>> greg: hey, we have time for one final thought. jim, do you have anything you need to plug? >> saturday october 7th world cafe live, philadelphia pennsylvania. >> greg: that's nice. safe area? >> yeah, i think so. probably not but whatever >> greg: all right, check him out, thank you charles payne, kennedy, jim florentine, tyrus our studios audience, fox news at night with dreamy trace gallagher is next, i'm governoring, greg gutfeld i love you america. >> trace: good evening i'm trace gallagher it's 11:00 on the east coast 8:00 p.m. in los angeles, this is america's late news fox news at night. democrats trying to knock down a newark ton post poll that shows

former president trump beating president biden by ten points. even the washington post is calling its own poll an outlier. senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with how the panic is now playing out. kevin good evening. >> reporter: don't think you predicted that would happen on a monday. good to be with you my friend. every single time trace a gop candidate has a good showing in a poll democrats love to remind folks in washington don't forget republicans led the polls heading into the 2022 midterm elections and that was anything but a red wave so it's against that backdrop saying don't make more out of an outlier of a poll than you ought. talking about their own washington post poll. but by any measure let's be honest these numbers don't lie and frankly don't look so good if you are the democrats or president biden. ask who you'd vote for if election were held today, look at that 51-42 pummeling. but wait there's more, you like that? chances are you'll like the

other polling, do you approve or disapprove of the way mr. biden's handling his job as a president. 56% say not so much. how about this, do you a have proper or disapprove the way beside be's handling the economy? 64% say get out of here. do you approve or stae approve of the way mr. biden's handling the board six in ten say not so much. epa even the new york post editorial staff is warning even democrats have to wake up to this or the voters will awaken them. trace. >> trace: eyes wide open, kevin corke live in dc, kevin thank you. two days until the gop primary debate at the reagan library. we asked fox business correspondent brady trimble to pull back the curtain and give us a sneak peek of what to expect. >> reporter: hey, trace, we're coming to you from onboard air force one inside the iconic air force one pavilion at the reagan

presidential library. this will be where the press traveling with the president would have sat, this the rear galley of the plane and basically right below us right now is the debate stage now that we're out of the plan just off to my right can't show it to you night tune in wednesday night to see it. take a look here see the presidential motorcade vehicles including former president reagan's limousine with the custom license plate beginner, one of of his nicknames. dmieners of the 40th president of the united states have been here throughout the day taking tours, but on wednesday night all eyes will be on the gop field looking to be the 47th president of the united states, and take a look who will be on that stage, north dakota governor doug burgum just made the qualifying list. this time around though seven folks on the stage, that's one less than a month ago in milwaukee and that's because former arkansas governor asa hutchinson did not meet the stricter requirements for this second gop debate. once again, former president

trump is skipping out. so, trace, the stage is almost set. wednesday night here in simi valley california. >> trace: grade thank you then there were seven fox news will be live at the reagan library in simi valley california after the debate we'll talk to candidates and get analysis on which ones had breakout moments. let's bring in kaylee mcghee at the washington examiner and dustin olson pollster at american polls thank you both for coming on. the whole country is talking a lot about this washington post poll kayleigh the whole concept of the former president being ten points ahead of president biden. but i thought that this was more interesting. this is the economy poll which i think is more damaging. it said biden and the economy 74% say the state of the nation's economy is not good or important, 75% say incomes of average mens not good poor. 91 disapprove of gas prices, 87%

disapprove of energy prices. kaylee if you're the biden administration, that's a bad sign. >> it's a very bad sign especially for a president who is making bidenomics the main part of his reelection pitch. this is not a good sign. another really notable finding in that washington post poll, trace, was biden's decrease in support among young voters. trump was up above biden by 20 points among voters under the age of 35. that's my generation, gen-z and millennials. and that's significant because two-thirds of gen-z voters and millennials turned out for biden in 2020 and now just 4% say they have a favorable view of the president. that's a significant drop and if trump can make up a lot of ground in a hypothetical general he could very easily win the election. >> trace: the key phrase there is a significant drop dustin. of course karine jean-pierre at the white house is saying polls, polls, who listens, who watches

