angeles and this is america's late news, fox news at night. and breaking tonight, brand new exclusive information coming into fox news at night showing that a quarter million dollars was sent from beijing china to hunter biden. and the beneficiary address was the delaware home of president biden. meantime democratic senator bob menendez has legal and political problems of his own. now one-third of the senators in his own party are calling for him to step down because of bribery charges. and there is now concern about the balance of power in the senate. the senior national correspondent kevin corke is live from dc with more on both of those investigations. kevin, good evening. >> reporter: what a night here in the nation's capitol trace. evening to you, house oversight committee chair james comer of kentucky has actually been investigating the biden family business dealings and the president's alleged involvement in those ventures, which is why tonight hunter biden, the news that he received wires that originated from beijing for more than a quarter million bucks, well, those same wires that listed joe biden's home as the beneficiary address, that's all raising eyebrows. comer subpoena then later received records of not one but two wires originating from beijing, something we are certainly going to keep an eye on. this is happening as all sorts of democratic senators on capitol hill continue to call for bob menendez to step down from his post in the senate following revelations of hundreds of thousands of dollars and gold bars being discovered at his home amid influence peddling allegations. as you know, trace, democrats narrowly control the chamber with just 51 seats and that includes three independents who normally vote with them and that's compared to the republicans 49. however, before you gop fans get out there and say we can take this, keep this in mind, the garden state has not sent a republican to the senate since 1972. trace. >> trace: 51 years later, might be time for a change. >> maybe. >> trace: kevin corke live in dc kevin let's bring in former deputy assistant john yoo the fox news headlines reads, the following, hunter biden received 250 k wires originateing in beijing with beneficiary address listed as joe biden's home. i mean, i don't know if there's anything really illegal about this, john, but, boy, it just looks dirty and cozy. >> this is the benefits the way congressman comer and house republicans are conducting their investigation. i know a lot of people want to see, when are they going to put hunter biden under oath before the house. that's not the way you do this. you build the case slowly steadily by getting financial information like this. first, and we're starting to see this now. where's the money coming from? beijing moscow coming into biden family accounts. next step we're going to ask is, where did it go? what did it pay for? did it pay for cars, did it pay for houses. that's the next step only after you get that does it start to make sense to bring in the headline witnesses. >> trace: it's interesting because a lot of people talk about this john and they say james comer's doing this. remember james comer was a banker, he was a banker by trade so when he sees these kinds of transactions and these suspicious activity reports he is alerted and knows what he's talking about. moving on reuters writes the following here, bob menendez should resign say a third of u.s. democratic senators and then goes on to say democrats far offensive line control the chamber with 51 seats including three independents who normally vote with them to the republicans 49. i mean, it looks bad, john, right? it could be costly to the democrats here but it appears it is going to be costly for bob menendez. >> it's hard to see how he can stay in the senate while his own party is deserting him, although he has a presumption of innocence, he has a right to go to trial. he says he's going to go to trial. last time the justice department tried to convict him, they could not convince a jury. interesting thing as you say trace is how does this affect the senate balance of power, especially how are democrats going to turn on menendez like this so quickly when we just talked about the biden family and money coming in from abroad and sitting in suspicious accounts and we're not sure why it went, are they going to be so kick to jump and ask for joe biden not to run for president or even to step down if there are more facts discovered by congressman comer. >> trace: that was my next point but i'm going to go back to reuters again because they said quote judge arthur ruling in a civil lawsuit brought by new york attorney general leticia james found trump and his companies deceived trump insurers and others by mass ill overvaluing assets and his net worth on paperwork securing deals and making loans. what do you make? is there any effect at all of this on the campaign, et cetera? >> this is going to be very hard for president trump to overturn on appeal. it looks like, according to the facts of the case, that there was a lot of exaggeration going on in the