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Buck Sexton
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Clay Travis
Welcome back in Clay Travis Buck Sexton show okay, let me update you on a couple of different stories that are currently underway. Everyone right now is leading with the story of an ICE involved shooting in Minneapolis. So this will not shock you, but in the wake of the fraud revelations surrounding Somali daycares, there has been an expanded ICE presence brought to bear in Minneapolis. People on the left have been protesting those ICE officers. And according to Trisha McLaughlin who just posted this at trishaohio on X today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting Targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers. One of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them. An act of domestic terrorism. I am reading from Trisha's post. An ICE officer, fearing for his lives, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots. He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers. The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries. Then she continues. This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement. These men and women who are simply enforcing the law are facing 13% increases in assaults against them, 8,000% increase in death threats. This is an evolving situation. We'll give more info as it becomes available.
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Buck Sexton
I think this is really important, Clay. Especially right after they tried to make such a. Another big deal. Every year we have to rend the garments, gnashing of teeth and everything over January 6th. And as we know, they mobilized the FBI in a way I've never seen before, really for almost anything, maybe even more so than what we saw after 911 mobilized the FBI to go after people, including entirely nonviolent, some cases, accidental trespassing. OK, that's really what it boils down to. That Norm MacDonald thing about the terrorists respecting the velvet ropes in statuary hall, you know, the ruthless terrorists. You know what I'm talking about, right? That tweet that, that really. That really sticks out for a lot of people. Yeah, it's an insurrection where people are taking selfies and walking around. Ok? The same federal law, the same origin of authority that we got all these just sanctimonious lectures about when it came to January 6th. How dare they. They struck the officers. They, they, they were, they were standing in the way of these officers doing all these things. Anything done to. And by the way, I disagreed with the violence against cops then I disagree with the violence against cops now. Can't do that. But the very same federal law that they pretend to care about when it came to January 6th and officers who were in a scuffle is the same federal law that these ICE officers. No one disagrees that they're enforcing the law. This is what has to be said over and over again. They are not in violation of federal law. They are enforcing federal law. And the Democrats play this very underhanded, really insidious game of acting like there's Something wrong with law enforcement officers enforcing the law, which is exactly what ICE is doing. Which just goes to show you that the Democrat Party does not care about the law. It cares about power. It cares about what it wants and how to get it. There is no principle at work here because, Clay, they are demonizing ICE in a way we have not seen when it comes to law enforcement since BLM 2.0 and the lies about racist cops. Racist cops, black cops, white cops, all the cops. They're shooting unarmed black men all the time. Actually, they're doing it almost never. And body cams have shown us what cops really have to deal with day in and day out. And overwhelmingly, they should be given high fives, medals, and gratitude all across the country. So I just think it's really important to see that. That disparity, that dysfunctional approach. January 6th. These are law enforcement officers. We care so much. And then these are ICE officers. Democrats aren't standing up for them. Democrats aren't upset about this. Why, Clay? Same federal law, same authority.
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Clay Travis
I am looking right now, but. Because you knew it was going to happen. I agree with all that you just said. You knew that it inevitably was going to be the case that the video of the shooting would shortly make its way onto social media, because this is a nice protest. There are tons of people out there. What I can see right now as I look at this video and is a woman gets. I can't tell who's driving. So it evidently is a woman who was shot. Someone gets in their car and drives at a very high rate of speed, from not driving at all to starting, so accelerating at a high rate of speed. And the video that I'm seeing right now, it doesn't have completely the. The shooting on it. You can hear it. But I would suspect that as this starts to circulate more, that the story will vanish on the left because the woman reverses and then starts to drive in a really high rate of speed. Again, it's a little bit off the. Off the screen where the shooting has happened from the video that I'm seeing right now. But I think it's going to be hard to argue that this wasn't someone engaging in a potentially violent and dangerous act. So my reason for bringing that up is what always happens when authority for use of force is justified. Story just vanishes. Nobody, nobody ever says, you know, on CNN or msnbc, oh, actually, boy, this was a really dangerous situation. I'm glad that the police officers ended up fine. They just pretend the story didn't exist. And I think what you're hitting on is something that's really important. First of all, Minnesota's lost its way. I mean, in the wake of George Floyd, all of the ridiculousness that's going on in Minnesota, maybe I should have said Minnesota is the, is the state that we should give away instead of New Mexico yesterday. Buck, the mayor of Minneapolis, this crazy lunatic Jacob Fry is already saying this is caused because of ice. ICE is responsible for this. They have to be forced out of the state of Minnesota. I mean, these people, their brains are broken. And even with Tim Walls stepping down, is it a surprise to anyone that again, these lunatic leftists, they take the, the lesson that they're being given here quite clearly from their, from their hair brained leaders and then they engage in violent acts. I don't know how many times we have to see it for somebody to just clearly be responding to the impetus that's being put out there, the directive that's being put out there from these Minnesota politicians.
