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-- this is "fox news at night". breaking tonight, israel and lebanon officially two hours into their 60 day cease-fire after the israeli cabinet approved a proposal in a tent-1 vote this afternoon and yet this is benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister of israel, issuing a stark warning to hezbollah. >> reserving for ourselves for military action if hezbollah doesn't follow the agreement, we attack. >> kevin: meantime top members of the harris campaign are speaking out following president-elect trump's historic victory. critics say they are blaming the loss on just about everybody accept the candidate herself and her policies. >> two weeks [bleep] because of a hurricane, two weeks talking about how she did not do interviews. >> it's hard for democrats to win battleground states. >> the questions were small and

about, like, -- >> dumb. trump is a different kind of candidate. >> we had a limited amount of time to reach the people. >> this political environment soft. >> kevin: that's one way to put it. this is the incoming border czar travel to texas today appearing alongside the states governor gray cup and they are making it clear tonight they aren't going to wait until january to secure the border. >> president trump will secure the border at a level we've never seen before. biden is the first president who came into the office and unsecured to the border on purpose. time to get this done. >> kevin: that is where we begin tonight with correspondent jeff paul live in the south end up los angeles with more. >> reporter: his official term as border czar for the incoming trump administration hasn't even started but don't tell tom homan that. he spent the day at the southern border meeting with texas governor greg abbott and texas national guard members.

>> the nation wants a safe country. we've had enough crime in this country, illegal alien crime. it's time to stop it. president trump is committed to securing the border. >> reporter: with thanksgiving two days away, they served up the texas national guard and texas state troopers stationed at the border. home and says they are waiting until january for trump to take the oath of office. he says they are already organizing to put a plan in place to secure the border to "the highest levels ever seen." to the mayors, governors or anyone else who thinks trump's administration and his plan to do this mass deportation operation is cruel, homan delivered this message tonight on fox news. >> someone is going to die on the border tonight. women are being raped on the border tonight so what is cruel about securing the border and saving lives? >> reporter: texas is pledging to give the trump administration roughly 1400 acres of land.

land commissioner says a future facility on that site will be the final stop as violent criminals are deported. >> kevin: getting the job done there, thank you. let's get some insight on how the second trump administration is tackling the crisis on the southern border with america principles project president terry schilling and former senior council with the epa, attorney samantha dravis. samantha, your reaction to this "wall street journal" editorial board, very interesting, the headline trump wields a tariff bludgeon. this is talking about the idea of coercing mexico and canada to do something about the border, reading, he try to version of this in his first term, to coerce mexico into assisting him in better policing the border, and he liked the result. the interpretation now that mr. trump is using tariffs again as a negotiating strategy to get these countries to help. effective strategy or not so much? >> i think it is.

president trump has been remarkably consistent that tariffs are in appropriate tool not just to address trade imbalances and unfair trade deals that we have but also to address some of the bad behavior of our neighbors on the southern border who are simply not doing enough to address the issues on their side of the fence with this border crisis. mexico imports i believe 80% of their goods into the united states, so this is an effective negotiating tool and i think that right now that's exactly what it is. you are already seeing president trudeau in canada and the president and mexico respond and engage in dialog with trump as a result. >> kevin: they are obviously pushing back though. i think the idea is listen, tariffs don't help anybody. if you tariff us we will tariff you back and the consumers ultimately lose. tell me where they are right or wrong on that. >> where they are wrong is how tariffs end up working. china and mexico and canada, they will back off of these harmful policies and they will start becoming partners because it's a lot simpler and cleaner

if they just go along and follow laws and start being good neighbors to the united states. it's simple. if they keep going up and keep raising tariffs on the other side, what will happen is more production will happen in the united states which would be great for all americans. >> kevin: it certainly helps, especially employment, and keeps prices down. let me share this, i want to talk politics with both of you. this is some harris campaign advisors talking about why harris did not separate herself a bit more from the president, mr. biden, when it came to border policies and how that may have impacted the 2024 election. listen here. >> she had tremendous loyalty to president biden. if we had said just imagine this, i mean you've been on plenty of campaigns, imagine if we said well we would have taken this approach only border. imagine the round of stories coming up after that. it was just -- it was not going

