We're just laughing about it in the studio a minute ago. It was a year and a half ago this week

was October 27th, 2024, that we all went down to New York City to the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden.

It was in the final moments of that campaign. And it was really one of the most exciting political

events, even after a lifetime

of going to political events I've ever been to. It was right in the middle of Manhattan, New York

City, a place that did not support Donald Trump, despite the fact he's from there. And it was, again,

days before the presidential election, and it was packed. You showed up, and there was a line

way down the block, and then the next block, the next block after that. And the people in the line,

if you looked, weren't just from other places. They were just bridge and tunnel people coming in

from Long Island to support Trump. Some look like they were from Manhattan. And people were

excited, really excited.

And you go inside and the place is just absolutely packed.

I spoke at the request of the campaign and was happy to do it.

And what we were laughing about a minute ago, and something I remember very well, was a sea of placards of campaign signs in the crowd, all provided by the campaign, that said, quote, mass deportations now,

mass deportations now. I remember thinking, well, that's kind of heavy. I don't think I've ever heard any candidates say mass deportations. That's kind of forbidden to talk like that. Mass deportations?

But the Trump campaign was saying it without apology apology and there was something thrilling about that because on the other hand why not when you live in a country

with more laws than anyone can keep track of when you live in a constant state of mild anxiety

that might transgress break one of these laws, and be held to account

for it when you live in a country that put Martha Stewart in jail for six months for insider

trading and a lot of other people away for a lot longer than that for crimes that no one can even

really understand or explain. In some case, the people committing them didn't know they were committing

them. That's real. If you live in a country like that, why shouldn't foreigners who break your law at

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