valuation of his properties to get better deals for loans. but the bigger question is why is a new york attorney general trying to take out one of the major party candidates for president? why don't they just let the voters decide this november, next november, rather than trying to knock someone out using the criminal justice system or in this case the civil justice system. >> trace: fair question. john yoo thank you for joining us. >> thanks trace. >> trace: meantime the breaking news on hunter biden and senator menendez is likely to come up during the republican debate at the reagan library less than 24 hours from now. that's fbn correspondent grady trimble is live with a look ahead. grady good evening. >> good evening, trace. there's a growing buzz here at the reagan presidential library as the candidates and their campaigns arrive, kind of get the lay of the land here. you know, when we talk to voters across the country about their top issues in the 2024 election, two that come up over and over again are immigration and the economy. so let's start with the economy. the debate will, of course, be an opportunity for these candidates to sell their vision for the economy, contrasted with bidenomics. as you can see in these poll numbers, voters are increasingly unhappy with president biden's handling of the economy. >> i'm concerned in a few years, when i'm ready to retire, that we're going to have an economy that would allow me to, or am i supposed to work until i'm 70, 80 years old because i can't ard afford to. >> you go shopping everything's more expensive, eggs, fruit, generallying tabs meets, you go out to eat and it's more, and last couple months gas prices are going up too. >> and as the crisis at the southern border is now spilling over into cities across the country, it has been a huge focus for the republican candidates. florida governor ron desantis has advocated for using deadly force on drug cartel members. vivek ramaswamy says, as president, he'd go a step further than former president trump's wall and send u.s. troops to secure the border. take a look at the podium positions for tomorrow night. a few changes from the last time around in wisconsin. former south carolina governor nikki haley moving closer to center stage after a strong performance there in milwaukee. trace, it will certainly be a high stakes night for all 7 of the candidates on stage. starts at 9:00 eastern and 6:00 here in simi valley, trace. >> trace: and we will be there. grady trimble live for us thank you. he will be live in simi valley california after the debate tomorrow night we will have debate analysis and talks talk to the candidates themselves you don't want to miss that. meantime let's bring in lee carter and madison gilbert, thank you both for coming on. lee i want to know, strategy wise, how do you go after the form president trump when he's not on stage? >> well, i think one of the things that none of the other candidates that are going to be on stage tomorrow have really captured the hearts and minds of the republican party, and the thing that donald trump has done is he's made this argument that the system is rigged, that everything seems unfair, and he is the one that's going to fight for you. now, whether you like it or not, 70% of americans do believe that the system is rigged and he's really made a case, it's emotional and it's visceral. the other candidates haven't yet made that and they have to. ron desantis has a really great sort of tell, right now he's really been focused on fighting the woke wars and protecting children. what he should be really focused on is the fact that freedom, people are objecting agendas forced and can't make choices themselves and that's what ron desantis should talk to. nikki haley is a practicing ma activity, she hasn't tapped into anything emotional and visceral. what they need to do tomorrow night is to tap into something that believes our lives will be better. >> trace: the fort worth star telegram asking the following, presidential debates usually draw rounds of ants patory regulation. who will come out swinging, who needs a big night what issues will the moderators focus on. the second meet-up of the 2024 candidates set for the fox business cable channel tomorrow night, brings out one question, why are we doing this again? they're staying, okay, what's the purpose of this. you talk to me about that, madison because it's a big topic. >> it's the same thing we talked about during the first debate. we as a republican party have a vision in stark contrast of what people have been experiencing for 2.5 years under president joe biden. he's been a failure not just on the economy and the border but every issue. we oh see him in michigan not supporting the uawworkers when he says he's the most pro union president in our history and that's not true. this is the case tomorrow forthe candidates not only do we have a vision but we need you to get out and vote for us. not just our candidates for primary voters butr voter who may not be sure who they're voting for next november.