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Hey everybody, it's Tim Miller. So I was texting with my buddy Jon Favreau. You might know him from Pod Save America. This morning we were discussing the drug regiment we were planning for this afternoon. Having to watch J.D. vance. Like, whether that's a Klonopin, whether that's a cigarette, you know what the right thing is to just kind of try to keep the blood pressure down. And, and we're like, you know, maybe the best thing to do would be to talk about it together. You know, Community might be the best drug in this situation. What do you. So I've got him here with me.
John
Only, only J. Hey Tim, thanks for, thanks for having me on. Only Only J.D. vance could, like, could get me to be like, pre angry. Like I was angry this morning just seeing that he was going to Minneapolis. Like I, I, I the cortisol started, started spiking.
Tim Miller
Okay.
John
Much like, much like our friend Cavicular, you know.
Tim Miller
Yeah. You gotta not let your cortisol spike. Okay. Don't let your cortisol spike if, you know, if Nick Fuentes tries to mog you. All right, well your, your cortisol spiking, your pre ang because JD put on his normal performance. He was like a vice principal scolding you for the thing you did wrong. Except for that you didn't do it and that J.D. vance. And so that's very frustrating to deal with. You know, I don't like being scolded when I'm in the wrong. I certainly don't like being scolded when I'm in the right. And that's a frustrating element for JD Vance as compared to like some of our scolds on the other side of the aisle. Let's go to the videotape so everyone else can be mad with us. First, we want to weigh in on JD responding to the story. You may have seen the picture of the five year old little boy that was detained by ice. He's part of their four daycare and elementary school students from the same school that were that were detained by ICE over the course of the past week. And he weighed in on one of them. Let's watch.
J.D. Vance
And I see this story and I'm a father of a five year old, actually a five year old little boy. And I think to myself, oh my God, this is terrible. And how did we arrest the five year old? Well, I do a little bit more follow up research and what I find is that the five year old was not arrested, that his dad was an illegal alien and then they went, when they went to arrest his illegal alien father, the father ran. So the story is that ICE detained a five year old. Well, what are they supposed to do? Are they supposed to let a five year old child freeze to death? Are they not supposed to arrest an illegal alien in the United States of America? If the argument is, is that you can't arrest people who have violated our laws because they have children, then every single parent is going to be completely given immunity from ever being the subject of law enforcement. That doesn't make any sense. No one thinks that makes any sense.
Tim Miller
My favorite part of that is that JD said that he had a moment of empathy. We've never yet seen it publicly, but he had a private moment of empathy for this boy until he found out the facts, realized that he deserved it. What were you, what was your take on that?
John
So first of all I would say that someone told J.D. vance after his performance in the briefing room after Renee Goode was killed by the ICE agent that he was too hot and that he had to sort of back it up and he could get, he could achieve what he wanted to achieve just by lying, which is what we saw today. But it's a little cooler. But we just do as much lying. I too am the father of a five year old boy. But I apparently, and I was horrified by the story, I apparently did a bit more research than J.D. vance, the Vice President, United States on this because what happened was yes, the father was arrested. Yes, the father ran. The boy also lived with someone else in the home where they arrested the father and the boy and the other person that the child lives with in the home begged and screamed to the ICE agents to please not take the 5 year old when they were taking the father as well and to please let the 5 year old stay in his home in Minneapolis, in his school in Minneapolis. You know what they did? They grabbed the five year old and the five year old is now in San Antonio in a detention center. So what were we supposed to do? JD Van says, what were we supposed to do? Leave him out in the cold. They also by the way, took the five year old and they used him as bait to go to the house and knock on the door to see if they could get anyone else out of the house, but they couldn't. But they also decided not to leave the 5 year old with the people that he lives with and take him to a strange place in San Antonio where I'm sure the conditions in the detention center are just wonderful for a five year old.
Tim Miller
Yeah. I do think there's like some pretty big space between like the options presented. Right. Like leave a five year old boy alone in the snow in Minneapolis or take them, detain them, use them as bait to try to get more criminals and then send them to Texas to a detention center.
John
It feels like a couple, few other options.
Tim Miller
Yeah. A couple intermediary steps.
John
Yeah.
