1 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: Hour two Twin Cities News Talk at AM eleven thirty 2 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:15,680 Speaker 1: one oh three five FM, Tina Smith went and endorsed 3 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,959 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan a successor for her open US 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: Senate seat. That race is getting spicy. We'll talk a 5 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 1: little bit more about that later on in the show. 6 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: Also this evening, caucuses are going on precinct caucuses. GOP 7 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:37,600 Speaker 1: Chairman Alex plus us will pleckish excuse me, We'll be 8 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: joining us just after our seven thirty this morning. Minnesota 9 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,920 Speaker 1: precin caucuses offer first venue for voters and chock full 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six campaign. We're only a couple of weeks 11 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: out from the start of the legislative session. That's going 12 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: to be bananas. 13 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,040 Speaker 2: I'm going to start using that more. I'll spare you 14 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 2: the audio for right now. 15 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: All right, before we get into this dame decision to 16 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:03,319 Speaker 1: do the right thing and deport themselves, let's go back 17 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:04,839 Speaker 1: to the iHeart Radio app. 18 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 3: Have you seen the movie A House that Dynamite? 19 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 4: I want your opinion on it if you. 20 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,960 Speaker 1: Had random question, But yes, I have seen that. I'm 21 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: actually quite the fan of Catherine Bigelow. The director just 22 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: did a rewatch of zero Dark thirty. Over the weekend, 23 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,240 Speaker 1: We've been on this kick of true life stories as 24 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: of like dramatizations. 25 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 2: I mentioned The Big Short. 26 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 5: The other day. 27 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,720 Speaker 2: I quite liked A House of Dynamite. 28 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: It tells one story from different viewpoints, and I thought 29 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:37,040 Speaker 1: it was good. 30 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 2: And it's the end kind of fell apart. That's the 31 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,319 Speaker 2: part of it that I had. I thought I was. 32 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 1: Really really enjoying it, and then at the end, it's 33 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:49,000 Speaker 1: almost like they couldn't figure out exactly how they wanted 34 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: to end it. I don't mind ending likes that like 35 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: or in that film. Not to spoil anything, it's a 36 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: bit inconclusive. That being said, a movie. 37 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 2: That had really grabbed me and drew me in. 38 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 1: I was waiting for a payoff at the end, and 39 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 1: it did not come, unfortunately. So hope that helps. I 40 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 1: might give it a rewatch though. All right, let's go here. 41 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:16,320 Speaker 1: Segundo's family kept watching the street, afraid to leave the house, 42 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: writes the opening line in the Strip Star Tribune article. 43 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: Tired of living in fear, this family decided to deport themselves. Segundo, 44 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 1: forty three, and his wife Maria. They're keeping their their 45 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: names anonymous, and that's just going with their first names. 46 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,440 Speaker 1: Segundo forty three and his wife Maria forty and their 47 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: five children were on a path to legal status and 48 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 1: say their immigration case was up to date, but the 49 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 1: Ecuadorian family was increasingly afraid to go to work, school, 50 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: or to the store for food and diapers for their grandson. 51 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,399 Speaker 1: It's so sad that democrats have created this climate of fear. 52 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,839 Speaker 1: It sounds like they were in no jeopardy at least 53 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: according to the story. On January twenty third, Segundo, Maria, 54 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: and their youngest son, Jarro, who was fourteen too young 55 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 1: to work, made the difficult decision to return to Ecuador. 56 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:12,519 Speaker 1: The move came after months of deliberation and a sudden 57 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:14,360 Speaker 1: deportation of immediate family members. 58 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 2: They are among the estimated tens of thousands. 59 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 1: Of immigrants who have left the US voluntarily in the 60 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: past year rather than risk detainment and deportation. 61 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 5: It's as if a million liberals suddenly cried out in terror, 62 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 5: were suddenly silenced over the loss of illegal immigrants here 63 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 5: in the United States. 