1/12/26: Trump Threatens Jerome Powell, JD Vance Attacks Ryan, Tim Dillon Sounds Off On ICE, Iran War

27:09Of course not. Like anyone would look at that and say that's absolutely insane. Not to mention, it wouldn't even solve the problem because the car would then keep going. Now you have what I saw one law enforcement, I think retired law enforcement agent said, then you have an unguided missile. Then that creates other safety. Imagine there's children playing this. Imagine there's other people around and you have now this car careening with a dead person at the wheel. So the whole thing and the approach to it, the immediate tagging of her as a domestic terrorist and the not just the defense of, but the the veneration of this officer and the comments from J.D.

27:53Vance that ICE agents have like him have absolute immunity. You know, we are already seeing them sort of taking and running with that. I mean, the number of videos I've seen of them just randomly assaulting people. We had another shooting in Portland. We still don't know the details of that. Two people were shot there. The government story is already not adding up with regards to the details that have come out there. So, you know, the willingness to just completely deny reality is something that is very hard for me to grapple with. It is. It's very tough. And Kristi Noem has really led the way in that with her initial press conference where she basically said she implied that he was dragged by the car.

28:31She said just before we play this clip, she said one of the vehicles, the ICE vehicles, became stuck and ensnared in the snow. No sign of that in any of the videos we've seen. Law enforcement were attempting to push out this vehicle. Have you seen any of that? No, we've seen no video of that. When a mob of agitators that were harassing them all day, again, we know she had just dropped her kid off at preschool or at school, began blocking them in, shouting at them, and impeding law enforcement operations. ICE officers and agents approached the vehicle of the individual in question who was blocking the officers We saw her wave them by, by the way, roadway.

29:08They could have gone by. And with her vehicle. And she'd been stalking and peening their work all throughout the day. ICE agents repeatedly ordered her to get out of the car and to stop obstructing law enforcement. She refused to obey their commands. She then proceeded to weaponize her vehicle, and she attempted to run a law enforcement officer over. That's what she had said. And let's go ahead and play. So, Jake Tapper. And just real quick before you go to that. Because there's this debate about whether or not she was, quote, unquote, stalking them, which doesn't change anything about whether or not it's justified in shooting her right the shooting was at 9 35 a.m and we know for sure she dropped they dropped the kid off at school i don't know exactly when school started anybody who was watching this either has kids in school or has gone to school themselves it's it's not that much before 9 35 like there's no like even if it even it's one of these early starting schools at like 750 or something like that that at most would give them 90 minutes to be following them around but that doesn't remotely appear to be the case like yes there it looks like a couple of minutes like this was like this was activism of opportunity they're like coming home from dropping the kid off and they see this is the neighborhood they live blocks away and so they're like let's get out and like let's let's protest this like that so this is not like some like antifa trained situation where they've been stalking them all day long.

30:28Again, 9.35 a.m. is when this is happening. So yes, anyway, so Kristi Noem, again on Jake Tapper's show. Why did you not wait for an investigation before making your comments? Everything that I've said has been proven to be factual and the truth. This administration wants to operate in transparency. I have the responsibility as the Secretary of Homeland Security to know this information as soon as possible. Had just been in Minneapolis the day before, had already had conversations with officers on the ground and supervisors and knew the facts and decided that the department and the people of this country deserve to know the truth of the situation of what had unfolded in Minneapolis.

31:08With all due respect, Secretary, the first thing you said was, quote, what happened was our ICE officers were out in an enforcement action. They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out their vehicle and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle. That's not what happened. We all saw what happened. It absolutely is what happened. Those officers had been out on enforcement action. A vehicle had been stuck. They had come to help get that vehicle out. That's when this individual started blocking traffic for minutes and minutes.

31:41You said that the woman attacked them and surrounded them and attempted to run them over and ram them with their vehicle. Blocked the road for a long time and was yelling at them and impeding a federal law enforcement investigation she should have responded i'm not so sure i agree with your police work there a little it's so weird having a fargo character as part of this whole thing like what happened to the whole northwest nice thing or the like not with the the puppy killer like yeah this is what happened yeah that is what happened like we can see the video we saw it you know i mean and that's the point is like they i think I think it is the message they want to go out to all to all of America and especially to ICE and CBP and all of these, you know, federal agents and their kitted out gear who've been searched into various cities is that we will make shit up on your behalf.

32:35We will completely lie. You can do whatever you want and we will defend it in an like humiliating and embarrassing way in a way that is completely disconnected from reality. It doesn't matter if there's a video. It doesn't matter if People can see with their own eyes that something completely different happened. We will go to the mat for you and we will lie on your behalf publicly and repeatedly. And I think, you know, so it's not an accident that this is the way they approach it. The other thing here is Tapper asked, you know, made a comparison between people who actually beat up police officers on January 6th and were pardoned by this president versus this woman.

33:14And I think many people, myself included, pointed out like, OK, so, you know, you guys were very upset about Ashley Pabbit. I think there's some actually justification to be upset about Ashley Pabbit. Would it have been justified for many other protesters, rioters on January 6th who have been killed by the cops there who were actually getting beaten and violently threatened? Let's go and take a listen to Tapper make that comparison with her.

