[inaudible background conversations] tonight i want to welcome all the people abeveryone who may be watching on my extreme and the people watching on cspan booktv. Despite covid regulations in boston, since we are now in lockdown all the time. We are getting together for this wonderful event. Myrna talk about a very important book in our lives more than 50 of it deals with immigration both legal and illegal. I would like everyone to welcome mr. Harlan hill and mr. Ryan girdusky. [applause] [applause] apparently am going to be doing marco rubio imitation all night. Its very hot here in boston. Lets get right to it. Harlan is a political consultant, advisor for the trump reelection campaign, youve seen him on cnn, msnbc, foxbusiness and fox news. Ryan is also a political consultant, war writer for the Washington Examiner, the american conservative a [inaudible] this is their first book and for a first book you get another round of applause. [applause] were getting it just right to the book. In prep for this interview i spoke with steve bannon this afternoon, the group of populism. He said this is a great and essential primer on how we got here with a global view on the populace athat deep dives and if you can believe it, steve bannon also said a [inaudible] [laughter] [inaudible] a young man from South Carolina doing, writing about global populism, maga, yellow best. I will start. I started my career in politics as democrat and i made the transition to the republican party, i found that i fundamentally misunderstood what the Democratic Party stood for. I thought it was a working people party. I thought it was a party for Small Business owners. I thought it was a party that would fight to improve the wages and the positions of workers across the country. What we saw is the 2016 the complete revolt against the corporate interests that drive down wages for the globalization for ilLegal Immigration. And i retired abi would see these guarded towns. I would think. This doesnt make sense. Something is fundamentally wrong. To listen in washington. Their job and communities were shattered by opioids and immigration. Basically shut up and learn how to cope. I reject that and thats how i came to be a trump republican and thats how we met. I am from a very middleclass abbluecollar community in queens. Where the Republican Community in queens. I didnt have a lot of positions starting in politics. I wasnt political. Although i did tell my parents when i was eight years old i voted for ross perot. [laughter] when i was in high school i was a big protester of the iraq war. It never made sense to me. I also saw the radical transformation of communities because of Mass Immigration. I was like this doesnt make sense either. That was my only abi started working on campaigns when i was 18 years old. When i was 27 i was like, a lot of people who write about this had never been on the campaign trail. They dont know what they are a alet me start writing, i started writing for the Washington Examiner. Bill kristol was my coworker. A very hostile work situation. [laughter] i was the only person in conservative institution who said trump was good to be the nominee that was going to win and i held to my guns and i remember it was supposed to be for this horrible radio show, i remember this one radio show in idaho, like why do you hate this country so much supporting trump . I was like seriously . This is the question . I wrote an article a year ago in april 2019 about the rise of National Populism. I hear a lot about, i study other countries and other movements and i notice what was happening around the world. I was like this is not just here. Everything they are being told is kind of a lie that this is just frozen into one thing. So, i wrote an article and then i said this could be a book. Me and harlan and i said would you do this project with me . He said yes. Now we have a book. Mobility, education, corruption, future prominently in the early chapters of the book, you want to touch on . The book is nine chapters, its pretty readable. I dont have a college education. Harlan does not abwe made this as simple as possible for People Like Us to read. [laughter] [inaudible] the main point abtheres National Populism occurring on all Six Continents that there is human beings on. We break into a conversation of one was the first Real National populist leader elected to the national government. It was 1998 with victor organ. That was almost 20 years before donald trump. The reaction to trump and brexit was how did this happen . They couldnt understand what was going on that they werent paying attention to the signs, the things that were moving. A big part of our philosophy is that politics does not exist in that bubble. For instance, the 2001 World Trade Center bombing that happened in new york city in washington, affected the election of denmark, their first thing they did was they put crumb theabeverything we se our politics is typical around the world. One of the biggest governments to actually work on cracking down on immigration is angola. Both african countries and angola has the department of homeland security, yet highly more effective at controlling immigration. Why . Its not a matter of efficiency, its a matter of political power. Its do you want to do this . Not can you do this . So we saw the corruption and a list of things that all national populist movements around the entire globe overlap. Maybe not all nine or 10 but a majority of those beliefs kind of overlap globally. I think one of the biggest takeaways from this book that we talked about so far is the culture and the cultural war we lost. I almost wish abwritten this book in released