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at night". enjoy her life after because i don't think you will be elected in politics. >> trace: resident trump teaching the governor of maine a lesson after doubling down on an issue the vast majority of americans agree on. we will show you the full interaction in moments. plus, d.o.g.e. racking up more legal wins and piling up more billions in savings. >> we have 1 person at 360 which is strange because the country is to 50. hundred 10 years older then the country. >> trace: while not scenting dead people social security checks may seem like common sense, democrats have clearly lost all sense. >> the fact that i'm rooting for canada and i'm rooting for mexico a lot is really wild but they are really the ones that are speaking truth to power right now. >> trace: disturbing new details on the deaths of 9-month-old -- and his 4-year-old brother.

>> the terrorist did not shoot the 2 young boys. they killed them with their bare hands. >> trace: hamas now claiming they handed over the real body today after returning the remains of an unidentified gazan woman yesterday. alexandria half is live with more on hamas psychological warfare and donald trump playing hardball with world leaders and u.s. governors like -- alexandria hoff -- >> reporter: this has broken the collective part of the global community, that after these children were murdered, they had to suffer another loss that is being sent back to israel without their mom. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said we all ache with the pain that is mixed with rage, we are all angry at the monsters of hamas. in saudi arabia talks continue between the trump administration and russian officials on how to end the war in ukraine. president trump saying earlier this week he's confident a deal will be made.

>> russia wants to do something, they want to stop the barbarian's him. what's going on over there, it's soldiers are being killed by the thousands on a weekly basis. >> reporter: on the domestic front, a standout moment happened today as president trump spoke to state governors, remarking on executive action he took that keeps males out of female sports and facilities and then called out maine's democratic governor. >> are you not going to comply? >> i will comply with state federal laws. >> reporter: after the exchange the department of education announce it's launched an investigation into potential title ix violations by the state of maine. depending on how the fight goes, main stands to lose up to $250 million in federal funding. >> trace: alexandria hoff live in new york, thank you. let's bring in former trump white house official and political commentator camryn kinsey along with republican strategist luke ball. luecke, i want to run down. we will start with d.o.g.e. and

i think it's kind of fascinating because you have this scenario, but this on the screen, where you have in 2020 for the biden epa awards a 2 billion-dollar grant to power forward communities. rewiring america then receives 490 million in funding from power forward. in 2023, stacy abrams joins rewiring america as a senior council and in 2022 stacy abrams said this to cnn... >> i intend to push for environmental resilience and this is a bill that will help us do that but overall it will put money back into the pockets of georgians, americans, and that's the progress we need to continue to make. >> trace: a lot of people are wondering if that money went in the pockets of georgians or to the money go in the pockets of somebody else. >> it amazes me that if 1 of the things that d.o.g.e. uncovered happen in corporate america it would be kids -- considered white collar crime but if you call it a federal grant and run

it to the federal government everything is hunky-dory. something to point out about --, this is our boston tea party. we through tea into the harbor back in the boston tea party and now we are throwing port into the potomac. these are the harder and paychecks, the hard-earned dollars of the american people. you would have to bundle together hundreds of thousands of dollars of blue-collar paychecks to equal 1 line item on the waist, abuse and fraud that d.o.g.e. has uncovered. i hope we find a whole lot more. >> trace: they found a whole lot more in the education system. this is the department of government efficiency, schools have spent nearly $200 billion of covid really funds with little oversight or impact on students. 393,000 to rent out a major league baseball stadium. 86,000 in caesar's palace hotel rooms, 60,000 in swimming pool passes, even then ice cream truck. all of this money drawn with 0 documentation. it's 1 of those things where you are like forget the test scores being at a world record low, they are wasting all of this

money and there's a reason test scores are down. >> they are not focused on the right things and i think this is why so many americans don't trust the government especially when it comes to government spending. luckily we have under the trump administration the department of government efficiency exposing corruption. now we know why the left did not want oversight. this is absolutely absurd and i'm glad that we are bringing attention to the matter because it's gotten out of hand. >> trace: the president said this today on brian kilmeade's radio show about lot amir zelenskyy. watch. >> i've been watching for years and i've been watching him negotiate with no cards. he has no cards. and you get sick of it. you get sick of it. i've had it. >> trace: a lot of people kind of going after the president saying he's been kind of hard on zelenskyy but yet "the wall street journal" reporting tonight that white house and ukraine are very close to a deal for these mineral rights, very key to the

