Daily Wire host Michael Knowles sat down with PBS Newshour on Thursday as conservatives gathered in Washington, D.C., for the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
During the interview on the taxpayer-funded network, host Amna Nawaz asked Knowles questions on a range of issues before taking exception to some of his comments on transgenderism. Nawaz brought up a remark Knowles made at CPAC in 2023 about “eradicating” the ideology of transgenderism.
The PBS Newshour host asked Knowles to explain his belief further, saying, “I’ll confess, I don’t know what the difference is” between “eradicating” transgender ideology and “eradicating” transgender people.
“If I say that I want to eradicate poverty, I’m not saying that I want to eradicate all the poor people,” Knowles replied. “Quite the opposite. I would like to help the poor people by…