33:45Those are law enforcement officers being physically attacked. By this standard, would any of those officers be justified in shooting and killing the people causing them physical harm? Every single situation is going to rely on the situation those officers are on. That they know that when people are putting hands on them, when they are using weapons against them, when they are physically harming them, that they have the authority to arrest those individuals. The president pardoned every single one of those people. and make sure that they're getting justice for their actions going forward. President Trump pardoned every single one of those people.

34:19And every single one of these investigations comes in the full context of the situation on the ground. And that's one thing that President Trump has been so focused on, is making sure that when we're out there, we don't pick and choose which situations are in which laws are enforced and which ones aren't. Every single one of them is being enforced under the Trump administration. And the clarity of the law stands. And if people don't like it, these members of Congress and elected officials should go change the law and make sure they have that debate and policy change. I just showed you video of people attacking law enforcement officers.

34:54Undisputed proof, undisputed evidence. And I just said President Trump pardoned all of them. And you said that President Trump is enforcing all the laws equally. It's just not true. There's a different standard for law enforcement officials being attacked if they're being attacked by Trump supporters. We just saw that. This individual and these instances and these investigations all have to be taken and done and done correctly in context of every situation that is happening on the ground. I mean, the whole thing is just in-group versus out-group. And it's deeply un-American. And the idea is supposed to be, not that we've ever lived up to it, but there's one standard of justice for all, right?

35:33They don't accept that. They genuinely don't. And that's where you clued in on the video that they were so excited to share. what they wanted you to get is this is the out group. So they deserved it. Right. Whereas January 6th rioters, some of whom were actually assaulting police. Well, that's the in group. So it's totally different. And, you know, that's what Trump's pardon schemes. That's what what that's about as well. Like, oh, well, they're on my team now. So, you know, even though you may have been a former president who actually was involved in narco trafficking, a quote unquote narco terrorist, since that's the term of art now.

36:06Doesn't matter because you're on our team. So you can do - He was a Bitcoin bro. Yeah, you can do, yeah, you're close with Peter Thiel and whatever. So you can do whatever you want. And, you know, and there is, he has said himself, like he claims the powers of the monarch, that the only limits to his power are, his own morality is the quote. So they don't accept the idea that there should be one standard of justice. They want to rip that apart. They want to change that in the minds of the American public. And I think you have to say, with regard to their own base, they have accomplished that. Now, look, everybody is guilty on some level of hypocrisy, right?

36:45There's a lot of tribal thinking and partisan brain. There's no doubt about that, that that is something that happens across the board. This is really something different in terms of the weaponization, the use of the federal government to try to codify and to actualize a reality where all that matters is whether you're on the in group or in the out group. And, you know, I don't think it'll work. I think people are disgusted by it. I'd actually be curious for your take on, you know, how do you how you think this is going, like for J.D. Vance and his presidential ambitions. But they've convinced themselves that this is a strong place politically to stand.

37:23I don't think, you know, it couldn't be further from the truth. Welcome to the A-Building. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Menelik Lumumba. It's 1969. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. have both been assassinated, and Black America is out of breaking point. Rioting and protests broke out on an unprecedented scale. In Atlanta, Georgia, at Martin's alma mater, Morehouse College, the students had their own protest. It featured two prominent figures in Black history, Martin Luther King Sr. and a young student, Samuel L. Jackson. to be in what we really thought was a revolution. I mean, people were dying.

38:021968, the murder of Dr. King, which traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the murder of a Black Panther leader in Chicago. This story is about protest. It echoes in today's world far more than it should. And it will blow your mind. Listen to The A Building on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This show contains information subject to, but not limited to personal takes, rumors, not so accurate stats, and plenty more. What's up, man? This your boy, Nav Green, from the Broken Play Podcast. Look, it's the end of the season. The playoffs are here. But guess what?

38:42It ain't the end of your season. You can always tune in with Broken Play Podcast with Nav Green on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Not a team who ain't going to the playoff. They're Chiefs. Oh, it's a wrap. It's time to rebuild. Who your MVP right now then? Drake May up there. Josh Allen up there still. Oh, my boy, Matthew Stafford. Where the hell both nicks at? He ain't too far behind. He did all this talking. What Matthew Stafford is doing statistically, bro, is crazy. Bro, you know I ain't no Josh Allen fan, but Matthew Stafford got better weapons. Caleb Williams. Hey, he should be in that conversation.

39:17In what conversation? MVP. He should be in it. Listen to Broken Play with Nav Green from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or whatever you get your podcast. This is Ryder Strong, and I have a new podcast called The Red Weather. It was many and many a year ago in a kingdom by the sea. In 1995, my neighbor, Anna Trainor, disappeared from a commune. It was hard to wrap your head around. It was nature and trees and praying and drugs. So no, I am not your guru. And back then, I lied to my parents, I lied to police, I lied to everybody. There were years right where I could not say your name.

39:57I've decided to go back to my hometown in Northern California, interview my friends, family, talk to police, journalists, whomever I can, to try to find out what actually happened. Isn't it a little bit weird that they obsess over hippies in the woods and not the obvious boyfriend? They have had this case for 30 years. I'll teach you sons of bitches to come around here and my wife. Boom, boom. This is The Red Weather. Listen to The Red Weather on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Abolish ICE, which used to be sort of a fringe sentiment, is creeping up on a majoritarian position.

