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ICE has hit a new low as federal agents detained a five year old in Minnesota. School officials say that the kid was used as bait to lure people out of a home. Is this what deporting only dangerous criminals has turned into? We are going to break down exactly what happened and why everybody in this country should be outraged. Plus, Trump chickens out on his own tariffs after hyping them for months. He backs down after allies and Republicans and the stock market freaked out. And Greenland. It's not happening, my friends. There's no plan, there's no details. And Naito says it didn't even come up during their meeting with Trump. Then Caroline Levitt has a historic meltdown and historic I would even say trying to clean up Donald Trump's cognitive mess and dementia has gone mainstream. AOC and other Members of the House straight up saying something's wrong with his brain. Gavin Newsom going not only there, but at Trump's ego, saying Trump's Davos speech was boring and insignificant. It was. And so we are covering all of it today as global shame and humiliation rain down upon the United States. And that sounds pretty bad, but we'll have some positive stuff as well. Glad you're with us. Let's do a show today. I was five years old when I came to the United States from Argentina. I knew two words in English. They were blue and stop. And now we learned that a five year old boy has been detained by by Trump's ICE goons this week in a Minneapolis suburb. This is the little boy. He was coming home from preschool. And if you don't see this as a disgusting national level crisis, you are part of the problem. This is Liam Ramos. Agents stopped him and his father in their driveway. The father ran, agents stayed with the kid. They had the kid knock on the door of the house to see who else was inside. And the school district now says he was used as bait. That is not activist rhetoric. He was, he was literally used as bait to lure people out of the house. This happened in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. School officials say that at least four kids from the same district have been detained this month. A 10 year old, a 17 year old pulled up, pulled out of a car on the way to school. Another 17 year old and a mom detained in an apartment. Armed, masked agents taking kids out of their lives in the middle of the day. And the Trump administration's line is still the same. They told us this was about violent criminals. Remember that sales pitch that we got which many of us never believed? First it was, we're going to go after the dangerous ones, the worst of the worst, murderers who are undocumented, gang members, etc. And then it shifted. It became, we are going to deport all undocumented immigrants. And now we are here detaining little kids. Preschool, kindergarten, using kids as leverage. I guess it would be preschool, actually, because if the kid is five now, we'd be starting kindergarten in the fall. And according to the district, another adult begged the agents, don't take Liam. And they refused. His older brother came home 20 minutes later, found the house empty. Dad gone, little brother gone, five year old gone. They are now in federal custody in Texas. The family's lawyer says that they've been following the asylum process. They presented themselves at the border, they applied, they waited, they did what they were told to do. You don't Just come in, you go to the border and you say, asylum is why I'm here. They did everything right and this is the result. Every single person in the country should be outraged by this. Even if you want deportations of adults who have committed crimes, even if you want deportations of adults who have committed no crime but have committed the civil infraction of being here undocumented, if you think the border is out of control, if you think, if you voted for Trump, you still should be outraged here. If you see this and you shrug, you are part of the moral rot and indifference that made this possible. Even some media outlets aren't ringing the alarm on this. Every single media outlet should be blasting this story nonstop. Every politician should be asked about this. Every so called law and order pundit should be forced to explain, why is a preschooler being treated like a fugitive. This is cruelty becoming policy. Trump promised mass deportations. He did. He promised millions and he promised speed. But the problem is that to hit those numbers, you can't just go after the violent criminal illegals because there just aren't that many. And so they lower the bar again and again and again from violent criminals to anyone undocumented to. And now we're detaining kids in preschool. This is an administration that have poured massive amounts of money into enforcement. More agents, even One guy, nearly 500 pounds, wasn't even medically cleared to work. They're like, sure, come train. We're desperate for people. More raids, more detention beds. Agencies told you got to ramp it up. But when you set quotas like that, you don't get the worst of the worst. You start getting whoever you can grab. It's families, it's kids, it's communities that are living in fear. One school board chair said they have whistles, meaning the people trying to, to protect individuals and the agents have guns. And you have to ask yourself a basic question. Does the detention of a five year old qualify or count as the law and order that we were told Donald Trump would bring to the table? Or is this what happens when you just build a policy on fear and spectacle, make unrealistic demands about deportation numbers, and then you have to start treating people as disposable and going really, really far with the cruelty. Are there any lines this administration is not willing to cross? And if you've got a preschooler detained, doesn't that cross the line? And if that doesn't cross the line for you, we are in deeper trouble than people want to admit. I would respect these magazines way more if they said, I want every undocumented person out, but what they're doing to these kids is unacceptable and it is a sign of the very moral rot that should terrify us. Disgusting stuff. And there are people I haven't seen cheering yet, but I haven't looked. There are people defending this as an appropriate way