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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 and breaking moments ago our sister publication now reporting that president-elect trump is considering replacing current pentagon nominee pete with florida governor ron. we will have much more on this with peter and the political panel in moments, plus, somehow trying to help your city is now controversial. mayor eric revealing he is open to deporting migrants from new york city who have been charged with crimes. a stark contrast democrats and others like chicago mayor saying he would fight to stop deportation even after the city spent more than a half billion dollars on the migrant crisis.

chicago residents now calling johnson, the worst mayor in america. meantime the coast of california intercepted a boat with 21 migrants. local law enforcement could do nothing about it. orange county sheriff live on set. it all comes after elon musk in the department department of government efficiency said, the u.s. taxpayers have spent $150 billion on illegal immigration, in one year. meantime now back to our breaking news and reports that president-elect trump now considering replacing pentagon nominee pete with florida governor ron. the senior white house correspondent peter live in

west palm beach with more on the breaking news. >> good evening, pete said, president elect trump's pick to be -- because people are unconvinced or have not heard about these unconfirmed reports of that bad behaviour, in pete's past trump is considering moving ron, according to "the wall street journal" who tonight is citing people familiar with the discussion, as his pick if there are further problems with the defence secretary, process. that is not the only big change late today, a person he was critical to the president-elect promise to route fentanyl out and fentanyl trafficking out has withdrawn his name from consideration to be the dea administrator,'s name is chad, of florida sheriff that trump wanted to run dea, i've asked around about this, here in the palm beach and i've been told,

or rather i have been directed to articles from 2020 where arresting a pastor for violating covid restrictions that conservatives have been sending background on social media over the past couple of days. that was seen as problematic. the president-elect attorneys also busy today, filing a motion in new york city, arguing the criminal case where trump was convicted but not yet sentenced it's interfering with his transition. there is also a hunter biden pardon peg in the motion, yesterday and issuing a 10-year pardon for biden covering all crimes whether charged or uncharged, president biden asserted that his son was selectively and unfairly prosecuted and treated differently. this is the same doj that scent matthew to d.a. break to help unfairly targeted president trump and his lawless case. the legal team, and legislative team of both busy, we know that new tariffs also actively discussed today, we are also hearing for the first time about

executive orders, for next month. being drafted here in the palm beach. >> the other thing is also getting rid of the green a new deal, it's going to be a day one a priority. >> it trump officials don't want any more surprises in the background of people they are nominating for big jobs and today the transition team signed a memorandum of understanding with the justice department that is going to let transition officials for the next couple of weeks start to submit people's names for both security clearances and background checks. >> trace: makes sense. peter live in west palm beach. thank you. let's bring in heritage foundation strategic communication vice president mary, and former communication director trisha. thank you both for coming on. let's cover the breaking news,

with you first tricia, the possibility that trump pulls pete out of the pentagon position and puts ron in, what do you make of that? >> there is a little bit of game and ship happening i think trump is maybe putting it out there loading it to see how it will play, obviously there is a contested primary and some of the loyalists were not big fans of ron by the end. that being said, i think ron is a fantastic candidate but i still think pete is it fantastic candidate, two brown stars, served in the military for 20 years i think trump will continue to stick by his man and i think american people are tired of being be in with the mantra, sitting commander in chief has reasonable allegations against him. >> trace: it's interesting because you look at this and you look at the entire chessboard, everybody knows ron has aspirations may be for the top job in the country, moving into possibly the defence secretary position, what does that play, do you think it's a good move on

his part, do you think it's a possibility? >> well as you know and as peter reported it has yet to be confirmed so i think we have to weight and see. what we are going to see with all of the nominations it doesn't have to do anything with them and their personal past, and has everything to do with the policy. as tricia said, pete is a decorated military veteran and he loves this country. everyone in d.c. knows on day one of being confirmed, he would end the woke agenda and the ddi that we are seeing infiltrate our military, that is the issue at hand and let me say the individuals being critical of pete personally, they have been 100% silent when it comes to this current president's son hunter biden, who is addicted to cocaine and and two exploited his father's name to the tunes of millions of dollars. pete is a fighter, he loves this country. >> trace: here is the thing, talking about hunter biden,

