collective temper tantrum of radical extremists tonight, full of rage. and i've never seen anything like it. i mean, if i see a kid get into west point, if i see a kid that survived cancer, if i see mothers that lost their children, i'm standing. i don't that's not about politics for me. >> and if you see the president of the united states walk into that house chamber, you stand as well as republicans did for joe biden. look, that speech tonight was a disaster for the democratic party. if that same speech had been given 10 to 15 years ago, every single democrat in that chamber would have stood up for all those people donald trump cited. bute today, donald trump cited. but today almost all of the democrats in congress are the squad. you don't have to just be aoc, it's infectious and has spread throughout the party. it's a disease and they can't shed it and it will kill their party because it's a culture.

how do you love america? if they can't stand for the people who stud up on those balconies in the gallery tonight, how they can -- how can they stand for us as americans who looked to members of congress to be the leaders of our country into our culture? they are out of tune with our culture and they showed it tonight. >> sean: the optics of donald trump and the people that he invited, and juxtaposed against the democrats, no response, none at all whatsoe whatsoever, just a collective temper tantrum. i keep going back to that. i mean it is stark. this is not the old democratic party. >> yeah, i agree. lundell democrat party is finished. substantively i think that that was the finest speech donald trump has ever given. it was off the charts. it was substantive, it was

talking about his accomplishments, talking about the greatness of america, talking about the greatness of the people in america and what makes america so unique. but in terms of the theatrics of it, it was absolutely spectacular. he shows his real showmanship, his ability to bring these stories and tell the stories. at the end of the day that's the problem the democrats have, they don't have a story, they have nothing to tell, no accomplishments, they can't even provide a vision for people. i thought it was really amusing at the very beginning. i could not make out who it was but one of the democrats wearing these ridiculous pink dresses after standing up and defending men in women's sports, one of these women in a pink dress was holding up a sign that said "this is not normal" and you just got a glimpse of it at the beginning but i think all of america looked at that and kind

of nodded and said yeah, this is not normal, but what's not normal are the democrats here. i want to remind you, one year ago joe biden could not say lakin riley's name. finally got sort of jeer it into it and he said her name wrong. and then you compare that to what donald trump did for lakin riley and jocelyn nungaray, and naming the wildlife refuge in the gulf of america for jocelyn nungaray because she loved animals, wow, what a different day today is. >> sean: it's amazing. what a change in president can do. i will turn again to kelly in, because of the speech we did not pay a lot of attention and i said this would happen. i knew zelenskyy would come back. he posted this big long twitter feed thanking donald trump, wanting to make peace, wanting

to sign the rare earth mineral deal. begging to come back and all the people brushed it -- donald trump ruined any chance for peace in the middle east. no, he actually made it more possible. >> this is the art of the deal and president trump has been consistent and he campaigned on it and won in part because he would set i would be a unifier and peacemaker. the first president and decades not to preside over any new wars in his first term. he inherited this mess, he inherited what's going on on october seventh, what's going on in ukraine, and he's the guy who's going to get us out of it. people believe that. of course zelenskyy has to come back, apologize, put on a smile, a suit, sign an agreement and have a little grace. maybe they have docusign in ukraine, maybe a good idea if he just signs it and does not come back but get the thing done. >> sean: i wanted on video and this way we have it. i think he will come back.

>> and just quickly, remember, this isn't just one speech. this was the party of young outsiders elected as president. now they are stuck with all of those sour faces and by the way they lost their core constituencies, kamala harris won women by seven measly points. this is a continuation of what happened on election day when core democratic constituencies that i'm embarrassed to be a part of the party that no longer responds to me. they haven't improved that at all. >> sean: great to see you, thank you. as we've been talking about, earlier tonight president trump honor the life of little jocelyn nungaray. take a look. >> the death of this beautiful >> the death of this beautiful 12-year-old girl and agony of her mother and family touched our great nation greatly. alexis, i promised we'd alwaysis remember youedr daughter, your magnificent daughter and earlier tonight, i signed an order

keeping my word to you. one thing i've learned about a jocelyn is shebo loved annals sm much. she loved nature. across galveston bay from where jocelyn lived in houston, you'll find a magnificent national wiwildlife refuge. pristine, 30,000-acre refuge on the edge of the gulf of america. alexis, i formally renamed that refuge in loving memory of your beautiful daughter, jocelyn.orde so, mr. vice president, if you would, may i have the order? [ applause ]

