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He's a very, very bad judge. Doesn't even know who the judge is that he appointed. He is so unfit for office. But now NBC is reporting that Gavin Newsom said Sunday he's going to sue the Trump administration because Trump has federalized 300 California National Guard troops to go to Oregon. And that's, of course, just the day after Judge Immerget blocked President Trump's attempt to deploy the Oregon National Guard troops in Portland. Here's Newsom's statement. He says, quote, in a response to a federal court order that blocked his attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard, President Trump is now deploying 300 California National Guard personnel into Oregon. They are on their way there now. Newsom said this in a statement and went on to say, this is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power. The Trump administration is unapologetically attacking the rule of law itself and putting into action their dangerous words, ignoring court orders and treating judges, even those appointed by the president himself, as political opponents. We'll keep you posted on how this goes. Next up from cnn, a conservative influencer who this week posted videos of clashes outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon has actually been released without bond because he was arrested on Thursday for fighting for starting fights. Nick Sorter, who's 27 from D.C. came all the way out to Portland. He was arrested on suspicion of second degree disorderly conduct along with two other people from Oregon that got in a fight with him. That's what the Portland Police Bureau said in a Friday news release. So this guy came from out of state and, and get this, I think it was Hermet Dillon, right, the new head of the civil Rights division at the DoJ, which is now civil Rights division. It's civil rights for white people only, she said. Buckle up, Portland. It's the fo. It's FO time because the Portland police arrested this guy for disorderly conduct. An interloper, 27 year old right wing MAGA picking fights. And Pam Bondi called the guy Sorter, right, His name is Nick Sorter or whatever, and said, we're super sorry, we're going to investigate the police. So the DOJ is investigating. And I was like, oh, when I read the headline, oh, DOJ's investigating yet they're investigating the Portland Police Department, not the guy for starting the fight. And I'm not quite sure that, you know, this incident or many other incidents like it that are just completely fabricated by the Department of Homeland Security, ICE and the Department of Justice aren't the bullshit justifications for the Guard to be deployed. And from the Washington Post, Mario Guevara. He's an Emmy Award winning reporter. He was deported on Friday to El Salvador, which is a nation that he fled more than two decades ago because he was threatened and assaulted there. Persecuted for his journalism, Guevara, an independent journalist and founder of an online news outlet, was arrested on June 14th in the Atlanta area while he was covering a protest of the Trump administration. Police charged him with failing to disperse and standing in a roadway. But those counts, of course, were quickly dropped in favor of deportation. Despite the dismissals, he was transferred from county jail to immigration custody at the request of ice. Guevara fled threats in El Salvador tied to his work as a journalist. As I said, he entered the United states legally in 2004, legally on a tourist visa. He applied for asylum the next year, in 2005, and then seven years later, his asylum request was denied. In 2012, he was granted something called voluntary departure. Voluntary departure allows you to remove yourself on your own dime at your own expense within a certain time frame rather than traditional or formal deportation or removal. Now, Guevara appealed that voluntary deportation, and that case was then administratively closed later that year. That administrative closing paused his deportation proceedings indefinitely. And he held a US Work permit. He got one. Then in April, he filed for a green card through his son, who is a US Citizen. That petition remains pending, but a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that one of his applications was not properly filled out. And that's what made him eligible for deportation back to a country where he was previously persecuted for his journalism. The Department of Homeland Security confirmed the deportation on Friday. Now, next up from the Times, a federal agent shot and wounded a motorist in Chicago on Saturday morning. And that's according to federal officials, touching off more protests in the city. And as tensions rose over the Trump administration's threat to send troops there, officials with the Department of homeland security, Trisha McLaughlin, I believe, said in a statement that the agent shot the motorist, a woman who they said was armed with a semiautomatic weapon, and that she had rammed into a law enforcement vehicle and boxed them in. The Chicago Police Department said it responded Saturday morning to the area after receiving a report of a person shot. The New York Times could not verify DHS's details of the encounter. So what DHS is saying is not confirmed. It's just what they're saying. And DHS added that a