to give us what we needed because it would not be a clean break. >> kevin: what not be a clean break. you buying that? >> it would not have been a clean break because harris doesn't disagree with biden on his open border policy. i think that was really what they were trying to dance around there, the truth of the matter, which is that harris was indistinguishable from biden and she probably should not have been the candidate the democrats put in there to replace biden. i think they were fooling themselves thinking it's just his age is his only issue but know it was his failed record and i think on that point perhaps it would have been awkward for harris to distance herself from biden but i don't know how else they thought they were going to win. >> kevin: this is one of the tougher challenges. 30 seconds left. i know that it's complicated to say i am my own person but when you are connected at the hip, it's hard to pull away. >> i think kamala harris -- i don't think she could pull away.

these are issues, the border, a big to-do about separating families. that was an obama era policy. i can't back away because that's where their bases and they do agree with it. they support these policies that end up hurting them in the elections. >> kevin: ended up hurting them but if i can follow up on wondering what you do moving forward because remember trump comes in, they still have to have a position vis-a-vis the border. what do they do? spain out. >> i think it's interesting for the democratic party. you are starting to see this with the transgender sports issue, seeing a long time democrat and somewhat swing district whose now getting canceled by his own party and they will run a primary against them for having the audacity to say he doesn't want men in his daughter sports. it's crazy, a dangerous party and they will be on the losing end of things for a while. >> kevin: one of those things we will be talking about for the next four years and i think it will rear it's ugly head in 2028. thank you to both of you, appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you.

we women talk at far in life talking about double standards so that's not the point but i do think a narrative -- 107 days, two weeks is of a hurricane, two weeks talking about how she did not do interviews which she was doing plenty but we had to, you know, be the nominee, had to find a running mate and do a roll out. there's all these things you kind of want to factor in but real people heard in some way that we were not going to have interviews, which was both not true and also so counter to any kind of standard that was put on trump that i think it was a problem. >> kevin: some of the folks who led kamala harris' campaign are now working i daresay pretty hard to deflect the blame for her historic loss. we want to bring in dnc national finance committee member lindy li, the hill national political reporter julia manchester and senior editor robby soave.

there is so much good sound here, beginning with you, lindy li, i've enjoyed listening to your candor on this topic. i think people do want to know what happens now. are we looking at four years of wilderness? where do they stand and what can they learn from the loss in 2024? >> thank you so much for having me. i'm a fan of yours so i appreciate being here. i was on the call with kamala harris today and there was no introspection, no postmortem as to how we blew through $2 billion in just 100 days. to be perfectly clear, it wasn't just 1 billion through the campaign, it was another through the super pac. spent millions on greedy consultants, celebrities, private jets, ice cream, $450,000 was spent on the sphere, putting her face on a giant ball. how is that helpful? $500,000 we recently learned was given to al sharpton right before he interviewed her.

so all of these things, we have to be accountable for that and there's been no sense of responsibility, no accountability. if you like all of these consultants will fail upwards time and time again and move on to the next campaign as though this disaster did not unfold. >> kevin: some strong information right there. robbie we talked about this before and i don't mind telling you, when i saw some of the math it was like are you kidding me? it wasn't just al sharpton's group, they are paying oprah's people 2 million. money was flying out the door. what did they expect? and when you look at what the trump campaign did with joe rogan and other ways to get the message out, that is the way to do it and it does not cost a penny. >> that was part of a concerted strategy by a younger staffer who knew the podcast well and told trump he should get on them, and it worked mirac miraculously. i don't think kamala harris could have done that same thing though because we don't see her talk for long periods of time, just talking about her personality and her character and perspective in a way that endears you to an audience.