>> all right, joining us now is alexis nungaray. alexis, so great to have you back. how did you feel, number one, getting it great honor for your very brave daughter, and what are you thinking of the democrat s? >> it was truly an honor to sit in that area and remember the life that jocelyn .h i found it cowardly that a lot of democrats didn't stand, clap, or do anything that donald trump i cs trying to do as president totter make the country better. ver it was pretty shameful to the

democrats. >> this is your preciousi 12-year-old girl. i looked alakit laken riley's mm and she's tearing up andtear fighting back tears and we sees this 13-year-old young man who became a member of the secret service with sean colonel tonight, the new head of the secret service, a really speciah moment and youngic man makes itn into west poinigt tonight. all these incredible optics for america that anybody with a heart and mind, body and soul would love.so your little daughter fought off these brutal, vicious, stuart:cu evil attackers. i can't even imagine how she did. mye faith tells me i know where she is and you'll be with her te again. if they can't stand and applaud you and stand up for the right

of innocent people like youror daughter, what does that party stand for? i found it repulsive. >> they don't stand for anything humane.do they don't standn' for us as citizens, our security, they don't stand for honorable things that we need in this country. it's just very disgraceful to uy as u.s. citizens that those are the people we have here in congress and the house and senate.ou it'sse disgusting. don't think u ever thought you'd be involved in politics or that you would lose your daughter but i think now you probably have a good sense of how politics works here. how many times for example have you met and spoken with donald trump and did you ever hear from joe biden and kamala harris? >> i have met and spoken with president donald trump several times and every time has been

very humane, very fatherly, very caring, compassionate. i've heard zero effort, zero of anything from the biden-harris administration. >> sean: yeah. not one time, they never picked up a phone call. how, you know, i can only -- people can only try to imagine what you feel and being in your position. you never overcome something like this, do you? >> no, the pain does not go away, the hole does not fill, you learn to deal with it more but i am clinging onto my faith in and jesus and he is who's getting me through with his strength. >> sean: we are praying with you and for you and for your daughter. thank you so much for being with us. the president's address covered a lot of important topics including keeping men out of women sports.

herewith reaction, out to contributor and host, riley gaines, great to see you. you have a lot of face time tonight. they cut to you a lot. >> i wish i would have been smiling. i've already become a meme. it goes from me to nancy pelosi. of course i just want to tell her, it those dentures put in place at this point, it's always the teeth, you know. but this is my third state of the union, i attended the previous two under previous -- president biden. the only good part about the previous two is i did not have to keep sitting up and standing down -- sitting down. >> sean: a lot of clopping tonight. you are a top athlete. >> former. i call myself a swammer. very much past tense. remarkable for a couple reasons. of course president trump's address, i'm left feeling inspired and hopeful and there's

so much to look forward to, he's already done so much in a matter of 35, 40 days. but that being said, another remarkable peace was the response or really lack of from the democrats. i can't say i'm surprised. you've heard the address many times. to see the theatrics, the performative -- that's what it is, it's performance we saw from them. wearing all the pink to symbolize standing with women. again, this party, the democratic party, could not be further from being pro-woman. they are antiwoman and anti-reality. a very proud guest tonight of the congresswoman though we had a great time. >> sean: no men in women's sports and there are two genders. you know, you would think it's basic and fundamental. i keep pointing out the democratic party, they want to champion the right of men to play women sports. you have experienced that first

hand. what do you say to those democrats that advocate for that? >> what these democrats are going to see, specifically the 45 who voted last night in opposition of even having a vote of the production of women and girls in sports act, there will be relentless campaigns and adds that will be ran 24/7 against you in 2026, specifically people like -- i mean people like the senator in georgia who has a young daughter. it blows my mind, these people are siding with the 18%. that's a most recent number. of the 260 federally elected democrats we saw two texas democrats in the house who voted in favor of protecting women and girls in sports. 2 of 260 are siding with the 18%. of course i believe that number is even wrong. i think the percentages even higher than that of people who support the idea that women's sports should only be for women.