polls. watch. >> polls are polls, right? they are going to be all over the place. they are going to, they're going to, you know, they don't tell the whole story actually. and that is just the way a poll is. >> trace: they don't tell the whole story, dustin, but these polls tell a very compelling story. >> well, as a poll sister i can tell you it's accurate polls are indeed polls but i will also go further and when you put a bunch of polls together you get what we call as a trend and i would say the trend for joe biden is not good. you saw the recent fox news poll, we also had bad news for the economy there. the wall street journal poll same thing. every single poll, actually i don't know of a single poll that has shown good news on the economy for the president and i would say it's less bidenomics and more beside inflation. >> it's one thing when you have polls another when you have a pattern. meantime hillary clinton is warning about a third party candidate. nbc news reporting the following, she said, quote, it's pretty f'ing concerning said a

person familiar with the matter. clinton pressed biden to take the third party threat seriously and come up with a way to compensate for it one of the sources said. what do you make of that kayleigh? >> if there's one thing that hillary clinton knows well it's how to lose an election to a guy everyone had written off maybe this advice should be taken seriously by the biden white house at this point. it is true that a third party candidacy threatens biden more than trump. trump is suring up his support among the gop primary voter base biden is losing his footing among his own party. a recent poll from the washington post revealed 59% of democratic primary voters want another option. that is a large percentage of his own voters who want something else so a third party definitely wants him more. >> trace: a bug number. lastly the fox business poll 2024 republican primary without trump in the race i thought was interesting here dustin, nikki haley leading. your final thoughts on this?

i have about 15 seconds to wrap us up. >> looking forward to the fox business debate. we are going to be seeing nikki haley coming in with a surge from the last debate for sure. ron desantis really, he needs to get some juice from this, and i think that's really going to be the dynamic in the debate. >> trace: yeah. dustin, kayleigh, thank you both. >> meantime a first of its kind debate between red state governor ron desantis and blue state governor gavin newsom set to air to the fox news channel in november. jeff paul is live with more details on what could be a very interesting political rumble, jeff good evening. >> reporter: absolutely good evening, trace and as you know governor newsom has insisted he's not running for president jet someone who is governor ron desantis is taking the time to square off with him at a debate. now, newsom has challenged desantis to debate him for months and months and was first asked about it during his sit-down interview with sean hannity back in june. >> i'm all in, count on it. >> you would do a two-hour

debate with ron desantis. >> make it three. >> 3-hour debate do i hear four. >> do it with one-day notice with no notes, i look forward to that we did talk about his demonization and his assault. >> reporter: desantis agreed to debate in august while also appearing on hannity just saying quote just tell me when and where but he says this debate is about more than just their differences, it's about the state of each of their states they govern. >> the debate between california and florida, you know, has already been had as you suggest. people have been voting on that. they've been voting on it with their feet. they have fled california in record numbers, florida has been the number one state for net immigration. >> reporter: newsom says he's a no-go for a white house run at least for now but desantis insists their debate will say a lot about the future direction of the company. newsom on the other hand says when it comes to desantis running for president he has devote belly flopped. trace. >> trace: we shall see thank you

jeff >> 11,000 migrants crossing the southern border in 24 hours the numbers not overwhelming border cities but cities hundreds even thousands of miles away. jackie ibanez in new york city where the protests keep on erupting good evening. >> reporter: hi trace good evening. protests continue in new york city over the migrant crisis. meantime two migrants were arrested, trace, for assault in separate incidents this weekend. police say the two men were arrested and charged for hitting women at roosevelt hotel manhattan intake center for asylum seekers. allegations one man choked and punched a woman in the face. according to the new york post one man was arraigned and released without bail. this comes as even more national guard troops will be sent to new york state. many of them to help migrants obtain work permits. >> joe biden's failed immigration policy is deadly, and it's put districts like mine that are on the border certainly at the forefront of it.

