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You ever see in the movies where there's a woman who comes in, she has a black eye, and people look and say, what happened? Oh, I bumped into a wall. And everybody's like. Because, you know, she didn't really bump into a wall. Right. We're now supposed to believe that someone in ICE custody, a young man, 31 years old, broke his own skull running into a wall trying to evade arrest. Forget about your gut, your common sense telling you, have you even ever heard that before? Doctors, experts are all questioning this. Why? One, it doesn't make any sense. Two, because this is ice. And as much as I respect, okay. And revere, in a lot of instances, in terms of the duty, first responders, specifically law enforcement, right? Even though I'm a baby firefighter myself, the police, the job they do, amazing. I see it up close on a regular basis because, you know, first responders work with first responders anyway. I do not mean to disparage law enforcement. I don't even mean to disparage ICE as an entity. But the change in culture, the change in personnel, the change in policy seems to have led to a change in purpose. Meaning might makes right, meaning us and them. And in part because of perverse politics and a little bit because the left made a mistake. And I understand why. This situation is certainly not about them other than Biden creating opportunity by letting in so many people illegally. When you said that Trump surrendered in Minneapolis because he brought in Homan and did the right thing, did what they should have done in advance, was sat down with local leaders and said, look, what are you gonna help with? Won't. What won't you? And what is the minimum standard before we have a problem? That's how you should have done it. They didn't do it there, but we eventually got to that point, right? I mean, it took a couple of deaths, slash killings, slash murders, depending on whose opinion you want of American citizens to do it, then it was, you surrendered, Taco, Taco. Now, Trump does not want to work. So what's going to happen going forward? Well, you're seeing it in real time. You're seeing guns pulled out on people. Why? Well, ICE is spooked, and a lot of these people are poorly trained or lightly trained or not trained. They don't engage in public and crowd control. And all this interfacing that they're dealing with right now, it's not what ICE does, Right? Local cops have to deal with a lot of this stuff. Protesting this is not what they're trained to do. This isn't their wheelhouse. So they're not great at it. They're jumpy AF because there's so much pushback against them. Right. Thanks to the Trump administration and. And the way they're choosing to do their jobs. Right. So it is not about just law enforcement. Okay. Foreign. I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. I'm on a tear here, and here's why. It would be different if we kept seeing ICE beating the out of bad guys, okay? It's like el Trend, you know? Ms. 13 they got into it and they found him in their house, and there was a shootout and they beat this guy up. You would process it differently. Why? Well, due process matters. We got to do things the right way, even with the wrong people. Amen. Amen. This is America. This is America. Or it was. But it's not with them. It's not with them. It's with protesters, it's with passersby, it's with citizens, it's with people who entered the country illegally and then have been living right ever since and have not committed any crimes here other than that one, which you guys at a convenience want to hold over their head. And that's why I keep telling you it's a misdemeanor. I know the Don Lemons of the world tell you it's not a crime to enter illegally. They're wrong. It just used to be dealt with mostly civilly. I don't mean that in terms of decency. I mean the civil system versus the criminal system. Why? Choice. The politics were different. The needs were different. Okay? We were much more proud. Growth and let's get people in here and let's make it work for as many as we can. We don't feel like that anymore. Is that right or wrong? You tell me. But no, I'll tell you it's wrong. Okay? America is a nation of immigrants. This idea that, like, we can do what they want to do in Europe, which is, hey, man, it means something to be Italian and okay, they're not us. They're not the melting pot, not the way we are. Nobody has ever been what we are trying to be. And you could argue not even us most of the time, but that's the ambition. That's the experiment, Right? So whatever the politics has changed and the administration and the attitude towards force has changed. Might makes right is absolutely a true statement to Donald Trump. Absolutely. Might makes right 100%. Now, they may romanticize it by saying, you know, speak softly and carry a big stick. Well, he's a trash talker and he's got the biggest stick on the planet now at home. That's why ICE is doing what it's doing the way it's doing it, and it's going to continue. Why? Because he, Trump thinks it works for him mostly that it got out of hand in Minneapolis. That may have been a special situation. And he feels he got a little punked there and he doesn't like it. That's why you see what's happening in Los Angeles, okay? And that's why Bovino is still on the job. The head of CBP, that guy with his 40s military coat and his. If they touch you, fucking get them as many as you can. And this is our city. And I mean, this is crazy. I mean it's like out of a post apocalyptic movie of just primitive nature of policing. One of ours, all of yours. That's where we're at. Kristi Noem, they were gonna blame her a little bit. I don't know what happened, but they're leaving it alone for now. But she's kind of quiet. And Tom Holman is back, even though he was out for a second. Why? This is Trump land. It's a rotisserie of who takes the blame. So I don't support comes from Shopify. First of all, fellas, I got my merch shop on Shopify and I'd like a little help seeing how I am a partner. And why did I do that? Because it is about the business behind the business. If you want to sell, if you want your service or your product to get out there, you have to make sure that it's being marketed and sold the right way. Right? Because you're asking yourself these vexing questions. What if no one listens? What if I make a mistake? What if this isn't the way you do it? Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses. 10% of all E commerce in the U.S. okay, big names, big names. The Chris Cuomo project is in there with Cuomo merch. I mean, you want to be a critical thinker, you want to wear your independence, go through Shopify and you can get my stuff. 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And it'll be a place that's probably light work for them, but they'll still do it and say, see, see, the right is right. And then they're going to go to like New York City or something like that, and they're going to be spoiling for a fight. Now here's what I'm afraid of. The same way that we get fatigue on stories like the first shutdown, we covered like a big deal. Now this shutdown, even though it's not as, not as many people are affected and the snap stuff isn't affected, the food stamps, but this shutdown is like there's no coverage. Why? Well, it's only a partial shutdown. We just had one. And that's how you guys are. If there were a bad shooting, school shooting or something like that, you're, we'd be all into it for a few days, not much longer than that. Used to be weeks, now a few days if you're lucky. And then if there were another one right after it, not much. Okay. Similarly, when they went to Minneapolis, that happened perversely, the instinct of the fatigue, for it to resonate, it's going to have to be more and bigger. And Trump knows that. So the next time he thinks there's going to be a fight and the locals don't want to work with him, guess what he's going to do? He's going to roll in heavy and hard and say, we learned the last time, not this time. You're not putting the men and women who are enforcing the law in jeopardy from people who don't want the law enforced. That's not going to happen. And remember, this is a weird one. The majority in this country absolutely wants people who are dangerous, threats to our security, who are not here legally out. We want anybody who's dangerous to our security to not be able to hurt us. Right. But we are definitely in favor of removing those People. Okay. But we're also definitely not crazy about how ICE has been doing it. So that's kind of a. That's kind of an interesting contrast there. And it creates a maneuverability for Trump to believe he has high ground. And look, this population in New York City, they've got a lot of bad hombres in there, and I'm going to get them. And this Mama Nami, or however he pronounces Mamdani's name in the moment, he won't help us, so I'm coming for him. And they'll probably be clever and pick themselves up a couple of jihadis in the beginning to make Mamdani look like he's protecting them. And there's going to be blood. Not because New Yorkers want to protect jihadis. Believe me, of all places in America that doesn't want to defend jihadis, the home of Ground Zero is absolutely that place. But it's going to get worse. And there's going to be a point of contrast where they're going to show how the red is on, you know, the red, right, and they're doing right, and the blue is bad, and we got to fight back. That's what's going to happen. And this plays into. Well, then what happens? Okay, here's what I'm worried about. On the ground in Minneapolis, we got closer than many people may know to this being a real conflict, this being a real skirmish. You have an increasing number of people on the left who believe they should arm themselves. And you had those fugazi Black Panthers out there. Why do I call them that? Because I think that the Black Panthers organization doesn't accept that those guys are Black Panthers. I don't know, some kind of internecine strife. I don't know. I don't care. But I do believe that there are. There's. They're part of the play here, right? So they're arming themselves. They're protecting their own communities. That's scary stuff when the people you're protecting your community from is the government. Okay. And I've never heard the left so well, because, remember, I'm not old enough, but back in the 60s, you heard the left talking like this. That was the Black Panthers. That's the last time that the right wanted gun control in this country. Did you know that? They passed laws to keep just anybody from getting weapons because they were afraid of black men getting them and protecting themselves and their communities, in their opinion. Ironic, right? And now here we are again with the left saying, hey, what do you mean Alex Preddy wasn't allowed to have a weapon? That's a Second Amendment right. Look, that kind of bothers me. Why? Because Alex Preddy shouldn't have had a weapon where he was. That's why. I know it was legal. I'm saying it shouldn't be legal. I know it's legal. I get why it's legal and it shouldn't be legal. Why? Because I think that this is the kind of shit that happens. And it's a policy argument, it's a political argument, but to hear the left making it, I think they're becoming what they oppose. But I get it, because this is where we are. I gotta counter the other side. I gotta counter the other side. 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