her team is so mad about the kinds of questions she got in the more mainstream interviews. those are typical questions about your record and changing stances that every political figure gets. j.d. vance got the same questions when he did the circuit and then some. he got much more hostile lines of questioning and he made himself more popular by doing that because america was impressed with his answers. he improved his favourability. it wasn't the questions she got but the answers she gave. >> kevin: you know the older -- expression is true, sometimes talking makes things worse. i want to get your ex -- perspective though as we take a listen, this idea of finding those hard to reach voters. i want to get your reaction on the other side. >> we had to reach very hard to find voters. so we were trying to, yes, spend more resources on digital because we are trying to find

young people, trying to find lower propensity voters that were tuned out politics. and doing so made us make really key choices. call her daddy was really an important choice to make. >> kevin: really an important choice to make. do you agree with that? >> look, i think the logic behind call her daddy and going on that podcast was to appeal to young women. the problem was that we saw that young women, according to exit polls and the polling we've seen since the election, swung towards trump. so certainly there's that criticism and it's understandable, was it worth going out and doing some of these interviews, where it cost money. i think that's one question. but i think at the end of the day it was the message. young people weren't really buying the message kamala harris was selling on podcasts like call her daddy. i think where she ultimately ran into a wall there.

i think just in general, democrats were facing historic headwinds. it was a bad political environment for them. even bad political environment with young people. we saw that kamala harris technically won young people however we saw donald trump close the gap as he did with a number of other groups. it was just a tough year for democrats at the end of the day and they made a number of unforced errors. >> kevin: i think you nailed it when you say tough political headwinds. going down to the bottom, alec baldwin, i want to share this and get everybody to weigh in. this is alec baldwin, "television news in the united states is a business, they have to make money, there's a hole, a vacuum, a gap if you will in information for americans. americans are very uninformed about reality, what's really going on, with climate change, ukraine, israel, you name it, all the biggest topics in the world, americans have an appetite for a little bit of

information." 15 seconds each beginning with you, lindy li, you think he's on to something or on something? >> i think this is just the democrats blaming the voters. the last couple weeks i've seen a lot of democrats blaming the american people for being sexist and misogynistic and racist for not voting for kamala harris. i think we should look at the party themselves and see what we could do better instead of attacking the voters we need. if you are going to demonize voters how can you expect them to vote for you and if you aren't able to manage her own campaign money, how can you manage taxpayer money? >> kevin: julia? >> if democrats want to win in 2026 and 2028 they should not take that language. they need to sit and listen to voters and meet them where they are. >> kevin: robbie. >> when i hear this kind of complaint from liberals like alec baldwin, what actually here is i am angry that anyone would have the audacity to disagree with me on these very complicated political subjects in which there is rational

disagreement even among experts and people in progressive circles. that is the reality we live in. there are different sources of information and people get to make up their own minds. sorry. >> kevin: putting a fine point on it. thank you also much for joining us tonight. we appreciate it. the cabinet of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has adopted a u.s. brokered cease-fire agreement with hezbollah terrorists and lebanon and now president biden says the fighting in gaza should end as well. ashley strohmier live with the latest in the war in the middle east tonight. >> reporter: hello kevin. after more than a year of war between israel and hezbollah, the two have agreed to a u.s. brokered cease-fire. president biden welcome to the "good news. out the cease-fire took a fact a little over two hours ago. the cease-fire includes a two month fighting freeze, biden said israel will gradually withdraw it's forces over two months while lebanese forces take control of it's territory near the israel lebanon border

to ensure hezbollah does not rebuild infrastructure there. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the government has a right to active hezbollah does not keep its word. >> how long it will be will depend on what will happen in lebanon. a full understanding with the u.s., we are reserving for ourselves a full military action. if hezbollah doesn't follow the agreement, we will attack. >> reporter: the associated press reports more than 3500 people have been killed in lebanon while children and women account for more than 900 of those dead. that is according to the health ministry. this is all happening as the war in gaza still rages on, leaving civilians desperate for their own cease-fire. biden was asked if that would be possible before he leaves office. he responded with "i think so, i'm hoping and praying." >> kevin: as always, thank you

