big deal for me. i need you guys >> greg: you have an hour special that means after that's done you're going to have to actually write some material. >> imagine? i'm going to pour that ought for all it's worth >> kat: thank you jimmy, ashley st. clair awesome, paul mauro, kat timpf, studio audience, fox news at night with trace gallagher is next, i love you america. >> trace: good evening i'm it's 11:00 p.m. on the east coast 8:00 here in los angeles and this is america's late news, fox news at night. breaking tonight a brand new video of another mob of thieves doing another smash and grab at another california nordstrom and again nobody arrested. the next gop debate on fox business just weeks away, fox news at night will be there but some of the current candidates likely won't be because of new requirements. but we begin with former president trump booked and photographed in georgia, and a judge in the case has set a brand new trial date.

the senior correspondent steve harrigan is live in fulton county with the very latest on this. steve, good evening. >> good evening trace. former president trump had posted earlier that he expected to be proudly arrested at 7:30 p.m. this evening. he was just minutes off the mark. the president's plane touched down in atlanta exactly at 7:00 p.m. he had a large motorcade led by several dozen police on motorcycles. they took him directly to that fulton county jail. he arrived at the jail at 7:40, was taken inside the facility and, of course, that facility now notorious being investigated by the justice department both for poor sanitary conditions and for safety as well. he was taken into the jail and he was fingerprinted electronically. also, he had a mug shot taken. former president said that law enforcement officials insisted on the mug shot. the mug shot has now been viewed millions of times online. many people saying the president seems to have an angry frown on during that mug shot.

also, $200,000 and a preset bail was posted. exactly 15 minutes after he entered, processing was complete, he left, returned to the airport where he said this was a sad day for america. here's the former president. >> if you challenge an election, you should be able to challenge an election. i thought the election was a rigged election, a stolen election, and i should have every right to do that. we did nothing wrong, i did nothing wrong, and everybody knows it. >> reporter: right now here in atlanta, the legal maneuvers have already begun. some of the 19 defendants are pushing for a speedy trial. others are trying move their trials from state to federal court. and, finally, some are fighting to be tried separately, individually, to sever themselves from the other 18. trace, back to you. >> trace: steve harrigan live for us in fulton county georgia, steve thank you. let's bring in vik bajaj and

nicole parker former special agent for the fbi. great to have you both on, vik i want to player or sound steve played a little of former president trump before he went in and got booked today and then i'll get your response. >> if you challenge an election, you should be able to challenge an election, i thought the election was a rigged election, stolen election and irked have every right to do that. >> trace: jonathan turley said tonight he has a good point about that. what are your thoughts. >> not only practically does he have a good point trace because the jury will take that in and understand that he had a genuine belief in what he was trying to push, but he has a strong legal point, because in the cases, especially criminal cases, it's not only the criminal act, but it's what's inside the mind of the potential criminal actor. so he's really just presented his entire defense which is, i had a reasonable belief and now it's the prosecution's laboring to prove that he did not believe it but he was still pushing that

propaganda. >> trace: it's interesting, it's a great debate. nicole parker to you, i want to talk about the process. everyone has seen the mug shot they released the mug shot asap. what do you think about that? is it one of those things where this is nothing more than than prosecutor fani willis's trophy for actually getting the former president and getting a mug shot of him? >> certainly appears that way. i mean, who doesn't know what donald trump looks like? that's the purpose of doing a mug shot. clearly everyone knows what he looks like. but this is almost like her claim to fame. it's important for americans to remember, you are innocent until you are proven guilty and a mug shot may appear, wow, there's a mug shot out there, that doesn't mean that he's guilty. that is a formal process that they went through and americans need to remember that. some are following the story closely and others are not and they may be alarmed by it. just remember you are innocent until proven guilty. >> trace: very fair, the trial for kenneth is set for late october about two months from