>> reporter: meanwhile the surge continues at the southern border where customs and border patrol sources tell fox news there were approximately 11,000 migrant encounters in the past 24 hours alone. that's the highest on record. take a look at this video from texas congressman tony gonzalez that shows a tent processing facility in eagle pass that has a capacity of 1,000, but on friday, it was packed with 4600 migrants in custody. and while the biden administration insists there are consequences for crossing illegally, they're now facing growing calls even from democratic lawmakers to do more. trace? >> trace: indeed, jackie ibañez live in new york for us. jackie thank you >> well the fox news at night common sense department was pretty much blown away to hear cnn anchor jim acosta say the u.s. southern border is not open. he made the comment in response to congressman ralph norman who said the border is open.

acosta who of course was mad as hell and not going to take it anymore asked the congressman, quote, where is your evidence? where is your proof. common sense fully understands that cnn, the most trusted name in news, has zero interest in covering the border. and, of course, in cnn's world hunter biden's laptop is russian disinformation, the covid lab leak theory is racist and jesse spoke let is a hate crime victim. but jim acosta is a reporter right? did he not hear new york mayor eric adams saying the flood of migrants would destroy his city. has acosta not seen the video day after day of tens of thousands of migrants crossing into the us unimpeded? or is he gas lighting us toeing the company line. admittedly proof and evidence always have a tough time making the case in the face of willful ignorance but if four, five, maybe six million migrants wandering the u.s. is not enough to convince acosta that the border is open, common sense has

a hot news tip on a former president colluding with russia and there's a dossier to back it up. let's bring in republican congressional candidate in california kate monroe and chef and restaurant owner andrew gruel. thank you both for coming on. i want to play the sound bite kate if i can of jim acosta talking about how the border is not open. >> have you been to the border. >> of course i have. >> have you seen what's going on? the rapes, the -- it's open. i mean, nobody can deny that. >> the border is -- >> it's a crisis. where? >> i'll ask the questions, sir. >> please. >> and the border is not open. that is something that is peddled as a talking point but it's not true. >> first of all kate he'll ask the questions right? >> yes, of course. >> trace: so that's the way it works in television and second you think, can you really, can you really with a straight face say the border is not open when millions in 2.5 years have gotten there. >> no, you can't say that and today i spent three or four

hours at the border. i actually went down to the west and the east gates of san diego's border. i talked to mts and they said last week alone 5,000 migrants got buffed to san diego and 70% of them were from saudi arabia and africa. and that people met them and gave them a cell phone, a plane ticket, took them to the airport and sent them to new york and new jersey. we knew they were coming and we allow it. so to pretend that the border is closed is malicious neglect and is ridiculous. >> trace: so we all know the border's open but there's going to be a debate not the one we're talking about wednesday, talking gavin newsom and ron desantis happening right here on fox news, sean hannity is going to host. this could be interesting. i've interviewed both newsom and desantis, my money's on desantis but it will be fascinating red state blue state. >> yeah, as somebody who's lived and opened and run businesses under newsom's eastern any this is something to poke holes into

for whatever's coming out of his mouth. but, i mean, the fact that we're taking newsom seriously, because, frankly, i believe he might even be running or is a matt cot for the democratic party but look at his track record and what he's done. that's the scary part of this. that could be america. >> trace: it's kind of funny because you look at what happened just a month ago, almost a month ago, the daily mail wrote this on august 27th, biden's advisors fume at gavin newsom's debate desantis amid fears he's running a 2024 shadow campaign. it's disrespectful. they must be fine with it now kate they must have okayed this. >> i don't think it's him being spiteful. that's rkdz propaganda. they are definitely chumming the water to assert him there. everything else points to it why else have him debate ron desantis, why have him retract his petty little trans affirmation during custody. none of that's real it's to make him a tad more likeable. the fact is nobody wants

california policies in the rest of the country. >> trace: this is really kind of in where wheel house chef because san francisco is on path to become the overdose capitol, the amount of deaths is unbelievable. san francisco straight horror only grows as the drug overdose numbers spike quoting i don't give an f about the overdoses, the dealer said as he handed a binnedle over to a woman in exchange for ten bucks. you make your choice to put that s in your mouth. that's your business. i need to make my money. i mean, it really sounds like this is, i mean, this is coming to a head chef. >> it's sad and inhumane and newsom created this and we have to remember that, right? if we want this in the entire country then yeah go ahead and use newsom of the example we're going to vote for. but the other piece of this is we don't even understand how to actually approach it from the perspective of california because they keep throwing platitudes out there. newsom's mower concerned about his poach brann scene 0 at the french laundry than he is about people dying. >> trace: they are dying left and right and it really is a