>> sean: how many hours a day did you spend in a pool when you are training at your highest level? >> minimum six. three in the morning, swimming from 5:30 to 8:30, you go to class, you come back and are practicing from 1:30 due 4:30. we eat dinner at 4:45 and you did your homework, you i steer shoulder and went to bed, woke up and did it again the next day. >> sean: at the top of your sport and then you tie leo thompson. -- leah. what was it like to have that person in the locker room? >> it's almost impossible to put into words. a scenario you can ever imagine unless it's a scenario you find yourself in. but it's just feelings of fire late in, feelings of betrayal, humiliating. to be reprimanded as women for daring to oppose undressing next to a fully naked, fully intact e

american people reject that absurdity. >> sean: my daughter was an athlete too, i can't imagine. but you deserve that medal. i want you to get that medal, just for general principles sake. the idea it was a tie and they said we are going to give it to the guy. really? maybe i'm old-school and old-fashioned but i'm proud of it. thank you. unfortunately that is all the time we have left this evening, we appreciate you being with us. thank you for making the show possible. please set your dvr so you will never miss an episode. nine eastern our regular time, we will be back tomorrow night. for news any time, any time, all the time, foxnews.com. in the meantime, heart be troubled, "fox news at night" with trace gallagher starts right here, right now. >> trace: good evening, i'm trace gallagher, 15 minutes after midnight on the east coast, 9:15 in los angeles and this is america's late news, "fox news at night".

[ honking ] [cheering] elon musk and donald trump are destroying the state of the union. [chanting] >> i don't know why i should be there to sit and listen to him try to convince me otherwise. >> how do you expect to see year democratic colleagues... >> i hope they have respect and decorum, but the bar is, you know, i'm going to remain optimistic. >> trace: they can't even decide what to wear tonight. the women's caucus is wearing pink, the ukrainian hawks are wearing blue and yellow, and the congressional black caucus is wearing black. >> mr. speaker, the president of the united states. [cheering] [applause] >> america is back. [cheering and applause]

>> we won the popular vote by big numbers and won counties in our country. [ crowd noise ] [chanting] >> members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the house. remove those gentlemen from the chamber. >> the president said he had a mandate and i was making it clear to the president that he has no mandate to cut medicaid. >> i look at the democrats in front of me and i realize there is absolutely nothing i can say to make them happy. it's very sad. and it just should not be this way. [applause] >> it is the best way to get it across to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our stability. >> trace: breaking tonight,

president donald trump undressing a joint session of congress, making him the first president to ever deliver a second first addressed. democrats tried to bring out all the stops to undermine the president's message but it appeared to be an epic fail. we have team fox coverage, senior national correspondent is live in d.c. with more on the democrat response but we begin with senior white house correspondent peter doocy live on the wes long. >> reporter: we have been told going into the speech that president trump was prepared for democrats to demonstrate. we saw many silent demonstrations, t-shirts, little signs, but there was one lawmaker who would not sit down. that was al green and that's why speaker johnson had to have him bounced. >> the chair directs the sergeant at arms to restore order. [cheering and applause] >> remove this gentleman from the chamber.

>> reporter: policy wise, president trump said pain from tariffs will be temporary. he says ukraine is back channeling, they are ready for peace, and he raised questions about why joe biden never brought border crossings down. >> the media and our friends in the democrat party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to secure the border. but it turned out that all we really needed was a new president. [cheering and applause] >> thank you. >> reporter: among tonight's big dramatic reveals, president trump announced the arrest of an isis terrorist suspected in being involved with the abbey gate abbey gate bombing. announcing one of the guest in the chamber had been accepted to

west point and surprised 13 old with brain cancer who has long wanted to be a police officer with this... >> and tonight we are going to do you the biggest honor of them all. i am asking our new secret service director to officially make you an agent of the united states secret service. >> reporter: and it looked like for at least half the chamber there was not a dry eye in there. president trump is back at the white house now, he did not speak in his way in. a sign that a president who stops at the cameras just about every time is happy to let tonight's address stand as is. at least until tomorrow. >> trace: seems like a good strategy. liber the white house, thank you. plenty of reaction from the left out the president's big speech including the keynote democratic response from michigan senator. senior national correspondent kevin corke is sifting through all of that. good evening. >> reporter: good evening trace. it's often said that brevity is