driver of another vehicle named Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz had also been involved in the ramming and that he had been apprehended by law enforcement. It was unclear on Saturday whether he or Ms. Martinez had been charged with anything or whether they had any lawyers. Huh. So they haven't been charged with a crime. That's interesting. And nobody can confirm what really happened except what DHS says. Now, the guy, Mr. Ruiz, his mother, Elizabeth, said her son told her on the phone that morning that he had been rammed by federal agents and that they were shooting. His car was rammed, not the other way around, at least according to him. And what his mother said. So when she heard that there was shooting, she raced to the scene. The mom did. She said an agent grabbed her son, said he was under arrest, and she asked why. And she told the reporters that they didn't give her an answer. Now, Governor Pritzker, when asked about these reports of law enforcement officers firing at the woman who, quote, unquote, rammed their vehicle, Pritzker said this, quote, well, we don't have a lot of facts. What happens in these sorts of incidents is typically ICE puts out a press release before anybody else can speak with the press. And then it gets reported on social media and elsewhere. Remember, these are the same folks who killed a person, an unarmed person, just a couple of weeks ago in Franklin Park. At first they said that the officer had been threatened with his life. The reality of it and the truth of it has now come out. And that wasn't the case. They killed somebody. So here it's really hard to know exactly what the facts are. And they won't let us access the facts. They're just putting out their propaganda. And then we have to go later and determine what actually happened. That's from the governor of Illinois. And again, I'm pretty sure this incident is probably what the regime used to justify deploying the National Guard, at least one of them. One of the reasons, and I think in my opinion, it's completely made up. We'll get more later. Next up from CBS Broadview Village officials sent a strong message to the feds this week. They do not want ICE enforcement operating its detention center in their town. On Thursday, Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls. Body camera video footage obtained by CBS News Chicago shows several Broadview officers responding to a 911 call claiming somebody was tampering with a gate at the ICE detention facility. The gate in question is where ICE takes detained immigrants for processing. But when police arrived, all they found was two people and a camera. A CBS News Chicago photographer was filming the exterior of the building, a CBS security guard by his side. The 911 call from an ICE agent claimed someone was tampering with the gate. According to an incident report, an ICE agent called police for help. Mills believes it was a bogus call. An ICE agent claimed someone was trying to force their way into the door, but it was just a CBS News Chicago photographer filming the exterior of the building. Mills said it's disturbing. It's ridiculous. He said that was just one of several questionable 911 calls his police department had received from the ICE facility recently. The same detention center has become the site of at least three other incidents involving federal agents who are accused of hitting people with cars, shooting projectiles, using chemical agents on journalists. That's just a few, including firing a pepper ball at a CBS News Chicago reporter. The Asal Rezae her vehicle on Sunday. Rezae said there was no active protest or protesters at the facility at the time. She was alone with no one around her when it happened, and she told Broadview Police. She was driving her truck with a driver's side window down, approaching the 25th Avenue entrance to the ICE facility because she wanted to see what was going on before she left the area. That's when she said a masked ICE agent shot a pepper ball from inside the fence, hitting the side of her truck, causing the chemical agent to engulf the inside of her vehicle. So that's the kind of stuff going on and it's so important that people on the ground are getting this stuff filmed. I know I see a lot of people saying, put down the camera and help. No, keep the camera in your hands and keep filming and keep putting it out there. Next up from cnn, Department of Homeland Security is preparing to offer unaccompanied migrant teenagers in the United States the option to voluntarily leave the country and get a $2,500 check. That's according to three sources familiar and a memo obtained by CNN. The Trump administration has already been offering financial incentives, including $1,000 exit bonuses to undocumented adult immigrants in the US administration officials have argued that self deportation incentives are cost effective given the high price tag of detaining immigrants and deporting them. A notice sent to legal service providers Friday by the Department of Health and Human Services seen by cnn, said the administration, quote, will provide a one time resettlement support stipend of US$2,500 to UNACCO need alien children 14 years or older who have elected to voluntarily depart the United States as of the date of this notice and moving forward, adding that the benefit is