now, vik. and his new attorney, trump's new attorney steven said the forks president trump also alerts the court that he will be filming -- or filing a timely motion to sever his case from that of co-defendant chesbro who has filed a demand for a speedy trial or any other co-defendant who files such a demand. i mean, this trial process is going to be complicated with 18 co-defendants and they're all going to have different dates. >> 18 co-defendants also means 18 potentially different defenses and 18 people who are saying, you can't hear what the other 17 potential defendants are saying about the case in furtherance of the conspiracy. let's not forget in a criminal conspiracy or criminal rico case, a jury cannot hear the statements of co-conspirators, it's not allowed. so conceivably there would have to be 18 different jury panels sitting to listen to the same operative facts. the motion to sever is something that we have predicted and can

imagine is ripe in this case. however, the motion to sever may also be important for trump. but not only him but the other defendants who may want to assert their right to a speedy trial which is a constitutional right held by the defendant. and also wavable only by the defendant. >> trace: kind of brings my next point up with nicole, you look at all this in totality, nicole and i know you have brought a bunch of different cases, this one is a beast. >> it is, this is a rico case, this is large and they did that on purpose. there are multiple defies and to imagine 19 defendants in one courtroom at once with all of their attorneys, you know, it's almost like a circus. it will not happen. for them to say that everyone's going to go to trial in october because of one defendant i think it's clear that maybe one defendant might sever off but even a march trial i think is very aggressive. i mean it takes time, there's voluminous amounts of discovery, multiple motions filed, appeals, people trying to move their cases from the state or local system to the federal system.

this is a huge undertaking and i think it's important to know that there is a da, right now the da is involved in a rico case with young thug, and that case, the jury selection began in january of this year. they still do not have a jury selected. that is a rico racketeering case. you know, jury selection is going to be very lengthy in a case like this for president trump and his co-defendants. so we need to take all of those factors into consideration. this is not going to be a fast moving process. >> trace: yay, and, you know, point out this is also in the heat of the primary season so it complicates it even more. nicole parker, vik bajaj thank you both. >> thank you trace. >> trace: fox digital is breaking news that could show president biden was more involved in his son's business dealings than he claims. senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with what records are now revealing. kevin good evening. >> reporter: evening trace. hunter biden traveled to at least 13 countries with his then vice-president father joe biden,

all while leading his now defunct firm rosemont seneca partners. in fact hunter traveled on air force two to europe, to africa, asia and mexico all after founding the company, that according to discoveries made by fox news digital which, on its face might sound benign enough. i mean, after all we're talking about the president. i'm his son. certainly the white house would feel that way. but under more scrutiny, trace, the trips invite more questions like, if hunter biden was making business deals for his company while traveling on air force two with his father, could it be true that the father had no idea what his son was doing? now, you'll recall, biden said hunter never made any money on business deals with foreign entities during a debate back in 2020. that statement turned out to be categorically false given that hunter himself has now admitted that yes, he did make money. now, if you throw in this idea also, this is from house

republicans, more than 20 shell companies, millions in unpaid taxes, millions more yet accounted for, unaccounted for, you could certainly understand why lawmakers are digging for more answers even as we speak. now much of this information, and i think this is always relevant, came from the younger biden's laptop, along with corroborating e-mails and secret service protection requests, as well as videotape of hunter traveling with his father, the then vice-president now president. now, next up, lawmakers, trace, will expand their probe to interview even more biden business associates. they'll have to answer questions under oath and that's when things get very interesting trace. >> trace: yeah, and the puzzle kind of keeps growing. kevin corke live in dc, kevin thank you >> now to 2024, one debate down and many more to go but instead of eight candidates like last night next time we might be down to six. jackie ibañez is live in new york with the candidates trying

to meet these new requirements. jacqui good evening. evening trace. there were a handful of gop contenders that didn't qualify for last night's debate rnc chair woman ron a mcdaniels says there's still time to land a spot on stage five weeks from now at the reagan library. listen. >> i said you have a chance to make it if you continue to go and get to 3%, that's still there. so i'm not going to recommend any of them drop out but i will say all of them will be better than joe biden, even those who didn't make the stage. >>. >> reporter: so there's still a chance. but in order to get an invite, candidates must have 50,000 unique donors up from 40 thousand from the first debate and reach 3% in two national polls or 3% in one national poll and at least 3% from a poll from an early voting state such as iowa, new hampshire or south carolina. that requirement up from 1% from the first debate. currently six of the candidates you saw last night, florida governor ron desantis, biotech

