In short
The episode argues that Democrats “hijacked” Fox News coverage by confronting Fox hosts live with criticism of ICE and U.S. foreign policy.
Guests
Corbin Trent, described as a former AOC communications director; Democratic Rep. Auchincloss; Democratic Sen. Mark Warner.
Key claims
responsibility for a deadly ICE-related shooting lies with ICE officers (not the civilian), and ICE is portrayed as creating fear rather than enforcing law.
Notable examples
live TV exchanges with Peter Doocy about a car incident where an ICE officer allegedly shot a woman three times; Warner criticizing Trump’s military actions across multiple countries and arguing for congressional authorization for strikes; Kristi Noem claiming ICE surges in Minneapolis target sex trafficking, which the episode frames as propaganda and a cover-up.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VODemocrats Take on Fox News
1:50 to 3:50
Democratic leaders challenge Fox News hosts on live TV, exposing their tactics.
“Democratic leaders, Democratic Congress member Alkenclos, Democratic Senator Warner.”
Challenging ICE Accountability
4:00 to 6:00
Democrats discuss the accountability of ICE officers in confrontations with citizens.
“Democratic Congress member Auchincloss schools Peter Doocy on live TV.”
Mark Warner on Military Action
6:01 to 7:00
Senator Warner critiques the justification for military strikes against foreign nations.
“They have stopped being an arm of the law and they have started being an instrument of fear.”
Fox News Reacts to Democratic Claims
13:14 to 14:00
Discussion on how Fox News responded to Democratic criticisms and their propaganda tactics.
“So then the Fox hosts, they were beefuddled, right?”
Fox Host Commentary on Miss Rachel
14:00 to 14:30
Discussion on a Fox host's controversial remarks about Miss Rachel.
“I just want you to be able to identify them.”
Tommy Lahren's Critique of Child Care Centers
14:30 to 15:20
Analysis of Tommy Lahren's statements regarding child care centers and Miss Rachel.
“And then just so you see, it's not like a fluke.”
Lindsey Graham's Praise for Trump
15:20 to 16:20
Examination of Lindsey Graham's remarks likening Trump to Ronald Reagan.
“And now what pissed them off about Miss Rachel?”
Critique of Kristi Noem's Comments
16:20 to 17:46
Discussion on Kristi Noem's statements regarding sex trafficking and ICE operations.
“You are the Ronald Reagan plus of our time in this, in this world stand with the people, Mr.”
Accusations Against the Trump Regime
17:46 to 18:52
Analysis of claims that the Trump regime is not genuinely addressing sex trafficking.
“Every day we get another individual that was sexual assault against a child, sodomy against a child.”
Rhetoric and Violence Against Communities
18:52 to 20:09
Discussion on the use of violent rhetoric and its impact on communities.
“We all support if you want to arrest or ensure that criminals are deported or brought to justice.”
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Tom Emmer's Response to Violence
20:09 to 22:25
Examination of Tom Emmer's comments regarding protests and community violence.
“We know what that's, what this is all about.”
Transcript
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1:49Ben Meiselas:State regime media, which calls itself Fox News, was just schooled on live TV by different Democratic leaders, Democratic Congress member Alkenclos, Democratic Senator Warner. You had a guest who keeps on schooling Fox hosts by the name of Corbin Trent, and he was a former AOC aide. He's been just crushing these Fox hosts. So the state regime media hosts didn't know what to do as these Democrats essentially hijacked Fox and exposed what Fox and Trump and the entire MAGA crew was really trying to do to inflict pain on this country and showed how pathetic they were. So then state regime media responds by attacking the beloved children's star, Miss Rachel.
2:43Ben Meiselas:Then they bring on Kristi Noem, who says, look, the reason that we're really surging thousands of ICE troops and Border Patrol troops, the Gestapo, the SS in Minneapolis, is because we're trying to stop sex trafficking. And that's what this is about. The Trump regime's effort to stop sex trafficking. Y 'all are covering up the Epstein files. Y 'all are all involved in covering up a child sex trafficking ring. So that's what the Trump regime is saying. It should be noted that this is a typical authoritarian tactic. Use something that truly is the most despicable thing and claim that you're the people fighting for it when indeed you're the people who are actually covering up.
3:29Ben Meiselas:Same thing in Hungary right now with Viktor Orban's authoritarian regime. They promised they would go after the sex traffickers, but then it turned out that in their prison system, they were basically utilizing it, the Orban regime, in order to engage in sex trafficking of minors. And there have been massive protests in Budapest about that. And Trump loves Orban. These authoritarians have very similar traits. We'll just leave it at that. So let's take a look as Democratic Congress member Auchincloss schools Peter Doocy on live TV. Watch this go down. Auchincloss is a brilliant. Play this clip.
