<Type: SHOW>

<Head: Dem Lawmaker Question Hegseth's Drinking; Trump Salute's

Women's History Month At White House; Some CA Schools Requiring
Ethnic Studies>
<Sect: News; Domestic>
<Byline: Trace Gallagher>
<Guest: Natalie Beisner, Jason Rantz, Emily Wilson, Emily
Reichert, Andrew Gruel>
<Spec: Democrats; Lawmaker; Pete Hegseth; Drinking; U.S. Defense
Secretary; Donald Trump; President; Salute; Women; California;
Schools; Ethnic; Studies>

RANTZ: -- have claimed the sky is falling every day for the last
several years, no one is going to really take them seriously
here. And I sincerely doubt that the American people look at this
and see it anything more than an embarrassing moment that didn't
cause any grief outside of maybe just a few days of some negative
press.

GALLAGHER: Yes, it's fair. Meantime, your representative, Jimmy

Gomez, asking about whether Secretary Hegseth might have been
drinking. Watch.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REP. JIMMY GOMEZ (D-CA): Director Radcliffe, same question. Yes

or no?

JOHN RATCLIFFE, CIA DIRECTOR: You know, no, I'm going to answer
that. I think that's an offensive line of questioning. The answer
is no. I find it interesting that you want to know -- I'm going
to answer.

GOMEZ: I yield back.

RATCLIFFE: No, I'm going to answer.

GOMEZ: This is my time. Director --

RATCLIFFE: You asked me a question you want an answer?

GOMEZ: No, listen --

RATCLIFFE: I don't want to focus on the good work that the CIA is
doing that the intelligence community --

GOMEZ: Director, I want to talk about --

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GALLAGHER: Your representative didn't want an answer there. The

question is, you know, if if Republicans had done this to Lloyd
Austin several months ago, there might have been a different
response publicly.

NATALIE BEISNER, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Yes. We know Republicans

that wouldn't have done this to Lloyd Austin and this hearing
wasn't even supposed to be about the signal leak. It was
scheduled months before the signal leak, but of course, Democrats
mostly made it about that. I think that Jimmy Gomez saw an
opportunity and ran with it.

I think unfortunately, in our social media era, public servants,

people are supposed to be public servants. They want to get the
viral clip and they want to post it on X and seem like they are
taking down the other side. I tend to agree with the CIA director
that we want to know about safety threats, which is what this
hearing was supposed to be about.

And I'm not sure how helpful it is to speculate on someone's

possible drinking habits. I'm sure we could do that all day in
D.C., but is it a good use of taxpayer dollars and time? I don't
think so.

GALLAGHER: Yes. It's a good question. Meantime, Jasmine Crockett

refusing to apologize about calling the Texas governor, Greg
Abbott, who's in a wheelchair, Governor Hot Wheels. Watch.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REP. JASMINE CROCKETT (D-TX): I put out a statement regarding

that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You didn't apologize.

CROCKETT: I put out a statement. Why would I apologize when I put

out a statement? My statement was clear. My statement was clear.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You don't feel back about making fun of

someone?

CROCKETT: I'm done with this.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GALLAGHER: I think she does this, Jason, because she thinks it's
making her famous. What do you think?

RANTZ: I mean, it is making her famous, isn't it? I mean, no one

really knew who she was not too long ago, and now she's on
television constantly. I'm actually going to give her a little
bit of credit here. I don't think she should apologize because
she doesn't want to apologize.

She's not sorry for what she did. She's really leaning in to this
villain character and as long as she's going to own it instead of
pretending that, oh she's sorry. She's not sorry. She's a rotten
person. She's a mean-spirited rotten person and the world should
know that.

