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ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Minnesota Fraud, Iran Protests, SCOTUS Energy Case & Credit Cards
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Continued fallout after an ICE involved shooting in Minneapolis. We're going to talk about what's unfolding in Iran right now in a truly historic moment. Lastly, President Trump's proposal to limit credit card debt and what it might mean for people. All of that 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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Last week, we talked a lot about the tragedy of Renee Good, an activist in Minneapolis who got into an altercation with ICE agents and ended up being shot as she attempted to drive through an ICE agent to escape a scene. New videos that came out last week show two things that I wanted to highlight. First, first, there's been a lot of narrative about her being an innocent mom who was just trying to get home. But video moments before the interaction that ended up ending her life show that she was involved in a blockade in which she used her car to try and block ICE in during an operation and then block the road to prevent them from going down and carrying out their business. We're gonna get into a lot more about what that means a little bit later on. But the other video that came out late last week was video directly from the cell phone of the ICE agent who shot Renee Goode, highlighting their interaction up to that point. 1. One thing that's particularly notable in this is as many have tried to argue, he was not hit by her car, despite lots of video evidence showing him hit by her car. You can hear an audible thud as she accelerates into him, but you also can hear Renee Goode's wife yelling to her, drive, baby, drive. Which ended up leading to her driving into the officer and being shot. Chaos has ensued. Protests have taken over all of Minneapolis, including activists trying to break into the hotel where ICE agents are staying. And I'll note again, as we talked about last week, this is exactly what Minnesota and Minneapolis officials wanted when people like Jacob Fry came out and said, ice, this is your fault. This was not self defense. The bottom line in this conversation, did the ICE agent have a reason to fear for his life? We've got dozens of camera angles that show he was directly in front of the car as it accelerated. We also know in a previous incident incident he was hit by a car and dragged 100 yards while he was trying to arrest a convicted sex offender who was also an illegal immigrant. So he had reason to fear himself based on his own Past, but also vehicular incidents against ICE agents from activists or illegal immigrants attempting to evade ICE are up 3,000%. So Tom Homan argues he did have reason. You have a vehicle that is pointed toward him and accelerates toward him. He has a second to make that decision. Did this agent have a reason to fear for his life? We've got plenty of context to suggest that he did. But what the left is arguing, even with actors at the Golden Globes wearing pins attacking ice, Democrats in the media would like you to believe this person is just a heartless murderer who hates immigrants, when in reality this person is an Iraq War vet. He. He has served our country for decades. He has his own family. He's only 43 years old and he's got children at home. He might be a good guy who just feared for his life. When an activist who had previously used her car to hinder law enforcement operations tried to drive over him as her wife was yelling into her ear, drive, baby, drive. The circumstances of this are so much more complex than you are learning from Democrats in the media. And I think it is a abhorrent that the media has tried so hard to create this dynamic where ICE is simply a villainous group. We talked about the narrative from Democrats that they've continued to push even days later. This was an innocent woman who had no political agenda. We know much better now that she did. She was a part of a group called MN Minnesota ICE Watch. Renee Goode belonged to ICE Watch, group that trained activists to interfere with agents and block vehicles. Huge credit to Haley Strack and the team at National Review for getting into this. We went into the Instagram account for Minnesota ICE Watch to see just how they were training their activists to try and hinder and engage ICE as they carry out