40:35Yeah, and the overwhelming majority of Americans say that they use way too much force and they're out of control because they can see these videos and say, this is insane, right? I mean, as much criticism as I've had for local police, I was like, you would never see them behaving in this completely, like just routinely in every situation, totally insane and illegal manner. Yeah, I think it is J.D. Vance tying himself unnecessarily even, like he didn't have to jump in here, to the least popular elements of this version of Trumpism or MAGAism like that. So I think it's extremely damaging to him.

41:11I think clearly AOC, who I don't think will be his opponent this time, but maybe 2032 more likely. You've seen her kind of say like the difference between me and J.D. Vance is I don't think that the American people should be shot in the face. Like it's like how did you wind up positioning yourself in defense of this guy, calling him innocent, saying he should be thanked for what he did when the entire country like saw what he did? Yeah. Um, so yeah, I think it's actually extraordinarily dangerous for him politically. Like I think he, and I think he, I think he recognizes that he's a bit impulsive.

41:53Uh, he posts too much. Um, but now, and now he's out there and I think that's why he's saying just completely false things because he wants to establish at least among the Republican base, a set of facts, which are that, I'm putting facts in quote here. And the facts he wants to establish are this guy was hit by the car and that he and the bullets came through the front windshield. Like he needs he wants those, quote unquote, facts to be established. And then he wants to show you that grainy, sped up video that they've been circulating. Yeah. Which if you if that's all you saw, you'd be like, oh, it does kind of look like he gets bumped.

42:31Right. In that footage. Right. Then if you watch it in the regular speed and you watch it in context with the other video, you're like, oh, he didn't get hit. Well, I don't think he really cares about what facts he establishes. I think he wants the like white nationalist griper part of the base to forgive him for having an Indian wife. And and this is his not going to work. It's not going to happen. This is his attempt to convince them that he's one of them. He's one of them. That he will go full fascist, that he's all in on the race war, that he will lie on behalf of the regime. Like, he wants to convince them that he is one of the good ones and he is not actually a race traitor.

43:11And, you know, I don't think that is ever going to work out for him, but he doesn't seem to have figured that out. This next piece, I think, is important. Tom Homan, who it's worth remembering, like actually got the job, got his initial job in government under Obama was where he was really elevated. His initial reaction after this happened was kind of like the normal reaction you might expect where he was like, we should have an investigation. Right. Not going to say anything about this until the investigation plays out. And Tom Homan is a disgusting, psychopathic cretin. OK. But even he was like, we should have an investigation and then we'll see.

43:46He has since shifted his tone as he's picked up on what this administration, this regime, expects him to do. He got asked about this question of, do you think she's a domestic terrorist? Let's go ahead and take a listen to this because I think this is an important piece. Is anyone who protests ICE a domestic terrorist in the eyes of the administration? I can't say that. It's a case-by-case basis. But if you look up the definition of terrorism, is there violence? Is there a threat of violence based on an ideology that wants to change the way the government does what we do? Look at the definition of terrorism.

44:22But was Secretary Noem correct to label her a domestic terrorist, Mr. Homan? Look, we don't know what, I don't know what Secretary Noem knows and what I know. I can tell you is what they did is illegal. And if you look up the definition of terrorism, it certainly could fall within that definition. If you look at the definition of terrorism. But you don't have evidence. Pardon? You don't have evidence that she's a domestic terrorist. I don't know what secretary has that I don't. I'm not going to judge what the secretary says. But if you look up the definition of terrorism, it certainly can fall within that.

44:53So, Ryan, he says if you look up the definition and true enough, if you look up the definition as offered by this government, he's probably right. And he says something else that's like she has an ideology that wants to change how we do what we do. isn't i mean aren't we allowed to have an opinion about how the government but in their opinion they think no and this is where ken klippenstein's reporting about nspm 7 comes in they genuinely want to define any protesters like anyone who does disagree with how they do what they do they think that's illegitimate they think we won the election we get to do whatever the fuck we want and you don't get to really say anything and if you do do step out of line in any way yeah we we think you should be put in this category of domestic terror.

45:40So I think in their minds, and according to the definition, which, you know, the definition of terrorism is sort of like always fake and made up and extremely political by their definition, they genuinely see her that way. Well, they've some elements of the administration have called the Democratic Party like domestic terrorists. That's right. Yeah, that's exactly right. They don't think that opposition is legitimate. Even the incredibly weak, barely existent opposition offered by the Democratic Party, they find that to be too much. And what they have managed to do is create actual opposition.

46:12If you've been watching this show, you've noticed over the kind of first year of the Trump administration, and Trump himself even commented on this, he said, wow, I thought there'd be more opposition to me. But the opposition is basically just rolled over. And that was that was more or less the case other than like Chris Van Hollen going down to El Salvador and a few like cases here and there, the party was just flat on its back. And so were a lot of activist groups. Now, because of them constantly poking this bear, people are actually starting to rise up and put up B7 here. So it's not just that people are now coming out in the streets of Minneapolis and confronting ICE wherever they find themselves.