And if she were to apologize, well guess what left-wing media is

going to give her a pass, they're going to pretend that she's
sincere, and I'd rather the world know that she's not sincere
she's just a rotten human being.
GALLAGHER: I mean, she really is. She's looking at the Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez roadmap and she's following and thinking you know
this is the way to success, be as bombastic as you want and you
are going to go right to the top of the Democratic Party.
Political Commentator Tiffany Cross on her "Love for America,"
Natalie, she said the following.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TIFFANY CROSS, POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: I find it really troubling

because they ran on this whole idea of this pseudo patriotism,
this regressive masculine patriotism, yet everything they're
doing runs against making America great. It was never great, so
I'm not going to say the again part, but making America great.
You're trying to defend the indefensible.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GALLAGHER: I mean, it's like the party of hate. I don't get it,
but I guess they think it's a valuable strategy.

BEISNER: Trace, I don't know about you, but I'm so tired of this
sentiment. And I wish that people who think like Tiffany Cross
would just make like Rosie O'Donnell and leave. If you think that
you can be greater somewhere else, wherever your ancestors came
from, I don't care where, then yes, fine, please do go there. But
meanwhile, she is allegedly worth a million dollars, which seems
pretty great to me.

And then at one point in the segment she turns to the man next to
her and says it might have been great for you but it was never
great for me as if she herself was a slave or a victim of Jim
Crow. It's just very tired. Of course, we have a stained history
like any other country, but we also have a great past and a great
present.

And the thing of it is that for people like Tiffany Cross,

nothing will ever be good enough no matter how much progress we
make because they will always point to our origin story and the
fact that they don't like it.

And I know she says she's not a Democrat, but she's clearly a
progressive, and this is part of why they lost. People want to
feel patriotism and optimism, and the Democrats don't offer it.

GALLAGHER: Yes. That's a fair assessment. Natalie, Jason, thank

you both.

Coming up, President Trump celebrating Women's History Month at

the White House today, once again affirming there are only two
genders. And brand new video of a rescue operation in Alaska. A
man and two children found alive after their plane crashed into
an icy lake. How they survived is next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

GALLAGHER: There's some breaking news coming out of Hawaii. This

is a live look at the Kilauea volcano. It's on Hawaii's big
island. It is again, as you can see, spewing lava. The Associated
Press reporting tonight that this is the 15th episode of an
eruption. Apparently, it's been happening on and off since the
end of December, about three months now, but the pictures are
amazing. We will keep you up to speed on what's going on. They're
telling us now the lava here is actually contained in the
caldera. It is not affecting residential areas. As soon as it
does, you will see evacuation orders go in very, very quickly.

Meantime, new video coming into Fox News of a rescue operation in

Anchorage, Alaska. A student pilot and two young family members
crashing into an icy lake and then survived by climbing onto the
wing of the plane. It was a Piper PA-12 supercruiser. After the
plane went missing, volunteers began searching the area and
spotted three survivors who spent 12 hours stranded in sub-zero
temperatures. It looks like the fabric covering of the wings
acted as type of flotation device keeping the plane partially
afloat. Good for them.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: We had an administration that tried

to abolish the very concept of womanhood and replace it with
radical gender ideology. Under the Trump administration we're
ending the Marxist war on women, and you had a war on women, and
we're protecting women's rights, defending women's dignity and
standing up for the American moms and daughters.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GALLAGHER: There you have the president taking on wokeness and

DEI in his first two months in office. He also reaffirmed his
commitment to women at a White House event today honoring Women's
History Month. Let's bring in the host of the Emily Saves America
podcast, Emily Wilson; Huntington Beach, California City Council
member -- congratulations, Chef, and restaurant owner, Chef
Andrew Gruel; along with Restore San Diego Chairwoman Amy
Reichert. Thank you all for coming on.

Emily, to you first. The Fox News headline reads, the following
mirror mirror on the wall will woke "Snow White" cause Disney's
fall. It's on track to be the lowest earning live action remake
ever. We kind of knew this going in though, right?

EMILY WILSON, EMILY SAVES AMERICA PODCAST: Yes, they chose

someone extremely unlikable. The thing is about Snow White is
it's literally in the name. She's supposed to have pale skin and
rosy cheeks and you know, long dark hair and they chose someone
completely different that didn't fit that. But more than that,
they changed the entire story.