united states, and for ukraine as well. so it seems like they are still talking and negotiating. >> it's unfortunate that zelenskyy gave us a master class and how not to negotiate with president trump. he essentially called him a fool saying he was falling for russian propaganda. this is not how to win friends and influence people. this is keystone cop tactics he's had to this point in some a crucial to remember, before the trump administration there was no table to bring these two individuals to. putin and zelenskyy would not engage in talks but because president donald trump has come to the table as the negotiator, they've been willing to come here. my question is how do we stop world war iii because we don't need zelenskyy being the straw that breaks the camel's back in the archduke friends ferdinand of world war iii. >> trace: meantime we promised that we would play this back-and-forth between the president and the governor of maine. they were kind of going toe-to-toe over transgender.

males and female sports. watch this. >> are you not going to comply? >> i'm complying with state and federal law. >> we are the federal law. you better do it because you are not going to get any federal funding if you don't. every state -- i will see you in court, i look forward to that. that should be an easy one. enjoy your life after because i don't think you will be unelected politics. >> trace: the administration is going after main but the whole thing here is this was posted, main received four plus building in federal funding last year and they are willing to throw it away if it means boys can steal from, violate and trample on girls. quite the hill to die on. she ends by saying not a dime. main could lose this fight. >> absolutely. if they are willing to go to such lengths, let them expose their true colors, let them take trump to court. i bet that ends up just as well as it did for george

stephanopoulos. is it a hill they want to die on? probably not. probably not the smartest decision for them but it goes to show their motives. they are willing to put a radical left agenda over protecting females in their own spaces. that goes to show that they don't care about women. >> trace: thank you both. listen, my thought is that i'm still black in america and i'm not playing games. i am going to walk the straight and narrow for a number of reasons. number 1 i have morals about myself and number 2 i know they would love an opportunity to lock me up. i would be the exception to the rule. you are right, canada has really been the one to call it out. the fact i'm rooting for canada and mexico a lot is really wild but they are really the ones that are speaking truth to power right now. >> trace: democratic member of our congress admitting she's a bigger fan of canada and mexico then she is of donald trump's america. let's bring in california family council outreach director sophia

lorey and the author of what's killing america, seattle talk radio host jason rantz. thank you for coming on. jason, jasmine crockett. she's a congresswoman in this country and she saying publicly that she's rooting for mexico and rooting for canada. is she trying to become the new -- issue trying to stir things up or what's the goal here? >> i suspect she's heard all the stupid things that aoc has said and said here hold my beer and now she's leaning in and trying to be just as outrageous and just as insane and offensive. you are right, you represent this country and you are telling me you are rooting for canada. telling me you are rooting for mexico. what exactly is that supposed to inspire from her constituents? if she thought that something was wrong she would then fight this administration and push something forward but all she's ever done is run her mouth. she doesn't have anything to say other than these silly comments that she knows is going to get

picked up. but it's just really a cover for not doing anything. she talks a good talk and then she does nothing. >> trace: i think you are right because it does get picked up, she gets notoriety and people start following her on social media. meantime former g.o.p. congressman joe walsh said something so strange on cnn that even cnn had to defend donald trump. here it is. >> donald trump is saying everything vladimir putin would say. and you mention the american people generally don't care about what's going on over there. the american president right now could be a plant, could be a russian asset. if the american people don't care about that, -- >> the thing is, we don't have evidence of that. >> we don't have evidence he's our russian plant. >> it's so interesting. cnn i think has finally realized

that the american people are tired of being lied to by the media and so it probably paint him to say that, to correct this misinformation. cnn loves to spread misinformation but americans are over it. >> trace: joe scarborough saying republicans don't want what trump and elon musk are delivering. here's what he said. >> this idea that republicans, all republicans want to guy wielding a chainsaw and slashing nih budgets, slashing aid budgets. i will say that's not what a lot of republicans voted for donald trump or. >> trace: i don't know, i see the numbers and republicans seem to be enjoying all of the winning, jason. >> they certainly do. joe scarborough, did he not say before the election that voters don't want donald trump, no interest in what he's selling to the american people and then overwhelmingly voters said we do because he's following through with the promises he's made

instead of for decades, both parties have said that they want to cut wasteful spending, they go -- want to go after that and then have done nothing. he's coming in and showing results and showing receipts which is what upsets folks like joe scarborough the most. he's saying this is what we are cutting, which highlights the absolute lunacy coming from folks in d.c. on how they've been spending money. >> trace: it's very true. james carville is advising democrats just to play possum. watch. >> i'm telling democrats, sit there, play possum, let him go, let him go. poll numbers are declining, the collapses underway. >> trace: they are keeping fingers crossed and they may have to wait a long time for this to go there way. >> absolutely. it's kind of nice that the democrats are finally playing possum. let them be quiet and do nothing and watch the country succeed at

