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So as epic things, cataclysmic proportions are happening over in Iran, apparently hundreds of protesters being shot to death at a minimum could be all the way up to 10,000. According to certain eyewitnesses reporting to the BBC. The folks in Hollywood have their priorities straight. So last night was the Golden Globes, and it was an opportunity for members of the Hollywood contingent to, of course, prize their pseudo morality over everyone else's. It was time for them to make a stand. After all, the they've made stands on issues ranging from Tibet back in the 90s, which they conveniently have now forgotten all about, to the lack of a genocide in the Gaza Strip. Remember that just last year, a bunch of Hollywood celebrities were prancing around like fools, claiming that a genocide that was not happening was in fact happening and criticizing the state of Israel for defending its own existence. Well, this year, they have a different cause, because, hey, new day, new cause. Now, is that cause the cause of the Iranian people who are out in the streets risking their own deaths to defy the mullahs? You know, these people in Iran, many of them are secular. Many of them are people who are westernized in their attitudes toward the state. Are those the people toward whom Hollywood directs all of its sympathies? Are they sparing a moment for those people? Of course not. Of course not. Last night, Hollywood put on a show at the Golden Globes and everything was about ice. It was all about ICE and about LGBTQ and about Barry Weiss taking over cbs. Because, you see, these are the real threats. These are the real threats according to the people in Hollywood. The things that you should have your eyes focused on like a laser beam are the predations of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement enforcing the law with regard to illegal immigration and deporting people for welfare fraud. You should have your eyes focused like a laser beam on Barry Weiss taking over CBS News and. And perverting it from its long history of not reporting the news properly. You should be focused like a laser beam on the terrible predations that affect lgbtq. Plus minus divided by sign. People all over the United States because, no, they have to take refuge at places like the Golden Globes. I mean, it is an act of bravery to stand up at the Golden Globes and Virtue Signal on behalf of the lgbtq. Plus minus divided by sign. These are the things that matter most, according to Hollywood. So last night, a bunch of celebs showed up. And again, they decided that the chief things you need to worry about as an American, the thing that they are focused on as the moral guideposts, the lodestars of our civilization, Those things are ICE, LGBTQ + + divided by sign and Barry Wise. So Nikki Glaser began the evening. She was the hostess of the Golden Globes, and she began the evening by going after the most deserving target, the thing that requires her absolute rage. That thing is Bari Weiss and CBS News. And the award for most editing goes to CBS News. Yes, CBS News, America's newest place to CBS News. It's a pun because it's like cbs, man. She needs some new writers. Not as good as her last Golden Globes performance. Meanwhile, Mark Ruffalo, who for some reason, I gotta say Mark Ruffalo, overrated, has Mark Ruffalo turns in a performance where he wasn't playing Mark Ruffalo in the last 20 years. He's just always Mark Ruffalo. So Mark Ruffalo shows up and he says, you know, it's hard to pretend anymore that we don't live in a dictatorship. He says, you know, wearing a tux at the Golden Globes, being paid millions of dollars to play the same character and task that he has played in every other miniseries and movie for the last two decades. I gotta be honest with you, I'm not feeling so great. We have a woman, Renee Goode, was murdered in our streets of America today. And we got, literally, stormtroopers running around terrorizing. And as much as I love all this, I can't. I don't know if I can pretend like this crazy stuff isn't happening. We have a president who says the laws of the world don't apply to him. And we could rely on his morality, but he has no morality. So where does that leave us? Where does that leave the world? So I love these people. I love being here. I love you. But I also can't. It's so hard to pretend anymore. This is crazy what's happening. It's hard for him to pretend. Being an actor. It's very, very difficult for him to pretend. I mean, this is a person who, again, spent the last two years basically standing on behalf of terrorist groups in the Middle East. But it's very hard to pretend that there aren't stormtroopers wandering the street. You know what's cool about being able to say that sort of thing? That there aren't stormtroopers wandering the streets. Because, you know, throughout history, when there were stormtroopers wandering the Streets. You know what celebrities didn't get to do? Get on camera and talk about how there were stormtroopers wandering. In fact, there are many places on earth