Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Don't take your guns to town, Bill.
Chapter 2: What sparked the controversy between Tim Walz and ICE officers?
Leave your guns at home. When I listen to Michael Moles sing Johnny Cash, it makes me think of my own mortality. This could be the whole show. It's just puns. I'm in a bad mood. Should not have been nominated, by the way.
Here we go. You know what? That is the most offensive thing you have said in this entire episode. Yeah, save it. Save it for the show.
Friends like these, who needs enemies? Friends like these, who needs enemies?
Three days ago, Tim Walz compared the ICE officers to Nazis, and then yesterday he collaborated with them. So I guess Tim Walz is now a Nazi collaborator. It's very unclear what's going on between Washington and Minnesota right now. We will get into it. We will get into all of the Oscar movies that you haven't seen. We haven't seen them either, but we have very, very strong opinions.
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guys do you know what that is called that's called a cold open and i can tell you speaking from nashville it's a very cold open here it's real chilly hence my sweater uh matt you you're always kind of lumberjacking wearing all of your flannel etc but drew ben you're you're in relative warmth no no no wait it's it snowed here i'm i was i'm close to dc and we had enough snow that i had to go out twice
and shovel my walks, and now my entire body hurts, and I have a cold. So I think that's my contribution to the weather.
Are you still corporeal, or is it just a ghost? Is that the ghost of Drew, or is that real physical Drew?
By the time the show is over, I will be transparent.
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Chapter 3: What insights did Jennie Taer share from her ICE ride along?
Cold, dark, no one around, no one can access me. I love this. I would do this all year round.
One question I have, I know with the power going out in a lot of places, some people are trying to figure out things to do. Have you guys been sitting around with your family playing the new Pendragon board game?
Yes. If you would send me a Pendragon board game, I would actually play the Pendragon board game.
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It's even getting rave reviews on the Internet from people who don't like The Daily Wire, people who probably hate conservatives, all over the place. It's very – I was actually – I'm never –
gratified to look at twitter because it's just a cesspool of villainy and scum but it actually people really seem to love pendragon because it's a great story it's getting rave reviews from everybody all over the internet people who love the daily wire people who hate the daily wire people who probably hate conservatives they love it the only way that you can watch it is to become a daily wire plus member and this is what you're going to get what was it like marlin to be alone with god
Is that who you think I was alone with? There is a new pirate work in the world. I've seen it. A god who sacrifices what he loves for us. I learned of Yezu the Christ, and I have become his follower. Trust in Yezu.
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Chapter 4: How are protests impacting ICE operations in Minneapolis?
I'm loathe to turn to him for an answer on this. But Ben, is there any, does that mean it's a bad shooting? The cop's got to go to jail or something?
I mean, so not necessarily. So The basic legal standard is the same in all of these cases, which is, does a reasonable officer believe that he's an eminent threat of grave physical harm? And so the question becomes, did the officer who shot him know that he had been disarmed? Because there's this kind of scrum.
And then you can see that the gun appears to be removed by one of the agents, but not the agent who shot him. And then... Somebody yells gun and there may in fact be an accidental gunshot, an accidental discharge from Freddie's gun by the officer or the gun just went off.
So if you're an officer and you're standing there and you hear someone yell gun and then a shot goes off and you don't know that the gun has been removed from the guy. then you absolutely could fear for your life. You could fear imminent threat of grave physical harm. And so the shoot could absolutely be good. That's typically why you have full investigations under these circumstances.
As to Drew's question as to why this shapes the underlying sort of policy, the answer is that it doesn't. But this has been a chaos operation from the beginning for Democrats in an attempt to obstruct federal law. I mean, that's really what this is. This has been driven by Democrats from the very start. The idea is that enforcement of federal law is some sort of grave sin.
And you can see it in the statistics. So very early on, the administration was deporting nearly all criminal illegal immigrants because they were starting in red states and they're working with cooperative precincts and they're going to jails and taking people who are criminals and then deporting them. And then all of the Democrats decided they were going to obstruct that.