Tim Miller
This. I just think that the beginning of that answer is just the re. Such the revealing part of J.D. it's like he's a, he's a sociopath. He's enough of a sociopath to understand like Donald Trump kind of doesn't even understand that other people have feelings. JD Vance like is enough that he knows he's supposed to be pretending like he cares, you know, so he does the thing where he's like, I, I thought this was terrible when I first saw it. So I Had to look into it. And, and the problem with that is that he comes out the other side being like, and I found out we nailed it yet again. Every single time you. We nailed it. Right? It's like that story does story work. There's a private, empathetic jd, if every once in a while he comes out and says, you know what, guys, we had a miss on this one. But like with, you know, thousands of ICE agents across the country and hundreds upon hundreds of stories of their malfeasance and tons of evidence that they've wrongly detained people and wrongly arrested people and wrongly sent people to foreign gulags, there's not been a single time that JD's like, I looked into it and I thought that. And I found out you guys were right. And that was an error on our part.
John
It's interesting. The reason that I think he is more. He puts more thought into the lie, into the deception than Trump does, which makes it more sinister. Donald Trump would have answered that question. I don't know. There's the kid. That's not what I heard. And you're from Fake News. I don't want to hear about that next person. Right. Like he just still horrible. But like JD Vance decided to track this story down, figure out the facts and then just twist them to make it sound like he actually knows the truth.
Tim Miller
All right, a lot more lying to come from jd. Let's go to another one. They. He was pressed read this news story, Washington Post story talking about how DHS decided they don't need warrants to go into people's houses. And he was asked about that. And here is his defense of that.
J.D. Vance
I'm sure the courts will weigh in on that. But we're never going to enter somebody's house. House without some kind of a warrant. Unless, of course, somebody's firing on an officer or they have to do something in order to protect themselves. Themselves.
John
Never.
Tim Miller
We're never going to do that. What?
John
In fact, in fact, the US citizen that they frog marched out of his home in the freezing cold in his underwear was they ram. They broke the door down. Didn't have a, didn't have a warrant signed by a judge. Also, do you know who signs the warrants that ICE uses? The administrative warrants. ICE agents sign them. So yeah, so the ICE agent can go take its piece of paper, sign it, and now break down a door saying that they're trying to get a criminal illegal alien, but actually just getting an elderly citizen of the United States.
Tim Miller
That's the story I've Got more thoughts. But I think it ties kind of a little bit from this next clip about like, you can see that what strategy he's using with, with the lying. And let's watch the first racial profiling clip. He weighs in on whether they're racially profiling.
J.D. Vance
Anyway, now to the accusation of racial profiling. You know, look, it's something that we take very seriously. We will take accusations of racial profiling back to Washington. We'll certainly look into them as they come up. But this is not a group that's going around and looking for people who violated the law based on skin color.
Tim Miller
So this is his strategy. He goes to Minnesota today. He knows what they're gonna be mad about. Right. And he, and he's like, you know, they're gonna say, we're worried about these warrantless searches, worried about the fact that we're breaking into people's homes, that we have these like mass agents doing Fallu style invasions of suburban homes. They're worried about that. We're worried about the fact that there are all these videos of people being targeted racially on the streets. And people are seeing that. And so like the options available to him are to say that, yeah, hell yeah, we're racially targeting and you guys deserve it.
John
Like, that's one probably, is probably his first instinct. That's when someone probably told him, that's kind of, that's kind of how you were at the, at the White House briefing. So maybe don't go with that one.
Tim Miller
Yeah, the other option is that like, look, this is an emergency. We're, we're looking into this. We're changing our pot. We're just making sure to protect. We've heard your concerns. And then like door number three is just like, this isn't happening. You guys live here. You're experiencing this. This is happening to your friends and neighbors. And you're telling us about this and I'm telling you I live in Washington and I'm going to come here and tell you that this thing that you say is happening in your community, it isn't actually. And I'm going to be very smug when I tell you that it isn't happening. You cannot believe what your friends tell you. You can't believe your lying eyes. You can't believe your own experiences. What is true is what me, the vice principal has to, that is that we're not doing any of these things.
