Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Rioters take over the streets of Minneapolis following the shooting death of an armed anti-ice protester.
This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at the scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.
I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Monday, January 26th. This is Morning Wire. As the protests grow beyond Minnesota, the political and media battle over what's happening on the ground heats up.
It's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of our state. And today that campaign claimed another life.
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Chapter 2: What happened during the Minneapolis shooting incident?
That illegal is still at large. Preddy seems to have inserted himself in this situation while Border Patrol is dealing with an agitator. From DHS's perspective, Secretary Kristi Noem described the incident as an avoidable tragedy. Here she is on Saturday.
The individual approached U.S. Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots. The suspect also had two magazines with ammunition in them that held dozens of rounds.
President Trump responded to the shooting just hours after the incident. He noted Preddy's handgun, but he really criticized Democrat leaders in the state for what he said was inciting insurrection. Obviously, that term, insurrection, is no accident and very much loaded.
The president also questioned if these leaders called off local law enforcement so that federal officers would be left unprotected and, you know, create this tragic situation.
What a serious allegation. And what about the video footage of the shooting that's been making the rounds? What can we see going on there?
Right. The footage shows just a lot of chaos going on when Preti is shot. You can hear agitators blowing whistles, for example. That's meant to distract and cause confusion for officers. And while the scuffle is going on, pepper spray is deployed and an officer reportedly yells, gun. That was right before you hear gunshots go off.
There have been questions about when exactly Preddy was disarmed, if he was disarmed before the shooting. Analysis from the Wall Street Journal claims that Preddy's handgun was taken by an officer less than one second before you hear 10 shots ring out. Warning to listeners, we're going to play a bit of audio from the incidents, and it's obviously disturbing.
CPR was administered, but Preddy did die at the scene.
We've also heard from the victim's family. They say that Preddy was a caring ICU nurse at a VA hospital, and they're accusing the Trump administration of telling sickening lies.
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Chapter 3: How did the Minneapolis shooting impact protests in the city?
This was DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Fox.
We do know that he came to that scene and impeded a law enforcement operation, which is against federal law. It's a felony. When he did that, interacting with those agents, when they tried to get him to disengage, he became aggressive and resisted them. And that's how this tragedy unfolded. And we hope we never see it again. It grieves me to think about
what his family is going through, but it also grieves me what's happening to these law enforcement officers every day out on the streets with the violence that they faced.
And that was something that was echoed by Deputy AG Todd Blanch.
Why? In one city, in one place, do we have these problems? We deport 10 times the number of illegal aliens out of Texas than we do out of Minneapolis. Why do we hear nothing out of Texas about any of the same problems that we have in Minneapolis? I'll tell you why.
Because in Texas, we have the cooperation and support of local law enforcement so that we can do these operations safely, keeping US citizens and others protected and safe. Now, as Amanda noted, we have heard from President Trump. Is there any indication from him or other White House officials that they'll actually order ICE to pull back from Minnesota?
Yeah, no, not right now there isn't. The president's response so far is to point the finger ultimately at Minnesota officials. He's asking where the local police have been, and he also continues to highlight what's driving this heightened federal presence in the state. He said on Truth Social, quoting here, Minnesota is a criminal cover-up of the massive financial fraud that has gone on.
So it doesn't sound right now like the administration plans on backing down. But we will have to see if the budget battle changes that calculation. So it sounds like both sides are digging in at this point. Megan, thanks for reporting. Yep, my pleasure.
President Trump says he's dispatched an armada to Iran as the death toll in the country continues to climb amid anti-government protests. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pearce is here to talk about the latest in Iran and what Washington's next steps could be. Morning, Tim. So let's start with President Trump's announcement. He said last week that U.S. forces are on their way to Iran.
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