entrepreneur vivek ramaswamy, former vp mike pence, former new jersey governor chris christie, form un ambassador nikki haley and tim scott all have met the requirements for next month's debate so we shall see trace how it goes. >> trace: we shall indeed. jackie ibañez live in new york. let's bring in former deputy director of strategic communications daravi and pete peterson. pete, roman great to have you both on here. i want to put you on the screen, these are the top ten subjects discussed last night and you can see number one was abortion, seven minutes and 54 seconds. and here's what ronna mcdaniel said about abortion. watch. >> i was very pleased to see them talk about abortion. democrats used that in 2022 they spent 350 million on abortion. if our candidates can't fund a response and put out a response we're not going to win they'll

do it again in 2024 and i thought all of them did a really good job on that. >> trace: i think she makes a very good point because if republicans don't figure out a way to be able to navigate this issue it could be trouble down the road. >> reporter: it could. i do have to just take a step back for a moment from the debate and mention that the mug shot of president trump was a clear picture for the american people of the weaponization of the doj for political gain. that's really important that they understand. the debate last night, i was in milwaukee, was less than eventful. i don't believe that the american people really got anyone out of that who could prove to be the next president of the united states of america. donald trump remains the front runner. he certainly took the stage even though he was not standing on it. they spoke about him. they spoke about his policies, his trump administration was a clear defined message on that stage and i think the american people will remember him as the

clear candidate for the republican party. >> trace: who was attacked the most pete peterson? look at the screen here. the number one was of course president biden, former president trump was number two tied with vivek ramaswamy. so as far as the people on the stage, ramaswamy far and away was attacked the most. were you surprised by that? >> i wasn't. obviously the way the momentum's been going among the republican candidates iss that vivek has definitely been moving up the ladder. some polls has him in second and certainly between second and third. so when you look at many of these candidates vying for that second position, they definitely want to bring vivek out, force him to answer some questions. we saw i think some weaknesses on where he was on some foreign policy issues, but to make him a little bit better known to the electorate and that's really where the competition is right now, i believe that what's been said with trump 20-30 points ahead we didn't see any knockout

blows last night. >> trace: no, i don't think we d but here's the most googled candidates, put this on the screen. the number one most googled capped dates was vivek ramaswamy, followed by nikki haley, donald trump who wasn't there, ron desantis and doug burgum. your thoughts on this. vivek ramaswamy was very complimentary to the former president. >> he was which begs the question why is he running. if he believes donald trump is the bet fern for in the job not sure why he's on the stage. the american people heard over and over again how tremendous and how wonderful the trump administration was for them. they were reminded of it by the strong energy policies by the strong border control, by the american-first values that were given to them in their children's classrooms over and over again. these candidates pointed to donald trump's policies. and so i think that's why, the most that you'll get out of this is a few people that could potentially make very good cabinet members for president trump's second term. >> trace: i wonder if the google

thing means anything pete. people are looking but doesn't mean they're going to vote for that person so we put a lot of weight into some of these types of things and it may not mean anything. >> it does show where people are looking for more information on a candidate. it shows that people were introduced to a candidate through the debate and they wanted to find out more. i just wanted to make a point that roma made about vivek and the weird position he is in in the fact he was the most pro trump candidate in the debate, but it raises the question then why are you running. i heard him speak in other interviews that his reason for running is he believes to carry the trump mantel he's the one who has the best chance of winning a general election but he didn't make that argument last night. that while trump certainly is ahead here with republicans, that he is not going to be able to win the general election. >> trace: pete peterson, roma, thank you both for coming on, very much appreciate it. >> thank you. >> trace: meantime flash mobs strike again at multiple california retailers, new videos

tonight show suspect making off with merchandise worth thousands of dollars. chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live with the 1rid yo and details. good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you trace. these flash mob robberies, perhaps we should call them flash mobries continue to playing the la area the latest happening tuesday at a macy's store in arcadia northeast of los angeles. but there is good news among the bad tonight for desperate retailers and terrified customers. the lapd announced just a short time ago that 11 arrests have been made in connection with recent robberies, including this one at a nordstrom's store on august 12th in which dozens of people stormed the store and escaped with purses, clothing and other merchandise worth tens of thousands of dollars. investigators believe some of the items are being stolen in what are well-planned and highly organized attacks with the suspects frequently escaping in a fleet of vehicles with license plates removed.