where the stormtroopers do wander the streets. For example, in Iran, where there are in fact stormtroopers shooting people in the head for protesting. Does Mark Ruffalo have a word for them? No. He has a little pin that says be good. Be good. Presumably like Renee Good, a reference to the woman who was shot by an ICE agent after directing her car to bump one of those ICE agents. At the very least, after obstructing traffic for three full minutes trying to stop ICE from doing its job. It is incredible to me how we just have to rewrite the histories and it happens on all sides. But in this particular case, from the left, you have to rewrite a history that we watched happen in front of us five days ago, four days ago. Here we've all seen the tape. Renee Good was there to obstruct ICE enforcement action. That is a federal crime. She did so. She did so for a very long period of time. In fact, here is Renee Good. This is Renee Good park for three full minutes perpendicularly to traffic, attempting to block ICE from doing its job. People are pro. Look, she. She's dancing in her car as she honks, right? ICE is trying to get through. She is parked in order to obstruct them. You see the line of cars and she's just parked that way. And this is, you know, her backing up. She's being approached by agents. Here she is right there. She is just pulling up. She's waving through people who are not cops. But then she is stopped. And then this. This tape cuts off just before the shooting happens. We also, by the way, have footage of Renee Good before her death, taunting the feds. She thought it was fun and games. Ok, that. That is pretty clearly the truth from the tape. She thought that what was happening was not serious business, that obstructing federal law enforcement came without any sort of real consequence. And then when they approached her, presumably to detain or arrest her, that is when she took off with the car. And again, that is not speaking to her intent as to whether she wanted to hit the officer or not. But the fact is that when you resist federal law enforcement and your car hits an agent, bad things happen. I'm just pointing this out because wearing pins that say be good, as though she was walking down the street doing nothing, and then she was shot by federal enforcement agents. That is not true. You don't have to Do a revisionist history to say this is a tragedy, but you should actually spell out the facts of the case. You hear an officer get out of his car, walks over with his. With his phone, walks around the front of the car. She's smiling in the car, by the way. I'm not mad at. Show your face. I'm not mad at. That's okay. We don't change our plates every morning. Just so you know. It'll be the same plate when you come talk to us later. That's fine. That is Renee Goods wife. You want to come at us? You want to come at us? I said, go get yourself some lunch, big boy. Go ahead. And so that is the. That is the footage of, of the shooting. But as you can see, up until the moment that Renee Goode tries to drive away, there is no perception that she's doing anything wrong. I mean, she's taunting the police officers at the time. So again, that doesn't mean that she was trying to kill the police officer. Don't know what she was trying to do. Did the officer have a reasonable supposition that he was under attack by the car? I mean, it's going to be hard after that footage to deny that he had at least an objectively reasonable suspicion that she was attempting to direct the car into him, given her absolute disdain for law enforcement as she was violating federal law at the time. The only reason that this is important in the context of the Golden Globes is if you're going to wear pins saying, be good. As though Renee Good again was just walking down the street and was shot. And we've seen this so many times with the virtue signaling left. We've seen it so many times, ranging from Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, where they lied and they said that he was shot in the back or that he was shot while he was holding his hands up. We've seen it so many times to, by the way, George Floyd claiming that there was no prior medical issue with George Floyd before he was taken out and put on the ground. We've gone in detail through the tape of George Floyd would actually happen. What happened with officer Derek Chauvin and all the rest. The desperate desire and need to create a full on black and white narrative with regard to what are very tragic and very often shaded incidents is truly an astonishing thing. And that's what Hollywood does best. But they always seem to pick the side that opposes law enforcement, opposes the west as a general rule. Are you coming up, more from our most esteemed moral critics over at the Golden Globes first. This episode is sponsored by Preborn Ministries. During this Sanctity of Life month, we remember the over 67 million babies whose lives have been lost to abortion since Roe vs. Wade. Here's what many people don't realize. Since Roe was overturned, the situation has actually gotten a lot more complicated. Today, the abortion pill makes up more than 60% of all abortions, which means it's accessible around the clock. But there's hope in all of this. Preborn has saved over 400,000 babies from abortion1. 