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10 Minute Drill
Don Lemon leads Minnesota church storming; Tariffs at SCOTUS; Iran; EU; new polls
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Host
A crazy weekend in Minneapolis. The latest in Iran. We're going to take a look at the first days of the Abigail Spanberger administration in Virginia. A leaked document highlighting how the European Union might be undermining trade negotiations. So many issues to cover in a special audio only lightning round. 10 minute drill. Everybody get up. Get up. The story of America is the story of an adventure. I can hear you.
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Guest Commentator
The rest of the world hears you.
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Activist
We are a nation undergoing and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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Host
We go first to Minneapolis. You may remember that Tim Waltz gave a speech last week where he called on the people of Minnesota to act as vigilantes to get out their cameras and to try and track and trace ICE agents.
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Activist
These ICE agents in your neighborhood, take out that phone and hit record. Help us create a database of the atrocities against Minnesotans. Not just to establish a record for posterity, but to bank evidence for future prosecution.
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Host
Well, Minnesotans are answering that call and it's gotten very dangerous very quickly. A series of videos over the weekend went viral online highlighting confrontations when Minnesota anti ICE activists chased down random people. For example, a group of tech workers that people believe looked like ice. We do custom apps for a whole bunch of companies around Minnesota and the country.
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Guest Commentator
Why are you coming? Because you're filming us.
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Host
A father driving his family in his SUV that activists believed looked like ice. You hear all the beeping? It's for me.
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Local Resident
Why Texas plates?
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Host
When you're in Minnesota with Texas plates, everybody thinks you're ice. Just trying to get some food. This is what I gotta deal with. And in the worst instance of all, a group of activists led by former CNN anchor Don Lemon actually stormed a CH church to accost church members when they believed that a church leader was also working with ice.
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Reporter
So you can see the protesters here are have gathered over here. They're in the middle of the church. During the beginning of the church service, the pastor was speaking and Nikima stood up and said her piece and then the protesters surrounded her. But this is a clandestine mission.
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Host
The video is very disturbing. Not only were they trying to simply interrupt, they chased people out of the church. They stopped the service, they followed them to their cars and they got in their faces.
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Guest Commentator
You are a fake Christian. Why are you not standing with your Somali and Latino communities? Why do I not see you out at Whipple every day protesting this attack on humanity? Out now. Out now.
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Host
Don Lemon tried to explain away his role in this.
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Don Lemon
But I think that they're entitled and that that entitlement comes from a supremacy a white supremacy. And they think that this country was built for them, that it is a Christian country, when actually we left England because we wanted religious freedom. It's religious freedom, but only if you're a Christian and only if you're a white male. Pretty much. My producers were saying, I said, how did I become the face of this? And my producer said, don, you're a gay black man in America.
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Host
The Department of Justice has already announced an investigation into this action. We will cover a lot more of this in tomorrow's full length episode. This week, the Supreme Court could hand down a decision on President Trump's tariffs. Conservatives and originalists have suggested that the president may have already well overreached the authority beyond what Congress has given the executive in using tariffs against foreign countries. One moment during oral arguments that seemed to foreshadow bad news for the administration was when justices asked the administration if the emergency authority they're using could potentially be used for things like a climate emergency, to ban gas powered cars, things like that. A new dynamic that also illustrates the interest in this tariff case is President Trump threatening tariffs on countries that don't support a deal to give Greenland back to the United States? Again, many experts argue that the Constitution gives very limited tariff authority to the president. And this president in particular has used that authority with far broader ranging implications than what many had anticipated. So, so we will see where this case lands. Last week we talked about the growing instability in Iran and President Trump's repeated warnings to Iran action would be coming. And for the protesters, help was on the way. Well, several days later, President Trump has sent a few mixed messages about what the US Is willing to do here, in some cases suggesting that action from the United States wouldn't be necessary because the Iranian regime has said they will no longer schedule executions. The problem has been we've continued to see a violent crackdown and reports that tens of thousands may already be dead. So President Trump continues to signal a willingness to engage there. The US Is already issuing sanctions, diplomatic pressure and public warnings. However, more aggressive action from the United States appears to still be on the table. Last week, newly elected Governor Abigail Spanberger was sworn in as the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and she appears to already be off to to the races to the left. Her first move was an executive order again blocking law enforcement from working with ice, which will create a similar dynamic to what we've seen in Minneapolis, where ICE is forced to arrest people out in the open in the public because there's not local cooperation transferring inmates and criminals from jails to ICE custody and.
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Local Resident
This executive order rescinds executive order number 47. State and local law enforcement should not be required to divert their limited resources to enforce federal civil immigration laws.
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Host
They're already also considering some terrible policy like bans on gas powered lawn equipment which will destroy small gardening and lawn maintenance businesses. Democrats in Virginia are also proposing a huge new tranche of taxes on everything retail sales and use on following services, admissions charges for recreation, food, fitness, sports facilities, non medical personal services, dry cleaning, laundry services, animal care, residential home repair, basically every small business you can think of. This is likely to be very unpopular as Virginia Democrats ran on the idea of affordability and yet their first move is to increase taxes on everything that moves in the Commonwealth. Last week the Federal Judicial center, the in house federally funded think tank of the Judicial Branch, published a new edition of their reference manual on quote, scientific evidence. However, that manual contains a number of flawed conclusions about climate science and a number of other issues that suggest that the Federal Judicial center, the taxpayer funded entity, is largely adopting the arguments and language of the radical left. Michael Fragoso of the Ethics and Public Policy center and a former chief counsel to former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wrote about how abnormal it was for the Federal Judicial center to be taking sides, including issues that have cases currently in front of courts around the United States. And he Talked to Princeton's McCormick professor of Jurisprudence Robbie George, a leading ethicist, about the absurdity of a taxpayer funded entity taking political sides in a case like this. George said government agencies and government funded organizations that are supposed to be ideologically nonpartisan should be, well, ideologically nonpartisan. But many are not and have not been for some time, often in an effort to obscure their partisanship. They claim merely to be reporting established scientific facts or settled science, but this has always been a mirage. Some established scientific facts are more equal than others. This happens right as the Senate is considering appropriations to groups like Federal Judicial center. And this will likely be an issue for Senate Republicans to consider as they determine whether or not to continue funding the Federal Judicial center as it takes activist sides against the American people on a number of major issues. A leaked document is highlighting that the European Commission and European Parliament are already working to undermine their trade deal with the United States by slipping language into their Digital Networks act that would allow them to put punitive fees on American companies, allowing them to extract large amounts of money from American companies to make up for their own lack of tech and innovation. We will watch and see how the Trump administration reacts. Lastly today, new polling highlights that even though Republicans and President Trump might be taking some hits in their approval ratings, voters still overwhelmingly trust them on key issues. This from the Wall Street Journal who's best to handle on border security, Republicans had a 28 point advantage on immigration, an 11 point advantage on the economy, 6 points inflation and rising prices, 6 points foreign policy, 5 points Russia and the Ukraine war. Republicans held a 4 point advantage with voters on tariffs, a 2 point advantage and having the right priorities, Republicans have a two point advantage on the Republican advantage point. CBS similarly found that Republicans have a 6 point advantage on economic policy and a 10 point advantage on immigration policy. Not a surprise as those two issues were top priorities for voters in 2024 and Democrats still have not done anything to show that they've learned lessons from the decisive losses that they took in those elections. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for tuning in to this quick lightning round. We will be back with a normal episode tomorrow Wednesday and then another episode on Thursday. Have a great day and please leave us a rating, a review and tell your friends.