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
what do you make of it? well it already is because the president is not enforcing the law as he s required to do by the constitution, so, texas, greg abbott, dan patrick, they having to step in. i can not understand, and i don t know anyone who can understand a good reason why the biden administration is simply abandoning these borders. it is hard to believe that the president of the united states is allowing all of these people from all over the world to just come in and a lot of them are getting away. those people aren t going to show back up for a hearing. we don t have a border, and it is, i think the repercussions of this are going to be very serious. neil: all right that was south carolina governor mcmaster on with me earlier essentially saying that we don t have a deal , we don t have any sort of order at the border and now the back and forth and the legal back and forth with lawsuits filed left and right isn t going to make that easier even when it comes to removing