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Alex Wagner

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Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I actually think in addition to George Floyd and that unfolding in Minnesota, the involvement potentially of Somali immigrants in all of this, the sort of racial underpinnings that sort of color the dynamic in Minnesota right now.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

He loves speaking ill of immigrants and brown people, and they're both there in Minnesota.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Yeah.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I mean, I think this case is in many ways why he's been most recently attracted to the state.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

And now the guy that pursued the case that was leading the investigation has left.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Does that derail that case a little bit?

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

I mean, not that I'm a fan of fraud.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

It's just...

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

The way in which there's clear partisanship that's like โ€“ the judicial system is being employed for partisan political gain and entire communities are being painted with a broad brush and really โ€“

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

dileterious way, in a really bad way, in a really divisive and cruel way.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

That is the not good part of this case.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Pursuing justice for fraud is a good thing.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

But, sorry, to my original question, how does that affect the pursuit of this case and the prosecution of this case?

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Then there's the case itself, you know, independent of who they're interviewing and who they're harassing, whether it's Renee Good's widow or her child or any of the other people who are family members of the victim here.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

There's the fact that the FBI is shutting out Minnesota police and their investigative agencies.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

The FBI taking over the entire investigation, how unusual is that from a legal perspective?

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

That's so insane.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Of course, like all my 9-11 happened 120 years ago.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

Yeah, of course, DHS was created to solve that problem.

Pod Save America
What It Would Take to Rein in ICE

And it's just been recreated single-handedly by the Trump administration.