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Buck Sexton
You know, we have a huge law enforcement community that's with us here listening and being a part of this show every day all across the country. And they all know that these Democrats who grandstand about the Capitol Police and it was amazing. They stood, you know, it was the guy who was crying, he was like, you stood your ground, man. You know, the whole thing. These Democrats don't care about law enforcement day to day in America. They don't care about law enforcement officers. Like I said, they care about power. Because, Clay, if Democrats cared about actual law enforcement, they wouldn't try to make it easier for ICE officers to be doxed as part of their duty so that they and their families could be threatened with, you know, murder and rape and horrible things. But Democrats say, well, they can't, they can't cover their identities when they do these missions. Why? There's, there's no. Unless they're doing something wrong. And they're all on. No one's saying they can't be observed doing what they're doing. They're just saying their identities do not have to be shared publicly as they're doing it. Why, why do Democrats oppose that? Because they want maniacs to bring pressure on ICE and to threaten to kill their family members. They want that to happen because they politically oppose the enforcement of federal immigration law. The Biden administration showed everybody exactly what the game is. Wide open borders, Third World, those third worlders come in by the tens of millions, get access to benefits, and anybody who says a word about it is treated like there's some form of Nazi or something. Well, people have had enough of that. And that's actually a violation of our laws. And now that the laws are being enforced, Democrats are showing once again they are completely dishonest on this. They're liars on this issue. They lie about it constantly. They want more illegals. They're upset the border is secure. And they think that somebody who arrived here five minutes ago from Somalia illegally, legally, doesn't matter. As long as they came from some country, that's going to mean that they're likely to be on welfare and vote Democrat in the future. They think that person is as American as any of us, anybody here, anyone, for no matter how many generations. That is their view. That is their view.
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Clay Travis
You know what's also super interesting about this is, and again, it's amazing how certain stories don't get the attention they should. We talked about this earlier this week when we came back, but I've been spending a lot of time looking at murder rates all over the country. What Trump is doing is overwhelmingly working. And a lot of these blue cities and blue states are some of the primary beneficiaries because the fact that the murder rate's going to go down, it's going to go down in cities because that's where the vast majority of murders take place. And so Trump actually talked about this, and we'll get into it maybe a little bit later in the program. But Trump pointed out, as you've been saying, we've been saying on this program, it's a tiny percentage of people that are engaging in violent acts. And if you arrest those people and put them in prison, then the overall crime rate collapses. We mentioned this as we went to break and we said we would talk about it a bit more. President Trump addressing affordability of homeownership. BlackRock stock buck immediately dropped 10% after the president's post about stopping large corporate interests from being able to buy up a lot of different homes out there. This is going to be an interesting angle because I think a lot of young people, if you have kids and you have grandkids, if you have kids that are in their 20s, in their early 30s, a lot of people have just decided that homeownership because of the rapid acceleration of home prices is something that they can't aspire to anymore. And one thing that the administration has pointed out is, well, a lot of illegal immigrants leaving would theoretically drive down rent costs and would theoretically make homes more affordable. That's not a crazy perspective at all. But if you are truly Seeing prices on homes accelerating because of corporatized ownership of homes. In other words, individuals are trying to compete with big companies like BlackRock. I don't know exactly what the impact of that would be because I think it's hard to analyze whether they're going to pass a law, what's the overall downstream impact going to be. But if the stock price is immediately dropping 10%, that is suggesting to me that there may be some, some possibility of that large corporate ownership of homes being curtailed going forward. And maybe it means that things are going to get more affordable now. The number one reason things can change to make things more affordable is mortgage rates could come back down. Right? If we get mortgage rates back down to three and a half, 4% from five and a half and 6%, that would make a big difference because it would free up a lot of this. By the way, a lot of videos out there now popping of this shooting. We'll continue to watch this and we'll update you again. Minneapolis ice shooting. We gave you all those details but a lot of videos now making their way online this year.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
All right, welcome back into Clay and Buck. This video was all over the Internet now of this situation of the ice involved shooting. And this is now going to be something that a lot of people are analyzing. This is up in Minneapolis while Minnesota getting a lot of.