4:11So you are putting all the onus on the ICE officer. What about on Renee Good? She's behind the wheel of a vehicle. I've been pulled over by a car. I assume that by a cop, rather. I assume that if I start to drive forward, I might that that's against the law and they might take action to stop me. Is that completely off base? This is entirely the fault of the ICE officer. I put put more plainly to be clear. So, Peter, what you're saying is, just so I can understand, what you were saying is if you get pulled over on the side of a highway, for example, and, you know, the officer grabs your door and attempts to prise it open and is filming you with another officer on the other side of the car and your car moves forward away from the officers, you think your family would be okay if you then got shot in the face three times?
5:01No, but I would think that I'm disobeying a law enforcement officer who's giving me an order while they pull me over for something. I think the point here, the question is, isn't there a better way for progressives who are upset with ICE policy to protest than getting up in their grill, possibly from behind the wheel of a car? Would you agree that that is not the best way? Again, Peter, you're victim blaming here. Not victim blaming. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No law enforcement officer. No, no, no. Congressman, no law enforcement officer should be doxxed. Nobody is victim blaming.
5:36About two minutes ago, I heard Director Lyon say that the civilian was at fault for being involved in that operation. Let's be clear here. You have a badge, you have a gun, you are wearing a mask, you are accountable for everything that happens or fails to happen in that operation. No law enforcement officer should be accosted or harassed or assaulted, and there should be penalties of law for so doing. And no U.S. citizen should be afraid of their own government. And that is what ICE has created. They have stopped being an arm of the law and they have started being an instrument of fear.
6:05Ben Meiselas:So then Democratic Congress member Alkencloss again, as I said, they're basically hijacking Fox and delivering the truth. It's amazing. Play this clip. She did not make every effort possible to avoid the ICE officer who was standing in front of the car. Are you saying that a car cannot be used as a weapon? Of course, a car can be used as a weapon. What I am saying is when you have a badge and a gun and you are interacting with a U.S. citizen who has committed no crime, the onus of responsibility is on you to exercise good judgment and to use that weapon only as an absolute last resort. And nobody watching that video will buy the argument from that ICE agent that he had no other resort other than to shoot her in the face three times.
6:58Ben Meiselas:Here's Corbin Trent, former AOC communications director, and this guy is just destroying these foxholes. Watch it go down. It is a beautiful thing to see. Play this clip. So what's funny to me is when is violence, when is protest, when is this all acceptable? But isn't that the same, though? Where's the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? I mean, I don't see anybody in Colombia. Well, they're doing those today, and it's called the ICE protests. Well, are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? No, I think they're talking about the regime that's shooting people in the face.
7:36I mean, I think it's a very American idea that I want police forces to be able to shoot Americans indiscriminately. And the idea that J.D. Vance says is that they should have absolute immunity, You know, I thought this guy was a hillbilly. He had a book, Hillbilly Elegy. And I can tell you, hillbilly values, at least from where I'm from in Appalachia, are that the government ought not be able to have absolute immunity when they shoot you in the face. But maybe we came from a different Appalachia.
8:01Ben Meiselas:Okay, Corbett. Then you have Democratic Senator Mark Warner. Here's what he has to say. Play this clip. No action on U.S. troops. I want to get your reaction to this. The president said that cartels are running Mexico. He suggested that land strikes on cartels in Mexico could be coming soon. The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has called for increased communication between the U.S. and Mexico. Is there any justification for land strikes on cartels in Mexico?
8:32The drug cartels are awful. We need to use lots of tools. But the idea that we are going to take a military strike against Mexico? Remember, we may not like the Mexican or the president may not like President Sheinbaum, although he said nice things about her, but she was elected by the Mexican people. Do we really are we going to continue to strike out against any leader around the world that Donald Trump doesn't like? I mean, if Donald Trump wants to make a case about striking Mexico, he should take it to the American people into the Congress and ask for some kind of declaration. But arbitrarily, again, I point out the fact that he's used American military to strike six countries in less than a year.
9:16I think the people hired Donald Trump because he said he wanted to end these countless foreign wars. It seems like he's potentially starting more. And even some of the countries you talk about, Greenland now, which is part of Denmark, is a NATO ally. Is he going to literally blow up our NATO alliance to go after Greenland, where we already have a treaty that allows us to do virtually anything we want. I just don't understand what his policy is. And if the only check on the president, and this is what he said to the New York Times, his only check on his international power is his own morality. That's not the way our system is supposed to work, Jackie.
