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A Brawl Between Progressives and Traditionalists, the Faces of the Far Left, & Debating Trump's TPS Policy With Christian Ulvert
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Foreign. Here. Welcome to the no Spin News for Monday, February 16, 2026. Stand up for your country. It is President's Day. We're working because there's a lot of stuff going on and, and I'll give my staff a day off in a few weeks to make it up to them. But I don't want to get behind at all. I want to keep you guys, you watchers and listeners ahead because a bunch of stuff is going to happen fairly rapidly Now. I hope you read Confronting the Presidents. If you haven't, it's worth your time because we've had some really good presidents and some whopper bad ones. Whoa. And it's not always clear at the time that the president is in office whether he's going to be good or bad. And I'm sure we'll have a XI coming up, too. Anyway, President Trump, the current chief executive, is the subject of this evening's Talking Points Memo. Well, his poll numbers are very low and that's mainly because of his style over substance. And American voters didn't like the ICE detention tactics. Those two things. Both of those can be corrected and will be, I think, because generally Mr. Trump is doing a good job on policy. Now, you may disagree with me and that's great. Just send me a letter bill@billoriley.com with your name and town attached to and we'll debate it. But I've been around for a while and I know policy, so let me run it down for you. The border is sealed, and that's huge. The migrant detentions were necessary because so many criminals came in under Joe Biden. I estimate about 2 million criminals, foreign nationals showed up. All right, It's a lot had to be rounded up. But Homeland Security does not have an effective messaging unit. Homan is all right, but they need to have. Look, this is what we're doing. This is why we're doing. Here are the criminals. Here are the non criminals. Here's why we're taking the non criminals into custody. They need to explain. Let me give you a good example. The press is going to lie to you. And we proved that last week when the left went out and said just 14% of migrants detained by ICE are criminals. Have a criminal conviction. That's just bull, okay? The number is way higher than that because so many offenses are not categorized as violent. And if you don't show up for a hearing, which millions of foreign nationals don't, then you're immediately in the deportation range. You don't have to be a criminal. You didn't show up for your asylum hearing or whatever it may be, boom, out you get stamped. Press never reports it, okay? Because they want to hurt President Trump. Now, other issues. US Economy pretty vibrant, okay? Inflation contained at this point. The deficit is dropping. The criminal thing, American criminals down across the board. Gaza situation handled very well by President Trump. I don't know any other president could have gotten done. Venezuela was a success, whether you like the tactics or not, okay? And when you add it all up, all the things that President Trump has tried to do in his first year, most of them have worked out, but the demeanor is a problem. That Obama thing with the monkeys, all Americans don't like this, okay? And you gotta stop it. If I'm an advisor to President Trump, I form a unit, a quick strike unit to go out when these things happen and to explain it rationally. I don't think the President should be doing it himself on the Air Force One or maybe answer some questions, but have the definition put out first. Okay? So we all know that Trump is demonized by the media and his opposition. We know that that is going to be a factor in the midterm elections. Some people who will vote, they don't know what's going on. They don't care what's going on. Most of them won't even show up. Remember, the voting patterns in off season elections are much, much lower. Finally, the real brawl in the country isn't between Republican Democrats, between traditional people like me and Donald Trump. He's traditional and progressives want to blow the system up and impose socialism, whatever it may be. Open borders. That's the brawl. And I don't expect that to subside. And that is the memoir. So this brawl between progressives and traditional, it's going to hurt the Democrat Party. Even cnn, a big Democratic Party booster, knows it. Guy named Harry Entin analyzes polls and trends in the usa. Roll the tape. Voters who say the Democrats are now too liberal. Look at this percentage. It was 42% in 96, 48% in 2013. Now 58% in 2025 of all Democrat of all voters say that the Democratic Party is too liberal. The Democrats are moving to the left. The far left is gaining power. And there could be some electoral repercussions because what we see right now is voters, the clear majority, say that they are too liberal. So a lot of voters are going to come down to this. I don't really like Donald Trump, but I fear and loathe and the progressive left. What do I do? All right, the support for Donald Trump is much higher than the support for the radical progressives. So that gives the Republican Party an advantage because it's really referendum on Donald Trump. Okay, so back to cnn. And this is that Harry Anthony guy. He's not bad. Okay. I don't have to fact check him like I have to fact check almost Everybody else at CNN and Ms. CNN over the last decade, 10 years has lost 2/3 of its audience. This is unbelievable. Okay, so in 2016, CNN average 1.3 million viewers in prime time. Now it's 553,071% decrease in the daytime average. The first one was primetime. 