legal law enforcement operations in their cities. Tactic one, using a secure grip, like the gable grip, hug the arrestee and pull them out of danger. Tactic two, pulling and pushing an officer off an arrestee and breaking their grip. That is assault. If you look at that image, look really closely at that image, you'll see there's a person who's about to hit the ICE agent. That is what Minnesota ICE Watch, which Renee Goode was a part of, trained their activists to do. Tactic three, opening a car door to let the arrestee go free. Trying to grab arrestees to get into an escaping car. Each arrest is a shaking off, which is to say each one is a micro intifada which can spread and inspire others. The use of the word intifada. There is really, really important. There are a lot of uses of the pro Palestine playbook or the anti Semitic playbook that we've seen from pro Hamas groups. So Renee Goode wasn't just an innocent woman driving home from work. She was a part of a group tied to violent uprising and education materials that called on activists like Renee to get violent with ice. Now, I have so many questions about how activists are allowed to do this. The problem is there is no fear even. It's gone from no fear of being arrested for protesting to no fear for being arrested. Actually getting into physical altercations with law enforcement. That is a huge problem. And it's an even bigger problem that it's being encouraged, encouraged by elected Democrats who should know better. But to sew this all together, here's who Minnesota ICE Watch is actually protesting to keep in their communities. This from Bill. ICE has provided FOX News a list of the most egregious criminal aliens they've arrested during their surge in the sanctuary state of Minnesota. And it's the most disturbing list I've ever seen, including numerous convicted child rapists, sodomizers, and even 10 convicted killers, most with deportation orders going back many years, several from Laos, Somalia and Sudan. So again, Minnesota isn't just a sanctuary state for the sweet grandmother who's working through her immigration paperwork on her way to getting citizenship. It is a sanctuary state for the most terrible, violent criminals in the world. And the organized left, the activist left, has created groups like Minnesota ICE Watch to use their cars to block ICE from arresting them, to blow whistles in their faces to make it difficult for them to do their jobs. Checking back in on Minnesota, we have talked extensively here about the $9 billion fraud scandal and everyone who's involved in it. We do hear reports that the FBI, the Treasury Department and Congress are closing as they try and get more information about how this was allowed to happen, what role people like Attorney General Keith Ellison played in letting this fraud spread as wide as it did. But one player who has also been heavily involved is Ilhan Omar. She did an interview on Sunday that raised a lot of eyebrows.
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What any of this information has led to you finding any criminals that you have indicted that explains why you are wasting so much of our taxpayer resources.
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Now, Ilhan Omar is a huge part of this $9 billion fraud scheme. So when you hear her go on TV and argue with a straight face that it is a waste of taxpayer resources to investigate that $9 billion in fraud, you have to just sit back and laugh. But just again, to reiterate Ilhan Omar's involvement in this scheme. This from Benjamin Weingarten, Introduce the legislation that enabled Defeating our future fraud. Touted the program in a promo video at the Safari Restaurant that was ground zero of the $250 million ghost meals for Needy Kids scheme, a restaurant that was the hub of the Somali Dem establishment that hosted her fundraisers and campaign events. She received over $10,000 in campaign contributions from nearly a dozen fraudsters or those implicated in the fraud, including one of her alleged henchmen who was convicted. So Ilhan is very closely tied into every part of this problem. But you can understand why she'd want to go on TV and say, hey, stop investigating this. We don't need to find out any more facts. But she also has been a staple in the protest circuit after the Minneapolis shooting.
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We are going to make sure that these people pay for what they have done to us.