my friend, appreciate that. let's talk about what this new deal means for israel and the middle east moving forward with foundation for defenses of democracy senior fellow david daoud. really a pleasure to have you with us tonight, you've been so helpful throughout the conflict. i want to share a bit of sound from ambassador herzog talking on special report about what this deal might mean moving forward. i want to get your reaction after this. >> i think the essential point to understand is that this deal was enabled by the fact that israel significantly degraded hezbollah over the last few months. they said there would not be a cease-fire in lebanon unless there's a cease-fire in gaza. this deal connects the two and this is because hezbollah is much weaker than it used to be. >> kevin: clearly they are much weaker than they used to be and that would at least appear to make a big difference for where we are today. your thoughts? >> obviously the ambassador is a diplomat and is there to

represent his government's position. i would say he is overplaying the significance of the deal. and it's impact on what's going on in lebanon. obviously the israelis have degraded hezbollah from where it was on october eighth. even more so from where it was even two months ago. this is why this deal is in some ways such a shame because it's premature. there was more that could be done and what the deal does is it does not prevent hezbollah's regeneration. what we could be confronting is a situation where we are under the illusion that israel's gains will remain in place and meanwhile we will be heading towards a situation where perhaps in five, ten, perhaps 18 years we will be here again. >> kevin: let me follow-up on that. you said it could have been broader, could have been deeper, could have done more. you mentioned the possibility of regeneration. what else are you concerned about? >> primarily regeneration because what the deal does, and this is the mistake of

resolution 1701, the security council resolution that ended the last war between israel and hezbollah, but it depended upon the lebanese government to act. this is lebanon's responsibility under international law. the problem is lebanon has never had that will to act up against hezbollah because hezbollah is not a disconnected entity, it's part of lebanon's political and social fabric. in terms of the last parliamentary election, hezbollah won the most popular votes out of any party. to act against lebanon -- hezbollah, is to act against a segment of lebanese society and this prevents lebanese action moving forward against the organization and now this deal while it has more robust language and seeming fail-safe measures, once again primarily relies upon this lebanese action that has never come and there's no indication that it will come moving forward. >> kevin: we heard benjamin netanyahu say focusing on the iranian threat and refreshing of forces and getting armaments and the third reason for the cease-fire is separating hamas and this front. effective strategy?

>> i think perhaps. we will see moving forward but what you have done now, if you look at iran's regional expansion. hezbollah is the tip of this spirit. the tip of the spirit of the iranian threat against israel so what you are doing is giving a respite to a degraded hezbollah but one that has the potential to once again research to becoming the biggest threat on israel's border. that does not mean that there are not significant gains to be made count you have quiet on the northern border when it comes to gaza. >> kevin: hopefully for 60 days. >> but at the same time we've already seen movement from the international community to perhaps get a cease-fire in gaza as well. there are supposed to be talks in saudi arabia, an ejection delegation was supposed to arrive in israel to talk about hostage negotiations. french president emmanuel macron saying now that we've gotten a deal in lebanon, we need a deal in gaza. so decoupling lebanon from cause

out to press against hamas may be temporary and illusory. >> kevin: we will have to see what happens. i think i'm most interested in what the difference might be between what we are seeing now with the biden administration versus what we will see come january with a trump administration, to be continued. david daoud, a pleasure, thank you for your time. coming up, here's a question, are you convinced that illegal aliens really are less likely to commit crime here in the u.s.? welders new research out tonight and it may make you reconsider that. also coming up later in the nightcap... >> dei may stand for diversity, equity and inclusion, but the true definition is didn't earn it. let's face it, it's how we got kamala harris as an unelected democrat nominee. >> kevin: not mincing words there. many are praising walmarts roll back of dei policies as more corporations are finally waking

up to the notion, you know, go woke go broke, but we wonder tonight, why do you think these rollbacks are happening right now? might it have something to do with trump's election victory? let us know what you think on x and instagram @foxnewsnight, we will read your responses in the nightcap coming up. ♪ ♪ones cultures, and traits that shaped who you are today for only $39. ♪

