Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen flies to El Salvador to try to bring a prisoner back to the United States after two judges affirm that he is a member of the notorious gang MS-13. But can he get the guy back?
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00:05:59.680I mean, they have not learned a single lesson, it seems, from the 2024 election.
00:06:04.280Already, had the Republicans not reacted at all, this would have been a disaster.
00:06:11.820Because you got ordinary Americans looking up saying, look, even if this guy Garcia wasn't in MS-13, and by the way, there's a fair bit of evidence that he is.
00:06:21.300You're telling me the Democrat Senator is spending his time and our money flying to El Salvador to get an illegal alien accused by his wife of domestic violence at a prison?
00:06:31.260Aren't there a few other things you might focus on, Senator, like our economy, our border, geopolitics, the potential for regional or global war?
00:06:44.780Or the, I don't know, anything, like anything at all?
00:06:47.520Well, but no, this guy Chris Van Hollen, this Democrat Senator, just has, he's got an obsession with going soft on illegal alien criminals, specifically criminals.
00:07:00.720I'm not even, I mean, they're all criminals, but I'm talking about people who have committed crimes in addition to breaking our fundamental laws of the border.
00:07:09.120Because this guy, Chris Van Hollen, is among the handful of insane people to vote against the Lake and Riley Act.
00:07:19.680You know, the Lake and Riley Act is the first bill that the new Congress took up.
00:07:23.820And the Lake and Riley Act said illegal aliens who are convicted of crimes in addition to crossing the border illegally have to be deported.
00:07:32.680And the reason it's called the Lake and Riley Act is because the illegal alien who murdered Lake and Riley had already been convicted of crimes.
00:07:42.540And the liberals in this country said, ah, no worries.
00:07:45.760I mean, yeah, sure, maybe these illegal aliens are committing other crimes, they're creating social disorder, they're harming people, but whatever, we're going to let them stay.
00:07:52.960And then, case after case, you're seeing illegal aliens raping American citizens, murdering American citizens.
00:08:00.260And so, as far as I'm concerned, the Lake and Riley Act is as modest, as minor a measure as there can be against illegal immigration.
00:08:10.240Saying, okay, we're going to, we'll like let you come into the country illegally, we won't even harass you when you're in the country illegally.
00:08:15.340But if you start like stealing and robbing and raping and harassing people, then we might start to enforce immigration law.
00:08:34.580I don't know how else I can put it, that this guy would spend his day going down pleading on behalf of an illegal alien criminal after voting against a law that would provide basic protections for poor little American girls not to be raped and murdered.
00:08:52.340So, it was already a bad day for Chris Van Hollen.
00:08:54.920Then, the White House decided to throw the issue into really stark relief by inviting one of Van Hollen's constituents, Patty Morin, to come to the White House.
00:09:08.500Because Patty Morin has a daughter or had a daughter, Rachel Morin, who was raped and murdered by an illegal alien.
00:09:19.040This was really what should be the knockout blow to Chris Van Hollen's political career.
00:09:23.700This guy should go, I don't know, work as a teller at a bank or a barista or just anything out of public life.
00:09:29.920Because the guy just looks preposterous, degenerate.
00:09:59.300I want you to put a pause right here because this is a children's show.
00:10:04.400Well, it's not a children's show, but it's a whole family show.
00:10:06.120I would just say for the next 60 seconds or so, if you're watching this with your kids or listening to this with your kids, put it on mute or put the subtitles on or something like that.
00:10:18.660Because the reality of what illegal immigration means in America is not fit for children.
00:11:51.360They only happened because Democrats rolled out the red carpet to invite the illegal aliens in.
00:11:56.100Every single crime that an illegal alien commits in this country was a needless crime.
00:11:59.500And there is blood on the hands of the cynical Democrat politicians and some of the Chamber of Commerce Republicans who felt that they could get an extra vote or make an extra buck because of it.
00:12:10.340And if some Americans have to be murdered, so be it.
00:12:12.140But the way you know that this is not just some totally rare case, actually virtually all of the illegal aliens are just wonderful law-abiding people, residents as American as apple pie.
00:12:25.020The way you know is that the Democrats have had 10 years now to find a shining example of an illegal alien to use as the foil to Trump's description of illegal aliens, to use as the example to undermine Trump's immigration policies.
00:12:47.280The best example they can come up with, the one that's going to get them to get on an airplane and fly to El Salvador, put on big press conferences.
00:12:57.380This guy is the poster child for how wonderful illegal immigration is to America.
00:13:02.080The best example they've got is a guy who was affirmed to be a member of MS-13 by two judges, whose wife accused him of beating her and asked for a court order of protection.
00:13:14.660And who was obviously in this country illegally.