71%. Wolf Blitzer at his height in 16 when Trump was running, average 700,000, 750,000 viewers. Now 433,000. So the Wolf man man at full moon better come out because he's taking it on chin now. Why is this happening? Mismanagement. So after Trump was elected in 16, they went nuts. We hate them, we hate them. We hate the President. Hate them, hate him, hate him. And what happened? There was people who were watching CNN for straight news. Remember James Earl Jones or the news leader? Okay, weren't getting that. You're getting we hate Trump. Ms. Hates Trump more than cnn. So the real fanatics go there. So CNN was left with very little and that's why they've declined. But it is a stunning decline. Now the faces of the far left in America, there are three of them. Senator Bernie Sanders, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz because of this crazy migrant situation in his state, and New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Those are the faces of the far, far left. So Ocasio Cortez goes over to Munich. You might have far followed that a little bit where there's a big conference, a political conference. Newsom was there, the Trump administration was there. Everybody's there trying to convince the Europeans whatever they're trying to convince. So Ocasio Tortez is on a panel. Here's what happened. I'll start with you would and should the US actually commit US troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move? You know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, this is of course a very long standing policy of the United States. And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing. Ms. Cortez, with all due respect, she was elected and I do respect the process, doesn't know anything. Just imagine her in a Our interview with me, running down policy. So imagine that she would never do it in a million years, and she'd be a fool to do it because she doesn't know anything. So this is a fairly simple question. Should the United States acknowledge its obligation and defend Taiwan? Yes or no? We hope it doesn't get to that point. Yeah, I hope so, too, but that's not answering the question. And the ums and the odds and the this and that? No idea. Now, not all progressives are like that, but many, many, many are. President Trump's down in Mar a Lago playing golf. Coming back tonight to the White House, he's been relatively calm, although he attacked Newsom for being over there in Europe. All Newsom is doing is revving up his run in 2028. That's all he's doing, trying to get a higher profile around the world. And he's talking to the British government about global warming. The Brits believe in global warming, so he's got a sambatical audience there. Oh, it's not a big deal. Trump's going to do what he wants about global warming. Newsom gets elected, then he'll do what he wants. All right. To Minnesota. So the federal government's pulling many of the ICE agents out of there. They say that mission Operation Metro Surge is completed. That began on December 1st. You may remember, the arrests are 70% the Department of Homeland Security says were involved in some kind of illegal activity. Of the people that they detain. 70%, it's the highest number I've heard. I don't. You know? How do I know? How do you know? Nobody knows. That's what DHS is saying. Now, the Inspector General of DHS is the only person who could confirm that 200 people in Minnesota have been arrested for impeding the work of federal agents. Very few of them will be punished. It's not going to be like January 6th, believe me. But what about the ones who were not criminally involved? This is, and it goes back to the talking points memoir. You've got to tell the American people what happens to them once they're rounded up. You got to go step by step. This is the way it is. I fervently believe that if the Trump administration would begin doing that, most Americans would say, okay, don't you believe that? But for some reason, that information is not forthcoming. I don't understand it. Okay. Now, I used to teach high school in Miami, Florida. You guys know that many of the students that I taught history and English to, their parents were refugees from Cuba. I would say 50% that high. And Dade county, where I was, Florida has been a refuge place for people persecuted, not only in Cuba, but in Nicaragua, in El Salvador and all of these countries that totally out of control. Okay. And they would come to South Florida because they had relatives there. And depending on who the president was, it was fairly easy. Reagan let everybody come in, remember that? Everybody come in and they made a deal and the deal wasn't upheld. They were going to build a fence, they were going to secure the board, and that never happened. So the Ovoort family came and they arrived in 1981 and they're illegally and they went through the process to become American citizens. Christian Olver is now the founder of Edge Communications, very successful man in Dade county. And he has a big problem with Homeland Security and what they are doing. He joins us now from Miami. Is that intro accurate?