the soul of wit. by that standard, tonight's democratic party response was witty indeed. rising star of the party, senator elissa slotkin, not unlike the men who spoke before her, president trump, actually offered what could be described as an optimistic view of what a better america could look like. but she said her party had did decidedly different policy prescription of how to fix what is troubling the country. >> america wants change but there is a responsible way to make change and a reckless way. and we can make that change without forgetting who we are as a country and as a democracy. he's on the hunt to find trillions of dollars to pass along to the wealthiest in america and to do that he's going to make you pay in every part of your life. >> reporter: slotkin also zeroed in on the department of government efficiency, accusing elon musk's group of being sloppy and intrusive. as for president trump, she said

he likes to cozy up to dictators and called his successes along the southern border at best premature. still, republicans hailed the speech as an historic reflection of progress. indeed a blueprint for future success for the country. texas congressman sounding like a lot of g.o.p. members on x tonight, saying president trump tonight gave us the game plan. republicans, it's time to deliver, no more excuses. indeed. now the presidents tariff policy is right for criticism by the democrats as you heard peter mentioned. slotkin accused the president of fomenting economic chaos amongst are both -- most important trading partners but even that can be tempered because tomorrow we could see a compromise. for now, back to you. >> trace: kevin live in d.c., thank you. let's bring in california g.o.p. chairwoman jessica millan patterson, former g.o.p. national spokeswoman elizabeth pipko, and independent women features editor and chief kaylee

mcghee white. thank you for coming on. elizabeth, play a bit more sound from the president tonight. this is him talking about just getting started. watch. >> six weeks ago, i stood beneath the dome of this capital and proclaimed the dawn of the golden age of america. from that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country. we have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplished in four years or eight years, and we are just getting started. [cheering and applause] >> trace: also said the elizabeth -- american dream is surging, elizabeth. those on social media said it was pretty inspired. what are your thoughts? >> i completely agree. it's fascinating to me how a

speech that has lines and it like that, which are as inspiring as the one you just mentioned, can elicit so much anger from the democrats. it proves that in six weeks what he has been able to do is only anger the democrat's to the point that it proves they are more focused on their anger then any chance of trying to bring our country together and move our country forward. the fact is the only thing on display tonight as strongly as donald trump's passion and vision for our country moving forward was how much the party of jfk has fallen backward. it was an embarrassing display and could not be more in contrast with the vision donald trump in the performance he put forward tonight. >> trace: it's amazing. he said this about executive orders, watch. >> over the past six weeks i have signed nearly 100 executive orders and taken more than 400 executive actions, a record, to restore common sense, safety, optimism and wealth all across our wonderful land. the people elected me to do the job and i'm doing it.

>> trace: kind of the dichotomy. he looked like he was enjoying himself and it looked like the democrats just did not have a response except for the signs, the sad signs. >> right. we talked a lot since the election about why democrats have refused to learn the lesson of 2024. i think tonight confirmed the answer why. it's not that democrats are just out of touch with the american public or that they don't understand how unpopular their policies are, it's that they don't care. their decisions tonight not to stand and recognize patent -- payton mcnabb, that was a choice on their end. the decision to not even stand and applaud for a little boy fighting cancer was a decision on their end. and a unanimous one. not a single democrat defected on that. and so again i think it's fair of course to say that yes, democrats are out of touch with the american public, but we need to understand that it is a deliberate choice to remove

themselves from all accountability. they only want to be able to tell us what to think, how to think and how to vote and their reaction to donald trump to date was bigger than him. it was a reaction to being told by the american public for the first time no more. >> trace: he asked democrats to cheer with him at one point during this. watch this. >> so democrats sitting before me, for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for america? for the good of our nation, let's work together and let's truly make america great again. >> trace: obviously did not year for him. they did not cheer for anybody. >> the best part about it was that president trump was so unbothered by it. he said i'm going to go back to work just like i've been doing over the last several weeks, whether it's d.o.g.e. and finding all the waste, fraud and abuse in our country, where our taxpayer dollars are going, whether it's securing our

