the wall street journal, nbc poll.. only george w. bush in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 saw support likeke that. but the koch network and others talk a good game about unity embracing change, seizing opportunities. but when the president comes along who is actually embracing a new path, something different on behalf of the american people, let s try a new thing now, the kochs and the globalists just have their blinders on. they won t have any of it. a i had to laugh when, in a feature on the koch retreat, it said the following, democrats who attacked the koch brothersin in recent years, controlled that, at least in the area of trump, the billionaire industrialist, are no longer the left s number one enemy. [laughs] yeah, that s funny how that works. that is because republicans lacked a leader for soso many years that the kochs were the only game in town. but now, the left has a new enemy. it is trump.
the government unless they get real money to start is border wall, they know that he means it. so republicans and democrats i like are really afraid of this. look, of the many reasons donald trump got elected in 2016, the primary one was illegal immigration, building the wall, and all of these issues. ending chain migration, the visa lottery laura: they ve done nothing! and he knows, in order to browse the states going into the midterms, he needs to stick by this premise and shut down the government. laura: chuck schumer had no problem shutting down the government when trump was putting the pressure on with the daca kids, and he wanted to give amnesty, and he was fine with shutting down the government. he tried to pass it off on trump. it wasn t trump. it was the democrats. now trump says, i m not doing the omnibus thing. you should never have signed that other omnibus. he should have vetoed that back then and he wouldn t be in a situation now. but do you think the democrats ar
have to agree with what the white house economic advisor larry kudlow, a free trader himself, said over the weekend. people will say, well president trump s tariffs arere damaging this, that, and the other thing. i say, don t blame president trump. he inherited a completely broken world trading system, including a wto, most particularly china but not only china. okay? he s trying to fix that. laura: remember the kochs supported the job andix sovereignty killing trans-pacific partnership, and the nafta agreement that bush obama, and until the campaign at least, hillary championed. the koch network, like the rest of the g.o.p. old guard, is positively furious with trump so use of tariffs to level the playing field. in fact, they announced s last month that they have committed to a multimillion dollar multiyear campaign to oppose what trump is doing onn trade.
are over in the republican party. there is no constituency for it why we have an 88% approval rating for donald trump. byron? donald trump the candidate in 2016 really did blow up republican orthodoxy in some very, very key ways.ea trade was one of those ways. immigration actually was another. the kochs have had a complicated relationship with that because if you asked them last year they were absolutely delighted with all of ther, deregulation that has been taking place under the president, happy with the tax cuts, too. now very unhappy with tradee and with immigration. i think a lot of republicans are really going to part with them on this north dakota thing. for example, the kochs are now spending about a million dollars to support the confirmation of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. republicans partisans would say if you don t support republicans to the senate, there is notub going to be another trump nominee to the supreme court. well laura: that s why it s important to
i m from l.a. i spent some time in cambridge massachusetts. i am an elite, by any ofss these standards. but the bottom line is, the people in bootable country are doing work that is as important or more importantly thes people on the coast, who are sitting in their coffee houses writing scripts. laura: you are not an elite. just because you go to those nice institutions, if you understand the plight of the. regular working person, and you think that they have a role in our economy, you are not an elite. i m an elite but not trump made this distinction at a rally. he said, the people in this audience are elites but if you are good at your job, if you work hard, in the united states you are an elite by any standard but you are not an elitist. that is where democrats get it wrong. laura: got it. ben shapiro. awesome segment as always. trie, go this way. i say, i ll go my own way, with anoro. go your own way