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For the most part, with much respect, it's not that I disagree and have a big problem with what Homeland Security is doing is that what the president campaigned on in 2024 is not what's living out on American streets today. And you talked about my family coming here following the process. We know TPS was offered to Venezuelans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and following the law in a process and the rug got pulled under them by this president overnight. And the courts have now said that it is beyond the president's authority to have done that. So I agreed with what you said at the intro, which we have processes and we have policies in this country and this president should follow them. I agree that.
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But what policy? Let's get specific. Let's get specific, Christian, what policy is Donald Trump not following? Give me the big one.
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Well, tps, for example, TPS courts ruled as early as last week that him canceling with one swipe of a pen TPS for Haitians did not follow the process in our country. Courts have ruled it independently.
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Okay, but remember now, remember, most of the initial rulings by the federal judges been overturned by the appeals court. Now, I'm not going to say that the Haitian thing just happened.
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I don't know, this ruling just happened last week, has even gone to an appellate process. Venezuelan TPS has been upheld and it's now pending before the U.S. supreme Court. So yes, it's ultimately to the highest court of our land to rule if the president to rule what, what the.
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Boundaries are for the executive branch. And the reason and people should know this, that President Trump put a stop on a Haitian migration is because Haiti has fallen apart, it's collapsed whole Country's collapsed, okay? So that the sheer volume of Haitians who want to get the hell out of there. All right. Is too much for any American state to absorb. Can't absorb it. So there was a reason. It wasn't like, oh, I hate Haitians. Okay. And that reason will be what will be taken into account by the appeals court.
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But let's talk about policy and process. What you just described does not bear out to be true here, because TPS is impacting people here. I agree. Haiti is at the point of collapse. It's unsafe, it's dangerous. Families are being targeted and persecuted. But the rules that have been changed are impacting families here. That again, overnight, someone who had legal status because of this president no longer has legal status. That's what's happened with Venezuelans. It's what's happening with.
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I don't know, Christian, because I don't know. I don't know of any mass deportations on Haitians. And you live in a city where there's a little Haiti, a huge neighborhood, and in New York, there's a huge neighborhood of Haitians. There hasn't been any ICE going in there and rounding up anybody, as far.
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As I know, because the court intervened.
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That's.
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That's ultimately what happened.
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But that's our process.
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Correct. And the same thing is true with Venezuelans. The courts have issued stays.
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The.
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The administration under this president is challenging those court orders, which. That is part of our process. I'm not negating that. But at the end, they are targeting innocent families who are Venezuelans, and they have. This administration has acknowledged the dangerous regime that is the Maduro regime. Right. And now they're saying, we're going to round up Venezuelans who have been vetted through tps, who are not criminals, and locking them up. Children, families, women. We don't know where some are today. That is a problem.
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Well, look, I said that quite clearly. But again, there are no mass roundups. There are no mass roundups of Venezuelans. And the president issues the order because the system is becoming overwhelmed. And I want. That's what I want to get to you. You know as well as I do, because your heritage is the Nicaraguan, and I covered the war in El Salvador, so I know the area very well. The United States cannot absorb all these people. Okay? That is a destabilizer for our entire country. And in Europe, they're going. They're going, wait, wait, Christian. They're going nuts in Europe, and I'll prove it in a minute with Switzerland's referendum You cannot absorb them all. You can't. So it's got to be a limit, a cap. And that's what Congress should be doing. But they won't do it because the Democratic Party doesn't want any limits. Would you agree with that?