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Clay Travis
They've lost their minds in Minnesota. I mean, they really have. It is.
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Buck Sexton
It is a progressive dystopia now. It used to be a place where you'd go like I did in the summers because of the incredible outdoor beauty and the really nice people. I remember going to Minnesota when I was a kid and it was like, everyone's so nice and there's like no crime and there's beautiful and you're just hanging out with wolves and eagles all day. You know, I mean, actual wolves and eagles. And that's the deal. Nope, not anymore. Now they got problems up there because Democrats have been ruining this place for a long time. But ok, so here's what we've got. A woman is now dead in Minneapolis shooting involving immigration officers. They were conducting targeted operations. Homeland security. I'm just looking, Clay, at some of the latest here on this. The real thing is the video and here's what I can tell you. When I was at the Farm, which is the well known CIA, you know, there's a whole book, there's a whole movie about it. There are books about it. CIA training facility. Ok. One thing that they would talk to us about is don't ever forget, car is a great weapon. Car is a weapon. It's a several thousand pound weapon if you choose to use it as such. And it can be very deadly. I bring this up because if you try to run over a law enforcement officer, they do not have the obligation to let you crush them and perhaps kill them without taking defensive action. There's a cop in the video, or immigration officer, I should say an ICE officer in the video in front of the vehicle. And the woman hits the gas and the guy pulls his gun to see. To me, it seems to neutralize the threat. Here you cannot run somebody over because you are either you don't like them or you're freaked out or whatever it is. Now, it's tragic insofar as a woman lost her life. And that is sad and no one is celebrating this, but the officer has a right to defend himself in this situation. Clay, I'm looking at the video and I think that this, from what I can see, is what they would call a clean shooting.
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Clay Travis
Yeah, look, I just shared it, you know, it's not particularly graphic. I mean, it's graphic in the context of you can hear the shooting. It's not like you can see the shooting actually occur. There is a woman in a car that they're asking to move. Officer knocks on the window and asks her to get out of the car. She refuses. She then hits the gas and yanks the car to the right. There is an ICE officer in front of her and he has his gun and he shoots her. We don't have the angle. I don't know if they have cameras on the individual officers or not, Buck, because as you pointed out, oftentimes these cops are completely cleared based on the fact that you see their perspective. And you say, yeah, these guys fear for their lives. It looks like she would have hit him based on my analysis of the video. You can go watch it yourself. That is the number one story right now, just breaking. And we got to tell you, look, if you want to save a bundle right now, maybe at the end of the year, your expenses were higher than you thought. PureTalk can save you 50% or more on your existing cell phone bill without saying sacrificing any quality of Service. That's because PureTalk operates on the same cell towers network as one of the bigger cell phone companies, but without all the overhead expenses you get great 5G coverage on the nation's largest network. Can be as low as $20 a month for unlimited talk text 3 gigs of high speed data on Pure Talk super fast nationwide 5G network. Easiest way to free up cash, pay off credit card bills is to get hooked up with cutting your expenses, which is what Pure Talk can do. Just dial pound 250, say clay and Buck and you'll get Pure talks in just 20 bucks a month. I'm almost immediately £2.50. An additional 50% off the first month. That's £250 say clay and Buck. Welcome back in Clay. Travis Buck Sexton Show A woman has been shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis as there was an ICE raid taking place. This this has happened in the last couple of hours. I shared the video, the best video of the altercation that I have been able to see. Kristi Noem weighed in on exactly what happened from ISIS perspective. She is of course, the head of hhs. Here is what she said.
