and ellis island is a facility that's designed precisely the processing of immigrants, whereas the 2000 mile border. not right. and those numbers are real. i mean, when think about like the most like give us your tired give us your poorer we were hitting those numbers in november december. to your point. it was real right. in the same way that like did crime go up in 2020, 2021? yes, it did. inflation go up? yes. did fox cover those things? yes. did it mean that those things didn't happen enough? right. they did really all three of those things really did happen. but my my question is more about emphasis, right? because it's like it's it's not to me that that like the the mechanisms of politics works is that some material factor over here in the german of this way and the politics move that way in any librium the fact that huge numbers of people say immigration is the most important in america isn't the product of the numbers at the southern border. it's the product of a political project which again, i've got political projects, too. no shame on a political project. i don't think salie

my family came through ellis island. so, why did they want an open border?t in time a general amnesty is inevitable if they are in power. when that general amnesty happens will register as democrats. probably florida will be lost. in other states where there is a huge hispanic population here illegally will suddenly flip permitting republican states tubing democrat states. at that point a path to the white house even a moderately conservative human being whether libertarian or constitutional party or republican, it is over. it is done. so build a wall, it's not hard to do. we have the resources appeared we have the money. build a wall and then determine how many people we let in for what reasons. because we do want people to come in on a day by day basis because of the jobs, because of the things they are doing. but, what we are going to have to do is have a mass deportation. the putting people on planes or buses other people are going to say you don't need put me on that bus i will go on my own, leave me alone. >> okay thank you. dr. stein? oxo to start off

and then when they arrived on ellis island to take their first strides into a new life.on't think that they could ever have imagined that a group of hundreds of italian americans coming together in the white house. when our roots run deep, there's no limit to how high we can reach. so tonight, i hope that you feel the power of our ancestors values, beating inside of us as we carry their legacy forward, that you feel home, you feel at home, eat good food and end up with a little something sweet together as a family. now, it's my pleasure to introduce a man who's always felt at home with italian americans. [crowd cheering] in fact, joe first met my family at a big cookout at my grandparents' house in hamilton, new jersey. so i was pretty nervous, you know about joe coming to meet my family. but as soon as joe pulled up into the driveway and you can picture this, my tiny grandmom bolted out of the house, bounded down the porch steps in her house coat and her apron. and she gave joe this huge hug as if she'd known him his entire life. and before he could even get a plate, jo

and ellis island is a facility that's designed precisely the processing of immigrants, whereas the 2000 mile border. not right. and those numbers are real. i mean, when think about like the most like give us your tired give us your poorer we were hitting those numbers in november december. to your point. it was real right. in the same way that like did crime go up in 2020, 2021? yes, it did. inflation go up? yes. did fox cover those things? yes. did it mean that those things didn't happen enough? right. they did really all three of those things really did happen. but my my question is more about emphasis, right? because it's like it's it's not to me that that like the the mechanisms of politics works is that some material factor over here in the german of this way and the politics move that way in any librium the fact that huge numbers of people say immigration is the most important in america isn't the product of the numbers at the southern border. it's the product of a political project which again, i've got political projects, too. no shame on a political project. i don't think salie

they told me for my son cameras, click the lymphoma sheila 90 sounds, you know, it's on ellis island, parmesan lane, but it's almost, it's almost like when he got alive as a matter of fact, the closing date because comment in the report back is but that's not going to create any change. the change is going to occur when you turn that science in the policy. this is not a trivial problem. this is not a chart problem. there is an over fishing problem, and we got to solve it. of this fishing and coastal waters didn't really start until the seventy's 5 families came from spain in the fifty's to develop shrimp trolling in costa rica. and during the following decades it was a bonanza. but then they were very noticing over efficient problems and they started getting concerned every now and then we would have dozens of turtles washington on the beaches and it was a mystery like white. and it didn't take long to figure out that it was the shrimp chargers and the ship followers would tell me, randal, we know it is a problem. we know we have to work and help protect these turtles, but you're igno

not unlike the trajectory of a lot of ethnic catholics at the turn of the last century through ellis island. but we were imbued with a very strong sense of of looking out for the least among and having an obligation to the poor and and dedicating our lives to doing that. and politics became my parents were not politically involved but they were very politically aware and so very political discussions were part of that conversation and the more i listened to my father the he didn't sound like a democrat to me. and and i would point that out as a young son sometimes does and and your brother. yeah well no pretty directly and you know may desert time tough because by the time we got there the conversations were pretty heated but but that encouraged in my family and to me you know moorpark i'm from a little town moorpark moorpark had a really curious distinction it's a little city right in the of ventura county. my family moved there in 71. the population was about 2500, 3000 people by the time i graduated from high school, it was about a little shy of 40,000. so was one of the fastest growing