border. we've seen the drop in illegal crossings, 96%. president trump is completely unbothered by democrats and in fact he would rather do it without them. >> trace: it's amazing. the line of the night might have been about securing the border. here it is again. >> friends in the democrat party kept saying we needed new legislation, we must have legislation to secure the border. but it turns out that all we really needed was a new president. >> trace: it was strong because it was true. >> 100%. i think jessica just said it. donald trump does not actually need anybody else. he's proven that from day one. the only ones who need by his side or the american people who proved on november fifth that they were with him in the kind of numbers democrats could not have expected. that's why they are behaving like this, they have nothing left. they don't know what to do with themselves, they are losing to a man who they threw everything at. he came back no matter what,

with more support than they could imagine and they are malfunctioning in the face of a man more popular than they could ever imagine themselves ever being. >> trace: i want to get back and i'm going to get your take on this, this is voter analysis from 2024. how much change would you like to see and how the country is run? 83% wanted substantial or total of people, and they got it. >> they got it and yet despite this, as trump pointed out, he made it very clear that there was nothing that he could do or say even in line with the american public's will that would make democrats applaud or stand with him. then they spent the entire rest of his speech proving him exactly right. and so i think that this was a different trump because he wasn't there to make friends, he wasn't there to play around with bipartisanship, he was there to make it clear to democratic outliers that his agenda is going to happen one way or the

other and they can either go along with it or they can make fools out of themselves opposing it. democrats chose the latter tonight. >> i'm not sure that anyone else could have gotten this done besides president trump. he's made it very clear that he's coming in here and he wants to leave the country in a better place and a big part of that is what he's doing with elon musk. bringing in one of the greatest minds of our generation and fixing the problems that have faced america for a long time. >> trace: he appeared to own the room tonight. jessica millan patterson, kaylee mcghee white, elizabeth pipko, thank you. in the early moments of the president speech, the democrat resistance to all things trump reared its ugly head. when a texas congressman had to be removed from the house chamber after disrupting the address. ashley strohmier is live in new york with more on the resistance. >> reporter: a defeated democratic party is using the joint address to congress to reignite their resistance to donald trump, taking center stage in that fight tonight was texas congressman al green.

>> members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the house and to cease any further disruptions. that is your warning. [ crowd noise ] >> mr. green, take your seat, serve. remove this gentleman from the chamber. >> reporter: so green spoke about that moment shortly after being ejected from the house floor. listen. >> whatever the punishment is, i'm not fighting the punishment. this is about the people who are being punished by virtue of losing their health care. >> reporter: the democrats plan of attack began earlier in the day and included at least 22 senators, reading from the same script, blasting trump. >> [bleep] that ain't true. >> [bleep] that ain't true. >> reporter: but the coordinated curse word campaign fell flat for some because as house speaker mike johnson noted, trump is already notched an impressive list of wins in just over a month in office.

>> if he just stood at the speakers roster and right off his list of accomplishments since generate 20th, we would be there all night. >> reporter: elon musk responded on x "i will buy a cybertruck for anyone who can provide proof of who wrote this particular piece of propaganda." of course when i see what happens with that, but also noteworthy tonight that over 100 protesters reportedly stood outside the capital while president trump spoken side. many of them holding signs slamming elon musk in the department of government efficiency. >> trace: ashley strohmier live in new york, thank you. let's bring in walkaway spokesperson and political commentator, natalie jean beisner, along with the author of what's killing america, seattle talk radio host jason rantz, thank you for coming on. jason i was following you on social media in realtime and it turns out you were as baffled as i was about the signs back about what was with the signs. what do you think about that?