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No, that's not accurate. The Democratic Party does not believe that there should not be limits.
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Give me one piece of legislation advanced by the Democratic Party that doesn't lead to leniency for migrants. Give me one.
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There are number of bipartisan.
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Give me one.
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There are a number of. With much respect, there's number of policies dating back to former President Reagan.
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Okay, you're not giving me. You're not giving me one. But because it doesn't exist, Christian, let's.
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Go back to President Reagan.
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I'm not going back anywhere. We're living in 2026. You got Democrat. Christian, I asked you a simple question. You're a smart man. I asked you a simple question. Give me one thing. The Democratic Party has advanced in Congress to limit unlimited migration. You. You can't do it because it doesn't exist.
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Partisan legislation today in the halls of Congress being discussed by Democratic leaders working with their Republican counterparts that advance legislation that allow for those who are in our country to have a pathway to a residency, to make sure that our borders are secured, that the rule of law is followed, and that there are processes in place to reinstate tps. Those are legislation filed today in bipartisan form.
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There is no written legislation. Anybody can discuss anything. For final thing, you live in a Nicaraguan community, right?
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Primarily, yes.
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Right.
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Married to Venezuelan American. Yes.
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All right, what's the mood?
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What's the mood? It's very simple. A sense of betrayal, a sense of fear and a sense of hope. That Congress acts to restore a sense of dignity and a full rule of law of order. Because we are a country of laws. We believe that Hispanic families have always understood that there's a time and place and there's a process. We don't believe that you should just have open borders. We believe that there should be continued compassion in this country. Those who are fleeing political persecution, those who have entire lives destroyed by oppressive governments. I found an opportunity in this country. I am living proof of that. We need to get back to a country that accepts and your parents, your.
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Mom and I don't know about your father, but your mom did it the right way. Here's another one, more specific. And I'm not trying to make you look bad, but I'm curious.
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I appreciate the tough question, sir.
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Somebody comes here from Nicaragua and says, I want asylum because the Sandinista communist government is oppressive. They're going to hurt me. And they get in because Biden let everybody in. And then they're given a hearing date. They don't show up for the hearing date. And we have hundreds of thousands of migrants in that category. Do you deport that person if that.
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Person broke the law? No and is not.
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I gave you the scenario. Don't show up for the asylum. Hear him. Do you deport? Yes or no?
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You have to understand that under this administration they have weaponized those hearings because people live in fear. So if you dodge it. No, I'm not dodging, man. This is a life. Every day I invite you to come to our community and talk to folks here who want to show up to those hearings understanding that there's a pathway to resolve.
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Well then they got to show up.
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Because they had to. P.S. i agree. I agree. I encourage folks to show up.
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I know they don't show up. They gotta go, sir.
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And that's where we have to get back to a place that laws are followed. But when you have a Department of Homeland Security who's acting and you've seen the videos and you touched on it at the beginning of your show, we need to get back to a place where the department is executing the laws correctly and with compassion. Understanding that these are people's lives. If you committed a violent.
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But it got to be Christian, it got to be rules and it got to be standards. And that's where I think you and I got to run.
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I want that time. I do.
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Sure. Give my best. Everybody down. Indeed. And we really appreciate being a stand up guy and coming on in.
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Thank you so much.