And now ICE still has a job, which is to deport people. And so the people they're deporting are not getting...
they're not getting them from jails right they're actually going to the streets they're having to like round people up and when they do that the percentage of criminal illegal immigrants i mean they're all criminals but people who have committed an independent crime aside from being an illegal immigrant that percentage has dropped from something like 87 early on to about 50 today and it's going down pretty rapidly that's because of sanctuary city status it's because of sanctuary state status and so what that means is here's the thing americans don't like ugly pictures on their tv
This is one of the great problems with media generally is that there's greater information. That's wonderful. But the ubiquity of ugly pictures on your TV makes it nearly impossible to do the things that have to be done in ugly areas. And that's true when it comes to military operations. And it's true when it comes to policing. And it's true.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of comparing ICE to Nazis?
This to me seems like something actually has changed.
And to Ben's point about ugly pictures, I've worked with police a lot as a reporter, and it takes a lot of cops to bring a person down without just killing him. Most cops, if they want to take you down, they can do it single-handedly, but they're going to break your legs. They swarm people in order to keep them from being hurt.
And this guy, once you shout gun, I've seen this with my own eyes a number of times. Once somebody shouts gun, everything is different. You know, everything is like I do know this. We cops do not want to go home with a bullet in their head. You know, they don't want to go back to their wife, say sorry, honey, I'm dead, you know, because I didn't react fast enough.
And when they take these videos and they look at them frame by frame, it drives me crazy because they didn't happen frame by frame. They happened all at once. And we can hold our police to high standards, but we can't hold them to robotic standards where they can see everything in slow motion. The whole thing is, to me, as you say, it's a chaos operation.
We already know that George Floyd, a drug-addicted thug who's elevated to the point of being a saint, by the media. And then we were told that the riots that came out of his were mostly peaceful. We already know it's all lies. You know, we know it's all lies.
And if in this case, the cop was in the wrong, if he did something wrong, that's one thing, but it has nothing to do with the overall story, which is these guys came in 20 million strong. They all have to go.
They all have to go. And also, to me, it's not even a close call. Like, You took a gun. Okay, this is another point that really annoys me. I see even some people on the right saying, well, hey, we believe in the Second Amendment, and we've got to be consistent here. I've seen some people draw comparisons between this and Kyle Rittenhouse. Hey, man, let's be fair.
Two completely... I've actually... diametrically opposite situations. Kyle Rittenhouse was there, was not interfering with any police officers, was not sabotaging police officer operations, was not resisting police officers. He was there because police officers weren't there and weren't doing anything. In this case, Alex Priddy took a gun. OK, that part is fine.
Like, yes, you can carry a gun in the United States of America. I believe in the Second Amendment. But you took a gun explicitly to go commit crimes. OK, interfering with with the police, sabotaging police operations, obstructing what the police are doing, obstructing law enforcement is a crime. He brought a gun to do that.
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Chapter 6: What are the Oscars movies that no one has seen?
They show up. And it is explicitly to obstruct law enforcement. So if you take the gun and then your intention is to go commit crimes and then you end up getting shot in the process, to me, it's not even a close call. It's not even controversial. I mean, it might be controversial to a lot of people, but the substance of it, it's not controversial. This is clearly all on you.
And I agree with what Ben said that This is to the to the people, especially on the right. Again, there are some on the right who are saying, well, I believe in enforcing immigration law, but I don't like the way this is happening. Well, there is no way to do it. That won't be ugly because it's easy enough to say, let's let's enforce our immigration laws.
But the problem is we have millions of people here. illegally. And so we need them to leave. And the problem is, well, they don't want to leave. That's why they're here. And so the only way to get them to leave is to grab them physically and drag them while they're kicking and screaming. There is no nice way to do it.
And so if you're not in favor of us enforcing immigration laws in an ugly way, then you're not in favor of us enforcing immigration law at all, because there's no way to do it that isn't
By the way, a crucial point on this on this gun Second Amendment argument from the libertarians who, you know, look, I love my libertarian friends. You can always count on them to undermine the right exactly at the moment that it really matters. But but I get the point in principle, because I'm a Second Amendment supporter. I'm a gun owner, a lifetime member of the NRA.
There is a deep conservatism to the wisdom of Johnny Cash. Don't take your guns to town, Bill. Leave your guns at home. Look, you can take your guns to town, but if you are going to obstruct law enforcement, you're going to put yourself intentionally in a very provocative situation where you will be committing crimes. Probably not the best idea to roll up with your cig in two magazines.
