Psaki: Trump continues to trample American values with raid on reporter's home
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Late tonight, as the Trump administration continues its ice crackdown in the city of Minneapolis, something we are continuing to watch very closely. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz delivered a remarkable straight to camera address to the people of his state. This just happened in the last few hours. And when you watch this clip, I just want you to hold in your mind that this is the governor of an American state talking about what the federal government is doing to the people of his state.
Fellow Minnesotans, what's happening in Minnesota right now defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon our communities. They're pulling over people indiscriminately, including US citizens, and demanding to see their papers. and at grocery stores, at bus stops, even at our schools. They're breaking windows, dragging pregnant women down the street, just plain grabbing Minnesotans and shoving them into unmarked vans, kidnapping innocent people with no warning and no due process. Let's be very, very clear. This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.
This week, he went online to promise that, quote, the day of retribution and reckoning is coming. That's a direct threat against the people of this state who dared to vote against him three times and who continue to stand up for freedom with courage and empathy and profound grace.
So that is how the end of this day, or near the end of this day, I should say, you never know what can happen in the next few hours, came to a close. The governor of Minnesota talking about organized brutality by the federal government of this country, the trauma the federal government is raining down on his constituents. And those kind of warnings feel more urgent and more necessary every day now, because every single day we all seem to wake up to something. Every day we wake up to some piece of news that reminds us of countries we don't want to be like, that we don't want to live in. And today the news was that Donald Trump's FBI raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Nathanson. They searched her home, seized her laptops, her phone, and her smartwatch.
Now, as of this moment, we don't know exactly what was on those devices or the scope of the warrant that the FBI used to seize them. But we do know that this kind of intrusion is exactly what freedom of the press advocates fear from the authoritarian governments around the world. If the federal government were to access a reporter's notes, they could identify confidential sources in the government. They could punish those sources for speaking to the press. They could discourage other sources from coming forward and effectively break the system by which a free press holds the government accountable. And never has it been more essential than the moment we're living in. And given everything else in this administration, what they're doing right now, all of it, it's reasonable to think that is exactly what it looks like.
And it's notable that the Trump administration chose to try this out by targeting the newspaper, The Washington Post. I mean, after all, this is the paper owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, who has basically gone out of his way to placate this president.
What recent actions has Trump taken against the press?
and push the newspaper in a more Trump-friendly direction. Now, it's notable that he hasn't come out with a statement condemning this raid and attacking his buddy Donald Trump.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:03
2
What recent actions has Trump taken against the press?
4:03–15:19
3
How is the FBI raid on a journalist's home significant?
15:19–17:00
4
What impact does Trump's administration have on press freedom?
17:00–33:06
5
What is Senator Alyssa Slotkin's stance on illegal orders?
33:06–48:29
Speakers
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