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america's late news, "fox news @ night" -- 8 in los angeles -- breaking tonight, still no answers about the mysterious drones spotted in the skies but our first guest tonight might have an idea. >> i've gotten to know people and from very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources, i'm going to tell you the real deal. iran launched a mothership. probably about a month ago. that contains these drones. that mothership is off -- >> trace: more from the congressman's high sources in moments but meantime the pentagon quick to bat down any foreign adversary claim. >> if you don't know what they are how can you say they are not a foreign adversary? >> our initial assessment is that this is not a -- the work of a foreign adversary or foreign entity, that is our initial assessment. >> trace: but how can the pentagon be so confident about where they are not from if they don't know where they are from?

we would like to hear what you think in the nightcap. plus, law enforcement now obtaining a spiral notebook with ridings from ceo shooting suspect luigi mangione and the contents are very damning. we will have much more on that and how the suspects ivy league background and psychological state might have led him to cold-blooded murder. but first, chanley painter is live with the latest on the mysterious drone sightings and the growing concerns of u.s. citizens. good evening. >> reporter: hello trace. it's now been nearly a month of nightly drone sightings and still no answers on who is behind them or where they are coming from. >> just my head is about to explode. they know nothing. northern new jersey is being invaded by drones and it's either a combination of incompetence or i don't even want to think what it could be. >> reporter: in new jersey, state lawmakers and local

leaders met with state police and homeland security. them -- most left angry at the lack of information. a new jersey governor,'s office called the meeting, was a no-show. and in washington, the pentagon came out today saying these are not u.s. military drones and refuted claims by congressman that the drones or from an iranian mothership. >> there is no iranian ship off the coast of the united states and there's no so-called mothership launching drones towards the united states. our initial assessment is that this is not a -- the work of a foreign adversary or foreign entity. >> reporter: all this comes as the chinese national is arrested in san francisco after flying a drone over a military facility for about an hour and taking numerous photos. trace. >> trace: all very unusual, chanley painter in new york, thank you. ♪ ♪

>> trace: "fox news @ night" common sense department is not trying to be scully and mulder but this whole drone mystery has common sense baffled. these drone sightings have been happening across new jersey including near donald trump's golf club for more than 3 weeks. with no information, clarification or answers. we are being told these drones are the size of small cars but common sense has no idea how we know that considering all the drone video looks like it was taken by an antique video camera from 10 miles away. google earth can get a precise picture of my outdoor furniture from space and we can't get a decent shot of flying objects in the neighbors backyard. really? new jersey congressman jeff van drew says he has qualified sources that say the drones or from iran. the pentagon says they are not. so the pentagon does not know where they are from but does know where they are not from? we are being told that congress does not know, the fbi does not know, the white house does not

know. have we gotten so used to our leaders lying and denying that we automatically by whatever they sell? maybe ignorance is bliss but common sense is not happy. goalie and mulder would tell us that the truth is out there and maybe it is, but sadly we are not out there, we are down here where truth is limited and b.s. flows at the speed of light. >> who would you guess they belong to or where they are from? >> i hope they are not russia or china. >> maybe another country spying on us? maybe ufo? >> a representative came out on fox news and said they are probably from iran. not sure i believe that. >> should the government do something? >> i think they should investigate and it probably -- they would find something they would not share with us, the common people. >> of course they should. they should let us know what's going on.

>> i feel like the government knows everything already so i'm kind of hands off but i feel like a lot of people would be anchored by it so it probably should not be discussed. >> trace: without let's bring in the mayor, ryan herd, republican congressman from new jersey, jeff van drew. gentlemen, welcome to both of you. i want to play some sound congressman. it's aimed is you from the governor of your state and he said this... >> there are a lot of conspiracy theories about other international players that would have scale and the ability to do something like this. there was a wild ascertain shen by congressman jeff van drew today about iran with a big boat. >> a mothership. whatever that means. >> trace: so the governor says you are wrong, the pentagon says you are wrong. are you still confident in your sources? >> my sources are good, they are high-ranking they have high security clearance but here's the real deal.