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Okay, Switzerland, I mentioned. So there's a referendum to cap the population of Switzerland at 10 million. This is a direct all right slap at migration. So they got enough signatures to put it on the ballot. Now Switzerland currently has 9 million people that have got a million wiggle room here. But if the population reaches 9.5 million, the government has to take steps to stop most migration to Switzerland. So this isn't just USA this and somebody's got to tell the new Pope hey, this is happening all over the world because the massive migration is destabilizing countries Now Switzerland, they're going to okay this. The poll ladies posted 48% support capping a population at 10 million. And 41 oppose. United Kingdom says now if you apply for asylum, you got to check in for an update every 30 months. Pretty liberal over there. Denmark says you got to leave after two years unless we let you stay. That you only have two years to hide there from whatever government you're fleeing. Germany and France are toughening up their immigration laws. So this is not just the United States. Keep in mind nobody wants to go to China or Russia or Africa or most Southeast Asian countries. Nobody wants to go there. Australians got a problem, but they're very tough. Okay? Migrants, poor people all over the world want to come to the United States, number one, Europe, number two, because you can make money and it's not chaos and dangerous. YouTube. So I've changed the YouTube channel a little bit. It's YouTube.com Billo Reilly. Instead of delivering all commentary, which most YouTubers do, I've thrown in stuff you don't know, all right? And it's totally different than the no spin news and it's free. Okay? So you should sign up. Our commentary we have posted now is the deal between Bad Bunny Apple and the National Football League. No, I, I certainly nobody's reporting this. Okay. But I got it when I was out there as a fascinating deal and that's why the Bunny man was there at a halftime show. We hope you check it out. Once again. It's YouTube.com billorilly let's go to the mail. We got Maureen on a message board. Where's the outcry from the left that 18 people froze to death in New York City? Crickets. What a disgrace. Also, why we heard the clergy about the horrible tragedy. Clergy is an interesting point you're making. I haven't heard any big time New York clergy people say anything about Mandami refusing to remove people when it's three degrees and they die. He doesn't care. You got to understand something about this totalitarian communist movement. The individual doesn't matter. He or she is not a primary concern in China, in Russia, in Cuba. It's this state. And if the state says we're not going to remove people for whatever stupid reason. And remember, this was policy in New York City for decades. Temperature got cold, people. The cops took the people off the street whether they liked it or not. Not man dying. Jacqueline. Glad we can rely on you, Bill, to remind us of our history. I'm a baby boomer and I do remember being taught about the Whiskey Rebellion. Like most kids, though, I didn't understand how applied to current events. For me, sure, the Whiskey Rebellion is the most vivid association to what happened in Minnesota. And George Washington rode out there as president all the way to Western Pennsylvania and he was going to hang them Whiskey rebellion was a government put a tax on whiskey merchants because they needed money. And a whiskey merchant said, blank you, we're not paying it. It was like, blank you. We're not enforcing immigration law. And Washington said, okay. And he brought 13,000 militia out with him. And they were going to hang these guys. They all surrendered and they paid the tax. Ron Perry drums, Pennsylvania. You think the divisiveness in his country will end when President Trump leaves office? No. Nope. I think that progressive movement is really entrenched now and they're going to, you know, do what they have to do to overthrow traditional America. That's what they want. Michael jonfrue, New Orleans, Louisiana. The two elected officials in Minnesota need to be prosecuted. Liberal elected people in other states are watching this. President Trump has to show strength. Okay, I would. But there's a downside with the midterms. A lot of independent voters want this to go away. That's the calculation. Maybe after the midterm we should do it. I'm not sure. Fox News is now streaming live on Fox 1. When news breaks, we don't just report it. We go beyond the headlines to get the full story. Get live coverage in depth analysis and perspectives from the voices you trust all in one place. Whether you're at home or on the go. Stay connected to the stories shaping our world stream. Fox News on FOX one. Download today. Jim Ross, Frisco, Texas. Please explain difference between liberal and progressive. Gladly, Jim. A liberal American wants a giant government to run the country, wants big time programs, big time spending on everything but defense. Liberal Americans want entitlements for the poor and downtrodden. Progressive Americans want to overthrow the apparatus, stack the Supreme Court, knock out the filibuster, basically impose totalitarianism. That's the difference. Joe Romanowski, Cocoa Beach, Florida. I have a suggestion. Keep ice out of these sanctuary places. If they didn't want help, leave them alone. Well, the rule of law collapses then, Frank. So, Joe, I should say, I don't know if that's such a good idea. Steward McKelvie, Winnipeg, Canada what do you think of Rand Paul's take on the Republicans being decimated in the midterms? That's what Paul wants to happen. So he wants that. He wants that to happen because he doesn't like Trump. 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