to, to get the dad who ran Donald Trump just chickened out again. It happened on a Wednesday, not a Tuesday. But Donald Trump has chickened out again. After weeks of threatening Europe with sweeping tariffs, Trump suddenly announces not going to do it. No tariffs on Germany, France, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, nothing on February 1st. Just never mind. And you know what? The markets loved it. European stocks jumped. The footsie hit record highs. Germany's DAX and France's CAC surged. Wall street was set to open higher and it did. And analysts said this is the taco trade. Remember, taco stands for Trump always chickens out. Not a left wing insult. It's what Wall street analysts and markets are calling it. Trump posting quote Based upon a very productive meeting that I have had with the Secretary General of Naito, Mark Ruda, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and in fact, the entire Arctic region. This solution, if consummated, will be a great one for the United States of America and all Naito nations. Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the tariffs that were scheduled to go into effect on February 1st. Additional discussions are being held concerning the Golden Dome as it pertains to Greenland. Further information will be made available as discussions Progress. Vice President J.D. vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff and others will be responsible for negotiations. They will report to me. So let me translate this into what really happened. Trump had been threatening tariffs on eight European countries unless the US could buy Greenland. He was floating tariffs and even hinting at military force to acquire Greenland. The markets panicked, stocks fell, the dollar weakened. Investors said, we're going to go to gold instead. Instead, which by the way, gold is near record highs. Foreign countries said we got to get out of this abusive relationship with the United States. And even many Republicans started to say, we're not going to do that. We're not going to let Trump do that. It's not going to happen. And suddenly Trump reverses course. He posts to social media that he had a very productive meeting. He's looking to save face for this about face. And based on that, he says tariffs will not be imposed. He says he's got a team that's going to deal with it. And instantly the markets rallied strong day yesterday, markets opening higher today. And in fact, just I hope that, that this is still accurate. Yeah, the Dow still up nearly 300 points today. The outcome, as often is the case, is Trump talks big, scares people because he is so belligerent. But. But then he folds because he realizes it's another harebrained, poorly thought out fiasco. That's the theme and we have seen it many, many times before. Notice the framing of how Trump explains it. He doesn't say the tariffs are a bad idea. He doesn't admit that it was a bad approach. He says, we've got a framework deal and it might be consummated. By the way, there's no actual deal right now and therefore he's backing off. It's like fan fiction. He can't just admit he was wrong. He can't just admit that this was a bad idea. And analysts who are thinking, wait a second, Trump is saying this, but there's not actually a deal. Analysts are reminding us, since Trump is backing off based on a deal that hasn't happened, there might not be a deal. And that might lead to this all coming back again. And this is sort of the fundamental problem. Tariffs are meant to be an economic tool deployed carefully and strategically. They are not a toy. They're not supposed to be a negotiating tactic that you can bluff on every other week. And when the president of the US Threatens massive tariffs and military force over Greenland, markets don't treat it as a joke, they treat it as a risk and they react. And then when he backs down, investigators, investors rather cheer. Not because it's good leadership, but because it was the worst case scenario that we were able to step away from at least a little bit. That that's why we are where we are. Markets are rallying because we got through another day without Trump lighting the house on fire. It is such a pathetically low bar, and this is why people call it the taco trade. Trump always chickens out, he bluffs, people panic and he retreats and claims that it's a huge win. That's with the tariffs. Trump did not bluster and then back out. With the kidnapping of Maduro or bombing Iran or whatever else, it's not always the case. It seems that with the tariffs, it's the way it goes. The damage is still real. Because even if you threaten tariffs or even put them in place and then back them off, confidence in the United States as a policymaker or steady trading partner is eroding because allies don't know what to expect. Corporations don't know what to expect, investors don't know what to expect. And so you've got this whiplash of the global markets. And so it's good the trade war didn't start this week. A new trade war, but it's insane that we celebrate it as a win under any normal president. Threatening tariffs on half of Europe to buy Greenland and then backing off is completely bonkers. And it never would have started in the first place. For Trump, it's another, you know, Wednesday now into Thursday. And the wild reality is that when actually pressed about, wait a second, does the deal include Greenland the way you said it would? Trump struggles to answer, because of course it doesn't. I want to talk about that next. Trump is lost on Greenland, or to put it a different way, Trump lost Greenland and now he is cowering in fear and his pathetic lies are being exposed. He has no plan, just shame. Let me explain what's going on. Donald Trump threatened a bunch of European countries with tariffs if he wasn't going to be allowed to buy Greenland. As I told you in the last segment, Trump then posted the Truth Social. I'm not doing the tariffs because we have struck a great deal. Certainly we would assume, well, that must be a deal to get Greenland, right? Wrong. Trump was asked by Kaitlan Collins, does the deal that got you to pause the tariffs include the United States getting Greenland like you've said all along? And Trump goes, well, it's a very long term deal. The answer is no, folks, he's not getting Greenland.