they came to me, they gave me this information. i had 2 choices. to be silent, not to say anything, and god forbid something happened. i don't think i could live with myself again. i have a responsibility. these are people with security clearance at a high level who in essence were whistle-blowers. they did not want to reveal who they were or give their names. they are worried about their future. but here's the thing, just think about it. easier -- either these are backyard hobbyists which is a ridiculous notion because no backyard hobbyists has drones or anything like this, or it's the federal government, it's the department of defense or somebody. but they say it absolutely is not them so either they are lying or it isn't them, or it's some company within the united states that also doesn't have the technology. here's the point. they don't know what it is, they don't know where it's come from, they don't know who it is, they don't know what it's about, but they are absolutely sure that they know it's not some foreign

country. i never said it was off the coast. it could be further out in the ocean, the coast guard is seeing them coming back-and-forth. >> trace: and we are certain that somebody is not telling us the whole truth. there have been 184 sightings in the past two nights. what is new jersey homeland security telling you, mr. mayor? >> here's one problem that i want to speak up on. we had 180 mayors at 11:00 down in south jersey at a meeting and the governor wasn't even there. obviously this is affecting everybody, it's affecting the township of pequannock but this was just brought to my attention because we are talking about this as if it's just happening but the reality is, on october 12th, two months ago, 2024, "wall street journal" writes, mystery drones swarmed a u.s. military base for 17 days, the pentagon is stumped. this isn't just happening now, this has happened before. this is absolute total incompetence. how can it be in this day and

age, in america, 2024, that we have no idea who is flying drones, where did they come from or what's going on? this is absolutely unacceptable and i have to tell you, the residents of my town are concerned. if you had something flying over your house and it came back day after day, you would be worried. >> trace: i would be. the whole concern here is absolutely validated. my thing is why not just take one of these things down, to get out of the sky and analyse it and see what it is. >> that's a great point. >> that's what i said to do. >> trace: i'm sorry, on rismond. >> absolutely, take it down, find the best way to take it down, make sure you are safe, analysing, find out who it's from. whoever is doing this is doing something very wrong and very dangerous and if it's the federal government, they should apologize for what they have done to new jersey residents and americans. either gross stupidity which is frightening or mall intention.

>> trace: mayor, even the fbi. they went before congress and said we don't know what it is and "that is concerning. out. >> the reality is, these people are supposed to be smarter than us. that is why we elect these individuals, because they are supposed to be working on our behalf. i tell you what, i have attack background so i started reaching out to my community and here, very quickly, i found the company, it's like ai security system for these guy that will automatically detect, track and notify you of unauthorized aircraft and drones. has anybody reached out to them? this is a problem we need to solve. there's people out there that can solve it and our government, our governor doesn't even care enough to be in that room with 180 different mayors. >> trace: my guess is elon musk might have a suggestion or two on how we spot and solve this thing. mr. mayor, mr. congressman, thank you. we are learning more tonight about a possible motive for last

week's murder of a health care ceo in midtown manhattan. senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in d.c. with the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: evening trace. law-enforcement has retrieved a notebook apparently belonging to luigi mangione, a 26-year-old charged with fatally shooting unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson in new york last week. in addition to the relatively short 262 word manifesto obtained by "the new york times", mangione allegedly kept separate notes about his plans for the assassination in a spiral notebook. in that notebook, the former data engineer described plans to go to an "annual parasitic the encounter convention to whack the ceo" including passages that justified his plans for killing thompson and a to-do list of of tasks related to the murder plot. reading in part, "it's targeted, precise and does not risk innocence, reasoning that a bomb for example would be poor planning because it could kill