really a little bit of nothing, some comments people were asked about hunter biden today they said, this. he said welcome america, welcome to biden's america and to case you didn't get a chance he didn't have much to say about this. >> he sure didn't, imagine if it was on the other foot and donald trump jr. or one of donald trump's children was convicted of gun-related charges or of evading taxes like hunter biden, the media would be having a field day and by the way, joe biden has been allying about this, barely denying this for months on end, not even closing or leaving the door open it also any credibility, left is

gone. >> trace: credibility, michael bennett the democratic colorado senator said the country would have been better off if joe biden had not run, he said i don't think there's any gap that our country would have been better off with the biden had decided not to run for reelection, it seems to me that there is this huge push, this desperation to come up with some kind of excuse for why they lost this election. >> that's exactly right, american people spoke very clearly on november fifth, they said the path that was going forward in washington, d.c., was now working and these recent comments by joe biden where he was defending his decision against pardoning his son shows specifically he does not care about the rule of law in this country and we have seen that with all of the policies this administration has been putting forward. whether it's the open border policy, whether it's weapon icing the ministry of state, whether it's using the

government to target his political opponents. the american people spoke very clearly, january 20th cannot come soon enough and god will have a president that will put america first. >> trace: pressure building on it mayors in blue cities with reps with residents become more frustrated by the migrant crisis and its impact with the well-being. kevin live in d.c. with more on the man some are calling the worst mayor in america. >> good evening, chicago mayor brendan johnson has been at the -- spending more than half a billion dollars sheltering migrants. the city is trying to overcome, wait for, 1 billion-dollar budget shortfall, all by the end of the year. it won't surprise you that some of the city's residents are calling him, the worst mayor in america.

meantime new york city mayor said he is open to deporting illegal aliens, who had been charged with crimes, that is a shift from his past answer waiting for conviction. adam says he soon hopes to meet with trump's borders, about the upcoming administration plan, to potentially depart deport accused migrant criminals.

some say, a bit overdue in a step in the right direction. >> trace: kevin live for us in d.c. kevin thank you. common sense department is wondering why so many blue city mayors are bound and determined to make their citizens see red. chicago mayor brendan johnson was the recipient of a good old-fashioned up in arms shot down by his constituents as you hurt, for spending more than a half billion dollars of the cities already depleted budget on sheltering illegal immigrants. it's a short term shelter plan. moving into its third year. despite his residence calling him an embarrassment, johnson appears to hate trump more than he loves chicago. and is now staying in the past. so was a denver mayor whose city has spent $360 million on illegal immigrants. johnson said he would rather go to jail than let trump when. even the blue denver post wrote

quote, a denver's mayor was wrong to threaten armed conflict to protect immigrants. why is there no violent valve to protect illegal residents? when did rocky rocky mountain high become a rocky mountain hate? adams is getting big blue push back but is now telling critics who disagree to quote, cancel him. common sense thinks it's time for leaders to listen to voters. maybe just maybe, he is off to hate,. let's bring in orange county sheriff. thank you for coming on. great to see you. here is mayor johnson is saying, trump is also, not just illegal immigrants, but going after black families. watch this.

what do you make of that accusation? >> i think it's so sad that mayor brendan johnson is using the fact that he is black and his association was black, as a way to cripple what president trump is trying to do on terms of making our borders secure and safer. and then making sure that the illegals that are here, especially the ones that are committing crimes, are sent back home. he has to keep in mind, that there are a lot of black americans who voted for trump. such as myself. so, we are of the understanding that we would rather trump in

the white house then to have our cities to spend the money that they are spending to accommodate the new arrival. >> trace: let's bring the sheriff end. i want to bring this up because we talked about illegals coming in, in newport beach the coast guard, 21 illegal immigrants on a boat, because of sanctuary laws, if you have brought those people on the boat there was nothing that they could have done. that local mayor said this to fox news, watch. got to be frustrating sheriff when you are handcuffed by state policy. >> we are handcuffed, to be clear we do on behalf of the federal government patrol the waterways, and we intervene that

bow, on the waterways, we could've held them for federal authorities. but on land, when they actually make land, that is where the law changes. >> trace: so you could not bring them to shore? >> we cannot we have to hold them there for the coast guard to come get them and that is operation stone guard on behalf of the federal government. but, when they board,, or make land that is where the lost change and i get sketchy for us. trying to intervene. quite honestly the law protecting american people. >> trace: on the flip side i want to bring in this because as we told you, the mayor of new york city eric adams said he will meet with tom, the new incoming borders are quoting that those who are here committing crimes, robbery, shooting police officers, are -- i want to sit down and hit a plan on how we can address them. he is trying to protect people, he is getting a lot of pushback.

