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Yesterday was Groundhog Day. And if you think you've seen this movie before, you're right. The government is also shut down. We're gonna get into that. The arrest of Don Lemon, a new tool used to indoctrinate federal judges. The latest in Virginia. And so much more. Today on 10 Minute Drill.
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Everybody get up. Get up.
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The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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You may have seen yesterday was officially Groundhog Day. That there is a shadow here on my ground. Six more weeks of winter abound. And just like for Punxsutawney Phil, Washington is also experiencing another Groundhog Day. The federal government is shut down. A quick reminder on how we got here. As we've been talking about now for a couple weeks, this shutdown is over. ICE funding. The problem is ICE is already funded until 2029. Democrats know that, but they also know they're getting pressure, largely from a base of moms on Instagram saying they need to do something about ice. So they concocted a plan to shut down the federal government to remove funding for dhs. Now, the problem is that funding for DHS goes to things like FEMA and tsa, not to ice. But what they're trying to do here is, is extricate the DHS funding from all the rest of the government funding. They would pass the rest of all the government funding for the full period, all the way until next year. That DHS funding they would set aside for a two week period while they try and negotiate a set of terms to force on DHS for ICE oversight. Democrats are demanding things like ICE would stop wearing masks, they would be required to wear body cams. They would be subject to different types of internal investigations for, for tragic events like what we've seen. There also could be changes to the warrant process for arrests. Some of those are a non starter. Mike Johnson said over the weekend there will be no unmasking of ice, particularly as long as Democrats are incentivizing, doxing and putting ICE agents in danger.
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When you have people doxxing them and targeting them, of course we don't want their personal identification out there on the streets.
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The big problem right now is House Republicans do not want to extricate this DHS funding. They already passed these bills. They went through the very, very difficult work of getting everybody on the same page. So Monday, most of which was spent trying to get to Republicans being on the same page to pass the rule, hoping that some Democrats would join them. Now, it is surprising that Democrats aren't being more helpful because this is what they wanted. But the largest dynamic we're seeing here is Chuck Schumer negotiated a path forward for this funding bill without ever talking to House Democrats and their progressive wing that were the ones who wanted to defund ICE all along. So all a lot of this is up in the air, but the earliest action we could see could be later today as they try and get towards a path to have a vote on the House floor for these funding bills. If you made it this far in 10 minute drill, please leave us a review, leave us a rating, leave us a comment, go in on YouTube and tell us what you think. Give us some feedback. We love that and we will always react to it. Over the weekend, Don Lemon was arrested for the role that he played in the church storming in Minneapolis. Now, a grand jury found that there was probable cause for arresting and charging Don Lemon. And they identified a number of different things about particularly his role in the planning and carrying out of this protest that violated Congress right to assemble and to practice their religious freedom. Now, this has started a firestorm of a debate about was Don Lemon just being a journalist or was he a active participant in driving this? I have a very strong opinion about this for three reasons. First, we have clear video of him in the planning process, also saying out loud in his own livestream that he would turn the camera off to prevent people from finding out what this protest group was about to do.