64 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: Why do you think they're fighting so hard? Why do 65 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: you think there's so much funding going on relating and 66 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: we have the article to back that up a little 67 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 1: bit later on in the show. Over at Alpha News, 68 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: they have a brand new piece up Minnesota Ice anti 69 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: ice activists three point three million dollars they've received from 70 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: Soros back to charity, according to the Daily Caller News Foundation, 71 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:59,400 Speaker 1: as reprinted in Alpha News, three point three million Soros 72 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: back charity Minnesota anti activists. 73 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 2: That's right. 74 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 1: But this is why they're pushing so hard against this 75 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: because Democrats had hoped to allow in millions of individuals 76 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: illegally into the country, only to eventually give them voting 77 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: status so they could hopefully go and remain in power 78 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: for eternity. I mean, that's just the endgame in all 79 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: of this, and yet individuals like this sad tales for Democrats. 80 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 1: Maybe they should stop fear mongering so much. It's not 81 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: helping their cause. 82 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:32,720 Speaker 2: The family came to the US in twenty twenty one. 83 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: They crossed the border near Eagle Pass, Texas to seek asylum. 84 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: Asylum cases are always a long shot, the article goes 85 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: on to say, so on advice of an attorney, the 86 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:43,280 Speaker 1: family dropped of their claim and instead applied for you 87 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 1: VISUS temporary legal status for crime victims. 88 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 2: That is a pathway to permanent residency. 89 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,799 Speaker 1: About a year ago, Segundo unfortunately began struggling with chronic 90 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: kidney infection that he believes were the result of a 91 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: previous work injury. I am curious if that work injury 92 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:02,240 Speaker 1: was prior to the arrival twenty twenty one. 93 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,479 Speaker 2: To the United States. Was that injury someplace else? 94 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:04,560 Speaker 6: Like? 95 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:08,839 Speaker 1: Did he come here with that injury here to the 96 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:09,480 Speaker 1: United States. 97 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 2: It's interesting. 98 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: By late December, the risk of being detained and deported 99 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:21,520 Speaker 1: and Segundo's ongoing health problems increasingly worried his family in Ecuador, 100 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: so they decided. 101 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 2: To deport themselves. Oh good on them. 102 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: Families and friends gathered with Segundo and Maria and Jarro 103 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,719 Speaker 1: the night before their final for their flight to say goodbye. 104 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: The mood was solemn, with a thank you, speeches and songs. 105 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: The transition has been hard for the fourteen year old, 106 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 1: who says I'm at school and his friends and going 107 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:45,120 Speaker 1: to places like Walmart and Mall of America. Says he 108 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: has plans to return in twenty thirty. Then I'll be 109 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: eighteen and there will be a new president. 110 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:52,719 Speaker 2: JD. Evans. 111 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:55,359 Speaker 1: By the way, this happens all the time. Relating to kids. 112 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: I mean, they didn't really make it a sob story 113 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:00,360 Speaker 1: in the article. I want to be fair in terms 114 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: of my coverage here, but when it comes to this 115 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,000 Speaker 1: fourteen year old missing friends and going to places he 116 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: used to be able to go because the family is moving. 117 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:13,039 Speaker 2: Families move all the time, it's not a not a 118 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:13,479 Speaker 2: big deal. 119 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: Segundo was sorry to leave the United States, but he 120 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 1: doesn't have any animosity toward their adopted home. I understand 121 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: this hate is not from the people, It's from the 122 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:27,679 Speaker 1: federal government. Segundo said. Oh, Segundo is so misguided. Every 123 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: country has good and bad people. When people do bad things, 124 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: good people suffer. There is no hate coming from the people. 125 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: He's right on that, but there's also no hate coming 126 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: from the federal government or a nation of laws that 127 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: we need to follow. 128 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,040 Speaker 2: They didn't follow. They were trying to follow the rules, and. 129 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:53,120 Speaker 1: As I mentioned, it seems as if if they had stayed, probably. 130 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 2: Wouldn't have been a problem. 