>> yes, he is probably getting the pushback from the democratic party. because a lot of the democrats are still feeling a little bit salty about the election results. so, they have decided to dig their heels into firmly against the president-elect. but we know here in chicago, we elected president trump, we want to see him get the job done of sending these illegals back home. our mayor probably won't be as open to meet with him, but the people here in chicago certainly are willing to meet with him. i don't think he really needs the mayor to get the job done, there are enough citizens here in the city of chicago who are willing to stand in and assist him and his administration with getting these illegals out of chicago. >> trace: what about people coming up from the border sheriff because they are coming up and there are caravans out there probably not making it under trump, they might make it

a now. >> the caravans are given issue, but, first we have two as americans understand what the border is and more importantly what it is in, it is not a border wall, you can walk into urban areas so stopping them is going to be difficult. i'm a huge support of our clinical partners and able to do the job but when you walk in and claim asylum, over 10 million, over four years, that is hard for us. many of them are coming from criminal background. >> trace: thank you both.

even the mainstream media is seeing biden in new light after he backtracked on a promise to not pardon his son hunter let's bring in everybody settle down podcast cohost eric and conservative partnership institute vp of programs, rachel. great to have you on the show, rachel you first, there are democrats defending joe biden watch this. >> he has done it all, good for joe biden and good for hunter. >> trace: i love it when they use things like the context change or he didn't frame it properly, come on he lied let's just say it. >> watching them twist themselves into pretzels over this is just really entertaining

to say the least. what jill biden did is not entertaining because it's not just that he lied, it's that he lied up until the election. then he got the results, didn't work out, is going to completely transform. apart and so sweeping i think it is unprecedented going back 11 years, not covering just one or two crimes but any crime that could have been committed over the 11 years, this is again who jill biden has always been. but now you can't ignore it. is not only people saying family first, it's the most self-serving self-interested part in that we have ever seen in recent memory. >> trace: downplaying the election, for lack of better term, watch.

she got smoked in the electoral college. >> they won the popular vote which is the second time only that has happened since bill clinton, you have to go back a long time to see a republican winning both the college and the electrical vote. -- the electoral vote. in the house they are going to have a majority as well although it will be small. >> trace: meantime bill maher and jane fonda have a little back and forth watch. the stuff that now consumes the

entire left side of the party jane fonda has never heard of this stuff before. >> the apple iphone has a pregnant man a mochi so, maybe she doesn't have an apple iphone but, may be apple just means to include it in just but this in -- has taken over the democratic party, you cannot ignore it anymore, nobody's buying it. >> trace: "washington post" columnist, eugene says, it was racist, the whole thing was race-based, what do you think? >> the election? we elected a black president twice, hillary clinton, a fema won the popular vote in 2016. i think democrats looking at this through the lens of identity politics are missing the point. are other factors weigh more important in this election, immigration, inflation, i think probably most important, joe biden deciding to seek another term until he would've been 86 years old up until the very last minute. leaving kamala harris in a really bad spot. where she only had 110 days to throw together campaign. >> trace: air? thank you so much.

inc. you both. coming up, the jury begins deliberations and a stark warning, from another train hero who helped stop a terrorist attack on a paris bound train back in 2015, that is next. later in the night, a response to a social media post, an account tie to house democrats posted coding here, and here we were thinking you all could not afford eggs, it's supposed to mock and minimize american families, struggling to pub dude on the table. is the democrats responsible -- struggling to put food on the table. are the democrats responsible sooke coming up on the nightcap. tonight we are starting a new segment, to my social and we will answer later in the show. coming right back.

