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Those are law enforcement officers being physically attacked. By this standard, would any of those officers have been justified in shooting and killing the people causing them physical harm? Every single situation is going to rely on the situation those officers are on. That they know that when people are putting hands on them, when they are using weapons against them, when they are physically harming them, that they have the authority to arrest those individuals.
The president pardoned every single one of those people. And make sure that they're getting justice for their actions going forward. President Trump pardoned every single one of those people. And every single one of these investigations comes in the full context of the situation on the ground.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem pressed yesterday on the apparent double standard for Capitol Police officers during the January 6th DEMOCRATIC RIOT AND ICE AGENTS CURRENTLY ON THE GROUND IN U.S. CITIES. THE GROUND. WELL, DOES THAT MEAN IT'S IT'S OKAY IF POLICE OFFICERS HAVE THE HELL BEATEN OUT OF THEM BECAUSE THEY BUY INTO A BULLSHIT CONSPIRACY THEORY? I DON'T SEE THAT IN POLICE CALLED GUILTY BY A JURY OF THEIR PEERS FOR BEATING THE HELL OUT OF POLICE OFFICERS ON JANUARY 6TH. PARDON. NOME IS NOW SENDING MORE FEDERAL OFFICERS TO MINNEAPOLIS AS PROTESTS CONTINUE THERE THERE IN RESPONSE TO THE DEADLY SHOOTING OF RENEE GOOD LAST WEEK BY AN ICE AGENT.
And while the Trump administration is trying to crack down on protests at home, President Trump is showing support for demonstrators in the Middle East amid growing unrest across Iran. Meanwhile, the president says he may block ExxonMobil from operations in THE COUNTRY IN VENEZUELA AFTER THE COMPANY'S CEO CALLED THE COUNTRY, QUOTE, UNINVESTABLE. WHERE DID WE HEAR THAT BEFORE? WE HEARD IT LAST WEEK. DAVID IGNATIUS REPORTING. I THINK IT IS UNINVESTABLE BECAUSE IT'S TOO DANGEROUS AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE A WHILE TO BRING STABILITY TO THE COUNTRY. WHEN STABILITY COMES TO THE COUNTRY, THEN THEY'LL SEND OIL EXECUTIVES DOWN THERE, BUT THEY DON'T WANT THEIR OIL EXECUTIVES BEATEN UP. THEY DON'T WANT THEIR OIL EXECUTIVES BEATEN UP. THEY DON'T WANT THEIR BIT OF A LITTLE BIT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE STREETS RIGHT NOW. I MEAN, THERE'S BEEN A WARNING CENT, MIKA, OVER THE WEEKEND THAT IF YOU'RE AN AMERICAN, WATCH OUT, GET OUT. THEY ARE COMING OUT OF VENEZUELA BECAUSE THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU. SO WHY WOULD AN OIL COMPANY, WHICH AGAIN, AT SOME POINT, I MEAN, THEY WANT MONEY. THEY'RE IN IT FOR THE MONEY. THEY'RE IN IT FOR THE BOTTOM LINE. THEY JUST UNDERSTAND THAT IF AMERICA IS TELLING AMERICANS, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, THAT YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF VENEZUELA, WHY WOULD THEY SEND THEIR PEOPLE INTO VENEZUELA RIGHT NOW? IT'S GOING TO TAKE A WHILE. UNINVESTABLE.
It comes as he continues to talk about taking control of Greenland one way or another, despite warnings on what that could mean for the future of the NATO partnership. Plus, federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell. We'll show you how he responded. A lot going on on this Monday morning. And with us, we have FOR IT staff writer at The Atlantic, Frank Four, CEO and co-founder of Axios, Jim. Thank you for joining us. Good to have you both. Let's get right to it.