46:55You know, they try to go to the bathroom at Target and they just get yelled at the entire way in and the entire way out. They have lost all legitimacy within the cities where they're trying to operate. And now states, Democratic states, are trying to figure out different ways that they can set themselves up in an adversarial posture to ICE. And they're seeing that the polling is against ICE and with opposition to ICE. So the Trump administration came in with the administration flat on its back and with public opinion on their side when it came to kind of reversing Biden's immigration policies.

47:38And because of Stephen Miller's need for these kinds of images, they have now kind of flipped the entire political table against them. Yeah. Well, and I think that point about legitimacy is very important because if you talk to law enforcement officers, I mean, you will not be able to operate effectively. You have to have some consent from the local community. And that's actually what sanctuary city policies are about. Because the idea is if there's no trust with local law enforcement, you know, in immigrant communities where you have a lot of mixed status families, where you have a significant number of undocumented immigrants, you're going to have more rampant crime because people are not going to talk to the local cops about what's going on.

48:16They're not going to assist in investigations. And so that is part of the rationale. And there's a lot, you know, there are studies that bear this out. It's a public safety rationale behind sanctuary city policies. But yeah, I mean, if you go into Minneapolis and everyone there hates your guts and are chasing around with whistles to alert everyone to you're in the neighborhood and this is what's going on, you're going to have a lot harder time actually operating. I mean, Obama earned his moniker to porter in chief, did it in a much. I mean, I don't support it. I think he did also things that were cruel, although not anything approaching this level of just like mass thugs, jackbooted thugs in the street insanity with the largest law enforcement budget of anywhere of any time.

49:01But he was very efficient in what he was. He was actually much more effective in particular at getting the quote unquote worst of the worst, which is what they're supposed to be going after, because they actually put investigatory resources towards focusing and prosecutorial resources towards focusing on criminals, first and foremost, and prioritizing them. So, you know, the goal here is not actually to sweep up the most number of immigrants possible. The goal is this show of force and not just to scare immigrants, to scare anyone who would oppose this government. That's what this is actually about.

49:37It's, you know, immigration is obviously part of it. And those are the people who are most in the sights of these mass thugs in the streets and of this administration in general. But, you know, when they're when they're recording videos, all this surveillance, there's new reporting out about mass surveillance systems also in the context of this immigration sweep. That is not just targeted at immigrants. It's certainly not just targeted undocumented undocumented immigrants. This is about this is about all of us. This is about the way the very quite like radical and revolutionary, very negative sense, in my opinion, way that they want this country to be in this country to operate.

50:15So when you put together the largest law enforcement agency by budget in history with now Trump asking for one point five trillion dollar defense budget. I mean, you get the sense of they really want to concentrate taxpayer resources in a police surveillance and military state. That is the direction that they're pushing things in. And immigration is the pretext for the buildup of that capacity. Right. And the other way that the federal government could have gone about this is to say that this may have been a crime and we're going to investigate it. The officer's going on leave. They have instead, you know, squarely positioned themselves on the other side and put up B8, the Daily Mail reporting that a bunch of masked ICE agents were photographed removing a whole bunch of stuff.

51:01Yeah, and I don't know if we know if they're ICE or FBI. I think the theory is that this is actually FBI removing a bunch of stuff from Jonathan Ross's house. He appears to have fled with his family. And so, you know, is this evidence? Is it just his belongings that he wasn't able to grab and they're, you know, helping him out? But the FBI has now blocked state and local officials from being involved in the investigation at all. And, you know, I don't think that they care that it is blatantly appears to be a cover up after the everybody from the president down to the vice for everybody involved has already said, no, he's innocent.

51:43Like there's no one even if they hadn't done that. I don't think anyone would have confidence that Cash Patel's FBI is going to do like a straightforward bang up, unbiased job in any of this. But, you know, it's clear what conclusion they have already made. They have no interest in actually gathering the facts. There are enough facts available, I think, to all of us already to see that this was, you know, this was not justified in any way. I mean, he put himself in front of that car, which in and of itself, that office is called officer created jeopardy. Like you're trained not to do that. And yet not just with him.

52:15It strips you of your defense. And it strips you of your defense. That's exactly right. Not just with him, but this seems to be a pattern in practice with ICE and with CBP going back years. There's a 2014 article that's circulating now about how they do this, how they put themselves intentionally in danger in order to justify using deadly force. Yeah. And so we put up B9 here. This is, you know, the tensions are continuing to escalate. Here you have the guy pointing, you know, first he points his like riot control weapon at the person and then pulls a gun out and puts it right in the person's face.

52:59Just utterly provocative in a way that seems designed to kind of increase tensions. Yes. Welcome to the A-Building. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Menelik Lumumba. It's 1969. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. had both been assassinated. And Black America was at a breaking point. Rioting and protests broke out on an unprecedented scale. In Atlanta, Georgia, at Martin's alma mater, Morehouse College, the students had their own protest. It featured two prominent figures in Black history, Martin Luther King Sr. and a young student, Samuel L. Jackson. To be in what we really thought was a revolution, I mean, people were dying.