>> trace: daniel penney's fate in the hands of a new york jury, lives with the latest on the choke hold case that has divided the nation, good evening. >> that jury deliberated for about five hours today, they are rescheduled to return tomorrow morning. daniel penney arrived this morning as protesters chanted, guilty! the 26-year-old marine veteran is charged with choking to death 30-year-old homeless man jordan on the manhattan subway car, penney's defence argues he uses military training to restrain the man who was high on the drug k2 and yelling death threats. but penney choked the life out of him, the judge told the jury in order to convict penney on the most serious charge, second-degree manslaughter they must believe beyond reasonable doubt that penney choked him recklessly.

his family said, they believe in the story. -- in the jury. a republican state representative elect help to stop this terror attack on a train in europe in 2015 said he worries the conviction would make other good samaritans think twice. penney faces a maximum of 15 years in prison if convicted on the top charge of manslaughter also accused of criminal negligent homicide. >> trace: matt, think you. -- thank you.

a major cultural dispute we have talked about on the show, now before the supreme court deciding if doctors can give a life altering to transgendered minors let's bring in certified phd research scientist. and senior reporter of the daily wire. thank you both for coming on. mary, to you first, matt walsh posting this on twitter coding here, this is the culmination of our fight against the child changes and it could be an earthquake in terms of protecting children, do you agree? >> good evening, yes, i

absolutely agree with what he is saying, he launched an investigation into vanderbilt medical university a couple of years ago. that investigation exposed how tennessee doctors and activists were pushing these transgendered procedures on children. a lot of people are saying that inspired these lawmakers to launch this legislation that has led ultimately, to the supreme court case so, definitely something we are interested in watching very closely at the daily wire but, this is a case that can ultimately lead to the supreme court defending children across the country and really, a vastly important medical decision for many americans. >> trace: the liberal media counter framing this different, you have slated the headline reading the following, now trans rights are being tested at the supreme court as if these children have rights to change genders. >> we have to think between trans children and trans adults,

adults have the neurocognitive decision to make these changes. things you can to do no matter how much you want to detransition, children don't have that capacity. mentally they cannot grasp of these things, they don't understand what fossil -- what fertility is or what they're going to be in the future. you cannot make that kind of decision. i am a board-certified lay sick surgeon, if i tried to do lay sick surgeon on a little kid no matter how much they want to and how much their parents want to, guess what? i lose my license and i may go to jail for assault. that is a lot less invasive than what they are proposing to do with children. >> trace: the same children in school that can get an aspirin without parental consent. "new york times" hammered for article referring to biological women as nontransgendered women.

>> well, what i would say is our legacy media has absolutely become a tool of these leftist activists in the way they talk about the culture wars but specifically the way they talk about transgender issues. they use the euphemism vendor affirming care to obscure what we are actually talking about which is, transgendered surgeries, home -- hormones and puberty blockers even for minors. they use these euphemisms and in terms of activist groups who tell reporters, use this word to help us. use that phrase, to help us. a lot of americans don't realize what is going on it so they read "the new york times" and they think, while this sounds like republicans are trying to deny care to these poor kids when the reality is, republicans, often, are trying to protect kids from irreversible transgendered procedures that they are going to regret later in life. >> trace: i want to get the

breaking news with you dr., the house select committee on covid release this following quoting, the weight of the evidence increasingly supports the lab hypothesis, this was released by the 529 page report, listen, it looks very much like this thing came from a lab after all of this debate we have been talking about for years, they said, yes, it came from the lab. >> this is not coming as a surprise to me or any other people, my good friend jamie has been saying this for years. and producing a lot of evidence to show that and i think the house is finally catching up to that. what does it say? it says basically -- what lesson did we learn? covid or any virus can be used almost like a weapon. whether it's intended to or not in the same way we inspect nuclear labs, i think we need to start inspecting these types of bio labs that have this kind of capability whether it's intended or unintended for weaponization,

it has the effect of being like a weapon. >> trace: if you say this, you are racist, something, else that we can't even talk about. mary, dr., thank you both. coming up mary -- many americans hurting after hurricane helene, two victims of that disaster join us live with an update on their lives, comes at the same time the president biden decided he would give africa $1 billion in disaster relief, people who are survivors of the hurricane are getting what? $750? life, next.

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>> trace: many americans lost everything during hurricane helene which we covered extensively and things have not gone better let's bring in two victims of that disaster. thank you both for coming on. we appreciate it. i want to play this sound bite because i know you are not back in your house, here is a bill you are trying to put things back together, saying the following. how long is it going to be, how long have you been out and how are you doing? >> we have been out since that day. that was jay adams and i want to give him a shadow he was the first person who not only believed that we could potentially get back in our home, but he was the one that

said these hooks don't have money. their interest denied them twice, they are waiting on things, this is the only way forward, they don't have the money to tear down their house and rebuild. we have to start building and he started with a crew of four guys with pick axes and shovels into took them all day to get about f our house. he was truly the one that believed in us when we had no other help and he and some samaritans, lots of folks since then. >> trace: that's a great, shout out to jay adams because he deserves it. christopher, i know you spent time in the hospital, i know your life is not back to normal, how has it been and has this been stressful and how long do you think it will take before you were actually back in? >> i would estimate its going to be probably one year before we