00:14:08.560This woman, this very courageous woman, Patty Morin, she describes the awful stuff that happened to her daughter.
00:14:17.300She describes the reality of illegal immigration.
00:14:19.500But she doesn't just leave it in the abstract.
00:14:22.360She points out that people, Democrat senators like Chris Van Hollen, have their priorities so screwed up it's almost incomprehensible.
00:14:33.700To have a senator from Maryland who didn't even acknowledge or barely acknowledged my daughter and the brutal death that she endured,
00:14:47.200leaving her five children without a mother and now a grandbaby without a grandmother so that he can use my taxpayer money to fly to El Salvador to bring back someone that's not even an American citizen.
00:15:05.620Why does that person, why does that person, why does that person have more right than I do, or my daughter, or my grandchildren?
00:18:46.160And actually, then, Trump won not only the election in a landslide, but popular vote, in part because of the un-American prosecutions against Trump.
00:18:57.000But now, Letitia James finds herself on the wrong side of the law.
00:19:02.580The Department of Justice is investigating her.
00:19:06.700However, she has been referred for prosecution over mortgage fraud.
00:19:12.560Letitia James, oh, man, I got to try to minimize the smile on my face.
00:19:17.780I don't want to be accused of schadenfreude.
00:19:20.560Letitia James seems to have said that her primary residence was in Virginia.
00:19:28.820She owns some properties in New York, in Virginia.
00:19:32.440She said that this Virginia property was her primary residence.
00:20:40.060The reason is that on these mortgage applications, if you have four or fewer units in New York, it can be a kind of a personal mortgage.
00:20:52.020If it's five or more, it's got to be a commercial mortgage.
00:20:55.660And so you could get a more favorable rate if you say it's personal.
00:20:58.360So you get a more favorable rate if you lie, as she did, and commit mortgage fraud, as she is accused of doing, and say it's fewer apartments.
00:21:07.160According to Pult, this could amount to criminal charges, including wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, false statements to a financial institution, and other charges.
00:21:21.340Now, I'd just like to take a little trip back in time, if you would indulge me.
00:21:25.300I'd like to get in our little time machine here on the Michael Knowles Show and take a trip back to what Letitia James had to say.
00:21:31.780When she was leading a bogus crusade to prosecute Donald Trump.
00:22:19.040I have taken an oath to defend the law.
00:22:21.880Which is why I will upend 250 years of American precedent and lead a prosecution of a former president and current leader of the opposition.
00:22:32.200Not because it will benefit my political party.
00:24:53.740Well, she is perverting the law to upend 250 years of precedent, to go after a president of the United States, upending the whole political order.
00:25:36.560That seems to have gone completely out the window, as has this woman's reason, as has her self-control.
00:25:44.700Because she knows, again, it's all allegations until it's not, but my read on this, just knowing a little bit about human nature, is I think they got this woman dead to rights.
00:25:58.420And I think it's very important, by the way.
00:26:00.300You're going to have some squishy Republicans say, we should not go after our political enemies.
00:26:04.620That would make us no different from the left.
00:26:06.840It would be irresponsible for conservatives not to prosecute at least the most egregious and clear cases of Democrat crime and fraud and corruption.
00:26:19.880It would be irresponsible because it gives them a blank check to do it again against us, which is bad for the whole political order.
00:26:26.360They tried to imprison President Trump over nonsense, totally upending our political order.
00:26:40.080They almost murdered him twice, one time within a hair's breadth.
00:26:45.640I am not afraid of what the Democrats might hypothetically do to us in the future.
00:26:51.620They have already done much more than that to us in reality, with much less justification.
00:26:58.540If you believe the thing that Letitia James pretended to believe in that first clip when she was going after Trump, that justice is blind and no one's above the law.
00:27:08.380You must support the federal government's investigation and presumable prosecution of Letitia James for what appears to be pretty basic corruption from a politician that we already all suspected was corrupt.
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00:28:41.060On top of all that, on top of Chris Van Hollen blowing up his political career, on top of Letitia James potentially putting on an orange jumpsuit, on top of all of that, President Trump might actually destroy Harvard University.
00:29:04.400Trump threatened Harvard, said, hey, Harvard, if you don't protect the civil rights of your students, in particular Jewish students here after the campus intifada was harassing all of them, if you don't protect their civil rights, we're going to withhold grants from you, $2 billion worth of grants, and we might even look into your tax-exempt status that you rely on to operate.
00:29:24.760Well, now, news broke yesterday, the IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard.
00:29:33.640This is according to two sources familiar with the matter.
00:29:37.120This would be an extraordinary step, of course, but we're living in extraordinary times.
00:30:57.800We've got tenured radicals here, and we got—they all agreed on that.