53:451968, the murder of Dr. King, which traumatized everyone. The FBI had a role in the murder of a Black Panther leader in Chicago. This story is about protest. It echoes in today's world far more than it should. And it will blow your mind. Listen to The A-Building on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Ryder Strong, and I have a new podcast called The Red Weather. It was many and many a year ago in a kingdom by the sea. In 1995, my neighbor, Anna Trainor, disappeared from a commune. It was hard to wrap your head around. It was nature and trees and praying and drugs.

54:29So no, I am not your guru. And back then, I lied to my parents. I lied to police. I lied to everybody. There were years right where I could not say your name. I've decided to go back to my hometown in Northern California, to interview my friends, family, talk to police, journalists, whomever I can to try to find out what actually happened. Isn't it a little bit weird that they obsess over hippies in the woods and not the obvious boyfriend? They have had this case for 30 years. I'll teach you sons of to come around here and my wife. Boom, boom. This is The Red Weather. Listen to The Red Weather on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

55:11This show contains information subject to, but not limited to personal takes, rumors, not so accurate stats, and plenty more. What's up, man? This your boy, Nav Green, from the Broken Play Podcast. Look, it's the end of the season. The playoffs are here. But guess what? It ain't the end of your season. You can always tune in with Broken Play Podcast with Nav Green on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Not a team who ain't going to the playoffs. The Chiefs. Oh, it's a wrap. It's time to rebuild. Still, who your MVP right now then? Drake May up there. Josh Allen up there still. Oh, my boy, Matthew Stafford.

55:46Where the hell both nicks at? He ain't too far behind. He did all this talking. What Matthew Stafford is doing statistically, bro, is crazy. Bro, you know I ain't no Josh Allen fan, but Matthew Stafford got better weapon. Caleb Williams. Hey, he should be in that conversation. In what conversation? MVP. He should be in it. Listen to Broken Play with Nav Green from the Black Effect Podcast Network on the iHeart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast. Let's go ahead and turn to some interesting comments from Tim Dillon. And, you know, I find what he says noteworthy because obviously he was a supporter of this administration.

56:22He is an immigration restrictionist. I listened to this whole thing, by the way. It is he he does his classic like sort of both sides of stuff. But the clips that have gone viral are where he's not backing up the administration in this really at all. let's go ahead and take a listen to Tim Dillon talking about how he does not think that this officer feared for his life in that moment now I don't believe from the angle I'm watching that the federal officer feared for his life at the speed she's going when she's turning the wheel I don't believe that the federal officer feared for his life he could have shot the tires they could have done other things this this idea that everyone just they have to just shoot them in the head so he says i do not believe this officer feared for his life he goes on to um really go after the ice agents for their lack of training now with this guy that's no excuse because i think he'd been involved i saw like 19 years he's been you know icbp whatever um involved in some way and uh again we'll talk about it on the other side but in any case he also goes after the ICE agents for their lack of training and professionalism, let's say.

57:37Let's take a listen to that. I don't believe the cop was justified in shooting her three times in the face. By the way, I've always believed this. And this is something that I've caught heat for, but I've literally believed it since I'm a kid. I don't believe you should ever shoot someone in the face more than once. No, seriously, I think, I just think it's ridiculous. so that they did that and they, you know, the guy, these are not well-trained law enforcement people in ICE right now. We're taking people that did backyard wrestling. I mean, we are the people that are in ICE right now are, I mean, this is your cousin who, like, was in backyard wrestling.

58:29Like, this is tough. this is not the cream of the crop. You know the guys that kidnap Maduro, like Delta Force, Navy SEALs? This is not them. This is not the Delta Force Navy SEAL people. This is people that like had, this is people in their third grade report card that teacher wrote that has violent tendencies. I saw one of the Chapo guys said that this was like a war of the unemployable versus the employed. And I thought that kind of nailed it too. But, you know, this guy doesn't have that excuse. And in a sense, I think it's a little bit of a and I would soccer and I in our very lengthy debate talk some about the training as well, which is obviously an issue when you turn loose a bunch of like thugs who have watched this sort of stuff and been like, that's what I want to do.

59:17And you give them 47 in honor of our great president days of training. And there's reports coming out saying that many of them can like barely read and write. and you just turn them loose and have the vice president say, you have absolute immunity. Like that is a problem. That is definitely a problem. But I also think in a sense, the training, like the fact that this man has been on the job for years, for like many years, I think in a sense the training is also the problem because clearly, again, the way he operated here, it's not just him. It's not just him that's recording with the iPhone, right?

59:51There's pressure both for surveillance reasons and also for content creation reasons to be recording all these interactions and hope that you get on the next viral hype reel, right? The moving around the front of the vehicle, now by the time the shots are fired, he's to the side of the vehicle, but walking in front of a vehicle with the engine on is directly contradictory to what any local law enforcement, I mean, they have years and years and years, decades of training, like data of how it goes and how you're supposed to approach in a situation where you've got a vehicle where the engine is on.

1:00:25And that is contrary to any of those training books. Yet what you see is many, this is done, the same maneuver is used in many, many instances where they try to block in the vehicle with their body and put themselves into that jeopardy so that they can then justify more aggressive and in this case, deadly tactics. So I don't think the problem was that he didn't know what he was doing. I think he knew exactly what he was doing because you can see in that video, you know, when he switches the camera phone from his right to his left so that he's got his, you know, his trigger trigger finger ready to go.

