Speaker 1: So Congress is barreling towards its now third shutdown in
literally just five months, and no amount of GOP spin
is going to be able to hide the disastrous effect
that this is going to impede upon the Trump administration
and lawmakers. They packed up, and what did they do?
They left town for a week long vacation, literally, while
the government is set to shut down at twelveh one
am Saturday. Literally another self inflicted crisis and another failure
by government. Let me show you the reporting on this.
In it, it turns around and it says Homeland Security
Department poised to shut down as Congress leaves with no deal.
The White House and Senate Democratic leaders continued to trade
offers and kept the details of negotiations private, signaling some
hope but no guarantee of an agreement. It further goes
on to say the Department of Homeland Security is poised
to shut down this weekend as Congress remain deadlocked Thursday
on a path forward, before leaving town for a week
long holiday break. Further, it says the White House and
Democratic leaders have continued to trade offers, signaling some hope
for an agreement, but it remains unclear which Democratic demands
the White House will agree to when it comes to
slapping restraints on immigration enforcement. After federal agents killed two
American citizens in Minnesota. With Congress out of town, DHS
will shut down beginning at twelve oh one am on Saturday.
That means that federal employees at agencies such as FEMA,
the Transportation Security Administration, and the Coast Guard will not
be paid, though most of them will continue showing up
for work because their jobs are considered critical. And finally,
the House and Senate aren't scheduled to return get a
load of this until February twenty third, raising the prospect
of a DHS shutdown for at least ten days, but
they could return sooner if there's a bill to vote on.
Here's the quote I have let people know to be
available to get back here if there's some sort of
a deal they strike to vote on it. Senate Majority
Leader John Thune, Republican, said before members left, this is
where we're at a third shutdown, and whose fault is this?
It's leadership's fault. You're gonna really tell me that the
Republican leadership and the Democratic leadership can't get together to
negotiate to negotiate something as simple as this. Welcome back
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wherever you listen to podcasts. Now. Look, the pushback against
I don't know DHS funding it escalated, of course after
the killings of both Renam, Nicole Good and Alex Predi
in Minneapolis and this week. This week, Congress spoke with
different ICE officials as well as Minnesota Attorney General Keith
Ellison about Operation Metro Surge and the Federal Agent presidence
in Minneapolis now MAGA. Mike He of course claimed that
Democrats are responsible that they won't fund DHS because of
course it's all political play.
Speaker 2: The clip it looks like, I mean, you know, we
got eleven of the twelve appropriations bills done and through
the process signed and law, we're spending less money, we're
acting as better steward at tax fair dollars. We're making
the federal government work more efficiently and effectively for the people.
And the one bill that was left on the table
is Department of Homeland Security. That funding measure, which by
the way, covers all the agencies that keep the American
people safe FEMA, TSA, the Coastguard, the Secret Service, and
ICE of course, and see the Customs and Border Patrol.
And the Democrats don't want to fund it because it's
political for them, and it looks like they're pushing us
into another partial government shutdown for no reason whatsoever. And
they're going to make the American people less safe because
they're trying to score political points and make a point.
And I think it's going to fact we're going to shut.
Speaker 3: Down the country.
Speaker 1: And here goes the political spin and the finger pointing. No, No,
what they did is they jammed it all in. They
jammed it all in. Nobody wants ICE walking around the streets. Look,
I say this all the time. We're actually more in
agreement on immigration Republicans and Democrats than people want to believe.
But where we are divided is the fact that you
have agents walking the streets armed with firearms AR fifteen
side arms, with DHS bulletproof vests, with masks, pepper spray
the whole nine yards. Two American citizens dead for no
reason at all. And so if you allow that to
go through, in essence, what are you doing. You're funding
the continuation of something that we truly just don't want.
And that's the point I'm trying to make. Leadership can't
get together and figure this out. Meanwhile, this morning, Caroline Levitt,
she literally tried to claim that the operation is actually
a success.
