bret: good evening, welcome to washington i m bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll. a jury found previously sexually assaulted by a trump in the 1990s. the former president vigorously denied the allegations and wondered how he did that is the subject of the defamation case. alexis mcadams outside of the federal courthouse in manhattan with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. good evening, bret. huge numbers in the courtroom in manhattan. e.g. harrell said dona
with judge jeanine pirro, harold ford jrwith, jesse wattes and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city. this, is the five dramatic showdown over security at the r reaching a breaking point. right now, texas is telling the biden administrations tellio to come and take it. today is the deadline the white house gave the governor,e greg, on allowing federal agents access to shelby park in eagle so they can remove the razor wire there. th to let the feds in and hasitio a coalition of 25 red state governors on its side. ofg could now be headed back to court, and texas is confident it will win. t but the white house says abbot is breaking the law by playingot gameuse as as. shy we will not shy away from n calling out what we seepoli. as political games from as political games from safe. it does not protect our communities. and that s who he cares about. and that s who he cares about. that st,e people of texas.t,e people of what we re seeing from governor abbott, you heardtexase s
dana:i am dana perino with judge jeanine p rowand greg gutfeld. this is the five. dramatic showdown at the southern border reaching a breaking point. texas telling the biden administration to come and do take it. today is the deadline the white house made on allowing federal agents access to shall be park and eagle pass so they can remove the razor wire there. texas is refusing to let the feds in and has a coalition of 25 red state governors, the whole thing could be headed back to court and texas is confident it will win but the white house says abbott is breaking the law. we will not shy away from calling out what we see as political games for the governor but because it s not safe, it does not protect our communities. he cares about the people of texas. you have heard me say over and over they are making it harder, he s making it harder for border patrol to do their jobs. they need access and right now they don t have that. this is the supreme law of the land. despite
and i aced it. i think it was 35, 30 questions. and let me tell you, they always show you the first one, like a giraffe, a tiger, or this. a whale. which one is the whale? donald trump is again bragging about acing the dementia test. while claiming that presidents should have full immunity for any crimes they might want to commit. former u.s. attorney general eric holder joins me on that. and on a big victory in louisiana, where a new legislative map with two majority black districts is advancing in the state legislature. plus, with a border deal on the table, which senate republicans say is a great deal, trump s maga caucus in the house is saying no. because they want to continue to stoke fear ahead of the fall election. but we begin tonight with donald trump. the leading candidate for the republican presidential nomination telling americans very clearly that he should be able to murder and jail anyone he wants to, and no one should be able to stop him. not a single pe
a huge campaign issue for 2024. but we re going to start with an even bigger one. is donald trump eligible to be president of the united states again? colorado says no. maine says no. oregon and new hampshire and others might also chime in and say no. of course donald trump says yes, he is. so who ultimately decides this? the supreme court obviously is the ultimate decision maker here, and they might get involved. colorado has already asked them to. now with maine and perhaps others moving to take trump off the ballot, it only gets harder for the supremes to stay out of it. but here s the issue. getting into it is pretty complicated. both colorado and maine cite section 3 of the 14th amendment which bars officials who have taken an oath to support the constitution from holding office if they engage in an insurrection. the states say it is clear trump did just that on january 6th. what does the supreme court do about that? you might start to think about the make-up of the cour