By the way, his parents were interviewed by CBS News, a generally liberal news outlet, And they made the point, probably they shouldn't have admitted this, that he was not a regular carrier of guns. You know, he had his CCW, but this was a guy who never took his gun out, really. And all of a sudden, he rolls up there with a weapon that has a hair trigger.
The New York Post just reported that he had a broken rib from his last conflict with ICE agents. So he was already out there getting into violent scuffles.
When I listen to Michael Moles sing Johnny Cash, it makes me think of my own mortality. And that makes me think of policy genius and the necessity for life insurance. It actually is very important that you get life insurance, obviously, because there is one thing that is going to happen to all of us aside from paying taxes and maybe being deported. And that is... We're all going to plots.
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Chapter 7: How do the hosts critique the recent Oscar-nominated films?
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You know, I have to say, I'm thankful to Knowles for singing like Johnny Cash because it made death seem not so bad.
That's really nice. Oh, listen, as we're all here, we're stewing because it feels like we're all in Minneapolis right now. Not Ben, but the rest of us. It's pretty chilly. I think this is really actually just a trial run for Mother Nature for our colonization of Greenland. But we're not actually in Minneapolis right now.
A Daily Wire reporter is, however, and we are joined by Jenny Tehr, who can infect our opinion with some actual facts that she is seeing on the ground. Jenny?
I hate that.
I know this is not something we're used to around here. Jenny, what are you seeing in Minneapolis?
Yeah, well, you know, we've been out with ICE in Minneapolis on the ride along with them and we saw just the chaos unfold the second we went down there. So just to give you an idea is we started out the day going to the ICE office where agitators were already outside.
The second any of those vehicles came out, anytime ICE officers were going out to make arrests, there was what they call the spotter standing on the corner. waiting for them, monitoring their movements, reporting things like their license plates, what the cars look like, what those agents and officers look like.
And then the second we were nearing an arrest site, so we were maybe within five blocks of an arrest site, you started to see people just gathering on every street corner. And by the time we got to, let's say, the apartment complex where one of the arrests they were trying to make was happening,
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Chapter 8: What are the discussions surrounding the political landscape and ICE?
I mean, I saw some of that, too, that they're handing out to try to obstruct these arrests. So they're happy to see a change. And that change has been that The Trump administration has taken figures like Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino out of Minneapolis and had sent him back to the border. He's been relieved of his duties as the commander of at-large operations.
He was the face of these aggressive immigration operations in cities like New Orleans, now Minneapolis. He was in Chicago. And he was representing Border Patrol, which Border Patrol has a role in immigration enforcement. Traditionally, it's been along the border in border towns. They're not used to operating in these urban environments and they're more indiscriminate.
They were brought in when Secretary Noem, according to sources and her close aide, Corey Lewandowski, decided that the operations should focus more on numbers, that they should have more of a quota than the focus being on quality arrests, than getting the worst of the worst.
So we saw that shift, and that's when Border Patrol really came in to boost the numbers to get more people off the streets who are here illegally, not necessarily going after people with the worst criminal histories first, which was how the mass deportation campaign started.
homan however tom holman the border czar who's now been brought in to replace bovino is in the camp of wanting more of those quality arrests he wants us to get those really hardened criminals off the streets and he's an ice guy he was head of ice before this uh and so trump brought him in and said report directly to me which is interesting because he's not asking him to report to the dhs secretary um and he's saying you know possibly
we're hearing that they could be looking at changing the target list, saying maybe we should shift and go after more of the worst of the worst. And then also a lot of this depends now on is Governor Walz going to deliver on letting people be handed over from the jails into ICE's hands for arrests rather than continuing to perpetuate these really dangerous sanctuary policies?
I'm hearing that the local police are also helping now, finally helping ICE keep the protesters back. Have you seen any of that?
So we've seen some state police that are keeping back rioters who were trying to go into a hotel. They said Gregory Bovino was staying. We saw just one instance of that. And that could be a glimpse into what this deal was that Trump had discussed with the governor there. But we're still waiting to see what comes to fruition. We know Homan himself met with the governor this morning. And so
there's still ongoing talks, there's still ongoing negotiations into what access ICE will have when for years and years and years, Minnesota has been releasing illegal immigrant criminals out of jails and hasn't been cooperating with ICE, hasn't been sharing immigration status at all with them.
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