John
I, I have a question. When he says we'll take it back to Washington, where who is he taking it back to? Is he taking it back to his own Justice Department, which argued before the Supreme Court that they actually can detain people based solely on their race, skin color, and then got Brett Kavanaugh and some other Supreme Court justices to say, yes, that absolutely can be a factor in how you can stop people, because that's what his government already argued. And by the way, there's plenty of videos of ICE agents now just going up to people saying, I stopped you because of your accent.
Tim Miller
Yeah, I want to get into that, but I just. I want to really quick, one more time, go with the J.D. vance male manipulator. So I got a little jealous of him on this. On this. Like, you know, it's almost like, I wish I could have pulled this off back in the days when I was dating, you know, because he just, like, looks at the people in the face and is like, not only is your accusation not true, but you should be ashamed of yourself, really. Like, you should feel bad about yourself for accusing these great men and women behind me of doing racially profile, of racially profiling, of entering your home without a warrant. Because that is not happening. And what is happening is that they are bringing tea to people's homes, and they are generous public servants putting themselves in harm's way.
John
They were having lunch at a diner, and they were in. Those ICE agents were interrupted by protesters while they were eating.
Tim Miller
They're eating, serving the community, really supporting the small businesses in the community. That's what they've been doing. He's. He's such a fucking prick.
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Tim Miller
There's a specific example of this. That's the worst one though, and that is the racially pro. The racial profiling with regards to the off duty cops. I want to watch this video and then kind of explain the backstory for people. I haven't seen it. I hate his smirk. Look at his face. Look at that recessed side profile. Police officers are being targeted because they are a person of color and asked to show their papers. Is that a concern of the administration? Department of Homeland Security? Local law enforcement says their own officers are being targeted. And they described it as, quote, civil rights violations in our streets.
J.D. Vance
So I saw one story about this and one local police officer who said this and look, certainly. Is it a concern? Absolutely. The first thing we have to figure out whether it happened or not. And then if it happened, whether there is a good explanation or a bad explanation. Of course, if somebody violated the law, if somebody racially profiled, if somebody violated the rights of, of one of our fellow citizens, that is something we will take very seriously. What I also would say is that many of the most viral stories of the past couple of weeks have turned out to be at best partially true.
Tim Miller
He's familiar with things that are partially true here. Look, this story, like this is not some viral story. It's not some. It's not some TikTok influencer that had a video and is telling you what happened. Like the story of the off duty cops being racially profiled is a story that comes from a press conference where multiple police chiefs from different communities across the Twin Cities were saying publicly that they were concerned about this. The police chief in Brooklyn Park, Mark Brulee, said that several officers in his department had been stopped by law enforcement. Every one of these individuals is a person of color, Brulee said. So in case you're concerned that that police chief is just one woke police chief, he was there with several others police chiefs from other parts of the state. You had Hennepin county sheriff that said this. There were several others. They had a press conference and they're like, look, we can tell you that the racial profile is happening because it's happening to our people. Here's a quote from one officer. I wish I could tell you this is an isolated incident. In fact, many of the chiefs standing behind me have similar incidents, incidents with their off duty officers. This isn't just important because it happened off duty officers, but what it did do is we know that our officers know what the constitution is. They know what Right and wrong is. And they know when people are targeted and they said it happened to them, so it must be happening to other people. So like j. Yeah, JD acts as if this is like one like woke cop who is complaining, but it's like, no, it's, it's people that are. And some of these sheriffs said that they're supportive of the ICE efforts, but they're like, this is what, how they're doing it is wrong.
John
What he did there was. He called multiple local law enforcement leaders, police chiefs, liars. That's, that's. Can you imagine if a Democratic politician got up and was like, yeah, I heard that story. But yeah, it was what some cops said that, fuck that. But the cops, that's who, who can tell. It's, I mean it's not like a, you know, it's not like a, a YouTube journalist goes and does an investigative story and it leads to an invasion of 3,000 federal agents and the, the death of a 37 year old mom. It's not a story like that, I guess because that's, you know, that is everything there is absolutely correct and they've, they've run those facts to the ground. But this, what, what can you say about a press conference held by multiple police chiefs? Could it have happened? Who knows?
