>> trace: good evening, it's 8:00 on the west coast, 11:00 p.m. here in new york city, and this is

america's late news, fox news at night. and breaking tonight executive orders keep coming including the release of the jfk, rfk, and mlk assassination file. from also pardoning 23 pro-life protesters convicted under the biden justice department or demonstrating outside of abortion clinics. >> president donald trump: many of them are elderly people. >> trace: president trump is about to embark on the first domestic trip of his second term, stopping in north carolina, california, and nevada. >> president donald trump: we will take care of los angeles, i am going there, north carolina has been abandoned by the democrats. we won the battle and that is normally a democrat boat. >> trace: will he meet -- face-to-face with governor gavin who opposes him at every term? >> president donald trump: i

don't know, i haven't even thought about it. >> trace: meantime pete clearing a big hurdle in his effort to become the nation's next secretary of defence, but does he have enough support when the full senate votes tomorrow? plus ice making more than 500 arrests, issuing 400 attain errors in just a few days. we are now learning exactly who has been free to roam the u.s. more on that in moments but first, the national senior correspondent kevin life for us in d.c. with more, and president comes fast and furious first week. >> good evening, what awake, it's not over yet as you know, the president has gone from celebrating his return to the oval office to planning as you have pointed out a coast-to-coast trip for disaster zones and desperate need of

federal assistance. a lesson, is gone from swearing and appointed inaugural address, getting a letter from his predecessor, he has gone from that to pardon, the end of dei, ai infrastructure rollout, it's been quite a week for the president who not only order 1500 troops for the southern border he declassified the decade-old jfk and mlk assassination file. all ahead of plan trips to north carolina and california again as mentioned and, as he has done every day this week the president once again today signed a bevy of executive actions, he also helped court reporters and he even managed to virtually speak with leaders, at the world economic forum, all while preparing to, joust economically and politically with friends and foes abroad, alike including china's.

>> president donald trump: i have -- i would say iran is a different story. >> also the president's pick for director was confirmed by the senate, and his pentagon pick pete also clearing a procedural hurdle, or a final senate vote to advance his confirmation, we of course will be watching that very carefully. meantime real quick trace i want to point out a judge has temporarily halted the plan to end birthright citizenship. >> trace: kevin live in d.c., thank you. tonight we take you on patrol in boston with federal agents as they begin to enforce the presidents new mass deportation policy. bill got exclusive access,

amazing images, and one big surprise! >> we are going to be targeting violent offenders today... >> reporter: during that embed we witnessed ice combating this aggressive person, he had this to say. >> [bleep] trump. >> reporter: j.d. vance reacting to that today running on x, quote, an alien with 17 criminal convictions hates donald trump for sending them back to haiti. white house press secretary caroline also responding posting on the x quote, bye-bye. fox news witnessed make a handful of the rest of other criminal aliens, they included this ms-13 gang member one of

her aggravated murder in el salvador with an interpol red notice out for his arrest. this brazilian egg legal alien also out for his arrest, for armed robbery. this salvadore man arrested locally for and released for jurisdiction. this dominican man charge for assault with a deadly weapon, and heroin trafficking and this guatemalan illegal alien who is in ms-13. an interesting thing that happened, during one of the arrests a woman came out from the neighbourhood, came up to ice and said thank you for making the arrest, ice responded and said, you are welcome but it goes to show even a sanctuary area like boston there are some locals out here that are appreciative of what ice is trying to do. >> trace: thank you let's

bring in princeton university political scientist lauren and rnc national spokesperson elizabeth. thank you both for coming on, lauren to you first i want to play the sound again, we heard a couple times with bill at least weekly parts, of the haitian migrant. he said, he said this! >> i am not going back to haiti, [bleep] trump. >> trace: just to come full circle tom said he is going back to haiti. >> and it made me think about the immigration debate that was unfolding, about whether illegal immigrants commit crimes at higher or lower rates and democrats are missing the point on this. throughout the campaign for a better part of one year. biden staffers had the statistics but the point is it should be zero, there should be zero people like this in the country with that kind of record. even one case is really infuriating to people and so, that is why i think it's really