their loss. >> trace: sophia, jason, thank you both. meantime democrats continue pursuing challenges to elon musk department of government efficiency even as they continue to lose in court. chanley painter is live in new york with the latest on this. >> reporter: overall it's been a week of wins for d.o.g.e. in federal court. so far a judge in d.c. has denied a request to blocked out from department of education student borrower data while another judge has denied a request to blocked out from accessing sensitive records from the department of labor, hhs and consumer financial protection. d.o.g.e. has also scored wins after judges denied request to block the agency from firing federal workers and accessing federal data. just this afternoon a federal judge in d.c. cleared the way for d.o.g.e. in the trump administration to remove thousands of usaid workers off the job after removing a

temporary hold on enforcement, writing this, plaintiffs have not demonstrated that they or their members will suffer irreparable injury or that their claims are likely to succeed on the merits. it's another example of the federal court recognizing it does not have the authority to step in at this stage. but also just in tonight a judge issued a setback for d.o.g.e. after granting a preliminary injunction preventing the agency from accessing treasury department payment records. while that cases litigated on the merit. something the trump administration will likely appeal as a next step. >> trace: chanley painter live in new york, thank you. ♪ ♪ the "fox news @ night" common sense department is not the least bit surprised that los angeles mayor karen bass fired los angeles fire chief kristin crowley. we knew it was coming ever since the chief went public after the

devastating fires saying the city failed its residents. common sense is very surprised that the reason the mayor gave for losing confidence in the chief. the reason is because the mayor claims the chief never warned her about the potential for catastrophic fires. never warned her? did the mayor need another warning, did she need a tutorial on the potential effects of severe santa ana winds? because the weather service, new stations, newspapers and even freeway signs rang the alarm about extremely dangerous conditions days before the mayor went to africa. those same weather services and same news outlets upgraded the warning on january third, a day before the mayor went to africa. to add insult to catastrophe, the mayor's office posted its own alert before the fire started. it seems unbelievable that the mayor did not believe her own people, did not believe the experts, did not believe the forecast. now common sense does not

believe the mayor. chief crowley wasn't fired for not sounding the alarm, she was fired for sounding the truth because in politics honesty is now a fire a bullet fence. let's bring in fixed california senior advisor political analyst and attorney katie zacharia. great to have you on the show. i want to play some sound to give mayor bass or do here. this is talking about the chief and the fire debacle. watch. >> we all know that 1000 firefighters that could have been on duty on the morning the fires broke were instead sent home on the chiefs watch. these actions required her removal. >> trace: it's kind of amazing. she was in ghana and she's telling the chief you did not do enough for the fires while you were here. it's kind of baffling. >> absolutely baffling and i think it's really disturbing to see the fact that the mayor was

gone. it is simply the captain of the ship being on the shore watching the ship go down and blaming the ship for going down and all of the crew on the ship. the mayor continues with the gaslighting. she knows the fire hydrants were empty, she knows the reservoir was empty and in fact the captain was indicating to her that we need more fire staff and she cut the budget by 18 million. >> trace: it seems to me that california has this just kind of i don't know what it is, they just passed a balk all the time. they have a propensity to pass the buck. >> and until she is held accountable, this is going to continue happening. >> trace: meantime for your lawyer hat if you could put it back on, i want to put this on the screen, these are d.o.g.e. legal wins. legal domination really. the judge denied request to block d.o.g.e. from education department, denied request to

stop federal worker firings, denied requests to block d.o.g.e. from labour department, hhs and consumer protection bureau, and a judge who doesn't like donald trump denied request to block d.o.g.e. access to federal data. even the judges that don't like trump were like you don't really have a standing here, what a my going to do? >> i love to see the wins, to see these judges have to follow the law and say okay we know that d.o.g.e. can have access here and we are not going to issue a temporary restraining order. three of those judges are obama appointed judges so this is an historic moment for d.o.g.e. we are seeing small wins right now. until they litigate on the merits. but i think we are going to continue to see success. >> trace: i wonder if you think, because there have been threats, the federal government, trump has been saying with his bullet train, saying we are going to claw back the money because the bullet train is a boondoggle. other states are saying the