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So I have questions. Who are they and who is us? Ilhan is saying they're going to pay for what they've done to us. What they've done is investigate a $9 billion fraud. So when you're asking if they're gonna pay or saying they're going to pay, is it gonna be more than the $9 billion that you've already taken? Who is it that is being victimized here and how? I have so many more questions for Ilhan, in addition to Keith Ellison, who's gotten far more attention for the secret recordings of his quid pro quo arrangement with these Somali fraudsters. By now you've likely heard about a lot of activity going on in Iran. We go back to December 28th, when first really kicked off. On December 28th, a wave of protests against the Iranian regime broke out, largely a reaction to inflation, rising prices and heavy handed corrupt governance from the long standing Iranian regime. The government's been cracking down on those protests and reports suggest there may have been thousands of arrests and potentially thousands of deaths as well. President Trump has threatened the Iranian regime if they get violent with protesters posted on Truth social media. If Iran shoots and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Experts suggest these are some of the strongest uprisings we've seen in several decades, that this may actually be the opportunity for the people of Iran to finally overthrow the Ayatollah and this corrupt regime that has been so oppressive to their people. President Trump has been engaged there and Secretary Rubio has also talked a lot about how the United States wants to support those protesters, but they want to do it without doing anything that would suggest that an overthrow of the ayatollah and his regime is some sort of Western puppet operation. So they're balancing that. But experts also suggest that these uprisings and the crackdown coming from the regime can only last for so long. So we will watch this very closely. We now turn to the Supreme Court, where all eyes are still waiting for news on perhaps the highest profile case about President Trump's tariffs. But there's also a lot of attention on a case that was argued yesterday. My old boss, Senator Mike Lee, wrote an op ed in the Wall Street Journal outlining exactly what's at stake in this case. In Chevron vs. Plaquemines Parish, the Supreme Court revisits this problem. Several Louisiana parishes have sued oil companies in state court, alleging that decades of drilling, dredging and refining damaged the coastal zone and violated state environmental rules. The companies respond that much of this work was directed by the federal government, including contracts during World War II to refine petroleum for the war effort. Some of the crude oil at issue was produced to meet those obligations. The question here is whether local courts have the ability to charge and penalize companies for things they were doing on behalf or at the order or in contract with the federal government, because the precedent this would set would be incredibly damaging to the functions of the US Government, but also private corporations that interact with it. But this does fit into a larger theme of cases where cities and states are trying to sue energy companies for damages. In a lot of cases more related to weather events and climate change. But Louisiana, Boulder, a number of other high profile cases are all about whether the Supreme Court is going to allow these local cities and the courts that in many cases are full of crazy people are allowed to charge these private companies for their role in climate change, but they've not been able to prove or effectively attribute. Late last week, President Trump announced a new policy related to credit cards and credit card debt. Please be informed that we will no longer let the American people be ripped off by credit card companies charging interest rates of 20 to 30% and even more affordability. Effective January 20, 2025, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on credit card interest rates of 10%. It's easy to see where President Trump is coming from. He is now leading the charge in this affordability fight to find ways to lower costs for people. We've talked about housing, we've talked a lot about lowering the cost of health care. But one area that people are feeling costs and cost pressure in their lives is debt. And in a lot of cases, credit card debt, as credit card debt right now in the current economic conditions is much higher than usual. But this comes with a lot more risks than rewards, according to many conservatives. Steve Moore Price controls on credit cards never work. Nixon and Carter tried. It was a disaster. Capping rates at 10% may sound popular, but it risks cutting access to credit for millions of Americans who rely on it for emergencies. Bill Ackman also tweeted, I think President Trump's goal of reducing credit card interest rates is a worthy and important one. My concern about capping rates at 10% is that doing so will inevitably cause millions of Americans to have their cards canceled. Consumers denied credit cards will be forced to turn to loan sharks whose rates and terms will be vastly worse for borrowers. Carol Roth, a Fox contributor and someone who's very smart to follow on social media, wrote this in Fox News back in February when a similar policy was proposed by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Capping credit card interest at 10% will ensure that fewer people have legal access to credit, as is the very predictable consequence of capping credit card interest. If credit card interest is capped, particularly in a high interest rate environment, expect many middle and lower income people to not be able to get credit at all. Now one theme there across a lot of that commentary is by putting this 10% cap, creditors, credit card companies, people who have the ability to to give out credit will simply give it to fewer people. And people need credit to be able to build a credit history, to be able to buy a house, a car, things like that. People also need credit for emergencies to get through things that they need a little bit of more time to pay for. Now that can be done responsibly or irresponsibly. As others pointed out here, financial literacy is a very, very important part of this. But if you limit it, you will also limit consumer spending, you will limit the economy and eventually that could have major negative political implications of for Republicans. I don't believe President Trump will eventually carry this out. I think it's a part of a negotiating tactic, whether it's with banks or credit card companies. But I do believe that people will make the case to President Trump this will do more harm than good. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us here on 10 Minute Drill. That was a meaty, heavy substance episode. Please leave us a review like subscribe Tell your friends. Have a great day.