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Episode 5096: Bovino To Leave Minneapolis; Deportations To Continue

27 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

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into CNN.

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Chapter 2: What is the significance of Gregory Bovino leaving Minneapolis?

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Sources tell CNN that top border patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis tomorrow. CNN's Priscilla Alvarez is in Washington with more of this. So, Priscilla, what are we learning? Because this is obviously a major development here on the ground.

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19.066 - 38.874 Anderson Cooper

Yeah, absolutely, Anderson. This really is a major shift in strategy here by the Trump administration. Recall, Gregory Bovino has been a key player in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and became, in many ways, the public face of that crackdown across cities in the country, most recently, of course, in Minneapolis.

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38.954 - 57.598 Anderson Cooper

And we are now being told by sources that he is going to be departing Minneapolis with some of his Border Patrol agents tomorrow and going back to their respective sectors. What I mean by that is they will go back to their original offices as they had been deployed as part of this crackdown to his team.

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58.258 - 80.028 Anderson Cooper

Now, we're also told that part of this has been influenced by the frustrations within the administration over the handling and the public response of Saturday's shooting. So now the decision has been made to have Bovino leave Minneapolis. Of course, he has been a controversial figure in all of this. This doesn't mean, though, that all Border Patrol agents are leaving.

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80.129 - 89.725 Anderson Cooper

Some will stay to continue supporting immigration and customs enforcement. But the face, the key player of this, is going to be leaving the city tomorrow, according to sources, Anderson.

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And very briefly, Priscilla, do you have any idea how many of his agents will be leaving with him? Because he kind of rolls deep with the coterie of folks around him.

Chapter 3: How has the Trump administration's strategy on immigration changed?

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Is it just those people or is it a larger number?

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103.593 - 124.487 Anderson Cooper

We're still trying to get a better sense of numbers, but numbers are always hard to come across because, of course, these are immigration enforcement operations, and they typically keep those close to the vest, but all the same, his agents still make up a good share of the Border Patrol agents on the ground, so them leaving would certainly make a difference in the city of Minneapolis, or at least that is the intent here, appearing to be the intent here.

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over whether to pause ICE operations in the state, potentially permanently, indefinitely, and to block ICE's activity or allow DHS agents to continue its work, which has brought terror to the people in Minneapolis and that community, and left two of their residents dead in 17 days. That hearing comes on the heels of a call that Donald Trump and Governor Tim Walz had today.

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Walz's office said that Trump agreed to speak to the Department of Homeland Security to ensure that, quote, state investigators are able to conduct independent investigations into the federal officers' shootings of Alex Preti and Renee Nicole Goode. Yet Democrat leaders in Minnesota with sanctuary city policies have actively defied federal immigration law and the will of the people.

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And as a result of that defiance, two Minnesotans have now tragically lost their lives on the streets of Tim Walz's state.

178.527 - 186.3 Kristi Noem

Secretary Noem said Alex Pretty committed an act of domestic terrorism. Stephen Miller labeled Pretty a domestic terrorist. Does the president agree with them?

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Look, as I've said, I have not heard the president characterize Mr. Preti in that way. However, I have heard the president say he wants to let the facts and the investigation lead itself. Was he alarmed to hear his top officials referring to him in that way, rushing to that judgment? Danny, go ahead.

199.656 - 201.017 Priscilla Alvarez

Thanks, Caroline.

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So this weekend, the president posted that this is a cover-up of the fraud in the state of Minnesota. He also posted Minnesota is a cover-up. These both happened after the shooting. So given that these came after the shooting, what is the this here? What is the cover-up he's alleging? Yes, it's a good question. I spoke with the president about this at length.

Chapter 4: What impact did recent shootings have on immigration enforcement in Minneapolis?

332.506 - 349.461 Priscilla Alvarez

Of course, we're also dealing with a pretty rapidly shifting political situation right now in the sense that we've been hearing a pretty markedly different tune from Donald Trump himself. Then we heard over the weekend from key figures in his administration in the aftermath of the Alex pretty killing. Trump is sending Tom Homan.

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349.481 - 367.23 Priscilla Alvarez

The borders are here to Minnesota, apparently to replace border patrol chief, uh, Greg Bovino, you know, just context for our viewers, the types of tactics that we've been seeing, uh, these types of tactics that, that critics describe as reckless and dangerous and which my reporting and, and many other people's reporting shows, uh, have, you know, resulted in.

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367.35 - 387.282 Priscilla Alvarez

And, you know, I should say, for example, former DHS, high-level DHS officials who are career people, not political appointees, have told me that these operations in urban environments in American cities put not only the people of these cities in dangerous positions, but also the DHS agents involved. Those tactics

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387.262 - 402.344 Priscilla Alvarez

could be changing in the coming days here in Minnesota if, in fact, the Trump administration, who, you know, Trump also having had this call with Governor Walz, is signaling the possibility of a de-escalation or even potentially a withdrawal of federal agents from the city.