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We're in the middle of a war with Venezuela that we illegally invaded. He's telling the world that international law doesn't matter to him. The only thing that matters to him is his own morality. But the guy is a convicted felon or convicted rapist. He's a pedophile. He's the worst human being. If we're relying on this guy's morality for the most powerful country in the world, then we're all in a lot of trouble. So this is for her. This is for the people in the United States who are terrorized and scared today. I know I'm one of them. I love this country. And what I'm seeing here happening is not America. Mark, why do you feel that this platform is still useful to spread a message like this? Listen, I want to pretend like this. I want to be here to celebrate, and I am here to celebrate. And I'm proud to have a Golden Globe nomination. But also, this is not normal anymore. More, this is not. By the way, in that little speech right there, he slandered the President of the United States as a pedophile, called him the worst person in the world for, among other things, extraditing Nicolas Maduro, a communist dictator responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands and probably hundreds of thousands of people and the exile of literally millions of people. And that, to Mark Ruffalo, is a big moral problem. Donald Trump is the big moral problem. Again, not a word to spare for the millions marching in the streets in Iran right now, thousands of whom are getting mowed down by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Ariana Grande also showed up wearing her Ice out pin. This is the new hot thing in Hollywood, your Ice out pin. And. And frankly, any amount of weight added to her garment puts her at risk of falling over. Ariana Grande and Jean Smart also wore a Be Good pin. This is like the popular accoutrement of the night she was wearing her pin. She also told the New York Post, quote, I'm here speaking as a citizen and mom, and I hope people understand that. And then she said, I don't think my opinion matters more than anybody's. That's not what I'm doing. I feel like if you strong feel strongly about something and you have a chance to share your feelings or encourage people or cheer somebody on, you should do it. Well, I have a feeling that that same feeling is not extended at the Golden Globes generally to people who might feel the opposite. I don't know. Call me crazy. So this is where Hollywood puts its priorities. Wanda Sykes, of course, showed up to talk about LGBTQ minus divided by sign. Here was Wanda Sykes at the Golden Globes. You know, there's some people pissed off that a queer black woman is up here doing the job of two mediocre white guys. No one cares. And also, you're not good at this. I mean, both those things. Literally, no one cares. The fact you have to keep saying it over and over shows that no one cares. But this is where Hollywood puts its priorities. The reason I say this is because there are people on earth. What a spoiled country. Who are truly a spoiled country. There are people on earth who are literally putting their lives at risk, their bodies on the line for their own freedom, and Hollywood has nothing to say to them. Nothing. Literally nothing. Dead silence. Are you seeing the protests on campuses in favor of the Iranian people right now? Have you seen a single protest? You have not. Have you seen a single mass protest by all of these international law loving, human rights adoring left wingers, the Zoran Mamdani wing of the Democratic Party in favor of the protesters in Iran who simply want their horrifying theocratic regime gone. Have you seen a single comment, in fact, from Democrats beyond these sort of thoughts and prayers? You have not. Have you seen protests in the streets? You have not. Have seen calls for material aid. You have not. Right. It's, it's all just sad sack nonsense. It truly is because there are people in the world who are doing something courageous and incredible right now. According to certain eyewitnesses to the BBC, the number of people killed is well into the thousands at this point. Again, we are now in day 14 of the protests that have been going on around Iran. Millions of people in the streets, according to the Washington Post. At least hundreds of demonstrators have been killed in Iran, according to rights groups. On Sunday, as reports of a dramatic escalation in the use of deadly force by security forces began to break through a communications blackout imposed by authorities struggling to contain some of the largest protests since the Islamic Republic was founded in 1979, Trump administration National security officials were preparing to discuss options including possible military strikes. A senior US Official told the Washington Post, at the very least, if the United States is considering that we