00:31:01.580So let me ask you, did you really mean it?
00:31:04.600If you really meant it, then revoking Harvard's tax-exempt status for violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act is actually pretty modest.
00:31:14.180I know it's unprecedented, but it's actually pretty modest.
00:31:17.020Trump could go full Henry VIII and just steal the endowment.
00:31:19.700Just like Henry VIII took all of the Catholic monasteries and churches, Trump could go in and say, hey, Harvard, you've got a $50 billion-plus endowment.
00:31:30.760There have been senators who have threatened to put their hands on the endowments, including Democrat senators, by the way.
00:31:36.980Sheldon Whitehouse was threatening the university endowments, which actually impelled the universities to get a little looser with financial aid.
00:31:43.180So I just got to ask you, I know there are going to be some people who find all the reasons to oppose this.
00:32:00.020It's used to defend all sorts of other groups.
00:32:04.020We can't use it—what, you don't like Jews so much, so we can't use it to defend Jews?
00:32:07.960Even if you don't like Jews, we can't use it to take down Harvard?
00:32:13.660There are going to be a lot of excuses in the coming days and weeks as to why the real, true, principled conservative position is to defend Harvard University or something, one of the great sources of elite liberalism in American history.
00:32:28.580Well, I've had a two-word slogan that's been drilled into me for many years at this point.
00:32:37.060Go, Trump is my two-word slogan that I've added to that.
00:32:40.700We don't—if you really believe it, if you really believe we need a fundamental reform of the universities, especially the elite ones, the prestigious ones, this looks like the opportunity to do it.
00:32:53.160So how are the Democrats going to respond?
00:32:56.100Brutal, brutal day yesterday for Democrats.
00:33:01.120I must—I can't say it without laughing.
00:33:03.340The way they're going to respond to getting completely annihilated for the past six months by Republicans is that the DNC vice chairman is promising to spend $20 million campaigning against Democrats.
00:33:18.800I am not joking because the Democrat vice chairman, as you might recall, is David Hogg.
00:33:26.040David Hogg, maybe the least popular Democrat in America.
00:33:29.400He may have been supplanted yesterday by Chris Van Hollen, but at least the second least popular Democrat in America.
00:33:34.700He's that kid who decided to take 15 minutes of fame after he was a student at a school that had a shooting, and he decided that he was going to translate that into a CNN career.
00:33:47.460Actually, Harvard gave him admission, even though his ability to spell and use English grammar on social media seems to suggest maybe he wasn't totally academically qualified for Harvard, but shows you where Harvard's priorities are at.
00:34:01.380They said, oh, we got an 18-year-old Democrat leftist celebrity.
00:34:05.120Let's get—we got to get him in our rotation.
00:34:08.320So this guy, he gets a career out of it.
00:34:13.780He's now the vice chairman of the Democrats, and he has said that he wants to spend $20 million primarying ineffective Democrats.
00:34:21.720Now, the national parties, as a general rule, do not officially interfere in primaries.
00:34:29.540Maybe they have their preferences, but as a rule, they don't interfere in the primaries.
00:34:33.120They let the people, they let their members choose who the nominee is going to be, and then the DNC comes in there to help the nominees beat the Republicans.
00:34:43.880Now, because the national party doesn't do that kind of thing, he is going to simultaneously, while being the DNC vice chairman, he's going to use another group that he has, Leaders We Deserve, to spend $20 million in safe blue Democrat primaries against sitting House members, specifically to support younger opponents.
00:35:02.580So it's not even necessarily that they're going to support more leftist opponents, though they almost certainly will, but it's even just age discrimination.
00:35:11.380It's basic, old people bad, young people good.
00:35:16.160So this unprecedented move is coming from the upper echelons of the DNC.
00:35:21.720The DNC chairman, Ken Martin, was asked if he supports this, and David Hogg came in and said, well, Martin, quote, certainly has different views on challenging incumbents.
00:35:32.580So you got the DNC chairman, the DNC vice chairman, both fighting over the DNC vice chairman's decision to spend tens of millions of dollars in an already somewhat difficult cycle after the Democrats have just lost the popular vote at the presidential for the first time in 20 years.
00:35:46.300They're having this big battle because the vice chairman wants to spend his time and money campaigning against Democrats.
00:35:51.300My analysis of this situation is, ah, I can't, it's so, I'm sorry, pull it together.
00:36:08.300It's so powerfully stupid of the Democrats that they say, ah, boy, we really seem to have lost the common sense, huh?
00:36:16.120Yikes, lost 46% of Hispanics, 40% of women under 30, one in five black guys, man, this is really bad.
00:38:44.440The unanimous decision of this court, writes the Supreme Court, is that the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological women and biological sex.
