are for wanting to build this wall the immigration back court backlog is nearly 800,000 cases. goals ton say 300 americans killed each year from heroin and 90% of that heroin comes across our southern border. unbelievable. brian: it is. democratic officials familiar with the negotiations over the weekend said no progress was made. they wanted more details. they got it today. just so you know, no one is really messing with these statistics and really alarming. in huma, arizona, 87% of those coming across the border are families. 60% are children. 25,000 families came across in november to our southern border that is a one-month record and in el paso, 200 kids a day are going into shelters that were built mostly for males, single men because that was the problem. it isn t anymore. senator lindsey graham was on face the nation yesterday and says we have a fundamental difference. we are having to
the woman behind me said why do you come to work? she said tsa agent said because i took an oath. i took an oath for the security of the united states of america. that s why i m working without pay. ainsley: amazing. brian: government is letting people like that down. because you think if i m going to show up every day at least you will pay me every day. steve: they will get paid eventually. brian: maybe as a country we shut pat each other down and give the tsa a break. steve: that s completely different. brian: i m still working out the details. ainsley: not only the planes will not be safe but you would be sued. brian: extreme measures during the shutdown. ainsley: hand it over to jillian who has headlines for us. jillian: good morning. ainsley: making it a great week. jillian: brian, that s probably the worst idea you have had. get you caught up on headlines, a community is mourning the death of a utah police officer killed in the line of duty. officer shiners who died in a shootout
brotherhood. can t be any closer. but, they came together they helped lift the singh family. you know, nika singh the widow wanted to pass along her thanks to fox & friends, to you personally and to you the viewers because they know without your help that this couldn t happen, she expressed such relief that she is never going to have to worry about this mortgage again and that there is other money to help her. ainsley: there you are together. steve: kindness of the viewers who heard her story told through you and then donations to tunnel to towers will be able to start to put their son through college. i mean that is a legacy that that family is never going to forget, frank. no, it s been incredible. thank you for having me on here for the last couple of weeks. brian: frank, just unbelievable that they are immigrants. they did immigrate here to this country. to say pursue the american dream. be they did it the right way. they were killed by someone who not only was a criminal but c
steve: wasn t very political. the host said we are not going to get political they did not. brian: but he did. he did cheney. ainsley: i m sure everybody at home watched. steve: one of the awards i only saw one which means to show you i m busy watching tv. ainsley: brian has seen one movie over the course of five years and he talks about it every day. when bohemian ma rap is i won he could talk about it. i can stop talking about fred clause. steve: talk about the shutdown. russell, the white house budget director did send a letter to congressional leaders and they told them exactly what the white house wanted. and there are a couple of important things that are different, something the president wanted and there is something that democrats wanted as well. ainsley: the president felt it was important to sing send
steve: indeed we do. potential democratic contender julian castro agreeing with alexandria ocasio-cortez on a plan to skyrocket taxes for the super rich to fund their socialist agendas. i can support folks at the top paying their fair share there was a time in this country where the top marginal tax rate was over 90%. even during reagan s era in the 1980s it was around 50%. ainsley: all right. here to react is host of varney and company on the fox business network stuart varney. how strongly would you like me to react to that? dew points me to blow up or something. steve: taxed at 90% why bother? didn t the gentleman refer to a fair share? brian: yes. a fair share is 90% for the government and maybe 10% kept by you? that hardly seems fair to me. look, two points. looks to me like number one, the far left is now calling the shots for the entire democrat party as you roll up towards 2020.