obvious why the election turned out the way it did. immigration is one of those issues. >> trace: he was thanking the biden, going on from there. elizabeth welcome back, thank you for coming on here is more of trump on hannity, watch. >> president donald trump: it feels good, because i want to be here but because i want to celebrate -- solve problems of wars... we were riding high, look at what has happened to our country now we need to get people out of our country that would've never been here so, i want to do what is best for our country. >> trace: elizabeth when it comes to solving problems his to-do list right now is on fire! >> it really is, it actually goes back to what lauren just said, the democrats completely missed the point and they did not just missed the point in immigration and missed it on so many other issues, the fact is they were hiding from the

problems in the country because they were too scared to be blamed for them. they did not have the courage to go up and mention the fact that people were suffering, they might have some solutions, donald trump went out and was proud to face the american people, face the american public tell them everything and he understands why they are suffering, what issues have been caused by the government in our country, by the way not just by democrats, by republicans as well. to promise he was going to bring solutions, democrats missed the point. the american people want solutions. >> trace: they lost the plot meantime trump releases an assassination assassination file jfk, rfk, mlk, chuck schumer first writing the following on x, our government led by corrupt bureaucrats has hidden this information from the american people for far too long. american deserve to know the truth. what you think? >> i don't know what is in these.

it's good to keep campaign promises and it's good to be transparent so, definitely trump saw the public opinion positive side. >> trace: are you interested? >> of course, i'm as interested as anybody else and i think there is a way to release all of the information and protect the crucial private security oriented names and such. >> trace: so trump goes to the world economic forum elizabeth and he stands up to the men and women in davos here as part of that, watch. >> president donald trump: as you know, by just reading any paper, my message to every business in the world is very simple, come and make your product in america and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on earth. but if you don't make your product in america, which is your prerogative, then very simply you will have to pay a tariff. >> trace: i say, he zoomed in from washington, d.c., but he

set the tone and the tenor of that form. >> is in a such a mystery how the man has set up the united states of america and is president again. it's crazy to me that people did not see this coming, one candidate has hid from the idea of defending our nation for so many elections now and another man comes out and says its going to be america first and american people first. that's why he won, that is why he is going to keep waiting for the next four years. >> trace: it's amazing, was a bit, lauren you both for coming on. the common sense department wonders if cnn has finally decided that trashing trump 24/7 it's bad for business. it turns out cnn boss mark thompson reportedly had to warn his lead anchors, not to quote, express outrage during the trump inauguration.

common sense things when you have to order your journalists to be fair, it's bad for journalism, it's bad! maybe that's why cnn anti-trump anchor jimmy was left off, cnn new programming programming schedule. maybe that's why cnn had to fire hundreds of employees. maybe that's why cnn is overhauling its lineup, but here's the weird thing, cnn is changing its lineup that, is not changing it's a dead last in ratings prime time lineup. chief executive mark thompson is now promising to steer cnn away from it's reliance on traditional television. cnn is steering clear of television, because the country steering clear of cnn on television. seemed shortsighted like selling tequila but swearing off bottles. it's totally blind to pivot towards the digital future but presently people still watch television, the former most trusted name in news failed to

learn at the big lesson of last year's election. which is when all you do is trash trump, you go the way of biden-harris. let's bring in the federalist election correspondent breanna and "new york post" reporter, lydia. great to see you in person, thank you for coming on. cnn literally kind of moving the deck chairs breanna, shuffling things around didn't know what to do, they are going digital, it's kind of a train wreck over there but the whole concept of having to warn your anchors, that you need to not be outraged at the inauguration is silly. >> this is a purported news networks saying, we are going to tried to do something crazy, be journalists and what this directive is is an admission that cnn has not been acting as journalist for the past decade they have been acting as propaganda. they took every opportunity they had to align donald trump to denigrate conservatives and republican party for the past