ought to be moving aircraft carriers into the region, we have not so far mobilized resources into the region. Now obviously we have some resources at air bases in the Middle east, but if you're going to have a supported operation or if you wanted to threaten one, presumably, you should at least put those pieces on the chessboard in place at this point. The center for Human Rights in Iran, based in New York, said it had received eyewitness accounts. Incredible reports that hundreds of protesters have been killed since the government shut down access to the Internet on Thursday night. A senior Western official briefed on the matter said hundreds were killed in 48 hours of protests. It's hard to gather credibility credible casualty figures, apparently because the protests are so widespread. According to the Washington Post, the Trump administration is considering military options in response to the crackdown. Officials across the key national security agencies were scheduled to brief President Trump early this week. President Trump himself suggested in a press gaggle on Air Force One that Iran seems to be killing the protesters. He has said that if they start shooting the protesters, that's a red line for him. President Trump, unlike Barack Obama, unlike Joe Biden, is not one to have his red line crossed repeatedly without doing anything. Here's the president There seem to be some people killed that aren't supposed to be killed. These are violent. If you call them leaders. I don't know if they're leaders or just they. They rule through violence. But we're looking at it very seriously, the military is looking at it, and we're looking at some very strong options. We'll make a determination. And meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal points out that Iran is an unprecedentedly weak position, probably the weakest position that the Iranian regime has been in since 1979. The reason being Israel's 12 day war, followed by the American strike on the Fordo nuclear facility, demonstrated that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is not competent. They're not good at anything, apparently, aside from shooting their own citizens. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Ayatollah's rule was shaped by the bloody eight year war that Saddam Hussein's Iraq launched in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The social compact that endured since that trauma was that Iranians would acquiesce to hardship and restrictions in return for a strong state that protects them from foreign attack. That assumption came crashing down when Iranian backed Hamas and Hezbollah attacked Israel in 2023, triggering a regional war that brought death and destruction into the heart of Tehran last summer. Now protesters are braving arrest or bullets as they demand not just changes in policy, but the downfall of the Islamic Republic itself. Ali Vaez, the Iran Project Director at the International Crisis Group, says this was the last straw. The regime over the years had argued that although it has not been able to bring about prosperity or pluralism, for the Iranians, at least it had brought them safety and security. Turns out it didn't. Now the people have reached the point of saying, and enough is enough. So it'll be interesting to see where things go from here. Obviously, the IRGC is the real power in Iran, and whoever has the guns makes the rules is the general rule of foreign policy. However, if the population mobilizes in serious fashion against the irgc, and if President Trump keeps his word that if the IRGC keeps mowing down Iranians in the streets, there'll be some sort of military action, thus demonstrating that the IRGC is unable to stand up to foreign military intervention. Or let's say the United States starts simply capturing all of the Iranian oil ships that are wandering around the globe in violation of sanctions right now, thus continuing to destroy the Iranian economy. How exactly does the IRGC hold up its end of the bargain? It does take money to keep the IRGC in line. It does take money, just like it does in Venezuela. You got to pay off all of your apparatchiks. You got to give them the nice houses. You have to give them the nice cars. If you don't have those things to give away, makes it difficult to keep them in line. Because then they say, what am I shooting my neighbor for? At least if I was shooting my neighbor and getting a nicer house out of it, that's one thing. But if there is no money to go around, then at that point, perhaps the IRGC support for the regime bleeds away. That, at least, is the recommendation that is currently being made by Saeed Ghassa Menijad and Ben Ben Taleblue over in the Wall Street Journal, saying that just as the United States did with Venezuela, we can simply cut off the oil supplies from Iran. They say Mr. Trump can change the impression that Washington will sit this out by targeting the regime's economic arteries. And signal to Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, at the price of slaughtering his own people, is the total collapse of his state's financial