131 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:01,720 Speaker 1: But the Democrat machine, being racked up at full strength 132 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: as it is, perpetuating this anti Ice propaganda, anti conservative, 133 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: anti Trump, and the Trump Arrangement syndrome, created. 134 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 2: This culture of fear. 135 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: And these individuals decided it was no longer expedient for 136 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 1: them to stay here in the country, so they left. No, 137 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: there's no hate from the federal government. Again, it's just 138 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 1: the laws that we keep, and it's I've got and 139 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: I don't have time to get to all of them. 140 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 1: I have almost I'm almost considering doing like a daily 141 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 1: let's go into the mind of a liberal segment on 142 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: the show. Maybe you can make it sponsored, because I 143 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: have a stack of articles from local publications of those 144 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 1: on the left attempting to go and create arguments against 145 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: what ICE is doing, and yet they never ever provide 146 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: any examples. I've got an amazing one. As a matter 147 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 1: of fact, you know, I'll go ahead and get into 148 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: it now. First off, just to sort of dovetail off 149 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: that article in This Family self Deporting. 150 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:15,360 Speaker 2: A new poll that was. 151 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: Just released shows a nearly super majority of Americans want 152 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: mass deportations to continue, sixty one to thirty four percent. 153 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: Fifty eight percent of pose defunding ICE. Oppose defunding ICE 154 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: you insurrectionist lunatics. Fifty four percent one ICE to continue operations. 155 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: Seventy three percent say entering the United States without legal 156 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: permission is breaking the law. John Feelan centered the American 157 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: Experiment Channel five poll finds the Minnesota's Minnesotan's favor local 158 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: law enforcement helping federal immigration. For what it's worth, the 159 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 1: left of the Democrats, the DF what have you believe? 160 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:05,199 Speaker 1: That the majority are on the side of the rand 161 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: of the radical anti ice insurrectionists. Hollywood follows in lockstep 162 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: ridiculous commentary from Billie Eilish, No one is illegal, love 163 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: stolen land. Everybody makes the appropriate comments relating to that 164 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: are just how stupid a comment like that is. And 165 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: yet you have the crowd there, the same crowd that 166 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:30,960 Speaker 1: stood up and cheered for Don Lemon. Christ you know 167 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: who is Christina Carpenter? 168 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 2: Is that her name? 169 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:34,480 Speaker 1: Is that her name? 170 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 2: She's up there so brief so brieve. 171 00:09:40,880 --> 00:09:44,199 Speaker 1: Because those individuals, just as a side note in Hollywood, 172 00:09:44,679 --> 00:09:47,959 Speaker 1: they know that regardless for the most part of all 173 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: the upheaval that takes place, they see the world through 174 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:58,440 Speaker 1: this hunger game's lens. The left goes and creates the 175 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: foot soldiers to prepare situate the dystopian nightmare completely concocted 176 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: by radical liberals to which they are akin to say 177 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: pan m in the hunger games, as if to say 178 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: that they are shielded from the peasants they don't have 179 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:22,640 Speaker 1: to worry about because I'm pretty sure, as many people 180 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 1: have mentioned, that Billie Eilish is not going to go 181 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 1: and allow illegals to live in her multimillion dollar mansion, 182 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,959 Speaker 1: which is also resting on stolen land according to her. 183 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 1: There's a piece of the Minnesota Reformer though to my point, 184 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 1: the very people tasked with defending civil rights are ignoring 185 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: those rights. 186 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 2: This is the headline of the article. 187 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:49,400 Speaker 1: The Constitution is a compact that people made to allow 188 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: themselves to be governed, not rule. This is written by 189 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: a Tim Sullivan. Tim Sullivan is a lifelong Minnesota resident. 190 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:59,360 Speaker 1: He graduated from Carlton College and the University of Minnesota 191 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: Law School, been practicing law for almost forty years. Once again, 192 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 1: it just proves that you can go through a lot 193 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: of schooling and still be a moron. 194 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 2: This is a length vpiece. 