decade, and now they are reaping what they sell and they are trying to backpedal and pretend like they have some kind of credibility, they have no good ability. stranger things have happened but i'm not hopeful. >> trace: by the way, the new president trump held another news conference today, here is a little like a little bit of that and we will get your take on it. >> does it bother you elon musk criticized you that you made publicly? >> president donald trump: no, it doesn't. >> trace: he will answer anything from anyone, it's a novel concept right? >> i'm old enough to remember when biden would get on stage very rarely, this may be happen once a year, so he could now look questions were going to be asked of them, when you see president trump clearly is made for this job, he can discuss

anything from foreign policy to artificial intelligence, to tiktok he doesn't know what they are going to throw at him and bear in mind this is a press courts that is been adversarial to him. he is so confident in these issues, he knows these issues so thoroughly, he knows what he is doing so thoroughly, he can speak to anything, oftentimes often times while he is literally signing executive orders. >> trace: confidence is up, sky-high meantime the woman on the view has got the whole edi policy ending thing a little backwards here's what she said. >> i would love to think that there is no racism but the people who do hiring in the government and corporations in america. but that is not the case, i would love to think there is no homophobia, but that is not the case and by getting rid of this and doing it in such a bold way on day one, what he is doing is giving a green light to people

who are racist, to people who are homophobic, to people who are anti-women. >> trace: she's missing it because it has nothing to do with the racism or homophobia, it has to do with the quality and rights, is what martin luther king jr. said, everybody should be treated equally. >> donald trump, he wants meritocracy and jill biden was on the view recently and he said ... she checked off a dei balked because it was checked off united states of four years had constant decline, record high inflation, illegal border crossing, crime levels, and she wants that to be the blueprint for the government going forward? does she not see how disastrous it it was? >> trace: i don't think she does. lydia said this about their old friend joe biden, watch.

>> get out of the way, the parties moving on, he created this himself. he has nobody to blame but himself. >> trace: we didn't play the first 15 or 22nd, it was scathing, there was his bitterness, built up among democrats and they can't let it go. >> they have turned on him remember when the talking point for a few months was, it was noble that he was stepping down but now he's lost power, he is gone for good and people are saying, what they really think. so, it's the democrats who were kind of eating their own here, i think they are right, criticizing him for pardoning his family going back on promises that he already made but, think the issues that they are facing are so much deeper then joe biden. if it was just him, it would be fine but this is an entire party that is in disarray, without a leader, it is easy to blame the guy who is now gone good. but it does not seem like there is much of a plan forward.

>> trace: tigre point because he is gone, you are clearly mental system. lydia, breanna, thank you. >> president donald trump: i would be open to it, we're going to be meeting with the congressmen, women, but i am open to it. >> trace: a spring former l.a. g.o.p. vice chair and actor, can you hear me? -- let's bring in former l.a. g.o.p. vice chair and actor, can you hear me? you were charged with for misdemeanours of the january 6 thing, you -- your court date

was this week, now you are free, would you think of these pardon? >> it's a long time coming, so many of us have gone through has been nothing but disastrous. and a coldhearted by the former biden regime and today's my birthday so i would like to say this feels so great to be 45 and free today! >> trace: that's amazing. happy birthday to you. jonathan said this about the january sixth prosecutors, watch. >> shock and awe campaign, they scooped up hundreds of people, they often demanded really excessive sense in my view, most of these people were charged with trespassing and unlawful entry, most of them were nonviolent. >> trace: see right?

>> 100%. even with my case, all i did was walk onto the ground, and took a selfie and videotaped it, i stepped two or 3 feet in for 71 seconds. i was rated for the f -- i was rated by the fbi. i was arrested on the burbank airport tarmac. all the wasted money, all that manpower it was so excessive, it was a shock and they were trying to break the american people. >> trace: on the flip side peggy has the following to say, conservatives are tough on crime because of the pain does -- the pain and disorder it causes. january 6 shamed us in the eyes of the world, this was not a patriotic act.