shame. chef and kate thank you both very much. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. ♪ >> trace: first you up in tonight's real news roundup president biden and former president trump planning to visit michigan as the auto worker's strike goes on. 20 states affected with 13% of uaw members on strike. democratic senator bob menendez dug in and is now saying he will not resign amid federal corruption charges. menendez is accused of accepting bribes to help the egyptian government and other business associates. meantime singer songwriter taylor swift and the nfl football player travis kelce were seen leaving the kansas city chiefs game together sunday after months of speculation over their potential love connection. still unclear if this is a budding romance, maybe just fun and games, plutonic, but the nightcap crew will take this up. so be assured about that. meantime recent polling on free speech indicates that democrats

are more comfortable with censorship than republicans, or independents. let's bring in criminal defense attorney and federal litigator vik bajaj. vik great to have you on here. interesting to read these trolls different places, interesting to me because you have democrats that say they are concerned and think the government should be doing more to censor misinformation, of course information they don't like, and that free speech, free speech, and this is a good percentage of them, believe that it's not -- it should not be legal under all circumstances. >> that's right and this is the real danger. if you peel away one layer of this onion trace what we're going to find is if you start saying it's okay to curtail free speech if you don't align with a certain ideology or if you're outside, if you're the have not rather than the have given certain ideologies, you take the risk of group think. you take the risk of creating eco chambers and not entertaining auxiliary input like we saw in bay of pigs

fiasco and kennedy so righteously disagreed with and that's the real danger. now we see the censorship not only starts with cancelling businesses from putting food on the table, supporting people that also pay taxs in the community, but it ruins livelihoods in totality. forget about your reputation being salvaged in the future, trace, the damage is permanent and irreversible. >> trace: you talk about businesses. here's the owner of a vietnamese restaurant in oakland california. he's shutting down because of crime. watch. >> some say stay fight, fight. i've been fighting but no more. this is my city, i love oakland and i cannot live anywhere, but i cannot do business in oakland. >> trace: we hear this again and again vik. they can't do business. they love oakland, the ncaa. p, they love oakland, they want to stay in oakland but they can't do business there, they can't really feel comfortable

there because crime is so high and the city's not doing enough about it. >> it's not as though this could not have been predicted the, not as though it's an epiphany. it's a city failing to take common sense measures. for instance the city of oakland missed the boat and the deadline to apply for organized retail theft funding from the state of california. can you imagine that? being a business owner. that exhibit we just saw right there from that restaurant owner should be, i'm living the american dream. i came here to raise my family in a safe environment and thank you to the united states of america. but instead it's the american nightmare. >> trace: i have about 20 seconds left i wonder if we have video of this, found 218,000, you talk about retail theft, 218 thousand stolen merchandise in a backyard in los angeles, victoria secret, amazon, ralphs, right aid, just one sight that can be all of thee retail cops for lack of a better term are finding all of this stuff all over california. >> that's right. now we're starting to see some

of the effects of the organized retail crime task force, chp was a big player in this bust. >> trace: yeah. >> $218,000, well, that may get you into state court but don't forgets the feds are watching and we're going to see numbers of 20 or 30 or $40 million in totality with these organized groups. >> trace: vik bajaj great to have you on as always. >> thank you sir. >> trace: thank you sir >> coming up baltimore city public schools get a failing grade in math. can you imagine having dozens of schools where not a single student is proficient? and later in the nightcap, we told you it was coming, right? taylor swift, travis kelce breaking the internet after she showed up to a chiefs game. but are they really dating, is this just plutonic something else? let me know what you think on x and instagram at trace gallagher. weigh in, we'll show you the results and read the best responses coming up in the nightcap. it is 8:21 here on the west coast. and here is a fox news at night trip across america and first now a live look at the reagan