195 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: It's about three pages long, but you really only need 196 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: to read a couple of paragraphs because I went through 197 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 1: this entire piece so that you didn't have to. 198 00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 2: Let me give you the. 199 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,679 Speaker 1: Gist of what he did or more specifically, didn't do, 200 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: It starts off, we have a constitution in federal laws 201 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: that should allow for peaceful protesting, security in our homes, 202 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 1: and law enforcement that doesn't threaten, coerce, or intimidate while 203 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 1: we exercise our rights, including their rights to go to school, 204 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: move freely, and dine peaceably. Which listen there. I could 205 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:50,319 Speaker 1: spend the next forty five minutes on that opening statement alone. 206 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:52,560 Speaker 1: I mean the comments in here, there's so many of 207 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: just ridiculous assertions to push back on the coercing. What 208 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,959 Speaker 1: brings about that coercing exercising rights? You have a right 209 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 1: to peaceful assembly, You don't have a right to go 210 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: and protest dine peaceably? What about the individuals who were 211 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 1: dining only to have a bunch of radicals outside the window, 212 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: profile them mistakenly as ice and begin to disrupt that 213 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: lunch that they were having. 214 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,079 Speaker 2: He goes on to right, But when you get on. 215 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: The wrong side of the executive branch that controls the 216 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:25,440 Speaker 1: paramilitary and other armed law enforcement agents, the Department of 217 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: Justice that could and should be safeguarding rights can be 218 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: turned into persecutors not protectors. Well, he gave the appropriate 219 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 1: line at the beginning of that statement. The wrong side 220 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: of the executive branch, meaning the wrong side of what's 221 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: actually been happening is the side that's been breaking the law. Now, again, 222 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: the headline of the peace was the very people tasked 223 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: with defending civil rights are ignoring those rights. Okay, so 224 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:58,480 Speaker 1: you would expect that you would have a litany of 225 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: examples of rights being ignored. So those are the first 226 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 1: two sentences. You then get some ten paragraphs basically consisting 227 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: of an info dump relating to law enforcement, reviewing the laws, 228 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: relating to conduct how all this stuff works. 229 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 2: Okay, that's all that it is. It's an info dump. 230 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: There's no editorial, there's no examples of what's happening locally. 231 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:26,839 Speaker 2: In this piece. 232 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: And again it's more than half of the article. And 233 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: then you get this line, we can see with our 234 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: own eyes that there are anonymous federal agents acting contrary 235 00:13:36,559 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 1: to these requirements. 236 00:13:38,679 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 2: Spoiler alert. He gives no examples. 237 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: He then does four more paragraphs with no examples, just 238 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:51,040 Speaker 1: talking about the rights of individuals, the rights of people 239 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: assembling in public. But again, the whole point was the 240 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: headline civil rights are being ignored. Still has not provided 241 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: an examples. Towards the end of the piece, based off 242 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: what we're seeing, we can't identify agents. We don't know 243 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: what has been taught or what has been learned. There's 244 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 1: no accessible database in Minnesota to prove ice agents in 245 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: Minnesota have sufficient critical thinking skills or adequate information on 246 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: immigration law the Fourth Amendment to act properly in the 247 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 1: environment which they find themselves. And yet he still provides 248 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 1: no examples to draw from in order to justify why 249 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: you would need a database. He then says, the very 250 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: people who are supposed to be trained in task with 251 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: defending civil rights are the ones ignoring those rights and 252 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: responsibilities and perverting their power right down to claiming the 253 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: right to even break down doors and enter homes without 254 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: a warrant by a judge. So he's citing an example here, 255 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 1: but he doesn't give the example. He doesn't give the context, 256 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: he doesn't give the story details. He just shotguns the 257 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: information out there as if the reader is supposed to 258 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 1: accept it as being blanket truth. 