of the border still very much out of control and a bipartisan senate deal trying like heck to get it under control, but tom emmer says that a deal is dead on arrival thiess in the house. he s here and so is south carolina governor henry mcmaster on what he and two cousin other republican governors are doing to help texas in its legal border battle with the white house. and peek of legal battles, donald trump vowing to appeal that a whopping $83 million jury verdict the in his defamation trial. does he have a case to reverse it? if we are on it. all over it, actually. good morning, everybody. happy to have you. i m neil cavuto. there s a lot going if on with the border patrol just now announcing that a new record high migrant encounters were noted in december, better than 300,000. president biden saying he is ready to sign a senate bipartisan deal on the border, and the day he does shut down the boarder in so doing. a lot of people aren t convinced that will be the case. lucas
at the national cathedral. ed: national guard troops meanwhile will stay on the southwest border for at least another year, james mattis authorizing up to 4,000 guardsmen to continue supporting agents nearly 2200 troops already deployed. the operation began in april as democrats call for in-n-out burger boycott over political donations. one republican is turning the table. state senator phil williams urging the popular burger change to bring its product to alabama. williams tweeting hey in-n-out burger come on to alabama. we love burgers and we love #republicans. kentucky senator rand paul also getting in on the fun tweeting a photo of himself eating an in-n-out burger. and those are your headlines. those burgers are really good. pete: he must have been fundraising. ed: college football is kicking off go down to alabama, you will sell a lot of burgers. pete: love it all five
$ 15. today s work stoppage expected to involve fast food chains in 100 cities. even president obama s offering moral support. we know we re going to have a greater and greater portion of our people in the service sector and we know that there are aren t workers and fast food workers and nurse assistants and retail salespeople who work their tails off and still living at or barely above poverty and that s why it s well past the time to raise a minute mum wage. executive with the white castle burger change, playing employee $15 would kill the company. other news, state department has now confirmed that a united states citizen was killed in benghazi, libya.
rage of washington for not creating the kind of jobs you can raise a family on but you blame mcdonalds and burger change. they are hardly millionaires that run these. neil: you have some older folks working there. the fast-food franchisee s responsibility to pay them more, to address that? in other words, people seem to lose sight that mcdonald s and burger king and wendy s, they re the parent companies that sell these franchises, and the franchiseees themselves have close profit margin. but let s say they were to get the raise, would would happen? let me page a point about the