three months from now because the shockwaves that it happened over the last few months, whether the coronavirus or the rise weve seen sweet every major metropolitan area in the country, run by democrats. [inaudible] i wish we could have talked about this because what i think democrats are trying to do is trying to leverage the advantage they have in education, leverage the advantage they have in the cultural war, control hollywood and the news media. And they think that this is going to be there trump movement. The rise of what we are seeing happening in the [indiscernable] looking at hundreds of millions , drill down and look at the media and ask yourself, does the media really represent, does hollywood really represent . Does the newsrooms really represent the makeup of the American People . You referenced earlier, none of us have college degrees. But 92 percent of reporters around the country have a college degree. Most americans dont. The media, when they said the media doesnt represent america, the media despite the breakdowns of the book, the media is far too right, the media is far too liberal. They live in too many different democratic cities. They have a singular narrative. There is no breaking that narrative. 72 percent of the a [indiscernable] that means these people dont even know at trump voter. They dont. [indiscernable] [inaudible] [laughter]. [multiple speakers] the chainsaw mixed with an ak47, the worlds that these people are living in. They dont know. Go to washington and go to a conservative medium and try to find a churchgoing person who owns a gun and a truck. Its impossible. [inaudible]. [laughter] [multiple speakers] you bring up the media, theres an awful lot of interplay between government and the media. When we saw nbc work this week, we try to do platform a major conservative libertarian website, the federalist, we saw john bolton, who left the Top Administration who launched his book and launched all kinds of attacks against the president , intermixed between the elites and the press. They moved back and forth very easily between the press and government. Heres the thing with the media, i worked in media. Most media people in general are very good people. Your local beat reporter for the local newspaper is making 50,000 a year trying to get by, doing it because he loves the news. When you go to major outlets, its not a lot of money for most reporters. Rachel maddow is a brand, Anderson Cooper is a brand. You know what you are getting from them. There is no incentive to do news because what they are selling you, they are selling you their gimmick. Its like nike or oreo cookies, its the same thing every time, you know what you are going to get. It is worth it to becoming brand, if you are a brand you can get a book deal, you can get a television show, you can get a television contract, you can sit there and give speeches for a lot of money. [laughter] [multiple speakers] if you have abjennifer jacob from bloomberg is a fabulous reporter. Shes not biased at all. I enjoy reading her, i dont know her politics. There are fewer than anyone else. The problem with social media makes it all the more visible how openly political they are. We break this down in the book a couple times. You used to get punished for saying things, now you get career advances. Ben jacobs tweeted how he wants to punch Young Conservatives in the face. Cpac didnt get far enough to get moved to another paper and then he tweeted rick before the election, a quote from donald trump that were to bring justice the way it used to be. People instantly thought he was talking about the clan or lynching. But the full quote that trump said was at the ballot box he left out at the ballot box, why . Its easier to spread the lie than the truth, its not as sexy. Theres nothing wrong with screwing up and saying a tweet and apologizing. They dont even do that. You saw the covington schoolboys, that was as big of a hoax as the russia abthey tried to 16yearold private citizens lives over the fact that they had a picture in 1 32 video and they went wild. What happened with google the tomorrow abdemonizing ab they are fringe, mainstream conservatives, they have demonized, they got thrown off facebook and twitter. And it happened to breitbart, thats been going on for years. They made it very hard for breitbart to make money on their traffic. Now we are seeing a totally monetization of googles perspective of the federalist zero hedge. Whats next . The daily caller is going to be the Washington Examiner, its good to be fox news. They started it on the fringes but they are working their way to the middle. And now you cant even wear a tshirt for a conservative news channel without having your career threatened without having people threaten the lives of your family. Its completely unhinged. Theyre going to go after our pocketbooks, whether that means if you are a supporter of conservative media by trying to change you into the shadows, shame you for supporting that network, or if youre the network itself they make it possible for you to earn a living on the traffic that you have. Thats a problem for all of us. On top of that, the social Media Networks start making it impossible for us to get our message out. When we were going to promote the book we were running facebook ads for people to buy the book. We got totally rejected with zero explanation. Zero. I think thats because the National Populism and other keywords, they said, no. I think is important statistics in the book that we bring out, i mentioned it yesterday on tucker carlson, if anyone saw that, we are having a conversation right now but antiracist movement, what words are triggers, whats