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>> trace: a stunning report on public schools in baltimore, not a single student in 13 high schools passed the state math exam last spring but the school district is now saying, well, the numbers don't quite add up. let's get back live to kevin

corke to help explain the problemment kevin. >> reporter: well, trace tonight baltimore schools are basically accusing the media of cherry picking and misrepresenting the results of its school testing last spring. and while it is true that baltimore's five best high schools scored just 11% proficiency in the state math exam, the district says many of the direct's best students already passed the exam entering ninth grade so they don't have to take it in ninth grade therefore their numbers are not reflected in the overall growth and performance in the sdrivenlth "the test result in references -- only represents, i should say, a fraction of the test takers at those schools those who haven't previously passed the test. this is an important distinction that they the media missed. tonight's report reveals 13 of the city's public high schools had zero students pass their

state math exams last spring. 13 with none. and almost 75% of those who were tested, well, did perform at the lowest possible score. by the way, this is interesting, trace. this is not the first time that this has happened either. take you back six years ago back in 2017, 13 baltimore high schools saw zero students pass the math proficiency test. that's an incredible number. i'm looking at the stats and it makes you shake your head. >> trace: incredibly lowe kevin corke live for us. let's bring in bridget ziegler of the leader institute school programs and nicholas giordano campus reform higher education fellow. thank you both for coming on we appreciate this. you look at the numbers and you can see baltimore schools are trying to put some lipstick on this thing here bridget because the numbers are terrible. they can say we didn't put all the numbers in there but bottom line 13 high schools where not a

single student passed math proficiency and then you have people like jason rodriguez people in power by the struggle he says this is educational homicide. there is no excuse, we have a system just running rogue and it starts at the top and bridget, he is right. >> oh, i couldn't agree more. and the sad part is is that we see story after story like this. so whatever lipstick they want to put on this pig, it doesn't matter what area we find in the country, we see a lot of this and it's underscoring, almost talking points to support how valuable school choice is. but unfortunately there are human beings, children, at the end of these data points and they're being robbed where, at the same time, us as taxpayers, are funding this and as noted in your lead-up, this is not a new problem for the baltimore area and the part that needs to happen is the accountability for the decision makers, taxpayers fund whether you have children or not, we all benefit from an educated populous and clearly the numbers doesn't matter how they spin it is not coming out to benefit the children and

certainly the future of those communities and our country. >> trace: that's what i say. all the time we do these kinds of stories and we say these are kids we're talking about and you have kids that not one of them, no state public schools have shown improvement in reading, in the entire state and you think something's wrong. >> well, our education system has collapsed. i mean student proficiency levels are at their all-time lows. baltimore spends $22,000 per student per year and same thing new york state we spend $26,000 per student per year and perform twice below the national average. they've redefined what proficiency mean. rather than fix the problem, they've redefined it in order to meet the new normal of what they called it. and at campus reform we have been reporting how it bleeds into higher education. 60% of students entering two year schools that have to take remedial courses for moorings they should have learned in high school and 40% entering four year schools. no other industry would we accept these results.

>> trace: you're exactly right. not a single other industry, they would be shut down and bankrupt. gavin newsom, meantime bridget, vetoed a bill that would require foornts affirm their child's gender. here's a mom who lost custody of her child in california. watch. >> now the concept of parenting is to say yes to your child for just about everything, so if you say no all of a sudden you're unsafe. and if you don't agree with a child's self-identification as something other than their biological sex, then somehow you're contributing to the -- their suicide. >> trace: but the governor vetoing this bill, a lot of the smart people bridget are saying these parents groups, these moms groups are starting to resonate and that is part and parcel of why this happened. >> i couldn't agree more. listen, this is a huge win for the parental rights movement for the amazing activists across the country but certainly in california, which is the tipping point as we've talked about before. what we look at across this

country. but make no mistake, this is a win, we should celebrate it but having been working with parents in california for the last couple years, there's a lot of work to be done. this is exactly why at the leadership institute we are doing a tour in california to help provide those resources so that we don't relent yet. we have to put our foot to the pedal and keep fighting back and make sure moms and dads and concerned citizens whether you're a parent or just a concerned citizen have the ability to fight back and get rid of these egregious policies. it's a win for parental rights but we can't stop yet. >> trace: nicholas your final thoughts on this, about 20 seconds. >> well, i think the veto was part of the shadow presidential campaign but shows the power parents have. if parents step up and speak out they get results and that's why they need to get more involved within the education system. >> trace: yeah. it's really incredible. nicholas, bridget, thank you both as always. >> coming up hundreds of students baptized on the auburn university campus. some might even say revival is breaking out again.