259 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 2: And then it wraps on this. 260 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 1: In the male strum of these times, another set of 261 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 1: laws comes to mind, the laws on vulnerable adult abuse, 262 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: people who are subject to being forced, compelled, coerced, or 263 00:15:10,720 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 1: enticed to perform services for the advantage of another are 264 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 1: vulnerable adults. Seems like this is apples to a vastest 265 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: swath of Congress. Their mental and moral competency is in question, 266 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:28,000 Speaker 1: their complicity is apparent. 267 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:28,520 Speaker 2: That's it. 268 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: You had three pages and not once did this individual 269 00:15:34,240 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 1: Tim Sullivan, a lawyer of forty years, provide a single 270 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:48,600 Speaker 1: example of rights being violated or ignored. And this is 271 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: what passes the editorial staff at places like the Minnesota Reformer. 272 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: It's just propaganda. You just go and place whatever you're 273 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: annoyed by on to my massive info dump to try 274 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 1: to justify why you think it's bad. It kind of 275 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: says a lot about the great job that ICE is doing. 276 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:15,520 Speaker 2: Thank you Ice. 277 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: Because these guys can't come up with a single example. 278 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:20,680 Speaker 1: I have another one that I know have time to 279 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: get into now that we'll spend some time on on 280 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: another show. The massive deployment of federal immigration agents here 281 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: would appall the founders of the country. And it's a 282 00:16:31,880 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: typical leftist view. It's the gun, not the person. It's 283 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: the car's ability to go fast, not the lack of 284 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 1: self control of the driver. And this is the same 285 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: thing in this piece from the Minnesota Reformer. There is 286 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: no examples of which to go and draw upon to 287 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 1: make the claims that he makes about how any of 288 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 1: this would appall the Founding Fathers. 289 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:55,600 Speaker 2: You know what I think would actually go and appall 290 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 2: the Founding Fathers. 291 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: It's the way that some of these anti ice insurrections 292 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: and are acting on the streets of Minneapolis, setting up 293 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: these blockades that people now have to go through. Those 294 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: are rights being violated by everyday citizens. Minneapolis police seem 295 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: helpless to go and take them down. We'll dive into 296 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:17,960 Speaker 1: the details of this. We'll get to your talkbacks as well. 297 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 1: It's all coming up on Twin Cities News Talk Don't 298 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: Go Anywhere, John Justice, Twin Cities News fantastic talk radio host. 299 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 2: Good Morning, John. 300 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 7: Just wanted to call and stress the importance that everyone, 301 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 7: especially in Minneapolis, attend They're increasing caucuses this evening because 302 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 7: the only way any of this changes is active participation. 303 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: We'll actually be talking with Minnesota GOP chair Alex Pleckish 304 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: coming up just after the bottom of the hour. Thank 305 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,280 Speaker 1: you for the talkback, and I agree we'll dive into 306 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,000 Speaker 1: tonight's caucuses. 307 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:00,920 Speaker 2: Let's go back to the iHeartRadio app. 308 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: These are brought to you by Lyndahl Realty here on 309 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:06,679 Speaker 1: Twin City's News Talk. Hey John Dan from Lake City, 310 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: quick question, if no one is illegal on stolen land, 311 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: how can the land be stolen? 312 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,199 Speaker 2: If no one is illegal? That is a question? That 313 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 2: is that isn't That is an excellent point. It's almost 314 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 2: as if. 315 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 5: These Hollywood types He's elitists, these musicians and actors, it's 316 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:28,160 Speaker 5: almost like they don't know what they're talking about. 