>> i love the idea that they decided to bring a sign that is so easy to photoshop a new message onto. i'm not entirely sure what tom dunn came up with that idea because we know it's going to turn into memes or the next decade. it was such a ridiculous idea and it made them just seem like children. and i just don't understand why no one can get together with them and say okay, slow your rolls, let's maybe not do this, it's not coming off well. just be adults and let people decide on their own whether or not they buy into some of the claims made by the president. you don't need to go overboard but that's precisely what they did. >> trace: it seems to me like whoever is advising these people is not giving them good advice. meantime on msnbc it was all about d.o.g.e. they did not really have a response to this so they said and koppers -- incomprehensible stuff like the following. >> this has to do with d.o.g.e. the report card elon musk would

say is treasury rates going down. donald trump tonight said rates went down today. they did not go down because d.o.g.e. is reducing the deficit, rates went down today because of tariffs. >> trace: i mean i don't even know what they were saying but that's kind of their response, there's just nothing, they are kind of grabbing onto things like what are we going to talk about? the answer is, i don't know. >> grasping at straws. why wouldn't we continue to do d.o.g.e. and cut waste where we can while also trying other things? for me trump is innocent until proven guilty. i'm going to wait and see on the economy. i don't think he can fix this all at once. i think we are in a transition period like the secretary of the treasury said today. he's been in for less than two months, i don't think is going to fix all of biden's damage at once so let's just wait and see. i'm confident. let's do it all at once because we need a lot of fixes right now. >> trace: democrat little montage, a little put together thing we did to show you kind of

-- we don't have the montage, let's do david axelrod then because he's fun to listen to. watch. >> the biggest single issue facing people in their lives is the economy. what we have seen is that still 75% of people think the economy is fair or poor. consumer confidence has taken a dive in the last few weeks. the things that he's doing with the tariffs aren't going to help pick the question is, you know, you can't spend some of these social issues at the supermar supermarket. >> trace: he was firmly rebutted at the end but it seems to me like it really is, you watch cnn and msnbc and they are like pivoting and kind of, you know, it's the old muhammad ali thing, trying not to get hit and they keep getting hit. >> they keep getting hit but mostly it's because of their own incompetence. when you spend an entire term, four years, claiming that there's nothing wrong with the economy, inflation is down or transitory, the egg price is not

that big of a deal, shut up and relax, when you do that people remember and so they are not going to take people like that seriously. who they will take seriously is the guy who spent the campaign talking about caring about these issues and actually coming up with a plan. there was a moment earlier today where harris faulkner asked a guest can you tell me what the democrats are proposing that could help? because we know what donald trump is. there's no answer. >> trace: it really is. your final thoughts, natalie, because it feels like they are saying the economy is not good. they did not say a word for four years about the economy. >> it feels like a slap in the face because i don't remember them mentioning prices once. eggs were hard to find in california before trump took office, they were expensive before trump took office, everything was expensive, everything was going up. they told us it was fine the whole time and now suddenly they care. again it's been less than two months so i'm going to give him a chance. i have confidence in donald trump. >> trace: yeah, it's like 30,

40 days. natalie, jason, thank you. coming up, is ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy ready to come to the negotiating table? where things stand right now after president trump's address to congress tonight. the update on that is next. and later in the nightcap, we want your thoughts on president trump's joint address to congress. how did he do? what the democrats decorum a good look for the democrats -- was the democrats decorum a good look? let us know on x and instagram @tracegallagher, we will read your respo ♪(voya)♪ there are some things that work better together. like your workplace benefits and retirement savings. voya helps you choose the right amounts without over or under investing. so you can feel confident in your financial choices voya, well planned, well invested, well protected. join thousands of advertisers who have built their businesses, reaching america's most influential audience. need creative? we can help. fox news media impact starts here.

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says that ukraine is ready to sign the rare earth deal with the united states and also take step towards ending the war. here's what trump said about that. >> i appreciate that he sent this letter, just got it a little while ago. simultaneously we've had serious discussions with russia and have received strong signals that they are ready for peace. wouldn't that be beautiful? wouldn't that be beautiful? [applause] >> reporter: president trump also had this exchange with massachusetts democrat senator elizabeth warren while talking about the need to end the war in ukraine. >> do you want to keep it going for another five years? yeah, pocahontas says yes. [laughs] [applause] >> reporter: that moment went viral online. trump went on to say during his speech that it's time to stop

the madness, stop the killing and in order to do that you have to talk to both sides of the war and that is something that vice president j.d. vance echoed earlier today. >> the russians can't continue this thing forever, the ukrainians can't continue forever and most importantly the united states can't continue it forever. >> reporter: a white house official told fox news earlier today that there had been no movement at all on the rare earth deal with ukraine since that infamous blow up in the oval office with zelenskyy last friday so the question now is we are going to have to wait to see if this letter that trump got from zelenskyy today potentially reignites those negotiations. >> trace: could move the needle, thank you. let's bring in top family chair professor at pepperdine university, fox news contributor kiron skinner, former pentagon official and retired navy captain brent sadler along with new america's future security program fellow sarah levinson moriarty. thank you for coming on tonight. i want to play some sound, here's what the president said about ukraine tonight. watch.