Tim Miller
You know, let's put this picture. This is, these are the people JD Vance says are lying, right? And it's like, you know, you got a bald cop, looks like he could be straight out of Carvo cargo, rather right? White bald man. You know, you got a couple other scary looking guys. You do have one woman of color there. Maybe she's a woke DEI hire, but you know, I mean, these are the boys in blue. The men and women in blue are standing up there about, you know, at a press conference saying that like they're unhappy about the interactions between ICE and off duty police officers and their police officers being racially targeted. J.D. vance is saying that these guys are liars while also doing this whole like smarmy, smug. Oh, you got to trust, we got to trust the ICE officials, right? Like we gotta trust these people because they're public servants and they're law enforcement officials. But, but you can't trust, you can't trust a Brooklyn park police chief. That guy's a liar.
John
And you know why we, we're not gonna even be able to get ISIS side of the story on this is because what actually happened in the story that the police chief told was that they went up to this woman of color who's a Police chief. It was a police officer off duty. And they started yelling at her and demanding her papers. And then she started filming them with her phone, which she is completely within her legal rights to do. And then they assaulted her, knocked the phone out of her hand. And then when she finally identified herself as a law enforcement officer, you know what the ICE agents did? They ran away. And so she never got their identification, who they were, what their names are, because that's very professional.
Tim Miller
When they're mad.
John
Law enforcement.
Tim Miller
Because they're mad, they're mad.
John
So I guess we'll never know what their side of the story is. But who can say whether she was telling the truth or not? If she was, then obviously we'd be very concerned. Maybe he'll take it back to Washington.
Tim Miller
I think I'll take the word of the police chiefs who are showing their faces and are putting their names behind their accusations. I'll take that. I'll take their word over. Over the masked ice thugs and J.D. vance and his effort to try to minimize their testimony about what's happening. Okay, well, that should be about it. You got a podcast to get to? Oh, no, let's. I don't feel like your blood pressure is high enough yet. Let's watch what he said about Renee Good, too.
J.D. Vance
Of course we're investigating the Renee Goode shooting, but we're investigating them in a way that respects people's rights and then ensures that if somebody did something wrong, yes, they're going to face disciplinary action, but we're not going to judge them in the court of public opinion. I've spoken at length on this particular case. I think that Renee Good's death is a tragedy. I also think that she rammed an ICE officer with her car.
Tim Miller
We're not going to judge them in the court of public opinion, but I am going to judge Renee Good in the court of public opinion, and I'm going to lie and smear about her and tell her that she was. Call her a murderer.
John
Yeah, well, in fairness. In fairness, it's not judging her in the court of a public opinion, because public opinion is not even on their side, even though they were out of the gate calling her a domestic terrorist, even though they're the government and they're supposed to conduct the investigation. And it's interesting there that he said, oh, there will be an investigation. So I guess. I guess there will be a trial of that officer. I guess we will have a real federal investigation as opposed to the fact that the FBI started investigating it, and then the Justice Department shut it down, which is also something that we read in the paper.
Tim Miller
I think you misunderstood, John. I think when, when, when the vice president says we're investigating them in a way that respects people's rights, I think that what he means is that, like, we're looking into it. We're gonna let him be. We're gonna let him go. You know, he's one of our guys, so we're gonna investigate it. Not too hard. You know, we're going to save the.
John
We'Re going to save the law enforcement resources for investigating her widow who watched her die. Yeah, that is, that's where the real effort needs to be. And so. But otherwise we're just going to. We're going to give him a talking to and maybe a medal.
Tim Miller
I also think. I just want to read that one more time. I also think she rammed an ICE officer with her car, didn't he? No, not even a weasel word there. Not even a. I also think she tried to ram the ICE officer with her car. That, that he was worried that she was going to ram her. Yeah, the ram him with, with her car. He like, makes a stated claim that she rammed him. Not sure that's right. Not right.
John
There was all that internal bleeding that Barry Weiss and CBS wrote about, so.
Tim Miller
Did you hear about the hemorrhoids he's got? I did.
John
I did hear about the hemorrhoids.
Tim Miller
That is internal bleeding. I don't know if it's related to the, to the car turning near him having the butt bleeding, but I'm not sure if it's true. But I've heard it and I. Well, they're multiple sources. They're similar. It's similar source to the CBS story about the internal bleeding. We'll kind of see how that shakes out. Anything else you're mad about, John?