317 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: Kind of like Tim Sullivan in that editorial that I 318 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: just shared shared with you. They all think they're so clever, 319 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: they really really do, but they're not. 320 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,679 Speaker 8: There's a difference between the progressive left and the radical left. 321 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 8: This Tim Sullivan is an example of the progressive left. 322 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:50,160 Speaker 8: They believe in the rule of law, but they only 323 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 8: believe in the laws that they feel are just. The 324 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 8: radical left just wants to tear all. 325 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:56,359 Speaker 2: Of the laws down. 326 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:59,560 Speaker 8: But this is an example of he doesn't feel that 327 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 8: I laws are just, so they don't want to follow them. 328 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that's a really good point. I think there is. 329 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: You know, I think it's getting a little foggy over 330 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:14,679 Speaker 1: progressive left and radical left these days. There's not a 331 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 1: lot of daylight between the different descriptions. 332 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:21,440 Speaker 2: More than everybody. It's Chad and Delano. Chad. 333 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 6: So that article you were just talking about, I wonder 334 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 6: if you was equally concerned when the Minneapolis Police Department 335 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 6: was fast tracking police officers of different nationalities to become 336 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 6: a police officer and one of them ended up shooting 337 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,920 Speaker 6: a lady right out of the window of his car. 338 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,720 Speaker 6: I wonder what his story was after that one. 339 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,679 Speaker 4: Anyway, Yes, relating to these people that are setting up 340 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 4: blockades and asking people for identification and not allowing proople 341 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,719 Speaker 4: to travel on public roads, isn't that a form of 342 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 4: impersonating an officer? And I've believe there should be charges 343 00:20:01,359 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 4: when people are impersonating the authority of officers. 344 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:07,080 Speaker 2: Something needs to be done about it. 345 00:20:07,119 --> 00:20:11,640 Speaker 1: I was pleased to see this morning at least there 346 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: was the dismantling of one of these anti ice insurrectionist 347 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 1: blockades that took place. So will we will we will 348 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,120 Speaker 1: dive back into that issue. I'm coming up a little 349 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: bit till later on in the show. Let me just 350 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,399 Speaker 1: share this with you briefly, and then we'll be talking 351 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: with our guests coming up in the next segment. Alex Pleckish, 352 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,359 Speaker 1: but it was announced yesterday and I'm working off of 353 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 1: the version here from Cara Levin, that every Homeland Security 354 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,439 Speaker 1: officer on the ground of Minneapolis, including those from Migrations 355 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: and Customs enforcement, will immediately be issued body Warren cameras. 356 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:52,360 Speaker 1: Secretary Christy Nomes said this yesterday. Nome said the body 357 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: warn camera program is being expanded nationwide as funding becomes available. 358 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:01,120 Speaker 1: We will rapidly acquire and deploy body cameras law enforcement 359 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,320 Speaker 1: across the country. Of course, the news of the cameras 360 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,600 Speaker 1: comes as Minneapolis continues to be a place of intense 361 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,240 Speaker 1: scrutiny over ICE. Be careful what you wish for anti 362 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:17,280 Speaker 1: ICE insurrectionists. ICE probably should have had body cameras already. 363 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 2: Be that as it may. 364 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,640 Speaker 1: Now the lunatics on the streets won't have the only 365 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: cameras documenting their criminal behaviors when they obstruct ICE. I 366 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,919 Speaker 1: know there was some call for body cameras, although it 367 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: seems as if that never really caught on with the insurrectionists, 368 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:35,159 Speaker 1: and it's for the very reason. 369 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:35,719 Speaker 2: That I just mentioned. 370 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: It's good that the agents, our federal agents will have 371 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,040 Speaker 1: these body cameras because now you are going to have 372 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: a plethora of camera footage to go and watch where 373 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 1: we can actually see in further detail how these anti 374 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: ICE agitators are obstructing the lawful work of our ICE agents. 375 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:00,879 Speaker 1: Minnesota precinct to caucuses offer first venue for voters in 376 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,800 Speaker 1: chock full twenty twenty six campaign. Republican Party Chair Alex 377 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,560 Speaker 1: prec Pleckish Excuse me, Alex Pleckish will join us next 378 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,879 Speaker 1: here on Twin City's News Talk Am eleven thirty and 379 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:19,560 Speaker 1: one on three five FM. Scrambled races for the US Senate, 380 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:27,280 Speaker 1: Minnesota governor, ongoing immigration operations lend to more unpredictability for 381 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 1: tonight's precinct caucuses that serve as the starting line for 382 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:37,120 Speaker 1: voters and a possible winnowing point for candidates. 