innocence." also today, a senior law enforcement official said fingerprints taken from the ivy league grad matched some of those found near the manhattan crime scene, trace. >> trace: kevin corke live in d.c., thank you. let's bring in the author of brutal minds, university professor stanley ridgley, along with one of the first female agents in the fbi's behavioral science unit, jana monroe. thank you for coming on. "the new york times" writes the following here, i find it fascinating, it is part of the handwritten note from luigi mangione. quoting here "the suspect saw the killing as a symbolic takedown. according to new york police department internal report that detailed parts of three-page document he likely views himself as a hero of sorts who has finally decided to act upon such injustices." do you think he views himself as a hero? >> i do. definitely, the way he framed

things, when he wrote that in his statement, it's like he's the leader, that other people are disgruntled and upset with the health care system, but he's the one who took action, he's the one who's the leader in this and i think he views himself as a folk hero. >> trace: professor, foxnews.com writes the following on the professor. appeared to share several social media posts fawning over the murder suspect. and one tiktok she smiles while playing the song do you hear the people saying from the famous musical. does this surprise you at all, professor, this behavior you are seeing? >> no, it does not surprise me at all. the doctor for me is a contemptible person. anyone who would encourage and praise young people to assassinate someone who is completely innocent based solely upon ideology, a left-wing

ideology. we know it's a left-wing ideology, anticapitalist aunt -- ideology. this is a brutal mind and i write about people like luigi mangione only in my book. people who are animated, motivated by ideology to harm other people. solely by virtue and in-service to that ideology. >> trace: it's fascinating to me because the notebook he was trying to write in or he wrote in says that he was trying to avoid harming innocence. here's what a neurosurgeon said about that mind-set. listen to this and i will see if you agree. >> you have a 26-year-old fit guy that has an injury and needs care and he may reflect his play -- pain on someone else or blame it on someone else and can escalate to a point of suicidal or even homicidal thoughts. >> trace: according to his notes he clearly saw brian thompson as the enemy and people around him as innocence.

>> absolutely. i think it's very disturbing when he's looking at that lens of his being a hero where he does not what i heard other people. he's a good guy. he doesn't want to hurt anybody who's innocent but he has already tagged who will be the bad guy. in my book i dealt with a lot of people with this kind of mind-set when i was in the behavioral science unit. it's not uncommon, that's his type of introspection and i think the six-month he's bent off the grid, that was probably where he was manifesting more of this ideological fanaticism. >> trace: stanley, the wall street editorial board says "the wall street journal" editorial board said the following, the headline is, that man is of luigi mangione. as many young men also do, he traffic in theories of exploitation and blame that dominate corners of the internet. he saw wisdom not madness in the writings of the notorious unabomber. the manifesto that he allegedly

wrote and that authorities say they found upon his arrest railed against the u.s. health care system. makes sense to you? >> yes, it does. when i was a military intelligence officer in germany we dealt with a gang and what is surprising about them was that these were not ne'er-do-wells, they were some of the most privileged people in german society who were bored with their society, who were ungrateful for the privilege and the wealth that they had access to. someone had to teach luigi mangione this type of ideology, this type of motivation, to kill someone based on that motivation. it wasn't his parents, it was in that church, it wasn't at his job as a data engineer. it was probably at the university of pennsylvania where he was taught probably by people much like the professor, julia alekseyeva. >> trace: there's a lot of bad blood out there for some people in the health care industry.

stanley ridgley, jana monroe, thank you for coming on. meantime fbi director made it official announcing his resignation from the bureau's top job, effective at the end of the biden administration. clearing the path for trump nominee kash patel. senior white house correspondent peter doocy is live in west palm beach with more on that. good evening. >> reporter: trace, good evening. president-elect trump has invited china's president xi jinping to his inauguration next month according to a report on "cbs news", as he celebrates the departure very soon of the fbi director. he wrote on truth social, the resignation of christopher wray is a great day for america as it will end the weaponization of what has become known as the united states department of injustice. trump pressured christopher wray to go and continues to lean on republicans to confirm his nominees. a trump ally tells fox digital there will be no resource that we won't use to go after those who vote against donald trump's

