this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight, the flimflam game, that is the focus of tonight s angle. all right the talking point for globalist is conservative skeptical about the mcconnell s last chuck schumer don t want to solve the crisis but bowing down to donald trump who opposes it. it is not surprising, i guess, but i mean it is deeply cynical. people are dying and a lot of people s lives are hanging in the balance. i think it is a fundamental problem with trump. it is about to burn it down caucus pier they don t want to legislate because legislation is solving problems, right? they don t want the government to work. laura: similar flimsy thinking coming from conservative stalwart mitt romney and other trump loathing pro-amnesty republicans like thom tillis. it is immoral for me to think you want to go the other way because you think this is the linchpin for trump to win. i don t want to be a part of this history that fails democracy. laura: sena
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