viability. Iran is already under severe economic strain. Its currency has fallen. When we say it's fallen, by the way, we mean that the Iranian rial amounts to something like $0.0000001, something like that. Tehran still exports more than 2 million barrels of oil a day, which generates revenue to fund its proxies and oppress Iranians and advance their ballistic missile and nuclear program. To break the regime's will, these commentators suggest, the US Must move beyond designating vessels on paper and start physically confiscating the tankers that transfer the Iranian oil. The US Already has the legal tools to do this. Civil forfeiture allows the US to seize the illicit cargo and the tanker itself. Oil is a renewable resource, but a specialized tanker is a strategic asset. A seizure is a foreclosure. We just need to actually take the tanker. So that is one suggestion that has been put out there. There has also been the suggestion that the United States strike directly at particular IRGC facilities in Tehran. There's specific command and control centers that, if taken out, would seriously degrade the regime's ability to crack down on the dissidents who are in the streets. There's supposed to be a meeting on Tuesday between Secretary of State Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Joint Chiefs Chair General Dan Kaine with the President of the United States about which sort of steps should be deployed. Obviously, lack of Internet access in Iran is a major problem right now, but my understanding is that Starlink is being activated over Iran or already is active over Iran, but there are not enough sort of dishes receiving bases in Iran to do it. That seems to be the current claim. Anyway, here's President Trump talking about activating Starlink in Iran. Well, we're going to be talking about that. We may get the Internet going, if that's possible. We may speak to Elon Musk because as you know, he's very good at that kind of thing. He's got a very good company. So he may speak to Elon Musk and in fact, I'm going to call him as soon as I'm finished with you. President Trump suggested that the leaders of Iran have called to negotiate. I'm not sure exactly what they would negotiate at this point. They have no trust. They continue to speak publicly about how much they hate President Trump and are not going to listen to President Trump. Jacob Helberg, State Department Under Secretary for Economic affairs, wrote Sunday on social media that President Trump's strategy of maximum pressure has brought the regime to its knees. President Trump on Saturday posted to social media, iran is looking at freedom perhaps like never before. The USA stands ready to help. And he linked to a story about a man in London who removed Iran's flag from its embassy and replaced it with an anti regime banner. The State Department posted on X Do not play games with President Trump. When he says he'll do something, he means it. Now Vice President J.D. vance suggested that the smartest thing for the Iranians to do is for them to have a real negotiation with the United States about their nuclear program. Ok, I'm sorry, that's nonsense. That's just crap. That's silly. I like the vice president, but that's nonsense. The notion that the Iranians could make any guarantee to the United States that would now be sufficient to quiet our concerns about the revival of a nuclear program is silly talk. It is undermining, by the way, the protesters who are in the streets. If the suggestion is that if the mullahs say pretty words, then the United States will withdraw its support for the protesters and watch them get mowed down by the thousands, that is a problem that is foolish. Again, none of this is a call for hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground in Iran. Again, no one is talking about Iraq. The Iraq War syndrome, as I discussed last week, is broken. No one wants a gigantic American occupation of Iran. No one. That's silly talk. The question is what options are on the table that would protect the protesters, weaken the regime and allow the Iranian people to take the situation into their own hands. And obviously there's a risk reward calculation here that has to be made by the President of the United States. Tehran is suggesting that it will consider targeting U.S. military facilities as well as Israel if it detects signs of an impending attack. Now, realistically speaking, if Iran were to strike back, let's say that the United States were to fly some F16s into Iran, take out some IRGC facilities, and then Iran were to fire a bunch of missiles at Qatari air bases. Al Udaid, for example. First of all, their retaliatory response thus far has been lackluster, shall we say? Israel completely defenestrated Iran's military in the 12 day war earlier last year. But if the Iranian government truly decides to attack American troops in the region in retaliation for a couple of pinpoint strikes, deterring the IRGC from murdering people on the streets, that will be the end of the regime and it will be performed largely through air power. And no one is talking