The Megyn Kelly Show
Walz and Frey Under DOJ Scrutiny, Trump Ups Greenland Pressure, Michael Cohen Flips: AM Update 1/19
19 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What recent events are impacting ICE operations in Minneapolis?
Good morning, everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. It's Monday, January 19th, 2026, and this is your AM Update. We're here to arrest a child sex offender, and you guys are out here honking. Below freezing temperatures in Minneapolis doing little to stop agitators from interfering with ICE operations.
This whole dynamic is deeply concerning because supposedly they would be coming for me and targeting me.
The DOJ reportedly investigating whether comments by Democrat Minnesota politicians Governor Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Fry cross a criminal line. President Trump escalates threats against the eight European countries most resistant to making a deal for the U.S. to take over Greenland. And President Trump's former fixer turned enemy, Michael Cohen, who said he would have to leave the U.S.
if Trump won, changes his tune again as he now tries to curry favor with the president. Not even kidding. All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update. Thank you so much for watching. And as a veteran-led company that cares about giving back to those who serve, if you are active or former military or a first responder, you're going to save an additional 20% every single month.
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And you guys are out here honking.
No, we're pressing.
That vehicle right there is honking and impeding our investigations while we're trying to arrest a child sex offender. That's who you guys are protecting.
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Chapter 2: How are Minnesota officials being scrutinized by the DOJ?
Insane. DHS tasking ICE with targeting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens in the Twin Cities. ICE Director Todd Lyons saying last week these efforts netting more than 2,500 criminal illegal aliens in the region since the beginning of the surge.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Sunday on CBS with a staggering statistic on the criminal backgrounds of the individuals they've arrested.
Every single individual has committed a crime, but 70% of them have committed or have charges against them on violent crimes and crimes that they are charged with or have been convicted of that have come from other countries that are here illegally, first of all, and then they have committed a criminal act while they've been here or in their home countries as well. It's not 70%. Yes, it is.
It absolutely is.
Seventy percent of everyone you guys keep changing your percentage. You pick and choose what numbers you think work. But that is the facts is that 70 percent of the people that we have detained have charges against them or have been convicted of charges and they need to be brought to justice.
Agitators coordinating protest activity across the Twin Cities using so-called Ice Watch Rapid Response Networks to spot, report, and swarm federal agents. But those alerts are not always accurate. In some cases, these groups zeroing in on the wrong targets, falsely identifying ordinary civilians as undercover ICE agents.
Alpha News reporting on one such incident last week, a group of software engineers who say they were mistaken for ICE officers while eating lunch at a Minneapolis diner.
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Chapter 3: What threats is President Trump making regarding Greenland?
According to one of the men, the group is politically mixed, including one who is anti-ICE. The man receiving a message on an anti-ICE signal chat he belongs to called SW Minneapolis Rapid Response, reporting that plainclothes ICE agents were dining at that very restaurant. What he didn't realize, they meant him.
Within 15 minutes, dozens of protesters arriving, surrounding the diner and confronting the group. Here, a portion of the encounter obtained by Alpha News.
I'm just trying to enjoy my lunch.
It's unclear how long the encounter lasted. President Trump so far holding off on making good on his threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to send in the military to control agitators and protect federal agents. On Friday, Mr. Trump telling reporters, quote, I don't think there's any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I'd use it. And indeed, a U.S.
official telling Fox News, 1,500 troops from the Army's 11th Airborne Division have been given prepare to deploy orders.
Amid the highly coordinated unrest, Governor Tim Walz Saturday mobilizing the Minnesota National Guard not to deploy, but to stand by and prepare to assist local law enforcement with state officials stressing the guard remains off the streets and simply, quote, is ready to help support public safety.
The Minnesota National Guard X account posting a picture of two guardsmen with the caption, quote, If our members are activated, they will be wearing reflective vests as pictured here to help distinguish them from other agencies in similar uniforms. In other words, please try not to assault the ones in the reflective vests if you can help it.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Sunday on CBS News, doubling down on his anti-ICE rhetoric amid the threat of further federal forces surging into Minneapolis.
