Rachel Maddow

These gimmicks are not happening.

Nothing he says substantively is worth paying attention to because there's so rarely any connection between anything he says and A, the truth, or B, even anything he's planning to actually do.

Watch what he does, not what he says, because what he is doing and what the American people are judging him for is brutalizing and killing people in the streets, sending his masked secret police storming into people's homes without a warrant, arresting and menacing peaceful protesters, arresting and prosecuting journalists.

turning away priests and nuns at the door of the detention facility.

He is now trying to build himself a huge new set of camps to hold tens of thousands of people indefinitely without trial.

And what do the American people think about it, about what he's actually doing?

Well, even ahead of the next big no-kings protest, which is going to happen on March 28th, the American people are making clear that they are vociferously against basically everything he's doing.

And they are letting him know it every single day.

And so, yes, happy President's Day.

Indeed.

I mean it.

We've got a lot to get to tonight.

Stay with us.

This is from a new legal filing in federal court in Minnesota.

Riley Kellermeyer, a 32-year-old biologist, was in South Minneapolis to observe and document Homeland Security activity.

Kellermeyer saw an SUV that she believed to belong to immigration agents.

She decided to follow the car to report its whereabouts and activities to the community.

When Kellermeyer got home, a Homeland Security vehicle was pulled up next to her house, suggesting that the agents were waiting for her.

Afraid for her safety, she decided not to stop at her home and kept driving.

The DHS vehicle began following her.