>> i'm also working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in ukraine. millions of ukrainians and russians have been needlessly killed or wounded in this horrific and brutal conflict with no end in sight. >> trace: it feels like this thing is back on track. are you getting the same feeling? >> i do but actually i don't think it was ever off track. trump is doing the basics of diplomacy that for some reason has detractors. you always talk to both sides. that's what he's been saying all along. i have to talk to the russians, i have to work with zelenskyy representing ukraine. he's never been favoring one or the other, but this war has combatants on both sides and that is what he's been trying to do. it took a while for his critics, really the last couple of days, to realize that the way that you bring people to the negotiating table and keeps on there is that

you show resolve and strength. that's all he did in the oval office meeting that many said was a disaster. >> trace: i think that's a fair assessment. the president went on to say this about the letter that zelenskyy sent. watch. >> earlier today i received an important letter from president the length ski of ukraine. the letter reads, ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. nobody once peace more then the ukrainians, he said. my team and i stand ready to work. >> trace: it seems to me when you look at that and what he's saying is that maybe there's a chance we could get this thing done. >> well it does take two sides to actually get a deal done and perhaps the russians need a little bit similar pressure applied to them. we certainly know that putin seems to be signaling that he's

interested in going forward, but until both sides are sitting down and the details get hashed out we won't really know the full commitment, at least on the russian side. but it appears as president trump has been setting the conditions, the contours leading in two official or formal negotiations, certainly have got the ukrainians now in the last day on side. >> trace: yeah, it's exactly what's happening here. meantime, mark vogel and his 95-year-old mother being called out tonight. really, what a moment here. this was fantastic, where you had, you know, we did not know, we had no idea when he would be freed. what did you think of the moment and what did you think of the reception? >> i think it was incredible to see how much president trump places an emphasis on bringing americans home. i think he sent a powerful message that if you are wrongfully held or held hostage is an american, our government will do everything they can to bring you home and they did that

with marc fogel. >> trace: they certainly did. meantime zelenskyy posted this, kind of back to this because that's why we brought you on, kiron skinner, i would like to reiterate ukraine's commitment to peace. none of us wants an endless war, ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. nobody once peace more than ukrainians, my team and i stand ready to work under president trump strong leadership to get a piece that lasts. i mean you read this a couple of times and are like that's an apology. without saying the word sorry, that's an apology. >> that's as close as a world leader could ever come and he did it. what i found truly remarkable about his post was that he used the language of trump. endless wars, we don't want an endless war, that we want to negotiate peace. this is the language that trump has been using all along. and more intensively since he reoccupied the white house. so zelenskyy is embracing the

very position that he was resisting just a few days ago. >> trace: it seems to me, brent sadler, when you read there's there's no ask. zelenskyy is just saying let's get it done and the president is a man to help get it done. >> absolutely. i think president trump was very forceful and i think that's exactly what president zelenskyy needed, especially after that very public display in the white house which really worked completely against ukrainian peoples but her interest in trying to get to peace back in their country. so i think president trump did the right thing. i think the force, the strength that he demonstrated is exactly the type of medicine the ukrainians needed to get away from a sense of entitlement, to one of how do we get a negotiated solution that lasting. >> trace: i have to go here but nobody knows more than you, sara, that trump has its way in these matters. >> yes.