♪ ♪ >> kevin: welcome back. 27 minutes after the hour. the widespread fallout of the illegal immigration crisis including the introduction of a violent venezuelan gang to many communities in the u.s., well tonight we can't the biden administration's perspective from the acting director of immigration and customs enforcement. national correspondent griff jenkins has that interview. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, cabin. four years ago, trend a aragua

wasn't even on i.c.e.'s radar, now they are the top priority. in this exclusive interview today, it's explained how they were first learned of them. >> came across them in late 22, in lima, peru, during a human trafficking investigation. we see them now expanding. anywhere there is a venezuelan population. closing in on about 200 investigations we have going on right now. enough so that in the early part of this year of 24, we initiated this thing called operation athens. it's to combat specifically they gang. what we are doing is adding a lot of resources to the effort. we are pushing out our violent gang task forces, have them around the country in all of our major field offices.

>> are they a different more dangerous type of threat? >> they are -- there are very violent actions, the domestic gangs are incredibly violent. it depends on where you are at, it's situational. however tren de aragua is violent and dangerous and we want to stop them before they become a bigger problem. >> any chance venezuelan criminals he'd the threat of a coming crackdown and deport themselves? >> that would be good too. i will take it however we can get it but if they are listening to the sound of my voice, they better get to stepping. we are coming for them. >> reporter: this operation athens revealed publicly for the first time in this interview refers to athens, georgia in honor of lakin riley because of her killers ties to the gang. >> kevin: strong work as always, thank you my friend. let's continue the conversation about the widespread damage

being done by illegal immigration. former border patrol chief and former acting i.c.e. director ron vitiello along with former acting dhs secretary, america first policy institute executive director chad wolf. i'm going to get you both to weigh in on this but you first, chad. this is a real clear investigation, this idea that illegal migrants commit crimes less than sate native-born americans. a review of the available data shows that criminal records of millions of migrants, the ones president-elect trump vows to prioritize for deportation, remain unknown do to illegal crossings, lacks enforcement and lacks data collection by federal and century jurisdictions. in addition, an analysis of the available statistics by real clear investigations suggests that the crime rate of noncitizens is vastly understated. what say you? >> i think that his right. i think we don't know the extent of the violent acts and the

violent crime committed by illegal aliens across the united states because we just don't know who they are and where they go. there's millions of gotaways that come across the border over these last several years and we don't know the types of crimes that they are committing. but here's what the left wants you to believe, that somehow the crime committed by illegal aliens is a smaller percentage so therefore you should not care about it in that you should just turn the other cheek, when that's not the case. any crime committed by an illegal alien is preventable because they should not be here, they should not be in american communities, they should be removed or deported back to their home country. i think it's important to keep talking about this. president trump talks about this and i think the american people want to change. >> kevin: i think chad nailed it. i don't care if it's one crime. one is too many. it's what really angers people. you have no right to be here. people say it was one. one is more than enough. >> that's correct. totally preventable.

john is a fax machine and what he said here is he's kind of answering the so what question. if the left wants to take this farce and say these people commit crimes at lower rates, around justice department says 21% of federal inmates are aliens to the united states. so would we rather have 34,000 fewer inmates in federal custody? absolutely. how much that would save the justice department. the other burdens on society with crime, public health, schools, housing, all of the things with having people here, the 2 million just this year alone that we did not ask to be here, they came across the border illegally which is also a crime. he's proven that this century city implementation across the board is destructive for american cities and the people who live in them. >> kevin: and this is the real issue is i bring you back into the conversation, chad. americans feel frustrated because we are sitting here in

many cases the victims or know someone or who -- have read about someone and we feel like our government under the biden administration wasn't being responsive enough and that really i think is what led a lot of people to vote for president-elect trump. let me get your thoughts though on this from virginia's police chief. we've talked at length about some of the crime happening in the great commonwealth. listen here and i will get your reaction on the other side. >> our goal is to prosecute these individuals for the crimes they have committed here, have them served their time and then send them back. if that's not possible, hold them accountable, there has to be a mechanism to remove them from communities because we cannot safely do that without help. >> kevin: that of course a reaction to an illegal alien who committed a rape, chad. >> absolutely. look, again, i think local communities, local law enforcement need to cooperate with federal law enforcement to remove these