about a full scale boots on the ground intervention in Iran to say that over and over and over. Because a bunch of people will lie to you. They're going to lie to you. They'll spend all day today, tomorrow and the next day playing defense for the Iranian regime by claiming that somehow the stability of a mullah led regime is the superior option in a country of 80 million people, the vast bulk of whom wish not to live under a molocracy. And where there was a functioning government before. This bizarre notion that the best available option is to keep the mullahs in place. How and why? And the similar and the gigantic lie upon which that is predicated, which is that the only two choices, the false choice, is between keeping the mullahs in place, negotiating with them, massaging them, allowing them to shoot people in the streets. That's one choice. And the other choice is full scale 200,000American troops on the ground in Tehran. Nonsense. Absolute tripe. People who are spewing it are as full of it as they were back in June when they suggested that World War III would break out if the United States struck the Fordo nuclear facility. Of course, none of that happened. The reason that Iran is saying all of this, of course, is to create precisely that sort of dyspepsia inside the United States. That doesn't mean, by the way, that there isn't risk. Here's a map, for example, of American bases in the Middle East. The United States has a wide variety of bases all over the Middle East. You can see them ranging from Kuwait to Qatar. The United States has bases that are close to the border of Iran in Iraq. Those are, those are very real concerns and no one is pretending those away. But I promise you, the military options being considered by the Trump administration and administration that is deeply, deeply unlikely to want to engage America in an Iraq like war. I mean, President Trump literally was elected to office in 2016 on the basis of breaking with his party and arguing against the Iraq war. If you think Trump wants to be involved in something like that, out of your mind. But obviously the United States has a presence at, for example, Erbil Air Base. The United States has a presence at Balad Air Base. The United States has a large presence, of course, in Qatar, some in Bahrain, some in uae. Could the Iranians strike at that and provide risk to American troops? Of course. So that is why you have people like General Dan Raisin Cain in charge of military option making and Secretary of State Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and all the rest. Now, what is certainly untrue, what is truly silly, is the perspective taken by Senator Tim Kaine. Remember, this guy was almost Vice President of the United States under Hillary Clinton. Senator TIM Kaine, I know you forgot about him. He's the other Tim, not Walls Kane. He says that if the United States were involved in the toppling of the mullahs, this would somehow be reminiscent of the toppling of the Iranian President Mohamed mosaddeh back in 1953. First of all, that's silly. The, the reality is that the toppling of Mossadegh was not, in fact, a predominantly Western operation. It was a domestic operation by the Shah of Iran, who had the constitutional power to get rid of Mosaddegh. But put that aside. Put aside the actual history of what happened in Iran in 1953. Even if you want to make the case that Mosaddegh was somehow a popular leader, a case unsupportable in the historical record since he tried to literally dissolve the legislature and the judiciary. Even if you want to make that case is the claim here that the Iranian people are in favor of the mullahs and that the fall of the mullahs would somehow be anti. The Iranian people are out there by the millions protesting in the dark with no Internet. Margaret, U.S. military action in Iran would be a massive mistake. It would have the effect of giving the Iranian regime the ability to say it's the US that's screwing our country up. US Military action would just bring back the painful history of the US toppling the Iranian Prime Minister back in the 1950s and would give the regime the ability, ability to blame their own failures on the United States. They're literally already doing it. They're already doing it. So the idea is that you can never get great. So the, the coin toss is heads I win, tails you lose. The idea is Iran will blame the United States if we do nothing and Iran will also blame the United States we do something. The question here is just what would be the most effective thing at the lowest risk to the United States, period? Because would the geopolitical balance of power shift dramatically in America's favorite were the regime to be overthrown and something America friendly put in place? Absolutely. Iran is one of the biggest suppliers of oil to China on planet Earth. Iran's support for the Chinese regime and the Russian regime, by the way, is exorbitant. It is Iranian drones that are flying into Ukrainian buildings in Ukraine. Iran has been an oil supplier and military weaponry supplier. Two places like Russia, an