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The Pentagon puts soldiers on alert. I'm Carmen Roberts, Fox News. Defense officials confirmed the Pentagon is readying 1,500 soldiers for deployment to Minnesota in response to widespread anti-ice protests. Republican Senator Bill Hagerty tells Fox News protesters are to blame.
And what you have is bedlam in the streets. You have citizens driving into ICE agents. You have non-citizens, people here illegally, trying to attack ICE agents. And you have somehow these protesters advocating for the illegal people here, the ones that are criminals. Seventy percent of these people that they're arresting are criminals.
Minnesota Mayor Jacob Fry says that it would be a shocking move if President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act and sends U.S. troops to the city.
He tells CNN... There's a very clear antidote here, which is leave. The second these ICE agents leave the city, I'm telling you, you're going to have calm in Minneapolis.
Meantime, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has mobilized state National Guard troops for deployment if needed to help support local law enforcement. Republicans are divided over President Trump's threat to take possession of Greenland.
Republican Congressman Randy Fine has a bill that would set the stage for President Trump to annex Greenland. Other Republicans are pushing back. saying a purchase would be expensive and the U.S. already has a military base on the island. GOP Congressman Don Bacon says taking it by force would probably be the end of the Trump presidency. In Washington, Ryan Schmelz, Fox News.
And snow and frigid temperatures will play a part today in the NFL playoffs. The New England Patriots are taking on the Houston Texans in Massachusetts. It's going to be cold there. And the L.A. Rams will play the Chicago Bears in Chicago. America's listening to Fox News.
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Iranian officials admit more than 5,000 people have died in protests across the country, but the Supreme Leader blames President Trump for the violence. Meantime, Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut is urging Congress to be involved in any possible military action. He tells Fox News.
American people, even if you're not sort of interested in the words of the Constitution, committing our young men and women, putting them at risk, getting them killed in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States Congress, the representatives of the people should have a role in that decision.
In other news, we're learning more about the mental health of Nick Reiner, leading up to the killings of his mother and father.
According to a new report from the New York Times, Nick Reiner had previously been diagnosed with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. and that in the weeks leading up to his parents' murders, he struggled after switching his medication due to side effects. The Times also reporting the 32-year-old was placed into mental health conservatorship in 2020 that lasted about one year. The arrangement allowed for involuntary psychiatric treatment due to a judge determining Reiner had a, quote, grave disability. Reiner's struggles with drug addiction over the years are well documented, and news of his conservatorship is giving us a deeper insight into the extent of his mental health challenges in the years leading up to the murders, and no doubt will be essential to his potential legal defense.
Fox's Channelly Painter reporting, and prosecutors charged Nick Reiner with two counts of first-degree murder for last month's stabbings of his parents, famed movie director Rob Reiner and wife Michelle. And President Trump announces a presidential delegation to travel to Italy for next month's opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics. He's not on the list, but it includes Vice President J.D.
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