John
Just. No, I feel great about the, the rule of law in this country and, and the leaders that we have. So.
Tim Miller
Did you see the. Did you see how the White House posted the picture of the woman they arrested, but then they. For going to the church, they manipulated it to make her cry, you know.
John
You know, Tim, I saw that story somewhere, but who can end it? Look, if it's true, I, I definitely take that back to Washington. But a lot of stories like that are just, you know, they're just made up by the liberal media and you should be ashamed for even repeating it.
Tim Miller
Very good. You can work on that. You're going to be ready for the. Being in the debate prep in 2028. That's Jon Favreau. He's a pod. Save America. Go check him out whenever you want to. And next time we get mad, we'll get together, all right? Does that sound good? All right. We'll see. All peace.
Host: Tim Miller (The Bulwark)
Guest: Jon Favreau (Pod Save America)
Date: January 23, 2026
In this episode, Bulwark’s Tim Miller and Jon Favreau dissect Vice President JD Vance's recent live TV defense of the Biden administration’s immigration enforcement tactics—especially following a series of highly controversial ICE raids in Minnesota and the fatal shooting of Renee Good. The conversation centers on Vance's evasions, outright falsehoods, and the deeply cynical strategies being deployed to justify alarming government behavior. The tone is incredulous, darkly humorous, and often exasperated as Miller and Favreau parse out the disturbing implications for rule of law, empathy in government, and respect for basic civil rights.
Vance’s “Moment of Empathy,” then Pivot to Blame
Lack of Accountability in Law Enforcement
Gaslighting Over Racial Targeting
Minimizing Police Chiefs’ Press Conference on Racial Profiling
Miller on Vance’s Smug Deflection:
“You cannot believe what your friends tell you. You can’t believe your lying eyes. You can’t believe your own experiences. What is true is what me, the vice principal has to [say], that is that we’re not doing any of these things.” (10:17)
Favreau on the Inversion of Policing Trust:
“Can you imagine if a Democratic politician got up and was like, yeah, I heard that story. But yeah, it was what some cops said that, fuck that. But the cops, who can tell… What can you say about a press conference held by multiple police chiefs? Could it have happened? Who knows?” (16:05)
Miller, Sarcastic on ICE Agents:
“I think I’ll take the word of the police chiefs who are showing their faces and are putting their names behind their accusations… over the masked ice thugs and J.D. vance and his effort to try to minimize their testimony.” (18:40)
On Moving the Five-Year-Old:
Favreau: "They grabbed the five year old and the five year old is now in San Antonio in a detention center...where I’m sure the conditions...are just wonderful for a five year old.” (05:00)
| Timestamp | Segment Description | |-----------|--------------------| | 01:30 | Tim Miller welcomes Jon Favreau, sets the mood (“Community might be the best drug”) | | 03:16 | JD Vance’s statement on ICE detaining a five-year-old & his "moment of empathy" | | 04:19 | Favreau’s correction & details on ICE actions; contesting Vance’s account | | 07:58 | Vance’s claims on ICE not entering homes without a warrant | | 08:13 | Favreau explains how ICE’s “warrants” are signed by ICE agents themselves | | 09:05 | Vance denies racial profiling; gaslighting move explored | | 13:58 | Vance downplays police chiefs’ reports of racial profiling; Miller and Favreau push back | | 19:02 | Vance on the Renee Good shooting, introducing the “she rammed an officer” narrative | | 19:23 | Affirming the administration’s double standard and smearing of the victim | | 20:32 | Miller notes Vance’s unequivocal, baseless claim about Renee Good |
Tim Miller and Jon Favreau skewer JD Vance’s defensive performance as Vice President, exposing his pattern of plausible deniability, gaslighting, selective empathy, and outright disinformation in service of indefensible government actions. Their discussion illustrates a growing chasm between public officials’ assertions and the experience of citizens—especially in immigrant communities—offering both dark comic relief and a sobering reminder of the consequences of unchecked executive power.
For more, catch Jon Favreau on "Pod Save America" and tune in to The Bulwark’s daily analysis on the news of the day.