intended to support reintegration efforts following departure. The latest move appears to be an extension of ongoing efforts to repatriate migrant children in custody. In late August, the Trump administration prepared dozens of Guatemalan children to be sent back to their home country. Tried to put him on a plane in the middle of the night. A judge stopped it temporarily. Declarations from some of the parents of the children in Guatemala revealed they were unaware that their children were being deported and raised concerned over their safety if they were returned. That case is ongoing. The government actually lied to the court and said that they had contacted every parent and the parents in Guatemala wanted these children back. That ended up being false. Also, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization act, which has been in place for more than two decades, provides protections for unaccompanied migrant children who arrive and reside in the US including being screened to see if they're victims of human trafficking or have a credible fear of persecution in their home country. None of that happened in that case. All right, let's talk about the Trump and Republican shutdown, which, as I've said a million times, they can end. The Republicans in the Senate can end at any time without a single Democratic vote. And if you, by the way, if you watch my latest show on Midas, the one from yesterday, I bring receipts on that. And I also talk about the flood of emails sent to me by federal workers and benefits recipients blaming Democrats for the shutdown. And several people received emails with like recommended out of office language. Hey, you're being furloughed because the Democrats wouldn't pass the resolution even though the Republicans control Congress. But you're being furloughed. So for your out of office email, why don't you write this? I'm not here because the Democrats suck. I mean, I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically what they want the out of office emails to say. And I talked to dozens of federal workers who were like, I'm not putting that. And NBC is reporting that Education Department employees that were furloughed this week discovered their email accounts had been manipulated while they were out of the office to change that language, to blame the shutdown on Democrats. Five employees spoke with NBC, provided copies of their out of office messages, and they said their wording was altered from how they originally composed them. All of them are civil servants, no political appointees, and of course requested anonymity out of fear of repercussion. But those emails, those out of office messages, were altered without their permission. All right, let's switch gears here. Next up from Reuters, an FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a perp walk of Jim Comey in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month. That's according to four people briefed on the matter. Andy McCabe and I are going to discuss this, obviously on the next Justified podcast. But I mean, basically they, and what's interesting is the agent's name was published, but then it was taken out of that publication and I'm not sure why. So I'm not going to say the agent's name, but I've been contacted by sources familiar who've confirmed that it's this particular agent. But the agent was basically said, hey, I bet you he was at the Washington field office. And the Trump administration said, hey, you can get some beefy guys, right? In full kit, right? Would you like vest and camo or whatever with the FBI logo emblazoned across their chest to perp walk handcuff and perp walk Comey. They discussed arresting him, but he's being arraigned this week, October 9th, so there's no warrant for his arrest. So I'm not even sure under what authority they were discussing arresting him and perp walking him. It's against DOJ policy. It's why they didn't do it for Trump as much as we wanted them to. Right? So that FBI agent was like, no, I'm not going to find a beefy guy in full kit to do a perp walk. And he was fired. That agent was fired. Next up from the New York Times Several journalists resigned this week from three newspapers in Alaska after the publication's corporate owner made significant edits to an article about Charlie Kirk, appearing to yield to pressure from a Republican state lawmaker who criticized the coverage. The these four journalists work for the Homer News, the Peninsula Clarion and the Juneau Empire, and they wrote in a joint resignation letter on Monday that they were never consulted about the edits made by the Alabama based Carpenter Media Group. The article at the center of the Revolt chronicled the September 17th vigil in Homer, Alaska for Charlie Kirk, who as we know is the TPUSA founder, a right wing ally of Trump, and he was fatally shot on September 10th at Utah Valley University. That story that they wrote ran online September 23rd and in print on September 25th in the Homer News. Its description in the second paragraph of Mr. Kirk, whom the article called a Christian nationalist icon and defender of often racist and controversial views, struck a nerve with one of the vigil's co organizers. In a letter to the corporate owners of the papers, Sarah Vance, a Republican state representative, assailed the coverage as hate baiting at