few defections in this process, and one objective observe worry have to give to warren smith, executive director of the nfl players association a lot of credit for keeping his side united over the last four months. andrew, do you see it that way? how do you see the deal shaping up? it s like a $9 billion business. it s a fight over what chunk of the pie the players get? as was pointed out, retiring health benefits, things that could leave injured players really in the lurch when things are hot? obviously, bottom line is always the bottom line and how much money is split among the two sides. that s the ultimate question. the revenue split is reportedly coming out. players had 59% of revenue, a billion off the top of the owners, worked out to about 50/50. owners didn t want to live with that 50/50. that was the big of the issue going into this. what appears to be coming out of this, about a 52/48 for ownership. what are they worth?
and then what is the appropriate role for private industry? building a fence is not, by the way, going to solve the problem that we have with immigration. all right. guys, hold on a second, because we re going to be back in a second with much more with you guys in the mega panel. straight ahead, as we continue, a blue dog democrat weighs in on our do-nothing congress. whoa. right? get out. i know! who knew? i mean. exactly! really. that s what i mean. [ mom ] what? shut the front door. right? seriously. who knew? hello sir. bingo! mahjong! for realz. woop-woop! franklin delano! [ male announcer ] hey, there s oreo creme under that fudge! oreo fudge cremes. indescribably good.
in california this is really a substantial career choice as far as being an actor. but, in addition, he s got to be a little careful hanging his head on the show, considering it s going to be literally closing at the end of the season. he may not be able to rely on it too much longer. jimmy, let me turn to another western controversy. this rising in arizona. a movement afoot now, related to the law they passed last year that was so controversial, to actually raise private donations to create a border fence. a state senator there behind the idea of raising up to $50 million and showing lots of pictures of how poor the fences are, even those that do exist, along the border. is this a constructive way to tackle our immigration laws, jimmy? i don t know. i mean, look. it s simple. this president, for all the people that criticized him, in are more border patrol agents on the ground in the air, on video, than any other president in the history of the united states.
ending up with a movement to raise private donations to do functions we think government ought to be doing to talk about how the ceos need to send more money. why can t we agree that the government, we re going to, as a public entity, we re going to actually fund our schools the way we need to do have the feech teachers we want? arizona puts that in mind for me. what s your take? a great point. look, fundamentally that s part of the argument we re having as a knt right now in terms of what is the role of government? time after time, state after state and here at the federal level you re seeing republicans strangling government to make it to actually make it fail the people, and in a sense creating, i guess, this opportunity for private industry. yes, if you believe there a is a role for government which i think there is and certainly when it comes to immigration antsz education, for example, we should be having the conversation what is the appropriate role of government? how do we
constituents, we re all flying home. oftentimes we don t know each other s names or what we stand for, and you have to spent a lot of time with each other to craft the mega compromises like we have to do now for the ceiling bill. one of the cases you could make for congressional junkets. when they do fact finding misses in various ways. when i talk to folk on the hill on beeth sides, those are opportunities to develop deep relationships? on 12-hour flights, military plane, you get to know each. that s become a symbol of excess that has to be cut. what s your take on that? another way would be if we just lived together in an apartment house that doesn t have to be a nice apartment house near d.c. just so we knew each other as neighbors and hopefully friends. we re all human beings and represent different parts of this great country and better get along for the goodness of the country or we re all going to be in trouble. susan? seems congressman, it s not a world of respecting on