individuals but i think you are right, to your earlier point, which is i think americans are most concerned because they are seeing the effects of this illegal immigration in their communities, whether it's lakin riley or other unfortunate circumstances. from the biden-harris administration for four years, we've heard about an immigration policy of what is best for illegal aliens. how can they be, you know, administered into the country, paroled into the country. i think president trump instead is talking about what's best for american citizens and how do you protect american communities. that's what, you know, his administration will look at come january. >> kevin: wrong, 15 seconds. >> spot on. this is someone who did not deserve to be here, wasn't invited to be here, but released. you heard the police chief saying i want that person out of my community and i need the federal government to help. help is on the way. >> kevin: which is all the more frustrating when you hear mayors like in denver saying we are not going to help federal authorities. it's not just denver.

you just think you are making your citizens less safe by actively not engaging with federal authorities to get those who have committed crimes out of here. gentlemen, thank you both. coming up, is dei officially dead? that's coming up in just a bit but first, 35 minutes after the hour and it's time for a "fox news @ night" trip across america. ocean city, maryland, the white marlin capital of the world. did you know that? of course you did not. how about chicago, illinois, did you know it's called the city that works. a lot of nicknames. finally tests and -- santa fe, new mexico. back in my neck of the woods, home to the oldest church in the nation. how about that. by the way if you can't join us live don't forget to set your dvr and watch us any time. modee crohn's symptoms kept me out of the picture. with skyrizi, feel symptom relief at 4 weeks. many people were in remission at 12 weeks, at 1 year,

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♪ ♪ in the first trump administration there was about $19 million of federal contracts with dei language attached. plaster the biden-harris administration, that number was $1 billion. this is a multibillion-dollar industry. >> what we are trying to do is ensure that every customer, every associate feels welcome here to shop and to feel like they belong. >> kevin: follow the money. welcome back. 41 minutes after the hour. the rise of dei in domains both public and private over the last four years is short to get plenty of pushback in the upcoming second trump administration. so we wonder tonight what to make of the changes on the horizon. let's discuss that with board-certified medical doctor houman hemmati and alliance defending freedom president and ceo kristen waggoner. beginning with you, kristen, your reaction to the vice president describing eq

equity. sometimes people confuse equality and equity. listen to what she has to say, get your reaction on the other side. >> we are proud of the fact that equity is one of our guiding principles. proud of the fact that we understand equality is important but not everybody starts out on the same base. so it sounds like it might be right, everybody gets an equal share and then they should compete and the best thing will win, but that assumes everyone starts on the same base. equity takes into account that that may not be the case. >> kevin: takes into account that might not be the case, but it also does not take into account it's deeply unfair for people who say, i don't know, they live in appalachia, are white and they did not start on third base either. there's some real problems with this. your thoughts? >> there is. this whole idea of equity is rooted in dei which fuels the problem that it claims to solve. it is reading essentially

division among americans, angst and hostility, and then it weaponize is that against the american people. i think americans are using and hearing buzzwords like unity or inclusivity and we are seeing more and more that this is just an ideological agenda that is being force-fed down americans throats and we've had enough. i think the election demonstrates that and we are ready to see change and a return to viewpoint diversity and equal opportunity, which is not the same thing as equity. >> kevin: doctor, listen, discrimination by any other phrase or term is still unfair. your thoughts? >> kevin, when we say to people that they are succeeding be cause of their skin color, because of their background, their identity, we are insulting people who have legitimately earned what they have and at the same time we are telling people that we are going to hold them back because of their background, because of what they look like, because of who they think they are. that is not why i came to this

country, that's not why my parents and i fled islamic fundamentalism and came here when i was three with nothing, to work hard and get what we have. we came here because this is a country where you earn what you have and anyone has the ability to succeed. by telling anyone that that is not true, it destroys the american dream and robs people of it. >> kevin: robbery by way of low expectation. let me share some woke headlines, it your thoughts on these. kristen, this is from the college -- biden-harris of administration spent over 2 billion imposing dei on scientific research according to a report. the "washington examiner" saying spent $911 million on covid propaganda the house report finds. all i can say to that is wow but i guess you will have more than that to say about it. >> i do. i think we want to see our taxpayer dollars being used for