its worst and suggested that that advertisers were planning to boycott the publications. Her criticism was not dissimilar to the political pressure other conservatives have exerted on media companies to punish those whose commentary about Mr. Kirk they deem objectionable, which is really just them telling everyone what Charlie Kirk said in his own words with his whole chest, most notably Jimmy Kimmel. So soon after publication of the article, though, something peculiar happened, Ms. Thompson, who's 44, one of the journalists in an interview, said Thursday. The story just disappeared. We were all flabbergasted. Several hours later, the story was reposted online with some significant changes to its structure and its description of Charlie Kirk. In the Revised version, the second paragraph appeared about 12 paragraphs into the article, saying that Kirk's views, quote, have been tied by many to a rise in Christian nationalism across the US and in describing Mr. Kirk's frequent visits to college campuses. The article said he had regularly defended his criticism of the Civil Rights act and Martin Luther King Jr. As well as his opposition to gun control and affirmative action. All that is true and gone from the article was a line stating Kirk perpetuated conspiracy theories, including COVID 19 and climate misinformation, as well as the great replacement theory, which, as we know, posits that Jews are trying to replace white Americans with non white immigrants. That was just gone. That's all the truth. So they quit and they sent a letter. And that leaves like one journalist apiece at two papers and none at another. But they said, we can't do this if you're going to edit our stories without our input. Next up from the Guardian, the environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she's being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza. That's according to correspondence seen by the Guardian. And according to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. It says here. The identity of the flags is unknown, but that does come up later in the story. In an email sent by the Swedish Foreign Ministry to people close to Greta Thunberg and seen by the Guardian, an official who has visited the activist in prison said she claimed she was detained in a cell infested with bedbugs with too little food and too little water. Quote, another detainee reportedly told another embassy they had seen her being forced to hold flags while pictures were taken, and she wondered whether those images of her had been distributed. That's what the Swedish ministries official added. The allegation was corroborated by at least two other members of the flotilla who had been detained by Israeli forces and released on Saturday. Quote, they dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others. That was a quote from the Turkish activist Ersen Selleck, a participant in the Samud flotilla. That's what he told Andalu news agency. And subpoenas are flying in Florida. This is from Florida Politics. Subpoenas are being issued to Governor Ron DeSantis staffers over the Hope Florida spending scandal as first reported by Florida Politics publisher Peter Scorsch. Former acting Attorney General John Gard and longtime staffer Kate Strickland are set to receive subpoenas, according to Scorsch. And that's what he reported Friday morning. James Holton, the former chairman of St. Petersburg based Save Our Society From Drugs, one of the nonprofits that received millions from the Hope Florida foundation, also was subpoenaed. And that's according to an associate of Holton. The subpoenas come as prosecutors in Tallahassee are convening a grand jury to meet during the week of October 13th. And that's according to the Miami Herald and the Tampa Bay Times. Now Hope Florida has been the subject of increasing scrutiny. Leaders of the organization faced lawmakers questions during the last legislative session. Leon county prosecutors confirmed in May there was an open criminal investigation into the Hope Florida Foundation. And that's according to media reports. A $10 million Medicaid settlement was quietly sent to Hope Florida Foundation. That's a charity led by first lady Casey DeSantis, and it's meant to help Floridians get out of poverty. But the money was instead eventually funneled into the coffers of a political committee to fight last year's marijuana legalization effort. That committee was under the control of DeSantis then Chief of staff James Uthmeyer, who has risen to the state's attorney general position. DeSantis, of course, was outspoken against the ballot initiative don't do the Pot, which was ultimately defeated in last year's election. So we'll keep an eye on those subpoenas. And our last story is from NBC. Robert Morris, the Texas megachurch pastor who built Gateway Church into one of the largest congregations in the country, pled guilty Thursday in Osage County District Court to charges that he sexually abused a minor, a girl, in the 1980s. Morris, who's 64, entered the plea before Judge Cindy Pickerel, admitting to five felony counts of lewd and indecent acts with a child. Now under a negotiated plea, he was given a 10 year sentence, but he will serve only six months in the county jail. He must also register as a sex offender and pay a quarter of a million dollars in restitution.