00:38:56.680That's according to the court's deputy president, Lord Hodge.
00:39:00.640The court decision came about, as you might infer, from this act to protect sex and gender and blah, blah, blah.
00:39:30.360Maybe not first, but you heard it here early at least.
00:39:33.340And you heard it from the guy who a couple years ago called on a national stage for transgenderism to be eradicated from public life entirely.
00:40:43.960And our grandchildren are going to look back on this time.
00:40:47.200And they are, at best case scenario for us, they're going to say, man, that was a really weird thing you guys all did when you chopped up people and pretended they were the opposite sex.
00:40:55.620Worst case and more likely scenario, they're going to condemn us for tolerating this.
00:40:59.820Because this ideology has ruined many, many lives, including the lives of children who did not have the ability to consent to this kind of thing and who had it foisted upon them by perverted and ignorant parents and doctors and teachers.
00:41:19.320Those of us who stood against it, I suppose, will look better.
00:41:21.660But what I'm saying is our generation is going to look really, really bad for this.
00:41:27.220You heard it from the UK Supreme Court.
00:41:29.180Now, speaking of international affairs, you know the story of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who had his house burned in part by an arsonist.
00:41:41.360People didn't know what the motive was.
00:41:43.560Some of us suspected, but we weren't sure.
00:41:46.280And we didn't know the politics of the alleged arsonist who burned it down.
00:41:52.700And it's always the ones you most expect.
00:41:56.520This guy, the person who's been arrested and is being charged with this crime, attacked Shapiro because of, quote, what he, Shapiro, wants to do to the Palestinian people, according to a search warrant signed by the Pennsylvania State Police.
00:42:11.540The guy's name, I usually don't say, I won't say a full name on the show or I'll try not to of a criminal like this.
00:43:16.240I think it might have something to do with the fact that his last name is Shapiro, if I had to guess.
00:43:22.060Same reason that this guy was picked over to be Kamala Harris's running mate, even though he would have been a much better running mate than Tim Walz, because he's a Jew.
00:43:30.080And he's focused on the Palestinian people here, this bomber.
00:43:38.740Well, you get this stuff on the left, fringe left and sometimes mainstream left, but you do also get it on the fringe right.
00:43:48.260There are people who just really, really hate the Jews and who, even beyond that, who occasionally will engage in some kind of political violence.
00:43:57.080You know, the Oklahoma City bombing or something like that happens.
00:43:59.360The right condemns it, unlike the left, which embraces political violence.
00:44:02.320But the broad right condemns it, but still it could happen.
00:44:04.740And so you say, all right, well, this guy, he was concerned about, you know, the Palestinian state, such as it is.
00:44:11.240Or, okay, well, was he on the left or the right?
00:44:13.340Well, according to news reports, this guy, Bomber, is a self-described Marxist.
00:44:20.180According to Daily Wire reporting, he had a storage unit in Swatara Township with stickers of Che Guevara all over a toolbox.
00:44:28.840So, it seems pretty firmly established that the man alleged to have committed this crime is on the left.
00:44:36.780According to Pam Bondi, the AG, this defendant allegedly said that if, when he burned down the mansion, if he were able to get inside, he had a hammer that he was going to use to bash in the brains of Josh Shapiro.
00:44:47.280This is a man, very clearly of the left, which means that this news story is going to disappear.
00:44:57.300If they could have said it's a far-right skinhead, neo-Nazi, you know, if in any way you could plausibly place this guy on the right, this would have been international news for months and might have been the basis to impeach Trump again.
00:45:12.280Again, I mean, they got to impeach him again, don't they? But because he's on the left, and very clearly on the left, this episode of this show might be the very last time you ever hear about this story.
00:45:25.240Now, speaking of men with complicated political views, the Health and Human Services Secretary, Bobby Kennedy, has determined that he is going to take on any potential link between toxins and autism.
00:45:38.380This, as there is a lot of confusion over whether or not Kennedy, as HHS Secretary, will investigate vaccines, will change vaccine policy, will continue to pursue links between vaccines and autism, potentially, the kind of links that Kennedy has been alleging for his whole career.
00:45:56.280We will get to that, but we won't get to it today, because today is Maundy Thursday.
00:46:04.760First of all, my show is done. The time is up, for the hoi polloi at least, for the Membrum Segmentum, the Chem de la Chem, you will get to join in the member block, where we will have on one of the great guests of this show, a true fan favorite, and a faithful favorite, a favorite of the faithful.
00:46:21.640That would be His Excellency Bishop Robert Barron. The show continues now. You do not want to miss it. You do not want to miss the debunking of so many lies about Easter as we enter the Triduum.
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