C (7:19)

I am sorry that this gentleman is dead, but he did bring a 9 millimeter semiautomatic weapon with two cartridges to what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. I think that there are a lot of paid agitators who are jenning things up and the governor has not done A good job at tamping this down. Yeah. I mean, as you know, he was an ICU nurse, worked for the Veterans Administration. And there's no evidence that he brandished the gun whatsoever. In fact. But he brought a disarm before he brought a gun. Have you ever gone to a protest, John? I mean, we do have a second amendment in this country that. John Johnathan, have you ever gone to a protest? I mean, have you gone to a protest? I mean, I've. I. No, actually, as a reporter covering it. Okay, I've been to a protest. Guess what? I didn't bring a gun. I brought a billboard.

A (8:04)

Okay, Secretary Bessant, now here's what Cash Patel had to say. Play this clip.

B (8:09)

I mean, thousands of people are marching through Minneapolis. They are targeting the Border Patrol. I mean, it feels like the rhetoric and the. The protesting is only ramping up. What is your advice to the people right now who are outraged that this is a second killing at the hands of Border Patrol in two weeks?

C (8:31)

As Christy said, you cannot bring a firearm loaded with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have that right to break the law and incite violence. We will, of course, always protect your First Amendment speech. And if you peacefully protest, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But you have seen a trend here, not just in Minnesota, but, but across the country in these protests turning into violent scenarios and people attacking law enforcement. That's when you go over the line, and that's when law enforcement steps in. Well, you.

A (9:01)

Now, here's what Kristi Noem had to say. Play this clip.

B (9:04)

You know, my message to individuals is don't go impede law enforcement operations. That's not legal. You're breaking the law when you do that. It's also breaking the law to conceal carry in Minnesota without an ID on you, and you shouldn't be laying.

A (9:16)

More from Kristi Noem right here. Let's play this clip.

C (9:19)

Separate from the specific investigation, we know that Alex Preddy, according to officials in Minnesota, was legally a concealed carry permit holder. He had his gun legally. If is your message to people who are concealed carry permits that if they're.

A (9:34)

Going to go to a protest, they.

C (9:37)

Should leave their gun in the car?

B (9:38)

You know, my message to individuals is don't go impede law enforcement operations. That's not legal. You're breaking the law when you do that. It's also breaking the law to conceal carry in Minnesota without an ID on you, and you shouldn't be laying hands on law Enforcement and getting in their faces and trying to stop them from conducting their work. All of that is part of protocol, but it also is the law. And when people are in violation for the law, there's consequences for that.

C (10:04)

Last night, our reporter in Minneapolis and.

A (10:06)

Here is what Steve Scalise, MAGA Republican Congressmember, had to say when he was confronted about the same issue. Play this clip.

B (10:15)

You have been a supporter of the Second Amendment. When Secretary Noem says, I don't know of any peaceful protesters that shows up with a gun and ammo rather than a sign. Do you believe Americans have the right to bear arms while they're protesting?

C (10:29)

Well, first of all, I'm a co sponsor of Louisiana's law that allows you to have a concealed carry permit. It's worked very well there. I don't know the state law in Minnesota. I know in a state like Louisiana, and frankly, most states, you are not allowed to carry a gun while you're committing another crime. And interfering with law enforcement is a felony. It's something that unfortunately we're seeing in a lot of cities. You even had the police chief yesterday, Chief o' Hara that you just had on yesterday, said of the protests going on after the shooting that they were unlawful. Yes, he actually said it was an unlawful assembly. What a lot of people are doing. And they were throwing things at ICE agents, throwing projectiles that could harm ICE agents. So he wasn't calming down. And leaders in Minnesota, by the way, have been ratcheting up the rhetoric. I mean, you saw the governor, Governor Waltz said they're Gestapo. He said they're violently hurting people.

B (11:25)

I'm gonna have to take this commercial break and let you finish the thought on the now.

A (11:28)

I also find it interesting, you know, when you see the manipulation taking place here by Trump's MAGA Republican sycophants, how people are consuming news and how this brainwashing happens en masse in our country. So you take a look at a story like this. Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5 year old boy and father. By now you know the Trump regime, they're kidnapping children. They kidnapped Liam, the five year old wearing that blue hat, and they used him as bait in order to lure out his father who by the way was an asylum seeker who was here going through the right process and then they sent them to concentration camps in Texas. Similarly, they kidnapped a two year old girl when there was an order protecting her and her father from being sent to concentration camps. But you take a look right here at this story again, immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5 year old boy's father. If you look at the distribution of the coverage here, Left media is covering this, Center Media is covering this.about=0 right wing coverage right now that there are massive protests taking place in Texas about their kidnapping of this five year old boy. And that just goes to tell me we need to focus on the media diet that people are receiving. And that's how I also focus my coverage here at the Midas Touch Network to ensure whether you're a Democrat, Republican, independent, whether you're from another country, if you're just a human being and you want the objective truth, I want to make sure I'm programming this for you so you leave here enriched with knowledge because knowledge is power. So I'm often asked, how do I stay up to date on all the news that I get in order for me to make these videos? Well, my number one news source is something called Ground News. It's a subscriber funded app and news site and every day they pull in thousands of articles from around the world and organize them by story and then show you what's the right reporting, what's the center reporting, what's the left reporting. It's a game changer because as active, responsible citizens, we must get our news from reliable sources. In Trump's America, being informed about fact, facts and media bias, it's the most important thing you can do. But that's why I love Ground News. For every article they also tell you, did a media conglomerate put this news out or was it independent media? And they also list the degree of factuality, which is interesting as there's a lot of news sources for media conglomerates that have mixed or low factuality. Independent media seems to have a higher factuality, but you get all of that with your Ground News Vantage subscription. I especially like their Blind Spot feed which highlight stories that are disproportionately covered by one side of the political spectrum. Like the story I just shared with you about immigrant families protesting at the Texas affiliates facility after Trump's regime kidnapped a five year old boy and the boy's father. So join us by going to ground news slash MTN and get 40% off the ground News Vantage plan that I use every morning. They are subscriber funded, y'. All. So by subscribing you're not only getting a tool we all need today, you're also supporting our work here on this YouTube channel that's gr o u n d news slash MTN and we pin the link to purchase your subscription below. I Want to get you more data right now as well. Greg Bevino, the leader of the border patrol, he was on the morning shows and he was asked, you've said that Alex Preddy was there to massacre law enforcement. Where are you getting that information from? Here's what Bevino said. Play this clip.

