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Trump Warns Minneapolis & Iran On Edge | 1.16.26

16 Jan 2026

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Chapter 1: What military action is President Trump considering for Minneapolis?

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With the violence escalating in Minneapolis, President Trump considers invoking the Insurrection Act to keep agitators at bay. To invoke the Insurrection Act, he just has to make a determination that is impractical to enforce federal law because of the obstructionist activities.

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What powers would the move give the president?

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I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Friday, January 16th. This is Morning Wire.

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As the president dials back his heated rhetoric on Iran, the White House insists all options remain on the table.

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The president understands today that 800 executions were halted. And so the president and his team are closely monitoring this situation. And a Senate hearing this week could prompt the reversal of a Biden-era law on the abortion pill.

Chapter 2: How does the Insurrection Act empower the President?

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Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.

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Chapter 3: What is the current situation regarding violence in Minneapolis?

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As tensions remain high in Minneapolis following another ICE-related shooting, President Trump is threatening to invoke a centuries-old law to crack down on violent protests.

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Daily Wire senior editor Cabot Phillips has more on this very volatile situation and the White House response, hey Cabot. So the unrest really growing over the last few days. We had another shooting in Minneapolis. What is the latest?

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Yeah, throughout the start of the week, thousands of protesters had routinely descended on immigration facilities across Minneapolis, attempting to disrupt their operations. But things only got worse yesterday following another ICE-related shooting that we talked about yesterday. As we reported yesterday,

Chapter 4: How is the White House responding to tensions with Iran?

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an agent was attempting to detain an illegal immigrant on Wednesday when the man fled on foot. Then, as the agent caught up to him, two more illegal immigrants emerged from a nearby apartment and began attacking him with a snow shovel and a broomstick. The agent fired off a single shot in self-defense, striking the first man in the leg, and all three men were eventually detained.

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On Thursday, the DHS confirmed that each was living here illegally, while the initial suspect had actually been arrested multiple times in the past few years by Minnesota law enforcement. but released each time. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem released a statement calling the incident a case of quote, attempted murder.

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Despite those facts though, the shooting only further enraged demonstrators across the city. Footage from one incident showed rioters hurling fireworks at law enforcement. Other footage showed rioters busting out the windows. of a DHS car and eventually prying open the gun safe, seemingly making off with firearms and ammunition.

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Elsewhere, videos showed rioters, again, breaking into other cars, ransacking vehicles, and then proudly displaying ICE warrants that they had taken from inside of them and other materials like laptops and briefcases and whatever else you might find in a car.

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Yeah, the footage which our viewers can see now is just really shocking. So President Trump is now threatening to intervene even further. Tell us about that.

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Right. On Thursday, President Trump posted on Truth Social that, quote, "...if the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don't obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the patriots of ICE, we're only trying to do their job."

Chapter 5: What impact could the Senate hearing have on abortion pill regulations?

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I will institute the Insurrection Act. Now, for context, the Insurrection Act is an 1807 law that allows the president to deploy the military on U.S. soil to suppress an insurrection or violent unrest in cases where the state is unable to do so. It also applies to cases in which a state is unable or, importantly, unwilling to enforce federal law.

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Historically, the Insurrection Act has been invoked more than 30 times over the last few centuries, most recently by George H.W. Bush in 1992. That was during the widespread Rodney King riots. On Thursday, Secretary Noem defended the president's authority to invoke the act, but said she hoped it would not be necessary.

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We did discuss the Insurrection Act. He certainly has the constitutional authority to utilize that. My hope is that this leadership team in Minnesota will start to work with us to get criminals off the streets. Remember, we are there in surged operations because of the largest fraud scheme in American history. Clearly, this would be a major escalation.

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What has the response been from Democrats to this?

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Well, Minnesota's Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison vowed to fight Trump in court if he invoked the Insurrection Act, calling it, quote, tyrannical federal overreach. And then for his part, as you can imagine, Governor Tim Walz urged Trump to, quote, turn the temperature down and stop this campaign of retribution. But Republicans were quick to remind folks that it

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Governor Walz has played a big role in riling up these protesters to begin with. They shared comments he made last week where he said that his state was, quote, at war with the federal government. And elsewhere, he called on his state to fight for democracy the way that Minnesotans did during the Civil War. And it's interesting.

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We also spoke with pollster Brent Buchanan about whether these latest ICE operations and even these shootings have changed public perception about President Trump's immigration agenda. And here's what he had to say.

Chapter 6: What were the key points discussed in the Senate hearing on abortion pills?

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Almost nothing has changed. And if you pay attention to the mainstream media, you would think that approval for getting rid of people out of the country who are here illegally has fallen off a cliff, that everybody wants ICE to be done, enforcing our own laws. And the reality is that still 60% of people want those who are here illegally deported.

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So President Trump was elected in large part due to his promise to cut down on illegal immigration and begin mass deportations. And despite the latest pushback, clearly he is still dead set on doing just that.

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Yeah, he's leaving no room for doubt about that. Kevin, thanks so much for reporting. Absolutely.

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President Trump is keeping the world on edge with his plans for Iran, while he also works to bring Venezuela in line with U.S. interests.

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Daily Wire reporter Tim Pierce is here to talk about all the questions now circling around the president's Iran strategy. So, Tim, reports have been all over the map on this. Where do things stand now?

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