>> tra poll up on the screen about a minute left. fox business poll 2024 republican primary, without trump in the race, this is in south carolina primary voters, nikki haley you can see there, lee, leads this 27% followed by desantis, tim scott, vivek ramaswamy. do you think these numbers hold weight? do you think this is all going to change after tomorrow night? >> you know, look, 35% of voters switch their mind during a primary debate. so something could happen. and certainly we saw that nikki haley had a breakout performance the last time. as for vivek he also did as well. the others, ron desantis has to have a knockout night. if he doesn't he's going to go by the way side similar to what happened to jeb bush in 2015 and 2016. so something big has to happen. i'm not sure any of the capped dates are up for it we haven't seen that kind of energy come out of them yet but it could. >> trace: madison final thoughts. >> i encourage been to tune in tomorrow night anything can happen but at the end of the day we as a party will be behind the candidate. >> trace: big tonight? >> everybody needs a big night but we are behind the candidate no matter who we are committed to beating biden and we want people to bank their vote >> trace: you want to talk about, a community meetings erupted in a shout fest after those began airing their grievances for what they believe is zero effort to stop the city from spinning out of control. jeff with enough is enough. good evening. >> reporter: some folks who call chicago home have had enough and the final straw was a recent attack on a 33-year-old man who was just minding his own business. and we want to warn our viewers the video we're about to show you is tough to watch. police say just before 3:00 p.m. the victim was walking down an ally when two people came up from behind them. won of them appears to sucker punch the victim while the other eventually joins in as they rob him. so last night some folks who lev in the area showed up to a town hall hoping local leaders had some solutions. some were frustrated and started yelling and it got so bad one man was e jacketeded from the meeting. chicago currently averaging nearly 30 robberies each day and it's figures like that in part that led to congressman jim jordan to hold an unofficial forum on the problem. >> on the street you shouldn't be surprised when you get more crime when you defund the police, you shouldn't be more crime when you pass legislation that ends cash bail. you shouldn't be surprised when you get more crime. >> reporter: fox news contributor gianna caldwell also appeared at that forum and spoke about how crime in chicago has impacted his family. his 18-year-old brother christian was shot and killed in a shooting police say was not intended for him h caldwell says his brother being in the wrong place at the wrong time sadly could be a reality for anyone whether they're just sleeping in their bed at home or sitting in the back seat of a car. >> this should not be happening in any american city. they call it chirock for a reason. i'm going to use my voice any chance i got. it's my mission in life to change the trajectory. >> reporter: chicago businessman danny david said while crime is an issue he questioned the timing of it all. everyone should be in washington right now to make sure the government doesn't shut down trace. >> trace: jeff paul thank you now to the best coast where oakland business owners shut down their stores and locked their doors to protest the exploding crime crisis destroying their city. marianne rafferty is live with the changes these business owners are demanding. gary ann good evening. >> good evening trace. nearly 100 businesses in california subject their doors today going on strike in a call for better public safety and more help for struggling store owners. business owners underscored their plight by holding their press conference outside an iconic restaurant closing this weekend after nearly 40 years. its owner blaming a drop in business due to increased crime up 20% this year alone. officials also estimate there are about 40 car break-ins now every day. that sobering reality is prompting this admission from one progressive leader. >> as progressives it's not easy to admit that we support a failed policy but letting crime go rampant is not the way. letting violent criminals out as soon as they're apprehended and booked does not lead to public safety. >> reporter: while oakland city leaders dismissed the strike as a quote unproductive publicity stunt residents say scenes like this recent robbery are all too common. a man getting to his car held up at gunpoint fortunately bystanders were able to step in with a bat smashing out the windows of the get away car and the city leaders are facing fierce criticism after they missed a deadline to file a grant that would have provided millions to fight retal theft trace. >> trace: yeah, it's amazing. marianne, thank you. ♪ . >> trace: the fox news at night common sense department wonders how bad things have to get for hundreds of small business owners in oakland to get together, shut their doors and go on strike for a day, all because of