same, we will go and take back the federal money that you are wasting on these boondoggle projects. is that easier said than done, is it something that is going to happen, will the states lose a lot of this money? >> i think that president trump is going to be able to do it. i look at the situation with ukraine and how he's been able to say we want to expose a lot of the fraud that's going on with the money. if he can do that with ukraine i hope he can with california and where we've misspent our money with a bullet train. i think that there has to be accountability because this has been one of the most ineffective ridiculous projects we've ever seen. he calls it the bullet train to nowhere because they have made almost zero progress. >> trace: for those who don't know, it was supposed to go from la to san francisco in record time and now from outside bakersfield, haven't laid a foot of track, spent close to 20 billion and the total price tag will be like 110 billion. katie zacharia, thank you. new reports from israel showing that hamas terrorists

murdered the young boys with their bare hands. william jacobson joins us next and dhs secretary kristi noem signing a memo this week to ramp-up deportation and secure the border. christina coleman is here with an update on that. later in the nightcap, james carville advising, you may have heard it, democrats to be nice, to play possum right now. because the republican collapse is already underway. we want to know what you think. is this an effective strategy? is the collapse underway? let us know x and instagram @tracegallagher. we will read your responses coming up in the nightcap. ♪ ♪

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reportedly over frustration with the pace of migrant arrests. christina coleman is live with the effort to increase the crackdown. >> reporter: a shake-up at i.c.e. a spokesperson for dhs said the acting director of i.c.e. is no longer in it administrative role. he is however overseeing all filled in enforcement operations, finding, arresting and supporting illegal aliens. white house officials note that i.c.e. arrests have gone up significantly since trump took office but they say they want to do more to crack down on illegal immigration. >> we've got 700,000 illegal aliens walking the streets of this country with criminal convictions. we have to arrest more, we have to increase targeting and operations. we have to take sanctuary cities on. they don't help. >> reporter: today president trump reiterating his efforts to crack down on border violence, cartels and drug smuggling. >> our new administration has

taken unrelenting action to fix every single disaster that we inherited, and we inherited a lot of them. the border i think is the most difficult one a ball. on day one i declared a national emergency on our southern border to stop the invasion of our country. >> reporter: since president trump took office to february eighth, arrest of illegal aliens with criminal histories have soared by nearly 100% compared to the very same time period last year during the biden administration. quite the turnaround. >> trace: big time. we will talk more about that. thank you. let's bring in former acting i.c.e. director jonathan fahey. great to have you on the show. acting i.c.e. director was reassigned and tom homan talked about what the goal in this was about. watch. >> we want more arrests and more action and i won't rest, i won't rest until every criminal illegal alien is eradicated from the country. the numbers are looking good but

not good enough. i'm not satisfied and will keep pushing. >> trace: can they get the numbers up, to they have the resources? >> they can get the numbers up and they are up drastically in such a short period of time. they haven't really fully implemented all of the resources they have. you saw kristi noem is having 600 department of state agents join i.c.e. to help with arrests. they are going to enlist local law enforcement, state and local law enforcement and possibly deputized them to also help in be a force multiplier because not only will that be additional manpower but they will know the communities much better to find the most serious criminals. overall the big point here is that it shows how committed donald trump is to this issue. it wasn't just a campaign promise, he knows that we need to deport the most serious criminals to make our streets safer from them but also to deter crime from people who are here. he's committed to doing this and doing it fast which is in the

interest of the american people. >> trace: you talk about the most serious criminals. j.d. vance was at cpac going over the reasoning behind getting tough on the border. he said the following... >> so many of our issues come back to the border because if you take 30, 40 million illegal aliens, you take medicare fraud, social security fraud, why are we taking the people with social security payments and giving it to illegal aliens? get illegal aliens out of the country and make sure american tax dollars go to american people. that is how you solve the fiscal crisis in the united states. >> trace: is it a fair point? would you agree? >> it is a phenomenal point and it doesn't get made enough. we do have a national security issue but the financial cost to the american taxpayers, the last time it was measured in 2023 it was 150 billion taxpayer dollars going to illegal aliens. this is money that could be

going to american citizens. that doesn't include things like the decreased access to medical care, decreased quality of education because of overcrowded schools. it's a great point and one way -- we are in essence saving money or at least in the aggregate for american taxpayers. >> trace: meantime i want to put this up on the screen because it's so important. this is a look at the average dealer port -- daily border crossings. now you look at 359. this is each day. it is very successful as we started this conversation off. >> it's amazing. it really is jaw-dropping. we are down to a few hundred per day. we had some days during the biden administration that were around 12, 13,000 per day so it really shows what focusing on the issue means. in addition to the democrats