1:01:02This is someone who actually was very in control and knew exactly what he was doing in that moment. Right. And he finishes it with F and B like and then they block medical care. Like, so, and it's a case where you're, where, and lawyers who've looked at this said, like, that also is going to be a huge problem if it ever got in front of a jury. Because if this was, you know, purely self-defense, then how do you justify, forget the second and third shots, not trying to help her with medical care? I mean, it's that's and that, again, shows you like a gun in group, out group distinction because they none of those guys thought this woman deserved to live.

1:01:45Right. Clearly none of them. I mean, not just the man who killed her, but none of them thought she was worthy of life because none of them tried to save her life. And they blocked the doctor who was there, who wanted to intervene and help. They, you know, they pointed a gun at him, said, absolutely not. We're going to let her bleed out. That's what the choice was made. And I believe it was on CNN I saw an interview with a police commander who had said, he's like, for instance, I once had two officers who were shot at by a man, like who shot directly at them. He missed them. They returned fire.

1:02:21They hit the guy. They immediately ran and got their medical gear and rushed to the guy that they had just shot. Yeah. Who had shot at them. and immediately start delivering attempts to save his life and call in an ambulance. Because at that point, you transition from, he's no longer a threat, you transition back into this protect and serve. Yeah. Like, this is your job, it's what you're trained to do. To just be, like, sauntering around and, like, joking around and then hop into a vehicle and flee gives away the game. And did you see the ice officer busted going into the porta potty? Yeah, yeah, we can play.

1:03:05This is, I mean, this is just everything all in one, all at one, because you've got him slipping, comically slipping on the ice, like in a Looney Tunes-esque kind of way. There's a lot of video of that in Minnesota right now. So he falls down, okay? They're not sounding their best. And then goes into the porta-potty with this detainee while, you know, this other agent sits in the car and watches Ilhan Omar, who, you know, this is in Minneapolis, this is her district, she posted like can someone please tell me what's going on with this because i find this deeply disturbing and uh you know there was another um i believe ice agent who was um convicted of sexually abusing um one of the the detainees like these things that we're seeing like this is only just what we can see imagine what's happening behind closed doors where the cameras aren't allowed in and by the way on that note um they're now trying to block there's a law that is supposed to require congressional, any members of Congress from being able to go and inspect ICE facilities at any time, don't have to give notice.

1:04:10Christy Noem just put out some memo saying, no, now you have to give a week's notice. Don't see how that is compliant with the law. There'll probably be a court case over that. But in any case, Ilhan and others showed up at one of these ICE facilities. They wouldn't let them in. So, you know, in direct violation of a law that, you know, Congress passed in response to concerns about exactly these sorts of things. Yeah, Omar said, this is deeply alarming. If anyone has more information, please share. Brooklyn Center is in my district, and I would love any info you all can provide. Yeah, and it's bad news when you're like, oh, have you seen the video of the ICE officers slipping on the ICE?

1:04:46And you're like, which one? Because then the other one, they slip on the ICE, and the guy has gun discharges. Yeah. There's no world in which you're following proper gun safety, and you fall on your gun discharges. Like, that's just not a thing. Yeah. He almost took out his buddy there. Yeah. That was alongside. There was another instance where they, again, involved a vehicle. And they were trying to shoot the person in the vehicle. And he ends up, like, the bullet ricochets and he shoots his partner. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, just comically. Comically. And these are the ones being caught on video.

1:05:20Like, somebody just happened to be filming that port-a-potty. Right. Like, so we're just getting the very, very tip of the iceberg. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. All right, Ryan, you want to tell us what's going on in Iran? So moving on to Iran, President Trump on Air Force One was asked about whether or not Iran has crossed a red line yet. It's interesting. We were just talking about a protester being killed in Minneapolis. Trump seems to have more concern for protesters being killed in Iran than he does here in the United States, setting that hypocrisy aside. Let's listen to Trump's back and forth to the press about whether or not he's about to start bombing Iran, I guess, on in the interests of peace or something.

1:06:05Let's roll this. They called yesterday. Iran called to negotiate. Yesterday. The leaders of Iran called. They want to negotiate. I think they're tired of being beat up by the United States. Iran wants to negotiate. We may meet with them. I mean, a meeting is being set up. But we may have to act because of what's happening before the meeting. But if a meeting is being set up, Iran called, they want to negotiate. And so we know that the foreign minister from Oman recently went to Tehran. There's some reports that he delivered some type of a message from the United States. Iran is responding, saying they want to get back into the Iran nuclear deal.

1:06:55But obviously, if you go to war against us, that will make those negotiations a little bit more difficult. If you can put up D1, according to The New York Times and other outlets, Trump has been briefed on new options for for striking Iran. He has laid out what he has said is a is a red line, although it's not entirely clear what that red line is. it is if protesters are killed under certain circumstances, but not other circumstances, because some of these protests have veered into not just like riots, but like armed attacks on security forces. Ron has said, I think more than 100 members of the security services have been killed.