9:53Ben Meiselas:Well, I want to ask you about more from Senator Warner right here. And he's just telling the truth. He's like, look, we recognize that these dictators are bad and horrible people? Absolutely. The question is, does the United States need to be going into wars over every dictator out there? And if that's going to be the position of the United States, well, shouldn't you get congressional authorization? And shouldn't you speak to the American people about your wars that will result in American boots on the ground and Americans potentially dying and can be incredibly costly as Americans can't afford basic things, as Americans can't afford groceries, as Americans can't afford healthcare, as Americans can't afford a home, as Americans are psychologically tortured living paycheck to paycheck if they're lucky enough to get a paycheck while Donald Trump's out there saying$100 billion is going to go to the oil companies for Venezuela.
10:57Ben Meiselas:$40 billion is going to go to Argentina. $1.5 trillion for the military budget. $300 billion goes to the ICE and the Border Patrol Gestapo. No, we don't want any of that. We want healthcare. We want affordable housing. We want education. Take a look at Mark Warner schooling the Fox host play this clip. Back for a moment, Jackie. In less than a year, President Trump has used American military to attack Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Nigeria, Venezuela. We've got 20 percent of our fleet off the coast of Venezuela maintaining a blockade. And our military did remarkable in Venezuela. He's now threatening Colombia, Greenland and other nations.
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13:19Ben Meiselas:Democrats delivered some knockout punches right there. Tell me what you think about that. So then the Fox hosts spent the rest of the day doing two things. One, attacking Miss Rachel. Yes, the beloved child star for children. I know as a father of a 16-month-old, they absolutely love Miss Rachel. is a lifesaver and Miss Rachel's very talented. So Fox attacks her. And then Fox also spends the day uplifting Kristi Noem and Tom Homan's claim about, oh, this is actually about going after the sex traffickers. Just do you see their propaganda tactics? I just want you to be able to identify them. So here's a Fox host saying, I don't know who Miss Rachel is and I don't like her.
14:07Ben Meiselas:Who doesn't like Miss Rachel? Who else don't you like? Barney, here, play this clip. I mean, right, it's sort of on brand, isn't it, this alliance, Nicole? Yeah, I don't know who Miss Rachel is. My kids are old enough, but she seems annoying, and I don't know that she is anti-Semitic, but if she's sitting next to Mom Donnie and they're, like, doing little hand gestures together, since he's anti-Semitic, I would just assume she is as well because misery loves company. And then just so you see, it's not like a fluke. You're not like, Ben, come on. Were they really talking about that all day? yes, here's Tommy Lahren again attacking Miss Rachel.
14:41Ben Meiselas:Play this clip. But what a time to open a child care center, right? More leering centers. If there's anything we've learned from Nick Shirley is we need more child care centers with no children, more daycares with no children, more medical non-emergency transport programs with no people. I mean, of all the times to announce you're going to put more funding into something like this, now is an incredible time. And I just got to say with this Miss Rachel person, It just immediately creeps me out when you have adults that dress like children and behave that way. If you're a parent that has your children watching this, maybe second guess it for reasons of being creepy and also some of her political leanings a little problematic.
15:20Ben Meiselas:And now what pissed them off about Miss Rachel? Well, anyone who brings joy and love and empathy and inclusiveness, they hate. And then Miss Rachel was with Zoran Mamdani, New York City mayor, who we had here on the Midas Dutch Network recently, gave a great interview. And watch what they were doing. This pissed off state regime. Here, play this clip.
15:48All right.
15:57Ben Meiselas:So then Fox also pivots. Bring in Lindsey Graham and let's get Lindsey Graham, the ultimate Trump bootlicker and also potentially just leave it at that bootlicker. I'll just say that here's, here's Lindsey Graham saying, Oh, Donald, you're like Ronald Reagan, Donald you're like Ronald Reagan here. Play this clip. I have faith in you, Mr. President. I have trust in you. You are the Ronald Reagan plus of our time in this, in this world stand with the people, Mr. President. Then you have Christine Ohm, and here's what she has to say. Here, play this clip.
16:57for is that we have professionals that stepped up and took an oath to serve this country. The American people support them in that. It's really, really horrific that we have elected officials that are using this as an opportunity to divide, using this to promote an agenda that fundamentally would take away our freedoms and our liberties in this country.
17:17Ben Meiselas:And here's where Kristi Noem talks about, oh, what we're really doing here is going after the sex traffickers in Minneapolis. So why would you want to stop us when we're going after the sex traffickers? Let's play this clip. And I want to discuss this here. Play this clip. Maria, we've surged HSI officers there specific to focus on sex trafficking and child trafficking. It's so prevalent in Minnesota. It's horrific. And we brought dozens and dozens of those individuals to justice already. We're going to keep hundreds of HSI officers there to continue to protect those children. Every day we get another individual that was sexual assault against a child, sodomy against a child.
