How America’s Red-Blue Divide Plays Into the ICE Shooting in MN, and Trump’s Global Power Plays Explained
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What does the Minnesota shooting reveal about America's political divide?
Hey, everybody. Welcome back. I'm Mark Halpern, Editor-in-Chief of the live interactive video platform Two-Way and your host here, Guide to Everything NextUp. Delighted to have you back. All you Nexters who are tuning in for our second episode of the week and second of the year. Very happy. to have you here. We've got some great guests and a great conversation in a busy, busy news week already. Jeff Rowe will be here. He's a Republican strategist, one of the smartest people in politics I know, and he doesn't do a lot of media.
How does the immigration debate relate to the Minnesota tragedy?
He's a semi-reclusive figure. So Jeff will be here, along with Jaime Moore, a Democratic strategist. We'll have a great conversation about everything that's going on in politics. And then after that, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, longtime Republican member of the Congress who was tapped by President Trump to figure out a new way to balance the economy, how to grow the economy with a clean environment, and talk to the administrator about how he's trying to do those things, which some see as contradictory, but Lee Zeldin thinks they can do them both. So we'll talk about that with those three great guests coming up. But before that, in just a moment, my reported monologue on the national crisis in Minnesota in the wake of the shooting by an ICE officer.
We'll talk about what I've learned about that since it occurred. My reported monologue is next up.
What insights do Democratic and Republican strategists offer on the immigration fight?
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What changes is the Trump EPA making in environmental policy?
There you go. Since the woman was killed in Minnesota. One text this morning, early, pre-dawn, from someone I know, a very thoughtful person, a Republican. This is what they texted. The ice thug murdered her. That was it. Just a declaration. And then a little later in the morning, Hillary Clinton went on Twitter and tweeted a picture of the memorial service, impromptu memorial service that was held for Renee Good, the woman who was killed. And she used the M word, too. Last night at the corner where an ICE agent murdered.
How does the Trump administration balance economic growth and environmental protection?
Renee Good, thousands of Minnesotans gathered in the frigid dark to protest her killing. And I know people on the right are upset that anybody's saying that the officer murdered her. or in some cases that he did anything wrong. Here's my friend Eric Erickson in his newsletter, which again, a Substack I recommend to you. Eric had a much different point of view. Another person like Hillary Clinton, a person of good faith and concern about what happened in Minnesota and mourning the loss of life of Renee Good. Eric wrote this, Ms. Good should not have been attempting to obstruct ICE agents. She should not have used her car as a barricade. she should not ignored the ice agents she should not have struck an ice agent with her vehicle so um my reported monologue today is a little bit different than normal normal i'm talking normally i'm talking to um people at senior levels of government and politics and business uh to learn what's going on uh right the best information typically in your reporting is going to come from the people most in the know and for good or for ill that's often the most powerful people
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does the Minnesota shooting reveal about America's political divide?
0:02–0:32
2
How does the immigration debate relate to the Minnesota tragedy?
0:32–1:24
3
What insights do Democratic and Republican strategists offer on the immigration fight?
1:24–2:18
4
How is Trump's strategy on Greenland misunderstood by Europe?
2:18–2:58
5
What changes is the Trump EPA making in environmental policy?
2:58–3:34
6
How does the Trump administration balance economic growth and environmental protection?
3:34–4:39
7
What are the challenges facing the Republican Party in the upcoming midterms?
4:39–5:43
8
How do the guests assess Josh Shapiro's chances in the Democratic primary?
5:43–1:15:43
Speakers
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