officials responded to the robberies by setting up what they call the organized retail crime task force including police officers from la, glendale, beverly hills, burbank, the california highway patrol and representatives from the la county's district attorney's office. they are investigating nine separate cases of flash mob style robberies, and the new arrests are related to four of those. the bad news for stores and customers is that the robberies continue and with dozens involved, 11 arrests may mark a start but also means that many more of these robbers are still on the loose and presumably, trace, planning their next targets for flash mobry. >> trace: indeed they are, jonathan thank you, bring in karl demaio and chef andrew gruel. gentlemen thank you pavement i want to put this up on the screen because this is the retail industry leaders association, he says quoting here as it relates to crime and organized retail crime california is truly in a league

of its own, terribly upsetting, terribly frightening and a problem that has been growing exponentially over the course of the last several years and nobody, carl, fears enforcement on these issues. >> not at all look at what mayor karen bass did in los angeles. thee saw all these smash and grabs, waited months into her term to even do a press conference. so she does a press conference and what does she say? she's forming a blue ribbon task force. and what she did not say is that she's going to back prosecution by repealing prop 47 or calling for the repeal of prop 47 or telling the da that they need to prosecute. what she did not do is say that we need to put people behind bars and repeal prop 57, which is catch and release. what she did not do is call for, frankly i think at this point, the deployment of the national guard to the streets of la so we can get a handle on these situations. and finally what she did not do is challenge the biden administration to actually secure the border.

a lot of lease chiliian gangs. >> trace: the la mayor karen bass said no angeline os should feel like it's unsafe to open a business in los angeles or los angeles county. that's to you chef. you're ace business owner, do you feel unsafe do you feel the people you know in the business world are unsafe. >> yeah, everybody feels that way. that's the thing, california hates entrepreneurs but love criminals so they're creating a whole new enterprise for the criminals but they're going to put the entrepreneurs out by way of fear. all restaurant tours are afraid because they have cash on hand and a ton of employees they have to take care of and they know it's coming to them and in the absent of consequences they obviously have to control their own situation and with the police not helping out, they don't know what to do. >> trace: i want to put this up because crime, we talked about abortion number one, crime last night, carl, was in the debate number seven, the seventh talked about. do you think that's a mistake if you're in these debates? >> i think it is a mistake

because we know that law and order issues tran send party label. so when you have a democrat or an independent who typically votes democrat or independent, when they feel that their safety is at risk, they will consider other options. to andrew's point, he said we have cash on hand. la city council just introduced a law, to make things worse, they want to ban cashless businesses. they want to say that a business trying to make itself less of a target by saying, hey, we only take credit cards, we have no cash, don't come into this establishment thinking you're going to get a payday, they're now going to make it harder for businesses like andrew and put okay tarring on their back. >> trace: good point because he's talking about these food trucks and they are prime targets and it really is kind of sad. >> it's unfortunate and that also makes up the culinary fabric of los angeles, these food trucks, these taco trucks, these are great. they're not just getting hit by these mobs of people trying to steal the money but also getting hi by the city because of the regulations. i feel bad for these young

budding entrepreneurs trying to make a living with these food situations. >> reporter: it's amazing when you think about the regulations hammering down on these businesses and then there is no enforcement when they get hammered by the thieves. it's unbelievable. >> i've heard from small business owners who have said they've been robbed. they can't get police or the prosecutors to do anything about it, situation's getting worse. yet code enforcement shows up and says, you know, this sign is i a little off, you get a violation notice. these people are saying what more can i do? i have been victimized yet i can't get any sort of support from local elected officials. >> trace: chef carl thank you both >> coming up attacks from the nation's top teacher's union by ron desantis back fires big time our panel is here to way in. later on nightcap if you were given 20 minutes to make a presentation would you do it and what topic would you talk on. let us know on x and instagram at trace gallagher. tell us how smooth you are and