rising rampant crime. one business owner said, quoting, i'm going to lose money but i've got to make a stand. common sense thinks he's right. better to close for a day and make noise than to close forever and make nothing. because shutting down for good seems to be a pattern, and not just for the independent business owners, cvs is now saying it will shut down some 900 stores by the end of next year. the cvs statement didn't directly point to crime but, then again, the statement didn't need to, because target took care of that announcing it, too, will be shutting down nine stores in the coming weeks. and target did release a statement blaming, quote, theft and retail crime. it's interesting, the nine stores that target is closing are in four states, new york, washington, oregon and california. and in california, one of those stores being shuttered is in oakland. common sense thinks, it's a good bet the ceo of target wasn't on strike with the other oakland small business owners, but it's also a good bet that ceo realizes those business owners need to make a statement if they hope to make a living. let's bring in former fbi special agent nicole parker and fox news contributor and author of come on, man, joe concha. welcome to you both. i want to play some sound. there are some oakland business owners that we talked to. they said this, nicole, and i'll get your response. >> look what's going on. afghanistan is safer than oakland. >> she pulled her pants down and went to the toilet right into our kitchen. >> this city's out of control. the crime is out of control. so, you know, on behalf of the naacp we're saying we would like to do our leaders moderate their view and become more realistic about the state of crime in this city. >> trace: yeah, i mean, you have been in legal, law enforcement for a long time, nicole, and you wonder why lawmakers are deciding to choose the credits over the residents. >> you know, how awful is it that these hard working business owners that have had these businesses for extensive periods of time are having to close their doors. i mean, it is now a war zone. people do not feel safe it is extremely dangerous and yes i was an fbi special agent and i focused most of my career working violent crime and it is so important for individuals in our country to focus on electing those officials that are going to black the blue and support law enforcement, sheriffs, judges, attorneys, mayors, city council members. it matters. they cannot be pushing their progressive ideologies over protecting their citizens and safety of their communities and that's what's happening in a lot of democratic cities. >> trace: we talk about fed-up joe concha and rowe con a a democrat in california had this to say today. watch. >> you can't just break into a target or walgreens and not have consequences. you can't just engage in carjacking and not have consequences. people do have to be arrested if they commit these crimes. >> trace: the problem, joe, is they're not being arrested when they commit those crimes. >> or if they're arrested, trace, then you have attorney generals who are not enforcing the law and what we have is a revolving door where somebody gets arrested perhaps, but then they're back on the street in a couple of hours and they commit the same crime again because they know there's no accountability. there's no consequences, but things will change because in a state like california for example they are seeing an exodus out of that state more than any other state in the country, particularly san francisco, sacramento and los angeles. and when you lose people and you lose businesses, you lose tax revenue. and that bankrupt those cities, no question. and at some point, the residents of that state and of other democratic-run cities will have to make a choice and say, look, either we survive or we don't, and you only do that by changing leadership, in terms of the governors, in terms of the mayors and in terms of the attorney generals that they appoint. >> trace: while we're talking about crime i want to put this on the screen, we just got this video in, breaking news coming in because in philadelphia there is widespread looting going on. this is video that's been shared, formally known as twitter on x. we're talking about looting at stores like apple, lululemon and foot locker, 17th and walnut streets and there is a big-time police presence. unclear if anybody has been arrested but we do believe these are juveniles involved in this. i want to play this sound and i'll get response from both of you. again, this is fox news contributor gee and you a caldwell talking about his brother. >> living in chicago shouldn't come with a death sentence but it does for too many chicagoians. christian will never have the opportunity to go to college or to get married or to have kids or to build a career. and so many other youth in chicago have experienced the same reality. >> trace: literally have ten seconds for both of you, nicole. your thoughts. >> that's absolutely heart breaking having worked with victims of violent crime this is extremely serious and