being disappointed, who has really taken the hit are these cartels because they were making anywhere between 7-9000 per head for each person they smuggled to the border so they are getting crushed and it's a great way to take it to the cartels. we are having more resources to focus on drugs and other things coming across the border it so it's a huge win in a short period of time. >> trace: we will talk to bill bennett about the cartels as the former first drugs are of the country. thank you for your time, we appreciate it. >> thank you. contrary to hamas is lies, they were not killed in an air strike, they were murdered by terrorists in cold blood. the terrorist did not shoot the two young boys, they killed them with their bare hands. afterwards, they committed

horrific acts to cover up this atrocity. >> trace: yeah. this is being talked about around the world. israel revealing new levels of disgust concerning the killings of two very young jewish boys at the hands of hamas. let's bring in equal protection project founder and cornell university law professor william jacobson. professor, great to have you on the show. i want to put this up because i just want to ask you, when you hear that sound bite, what do you think of hamas killing these children with their bare hands and how does it affect the relationship with israel and to the cease-fire? >> well it reflects the depraved enemies israel has. these are crimes that are really ices level sort of crimes and it's done throughout gazan society. on october seventh, most of the crimes were committed by gazan civilians across the border. they were lined up to cheer and to mock these dead children.

eight month, 9-month-old child. you had a crowd cheering about it. people need to understand, one of the reasons the israelis are so tough is because of the enemies they have are truly depraved. >> trace: it's interesting. i want to put this up because this is an post from the ceo foundation from defensive democracies and he writes i deeply regret my decades of support for a palestinian state under land for peace and the two state solution. i was wrong. badly wrong. i misjudged a society that prioritizes murdering jewish children over building a better future for it's own. i apologize. do you think what's happening or what happened to the past couple of days is changing worldviews, changing attitudes about what's happening? >> i don't know if it's changing the worldview, because so much of the worldview is biased against israel, but it certainly changing the israeli view.

i think it's changing the american view and it's changing some views around the world, that the notion that giving land for peace brings peace has been, you know, destroyed. after october seventh and after what we just saw, this sick spectacle of a crowd cheering over a 9-month-old, you know, child they murdered, i don't see how you have a two state solution now. i think it's dead. i think that when they killed the little bibas children, any notion that you can live side-by-side with people who do that i think is over. and so yes, i think that a lot of people who maybe had good faith and good faith thought that the answer to the problem is a palestinian state now realize that that is not the problem, the lack of a state is not the problem. >> trace: you had president trump, marco rubio echoing that. meantime do you think that the arab nations when it comes to gaza and when it comes to what to do with gaza, you think the arab nations will come together with any kind of agreement on

what the next steps should be? >> i don't think they know what to do anymore then anybody else does. the problem with gaza is that it is so imbued with a terrorist spirit, it is so imbued with a hatred of, so imbued with a hatred of the west that i don't know how you get over that. i think president trump came up with a plan that was rejected in the arab world. i don't know what the arab world is going to do but what they can't be allowed to do is funnel billions and billions of dollars into gaza that end up going into building new tunnels. i don't think they know what to do and i don't think they will come up with a meaningful plan that will work. >> trace: william jacobson, professor, thank you for your insight. coming up, trump's pick for education secretary linda mcmahon advancing to a final senate vote. but if confirmed, will she truly dismantle the education

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he can't abolish it. it requires a vote of 60 votes in the senate. he's not going to get that, not easily. if he spends all of his time he might but he needs to spend his time on even more important things than that like ukraine, defending israel and putting china in it's place. she can make a lot of changes though and she's a good businesswoman. i think she will. you can send a lot of this out to the states as long as you tell california there are certain requirements in california. >> trace: it's interesting -- >> like school choice. hold the schools accountable to parents. >> trace: listen, i was just going to say, but on top of being education secretary you are the nation's first drugs are. it's kind of fascinating. we've been doing some reporting on the fact that trump has now designated these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, sending drones down there for surveillance and so on. what do you think about that?