Thousands of people, both in Minneapolis and across the country, hit the streets to protest the recent deadly. Importantly, nearly I.C.E. activity. Nearly every major city saw demonstrations marching in opposition of the immigration crackdown and the death weekend in Minneapolis police Renee-Nicole Good last week. The progressive organization Indivisible said there were more than 1,000 planned. Were detained after a Friday night protest. Most were cited and later a Friday night protest. Most were cited and later released. Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem says hundreds of federal officers are being deployed to some of the officers arrived yesterday. Others will be there today. Noam told Fox News the extra reinforcements are needed to support ICE and Border Patrol operations. She also, she also defended her statements about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good last week.
If they conduct violent activities against law enforcement, if they impede our operations, that's a crime and we will hold them accountable to those consequences. I will remind everyone, Maria, that every single thing that I've said has been factual about what's been going on in Minneapolis, what's been going on in Minnesota and with the incident that we had where we had a tragic loss of life. You know, when you lie about your lies, when you lie about your lies, when you lie about your lies, when you lie about your lies, and this is a trick that over the past 10 years as we've gotten into this new Orwellian sort of sense, you'll have podcasts like, here comes the most honest person of all time, or here comes the greatest historian of all time, and then they'll say that like World War Two was Churchill's fault, or they'll say this is the most honest person I've ever seen in the world, or everything I say is true. You know, Christine Elm right there, Frank Four, says, everything she says is true. No, no, it's just the opposite. You go back to her cowboy hat press conference, everything she said was a lie. Their heads. A couple of things. Absolutely everything.
And while we're looking at the head of DHS, a couple of there are things for President Trump to keep in mind while looking at the person who is running this agency into the ground and running his numbers down on the issue of immigration. Approval of Christie the Genom's ICE itself has plummeted 30 percentage points since she took. I read it in Axios, so I know it's true. It's a YouGov poll and more than half of Americans, 54%, say ICE tactics are too. They are too extreme and only about 25% support the tactics. Frank Four, Americans, they are seeing their streets occupied and they are seeing their streets occupied and they are seeing the, you know, it's so crazy after you, you have the Secretary of Defense, and yes, that's what it is called, Secretary of Defense, talking about quote, fat officers and fat members of the military. How ironic that we we see all of these fat, out-of-shape people that they push through, right? And in how long? Instead of five months, they have these shortened that they have to do training sessions. So they go out there and they are ill-equipped to handle what professional. It's a little bit of all law enforcement officers, the NYPD or the LAPD or any of our law enforcement agencies are equipped to about what they wanted to do, and suddenly tragedy is unfolding on the streets. But we all predicted this was going to happen. We all said these guys, I don't know the basics of law enforcement. Tragedy is going to strike and sure enough, it's striking and ICE numbers are plummeting. I mean, Donald Trump's, I mean, the Wall Street Journal said it last week, even on the one issue that he's always been strong on, immigration. Those numbers are plummeting. Why? Not because of the. It's because of what Christian Ohm is doing with ICE. Right. You have these paramilitary squads being parachuted into cities where they're not welcome. They don't have any of the training that a conventional police officer would have about interacting with the community. They feel besieged. They've been allowed. They are going to operate with this alternative set of rules where their faces are covered, they are operating in these vehicles that are stealth and intended to blend. They feel as if the community around them is hostile to them, which in fact it is hostile to them. And it's a terrible cocktail where you have police officers who aren't up to the job, impossible situation where they have infinite authority and are suddenly confronting huge numbers of citizens who aren't comfortable with the. It is something that I think you could only say has been designed to induce the sort of confrontations that we're seeing right now. Talk about when they're now in Minneapolis.