these criminals are destroying families, destroying people's futures. this cannot be tolerated and we need to support law enforcement and allow them to do their job use yep. got to go. joe. >> it starts with the education system trace and when most kids in chicago can't read at a proficient level, this is where they turn to. >> trace: and we're going to talk about that later. joe concha thank you 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we have stories every single day coming out, children in bashed wires, fentanyl, the flag now being planted. what else is it going to take kamala hairs down there i hear elon musk is going down. if he cares enough why can't our own president care to secure the border. >> trace: you think 95 year olds get them out of a nursing home for a couple months, here come the migrants, we need to buy a building. your thoughts? >> it's emblematic of this administration they simply do not care about our saps, the ones who pay taxes and play by the rules and want to keep law and order in place only to be upended by tens of thousands of people coming in illegally displacing american citizens, i think the congresswoman explained it so well, we are doing this for the betterment of our country only to have the biden administration come forward and say we don't really care about what you did as a veteran. it's sickening. >> trace: it really is. meantime new york republican nick low lotto wants a law to ban funding for sanctuary cities. his point is why are the taxpayers in oklahoma funding these sanctuary cities in new york and california overrun with migrants. >> well, conservatives have you thely been opposed to sanctuary cities for at least six, seven years now. been a conversation on the right and just now are we starting to see the new york politicians get into the fray when the numbers get out, the hotels, the $1 billion additional taxes to the citizens of new york. so, yes, we should not have sanctuary cities, yes we should secure the border protect the homeland, actually ensure there's law and order at our southern border. >> we should be be functioning sanctuary circumstances you want to do this, you do it but i don't want to pay for it. >> reporter: hundred per, percent, i did a lot of research for my book and what we find out real quickly is that every single person ends up funding something that is so fundamentally a bad idea that we're bringing people in and encouraging more to come by because now get what you're getting a nice hotel room on top of everything else, go across the boarder, no consequences at all. >> trace: a christian family is begging the biden administration to keep them from deporting them because in germany where they originally are from, they've been here 15 years, it's illegal to home school. why is teev their attorney watch. >> what i can say is the family has entered the country lawfully, they've been here lawfully for 15 years they want to stay here lawfully and there's a way to make that happen. this is not a case owner a family whiches what we have in the united states and wanting to continue to follow the rule of law as you stay here. so the biden administration can make that happen. >> wouldn't you love to see the double box of this family being deported and all the migrants. >> it's rather remarkable. maybe this family's biggest problem is they want to do home schooling. they should have come forward and said they support public school criticize school choice donate to teachers unions and maybe they would be treated with some kind of fairness. this is the exact kind of folks we should not be deporting and they came here lawfully. they've been living here lawfully. they've actually not been breaking the laws which we can't say about some other folks. >>. >> reporter: jessica. >> now look tbiden administration has made it very, very clear about parents, they don't like us, they call us domestic terrorists. so when you see the juxtaposition how this is being treated and compound by the fact the doj has been weaponized against normal americans, does it really surprise anyone. it's a twofold system of the rule of law. i and hopefully debate covers all this and we can turn our country around. >> trace: thank you both. a mystery in cleave clanked where police say hundreds of kids have gone missing without a trace. >> and still to come new jersey residents street surface trying to ride out a tropical storm. and a rare find a mile beneath the sea, today's best viral videos are next but first a look at the flags flying high in new albany indiana. ♪ oh. 