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Chapter 4: What is Michael Cohen's latest claim about his testimony against Trump?
You said occupying force. Don't you think that's a bit much?
I mean, look, you can go through whatever rhetorical flourish you want, but when you have 3,000 ICE agents and border control come to the city, when you've got this supposed threat of 1,500 military coming to the city, yeah, that's very much what it feels like. When you outnumber local police officers five and six to one, That is the vibe.
And so the bottom line is, if the goal were safety, this is not how you get there. If the goal is safety, I can give you a very antidote to some of the violence that we're seeing. It's have them leave.
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons yesterday on Fox, suggesting one quick and easy way for Mayor Fry to get ICE out of Minneapolis.
The one thing we say all the time is, you know, these sanctuary jurisdictions, you would not see this many ICE agents and special agents on the street focused on the criminal illegal alien mission if they would just turn people over to us. That's the key. These local law enforcement agencies have already deemed these individuals a public safety threat and arrested them.
Why not work with federal partners, turn them over to us, and let us get them out of our communities?
The DOJ now investigating Democratic Minnesota officials, including Governor Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Frye, to determine whether their public statements crossed from policy disagreement into unlawful interference with federal immigration enforcement. A grand jury reportedly authorizing subpoenas last week, according to CNN, after several weeks of escalating clashes,
between federal agents and local agitators in Minneapolis. A U.S. official telling CBS News the inquiry is predicated on a federal statute making it illegal for two or more people to conspire to prevent federal officers from carrying out their official duties through force, intimidation, or threats.
Over the last several weeks, as the Trump administration surges agents into the Twin Cities to round up violent criminal illegal aliens, federal agents repeatedly met with dramatic, obstructive, and at times violent resistance from local agitators.
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Chapter 5: How are local protests affecting federal immigration enforcement?
Find out more at GuardYourCard.com and consider telling Congress to guard your card. President Trump on Saturday ratcheting up the pressure on eight European countries in his push to acquire Greenland, a longstanding goal he argues is critical to U.S. national security and Arctic dominance.
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Finland dispatching small military contingents to Greenland late last week. Moves the countries say were planned in advance, following talks between U.S., Danish, and Greenlandic officials about the future of the semi-autonomous territory that ended without any resolution.
In a lengthy Truth Social post over the weekend, Mr. Trump writing, quote, "...we have subsidized Denmark and all of the countries of the EU and others for many years by not charging them tariffs or any other forms of remuneration. Now, after centuries, it is time for Denmark to give back." World peace is at stake.
China and Russia want Greenland, and there is not a thing that Denmark can do about it. Mr. Trump then announcing that beginning February 1st, the eight nations will be subjected to a new 10% tariff, with the rate set to increase to 25% on June 1st, quote, until such time as a deal is reached for the complete and total purchase of Greenland.
President Trump calling the eight countries' military exercise a, quote, very dangerous game, a description the eight nations rejected in a joint statement, writing that they, quote, pose no threat to anyone. The statement continuing, quote, we stand in full solidarity with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people of Greenland, warning the tariff threats undermine transatlantic relations.
Treasury Secretary Scott Besant yesterday on NBC arguing Europe is not equipped to manage long-term threats to Greenland.
If we look for years, for over a century, American presidents have wanted to acquire Greenland. And what we can see is that Greenland is essential to the U.S. national security. We're building the Golden Dome, the missile system. And look, President Trump is being strategic. He's looking beyond this year. He's looking beyond next year to what could happen
For a battle in the Arctic, we are not going to outsource our national security. We are not going to outsource our hemispheric security to other countries. In Trump 1.0, President Trump told the Europeans, do not build Nord Stream 2. Do not rely on Russian oil. And guess what, Kristen? Guess what is funding Russia's efforts against Ukraine? European purchases of Russian oil.
So America has to be in control here.
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