cabinet picks or his other nominees. >> it's time to wipe the slate clean, start over, start fresh, that's what president trump will give them and we will work with him to do that. >> reporter: tomorrow morning the president-elect is going to ring the bell at the new york stock exchange as the newly minted "time" magazine person of the year. we have not been told yet if while in the tri-state area he plans to visit bedminster which is really close to a lot of those reported drone sightings, trace. >> trace: ground zero for some of those drones. peter doocy in west pompeii thank you. let's bring in public affairs senior vice president alexa henning and former house oversight committee chairman, fox news contributor jason chaffetz. welcome to both of you. jason, to you first, the washington time headline says the following, "west point apologizes for administrative error claiming hegseth was not accepted at the academy.

outcome on, jason, west point gave false information to a far left media site and stood by it for a while while this thing kind of, you know, seeped into the bloodstream and then finally said we were wrong. what is going on here? >> that's a total embarrassment. isn't it amazing how it always goes one direction. it always gravitates in that direction. pete hegseth, the more you get to know him, the more you look at his background, the more qualified you understand he is. same with kash patel. they've got substance behind what they've done in the past and that is what i think both should be confirmed and should do so with every republican supporting them. >> trace: it's amazing. moving on because the fox news polling just came out a couple of hours ago. on trump cabinet selections, look at the numbers. do you approve of the selections? approved 47% in 2016 it was only 44%. do you disapprove? it's 50, back in 2016 it was

46%. so there's a little bit more disapproval but more approval. what do you make of those numbers, alexa? >> look, you know, i think we will always talk about the historic victory that president trump accomplished this year, and this is his party, this is his mandate, and his appointees. it should be no surprise to everyone that these are the folks he's choosing. he campaigned with a lot of them. these are his picks that are going to implement his agenda. obviously, you know, i think there is broad support and you have a lot of republican senators saying they are going to confirm all of them. as they should. this is something the american people want and all of the optimism that coming up. i mean i saw a cnn poll today that they are excited and enthusiastic about president trump changing the direction of the company -- country and that obviously includes confirming his nominees. >> trace: you are among the few watching cnn.

i applaud you for that. fox news polling, fbi director christopher wray resigned today and he said this... >> in my view, this is the best way to avoid dragging the bureau deeper into the fray while reinforcing the values and principles that are so important and how we do our work. >> trace: we were all shocked. i mean come on, this was like yep, we knew this was coming. >> well yeah. fidelity, bravery, integrity, that has not thrived under director wray. it really hasn't. i think that is just a fact. a lot of false reporting about a 10-year term. the statute actually says you cannot serve for more than ten years. you get to serve at the discretion of the president of the united states. so donald trump always had the authority to do that. shame on the democrats who tried to pretend that the statute was

something other than what it was. of course he's going to resign. thank goodness. we can't get kash patel in there soon enough. >> trace: cbs news by the way it finally says this, alexa. trump invites china's xi jinping to the inauguration. good move, bad move? what do you think? >> i think that this is classic trump and this is what people love about him. he's going to change the way that america is perceived in the world after joe biden and kamala harris broke it. i think this is a positive sign. he is going to be putting us back on a path of peace and prosperity and strength. and i do want to just clarify that i saw the cnn poll on x, not watching cnn. [laughs] >> trace: i was just kidding you. we are doing a story later about how the viewership is dropping off so we will talk about that. alexa henning, jason chaffetz, thank you. great to have you.

another nfl stars house apparently targeted during monday night football. it follows a string of burglaries at the homes of high-profile athletes. and we just got the frantic 911 call when cincinnati bengals quarterback house was broken into. we will play that for you next. and you've heard of sanctuary cities, what about super sanctuary cities? san diego county doubling down on protecting illegal immi immigrants. and later in the nightcap, tensions rising about the mysterious drones in the skies. congressman jeff van drew suggesting they are very possibly from iran but the pentagon denies any foreign involvement. "fox news at night" finds it interesting that the pentagon does not know where the drones or from but they do know where they are not from. what do you think? let us know x and instagram @tracegallagher. we will read your responses in the nightcap. ♪ ♪ liberty mutual customized my car insurance so i saved hundreds.