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>> trace: teachers boss rant weingarten being taught a less and after he called governor ron desantis a disaster on education during the gop debasement critics say weingarten isn't one to talk. back now to senior correspondent kevin corke live in dc. sdmooeven trace critics were quite quick to push book weingarten's claim with many

accusing her of trying to keep schools closed throughout the covid-19 pandemic. one said she wanted kids locked out of schools and kids wearing masks. others were puffy in their assessment of weingarten. this all started when she had a tweet. in it she said that you shouldn't be taking advice from ron desantis. but then the political commentator mary katherine ham added this tweet brought to you by the lady who enthusiastically supported banning, checks notes, school itself. this from tim carrie the columnist. the people who ban school don't get to talk about this. and then steve dee seemed to wrap it up succinctly enough, this is the strongest endorsement for desantis yet. for the governor's sake he had his record during the debate which he argues is one of the major reasons he is so popular with gop voters. now weingarten said don't take his advice, he's been bad on education, they're banning books

and classes. that didn't seem to help her with the critics tonight traces. >> trace: no, kevin corke live in dc let's bring in laura director at freedom works and debra is the letter a former fairfax county teacher running for the school board and laura to you first, the whole concept of randi weingarten going after anybody, at least if you're in the western part of the country you think, that is really rich saying that ron desantis has been a disaster banning history as kevin was saying and books. and yet you look at the nation's report card for 2022, the last year that numbers are available, and reading and math scores in florida are higher than 44 other states for fourth graders. your thoughts on what she said. >> well, i think probably randy's been hanging out too much with biden because she's becoming very forgetful just like him because she is forgetting that she helped close the schools across the country for two years. now, i am a former school board member in florida. my son is a public school student in florida.

i'm going to tell you, she is barking up the wrong tree when she's trying to attack desantis because florida has the highest numbers across the country. >> trace: certainly in 2022. nikki haley said last night this about education, and i'll get your response on the other side debra. watch. >> we need trans manners the classroom because parents should never have to wonder what's being said or taught to their children in the classroom. >> trace: and she has a lot of backing on that debra. >> yes, she does, because it's logical and what happen randi weingarten is proceed mowing is completely irrational and i will logical because by pushing the parents out, you're removing that protective layer that every child should have in order to keep them safe. and the parents have the right to the upbringing and education of your children. hands down no doubt. so it's pretty interesting that randi weingarten is throwing smoke and mirrors out there to

protect a system of fail injure she defends at all costs at the same time she's allowing teachers to become very vulnerable to the claims of enough bureaucracy where their own teaching licensure and status could be at risk with her recommendations. >> trace: you go back and i was googling moms for liberty we've had them on a number of times and every time you google the more attacks are they are getting, which means they're resonating. they're based in florida and although they're getting attacked hard you have people like donald trump, ron desantis, and vivek ramaswamy supporting that group and you wonder laura if they are striking a cord. >> well, i know that there's been a lot of opposition against the parents coming out. we're speaking the truth coming out and exposing what's happening behind closed doors. now with these teachers unions, especially for the ones like in

wisconsin, who is coming out and they're protesting against these parents for even hosting a meeting. but really the true headline here should be is that in wisconsin, especially milwaukee, in milwaukee, the teachers unions are neglecting to mention that those kids can only read, 19% of those kids can leave on grade level proficient. and so they're missing the mark here. >> trace: yeah, let me get debra in here because the whole concept here is do you think these parents groups are going to play a pivotal factor in this upcoming election? >> absolutely they are. they're speaking the truth. they're finding the facts and making the public know what the truth is, and allowing the parents to know what their rights are. that is the biggest threat to the bureaucracy and to the unions that are going up against parents instead of making partnerships with the parents, instead they decide to fight

with the parents. again we know research and evidence states that when the parents are involved, the children do better. why do they want them out? >> trace: yeah. very good. debra tisler, laura zorc, great to have you both on. thank you. >> thank you ♪ . >> trace: well, the fox news at night common sense department understands the biden administration's department of justice is now suing elon musk and spacex for not hiring asylum seekers and refugees because of their, quote, citizenship status. so if common sense has this right an american company is being sued for the american government for hiring too many americans. and for not hiring enough people in this country illegally. the doj news release mentions the a sigh lease are qualified. are they better at building rockets than the engineers elon musk snared it's uncleared because the doj never defined equal fixes. but the doj does note spacex