So, you took a Disney movie that's perfect, great for children,
great for young girls, and you change everything about it. And
that's why it's not doing well. And then you also had a girl who
offended more than half of America and talks negatively about
Trump supporters and every interview she does, she's less and
less likable, so congrats.
GALLAGHER: In the meantime, Amy, you wrote this on X, "USC,
University of Southern California, went woke, now it's broke. A
new just released internal memo reveals that USC, where tuition
is 73-grand-plus, relied heavily on $1.35 billion in federal
funding. Here's what's happening. Permanent budget cuts, hiring
freezes for staff and faculty, procurement and capital

spending restrictions. It goes on and on. USC's financial house

of cards is collapsing," Amy.

EMY REICHERT, RESTORE SAN DIEGO CHAIRWOMAN: USC has literally

failed the woke test. And they're not going to be getting over a
billion dollars from the federal government to do studies on
transgender goats. So, they're going to have to get the money
from somewhere else. Apparently, paying $73,000 a year to attend
USC is not enough, and USC relies way too heavily on federal
funding.

GALLAGHER: Chef, FoxNews.com comedian, Jeff Dunham says, Trump's

win is a weight off comics back so they can get back to joking as
usual to one of the regular contestants. One of regular visitors
of "GUTFELD," Chef, it seems to me like comedians have already
taken a side. I mean, they've all picked sides pick politics, and
they are sticking to it. What do you think about that?

ANDREW GRUEL, CHEF: Yes, you nailed it. I don't want to hear the
groveling and the whining from the comedians that were self-
censoring by virtue of kind of woke politics for four or five
years. Because guess what? In their absence, you had a lot of
other comedians who stepped up and had the chutzpah to actually
say, you know what, I'm going to keep being funny. People like
Jeff Dye, Tyler Fisher, obviously Greg Gutfeld. So, all those
people, they can just fall by the wayside. I'm sick of the front
runners now that Trump's in charge.

GALLAGHER: Yes. In the meantime, the Daily Wire writes the

following here. A federal judge on Monday ruled that the
University of Texas A&M cannot, cannot ban drag performances,
Emily, on its campuses following a lawsuit from an LGBT activist
group. Texas A&M needs to keep these drag shows going, a judge
says, and you think, what's going on? Where are we?

WILSON: They act like it's like necessary to survive which is so

funny because if it was a Trump protest or anything going on
they'd be having mental breakdowns. But what people need to
understand and this is very common sense, the expression of drag,
LGBTQ, whatever it is, it's a sexual preference. Therefore what
you're talking about is inherently sexual and should not be
around children ever. But it's also just weird to do around
another adult and should be more of a private hobby if that's
what you want to call it. But like this, we don't need this to
survive and most people don't want to be around it as well. It's
very odd.

GALLAGHER: It is odd. I mean, I just, maybe it's just odd.

Meantime, Amy, to you, the San Diego Unified School District,
writes the following, this is on their Web site, starting with
the class of 2025, students in San Diego Unified are required to
take at least one course from the approved course list for ethnic
studies below, "identity and relationships, African American
literature on honors class, intro to ethnic studies." The list
goes on, we just pulled out these three and we thought
indoctrination 101 was the thing of the past, Amy.

REICHERT: It's indoctrination not education and San Diego School

District is literally holding students hostage unless they
renounce and confess to unconscious white privilege and whiteness
and parents are shocked down here that they won't be able to see
their children graduate from high school unless they take part in
this socialist Marxist exercise.

GALLAGHER: "The View" co-hosts say Jasmine Crockett, Chef, is

wrong for calling Governor Abbott Governor Hot Wheels. Watch.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SUNNY HOSTIN, "THE VIEW" CO-HOST: You just don't mock people with
disabilities. I mean, you don't mock people. I was going to say,
you just don't mock people at all. And I admire Jasmine Crockett.
I do think she's an effective messenger. I think this was a
mistake. And I think when you make a mistake, you have to own it.
You have to do that because it gives you a lot more credibility
when you do that.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GALLAGHER: Effective messenger. All she does is this kind of

stuff.