>> she does not have a point. i've seen footage myself of many people being set up by the capitol police and the d.c. police that were there, i find it very hilarious that we don't talk about the individuals responsible for security and how good a place seen as a secure area, how to such a huge security breach, to have people able to walk in a wide open door just like i did. how come nobody is talking about that. individuals that were attacked first many of them were shot with rubber bullets, just standing around, two men died of heart attacks that day. one person was trampled and beat over the head by capitol police, she ended up dying that day. when these people talk about it's a scar on our country, when they look and find out the

honeypot that was created by our own government, we should be sick, that will be the embarrassment that everybody needs to seek. >> trace: great to have you on, thank you. coming up more california residents facing evacuation orders tonight, as firefighters battle new fires, and later in the nightcap donald trump signing an executive order to release more jfk, and mlk assassination files, what do you think? is it a good idea or a bad idea? would you be interested or fascinated and what they had to say? let us know x and instagram, we will read your responses coming up in the nightcap!

>> trace: breaking tonight the red flag wildfire warnings continue throughout parts of southern california tonight as a new brushfire ignites now in ventura county. christina's live with the latest run down of the fires, at evening. >> good evening trace, a fast-moving brushfire broke out today in ventura county forcing the evacuation of the university campus of cal state channel islands and camarillo, this fired the laguna fire is 70% contained. the evacuation order was downgraded to a warning after crews gained ground on the flames, also breaking out near the famed getty center up the 405 freeway in los angeles overnight scorching about 45 acres, that fire is 60% contained crews made progress on that fire very quickly, meantime gusty santa ana winds continue to fuel the large fires burning about 40 miles north of los angeles, scorching more than 10,000300 acres -- 10,300 acres.

the fire is 36% contained, the coordinated ground and air attack kept it from spreading even further after it started yesterday morning. >> i was up in an area where it initially started and we had to get into a safety zone because it was jumping the road and cutting off our escape routes so extremely dangerous, especially in the beginning stages of the fire. >> also most are under a red flag warning for critical fire risk until tomorrow morning. >> trace: thank you let's bring in california g.o.p. associate delegate and l.a. g.o.p. central committee member elizabeth. along with california state assembly member, thank you both for coming on. elizabeth here are parts of your

speech, this is what you said in a neighbourhood council meeting, we have the sound let's play it right now. >> we all live here, we know you have a, the speaker has come here tonight begging you to do clearings around here in your responses, we cannot make any promises, we are not going to clear the acreage, it's not good for the environment and we live in a fire zone. >> trace: it's astonishing because the sound bite was longer elizabeth but the whole scene here was, these officials will refuse to clear any brush. >> yes, we have had residents the live in our area for decades and they remember every year when somebody would come in clear the brush. the dead brush. about 10 years ago, they started slowing them down and a completely stopped. you just played footage of a fire, that broke out on that

very hillside an hour after that meeting. where resident after resident were coming to bag the officials that were there, representatives from our city council members offices, and supervisor office, as well as representatives from the santa monica mountain conservancy which is the big land that they are not clearing and they told us in the meeting, they were which is really what cent me over the edge because we know they are not. >> trace: it's been devastating to a lot of homes and a lot of families. carl, the president's coming out of california tomorrow and you believe the president should tie any aid to california to changing the policy of fire management and the state of california, explain that. >> unless we change the policies of the negligent approach that california liberal politicians have brought to our state, on

fire management, these disasters are going to continue to happen, more losses, more lives lost, we released a plan this week called prevent, respond and rebuild, a comprehensive plan to fireproof california, getting exactly what elizabeth talked about, let homeowners have a right to clear defensive space and required the government do it's job on public land, second under respond, we need to make sure we have the water and firefighters staffing in place to respond to fires and third, there is a reason why the same house costs three times the amount of money in california compared to texas, california's insane regulations and insane building code means these homeowners have lost everything, many of them will not be able to afford to rebuild, we have to slash those regulations, we have to do the prevent, respond and rebuild plan, we are going to have any chance of recovering. >> trace: very quickly, the