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Kristi Noem
You asked about a shooting that we just had in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was an act of domestic terrorism. What happened was our ICE officers were out in 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. An officer of ours acted quickly and defensively shot to protect himself and the people around him. And my understanding is that she was hit and is deceased. We're continuing to gather more information, but this goes to show the assaults that our ICE officers and our law enforcement are under every single day. These vehicle rammings are domestic acts of terrorism. We're working with the Department of Justice to prosecute them. As such, we will continue to protect our ICE officers and in cooperation with other law enforcement agencies as well.
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Clay Travis
Okay. The I think Michelle Tafoya will agree with what Buck and I said, which is that this is clearly an element of the Democrats instigating their crazy base and making it more dangerous for everyone. The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is having a press conference right now. It is live. We go to Minneapolis, I believe certainly to the state of Minnesota. Michelle Tafoya, longtime sportscaster now. Voice of sanity in the state of Minnesota. Michelle, what in the world has happened to Minnesota? Buck and I were just talking about it. It used to be a place that we look to for sanity. Now it feels like the blue state craziness. Maybe it's leading the charge. Compared to everywhere, it.
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Michelle Tafoya
It's really been something. I've lived here for three decades, Clay, but good to talk to you guys. It's a crappy day, but it's good to talk to you. I've lived here for, you know, when I first moved here from California, of all places, I thought, okay, there's no way I'm gonna last more than a year with this weather. But I. I stayed because it was such a great place to live. And I met my husband and I thought, this is a great place to raise a family. And it once was. It was safe. It was, you know, there was a civic pride where you kept the city clean. You felt safe downtown, you felt safe everywhere. It's not that way anymore. The decline is real, and it's happened kind of slowly and then all at once. You can point to Tim Walz, certainly, and his regime, his administration, for just introducing all kinds of wokeness into the schools for. Well, everyone knows the fraud story now and then the kinds of messages that they continually send to the public, which is, you know, anything federal is bad. ICE agents are bad. We don't want them here. And then you end up, and I'm watching this video as I speak to you guys, with these mobs of people attacking federal agents who are trying to do their jobs. Look, there's law and order. I long for it. I want to have my kids and my family feel safe again in Minneapolis. And this is not it. When people come out and looking at the video, these people were really attacking in a number of ways. And this person in the car sped up and started racing toward these agents, and they were apparently left with no choice.
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Buck Sexton
There's going to be a lot of analysis of this, Michelle, based on video footage, and we don't know yet if there are body cameras on one or any of the officers involved, but there's already a lot of video out there showing this. And I think that's part of why DHS Secretary Noem has been willing to come out, you know, and have a very clear statement of what she believed based on the facts happened here. Once again, video footage seeming to be the possible exculpatory part of the. Of the equation here. But I want to know what does it take, given what Minneapolis specifically has been through. Ok, so we've got this massive Somali fraud thing going on. We clearly have some irrational anti ice madness that is going on there. Immigration Customs Enforcement feeling stirred up by Democrats. The mayor of Minneapolis is a preposterous joke. This is the guy who's crying at the casket of George Floyd because, you know, Mayor Frey really knows the struggle. When do people wake up? I mean, is there a turning of the tide in that state? I mean, I'm in Florida, which used to be kind of purple and now it is red. I know Minnesota is solid blue, but is that going to change?