GRUEL: Yes. Of course, they had to coat it with a little bit of

sugar and sprinkle on that one. I mean, it must be a crazy day
over at the All-You-Can-Eat buffet when the chatty ladies of "The
View" are actually turning on their own. I never thought I would
see that, but they didn't even, they did it with the kind of
footnote on there, so I don't take it seriously.

GALLAGHER: Yes. You can't take it seriously because they change

every day and tomorrow they'll be like back on the Jasmine
Crockett bandwagon. Chef, Emily, Amy, thank you all.

Well, the judge currently fighting Trump's Tren de Aragua

deportations. It was just assigned to a lawsuit over the
administration's controversial signal chat leak. Are you
surprised how on earth is the same judge back in the mix? His
fourth Trump case. Let us know, X and Instagram, @TraceGallagher.
We're back with the "NIGHTCAP" crew. That includes you next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

GALLAGHER: Back with the "NIGHTCAP" crew: Kevin Corke, Matt Finn,
Natalie Beisner, Jason Rantz, Emily Wilson, and Chef Andrew
Gruel. Tonight's topic, deja vu.

The judge currently fighting Trump's Tren de Aragua deportations

was just assigned to a lawsuit over the administration's
controversial Signal chat leak. Are you surprised? How is the
same judge back in the mix for the fourth time.

Jason Rantz, I heard about this today and I really thought, are
you kidding me? What are the odds of this? I want to know how
many judges you get to pick from and what in the world is going
on. What do you think?

RANTZ: And to like people all the time because, well, you
interact with them and they're going to have to do the same
thing.

GALLAGHER: Yes. Kevin Corke, what do you think?

CORKE: It smells like weaponization to me. I just don't buy the

randomness of the same guy showing up over and over, but I do
think this will ultimately make its way to the high court.

GALLAGHER: Yes. It seems like forum shopping really is a thing.

Emily, what do you think?

WILSON: I think the bias and all these things is very exhausting.
I'd still be more interested in Hillary's e-mails than anything
they had to say.

GALLAGHER: Really?

WILSON: No.

GALLAGHER: Yes. I mean, Chef, the newest City Council Member on

the Huntington Beach team here on board, what do you think, Chef?
I mean, it just seems to me like there's a little bit of, you
know, something weird in the mix.

GRUEL: Yes, definitely. And when you see the way they're getting,
people are reacting to it, it's like an addictive romance novel.
But I think we're getting dangerously close to the point at which
we're going to see the administration potentially defy judge's
orders.

GALLAGHER: I just can't wait, Matt Finn, to see when the next
time we hear Juan Merchan's name come up as, oh, now he's a
district judge and now he's got a Trump case, who knew?

FINN: Well, we need a Vik Bajaj here.

GALLAGHER: I know right.

FINN: From what I read and what I'm told it is randomly assigned,
but I think this one is really ripe for skepticism.

GALLAGHER: Yes, it really is, and nobody is more skeptical than

Natalie Beisner on these types of things, right?

BEISNER: Yes. I'm with Kevin. I don't really buy the randomness
of it. I guess if there's only 15, I think the judge should step
aside to preserve the integrity of the court, but maybe it
wouldn't do any good. But yes, I wish I could say I'm surprised.
I wish I could add something else, but I'm not at all surprised.

GALLAGHER: Yes, nor am I.

Mark says, "I am not surprised. It's the Democrats trying to make
Trump look bad, and they don't care about national security."

Barbara says, "This judge needs to be impeached immediately or

the judiciary will continue to assign him Trump cases."

Michael says, "Rigged, like Merchan, getting more than one Trump
case in New York City. Coincidences form a pattern, and Americans
are not stupid."

Julia says, "Congress needs to act immediately to defund these

courts."

Andrea, "We, the people, no longer have trust to chat,

apparently," maybe they are.

And Rosa says, "This just goes to show how deeply our government
is corrupted." There you go.

Thank you all for joining the "NIGHTCAP" and thank you for
watching America's late news, FOX NEWS @ NIGHT. I'm Trace
Gallagher in Los Angeles. We'll see you right back here for
Thursday night's FOX NEWS @ NIGHT.

END