are struggling and how can workers get their fair share in an age of artificial intelligence and new ways of doing business. those are at the heart of not only what the writers and actors are worried about but america is worried about. yes, some actors are doing just fine in this new world but the basic battle lines are the same across industries. that gap between what workers make and ceos make has been widening for decades, at least since ronald reagan busted the air traffic controllers union in 1981, and that right there is part of the issue. just listen to how the president of sag-aftra fran drescher put it when she announced the strike. we are the victims here. we are being victimized by a very greedy entity. i am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. i cannot believe it, quite frankly. how far apart we are on so many things. how they plead poverty, that they re losing money left and right when giving hundreds of millions of
handing out syringes, they can punish citizens for crimes committed before they were born against people they don t know, in places most of them have never even been to. that is like punishing me because in the past one of my relatives bought a red hot chili pepper record. i can t be held responsible for every white person s atrocity. the task force released report of over 1000 pages about eliminating disparities, like the one between people who own sm businesses and people who loot small businesses. like people who use the bathroom and people who pee behind trash cans. kat: it was one time. greg: yes, and it is on tape. main recommendation is reparation, they want to give up to $1.2 million to each resident to make up for their ancestor being enslaved in other states. replacing policy with powerball. how would that work? where would money come from? why should an asian family that just moved here pay for something that happened 150 years ago. origin stories can be proble
sporting a familiar look, smoke from the wildfires in canada are filling the skies again. madonna is recovering after a health scare and spending several days in icu. a full recovery is expected. i hope she recovered. when he gets rolling he is just so fun to watch at his craft. we begin with another chapter in the hunter biden saga. he is said to be deposed in the defamation lawsuit where hunter left his so called laptop from hell. john paul mack issac is being sued. that s right he reported the contents of the laptop to the fbi when he discovered damming photos and files. hunter s deposition today will be recorded, but it is unclear if video or a transcript will be made public. and you have to figure the very first question that the computer guys lawyers are going to ask hunter is is this your laptop? do you remember dropping it off? don t be surprised if he says don t remember. he is probably going to say that. that is usually the answer. i don t remember. th
space center where an all-european mission to the international space station will be taking off later on this hour featuring an italian astronaut on board. a lot of you are saying you re only saying this because there s an italian astronaut on board. that italian co pilot would be the tenth italian in space. a lot of you have been saying, you re only saying that because he would be the tenth italian in space. you re actually correct. but it is a beautiful day for a space launch on this spacex mission, which would be the third commercial crew flight. there s a way that the italians look at this by talking about a beautiful day for a space launch. [speaking italian]. that means it s a beautiful day for a space launch. we ll take you there in 49 minutes when this gets going. meantime, another big story right now, and it is getting bigger by the second, the border and what to do about. is a deal close? some republicans say for any deal to happen, there better be big improvements
now. steve good morning, everybody. it is monday, january 8th, 2024. we start this monday morning with a focus on joe biden s border crisis. you have heard all about it. well, today, homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is going to head to eagle pass, texas to get a firsthand look at the chaos that border agents are dealing with day in, day out. thanks to this administration. ainsley: well, his trip comes as the new dhs report reveals more than 2.3 million migrants have been released into our country under the biden administration. brian: co-host lawrence jones is live in eagle pass this morning. is he getting a look at the border by air, land and sea. lawrence? hey, good morning, family. yeah. we are live out here. yesterday we went into the air to really see exactly what s happening on the ground, on the day-to-day basis. today we re going to go from land and take a boat out as well to see what border agents are having to deal with also the texas depar