Well, and Me Caprie, Christine Ohm, ICE, the of the ICE professionals that worked, they did it along the border for the most part. Well, they're border agents. They're not urban. That's the. They are not trained to engage in what is happening now. The NYPD, they know how to do that. They are. They are extraordinarily professional. You look at the L.A.P.D., you look at other police, they are used to that. That's what they are trained for. Under Christie Noem, she has. I don't think it's going to put all of these people that are grossly ill-equipped to do this. New recruits that had a really shortened training time and their breaking protocol right and left. They're breaking procedure right and left. I mean, if you, the much talked about video where everyone is looking at the shots and what the angle was, which is absolutely legitimate to look at, you don't do that. But there's, I mean, from the beginning, the ICE agent is walking in front of the car. You don't do that. The ICE agent is shooting at the car. You don't do that. And then he's carrying a phone, an iPhone and a gun. What ICE agent is fumbling with his phone and a? I don't think it's a weapon. Like, what are you doing? Your family videos along with a weapon? It's nuts. Nobody does this. And you look at the shots that are up there. There are the first shot. You don't like the truth. But here are the shots. Much debate over shot number one. What was she trying to do? And the poor fools that when he had sent out the video of his phone thinking it was going to help him, those poor fools have no idea that they just. He is at the side of the car shooting point-blank inside of the car. Shooting right in her window. And then the third shot, again, side of the car, car, extended, shooting right in her window, point blank. Looks like it's shots, the kill shots, the shots directed straight at her head. Now, we could find out which one of those shots or two shots, I suspect even this officer couldn't have missed from point-blank range, aiming straight at her head from the side. That would get any police officer with any investigation in deep, deep trouble. But what's happened here, Mecha? What's happened here is the feds have swooped in and basically shut down any real investigations. When you have Christie Nome off the top saying, oh, she's a domestic terrorist? Yeah. The same woman that she said, hey, I'm not mad at you. Her last words were good. I'm not mad at you. The woman in the video is she's not screaming, she's not being a radical extremist bent on killing an ICE agent, says Charlie Sykes. Her very last words on that's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you. And even when you see her turning her steering wheel sharply to the. She has the right to avoid him. Look at this. Look, that's what Christie Noem called a. She is turning her steering wheel to the right to avoid the ICE agent who of course is standing. She is turning sharply to the right. And slowly. And slowly. And he shoots her despite the fact she's turning sharply to the right. And slowly. The current of the car, he shoots her at what appears to be at her head at point-blank range from the side of the. Is this justifying this? Is that where America? I I guarantee you this, if there was a 27-year-old Iranian mother that was trying to drive out of an area of protest, and a member of Iran's security forces stuck a gun to the side of her car and shot at her head in point-blank range, oh my God, the world would be up in arms. And Donald Trump, as you will see when we play the clip, would use that as justification for invading Iran. But here you actually have people calling this woman a domestic. I mean, who raised you? Who raised you to celebrate the shooting of a 27-year-old mother, whose last words were those last words were conciliatory and who was trying to leave the scene and not just shooting from the front, side of the car, but just for good measure, aiming twice in her window at the side for two kill shots. Look at shot two. Side of the car, leaning in to shoot at her. And then look at shot three. Again, completely clear of the car. The feds are still aiming to shoot at what appears to be her head. A final kill shot? Well, we really wouldn't know, would we? Because the feds have desperately tried to clean this up as quickly as they could. Taken the investigation away from people who actually might conduct an honest, fair, straight investigation. Instead of having an investigation done when you have the secretary who is responsible for this, calling her a domestic terrorist and calling her a domestic terrorist and talking about snow banks? Like, right after this, wills of justice happened. Getting everything wrong.
Well, listen, I'm too optimistic, but I do think the wills of justice do grind finally and I do think those that are these killings will ultimately be held accountable in the court of law. I just do. We are still, despite the the fact that Christie Noam thinks that ICE agents can shoot whoever they want to shoot from a side window, that's not screwed up. We're going to do what we are at, what you should have be doing right now, what Donald Trump should be doing right now, what the administration should be doing right now is saying, this, this guy screwed up. You know what they should do? They should actually do what Tom Holdman did. Said, I'm not going to. That would be unprofessional. Let's get the investigation on it and then do an honest and fair and straight investigation and then the chips fall where they may. And if there was somebody who was untrained, somebody who made a mistake, somebody who made a deadly mistake, well, well, you actually announce that in your investigation. And I know this is hard for people in the White House to understand. That would actually make you were an honest and fair broker instead of lying immediately, talking about snow banks, talking about people trapped, talking about to be a Democrat domestic terrorist for this 37-year-old woman who was being conciliatory until she she drew her last breath.