food and water watch that the following quoting, if trump was truly interested in supporting he should start by accepting the climate change, instead of rolling back our country's climate policy and doubling down on his support of the fossil fuel industry, whose pollution helps create the perfect conditions for these mega disasters in the first place. climate change did not do all of this, elizabeth i have about 20 seconds for you to answer this. >> climate change did not take four hours to get to the fire or eight hours to call them the off-duty officers. or one day to bring in the northern california firefighters or two days to call in the national guard. this narrative is false, and it is designed to avoid accountability at the ballot box and liability because they are all getting sued. >> trace: carl? >> it's not climate change when

you don't allow people to clear defensible space, it's not climate change when the water is not there, it certainly not climate change would you charge somebody three times to rebuild their home, such that they can afford it. california democrats voted down a 1 billion-dollar to clear the brush from a lot more communities to prevent the loss of these homes, and they are very clearly they don't give a damn about the victims of these fires and more fires are going to start hurting more people. >> trace: it is astonishing, thank you both. coming up the executive order that one federal judge calls unconstitutional in the upcoming court battle and what is washington, d.c., think about president trump saying, goodbye dei. our fox news a night crew doing research tonight in the nation's capital, what we found out is next.

>> trace: federal judge ruling

against one of the president's executive orders tonight, now the white house congress and the courts and immigration advocates are all gearing up for a fight over trump's desire to redefine birthright citizenship, correspondent an attorney live with the legal details on this, that evening. >> good evening, the federal judge in seattle wasting no time about how he feels regarding at trump's ban on birthright citizenship saying this, quote, i have been on the bench for over four decades, i can remember another case that presented a question as clear as this one, this is a blatantly unconstitutional order. the judge granting a temporary restraining order requested by four democrat led states who filed suit earlier this week, challenging the birthright been as a violation of the 14th amendment which the federal government has long interpreted to mean those born on american soil are citizens of earth. the lawsuit is just one of several filed this week on the issue including other one from the coalition of 18 democrat

states suing trump . if trump's order is allowed to take affect babies born to illegal immigrants or those who were here legally but on a nonimmigrant visa would not be citizens by birthright. so now the fight continues from all sides. the doj attorney responded with this, the department of justice will vigourously defend president trump's eo which interprets the 14th amendment of the united states constitution, we look forward to presenting the full merit argument to the court and in this temporary block is one of first of many steps that will likely end up in front of the supreme court. >> trace: what is your guess, yes or no? thank you. doj police back on the streets tonight, you can see the animation, talking to d.c. residents a lot more angry president trump for dismantling dei, they found out how much

they are paying for. >> i think it goes against everything should be believing in as a country. >> i think it's a beautiful thing, you when he's not being clear on what he means about shutting down. >> he's a monster who has already been destroyed valuable things in our country. >> it so you do not support in getting rid of dei? >> no. -- so you do not support him getting rid of di? >> no.

what you think about the billions and billions of dollars that is going towards of these dei programs? >> trillions. >> do you think it might put more money in the taxpayers wallets? >> no. >> 1 million? >> higher. >> 2 million? >> higher. >> it 3 million? -- 3 million? >> i would like to know what trump is interested in, if he knows it all. >> perhaps securing our southern border, do you say goodbye dei?