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402.844 - 421.475 Priscilla Alvarez

I've spoken to some local and state officials here to get their reactions to what appears to be this change in the political winds. They say that, you know, these are empty promises until they're fulfilled. And until they see ICE and CBP leave, their city, they're not going to be satisfied, Nicole.

421.495 - 443.072 Steve Bannon

This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on these people. I got a free shot on all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that. I know you try to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.

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And where do people like that go to share the big lie? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.

453.108 - 463.28 Steve Bannon

Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose? If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.

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War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Bann.

Chapter 5: What frustrations exist within the administration regarding ICE operations?

627.194 - 640.143 Steve Bannon

And now Kristi Noem's got to go before the Judiciary Committee. And in addition, I bring in Jack Posobiec. And Jack, thanks for sticking around to do this. They've turned over the investigation. I'm not so sure the president understands what he agreed to, if he agreed to this at all.

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640.163 - 662.515 Steve Bannon

But Walz is telling people that the that the state investigators and Jack, can you please inform people of the state investigation group? What a group. These guys are the worst in the world. We've already seen their track record. Supposedly he's turned an investigation of these federal officials stopping people, domestic terrorists. trying to, because that's what it is.

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662.575 - 690.07 Steve Bannon

These aren't just citizens of Minnesota. These are domestic terrorists. Jack Posobiec. Well, Steve, people have to remember, of course, that these investigators in the State Investigations Office's BCA in Minnesota, this is all controlled by Keith Ellison. So Keith Ellison is, he is a, of course, as we know, a committed jihadist, committed subversive, but also someone who has promoted extremism

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690.05 - 709.577 Steve Bannon

and endorsed Antifa tactics and specifically by name held up the Antifa book. These are the same investigators who repeatedly lied about Derek Chauvin. They lied about COVID. They lied about so many things that were happening on our walls. These are the people who couldn't find any Somali fraud. Remember, for all these years that Somali fraud was going on,

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709.557 - 726.116 Steve Bannon

These are the supposed investigators who couldn't find a single thing wrong with any of Minnesota's programs. And then suddenly Trump comes in and he brings in Bessette and he brings in Bobby Kennedy and brings in everyone else. And they're auditing things and they pull the books. He got Nick Shirley running around, 23 years old, and he's able to figure it all out.

726.136 - 750.043 Steve Bannon

So these investigators, they are committed Marxists. They are run by a committed Marxist. All right. This is Tim Walls, a guy who went to China 30 times and learned. how to run a Marxist insurgency from the Chinese Communist Party themselves. That's why it seems like a Maoist cultural revolution, because that's where he got the idea from. They did it in 2020. They're doing it again in 2026.

750.463 - 753.747 Steve Bannon

It's the only fallback. What do the Marxists do? What do the communists do?

Chapter 6: How are local leaders responding to federal immigration policies?

754.027 - 777.747 Steve Bannon

You find a martyr, you put up your useful idiot as a martyr, and then you turn around and say, You create the crisis to take the power. You create the crisis to take the power. And they will do it again and again and again if we let them. By the way, he sat there for years. He's part of the money laundering and embezzlement. He knew what was going on. And what did he do?

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777.787 - 802.157 Steve Bannon

He focuses attention on what? The radical Muslim focuses attention. Antifa supporter focuses attention on Mike Lindell's, the little Christian network he's got to help people in recovery. The knits things together. He went after that. He's put Mike Lindell through the changes in doing that. Because this is how these guys work. Jack, I just want you to stay through the break, but real quickly.

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802.899 - 824.051 Steve Bannon

If any custom and borders agents leave with Bovino, is that a de-escalation? Is that a withdrawal? It is a de-escalation. It's a changing out. I'd like to know if does this mean there's going to be state police and local police helping with ICE. I'm a supporter of Commander Bovino.

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824.131 - 850.187 Steve Bannon

I think his tactics have been absolutely appropriate given the situation that he's in and the lack of support that they have had from local officials. Bovino has done a magnificent job. The cops were against them. The National Guard was against them. The political apparatus, it's infiltrated. Look at the signal chats. They have people in the department. They have people in DMV.

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850.508 - 876.597 Steve Bannon

They're giving their licenses. Bovino was there by himself fighting all that. He did a magnificent job. Not a good job. He did a magnificent job when the world was against him. And look at both of these situations where these domestic terrorists, because that's what they are, are trying to intrude in basic police operations. Bovino did a great job. Not an okay job. Not a good job.

877.638 - 899.128 Steve Bannon

Not a bravo zulu. He did a great job. Everything was stacked against him. And what are we getting for that? Has Walls come out and said, I was wrong and that we're going to support? No, they're taking a victory lap right now. They should take a victory lap right now. This is your blinking vision. You're blinking, and it's only going to get worse.

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Chapter 7: What are the implications of the proposed changes to immigration enforcement?