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♪ ♪ someone is trying to break into the house. my daughter is there. this is joe burrow's house. she staying there. he's at the game. >> someone trying to break in? >> yes, in the house. >> trace: that's part of the 911 call made by a woman inch -- employed by joe burrow reporting the robbery as it was happening. as he was 1000 miles away leading his team to a "monday night football" victory over the dallas cowboys. it is the latest crime focusing on the homes of star athletes and we will bring you new information about those burglaries and other crimes as it comes into "fox news at night". mean night -- meantime san diego county said to expand beyond the normal century laws making it harder to enforce

laws. christina coleman is live with new information on this. >> reporter: good evening trace. in a 3-1 vote the san diego county board of supervisors voted to expand the states century laws by approving the following policies. they include preventing local law enforcement from talking with federal officials about some pretty basic details like when a violent criminal migrant is released into the community. they would have to go through an additional legal process to get that information. also san diego county will not be allowed to hold migrants for federal authorities who are looking for them. and federal agents would not be allowed to use county offices to conduct screening interviews. >> community trust is one of the tenants of public safety and using county resources to support community members -- to report members puts all of our safety at risk. >> but not everyone feels that way. san diego county supervisor is clearly not a fan of this. he voted against the new rules saying the new policies add a

layer of bureaucracy that hinders law enforcement. >> these policies are just flawed but they are reckless and they endanger every member of our community. let's prioritizes safety over politics. justice over ideology and protection of innocent lives. >> reporter: also saying san diego county is already spending at least $5 million annually of taxpayer money to provide legal council for illegal immigrants facing deportation. a lot of money. >> trace: christina coleman live, thank you. let's bring in california state assembly member carl demaio along with marine corps veteran kate monroe. thank you for coming on. i want to play a bit more sound because jim desmond the only sandy go county commissioner who voted against the super century thing and he had something interesting that he wanted to point out. watch. >> i think this policy goes beyond california's existing sanctuary laws by adding an

additional layer of bureaucracy that hinders local law enforcement from directly notifying i.c.e. about illegal immigrants who are currently in our jails and they have committed heinous crimes. >> trace: what is happening down in san diego? >> insanity. and recklessness that's putting our community endanger. i represent san diego county in the 75th assembly district and my residents are furious because we are now tying the hands of law enforcement. worse than that, a super sanctuary city is basically saying that we are going to have zero contact whatsoever which means that if there are active crimes underway, if we are investigating other crimes that relate to federal government, if the person is possibly here illegally, there can be no cooperation between federal, state and local authorities and that puts us all at risk. also this policy requires that the county investigate law enforcement. this policy is going to require a two year look back of all

law enforcement personnel to see if they've done anything up to this point to violate this. so that sheriff rightfully has said she's not going to cooperate, she's not going to follow this, she's going to do her job and that is to protect our community. >> trace: a lot of people applauding that. meantime you talked to some illegal immigrants at the border, kate. i want to play part of your conversation. we translated it and here is what they said. >> how much did it cost to get here? [speaking another language] >> you pay them and then they brought you here? [speaking another language]

>> trace: $18,000 for four people, they are enriching the cartels, they are bankrupting a lot of cities in the united states. >> correct. all of those people collectively spent $30,000 but what you did not here was after that he said we are just merchandise to them. he was talking about the cartel. but we are the consumer of this merchandise, we are read merchandising the world's migrants for our own benefit. i would love if d.o.g.e. and elon musk would look into this, how is it fair that we are bringing in this cheap labor, decimating all these other businesses, because we want to save made in america, how about made by americans. i would like you to add that tagline. >> trace: san diego of course helping the cartels keep the business going because now they get extra protection when they get in. meantime "the new york times", because they can no longer hurt joe biden or kamala harris, came out with this surprising headline. recent immigration surge has been the largest in u.s. history.