you've been fighting this battle for a long time. is it a good move, is it something you are behind? >> thank you for noticing, i have been pushing it a long time. tom cotton has i think bin pushing it and he's more important than i am in this. but foreign terrorist organizations means u.s. military can be involved. and, you know, all of the things that we have as resources can be involved. you mentioned drones, you can take these guys out with a couple of orders if you want to. i expect he's going to 58 people the other day. good. now let's get the count of cartels down to zero. good idea. >> trace: meantime trump held a meeting today with the governors at the white house. he had a pretty good combative back-and-forth with the government of maine over transgender athletes in female sports. i want to play some of this for

you and then i will get your take. watch. >> are you not going to comply? >> i will comply with state and federal laws. >> we are the federal law. your population doesn't want men playing and women sports so you better comply because otherwise you are not getting any federal funding. every state -- good, i will see you in court, i look forward to that, it should be an easy one. enjoy your life after governor because i don't think you will be in elected politics. >> trace: i've never seen anything like this. added a governors meeting in the white house. in fact i've never seen anything like the first 30 days of this administration. what is your take on what you are seeing coming up of the white house? >> that's our guy. i think he's great. look, it was tough but i think it was mannerly. i think i like teddy said we are federal law, not i am the federal law. there's precedent for this.

we had a very tough andrew jackson, tr not some people around in his office. but there's no precedent like george washington. i don't want donald trump to know about this. i don't think he would do it. george washington dressed up back in his military gear and landed -- lead an army into western pennsylvania because they weren't paying their whiskey tax. some people died in that battle. that's really confronting state and local authority. donald trump won't do that. >> trace: lastly, about 35 seconds, do you first see this kind of steamroller plan of the trump administration has? it's been a hectic 30 days. will this go on for four years? nobody can keep up. >> he can keep it up, he's an extraordinary engine. steam engine in a suit. i think he can keep it up.

whether the press can keep up is another question. will the resistance built? yes, it will build. i hope his people are telling him that he needs to be ready for it. but readiness, if there was ever a president ready for the opposition it's a guy who gives daily press conferences in the oval office. he's unbelievable. >> trace: it really is, an amazing 30 days. great to have you on the show as always, thank you. >> you bet. it won't be 100 days anymore, it will be 30 days. >> trace: later in the nightcap, james carville advising democrats to be nice and play possum. right now because the republican collapses already underway. what do you think? is this an effective strategy? let us know x and instagram @tracegallagher, we are back with the nightcap crew, the friday night nightcap crew, which includes you. next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> trace: back with the nightcap crew, alexandria hoff, camryn kinsey, katie zacharia, luke ball, jason rantz. tonight play possum. james carville advising democrats to be nice and play possum right now and let

republicans implode. what do you think, is this an effective strategy? alexandria hoff, welcome to the nightcap. your maiden voyage. what do you think? >> i researched possums too much for this. my first thought was that possums play dead when they feel threatened so i think that negates part of his point but i think that democrats need to try something new. >> trace: chanley painter? >> i agree. i believe they are missing key opportunities for a true leader to emerge, countering the trump administration, and it's really -- instead of cowering or playing politics, that's not why we send them to washington. it's disappointing. >> trace: luke ball. >> the democrats have had quite the evolution of velocity -- philosophy. the jfk era it was what you can do for your country and now in the biden-harris era it's rollover and play possum. let's hope they keep the philosophy for a while. >> trace: let's rollover and play play dead for a while. jason rantz.

>> i think this is really just james carville realizing every time they open their mouths they come off like lunatics. you've got dumb dumb's like jasmine crockett out there, so he's trying to shut them up so that they don't continue to do the damage. >> trace: there you go. camryn kinsey. >> i think this is a strategy we can all get behind. less talking, they were bad ideas. i think we are doing pretty good. >> trace: katie zacharia? >> i think it's high time the democrats were quiet. their strategies have not been effective so far. men and women sports, open borders, war across the globe. i think they need to be quiet. >> trace: everything they've got in behind has not been that popular and yet they are still going at it. we asked you what you think and brenda says carville has lost his mind. there's no republican collapse. all we are doing is winning with president trump. wade says the democrats know that the republicans won't collapse, therefore their

narrative will never stop. -- says he needs to get back to reality. michael says no way, they have no message and no leader. stephanie says beyond comical strategy, carville needs to accept the truth of the collapse of the democratic party. robert says play possum? isn't that what sleepy joe did for four years? nice. d.j. says, when have the democrats ever been nice, they have no idea what to do next. chrome says finally the left should absolutely do this, i welcome the calm and silence will be a nice reprieve. yes, the comment silence would be a nice reprieve but it will lead the democrats a little further behind. thank you for joining the nightcap, thank you for watching america's late news, "fox news at night". i'm trace gallagher in los angeles.an) have a great weekend and we will see you back here onntag monday step of the way. ♪

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