1:07:36You've seen some, and you're seeing videos of that circulate. Police officer killed and set on fire. A nurse was killed. A firefighter was killed. There are reports of the beheadings of

1:07:53government security services. Meanwhile, you have at least 500 protesters killed at this point, and arguably probably thousands at this point. And Iran has cut the internet, so it's very difficult to get legitimate information out of there. Lindsey Graham was at an event last night and told people there he had to cut it short because he was very excited that we might go to war that night. Let's roll D2. But the reason I had to cut the speech off a little bit, and it was really very kind of you to do what you were doing, I don't know what, but this might be the night. It's just a matter of time now.

1:08:33Just a matter of time. Why is it just a matter of time? And you know what I'm talking about, don't you?

1:08:42this tyrannical regime needs to end we need to end this for the good people of iran and for our own selves and the people of israel we need to take this guy down

1:08:59he needs to leave standing up or laying down i don't care he needs to go and if we can pull this off it'd be the biggest change in the mid-east in a thousand years Hamas has blocked gone it's not even clear to me why Lindsey Graham would need to cut it short like is he calling the shots here is he like picking targets like what is his involvement with this potential bombing or does he just need to be in private to enjoy it needs to be alone to fully savor the moment. Like the fact that he's still so influential with Trump really undercuts the idea that Trump is not just a. There are many things about this that have undercut the idea that Trump is Mr.

1:09:47Peace. I mean, to be honest with you, I think he he is worse than the neocons. He's actually worse than the neocons because he has bombed, what, seven countries so far. And, And, you know, the any of the like at least the neocons felt the need to like build up some sort of a case, have some sort of legitimacy with the American people. The full on barbarism and the complete law of the jungle might makes right like this. This is this is actually worse now. And I'm someone who and I think you were, too, probably in the first Trump administration, I was like Bush is still worse. Like Bush is still worse than what you know, what Trump has been.

1:10:25I can no longer make that case like the resistance lips were right. their most deranged takes on everything except Russiagate were 100 % proven correct. I am sorry for ever criticizing you guys. And you know what? All the discussion of his moral temperament and his character, which I also used to sort of roll my eyes. No, you were correct. That actually did. That ended up mattering a lot in terms of the conduct of his presidency. So yeah, completely vindicated. You know, that first clip we played about where Trump is like, you know, maybe we'll talk about a deal. I would love to believe that's the case, but we've now had multiple instances where the possibility of diplomacy has been used as a pretext and a cover for a bombing campaign.

1:11:09So you can never like this could be yet another Trojan horn. Oh, we're going to extend the arm. Oh, now we know where all of you are so we can murder you. You know, like you just can't rule any of that out ever. Not to mention in that same clip, he says, well, we might have to take action before we can get to the negotiation table. And there's also the thing where he's like, OK, yeah, we're doing a lot of war, but we're really only going to do it in our hemisphere. That's what America first means. Just doing the war here. So, OK, you thought we were going to be, you know, a more peaceful administration.

1:11:40We're not. But it's just here. Promise. And then like three days later, like, oh, and also we're going to bomb Iran. Right. Which is, I mean, you can pick up a globe if you don't believe me. It's not in our backyard. Yeah. Yeah, right now the Swedes are thinking of getting nukes to protect themselves. They're in a coalition of Nordic countries of like, maybe we should get nukes. You should. Everybody should. I mean, that is the logic that we have created around the world. The only people we don't fuck with are the ones who have nuclear weapons. So, you know, I guess that's the way that people are increasingly looking at it.

1:12:16And who could possibly blame them for for viewing things through that lens? You know, in terms of what actually happens here, I genuinely don't know, because Trump doesn't I think he doesn't want to get into some long protracted. He likes the theater of war. He likes being able to do his mission accomplished moment after the, you know, SEAL team or the whoever goes in and does their oh, my God, we kidnapped Maduro and it was so spectacular and amazing. And aren't we the best? And obviously right now he actually posted that he's the acting president of Venezuela. I don't know if you saw that. I did see that, yes.

1:12:50So he likes that, but he had enough caution around, you know, putting this Machado in and like completely doing the regime change thing. Like that's probably going to require more for me than I really want to give. And he seems to have that same sense in Iran. He said, he's like, yeah, this Reza Pilevi, this failed son for the Shah. He doesn't have the juice. He doesn't have the support. And he's right. I mean, he's absolutely right. But the Israelis definitely want to they want a regime change. But, you know, treat to Parsi is correct in saying what they really want is regime destabilization.

1:13:21Like they don't care if Iran is a failed state. They're happy for Iran to be. Yeah, they want it to be a Libya or a Syria or whatever. Like that's what their goal is. Now, is Trump is he on board with that goal? We don't know. But it certainly seems like he is being increasingly persuaded by the ego kick that he got out of the Venezuela operation. plus these protests, which I think are helping to convince him that this would be easier than perhaps he thought in the past. So, you know, I don't think there's anything that we could possibly put off the table, especially when, again, mirroring the dynamic with Venezuela, where you have the Miami-occupied government with Marco Rubio and others who are, you know, South Floridians who are very excited about these possibilities.