innovation and fostering good business, not indoctrination. the biden-harris administration used our taxpayer dollars to fuel an ideology that is corrosive to the american people. we as americans, regardless of our vocation, have the opportunity to stand up in this moment, to return to fundamental principles, and says government officials treat all people as individuals, not based on group identity, but give equal opportunity and reject this type of censorship. and to do the same in business which is one of the reasons why we have a resource called rethinking dei, so that business owners can return to smart and healthy business models. >> kevin: doctor, 20 seconds. >> i agree with what she just said. basically when you look at covid spending for example, gavin newsom, the state of california spent $170 million for just one state on advertisements to convince people to stay home or wear a mask, things they could have done for free. with the nsf, i'm insulted by

spending that kind of money that should have been earmarked to conduct real science. i think hopefully this next administration will take a sharp pivot, erase that kind of spending and spend our money where it is supposed to be. >> kevin: have the most impact to say the least. doctor, kristen, thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. corporate america got lost and then took a huge lesson. the complete combination of idiot management and the inability to read the room. america has clearly decided on this issue. >> kevin: got a read the room. kevin o'leary is right. walmart the latest company to scale back dei policy. a decision some people are saying is a trump a fact. we want to know what you think about that. do you think the victory in the election has anything to do with major corporations like walmart saying goodbye dei? let us know on x and instagram

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♪ ♪ >> kevin: thank you for staying with us everybody, time for the nightcap crew. ashley strohmier, jeff paul, doctor houman hemmati, lindy li,

robby soave and ron vitiello. tonight's topic, bye-bye dei. walmart the latest company to roll back dei policy saying they are willing to change. they want walmart to be for everyone. still we wonder, why do you think they are making the changes now? may it have something to do with trump's win in november, ashley strohmier? >> it could. they know now obviously people are not on board with it. i think what people are on board with is hiring the best person for the job. end of story. >> kevin: sounds good to me. lindy li. >> i absolutely agree. as a democrat. english is my second language. i came to this country with just $200. i never took a handout, never took help. i fought my way up and that is the way it should be for everyone. we should be aiming for equality of opportunity rather than equality of outcome. >> kevin: spot on. jeff paul. >> i think it comes back to the almighty dollar. big companies like this, very successful companies like this, make decisions for one reason

and that is to make money so if this can make the money they are going to do it. >> kevin: doctor houman hemmati. >> first captain, walmart is my kids favorite store, they make a pilgrimage there every time. it's like an hour and a half drive but second the walton family is very smart and they are doing well for a reason, they understand their customers. i think they can see where the winds are blowing, realizing this is not consistent with their values and the values of their customers. they are salt of the earth people and they are making the right business decision. >> kevin: ron? 's payment you work hard in this country, make good choices, you will succeed, no special program will get people out of that paradigm. that's what america is all about. >> kevin: robbie. >> dei programs were designed to make happy woke young progressive employees and what companies have realized is that it is impossible to make easily offended employees happy and you can only lose money by trying. they figured that out and they are going to stop doing that and that's all to the good. >> kevin: let's take a look at

the responses. mark says, absolutely, there's a paradigm shift occurring. companies feel empowered to be inclusive and sane. -- says it has everything to do with the trump victory. john, in part i think it is trump's victory but mostly they realize that the american consumers are tired of all the lecturing. down says, trump is the symbol of enough is enough. elizabeth, the consumer market is trying to keep up with public opinion. cathy wraps us up saying absolutely, no more catering to the woke minority. very interesting topic tonight and we want to thank everyone on the nightcap crew and thank you for watching america's late news, "fox news @ night". i'm kevin corke in washington and we will be back here for you tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ n you some amazing gifts. celebrate the ones you inherited with ancestrydna. explore the detailed family roots, cultures, and traits that shaped who you are today

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