i hope to see him deterring hostage taking next, especially with russia. they continue to take americans on a regular basis and i think there are certain things we can be doing to do that next. i look forward to that. >> trace: exactly right. thank you all. three years ago payton mcnabb was an all-star high school athlete, one of the best, preparing for a future in college sports. but when her girls volleyball match was invaded by a male, and now schools will kick the men off the girls team or they will lose all federal funding. >> trace: one night after democratic senators refused to banned boys from playing girls sports, a young woman injured by a transgender athlete was the presidents guest at the joint address to congress. was bring an independent women's forum ambassador payton mcnabb and the owner of xy athletics, jennifer sey. peyton back there was really a

moment there because, you know, you just kind of, you hear your story, we will talk more about that. i just want to know what it felt like to have kind of the focus of the world or of the nation at least on you for a moment. >> i mean absolutely incredible. it's an honor, such an honor and i still cannot believe it. if you would have told my 17-year-old self that i would be here today i would not have believed you. but this is something i'm truly never going to forget and i am so thankful for president trump. >> trace: it really is. i want to get into the topic if i can. minnesota representative said the following, listen. >> they aren't going to stop being transgender just because you strip them from sports or from housing or from their health care. make no mistake that this is just another version of state sanctioned bullying and genocide. and i don't say that lightly. >> trace: i mean you listen to

payton's story and then here bullying and genocide, it just doesn't drive, jennifer. what do you think? >> it's a lie, it's to ranged, it's incendiary, it's ridicul ridiculous. no one is committing genocide by telling male athletes they need to compete in the category to which they were born, the men's category. no one is telling them they can't compete, no one is telling anyone they can't compete, but there are certain categories in sports, there's weight classes for instance. if you are female you get to compete in the female category, if you are male you compete in the mail category, that's it. i'm tired of this language. we can't accept their phrasing in framing others anymore. >> trace: i want to play a sound bite because it's important. this is you talking about it at protect women sporting event about getting hit by a ball hit by a biological male. >> about two years ago my senior year of high school i was severely injured in a

high school volleyball game by a boy on the opposing team. the hit was so severe it caused me to lay unconscious for 30 seconds while my body was in a fencing position, which is how your body reacts to a brain injury. >> trace: the bottom line is we can all talk until we are blue in the face, nobody knows this more personally or better than you do. >> absolutely. this was a life-changing. my life has never been the same sense. the doctors don't know if i will ever be back 100%. it was 100% avoidable, which is so frustrating. but i've tried to use my experience to help advocate for other women and girls because what happened to me should never happen again. >> trace: i want to go back to what we started this with, with you jennifer, this is talk about the vote that happened in the senate last night, writing, keep the men out of women sports failed in the senate, going on to say, part of me is starting to think they did not want to give the president a w the day

before he's going to address congress tonight. that joint session of congress. so they all just -- and seriously politicians collude and they all got together and said we can't do this, we can't give him this win so let's vote no and they stick together, they stick together. and boy do they ever. it's amazing. not a single democrat voted for this. >> not a single democrat voted in the senate to protect women and girls and yet they insist that they are the party that stands up for women and girls. only two democrats in the house voted for it so there's two democrats and all the federal government at this point that are willing to stand with the 80% of americans who want women's sports protected. not just 80% of americans but stand on the side of truth which is more important. >> trace: jennifer, payton, thank you both. president trump delivering his first joint address to congress since his return to power. how did he do? let us know x and instagram

♪ ♪ >> trace: we are back with the nightcap crew, the lightning nightcap crew. tonight's topic, take two, president trump delivering his joint address to congress tonight. democrats refused to clot for common sense policies like law and order, pursuing peace in ukraine. what are your thoughts on the night and it was the democrat decorum reductive? >> i think it totally was. i have been begging democrats to have an old man angrily wave again while screaming into the night. i think it was a great look. >> trace: it really was. elizabeth pipko, your thoughts on the evening? >> i think the democrats were on the money when it came to showing the entire world why donald trump won in the landslide he did and i hope they continue to show that. >> trace: bill. >> disgraceful to not stand for jocelyn nungaray or lakin riley.

they were thrust into it, the spotlight. >> democrats made me in the millions who walked away from the party very happy that we did so. they reaffirmed our decision. >> the hug and hope. a hug with a little boy and a helpful message by the president, that's what this night will be remembered for. >> trace: lisa says trump exceeded my expectations, democrats met my expectations. speech inspiring, democrats okay andrew to families and d.j. those moments weren't about trump. patrick, best ever, democrats have lost the plot. vermilion says he stated everything we voted for, make me so proud to be an american and no, we can move forward to make our country even greater. thank you for watching ameri