arnold palmer told the story. [ laughter ] you make him sound like an italian grandma arriving at ellis island[ laughter ] "a-back in the old-a country we had-a no money for golf clubs. [ laughter ] my son-a here, so strong-a. he say, 'mama, please-a, buy me a five iron.' i say, 'ah, mi bambino, we are so-a poor-a. the no-a pay-a papa to carry the sod-a.'" [ laughter ] sorry, republicans, is this what you mean when you say donald trump has a plan? because the only plan i can make out here is a plan to bore the [ bleep ] out of his audience. [ light laughter ] i mean, no wonder people leave his rallies early. after the first minute of that story, everyone in the crowd started looking down at their phones, googling, "can you get a refund for free rally tickets." [ laughter ] but trump can't pick up on the boredom of his audience. and of course so he kept just going. >> they used to go to the bag room where the members were, and they took out members' clubs, and they'd use the members' clubs, two or three of them at night, late at night, and hit balls with his son. and he'd watch his son, every m

not unlike the trajectory of a lot of ethnic catholics at the turn of the last century through ellis island. but we were imbued with a very strong sense of of looking out for the least among and having an obligation to the poor and and dedicating our lives to doing that. and politics became my parents were not politically involved but they were very politically aware and so very political discussions were part of that conversation and the more i listened to my father the he didn't sound like a democrat to me. and and i would point that out as a young son sometimes does and and your brother. yeah well no pretty directly and you know may desert time tough because by the time we got there the conversations were pretty heated but but that encouraged in my family and to me you know moorpark i'm from a little town moorpark moorpark had a really curious distinction it's a little city right in the of ventura county. my family moved there in 71. the population was about 2500, 3000 people by the time i graduated from high school, it was about a little shy of 40,000. so was one of the fastest growing

and ellis island is a facility that's designed precisely the processing of immigrants, whereas the 2000 mile border. not right. and those numbers are real. i mean, when think about like the most like give us your tired give us your poorer we were hitting those numbers in november december. to your point. it was real right. in the same way that like did crime go up in 2020, 2021? yes, it did. inflation go up? yes. did fox cover those things? yes. did it mean that those things didn't happen enough? right. they did really all three of those things really did happen. but my my question is more about emphasis, right? because it's like it's it's not to me that that like the the mechanisms of politics works is that some material factor over here in the german of this way and the politics move that way in any librium the fact that huge numbers of people say immigration is the most important in america isn't the product of the numbers at the southern border. it's the product of a political project which again, i've got political projects, too. no shame on a political project. i don't think salie

it took the united states 60 years to process that many people through ellis island. 60 years. they've done it in 3.5. right. i'll give you a couple of other numbers. 380. it's the number of known or suspected terrorists that have come across that border in 3.5 years. and these are just the ones we know about. if you contrast that with all four years of the trump administration just 14. right. because the world knows what everyone else knows, which is now is the time to come to the southern border to get into the country. there is no enforcement along that border and there's a different way in president trump. i give him a lot of credit. yeah. come on through. yeah, you're good. where many presidents would run away from the issue of border security and immigration. he ran towards it. he said that's what we're here to do. we're here to solve really difficult issues for the american people. and he was good at it and he motivated folks. now, look, i got to work with president trump very closely. a lot of oval office meetings. i'll leave you with a couple of things that i took away

you could have given a big speech at madison square garden about ellis island and the statue of liberty how great this country is and how it's only in america that this could happen, that a businessman from queens, blah, blah, blah. you could have given that speech. but they didn't. they gave a speech that was america is for americans and americans only, included racist jokes targeting puerto ricans and blacks and other -- one latino joke that was so gross you can't even show it on here. >> trying to think about how to paraphrase it and you could not. >> go ahead and give us a description -- >> about how we love to have babies because we don't understand how to control our own fertility which is somehow parallel to the ways in which we enter this country. >> i'm going to need the cliff notes. congressman, let me show you some of the interview that really roiled the trump campaign last week. and our measure of that is to take a peek at local news. not just in the battleground states but across the country. and the story of the kelly tapes, four-star general john kelly's on the record int

my mother was first-generation here from scotland, but the came through ellis island.not just come through an open border. i think we need to get back to some commonsense things. we cannot have people pouring in, it is not safe for us or for them. it is just terrible. things are getting out of hand. and somebody needs to step up and do some common sense, really, i'm a moderate, thinking, but we never seem to have moderates anymore in politics. it is either clear to the left or right. host: how will you vote in the senate race in pennsylvania? caller: i'm going to vote for dave mccormick. host: bob casey -- caller: i feel that bob casey, i cannot deal with some of his decisions as far as allowing transgender's to be playing with girls and their teams. host: how devoted in previous elections -- have you voted for the senator in previous elections? caller: yes, i have. host: sorry, sheila, i'm going to run because we have a few minutes left and i will get in will, democratic caller, virginia. caller: morning. i would like to challenge anybody out there to take a look at w

