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He made one error here. I'm so delighted by this poll that I don't want to knock him, but he made one error. He said, now the American people are much closer to Donald Trump on immigration. That's not true. The American people are much further to the right than where Donald Trump is. President Trump, an amazing president. I'm in no way countersignaling him. What he's done is great. His position is the winning position, and he's doing a great job deporting people. But President Trump's view is. All right, first we're gonna focus on the face. Tattooed gangsters. First we're gonna focus on Ms. 13. First we're gonna focus. Listen, we. We want more legal immigration, but we obviously want to stop the illegal immigration. We want to close the border. The American people, 56% of Americans want to deport all illegal aliens. And then in multiple other polls from Gallup, from Harvard Harris, they show that they want to drastically reduce all immigration. They don't want to increase legal and decrease illegal. They want to decrease drastically, all of it. CNN is trying to, I don't know, try to comfort themselves or something by saying, look, the American people are now getting closer to Trump. No, no, no, no. Most Americans are further to the right on immigration than where Trump is. You saw that first number there back in 2016. 38% wanted to deport all the illegals. 38% wanted to deport all THE illegals in 2016. And Trump won that election, too. Trump was able to win. Trump comes down the escalator, says that illegal aliens are rapists and murderers and some might be good people. And at a time when only 38% wanted to deport all of them, Trump won that election. Now you've got. What Was the number? 56%. Just a complete blowout for the Democrats on an issue that they've dug their heels in on, where they have opened up the border, where everyone knows they opened up the border where the fact that Trump was able to stop the illegal crossings without a new law after Joe Biden and Kamala and the Democrats told them for years they couldn't do anything, their hands were tied, they needed a new law. The Democrats just looked terrible on this. And this is a sticky issue and it's not going away. Some Democrats know this. The executives at CNN and MSNBC know this. Because yesterday, or rather two days ago, when Rachel Morin was speaking at that press conference. I'm sorry, Rachel Morin's mother, Patty Morin, was speaking at the White House giving that press conference on her daughter's murder, on what illegal immigration really looks like in America, how it affects so many people, the gory reality of it. You had the right wing news networks recovering it. Cnn, MSNBC refused to cover it. Now, no matter what you think about this, no matter what you think about illegal immigration, surely that news conference was newsworthy. This is all anybody was talking about while it was going on cnn. MSNBC refused to talk about it because the executives understood this is a complete losing issue for Democrats. And the audience for CNN and MSNBC is Democrats. The executives know that. The politicians don't know that. The politicians keep digging in. They keep thinking that they're going to win on this issue. So they're going to focus on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They call him a Maryland father. He's not of Maryland. He's an illegal alien. He's a Salvadoran father. And they say he's a father as if that means that he can't be an MS.13. You know, gangsters have kids, too. Maybe this is news to Democrat politicians. Gangsters can have kids, too. Criminals, drug dealers, human traffickers can have kids, too. The best the elites of the Democrat Party can do right now is just try to ignore the issue. Kind of like Josh Shapiro is doing with the Israel Palestine issue. He's just trying to ignore it, hope it goes away. But the active politicians and the pundits and the people who are really in the fight, they're all talking about it. They can't resist. They have to take the bait. So they dig in on issues that are so deeply unpopular. Speaking of the Israel Palestine issue, President Trump is now threatening $9 billion worth of grants to Harvard. We talked yesterday on the show about how Trump has already frozen over $2 billion worth of grants to Harvard from the federal government. We talked about how Trump's IRS is now threatening Harvard's tax exempt status because Harvard is violating Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act. Because Harvard refused to stop the harassment of Jewish students when the Intifada took over the campus. Now the Trump administration is threatening additional grants, $9 billion worth of grants. Democrats. Elite Democrats. Like Barack Obama, he cheered on the fact that Harvard University is fighting back against the Trump admin. Democrats. Elite Democrats and Harvard's administration are risking the end of America's oldest college. Over what? Over what? What are they risking this over? The Trump administration is saying that Harvard has failed to enforce civil rights law, Title 6 Civil rights law, which the Democrats love. They're supposed to love that. The liberals are supposed to love the new civil rights regime, the kind of parallel constitution that took over our country in the 60s. They're the ones who really wanted it. Right. So is it that they're upset about civil rights law? They're happy to enforce civil rights law when it protects homosexuals, supposedly protects homosexuals, transvestites, supposed right to go into the women's bathroom when it protects Muslim students against supposed Islamophobia, but now they don't like civil rights law when it protects the Jews against the campus intifada. What is it? They're willing. Many of them are Jews, by the way. Many of these Democrats and Harvard administrators are Jews themselves. So it's not just that you can say, well, it's a Jew versus non Jew kind of thing. Many of them are Jews themselves. But they're willing to risk the oldest university, supposedly the most prestigious, over the supposed right of