>> trace: much higher! let's bring in gun owners of america federal affairs director aidan and the host of the show filmmaker robbie, thank you both, you posted this on x, big news a whistle-blower has alerted me that the nsa's attempting to hide their di program by renaming it, the equal employment opportunity and accessibility group. as you can see the training is the same and within it you find dei as trade craft, that is the banner that was later on and by the way, this is -- this has now been taken down what is your thought on this? >> well i think this is something we are seeing across many agencies, it's an attempt to burrow dei under many names because they are trying to say that. i think the trump administration also knows how important it is and it's why it was one of the first orders of business to get rid of it and i think they are going to be very unpleasantly

surprised when they realize how quickly we have figured out all the schemes to try and hide it. >> trace: have you had this? your belief is that atf alcohol and firearms is trying to hide its dei program as well, explain that for us. >> we caught the atf giving their chief diversity officer the title change, they refer to her as a senior executive and keeper on and of course president trump's that all of the ai employees had to go on paid administrative leave as of 5:00 p.m. yesterday. atf is not complying, this is a rogue federal agency, they are not going to listen to trump about di -- about the di -- about the dei mean time... >> trace: customs border protection renaming their diversity and inclusion web page

to special emphasis program at some point between january 21st in the early morning of january 23rd according to web archives, change the name, if you get caught, you take it down. >> you know it's beautiful? these people are actually helping us identify who is behind this beast. you were going to see very quickly a lot of moves made to remove these people from service so they are no longer in the federal government, us out the easiest thing to do the president trump does not do easy, we're going to do the hard things that are necessary to get rid of these people because ultimately, i see this as a national security concern. if you have these people and government and they are directly disobeying the orders of the president that is treason, is a direct threat to our concern -- to our nation not just because we are hiring people that are not fit for the job through dei because you have a group of people in the federal government that are directly disobeying the president on purpose. >> trace: now the atf chief diversity officer apparently got

a title change, so maybe we can put this on the screen, atf chief diversity officer, that's the first one, lisa you see over there that the title is a senior executive. this has been taken down. >> this agency is just never going to listen, they actually initiated a van on millions of pistol race to guns without the president's approval and the white house had to lock it back. here in the first day of his new administration they are ignoring his executive order on dei that's why j.d. vance and elon musk are asking the question, should the atf even exist? and the answer is no, it should be abolished. >> trace: thank you both. president of examining -- president trump signing to release jfk files, good idea, bad idea? would you be interested in what they have to say?

would you take a look, are you fascinated, let us know x and instagram we are going to read your responses coming up in the nightcap. nds. (vo 2) viking. exploring the world in comfort.

>> trace: we are back with the

nightcap crew kevin, christina, lauren, lydia, elizabeth, little time fast answers tonight's topic secrets revealed trump signing an executive order to release jfk and mlk assassination files, good idea, bad idea, would you be interested, kevin? >> yes and i think it will be a little less exciting than people may think but i cannot wait to. >> trace: i think bring them on, i will read every word and figure out what's going on. >> transparency is going to help this country, let's see what we got. >> trace: i agree, christina. >> i think it's a great idea, i am super interested and the more transparency the better. >> trace: now the answer does not have to be that short, elizabeth? >> the careful what you wish for. i will just say, faith in our major institutions at an all-time low so i think is important, it's a step in the

right direction to solve that in this is the reason so many people from the left cross over to president trump, it's for actions like that. >> trace: lydia? >> conspiracy theories run a ramp head when you don't have any sort of transparency so it's going to be great, let's see what's in these files and it's been long enough, it's been about 60 years? even if there is something problematic in there, that person will not be employed by the government, anymore. i think we should go a step further, i want to know what happened during 9/11. the national archives keep saying we know 97% of these files so i think the 3% will be disappointing to the conspiracy theorists. interesting nonetheless. >> trace: what about you? >> wholeheartedly i cannot wait to read them.

may be people are active still. >> trace: long overdue the truth be told the matter -- no matter what it is is time to put an end to this. i would be interested in the jfk and rfk but i don't think they will help much information and anything important will be redacted. he's crushing in on level we love the transparency and the authenticity. it's going to open a can of worms, the democrats don't want, i think it's past time the more they try to keep it secret, the bigger the conspiracy. i'm interested but concern to what is in these documents, we might not like what we find. we have been waiting for years, bring them on! thank you for watching america's late news, fox news and nights. good night. ♪ ♪

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