Chapter 1: What federal scrutiny are Minnesota leaders facing?
As the Pentagon prepares to send troops to Minnesota, the DOJ investigates whether state leaders impeded federal law enforcement.
They should be cooperating with ICE. And if they did, we probably wouldn't have a lot of these incidents that we're seeing now. It's an inviting tragedy.
I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Monday, January 19th. This is Morning Wire.
President Trump ratchets up the pressure on Europe over Greenland, threatening new tariffs unless allies support U.S. control of the island.
What President Trump is trying to do is prevent a taking or Russian-Chinese action in Greenland in the future. So why not be strategic?
And the U.S. cuts off the aid spigot to Somalia after its government destroys a warehouse full of food donated by Americans.
We have a limited amount of money that we can dedicate to foreign aid and humanitarian assistance, and that has to be applied in a way that furthers our national interest.
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Chapter 2: How is President Trump escalating trade tensions over Greenland?
Hey, Cabot. So nearly two weeks since the shooting of Rene Good, the rioting across Minneapolis is not slowing down, if anything, seems to be picking up steam. First, what is the latest from the, well, the front lines there? So last week, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz urged President Trump to turn down the temperature. But over the weekend, violent left-wing agitators in his state did anything but.
They continued to riot. Large groups of protesters clashed with law enforcement outside of federal buildings and ICE facilities. And a number of conservative demonstrators were brutally attacked in broad daylight. In one instance, right-wing activist Jake Lang was physically dragged from the front steps of a government building by a large mob of leftist agitators.
They proceeded to beat him with fists, rocks, and flagpoles, as some in the crowd could be heard yelling, kill him. All it's worth pointing out with police nowhere to be seen. The video is pretty disturbing, we're going to warn folks, but we're going to play some of it here for our audience watching on the Daily Wire website.
Now, thankfully, Lang was eventually able to make it to a car, which sped to safety, but not before he was left with severe gashes to his face and head, which left him hospitalized. Other footage from the scene showed a different man wearing an American flag hoodie. That man was surrounded by another mob who demanded, quote, take it off and you won't get hurt.
Take it off and you won't get hurt.
Seconds later, as the mob surrounds him, they force him to remove that hoodie, which they rip from his hands and run off with. And then elsewhere, footage showed protesters surrounding innocent people who were driving SUVs because they were suspected of being ICE agents because of the cars they were driving. Masked rioters demanded they open their doors and trunks to prove they were not ICE.
Other videos showed rioters surrounding random white men in the city who they said, quote, looked like ICE.
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Chapter 3: What actions is the U.S. taking regarding aid to Somalia?
They were told to yell F-word ICE, you get the idea, to supposedly prove they were not with the agency. And in a remarkable moment Sunday morning, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey essentially blamed the violence across the city on the Trump administration, saying that if ICE agents left Minneapolis, there would be peace.
The second these ICE agents leave the city, I'm telling you, you're going to have calm in Minneapolis and you will continue to see the great comeback that we had been experiencing. Let us get back to that comeback. Let us live in peace. Yeah, stunning statement there from Frey.
And as you said, pretty shocking footage that we're seeing streaming out of Minneapolis. What is Trump doing now in response? Well, as we mentioned last week, President Trump, in response to the violence, did consider invoking the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to deploy the military to Minneapolis and grant them the authority to perform law enforcement duties.
The Pentagon has ordered 1,500 troops to be ready for a possible deployment. A spokesman said they would be, quote, prepared to execute the orders of the commander in chief if called upon. Now, Mayor Frey said the threat of mobilization was an example of the Trump administration trying to, quote, intimidate Minneapolis.
But ICE Director Todd Lyons said it was only necessary because Frey and other Democrats were not doing their jobs. In my 30 years of law enforcement, I never thought we would have to send law enforcement to protect law enforcement. You would not see this many ICE agents and special agents on the street if they would just turn people over to us.
And now finally, the White House has opened an investigation into Governor Walz and Mayor Frey. This has really set off a political firestorm. Tell us about that. Right.
In response to their refusal to cooperate with ICE officials and also their apparent unwillingness to combat these violent demonstrators, the DOJ has now opened a criminal investigation into both Walls and Frey to determine whether they had conspired to impede federal immigration enforcement.
We're still waiting to see the subpoenas for ourselves, but the investigation will center on whether the men's actions constituted criminal interference of legitimate law enforcement operations. Now, in response, Walz called the investigation a, quote, dangerous authoritarian tactic. He blamed Trump for, quote, weaponizing the justice system and threatening political opponents.
The White House, though, says they are simply enforcing the law and also the will of voters. As Attorney General Pambandi put it this weekend, quote, no one is above the law. Yeah, a phrase Democrats have long directed at Trump. Now the tables have turned here. Kevin, thanks for reporting. Absolutely.
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Chapter 4: What is the current situation in Minneapolis amidst protests?
All right, so what we have here is U.S. tax dollars being used to feed poor people in Somalia, but their government is wasting that aid. Exactly. So the cable said that the country of Turkey has actually taken over large sectors of the economy in Somalia, which it runs using corrupt contracts with Somalian ministers who are on the take.
The Mogadishu port is actually owned by a Turkish company, and the Somali ports minister is viewed as being Turkey's primary agent in the country. Turkey wanted to expand its port facilities, so the Somalis let it take over a warehouse that was used by the World Food Program, which is a United Nations group. And to be clear, this food is gone, correct?
Well, the Somalis claimed the food is still, quote, accessible, but the World Food Program said that isn't true, and, quote, the demolition constitutes a breach of UN diplomatic protocols. It said the food has to be carefully stored, so it's hard to see how it's not destroyed at this point.
And as you said, this is taxpayer money funneled through, actually, the Title II Food for Peace Program and the International Disaster Assistance. So this is taxpayer money from Americans, and then it's administered by this UN group. All right, so we're giving food for peace, but not even getting the peace part of it at this point. Is there any chance for Somalia to make amends here?
Well, it doesn't look like it. You know, the embassy said maybe we could see, but a U.S. official told me it's too late for Somalia to say they're sorry, and that not only has aid been paused, but it's going to be permanently turned off, and that'll be official by at least May. So stepping back a little bit here, why has this been happening?
What is the motive for Somalia's government to fail to distribute food intended for its people? Well, a member of Somalia's parliament and its foreign affairs committee has been warning about this.
Abdullahi Hashihabib said up to 90% of Somalia's humanitarian assistance comes from America, but that the money isn't distributed to the most needy, but rather hoarded by relatives of officials and their clans who don't seem to care very much about rival clans. He said the agency that receives most of this aid, the Somali Disaster Management Agency, is run by relatives of the president.
Three brothers of the agency's chairman each receive about $15,000 a month in salaries sort of laundered through their wives. And the finance department and training unit are both run by different uncles of his. And they actually supposedly pay Somalis who are hungry or starving $5 each to take photos pretending to be receiving these meals as a donation.
And then after the pictures are taken, they yank it back and they sell it at the markets for a profit. And so by diverting aid for up to 12,000 families, the Klan generates about half a million dollars each month for itself, the member of parliament said.
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