students to harass Jews because of the war in Gaza. That would be a weird way for Harvard to go down. I mean, you know, my position on Harvard, which I've repeated for many years now, comes down to two words. Pardon the vulgarity, but Harvard sucks. That's my position. I've been looking forward to end even beyond little college rivalries, conservatives have been saying for years that beating heart of liberalism are the elite universities. And so we need to take down those elite universities. Harvard's got over $50 billion in its endowment. Okay, but for what? I mean, this is the crazy thing to me, I don't even care that much about the Israel Palestine conflict. I know you're supposed. These days the only position you're not allowed to hold is that you don't care that much about it or that it's not your top issue or any. But I don't really. I know there's some people, there's some people on the left and the right who you would think that they're on the payroll of the intifada or the Israeli government. But I don't know. For me, it's not my top issue. I take much more of a practical, prudential approach to it as an American conservative. But it is crazy that that issue these guys are willing to torch their own university for the supposed sacred right to harass Jewish students so that you get the Greta Thunberg types wearing their stupid keffiyas running around campus chanting death to Israel, from the river to the sea. Whatever. That's amazing. Hey, whatever takes down Harvard, all right? Fine by me. Big money we're talking about here, folks. $9 billion worth of grants on top of the potential loss of tax exemption, which would fundamentally change the way that Harvard operates now. Speaking of big money, Bernie Sanders is spending big, big money to fight oligarchy, supposedly. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to fastgrowingtrees.com use promo code knowles did you know that Fast Growing Trees is the biggest online nursery in the US with thousands of different plants? Over 2 million happy customers. They have all the plants that your yard needs. Fruit trees, privacy trees, flowering trees, shrubs. 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That's not a habit of mine. Bernie Sanders, though, the great working class hero, the socialist, fighting the oligarchs. He zips around on private jets. I don't know if AOC joined him on those. That's just PJs during the first quarter of 2025, and I'm not even knocking him for it. It's obviously extremely hypocritical to be zipping around on PJs. One, while you are talking about, you know, hazards to the environment. That's an unrelated matter. And two, certainly when you're on the Fighting the Oligarchs Tour, Bernie seems like kind of an oligarch, doesn't he? Well, I guess my criticism of it is this. We will have elites. We will necessarily have elites. All societies have elites. I don't have a problem with there being elites. It's just a fact of human society and politics. We're not, I'm no leveling egalitarian, who's going to pretend that we're going to have a triumph of the proletariat and something I don't know, that way lies madness. There will be elites. The question is, are we going to have oligarchs or are we going to have aristocrats among our elite? What's the difference? Very simple. Difference comes back to Polybius, ancient political writer, who saw that aristocracy and oligarchy, it's a smaller group of people who are elite. But aristocrats govern for the common good. That's where aristo comes from. Good. The oligarchs govern for private interest. That's a difference. Like the difference between a monarch and a tyrant. A monarch governs for the common good, tyrant governs for his personal private interest. Kind of looks the same from the outside, but that's the difference. So the question for us is, are we gonna have aristocrats or oligarchs? This is why the liberals don't understand how Trump could win on a populist tide. How Trump campaigning with Elon, the richest man in the world. You got two billionaires so public, how they could win this election on a populist tide because it's not that the people oppose having elites. It's not that the people oppose those who have been successful. They just want our successful people to use their resources for the common good. They don't want them to be greedy, corrupt, selfish jerks like you see on the left. That's the difference. I don't wanna go eat the rich. They don't seem very tasty to me. Not one Trump voter begrudges him his wealth. Trump's been rich his whole life. He's come back from bankruptcies, too. But that guy, that man has been rich since he was a kid. Elon Musk comes from means, and he's now the richest man in the world. The reason we like these guys and we knock people like Bernie Sanders and hypocrites like the wealthy people on the left is they talk about the common good all day. They don't really advance the common good. Trump has sacrificed tremendously low these past 10 years for the common good. People believe that. People believe that about Elon Musk, too. The libs, they don't get it. They think it's class warfare or something. No, it's much more sophisticated than that. The average conservative voter, the average voter, I guess you'd say now, because we won the popular vote, the average voter is much smarter than the liberal elites think, is much more sophisticated than the liberal elites think, is much less resentful, much less selfish than the liberal elites think, and that the liberal elites are themselves. The problem is not that some people are going to do better than others. Some people are going to wield power, some people are going to run institutions. And that's not the problem. What are you doing with that power? We want that power to be used for the common good, not for the selfish interest of a corrupt group of oligarchs. Bernie wants to go fight the oligarchs. Take a look in the mirror and go look at your donors. Now, speaking of taking on oligarchy, Bobby Kennedy, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, is taking on the relationship between autism and vaccines.