1:14:07You have a similar dynamic, obviously, with Mary Maddelson and people in the administration, Mike Huckabee and people in the administration who are very, very committed to what Israel wants with regard to Iran. And they're just going to keep pushing and pushing and pushing and cycling through arguments with him until they find one which works, which is exactly what happened previously with Iran and which is exactly what happened with Venezuela. They kept making different cases to him until they found one that they could use to convince him to effectuate the ends that they wanted. And I don't even know what this one is like what's the argument like why like he was they he did a 12-day war they wanted more than 12 days although they were getting pounded you know pretty badly but they still would have you know gone a little further but what is like what even is the argument like i haven't i think as a member of the public i haven't even like received like why are why are we going to bomb them this time right because initially he had said in his meeting with netanyahu if they went back to building nuclear weapons.

1:15:05Right. That would be. But they yeah, they I mean, we haven't received even any fake reports about that. Well, that's probably coming soon. Stay tuned for that. But in any case, that's sort of been pushed to the side. Now it's supposedly about like the rights and dignity of the protesters. I mean, does anyone really believe that Trump cares about like the, you know, aspirational human rights of the Iranian protesters when obviously doesn't give a shit about that with American protesters? But now since he put this red line down, now it's just about ego. It's like they're embarrassing you. You know, you made this line in the sand.

1:15:38You can't be like Obama where he had his red line and then they walked all over him. Like, you said this thing. You've got to stand strong. I think, I mean, that's as far as I can tell because I don't really see any sort of, any other affirmative case being made for why this is in our interest at all. And isn't the bombing campaign more likely to just end the protests? That's like that. I don't I don't connect how coming in with you bomb a bunch of military installations or something in that. That's that's going to somehow further the protest. I don't know. I guess I guess anything's possible.

1:16:11Meanwhile, Iran has said, put up D3 here, that if the U.S. strikes Iran, that they consider U.S. targets throughout the Middle East, including bases in Iraq, which are quite vulnerable to Iranian attacks, as well as any Israeli targets, that those are legitimate targets. And that's how they will respond. And then covering these protests is extraordinarily difficult. There is probably no arena where there's more disinformation and fake videos thrown out there. Trita Parsi has talked about this. It's like there's some is trickling out. There are a few Starlink. Starlink was mostly successfully taken down, actually, which is fascinating development and is freaking out Musk investors.

1:17:04It seems like Russia and Iran found a kill switch for it. Some Starlinks are still operative and have been able to get some videos of massacres out. Some Iranians have left and gone to, say, Dubai or elsewhere and have brought videos with them. One of those, we can put up D5 here, actually, and then we'll go back to D4. D5, this is footage being played. We blurred this out, but basically there's 250 files here. somebody smuggled this out likely was smuggled out and it's basically evidence of at least 250 people getting killed and then each file kind of goes through somebody else and families are being asked to come to come identify and receive their loved ones and we could like I said we could be talking about many thousands of dead at this point Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, we put up this post here, D4, a U-Haul truck drove through a group of protesters who were supporting the protests against the Iranian regime.

1:18:25The imagery on the U-Haul is suggestive of the possibility that it is an MEK-aligned action. MEK is this bizarre kind of anti-regime cult that is also hostile to the Shah and that has weird connections to the U.S. security establishment and was based in Iraq and backed by the CIA at various times. It's like it's a very – just look up the MEK. It's a very odd organization that has no base of support inside Iran and would do something insane like this. Like terror attacks previously, right? Now they're doing their whole like we've turned over a new leaf thing. If you did, like I don't know if this member got the memo if this was an MEK linked attack.

1:19:16But this is the kind of thing that the MEK would be associated with. Yeah. Yeah. And these were, you know, the I think the protest, the flavor was like pro monarchist, you know, more in back. Pro Shah. Yeah. The Shah's son and, you know, in support of him, et cetera. So in any case, yeah, you have a very difficult situation to know what's going on in the ground. I saw Dr. Parsi also tweeting and it might have even been in that tweet that anecdotally what he's hearing is that the some of the lesson that was taken from the previous protests, which were largely peaceful, was that they failed because they were peaceful, that there wasn't a violent cost associated with it.

1:19:56And that's part of why you're seeing this more violent approach from the protesters this time. But again, it's very hard to know what exactly is going on, how widespread they are. There's no doubt that the Iranian regime is deeply unpopular. I don't think there's any question about that. And part of that is certainly the repression. These protests were initially sparked by the currency collapse triggered by, you know, largely by our sanctions and our aggressive approach towards them. We've trashed their economy. You know, youth unemployment is just sky high. It's an incredibly dim situation for people economically on the ground.

1:20:33And so it's no surprise that the country would be a powder keg. And it's also no surprise that you would have actors in the U.S. and Israel who want to take advantage of those legitimate grievances to pursue their own ideological ends. Yeah. And Israel brags about how well organized Mossad is inside Iran. And that. Well, they've showed that off. What a massive network of allies and assets they have in there. And there was no immediate and we'll get to Van Hollen in a moment. There was no immediate kind of triggering event that sparked these protests. it really appears like it was an organized, like orchestrated, planned out thing rather than, you know, let's say somebody, you know, a protester or, you know, police kill somebody or, you know.

1:21:16It may be an ICE agent shooting someone in the face three times as one example of the precipitating event. There was none of that. It was just like all of a sudden there's protests. Yeah. And you have Israel and Israel was in the weeks leading up to this saying we're going to war against them again. And so they've basically taken a lot of credit for this.

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