chose to hire u.s. citizens and legal residents. it's kind of an odd claim considering nasa's policy has long been you must be a u.s. citizen to work as a civil service employee but the doj also wants spacex to play the asylum seekers and refugees back pay for being denied employment. so you're not a citizen and now you get back pay for a job you never had? the doj wrapped it up by saying they undergo thorough vetting by the u.s. government. common sense has been covering the border for 3.5 decades, long enough to realize that giving a migrant a court date and a bus ticket is not thorough vetting. >> meantime, spacex was set to launch hours from now, but plans have apparently changed. we'll take you live to cape canaveral next, but first, a live look, chestnut hill

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>> trace: the modern space race is on, but unlike the 60s, countries appear to be largely cooperating when it comes to landing on the moon. senior correspondent jonathan scarey is live where spacex just scrubbed a launch. what happened. >> we're still waiting from spacex and nasa officials on what led to the scrubbing of tonight's launch. it was an instantaneous launch window. that means that they had to lauren at the exact time given. in this case it was going to be 3:50 a.m. it's because the international space station is a moving target, as it orbits earth and so if you delay the launch anyyou're too far behind. and so instead you have to wait for the next launch opportunity. in this case it's going to be

saturday at 3:27 a.m. so, trace, the only thing i can predict is that you and i are likely to be having a similar conversation tomorrow evening. >> trace: nothing better than having a little jonathan serrie on fox news at night. see you tomorrow night. thank you >> one of the big topics in last night's debate was funding for ukraine and how much america should or shouldn't contribute. tonight's panel retired army lieutenant colonel and rebeccah. i want to get to the news of the day, breaking news, yevgeny prigozhin, the alleged assassination of prigozhin. are you surprised, colonel, that he survived this long? >> you know, only a little bit. i know when it first happened, i thought that, man, he's probably not going to make it to the end of the week. but then to everyone's surprise, putin actually invited him privately back into moscow three days later on the 29th of june,

and they seemed to have the air cleared. and then he allowed him to go back to belarus and africa and prigozhin was doing a number of things that were actually benning putin. so it doesn't seem like that it would have benefited him to knock prigozhin out but that's obviously a lot of uncertainty about that but somebody definitely took him jute somebody did. rebeccah to you the wall street journal editorial board writes today quoting, or yesterday, he will kill anyone, talking about putin, who stands in his way at home and he'll do the same abroad in ukraine, poland or anywhere else if he believes he can get away with it. is that accurate in your estimation? >> well, what's accurate is that putin does, indeed, chases anyone who he perceives as a traitor. he has stated multiple times that treason is the highest possible crime and we know that putin chases down anyone,

anywhere in the world including here on u.s. soil. remember a few months ago the russians were trying to take out a former giu officer who was here in the united states, was working for our intelligence services. that was a failed attempt but putin is a proven assassin if you will. >> trace: here's ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy on ukraine funding. watch and i'll get your response. >> europe needs to step up. i would have europe step up and do their job. >> we should use those same military resources to prevent the invasion of our own southern border here in the united states of america. >> trace: the other candidates all tend to support really so far without limitations or conditions, support the continued funding for ukraine. any surprises in there to you, currently? >> well wasn't any surprises. i guess it was a bit of a

surprise that va vehicle was saying it's not in america's best trophy give a blank trek to ukraine and provide it. and that's one of my biggest complaints is that the administration doesn't seem to have an objective what they want to accomplish. so other than, yes, we don't like any nation to be invaded, and certainly that's the case, but how far do we keep going, especially when ukraine has done all it can in its offensive and has clearly not succeeded. the question has to be how long do we keep giving this, you know, almost unconditional checkbook and supplies and other kinds of ammunition to ukraine, and what is america's vital national interest. that's what i've never heard from the administration, and i think that he's right, that vivek is right to question that. >> trace: and what is the end game? that's a fair question, too, is there an end game, is there negotiations to end this war. fox news polling says people are changing their opinion on this against russia when it comes to helping ukraine fight against

russia, u.s. should be doing quote, more, 21% less, 36% the same, 40% -- 36% is the key number in there. your final thoughts on this rebekah? i have about 30 seconds for you. >> well, if we just had a bott bottomless pit of money yes of course we could keep throwing this. but ukraine is turning into biden's afghanistan two dot zero. i agree with the currently. if the goals are unachievable and we haven't even heard what the actual goals are, then what's the point? we have enough problems here in our backyard, including the breached border that need to be taken care of, and we certainly could use those hard earned dollars for our own security. >> trace: yeah, currently, rebekah thank you both. >> thank you for having me. >> trace: coming up, what could you give a 20-minute presentation on if you had no prep time, zero prep time?