1169.794 - 1192.501 Steve Bannon

Where are the weak links in the chain? Where are the weak links where we can apply pressure next? And where do they do? They move, just like water, they move pressure to the weak links in the chain and they push and push and push until the entire status quo, the entire government, the entire civilization is destroyed. This is civilization versus barbarism. You cannot make deals with these people.

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1195.045 - 1213.92 Steve Bannon

Lennon loved it. Trotsky loved it when they announced the imperial Russians announced that they were going to fight the Austrian and the Hungary empire and go to war. They loved it. They realized that war would preoccupy. It's an opportunity cost or preoccupy the same thing with the Chinese communist party in world war two. They didn't fight the Japanese.

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1214.086 - 1236.702 Steve Bannon

They sat there and fought the nationalists. They fought the nationalists and killed any people that were working with the nationalists. They killed more Chinese than Japanese. They used wars or used conflicts. This is why the problem with our country, the issue in our country, is not in the streets of Tehran. That's all phony. Of course, they're bad guys. They're terrible people.

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1237.223 - 1258.71 Steve Bannon

And the people in Persia should take them down and do what you want with them. It's your deal. But pulling a carrier battle group and having all this focus and going into the national security meetings and not spending the time on Minnesota because that is the festering sort. That's where you got a lance to boil. Not in Tehran. Not in Tehran. Now there's all this thing.

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1258.73 - 1280.486 Steve Bannon

They've got all this muscle and they're coming in. That is a waste of focus. The focus has got to be in Minnesota. And you don't focus by pulling Bovino, who's had the guts and been personally attacked, to go out there and nobody helped him. Did we cut off funding for the police? Did we cut off for the National Guard? Did we order the National Guard not to report to walls?

1280.607 - 1286.235 Steve Bannon

Walls Jews, they step back and let these agents at the hands of a mob.

Chapter 8: How are public perceptions of immigration enforcement shifting?

1286.315 - 1310.786 Steve Bannon

Just look at the videos. Don't take it from me. Don't take it from Posobiec. See what you see. See what they've done. And there's no negotiation with them. They don't want any illegal aliens, even the rapists and murderers. They don't want anybody to go. They don't want anybody to go. You know why? Their entire business model is set upon having 15 or 20 million illegal aliens in this country.

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1311.567 - 1332.924 Steve Bannon

They can't win. What did Jesse Kelly say? They probably got 20% of the populace to vote for him. The rest has got to be stolen in elections. are illegal alien evaders. Jack, this is so basic in the present. What's happened? You've got these classic gutless, feckless Republicans who got us this. If they had a better idea, I'm the first person to say, OK, I got it. What's the better idea?

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1332.944 - 1352.333 Steve Bannon

Let's do that. Give me the better idea. Their idea has been surrender. They are controlled. And Lenin told you what these people are going to be like. You will have controlled opposition that will put up a phony, a cosplay on a cosplay basis. Don't go out to the hustings and say, yes, I'm so anti-illegal immigration and seal the border and do this and do that.

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1352.473 - 1369.979 Steve Bannon

And then not just do nothing, do the exact opposite. They will fund the $6 billion, the refugee program that's financing the Somalians, Jack. You can't take advice from Lindsey Graham. You can't take advice from these people. They're the ones that went along and caused the problem. You can't take it.

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1369.999 - 1387.606 Steve Bannon

Of course, they all want to just go away and say, oh, well, there are 20 million here in the Democrats. And, you know, that's not great. But they do add a point to GDP and they do drive down wages. So that's good. Right. Companies, the 17 companies headquartered in Minneapolis are going to make more money, have higher stock. We're all going to be wealthy.

1387.626 - 1410.312 Steve Bannon

We'll get a couple of second homes up in Lake Country. in northern Minnesota, and Bob's your uncle. It's all great. Well, it's not great because you're tearing the country apart. It's not what ICE and Border Patrol are doing. They're not tearing the country apart. The revolution is tearing the country apart because they want to tear the country apart. That's their plan. Posobiec.

1411.658 - 1431.612 Steve Bannon

Steve, I'll give you an example, right? Just a great example of this. You know, you go back and look, Mall of America. President Trump just put out this video, a video clip of New York City from about 100 years ago. And you see the clothing that people are wearing. You see the safety as they walk down the streets. You see it there. You go and pull up the videos.

1431.633 - 1446.035 Steve Bannon

And I post this every once in a while, the Mall of America. how it looked when it first opened, 1991, 1992. Everyone's happy. It's classic Minnesota. It's Mike Lindell, Minnesota, exactly what you'd expect to see. Now, what did my brother do this weekend?

1446.155 - 1463.06 Steve Bannon

He went in there in Minneapolis, and they went into a Walmart, and he went up to the, and they recorded the whole thing, and they went up to one of the workers there, and she's got the hijab on, and they say, hey, I want to buy some hand warmers. It's cold up. And she goes, hand warmers? Hand warmers? I don't know. What is that? Chicken? Chicken?

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