Trump Pulls Back in Minneapolis as Democrats Turn Up Pressure on ICE
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What incident triggered the Democrats' response regarding ICE in Minneapolis?
I'm Ested Herndon, and this week on Today Explained, I traveled to Minneapolis to speak with Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is suing the Trump administration over ICE descending on his state.
It would mean that we had federal active duty troops patrolling our streets, which is concerning because the way ICE does its business has been proven over and over again to be deeply problematic.
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Welcome to Raging Moderates. I'm Scott Galloway. And I'm Jessica Tarliff. Jess, how are you?
I'm good. I don't want to be weird, but I miss you.
How do Democrats plan to leverage the situation with ICE funding?
It was like a month.
Go on.
No, I was thinking about it. I was like, is this an appropriate thing to do? But a month is a long time in general. And also, you know, when you get used to somebody, I guess this is what happens like if you get divorced, right? You got to go out and like date other co-hosts. And I had great conversations with... Who was your favorite co-host?
Who was your favorite? When you cheated on me, who was the best?
What is the GOP's stance on the Second Amendment following the shooting incident?
I mean, Heather Cox Richardson was great and intellectual bed, to say the least. No, Sarah Longwell was awesome, too. And, you know, something that was really great about it, I loved how many female voices we got on. Jennifer Griffin, who's an amazing national security reporter, had a great conversation with her. We need to feature more women on the pod. The ladies are coming. How was your time off and Davos, you know, all the things?
It's great. I went to Australia. I got to climb the bridge with the boys.
How do Republicans reconcile their gun rights stance with federal agent actions?
I saw that on Modern Family and said, I want to do that. I went to Singapore. My kids had never been there. I was in LA doing some work, Davos, which was interesting and depressing at the same time. And yeah, it's nice to be back. I feel sort of antsy and, but yeah, it's nice to be back. And fortunately, not a lot happened while I was gone. So
Yeah, no big deal. Slow moving politics in this country.
What are the implications of Melania Trump's new documentary?
It's weird when you take some time off when you're not looking at the news every day, which I did not do. I remember when I came home once after being on the road for three weeks, and I popped my head into my kid's room. And this was when I was working really hard. My oldest was six, and he was sleeping above his covers. And I could physically discern that he had grown in the three weeks that I'd been gone, and it just really bummed me out. But my point is, When you're in the news every day, you're a frog in water that's getting hotter and hotter and then spoiling. And then when you come back after an extended break from the news and you see this shit, I was just, when I first got to Davos and I was listening to the talks and just the mood and the vibe and annexing Greenland, I thought it was just so kind of rattling and jarring to see how much things had changed in the last month with the murders and
in Minnesota and this annexation discussion and what was going on in Iran. And the two best lines while I was gone were, one was by your co-host Heather Cox Richardson saying,
What does the $40 million payday for Melania Trump signify?
A lot of people have been talking about the need for better training of these ICE officials. And she had the best line. I don't know if it was on the pod with you. She said, that's like saying that the guards at DACA just needed better training. I thought that was a great line. And then the other line came from Catherine Dillon, who essentially runs Prop G Media. When I was in Davos and just coming back, I said I had spent a lot of time on panels talking about the need for some sort of military intervention to kind of push the Islamic Republic over the edge. And I kept saying, you know, they're executing citizens in the street. And Catherine goes, you realize that's happening in America, right?
How is the public reacting to the contradictions in GOP policies?
It was just sort of kind of stopped me in my tracks. Okay, government executing people in the street, executing citizens in the street. And I hadn't taken the time to stop and go, wait, not on the same scale, but that's happening in the U.S.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What incident triggered the Democrats' response regarding ICE in Minneapolis?
0:01–0:42
2
How do Democrats plan to leverage the situation with ICE funding?
0:42–1:05
3
What is the GOP's stance on the Second Amendment following the shooting incident?
1:05–1:36
4
How do Republicans reconcile their gun rights stance with federal agent actions?
1:36–2:02
5
What are the implications of Melania Trump's new documentary?
2:02–3:04
6
What does the $40 million payday for Melania Trump signify?
3:04–3:41
7
How is the public reacting to the contradictions in GOP policies?
3:41–4:23
8
What are the potential consequences of the ongoing political tensions?
4:23–45:35
Speakers
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