Speaker 4: Play the clip so Democrats they were celebrating when Tom
Homan announced that he was going to pull the pull
down the immigration operations in Minnesota. So what does this
mean for immigration enforcement? I know a lot of people
have been taken out are here illegally, but there are
thousands more. How many was it, Brian thirteen? Yeah, sixteen hundred,
sixteen hundred, sixteen hundred more they're still there. According to Tom.
Speaker 5: Homan and todd Lyons, sure well, operation Metro Surge in
Minnesota has been a resounding success. It has resulted in
the detention and deportation of more than four thousand illegal
alien criminals. Let me repeat, four thousand illegal alien criminals
just from Minnesota alone. And while the surge is coming
to an end, immigration enforcement in Minnesota absolutely will not.
President Seung.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not true. What you have, by the way, is
yes you have quite a few deportations, but are they criminals? Again?
Show us the facts. Now, let me show you some
of the maga lines of questioning during the hearings that
make it crystal crystal clear why Democrats will not vote
to extend the DHS funding. Representative Ron Johnson literally Ron
Johnson attacked Attorney General Ellison, blaming him for the deaths
of both Good and for pretty played the clip. I.
Speaker 3: As a government official, would have said, back off, let
us work with us, let's cooperate with him, let's see
if we can't de escalate this. But Attorney in General,
you did the exact opposite. And two people are dead
because you encourage them to put themselves into harm's way.
And now you're exploiting those two Marris. That was a tragedy.
It never should have happened. Now we can investigate, but
I can't imagine being a law enforcement official where I
know my colleagues have been shot at their vehicles, rammed
that their trained active is deployed. And by the way,
we know at least one of those activists has some
automatic pistol with extra clips. So now you're a nice officer,
you're doing enforcement action, You've got a team behind you
trying to protect you. You've got all these trained activists
behind you. Is there any wonder there at hair trigger alert?
A tragy was going to happen, and you incourage debt
and you ought to feel damn guilty about it, Thank you,
miss Chairman. Yeah, sit there and smirk, smirk. Well it's sick.
It is despicable.
Speaker 6: Are you asking me for comics, Senator? Because everything you
said was untrue. It was a nice theatrical performance, but
it was all lies.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. I mean, I don't even have to respond to
this because each and every one of you have already
seen and you've already heard all of this information. It's amazing.
You would think that we're living in too completely different
universes now, Representative Johnson. He also tried to play gotcha
with a g Ellison by asking if he told people
to exercise their first Amendment rights. No, I'm dead serious.
Their First Amendment rights played the clip.
Speaker 3: Did did did you? Did you ever encourage people to
go out there and exercise the first Yeah? Right, so.
Speaker 6: The First Amendment?
Speaker 3: You encourage trained activists to put themselves into harm's way
because you had to know, because you were watching this,
that there were scuffles at least, that these people were
obstructing justice. I would think you'd actually, as the chief
law enforcement officer of Minnesota, be concerned about people obstructing justice,
you know, putting their cars in the streets, blocking roads.
I would think is chief law enforce you would be
concerned about that. But were you ever concerned about encouraging
I guess people support you to go out and put
themselves into harm's way. No, never being an obstructing illegal
law enforcement reaction? Did that ever concern you?
Speaker 6: So that never happened. We all times said, if you
want to protest, protest peacefully, protest safely. But but I
would You'll never find me being against the First Ament
right now. But I'll always be for the first time.
Speaker 1: But you and so A g Ellison. He then explained
to Congress that it felt like Minnesota was actually being
occupied like taking over play the clip.
Speaker 7: So, you know, Attorney General, I just kind of wanted
to ask you, like, how did it feel on the
ground when you have that much of presence at the
federal level of these officers beyond what you were saying,
two to three times the total number of state and
local officers.
Speaker 6: It felt like our state was targeted, blanketed with paramilitaries
everywhere who were approaching citizens, non citizens, whoever. It felt
like we were being occupied by the federal government. And
I started returning Senator to reading about how the Boston masacer.