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(soft music) ♪ >> trace: new tonight, dozens of children in cleveland are mysteriously missing just this month alone and for the past year the daily mail says the number is in the hundreds. kevin corke is back live with that story. kind of odd, kevin. >> reporter: yeah, an odd one indeed, a frightening trend trace that demands attention and some would argue it demands interdiction as well. according to the daily mail police say the number of run a ways and missing children is unusually high and it continues an ominous trend. for example, just last year, 1600 kids were reported missing in ohio. in a state which has a population of roughly 11 million. by comparison in in the states of say georgia and north carolina which have similar populations, the number was less than 700. now, police say that there are concerns tonight about trafficking and gang activity. though that would hardly explain the overwhelming numbers. and tonight there are groups in ohio and elsewhere who are demanding federal intervention and as i mentioned an investigation into what in the world is going on trace. >> trace: we're going to stay on this kevin. thank you. let's bring in entertainment attorney and cultural expert, mitra ahouraian and prager u personality xaviaer durousseau. it's interesting because the police chief john says this, for some reason in 2023 we have seen a lot more than we normally see which is troubling in part because we don't know what's going on with some of these kids, whether they are being trafficked or whether they're involved in gang activitior drugs. but we do know xaviaer that a lot of these kids get involved in drugs and part and parcel of that is sometimes trafficking. >> yes, of course we can't underestimate the impact of gang culture but i think we need to pay a lot closer attention to human trafficking and a lot of people still try to write this off as conspiracy but we need to question whether some of these elite figures are part of some of these children going missing because what else would explain someone like ghislaine max as well being convicted of human trafficking and 600 days later not a single client has been arrested or even identified. and this problem is only going to worsen if we keep having these truck loads of undocumented and untraceable people invading both our major cities and small rural communities. >> trace: i want to move on because gavin newsom posted this on x, california has now banned the extremist book bans the gop are pushing. we will be fining schools that block textbooks and school library books for discriminatory reasons. and what he's saying is that they're banning book bans in california. so, in essence, if republicans don't approve of a book, it's discriminatory and if democrats don't approve it's warranted. what are your thoughts me tra. >> i think it's a slippery slope either way. i think the intention was probably to get out of this habit of sort of banning things that, you know, we don't like. but that is certainly a slippery slope and historically it's been a slippery slope but on the flip side this level of state intervention and what is going to be taught in schools but also, not just that aspect of it, but what's going to happen if you don't comply with the law here, and that's what gets interesting with the fines and sort of supervision involved with that. >> trace: yeah, it's unusual when the state gets involved in things like school books and textbooks. it's not really lawmakers bailiwick. >> it's interesting how committed the left is to indoctrinating our children they're spending a thousand hours a year in the classrooms and instead of focusing on rising test scores and making sure they're college ron desantis they're having family values stripped away and replaced with this radical indoctrination. >> trace: it's interesting because students are fleeing public schools by the thousands. home school parents cite liberal pools as a factor almost half of parents turning to home schooling today say they are concerned about their children being influenced by liberal viewpoints mitra according to the washington post poll. so washington post saying you have these parents home schooling their kids because they're just so tired of these liberal views that they are kids are getting. >> i think there's a lot of reasons why in this day and age people would want to home school. there's a lot of other things out there like school shootings, there's bullying. there's certainly the debates over what is in a text book. it's also important to look at this was a study of a thousand people, so it's not representative of everyone, but i think it certainly points to a trend that we're seeing particularly post pandemic when, you know, when there are more family members at openly that can home school, why not keep them there and teach the values you would like. >> trace: she brings up a good point because there were a number of points in the polls and one in the washington post thinking about specific reasons did your family choose to home school this child because, and one of the reasons, the main reason was dissatisfaction with academic instruction at schools. so they're not happy with what's happening and we see the test scores xaviaer and the test scores are horrific across the i credit. >> they are horrific and they're only going to get worse if priorities are all over the place. we're not seeing educators focused on educating and that's why we create so many problems. when i hear more parents are pulling their kids out of these schools especially public schools, it's morphing to my ears because that's