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♪ >> trace: an anti religion group trying to throw cold water on what appears to be a revival happening on the campus of auburn university. hundreds of students getting baptized and professing their faith in jesus. here's chief religion correspondent lauren green. >> you have been saved through faith, it's not of yourself it's the gift of god. >> reporter: it began two weeks ago as a spirit filled evening, more than 200 students from

auburn university were baptized in a campus lake following a worship event al the school. auburn's head football coach hugh freeze helped out in the evening of faith. that triggered a warning from the atheist group freedom from religion foundation calling it religious coercion. >> the problem is when you become a government official there's now a line you need to draw where you're not using that government position to impose your religion on people. >> reporter: coach freeze's attorney blasted the atheist organization. >> this is an organization that is upset that christian people are doing christian things at a christian organized event. the founding fathers had no problem with this kind of a thing and the supreme court has recently reaffirmed that this is perfectly acceptable. >> reporter: alabama governor kate ivy who is the head of the board of trustees for every state university called the atheist organization's interpretation of the constitution misleading and misguided and ended her letter saying as governor i can assure you we will not be intimidated

by out of state interest groups dedicated to destroying our heritage. the attorney for relidges freedom group says no one from the school complained about the event or the baptism, neither a student nor faculty member. trace. >> trace: lauren thank you fox news contributor and pastor at first robert jeffress and lisa palmer. i want to play you this this is a student on the mass baptism. watch. >> it lets people know college students are unapologetic about their worship about seeking christ and that we're rising up to take a stand for the kingdom of god and to see that, hey, it's time to be about our father's business. >> freedom from religion is pushing back hard. your thoughts on this pastor. >> look, trace, i have wrestled with the freedom from religion foundation for years. they are nothing but an idiotic organization that loves to

threaten churches like mine and schools like auburn with massive lawsuits if we don't cease and desist from practices they find offensive. guess what? there is nothing in the constitution about a freedom from religion. but what there is in the constitution of a promise of the free exercise of religion and that's what these students and coach were enjoying. they did nothing wrong. and i just hope auburn university will tell the freedom from religion foundation to go take a giant leap, a flying leap, into that lake where those students were baptized. they have absolutely no case here whatsoever. god bless those students. >> trace: yeah. interesting dr. palmer because i want your take on this. what do you make of this mass baptism at auburn university? >> well, as you know, i try to stay out of politics and i believe that everybody has a right to do what they want to do, you know, there are people who want to become closer to christ. i'm not really sure that college is the place for that, although

i'm sure people would disagree. however, i think that colleges need to do a better job of teaching people skillful thinking and skillful living tools and let the churches do the jobs of baptism and getting closer to christ. >> trace: i want to put this up on the screen. this is also for you dr. palmer because this is down your alley here. this is why is anxiety rising the wall street journal going on to say in the three years since the start of the pandemic in the u.s. nearly three patients in 100 who entered a healthcare facility left with a newly diagnosed anxiety disorder. that rate is higher than cancer or diabetes. what's going on here, doctor? >> lots of ptsd out there. as you know a lot of things going on in society. people are extremely stressed. and anxiety is, in fact, a symptom of ptsd. a lot of people don't really know that so they're treating the symptoms and not getting to the root causes. so we want to definitely look at what the root causes are which

is usually ptsd. >> trace: yeah, ptsd. the national library of medicine the mayo clinic says the following here, most studies have shown, pastor, that religious involvement and spirituality are associated with better health outcomes including longevity coping skills health related quality of life, and here's the key thing, even less terminal illness, less anxiety depression and suicide. and a lot of people point, pastor, to the lowering of religious activity in a lot of young people's lives. >> well, that's right, trace. it's no coincidence that anxiety is at an all-time high and church attendance prayer and bible reading are at an all-time low. if you accept the humanist belief that we're nothing but biological blobs here by accident and we're victims of a random universe than there are plenty of things to worry about. but fortunately the bible says there is a god who created us, who loves us, who has a plan for our lives. and if we'll concentrate on

that, that's a great anecdote to anxiety. paul said be anxious for nothing but instead pray about egan the peace of god will surround your hearts and minds in christ jesus. >> trace: dr. jeffress, dr. palmer, thank you both. >> thank you, trace. >> trace: first up in tonight's viral videos, a 7-year nasa mission that covered four billion miles of space just delivered the first ever asteroid sample. scientists hope the cup size sample of rocks and dust will help reveal how earth got water and other minerals that support life. two siberian tiger cubs made their dewhoo at the toledo zoo in ohio, they were born in july and are ready for their close up weighing a healthy 15 and 16 pounds at their last checkup. the zoo has a gender reveal and naming contest planned for this week >> and not to be outdone, the smithsonian conservation biology institute in virginia welcomed five cheetah cubs.

