Bill Kristol

These are not people who are,

into disciplined law enforcement on the streets of our cities and, you know, being respectful of both citizens' rights and immigrants' rights.

It puts the lie, as Andrew Egger argued in this morning's warning shots.

I mean, I think even if Trump were sort of sincere about the de-escalation thing, which I don't think he is, these agencies have a momentum of their own now.

It's not as if they're not doing stuff elsewhere.

We've seen stuff on videos online that are pretty horrifying.

The thing for me that really strikes me is they love breaking windows.

Their first reaction seems to be if someone's in a car and is a little confused about whether he or she is being asked to get out or whether maybe she should pull over first or whether she doesn't have to get out, they bash in the passenger side or the driver's side window.

And this is true not just in cars, but it seems to be true in houses.

And now it wasn't there at home.

car dealership or some kind of dealership in Utah, of all places, where they just, they love breaking glass.

That has not historically been a good predictor of like lawful and respectful and behavior that's respectful to citizens, certainly to minorities, right?

Yeah, I agree.

And they just need to fight the funding thing throughout the year too.

Whatever deal happens in the next two weeks or doesn't happen, there's still all that money they got in the bill, in the reconciliation bill a year.

But that money, people talk about it as if it's, well, that money is just obligated.

It's not obligated.

It's authorized, but it can be unappropriated for next year.

And this happens all the time.

Weapons get multi-year appropriations, which of course you can't build a jet plane in one year, so they have a five-year appropriation.