B (15:03)

Well, you said yesterday that this looks like a situation where the individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement. What evidence do you have that he wanted to massacre law enforcement? Because all the videos that we have, and I do want to, we just have a still shot up now, but I do control room, want to play one of the other videos. Let's play video number one again. It doesn't look anything like he's trying to massacre law enforcement. In fact, he was filming and then it looked like he was trying to help another individual there who was pushed down by law enforcement and then they went after him.

C (15:41)

In fact, I believe that the fantastic training that our law enforcement partners have, the fact that they're highly trained, prevented any specific shootings of law enforcement. So good job for our law enforcement in taking him down before he was able to do that. And again, Dana, let's look at why he was there in the first place. Was he simply walking by and just happened to walk into a law enforcement situation and try to direct traffic and stand in the middle of the road and then assault, delay and obstruct law.

A (16:16)

Enforcement or Todd Blanche was on the morning shows and he was asked about this as well. Here's what Todd Blanche had to say. Let's play this clip.

B (16:25)

That city, you're saying he wasn't protesting peacefully, and yet the video before shows him holding up a cell phone directing traffic. The video after shows him being pummeled by these law enforcement. Everyone has now seen this video across the country with this man holding up a cell phone. And part of the outrage that people are expressing is that they feel as government is asking them to believe something that they don't see with their own two eyes. Is that what the administration is asking of the American people to believe that he was violent? When the video, based on what everyone has seen so far, does not show that.

C (17:10)

Well, first of all, I did not say he was violent. I said he was not protesting peacefully. And you just described what every American has seen, which is video shortly ahead of the incident where he was screaming in the face of ice. He had a phone up right to the the right into ISIS face. You tell me, is that protesting peacefully? I mean, we all see the same thing. I mean, you shouldn't try to gaslight the administration about what happened. That was not a peaceful protest. And yes, what happened afterwards is tragic. It is horrible, it is heartbreaking. But make no mistake about it. That would have never happened. That would have never happened. And it doesn't happen in cities around this country every single day. But for the complete failure, the complete failure by the mayor and by the governor to do anything, to do anything to protect their citizens. They park their officers blocks and blocks away while they just let ICE go and they let citizens just come and do whatever they want to try to torment and to try to agitate officers doing their job.

A (18:11)

I want to show you this lawyer, Eric Lee. Here's what he posted as well. Remember how I talked about the tension the the Texas detention facilities before? Well, Eric Lee, a lawyer, was doing a client visit with clients at this facility and there was a protest taking place because the conditions at these detention centers are concentration camp, like they are horrible. And the Trump Gestapo prevent people from really seeing how horrific these conditions are where many people are dying at these detention centers. Last year, as far as we know, at least 30 deaths this year already in January, about seven deaths at detention centers. I mean, there have been multiple deaths at detention centers already this year. I just want you to see this scene, Eric Lee. Is there drones above? And you'll hear people protesting, let us out, let us out. You hear the screams of people who have been kidnapped by the Trump regime behind these big walls. Who knows if they're being tortured, they are being tortured. Whether they're the suffering there and they're.

C (19:16)

Let us out, Let us out.

A (19:18)

And you could hear them scream. Here, play this clip right here.

B (19:21)

Can you hear that? They're shouting, let us out.

A (19:26)

Let us out.

B (19:29)

There's people in blue shirts again.

A (19:34)

There's drones flying up ahead.

B (19:40)

There appear to be hundreds of people through the crack that I can see. And again, I was here for an attorney visit and they asked me to.

C (19:49)

Leave abruptly without telling me why.

A (19:52)

Ordering people who are waiting. Also, I think it should be noted that MAGA Mike Johnson has not commented on the murder of Alex preddy. In fact, Maga Mike Johnson has gone radio silent for the past 24 hours. No statements from Magamike at all. But what else would you expect from Magamike, who's just a complete and utter coward? There you have it, folks. We'll keep you posted every step of the way on the Midas Touch Network Hit subscribe. Help us get to 6 million subscribers. And we appreciate you so much. New Midas merch drop. Check out the latest Pro Democracy sticker packs, T shirts, hats, sweatshirts, and more, all@store.midas touch.com you know what's wild?

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