the three males and two females have been active on the zoo's cheetah can you be cam and have gotten plenty of cuddles from their proud mom >> finally our own fox news at night ashley got the surprise of her life when a walk on the beach with her boyfriend aiden turned into a marriage proposal and she said yes. ashley and aiden, congratulations from your fox family. aiden, nicely done. we could not be more excited for boast you. and if you have a viral video to share, share it with us at trace gallagher or at fox news night on social media. and coming up, speaking of sparks, they appear to be flying between grammy award winner taylor swift and super bowl champion travis kelce. but is this a love story or just a game? still time to weigh in on x and instagram at trace gallagher. the nightcap crew is next. but first a live look at abby road, the crossing in london made famous by the beatles. ♪

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♪ >> trace: we're back with the nightcap crew, kevin corke, jackie i ban yes, paul, andrew gruel. tonight's topic swift and kelce.

taylor swift was seen leaving the chiefs game with travis kelce. swifties are going wild. my buddy colin coward had this to say, i don't know why i'm into this but they're both kind of good looking fun people but i'm for this. i love to see -- young love is wonderful. he's a stable professional athlete from a good family with a great brother. this is a relationship that i-on he they're going to get married. >> trace: do you think they're in a relationship or just seeing each other ma tonically kevin corke you're first. >> you know how much i love colin could you heard. >> trace: i know you do. >> i love colin. i couldn't possibly care less about whether their dating is serious. i will vote yes for them to get together. they seem like nice people but i really don't care. >> trace: you don't think they are together, you think -- you say yes you want them to get together. >> i want them to get together. i'm not buying it. >> trace: very good. jackie ibañez, i need the female

perspective here. do you think that swiftie and kelce are a thing? >> yes, i do. >> trace: oh. >> i think they are a thing. i think it happened by having all of this public pressure on them. but it's welcomed. they're such a cute couple. so, yes, i agree, he's stable, she seems somewhat stable. yes. >> trace: listen, i will tell you this he is a great tight end, she is great at what she does so i'll give you that. chef what do you think about this? >> this is an issue that's obviously very important to me so i went to my psychic and my psychic told me that this is the real deal they are going to get married. so this is making me happen. it's also important to look at the numbers appear understand when you bring the taylor swift fans the swifties into this there's more taylor swift fans than chiefs fans. >> trace: you have to worry about that because she's been on social media a lot so hush' thinking we all have to veg ter to votes and democrats and all of a sudden we have to be chiefs fans i'm a charger fan, i'm not going. swiftie or not, my daughter who

is the biggest swiftie thinks this is legit and is not a chiefs fan either. vik. >> i've always taken taylor swift to be a football connoisseur for all of her performances so this is right up that alley. travis i think is a connoisseur of many things including popularity. i think this is great for both careers, hopefully love and future. >> trace: this is one of those things you look at this and to me, i'll give you my thoughts in a minute. jeff paul my thing is, i was watching the game and the shot was set up right to look at mom and look at swiftie and they had all this stuff ready to the go, there you see it right there. this thing was set up and good to go like they had been rehearsing this like the eras tour. what do you think? >> red's her couple all i can say is a buffalo bills fans i hope this distracts travis kelce enough that the bills can beat them, whether he breaks her heart or she breaks his heart i don't care as long as the bills get a win.

>> trace: the poll says not ready, plutonic right now, could be something just not there. so the poll says, relationship, 57% on x say yes, it is. instagram 64 say yes. oyo chick says there was zero chemistry with or without his football career, she's out of his league, lizzy probably dating him because she needs to write a breakup something appeals to the sports world. yeah. and russell says, she's a fan. anita says i think they are dating, kelce's mom looked pretty comfortable around swiftie. thank you all for joining the nightcap and thank you for weighing in on taylor swift. i'm trace gallagher. we'll see you right back here tomorrow night. ♪

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