities that their brother vssments you and i both know this issue is so much bigger than just sports. radical activists including those in the biden administration, are threatening those who stand up for basic facts about biology and the fact that humans are either male or female and, you know, we see this ideology play out with real human costs. women are being forced and trapped in prison cells with violent male criminals. we see parents who are either pushed out of the conversation entirely or are intimidated into putting their children on hormones or undergoing life altering surgeries. even women are broadly being dehumanized by being referred to as chest feeders or birthing people. the list goes on and on. that's why defending freedom and

a broad coalition are standing up for basic truth and basic biology and to protect women and girls like celina and alanna. >> ben: alanna, tell me a little bit and i will ask you as well, celina. what was the reaction among your friends and parents, among people you talked to when you tried to talk to them about the challenge of going through what seemed to be such an unfair experience? >> well, my friends and family supported what i was cooking and they thought it was great that i was fighting for women's sports and ensuring that we weren't becoming sidelined in our own sport. the only backlash i really got was on social media from people that i didn't know. >> ben: um-huh. celina, was it the same experience for you? >> i had same experience as alanna, i have gotten nothing but love and support from my family. my parents have been fighting this alongside with me and i also have only really gotten hate from social media but i just focus on all the love and support. >> ben: celinena, do you feel like this is one of those issues

where the nationalized nature of social media. the internationalized nature of it basically allows just about anybody in the world to take pot shots at you whether they know you or not, whether they're going to your school or part of your community or not that that's really what kind of drives this discussion now as opposed to letting places decide parents and students decide for themselves how things like this ought to be governed? >> i think that social media is a big factor in this because people get a boost of confidence by hiding behind a phone screen. but it's just really unfortunate situation because it should be accepted that women's sports need to be kept as just women's sports. >> ben: um-huh. alanna, in terms of your own experience, this has to be something that is discouraging, but have you taken some silver lining out of the fact that you have gotten that level of support that you mentioned from your friends and family? >> yeah. it makes me feel really proud that my story has made it so far and that hopefully it will help

more female athletes to stand up so change can be made quicker and so that women's sports can stay women's sports and we can continue to compete on a level playing field. >> ben: you nope, it really seems to me that this is an issue that invades our communities and creates such a hard questions for parents and for communities to face in ways that are really unfair to all of the girls who are involved. and i want to thank you both for being brave enough to stand up and to push back against what is an agenda that obviously has enormous backings from very powerful people but really doesn't represent what the communities or parents or even the female students involved really want for their communities. thank you all for joining me tonight. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> ben: don't go anywhere. abby hornacek is here and she is going to go "on the clock" coming up next. ♪ ♪ ♪

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fame? to dunk on the way word star cove course. he wasn't going to miss the chance and would "capture this basket unlike simmons in the playoffs." what are your thoughts on this? >> my thoughts are this is hilarious. if you play for any sports team in philadelphia, you've got to know you're going to be the victim of a lot of trash talk. that is the case here. kind of like saying a buffalo bills member or fan is going to body slam a perfectly good table at a, give a nod to how creative sports fans are. the comment kind of reminds you, in 2018, he asked fans to help name his new toy and he was like i will name it "free throw" so we know you want to sync it. >> that is a good poll. during sunday's game, stepped in some during ferguson's shoes.

these creative cleats honoring recently deceased comedian norm mcdonald. the legendary comic was known for his colorful "snl" characters including turd ferguson. >> great joe, by the way. i think we need to you on "snl," variety of voices there. if fans turn to places like the met gala to look at creative outfits and nfl fans look to the nfl and what i respect so much about athletes is a lot of times they use their creativity and their cleats to pay a much to someone who is recently tasked with the big event. out of back in june and a lot of athletes came out in support of all of the victims of 9/11 with their cleats and this is just another instance, when you hear the phrase "it's more than sports," this is what people are talking about. >> norm mcdonald, still the best news host not named bret baier in my opinion. before the raiders and chargers

could kick off last night mother nature hit them with a delay of game due to lightning. the state name is indoors. evidently there are a number of side sections that are a little open. he would think a $5 billion building could afford walls. >> you would think. when i got this topic i almost emailed back, guys, you might be wrong because this is pretty much a $5 billion dome. if there's any place you want to be during lightning this is probably it. but as you mentioned, there are some side slots and part of the stadium that are open so i get that they are worried. i think 35 minute delay, drunkard and thought it was a joke, as did i but safety first. the whole point of windows, because it is in california you want to increase the airflow and make it feel like you are outdoors but i thought it was very interesting because it's rare that you see a delay in the nfl let alone for an indoor stadium. >> justin herbert, by the way, incredible.

finally ralph lauren is coming out with the new collection of gear that is built for baseball. it's going to cost a lot more than a box of cracker jacks. $90 for a had a $100 for a jacket. what are your thoughts on these new fashion forward entries from ralph lauren? >> my first thought is no one's going to buy this. this is america's game, people show up in a t-shirt and shorts and then i realized there's two types of fans that enjoy mlb games. one is the fan whose drink at the 26-ounce of beer, slurping ice cream out of a plastic helmet. that is the fan i am, i'm sure you are as well, at nationals games. then there's is the fan wearing a dodgers hat or a yankees hat that they bought at topshop and you are like a yankees, go dodgers and they are like, huh? because they forget they are wearing it. that is the fan, who wants to get the social media photo or maybe someone who wants to walk around like a sports fan and

also be trendy. >>his shouldn't be about fashion, it should be about sports. ink is so much for joining me tonight. >> thank you. thank you for watching "fox news primetime." we will be back tomorrow night at 7:00. until then be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray. tucker carlson is up next. his ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." remember when political debates were the highlight of the political year? like boxing matches, everyone would watch them. that doesn't happen anymore. during the last presidential debates were terrible and there's a reason for that, theye boring. everything is scripted, you know what they are going to say before they say it's peer but if you keep watching the lower tien the fight