17:55I can't believe that the mayor and the governor can defend allowing those people to go out there and victimize more of our more of our children and grandchildren.
18:05Ben Meiselas:Now, this is a tactic of sociopaths, and this is a tactic of malignant narcissists and just truly evil people, right? We know the Trump regime is involved in a cover-up of a massive sex trafficking ring. We know they're covering up the Epstein files, okay? We know they're not going after the sex traffickers. We know they're overwhelmingly ICE and Border Patrol are going after people who work in restaurants, roofers, construction workers, farmers, people in restaurants, people in Home Depot parking lots looking for a good day's work. people who have been here for a long time, who show up to court, people are seeking asylum.
18:45Ben Meiselas:Like we know, we've seen it. We know, we're aware that the Trump saying we're going after the criminals. We know that's BS. We all support if you want to arrest or ensure that criminals are deported or brought to justice. We all agree with that. That's not what this Trump regime is doing. But they go and they find the most vulnerable groups of people and they act like, we're here just to help the victims of sex trafficking. That's not what you're doing. Y 'all are starting with the pretext of attacking the entire Somali community and saying all Somalians are bad. That's your latest boogeyman. In 2024, it was the Haitians who said we're eating cats and dogs.
19:27Ben Meiselas:And there seems to be a commonality of who you pick as your bad guys. So first you started there. And then you use that as a pretext to terrorize the community. You killed Renee Nicole Good. Say her name, Renee Nicole Good. You killed her in cold blood. And now you're out there terrorizing Minneapolis because they are a blue city, a city of love and empathy, a state of love and inclusiveness. And so you've surged 3 ,000 ICE Gestapo to terrorize that community, to also try to send a message to other blue states and blue cities to be afraid, to live in terror of a terroristic regime. We know what that's, what this is all about.
20:11Ben Meiselas:So then Tom Homan goes out and just says it. Tom Homan goes, there will be more bloodshed unless you stop your hateful rhetoric. Hateful rhetoric? Peoples have a First Amendment right to speak out against the terrorism by you, Homan, by Noam, by all of these ICE and Border Patrol Gestapo. And so you're saying blood will be shed if people utilize their First Amendment? I don't care what political party you're from, you should be against this. This is the most anti-American stuff I've ever heard. Here, play this clip right here. Fox is told that about a thousand more Border Patrol agents are going to be heading there to assist basically free up HSI officers.
20:59There's also this growing network of local residents who are tracking ICE movements and warning people about them. And schools in the area are being given the option of remote learning for the next month because of how hot the environment is getting. Are you concerned about what we're heading toward? And what do you say to those officials like Mayor Frey, who's accused the administration of just looking for an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act. That's ridiculous. Bottom line, they don't have to shut schools down. They can't give me one example where ICE has walked into an elementary school or a church or a hospital.
21:34It's ridiculous. And all this false narrative that they're pushing, it's just going to double down on hate against ICE. For instance, calling it a murder, the mayor calling it a murder. The hateful rhetoric has caused a lot of this violence. I said way back in March, if the hateful rhetoric doesn't decrease, there will be bloodshed. Unfortunately, I was right. And it's not over. There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful Reddit. To compare this officer to a murder? Are you kidding me? Threats against a police officer, actual attacks are up 1 ,300%. A lot of it's based on the hateful Reddit from people who don't understand what's going on and don't want to face the facts.
22:13Ben Meiselas:And speaking of the most anti-American stuff, then you have Tom Emmer, another Trump bootlicker, a mega sycophant. This guy is from Minnesota. and he hates his state. It's obvious that he hates his state. He'd rather be at Club Mar-a-Lago, whatever the hell they call, Club Rose Garden, whatever, wherever these people fester. And here he's like, we need to find out who's behind these protests, who's behind this rhetoric. They're the ones responsible. No, who's responsible is the Trump regime, is people like you, emmer people who are terrorizing our communities here in the united states play this clip uh what can republicans in congress do to find out who is fomenting all of this violence well it's uh charlie it's it's sad that minnesota is in the news for this uh but i don't know that we have to do much more all you got to do is watch uh you've got tim walls literally sounding like Jefferson Davis, our governor, is saying, you know, we're at war with the federal government.
23:19He claims that he can call the National Guard out. You know, they want to tell people to go ahead and protest. But what they're literally doing is encouraging more violence.
23:29Ben Meiselas:Well, there you have it, folks. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to six million subscribers. And thank you so much for watching.
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