are back in our home. has been stressful? i have to answer that with an absolutely. this has been a large stressor on top of other stressors. but i have to say, the way our community has shown up, the way people have walked down the driveway, what can we do? how can we help you? it has helped carry the load of our stress, just like they have carried the 300 metric tons of mud and debris out of our house. we tried to carry the load because we do still have two daughters living with us at home. so, is a stressful? yes. has it been unmanageable. no because of been shared across so many hands and hearts. >> trace: is it stressful,

yes. are you grateful, yes. it's interesting because a lot of people are waiting on dema, today nikki haley posted the following on twitter, coating, this is infuriating, abiding gives 1 billion of our tax dollars to build homes in africa when we still have people homeless, from the hurricane, completely tone-deaf and insulting, how does it make you feel? >> i mean i can't speak to that because it's not something i know about and i do think, as the greatest nation on earth we should help other people, what i like -- would i like to see some of that money,? we have not seen that. people showing up from as far away as alaska to help on our home. that is what has helped us. we have not gone that monetary support, nor do i think we will.

jay has estimated our home where we are right now would have been $100,000. just to get our house down to the studs with walls missing. >> trace: angela and christopher, listen, the best of luck to you, we are rooting for you, check back in with us and let us know how the progress is going. a lot of people pulling for you and your neighbours and friends i'm sure included, thank you for coming on the show we appreciate it. next is the nightcap, in response to a social media post, posted quote, and you all think we could afford eggs, mocking putting food on the table, is there post glover? or spotless? how would you respond, we are back with the nightcap crew

including you, next. but first, to our first ever submit your question or comment to me on my socials, i will answer a few on air weekly, here is the first one, what time does everyone arrive at the station to prepare for the broadcast? that's from wendy, the answer is, we start early in the morning. we go over guest segments, we go over all of this stuff and it's amazing because we do it, we come and probably seven hours before the show to get things ready but it is an all encompassing, all hands-on deck matter, karen said i stay up late to watch her show, i can always use more common sense, the common sense department is like 12 people, they wouldn't let us see them. by the way, you should also get mugs and shirts and things in the common sense department. andrea, how does kevin get such perfectly manicured eyebrows? i don't know let's ask him. kevin.

>> threads. i get them threaded at the mall. [laughter] >> trace: what is you in kevin's favourite her snack before the show? >> i tend to do those miniature,, bars. i am guilty, sorry. >> trace: if there is cookies all the time. kevin thank you, thank you, we are back next with the nightcap. ♪ ♪

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>> back with the night cap crew. tonight's topic, clever or thoughtless, conservatives ripped a social media account associated with house democrats over a post suggesting the economy is strong and seemingly minimizing the struggles of those who have difficult ordering or affording groceries. is the post clever, thoughtless, how would you respond, trisha? >> it's 101. airline prices were domestic flights up 21% and prices on average about $400 for a domestic flight, so i think this is pretty dumb. >> yeah, matt fin.

>> it is clever but insensitive. and there could have been record air travel and many struggling to buy groceries. >> that's true. eric. >> this is one of the reasons the democrats lost the election, if people are telling you they're struggling, you might want to believe them and not insult them. >> cona. >> it doesn't matter what the polls say or experts happening, what matters is what the people think are happening. and they are suffering at the props, grocery store, and just everyday life. >> and kevin. >> cona is right. i know a woman that calls out sometimes on friday because she can't afford to pay for gas. it's real, don't be cynical. >> trace, the easest way to lose an election is to belittle people's suffering and pain as we saw earlier and we will see

again unless people realize that people are in pain and address it. >> credit card debt, highest since 2008, so that's a big indicator. marlry saying it's their usual out of touch, because they've never experienced going without. truly disconnected they are from economic reality. they're baiting us at this point. nobody should care about their lives anymore. >> nothing new impairment . >> lisa saying that most of the spending was put on credit cards. tina, thoughtless post. no one should laugh at one's expense. katrina, we the people know exact will you -- exactly how the economy is. thanks for watching fox news at night. i'm trace gallagher in los angeles, we'll see you back here tomorrow night

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