going on to say the immigration surge of the past the years has been the largest in u.s. history surpassing the great immigration boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s according to "new york times" analysis of government data. of course they analyse the government data, you know, after kamala harris and joe biden are out. >> clearly the numbers show this is not sustainable. we absorb at a sustainable rate these many people. we do have legal immigration, we that people and that's good but the illegal immigration is where the numbers are alarming. to your work at the border, kate, bravo because you are exposing the real evil nature of human trafficking. this is a very profitable industry. it's predatory, that these people are then put on the hook for all these money and that's why it's not going to end until we secure the border. >> trace: bill melugin reminds us how dangerous it is, saying exclusive internal i.c.e. data obtained by fox news reveals that nationalities of the more

than 1.4 million illegals in the u.s. who have been ordered to be deported by doj and immigration judges but are still in the u.s., they include 37,900 chinese members who we have no idea, but they want him out which means they are not likely good actors. >> not likely. the 30 times i've been to the border i've seen at least 2000 military age chinese men come across, all carrying the same luggage. i wonder what's in this luggage. but when are we going to stop it? on another note, i defend veterans. i did some research on the way here. in 2023 we spent 450 billion on illegal immigrants. we only spent 301 billion on veterans and there's twice as many veterans so why don't we also look into where all of this money is going? >> trace: carl demaio, kate monroe, thank you. california firefighter struggling to contain a fast-moving firefighter in malibu. thousands of acres burned, thousands forced to evacuate, including celebrities. judge jeanine pirro sits down

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♪ ♪ >> trace: to the breaking news in malibu, california. wildfire burns out of control and southern california, the only major fire burning right now in the u.s. but it's a big one. destroying or damaging dozens of multimillion dollar homes in malibu and displacing celebrities like 98-year-old dick van dyke. at one point forcing 800 students at pepperdine university to shelter in place. the santa ana winds feeling the fire our forecast to end late tonight which will help firefighters get a handle on what they are now calling the franklin fire. breaking news updates as they come into "fox news at night". a jury of your peers, danny, felt unanimously beyond a reasonable doubt that you committed no wrongdoing. what would you say to them?

>> i would like to give them a hug. i would like to thank them definitely. it takes a lot of courage, especially in this climate, in new york city, to stick up for me. >> trace: let's bring in xaviaer durousseau and former white house deputy strategic communications director roma daravi. thank you for coming on. daniel penny is right, for new yorkers to stick up for him is a lot because it's a far left city and sometimes there's pushback but it looks like they did the right thing. >> the word courageous that he used to describe the moment is certainly on point there. we heard some of those 911 calls from people calling in right after this incident occurred and they were praising daniel's actions that day saying thank god he was there, where

are the police? i hate to make this political but there's a reason why we've seen such an uptick in violence. it started years ago during the d found the police movement and it's only gotten worse with the policies of these liberal cities. but it's really no excuse. it's nothing we can stand for and the rhetoric coming from the left and the media is only perpetuating violence against public figures. we've seen violent protests occur, we had a member on the hill attack recently. just this week. it has to be stopped and we need leadership. we need people calling this out and saying it's not to be taken lightly and it needs to be stopped. >> trace: meantime joy reid on msnbc kind of had the following thing to say. watch this. >> go back to the justification for lynching, wearing the uniform. conservatism itself has justified violence. >> trace: conservatism. these are the same people who

have been praising luigi mangione for the past nine days. >> these people are psychopaths. when i look at joy reid it's like the only people i know who lie more than her are cardi b and megan thee stallion and you could say that all three cost kamala the election for that reason. when they say conservatives are always calling for violence, to we have amnesia, did we forget about the billions of dollars in damages done by blm because i'm not joe biden and my memory is intact. >> trace: meantime foxnews.com writes, cnn loses to food network as networks "primetime" viewership languages. despite the busy new cycle, scene ends bleak audience was smaller than tnt, food network, free-form discovery, ins p, hallmark... and fox news. last night msnbc was below cnn. >> and the left can't wrap their