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Michelle Tafoya
I, you know, we've got two parts to the state, what we call the metro area and what we call outstatement metro areas. Minneapolis, St. Paul and some of the suburbs that are right here. And I guess you could include Duluth as one of the major cities as well. They tend to be very liberal. The outstate is the rest of Minnesota. I mean, you drive 20 minutes in any direction outside of Minneapolis and that's where you see the Trump signs and the MAGA hats and that kind of thing. So there are two very distinct almost populations. But, but this, the fact that Tim Walz stepped down from running for a third term tells you he saw the writing on the wall. If he felt he could win a third term, he would not have stepped down from this. The DFL party here knew he was toxic and he was going to drag down their entire side of the ticket. What happens next, I don't know. But he has been one of the most vociferous people in terms of stirring up this. You know, he uses words like Gestapo and Nazism and it's just really unbecoming of a state leader. So this fraud, I think, has really opened a lot of people's eyes. And that's why Walls knew, even though, you know, this is a quote, unquote blue state. It could be lightening up, that blue could be lightening up and there could be an opportunity here for Republicans to win some statewide elections. So I think there is a wake up call happening. I talk to a lot of people and it feels that way watching this video of all these people protesting. And really, it's not a protest. These people are attacking these agents. This isn't a protest. This is throwing stuff and spitting and driving cars into things. And that's not a protest. But when you watch it, you go, wow, is this really Minneapolis? I think it's a shrinking population of Minneapolis, but it's very condensed into that metro area rather than the outstate part.
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Clay Travis
We will get the audio. Team, can you grab this? The mayor of Minneapolis, as we are talking to you, Michelle Tafoya just told ice, get the F out of this city. And he is having a press conference, basically losing his mind over the presence of ICE in Minneapolis. Again, this is happening as we are speaking to you right now. They are covering it live. We will play that audio for you. You just mentioned, Michelle, the fact that basically Tim Walls recognized he did not have an ability to get elected. And what you're discussing is there's a lot of sane people who live in Minnesota and then Minneapolis has basically led the state of Minnesota over the woke waterfall. I know that you have been contemplating maybe getting involved in politics yourself. I think I'm correct that it's been since 2006 that a Republican has won statewide in Minnesota. Is it possible in 26 for a Republican to win statewide? It feels to me like this is a crossing the Rubicon moment when the mayor of Minneapolis is saying, get the F out. Basically screaming and lecturing and hectoring ICE agents right now live at his press conference after the shooting.
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Michelle Tafoya
I'm glad you referenced him. Crying at the casket of George Floyd. Really. We were the epicenter of those 2020 protests. That whole entire Black Lives Matter movement came out of the George Floyd killing. And this place was, you know, locked down. You know, look, Tim Walls had people being shot with paintballs.
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Clay Travis
I'm sorry. I'm sorry to cut you off too, Michelle. He also said, in addition, the mayor of Minneapolis, get the F out. He just said any self defense claim here is bull expletive. So it's rare.
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Michelle Tafoya
I don't know how he's qualified to say that unless he is. He was there or he's seen it. I don't know how he's qualified to say that. But if you are a public official, you. You're putting your thumb on this case right now without any evidence, correct?
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Clay Travis
Yeah.
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Michelle Tafoya
I don't know how he can. He can do that in good conscience. But again, this is the place where Kamala Harris was saying, let's help fund people out of the jails. People who were, you know, rioting and torching the city of Minneapolis. He just hadn't been the same since 2020. And there are people leaving, certainly. And you know, the other thing that happens in these big cities like Minneapolis, you've got the people who work there who really provide the vibrancy and the economy. Right. But they don't necessarily live in. They don't get. And it ends up being this small group of people who live in Minneapolis proper. Our city council in Minneapolis. It's basically so Michelle, we may to.
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Clay Travis
Get you to call back to us. Let's finish the hour talking with you. Your phone is breaking up a bit. We'll get you back in a sec here because I do want to finish with this. Let me go to a break. Buck. We'll get Michelle to Foya back. She's reacting in real time. Let's make sure team that we get the actual audio so we can play it rather than me just tell everybody what real quick.
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Buck Sexton
Clay. I just say I think. I think Mayor Frey of Minneapolis is jealous that mom Donnie is currently considered the worst mayor in America and Frey wants wants some attention for his campaign. Maybe he. Maybe the mayor of Minneapolis is worse than Commie Momdani. It is possible.