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>> trace: we are back with the nightcap crew, kevin corke, jacqui ibanez, jonathan hunt, carl demaio and andrew gruel. tonight's topic, spontaneous delivery. if you had to give a 20-minute presentation with zero time to prepare, what topic could you do it on? i'm curious, jackie ibañez because, 20 minutes is a long time to talk on something you did not prepare for. >> that's true. so, i mean, this won't surprise you but it would be motherhood, specifically how to get your kids to eat the food that is placed in front of them and not be picky eaters. i think i did that well. that's the one parent thing i did well. >> trace: nicely done, 20 minutes on that. good enough. kevin corke, 20 minutes on some kind of topic. you're at, you know, your favorite bar and you've got to go 20 minutes. long time. >> how about to be an outstanding play by play sports

broadcaster. i would teach the ins and outs how to tell story telling and weaving numbers into every bit of your brad cast to make it good for the folks listening. >> trace: i would like to take that class with you and al michaels. get that class you're thinking that would be -- so our first cameo is griff jenkins on his 20 minutes. watch. >> good evening trace as fellow surfers we must address what to do if you run into a shark in the water. that would be my last-minute preparation course because i did that, i went swimming with them and i learned this firsthand. number one remain calm don't freak out. number two, maintain eye contact with these apex predators, not sure why they just say do it. and number three, if one goes in for an investigative bite, use your hand to redirect their snout and hope you don't lose your arm. that is my presentation. and, remember, sharks are our friends, not killers. >> trace: yeah. very nicely done. chef, what's your 20-minute presentation?

>> well, look, as a father of four i could give you an hour-long dissertation on all the ways a child is is going to avoid going to sleep at night. i'm hungry, i'm thirsty. i could keep naming this list. >> trace: you and jackie ibañez might write a little book here. >> amen let's do it. >> jackie and the chef on how to take care of the kids. so the poll is what topic would you give a 20-minute presentation on with zero time to prepare, would you, yes, 93% on x, 86% on instagram. robert patillo says the history of american barbecue, heather how to tamp down multiple sclerosis. michael milking cows, kathy z gift shops what makes a good one versus a not so good one. carl demaio, your 20-minute topic. >> so coming from someone who has to host a 15-hour block of radio shows each week, i think i could probably talk about anything with almost no preparation because sometimes your guest doesn't call in and you've got a 15-minute segment

ahead of you. but i'm going to do something that chef andrew probably would -- probably grade me on. a presentation on how to make the best types of guacamole dips, avocado dips because i do different ones. >> trace: you bring it and the chef will coach. bret baier, cameo, roll it. >> i could talk a lot about presidential history that i've written about. but i think the 20 minutes with zero time to prepare would probably be golf. i can give you a little golf, the best courses, you know, little behind the scenes of the people i've played with. 20 minutes, i could knock that out pretty easy. >> trace: and bret is a very good golfer, so he's not kidding. me i wouldn't teach you golf, you wouldn't want that. but i can teach you trash can basketball because no one at the barbecue with the kitchen trash can is more deadly than me.

i can give you 20 minutes and i haven't missed in years. you ask my girls, i haven't missed in years and years. >> do it right now. >> trace: give me a piece of paper and a trash can if i had time i would jackie. tomorrow night we will do this. thank you all karl, kevin, jackie thanks for watching fox news at night with trace gallagher we'll see you tomorrow night, friday. ♪ ♪ huh, huh, so did their dog roger. ♪ ♪ gain scent beads keep even the stinkiest stuff smelling fresh. if you have moderate to severe crohn's disease skyrizi is the first and only il-23 inhibitor that can deliver clinical remission and endoscopic improvement. serious allergic reactions

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