what they need to do. >> trace: ten seconds. >> i think that worries me because i don't know how capable i am even as an intelligent person of teaching my child all of the things they need to learn to excel in school. >> trace: somebody needs to teach them and right now the public schools are not doing a good job according to the test scores. mitra, xaviaer, thank you both. >> thank you trace. >> thank you. >> trace: first up in tonight's viral videos, tropical storm ophelia and people down the jersey shore road the waves right on the street as you see. some north wildwood locals stood near a sea wall as the waves crashed above? as high as 15 feet. despite the storm they still held its irish fall festival of course right? time lapse video dallas fort worth as severe thunderstorms rolled through included quarter inch size hail we're told and strong winds that knocked out power to thousands. and rare footage of an octopus seen on camera by a deep sea submersible in the pacific ocean. spellerrs spotted the dumb bow octopus about a mile under the water. these see creatures propel themselves using their ear shaped finances and are known to gobble their prey whole. if you have a viral video to share share it with us at trace gallagher or fox news at night on social media. we all have a favorite show one you never get tired of. we want to know what yours is, still time to weigh in on x and instagram, when you go back to watch something what is it and why. the nightcap crew is next, early wednesday morning in cape town south africa courtesy of africa. a world away and we are coming right back. ♪ ♪ where i've outgrown my hou se. growing up, every me i'd get out of the shower, i would itch. my first experience with goat milk soap, it kinda was like a light bulb moment. tiktok is a fantastic platform for diy. if you'd have told me three years ago that i would own my own business and be expanding into a separate building, i would've told you you'd lost your mind. do you ever feel dehydrated and need to feel better quickly? liquid labs from force factor hydrates better and faster than water alone. and, liquid labs is delicious, easy to use and affordable. rush to walmart and find liquid labs in the vitamin aisle. ♪ >> trace: well, we are back with the nightcap crew, kevin corke, jeff paul, marianne rafferty and jason rantz. tonight's topic, comfort shows. and here's the reason. see, the wall street journal did an op-ed today talked about a dad wanting his son to watch something wholesome so the 7-year-old son started watching happy days and now, as you might imagine, he is a huge fan of the fonz. right? hey! what old go-to show do you watch? did the show have a catch line? how does it make you feel and does it bring you back to a different time? it's kind of a unique topic, i thought this would be kind of cool and my first one is to kevin corke because i know kevin has got to have some kind of a show that makes you feel good and there's got to be a reason why. kevin corke lay it on us. >> i feel guilty because i'm going to steal somebody else's thunder, i heard them talking about it in the break, but i loved sanford and son. >> trace: oh! >> i loved red fox, i grew up on that stuff, you big dummy. >> trace: you big dummy. >> and the jefferson's, too, something about george, kind of shas saying in there. i love it 70s team. >> trace: one of those who runs our show valentin, he does it. he'll yell in as the show goes on. >> i'm coming. >> here he is! >> trace: love the show. jeff paul. >> two shows malcolm in the middle, you know, just from my time. >> trace: malcolm in the middle? nice. >> love it, it's fun, every family's kind of weird and family matters, i loved family matters a as a young kid, urkel and karl winslow. >> trace: not to be confused with michael j fox with alex pkeaton was family. >> family ties. >> trace: family ties was a great shoechlt marianne rafferty. >> i asked jeff if he heard of sanford andson because that was one of mine. and cheers, cheers. i love it, just the theme song puts you in a good mood. >> trace: cheers would be cliff right, little known fact, right? cliff clavin. jason rantz, your show. >> yeah, as much as i can appreciate family matters that's a very mediocre show. of all the oakers it's the meatyest which is a quote from my favorite show which is veep. i love family matters don't worry. veep every single day i'm watching one episode, i cannot stop i'm addicted to the show and the quote i did was the only clean one i can get away with on television. >> trace: i went back and started watching a new hhart episode, remember newhart 24 the 19 80s, i watched like 11 episodes. lej hogan's heroes it makes me laugh no matter how many times you see the episode. you see there 93% love it. red, columbo watch with my mom in the 70s now watch with my grand sociability carmichael everybody loves raymond never fails to be sunny and don never fails with seinfeld reruns, always the best. i'm trace gallagher in los angeles, we'll see you back here tomorrow night at the debate. ♪ acked. 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