the truth going on in our country. We break this down to specifics in the book is not around 2007 certain words like whiteness, like racist, like white privilege, like social justice, all were terminology exploded and the average content in most major news outlets. We were being inundated with conversations that we were really having. They werent reflected in the truth that was going on in our country. I think that is really Something Else, whats very stunning as the people who took over the University System and the Education System with the terminology, in college i heard trigger the first time i was like thats not a real thing to me you are joking. I was like this is never going to come and be widespread. They moved into the media and slowly took over the entire institution. Thats really what we are seeing now coming through. We certainly hold that in such Great College town of boston. [laughter] this is wouks wokesville. Italy to besiege, shift after shift of refugees, landing on the beaches, calling in the coast guard and we have over 7000 indians a year that are on our southern border trying to cross mexico. They remind abnevermind mexican and Central American illegal immigrants. IlLegal Immigration makes up well over half of this book. a immigration. Yes. Lets talk about the sanctuary city, our neighborhoods that have been plagued by fentanyl, children have been caught up in addiction and overdoses and crime, it really i think is a lot of people around here certainly no the pain of ilLegal Immigration because of the drug crisis. We are one of the worst states in the country. Can we talk about how immigration and crime have gone together . The book breaks down immigration in four sections, one is ilLegal Immigration and then the other three are types of ilLegal Immigration. Talking about crime, the economy, and culture. Those are the three ways we break down Legal Immigration. When it comes to the situation in europe, we all live in a bubble, when the United States and several russian allies as a aone thing always affected the other. The Swiss Peoples Party in switzerland, benin government since 1999, became the lead party in switzerland because we started abkosovo refugees because the backlash. In the United States you have a situation when it comes to crime, the problem with United States and crime when it comes to immigration you have very very little abif someone is a criminal is a child of illegal immigrant. In the United States would just break down who is a citizen who is not a citizen. Its very hard to understand. Noncitizens are underrepresented in certain crimes like they are in murder but they are overrepresented in many many many crimes like identity theft, like drug crimes will stop just legalize drugs. Everyone get off opioids. Be a libertarian, get drugged out. [laughter] i think the problem is that when it comes to ilLegal Immigration is that 1986 ab Ronald Reagan and then was supposed to stop. We were supposed to have an answer. We had two institutions fought against that. One was big government, which sat there and said this works in our favor, these peoples children will become democrats. It will be good and we will have synthetic stories of the illegal alien crying. The republicans this is good for big agriculture and big agriculture fed this monster. In 1986 or 97, barbara jordan, democratic congresswoman, black woman from texas, created a commission how to create prosperity in the black Community Ends said reduce ilLegal Immigration. Bill clinton said okay. Ill do it and the person who stopped it. And Newt Gingrich and paul ryans mentor. Had they done that, trump probably wouldve never been president. We wouldve reduced immigration over 200,000 years over 1. 2 million a year and the mass effect of immigration on our culture landscape and crime and Everything Else would diminish. IlLegal Immigration and crime is especially bad in communities like in los angeles for example where they are caught in between gangs. The daily times covers it very well. But the fact that it doesnt get any National News im sure you know jamil sharp. There so many stories like that that go completely unwashed. Nobody hears of them. Was watching jamil shaw, a Young African american man who was up and coming football start, great academic, and he was murdered in the neighborhood where he grew up in. While his mother was serving our country in iraq. He was murdered by an illegal alien who got out of jail that day. Multiple arrests for gun charges. His dad had to call his mom to tell her her son was murdered. Did al sharpton come to the rescue . Did black lives matter come to the rescue . No one came, there was absolute silence by every other community. Actually it was just two years ago i heard about this when i was at the Washington Examiner that there was an illegal alien gang throwing molotov cocktails in the home of black communities. Picking out which bedrooms black children slept in. Did not even abthe only times it was silent across the media. Had it been any other situation it wouldve Gone National attention but because they fight their ideology so much that, we point is out of the book because the media is so liberal and white specifically, white liberalism, there is Research Done about this, the only group in this country to have a negative bias toward their own kind. Black americans, hispanic americans, white americans, looking at fellow racial groups and they have warm feelings. Its completely natural. What liberals look at other white people have a feeling toward bias. The only group in this country that do that. Because the media has done it they cant sit there and break down those narratives. We have Un