ellis island. by great grandfather came through there, great-grandmother.hey came through the right way. [indiscernible] we have to be afraid. [indiscernible] who knows where they are. the red cross. they didn't see it. we have seen communists. it is bad. people have to understand. you have to like trump. when he was in, nothing was going on. don't forget, the guy that was in the air force for 27 years. [indiscernible] taking money out of these guys? [indiscernible] i inherited money. i'm not bragging. the homeless vets have no legs. these guys are taking care of by the v.a. host: you should have called on the line for those supporting the former president and jd vance. that is how we are dividing the lines this morning. if you are supporting the former president and suprtg -- you can dial in at (202) 748-8001. if youre supporting the vice president and her running mate, minnesota governor tim walls, (202) 748-8000. if you do not know who you're voting for or will not votfo either candidates, call at (202) 748-8002. let's hear from robert in davenport, iowa

thinking about the families and friends on the street who had a lot left when they came here to ellis island and build families and built structural foundations for their families in the future. i was thinking of the street i grew up and so many men coming back from the war and having lost a lot in the war and having lost their innocence and their friends many of them but never losing their feeling for this country, the united states of america. they came back from world war ii and they built a newspaper country. they built homes and they worked in factories and they raised families and always the word freedom was precious to them because they fought for it. the idea that we are now less than a week away really from an opponent of kamala harris' who will guarantee declare victory at 9:30 or 10:00 next tuesday night and put this whole concept of freedom. >> whether he wins or loses -- the roots of the united states of america in peril again. >> for sure. >> yeah. >> 100%. >> you know, we, of course, a lot of news coming out of pennsylvania, puerto rican communities being upset about what was

his great grandfather escaped jewish persecution in europe, came to ellis island and couldn't speak english. came into this country as a foreigner with no english skills whatsoever. of course, his family worked hard through the generations and through the decades and became very successful. stephen was raised in a wealthy family. now, he is parroting the exact words of adolf hitler. at a rally for somebody who is running for president of the united states. somebody ought to think about the level of hypocrisy and hate that this campaign is focused on. >> i mean, my god. look at donald trump and his own family. i don't say this negatively. i mean, he's married to an immigrant. his first wife was an immigrant. his children, i think four of his five children are children of immigrants. his mother was an immigrant. with, i believe, many, many siblings. i mean, this is the american dream. as ronald reagan said, and i know ronald reagan, i guess, is out of vogue. the very people that worked for him, a lot of them are endorsing donald trump. but others just tried to turn a blind eye to the fact tha

and then when they arrived on ellis island to take their first strides into a new life.hat they could ever have imagined that a group of hundreds of italian americans coming together in the white house. when our roots run deep, there's no limit to how high we can reach. so tonight, i hope that you feel the power of our ancestors values, beating inside of us as we carry their legacy forward, that you feel home, you feel at home, eat good food and end up with a little something sweet together as a family. now, it's my pleasure to introduce a man who's always felt at home with italian americans. [crowd cheering] in fact, joe first met my family at a big cookout at my grandparents' house in hamilton, new jersey. so i was pretty nervous, you know about joe coming to meet my family. but as soon as joe pulled up into the driveway and you can picture this, my tiny grandmom bolted out of the house, bounded down the porch steps in her house coat and her apron. and she gave joe this huge hug as if she'd known him his entire life. and before he could even get a plate, joe was greete

islands, see where they are, and see where mauritius is a long way away. yes. what is this claim? it's nonsense. it's total nonsense. why are we doing this? sheer political correctness. >> so, elliestion. would a conservative prime minister have signed this off? >> one would hope not. one would hope that they would realise the value, also the financial value. and not only are we handing over the land, but we're also paying them as well. and sorry, what about this black hole that the government keeps talking about and now we're handing over his hugely strategic asset over to a china aligned country, and also paying china aligned country, and also paying them at the same time. >> originally, the islanders inhabiting chagos islands were chucked out, treated very badly and therefore labour are writing and therefore labour are writing a big moral wrong here, alex. >> yeah, but that's from a different time. mark, i wonder about keir starmer and. f them as well. and sorry, what about this black hole that the government keeps talking about and now we're handing over his hugely strategic asset over to a china aligned country, and also paying china aligned country, and also paying them at

islands, see where they are, and see where mauritius is a long way away. yes. what is this claim? it's nonsense. it's total nonsense. why are we doing this? sheer political correctness. >> so, ellieon. would a conservative prime minister have signed this off? >> one would hope not. one would hope that they would realise the value, also the financial value. and not only are we handing over the land, but we're also paying them as well. and sorry, what about this black hole that the government keeps talking about and now we're handing over his hugely strategic asset over to a china aligned country, and also paying china aligned country, and also paying them at the same time. >> originally, the islanders inhabiting chagos islands were chucked out, treated very badly and therefore labour are writing and therefore labour are writing a big moral wrong here, alex. >> yeah, but that's from a different time. mark, i wonder about keir starmer and i don't want to keep going on about him, but when he took down the portrait of margaret thatcher 2 or 3 weeks ago at number 10 because it made him feel a little bit uncomfortable, i think maybe they should rehang it and he should look at it from fo