oil supplier to places like China for decades. Aside from funding literally every terrorist group around the region. The, the, the change that would happen in the Middle east if the Iranian regime were to fall. And again, no one, for the 100th time, no one is calling for a boots on the ground, hundred thousand strong invasion of Iran. No one. We are talking now about what is the most efficacious action that could be taken to shift the geopolitics of the Middle East. If that were to happen, it would not only be a boon to the Iranian people, which of course would be fabulous, it would also be a boon to the broader Middle east and to American interests worldwide. The Trump administration knows that that is why President Trump is considering some form of action in Iran. But thankfully, thankfully, we have the Hollywood coterie to inform us that the real issue we should all be worried about is not what's happening in Iran, it's the fact that ICE is trying to do its job. Meanwhile, the chaos surrounding ICE continues to largely because the left has decided to turn ICE into a national issue. And again, what President Trump has been doing with ICE is highly controversial because he has been deploying large scale ICE raids into particular left wing areas. Is that the best way of addressing the problem? Well, it accomplishes two things. One, actually criminal illegal immigrants are being arrested and deported and two, it is making clear to illegal immigrants that it may happen to them. And so you're getting an enormous amount of self deportation. That really is the purpose of what is going on right now. Now, with that said, everything in American politics gets boiled down into the dumbest version of itself. That is what has happened with the Renee Goode situation. We played the tape a little bit earlier. Kristi Noem, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, had a bit of a hot interview with Jake Tapper over on cnn. They got into the tape of Renee Good and also comparatively, the tape of the shooting of Ashley Babbitt on January 6th. Because the point the Tapper is making is if Ashley Babbitt was a victim, why isn't Renee Good a victim? By the way, my perspective on both of those cases is that law enforcement was investigated in both of those cases or will be investigated in the case of Renee Good. And the question, as always, is objective fear of a reasonable officer. And Ashley Babbitt was breaking through a an area of the Capitol building when she was shot by the available data. Does that mean that what happened to her wasn't a tragedy? No. Does that mean that she intended death on the officer also? No, but that's not the question. Again, it all comes down to the objective, reasonable expectation of the officer. The problem that I have in analyzing, again, many of these situations is try to look at the objective facts without reference to the politics of the people involved. Anyway, here was Jake Tapper with, with Kristi Noem of dhs. The first thing you said was, quote, what happened was our ICE officers were out in an enforcement action. They got stuck in the snow because of the adverse weather that is in Minneapolis. They were attempting to push out their vehicle and a woman attacked them and those surrounding them and attempted to run them over and ram them with her vehicle. That's not what happened. We all saw what happened. It absolutely is what happened. Those officers had been out in enforcement action. A vehicle had been stuck. They had come to help get that vehicle out. That's when this individual started blocking traffic for minutes and minutes. You said that the woman attacked them and surrounded them and attempted to raise, run them over and ram them in their vehicle, blocked the road for a long time and was yelling at them and impeding a federal law enforcement investigation. I just showed you video of people attacking law enforcement officers. Undisputed proof, undisputed evidence. And I just said President Trump pardoned all of them. And you said that President Trump is enforcing all the laws equally. It's just not true. There's a different standard for law enforcement officials being attacked if they're being attacked by Trump supporters. We just saw that this individual in these instances and these investigations all have to be taken and done and done correctly in context of every situation that is happening on the ground. So what we are doing today as the Department of Homeland Security is out there with our law enforcement officers making sure that we're targeting the worst of the worst and that we're talking factually about, about each situation. Ok? So literally that's what she should have done in the first place. Again, I said this when this news broke, is that she should have waited until the investigation was done and all the tape was out. The attempt to jump to conclusions by everyone at all times is the enemy of good sense and also conciliation in the American republic. If you just jump to whatever is your favorite narrative, regardless whether you're left or right in the middle of a fraught