How did those Bostonians feel when a far away government
in England had imperial troops marching all over their city.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's exactly what it looked like. It's
they're not wanted there, You know that they're not wanted.
When even sended or ran, Paul questioned ICE officials asking
about their supposed de escalation tactics play that clips it.
Speaker 8: So there were people who said, and they were part
of the government. I don't think they were interview but
part of DHS and part of the administration said that, yes,
the officers were using de escalation tactics. Nobody leaves that
all right, I'm just gonna stipulate that you don't. I
don't even need your veil on that. No one in
America believes shoving that woman's head and the face in
the snow was de escalation. But your officers need to
know they were had a verbal encounter with them. She
did not place her hands on the officers. She wasn't
trying to get their weapon. It's not great. I mean,
I don't I don't like to see these encounters either.
But is it appropriate for the officers to respond to
a verbal barrage of words or whatever? Is it proper
to physically throw a woman down, or to throw anyone down.
Speaker 1: If the only action is verbal?
Speaker 8: No, okay, that's what I want to hear.
Speaker 9: Yes, correct sir, same answer.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, at least rolling unison on that one.
But send it a Paul. Now. He didn't stop there.
He actually also got the Ice officials to confirm that
yelling at officers is not considered an assault.
Speaker 8: Play the clip with Alexander Pretty. He's filming in the
middle of the street. We see two women that are,
as you watch the video, job boning, complaining, protesting, yelling,
maybe not being nice, but they're protesting the well, let's
keep the videos stopped. And so my question to mister
Scott first, is yelling at ice officers or border patrol
is that a form of domestic assault on the officers? No, sir,
mister Lyons, No, sir, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not. Once again, bing bing bing rolling. Unison representative
Eric Swolwell. He actually questioned Todd Lyons earlier this week,
asking if he would apologize to renain Nicole Goods family
for his rhetoric about her.
Speaker 10: Play the clip, Sir, Lyons, will you apologize to the
family of Renee good for being called a domestic terrorist
by the president and his leadership? No, sir, why not? Sir?
Speaker 9: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the family of
private but I'm not going to comment on any active investigation.
Speaker 10: Is she a domestic terrorist?
Speaker 9: Sir, I'm not going to comment on the investigation.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable. Now, I get it. I get it. He can't
go against the president. He'd be stupid, he'd be shit
caned before morning, and so Eric Swolwell. He also asked
Lions about his past comments Play that clip, Director.
Speaker 10: Lions, last year, you said in Phoenix at the Border
Security expo that you wanted to see a deportation process
that was like, quote Amazon Prime, but with human beings,
mister lyons. How many times has Amazon Prime shot a
mom three times in the face?
Speaker 3: None?
Speaker 9: Sir, But you're also it's a square.
Speaker 10: Root of zero. That's right, Yes, sir, yep.
Speaker 9: But if we're going to go down that route of
my comment, I did say that comment. However, that comment
was taken out if you go back and watch the video.
I did say that we need to be more efficient
when it comes removing individuals from the United States because
ICE doesn't detain punitively. We detained to remove I don't
want to see people in custody. At the end of
my statement was again to your point, it was a
industry day for AI and efficiencies. But I did say
at the end of it, but we deal with human beings,
so we can't be.
Speaker 10: Like them and speak.
Speaker 9: That's the many part that you're leaving out.
Speaker 10: Well, speaking of human beings, how many times has Amazon
Prime shot a nurse ten times in the back?
Speaker 9: None?
Speaker 10: How many times has Amazon Prime dragged a woman out
of her car by her hair and then dragged her
down the street? None?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me be crystal clear here is taken out
of context. Sure, do we actually want ICE to continue? Absolutely?
Do we want Department of Human Homeland Security to continue? Absolutely?
What we don't want is the tactics short of that.
I think we all acknowledge that our country needs to
be respected, is everybody else's, as does our borders. But
this behavior by ICE is so out of control. This
is where we need to make sure that they put
a stop to it. And as always, thanks for listening.
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