minds around why people are leaving their airwaves. i mean the ratings are dropping so fast that you can't even keep up with it. people are tuning into anything possible just to ignore the lies. you saw that at the polls in november. people came out overwhelmingly in support of president trump and he has called out those lies for eight plus years now. we deserve better from the media, they need to be telling the truth to the american people. now more than ever it's important, especially when it comes to these cabinet picks. let me just say, some of the lies they are pushing about our cabinet nominations are really despicable and these are honorable patriots, fighters that president trump chose to lead the country forward and they deserve better. >> trace: meantime you have "politico" riding the following, donald trump expected to be named "time" magazine's person of the year and to celebrate the unveiling of the cover the president-elect will ring the opening bell of the new york stock exchange on thursday morning. "time" magazine.

it's one of those things where a lot of times people thought that should be trump. the magazines did not give it to him. now it seems they are leaning in that direction. >> because they want their magazine to sell. they are tired of losing their sales because they are constantly trying to alienate an entire side of this country. who else would be viewed as a person of the year? donald trump has sacrificed so much for this country, is nearly lost his life for the nation and for him to have an extremely triumphant win this year, he absolutely is the person of the year. >> trace: xaviaer durousseau, roma daravi, thank you both. tensions rising about the mysterious drones and these guys in as the pentagon denies any foreign involvement, they also don't know what they are. so how can the pentagon claimed the mysterious drones are not from foreign adversaries while also having no answers about their origins? let us know x and instagram @tracegallagher, we will be back with the nightcap crew, including you, next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> trace: back with the nightcap crew, kevin corke, chanley painter, christina coleman, xaviaer durousseau, carl demaio, kate monroe. tonight's topic, game of drones. tensions rising about the mysterious drones in the skies and as the pentagon denies any foreign involvement they also don't know what they are.

how can the pentagon claimed they are not from foreign adversaries while also having no answers about where these things are from? what do you think, chanley painter? >> at this point any explanation, even that martians are controlling these drones, would be a relief because we would have some answers to this. this is unacceptable. >> trace: it really is crazy. >> it is. it's shameful. they know more than they are letting on and the american people deserve to know. why don't they shoot one of these things down and examine it? if they have, tell us. >> trace: they say if they shoot it down it might end up in someone's backyard and they could get hurt. we don't even know what the chinese spy balloon was about and we are looking for info on the drones? >> i know about the military being here in washington. i will never believe they don't know exactly where these came from, what they are, and they are probably ours. >> trace: yeah. it's a very fair assessment. xaviaer durousseau. >> i want to know why the government get so mad at us for

asking them to do their job. we ask them what's happening, they say don't worry about it. it's like when a child asks why and you just tell them don't. like it's grown folks business. we deserve to know. >> trace: it's become a thing where all of a sudden information is not yours to be had. we will tell you when you need to know. >> january 20th could not come sooner. do you think that donald trump would allow this mystery to go on? he would just that there and say we know what it is and this is what it is and they better stop it. one thing i want to point out, the fact that they have safety lights on them. how considerate for the iranian's, the chinese or whoever is behind it, how considerate of them to have safety lights. >> trace: crazy. by the way can we get a better picture? i'm serious. every video is like some spec in this guy. we've got people who can zoom in on anything. >> people are looking for independence day level cinematics. >> trace: that's what i want. 10 feet away, take a camera and shoot it.

unbelievable. -- says we deserve honesty and transparency from our government, how can they not know? frederick, it's ludicrous do not have a firm answer on these drones. -- says it's almost -- it all most has to be our military. jack says the story does not pass the smell test, hopefully the new and administration sheds light. kate, maybe the same people in charge of their audits protect our skies. linda, i think they know and they are just not saying. catherine says, if they were flying over a southern state, they would have their answers. [laughs] >> trace: -- says they need a common sense department. common sense wants to know why we can't get a better picture of these darn things. thank you, thank you for watching america's late news, "fox news @ night". i'm trace gallagher in los angeles and we will see you right back here again tomorrow night. ♪ ♪

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