situation, you very often end up getting it wrong and making things worse in the process because you end up having to double down again whether you are left or right. The left has doubled down on the idea that Renee Goode did nothing wrong whatsoever, that she was, you know, just an innocent who happened to be in a place at a time, which is not true. And then of course, Kristi Noem's original statement had problems with it for sure. Bottom line, however, is that all of this is adding fuel to the fire for all of the anti ICE protesters, which of course will lead to more confrontations with ice, which will lead to more violence, because you cannot have more confrontation with the cops, which without it eventually leading to some violence. According to the Daily Wire, following the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, the radical ICE Watch organization she was working with is pushing to get more activists onto the streets. The ICE Watch groups, which organize activists to follow and obstruct federal immigration agents making arrests across the country, are trying to get more activists out onto the streets where the Trump administration has warned they could put their lives in danger. On Saturday, thousands of activists participated in a church training in Roseville, Minnesota, where they were encouraged to annoy agents like mosquitoes. One of the local Minneapolis ice watch groups, known as Defend the 612, held a training day the day after the shooting. For anyone who wants to learn how to plug in and for those who have already been in the streets and can share lessons from that experience. So this is just going to continue. Meanwhile, ICE out for Good protests rallied nationwide over the weekend. They're expected to be in the tens of thousands in Minneapolis. Here is some footage of a large rally against ICE in Minneapolis. Protest in Minneapolis. Thousands of demonstrators gathering today in the cold to make their voices heard following Wednesday's fatal shooting of Renee Good. Their message was clear. They want ICE out of the city of Minneapolis and they are furious over the killing of Renee Good. Now, that protest began, like I mentioned, here at Powderhorn park in Minneapolis, which is located less than a mile away from where Renee Goode was shot and killed by an immigration officer on Wednesday morning. Now again, the rhetoric being used is unhinged. I mean, listen, you can look right there, there's a sign in the background that shows a swastika being crossed out saying no fascism. The members of ICE are not the storm Abdullong. They're not. They're not the sa. They're not the ss. They're not. This is ridiculous. This is ridiculous. You need to stop this. It's ridiculous. One protester was with our own Breca Stoll, who's been on the ground covering all of this and compared ICE to the ss, which of course, if ICE were the ss, this lady wouldn't be on the streets in the first place. We've heard a lot of people today, we went to protests that talked about how ICE isn't a real job. Do you think ICE is a real job? I mean, I think that ICE is a real job in the same way that being a member of the SS was a real job. Sure, it's a job. It's a job that the people who hold it should be condemned for and ashamed of. Okay then. Meanwhile, that is being echoed by members of the Democratic Congress. Senator Chris Murphy, again, a man who wants to run for president for no reason I can discern, says that it's inhumane and illegal. What happened here. Well, of course you need a domestic enforcement mechanism for the immigration laws of this country. But the way in which ICE is operating today is inhumane and illegal. This is the most high profile and most heinous act of violence that has been undertaken. But there have already been over a dozen shootings all across across our country by ICE officers. The bottom line is that the way in which DHS is conducting itself today is making our communities less safe. It's not adding to public safety. They're not adding to public safety. What would add to public safety is presumably not enforcing the law. Representative Ayanna Pressley, the Ringo star of the squad, she's always the one who gets forgotten, right? You gotta got AOC and Rashida Talib and Ohan Omar. So, so many luminaries. And then you have Ayanna Presley who just sort of gets forgotten here. She was trying to out compete them by saying that President Trump is a dictator. Now again, if you lived in a dictatorship, you know what, you wouldn't be able to say any of this. ICE cannot be reformed. This has nothing to do with training or new protocols. This is about cultural practices that have been underway for many years. And again, not only the brutality and the constitutional abuses of ICE in our streets, but what is happening in our ICE facilities where people are being detained in warehouse and many of them unlawfully. We have had over 30 deaths in ice facilities. So again, keep ratcheting it up. Ilhan Omar says that ICE is an occupying force. Again, this, this terror group sympathizer says that ICE is an occupying force. All right?