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Clay Travis
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Buck Sexton
Welcome back into Clay and Buck. Michelle Tafoya, podcast host. You all know her from her great work also as a sports reporter of many, many years. Michelle, hopefully we can hear you now on your phone from Minneapolis. Tell us what's going on here. Jacob Frey saying crazy stuff. The mayor of Minneapolis telling ICE to get out of his city. I don't think he owns Minneapolis.
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Michelle Tafoya
No, he doesn't own Minneapolis. It's not his city, it's our city. And what they're trying to do is bring some law and order to a city that's been bereft of that to for since basically 2020. And there is a lot of video being uploaded, I'm sure you guys are seeing on the Internet of this, this car that was driving right toward an agent. You know, this is, you can't, you can't run people over with a car. The car is a deadly weapon. So, you know, look, there's going to be a lot that comes out of this. I don't know, I don't know what's next, like how many, where did the protests go from here? You know, if, if people look at authority like they did at the George Floyd death and they protest that death, what are they going to do with this one in Minneapolis? I don't know. I don't know what we're in for for the rest of the day, quite frankly.
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Buck Sexton
I don't think you stoke that it's.
- [35:50]
Clay Travis
Going to be ugly. Let me play these two clips for you, Michelle, and let you react to them. Team, this is cut 34. Here's where he says there's no self defense here. He says he's watched the video and it's bs.
- [36:04]
Jacob Frey
Listen, they are not here to cause safety in this city. What they are doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust. They're ripping families apart, they're sowing chaos on our streets and in this case, quite literally killing people. So they are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bull. This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.
- [36:43]
Clay Travis
Okay, that's one cut. Here's the other one. His message to ice cut 35, and then you can react to. Michelle, let's listen.
- [36:51]
Jacob Frey
There's little I can say again that'll make this situation better. But I do have a message for our community, our city, and I have a message for ICE to ice. Get the out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here. Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart. Long term, Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy, are being terrorized. And now somebody is dead. That's on you. And it's also on you to leave.
- [37:32]
Clay Travis
All right, Michelle, your reaction? As a resident of Minnesota.
- [37:39]
Michelle Tafoya
I'm not looking forward to the hours and days to come. First of all, I don't mean to stoke anything. I really hope people will calm down, take a breath. But with his words there, using those kinds of terms and telling ICE to get the hell out. Look, he's pointing the finger at ice. They're trying to do a job. They're trying to do a job. And he's saying that they are causing the chaos. I think the chaos in this scene, from everything that I've seen. And again, I don't think we can look at one video and determine what exactly took place. There's no perfect angle of this thing, and opinions are going to differ. So he's got one opinion. He's calling it bs. I think that's completely irresponsible. So he does not own the city. There are a lot of concerned citizens across Minnesota about what's been going on, about whether or not they're safe. You know, it always astonishes me when you think about, quote, unquote, families being ripped apart. There are a number of families who have been ripped apart because their daughters have been raped and murdered, because their kids have been run over by. Because someone with an illegal driver's license caused a car accident, killing multiple people. Those families have been ripped apart, too. And those things wouldn't have happened if people weren't here illegally and breaking the law while they were here. So, you know, this is Jacob Fry doing what he does, standing up for his community, but only part of it. It's like there are 6 million of us here in Minnesota who are going, yeah, we don't want anyone to get hurt. We don't want anyone to be. To be treated unfairly. But what about us?
- [39:41]
Clay Travis
Michelle, quickly, as we finish up here, you can probably hear the music in the background. We got 30 seconds. Does this make you consider yourself wanting to run for office?
- [39:51]
Michelle Tafoya
I have to look at it. I have to look at it. We need some sanity in this state. It makes me sad for this state to see how far it has plummeted in many areas, not just crime. So I would. I will say that I will look at it seriously.
- [40:08]
Clay Travis
Thank you, Michelle. We appreciate everything that you've done to speak out. We appreciate the time that you spent with us here. That's Michelle Tafoya, Minnesota, falling apart. We'll come back and play more of those cuts. The mayor is continuing to talk in an inflammatory fashion right now, carried live on all the network. Second hour of the program in the books. When we come back, we'll break down more about this with y' all want.
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