383 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 2: Joining us now on the show. 384 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 1: To talk about the precinct to caucuses this evening, Republican 385 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 1: Party Chair Alex Pleckish, Good morning, Alex, thank you so 386 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:46,360 Speaker 1: much for coming. 387 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 2: On the show. 388 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 3: Good morning, John, and thank you for having me. 389 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 9: So. 390 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 1: I have some top bacs that have rolled in that 391 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: I'm going to address once we're done with our conversations. 392 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: Some people would like some further information and details on 393 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: the important of the caucuses and how they work. And 394 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,160 Speaker 1: you know, it turns out that a lot of individuals, 395 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,320 Speaker 1: you know, even though they've been partaking in politics for 396 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 1: a long time, in voting in elections, never really got 397 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:16,440 Speaker 1: involved in the caucus process. And while again after our conversation, 398 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 1: I'll get into more of the minutihow, I would love 399 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 1: to hear from you and your thoughts on why getting 400 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 1: involved in your precinct caucuses this evening is so important 401 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: to the election process. 402 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:34,119 Speaker 3: Well, thanks again for the question of the caucauses is 403 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 3: where everything begins as far as the political season, and 404 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 3: by the season, I don't mean just this election season, 405 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 3: you know, leading up eventually to November, but over the 406 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 3: next two years. If you have an interest in issues 407 00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 3: and who gets elected and what can be done about 408 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 3: the things that you care about, the place that start 409 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,880 Speaker 3: is at the caucus. So to your listeners, anybody who's 410 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 3: ever been to one, it's not any big mystery or 411 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 3: black box. Just show up to your caucus tonight. Of course, 412 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,199 Speaker 3: you'll have to look up where your caucus is. You 413 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:15,040 Speaker 3: can find it at MNGP dot com or the SOS website. 414 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,119 Speaker 3: You know, the statewide and just listen to nothing else. 415 00:24:19,440 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 3: And one of the big draws for going tonight, this 416 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:26,240 Speaker 3: is done every four years, is we have a gubernatorial 417 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:31,359 Speaker 3: straw ballot where people can show who they prefer. It's 418 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,000 Speaker 3: kind of an early indicator, and we have a very 419 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,879 Speaker 3: robust slate of candidates to shire. I think at current 420 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,399 Speaker 3: count we're about thirteen different candidates running for governor. So 421 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 3: there will be a straw ballot at the caucus tonight. 422 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 3: That is the first order of business. That alone should 423 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 3: draw people in. But just show up, you know, listen 424 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 3: what cast your ballot, and that's the start of the season. 425 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. 426 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 1: It is one of those circumstances where you know, even 427 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:57,719 Speaker 1: if you don't want to get involved with it's your 428 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: first time if you're new. I just show up this 429 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 1: evening and kind of watch how everything goes in and 430 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,919 Speaker 1: plays out. And for those that are online on x 431 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 1: I've just reposted information about tonight's caucus where you can 432 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: go find that information as Alex Pleckish was just mentioning, 433 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: So if you follow at TC news Talk or my 434 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: account at John Justice Joen you can find the information there. 435 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: For example, Alex, I got an email from a friend 436 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: of the show also goes by John who wrote this 437 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: to me, ask your viewers, or I guess in this case, listeners, 438 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 1: what resolutions they are bringing to the caucus. They write, 439 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,359 Speaker 1: My two are a US census should only include US 440 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 1: citizens and that an ultrasound must be performed before an 441 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:51,000 Speaker 1: abortion is performed. How does this process work in terms 442 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: of in the case of what this listener of the 443 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,199 Speaker 1: show wrote when bringing you know your own resolutions and 444 00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 1: issues to the table to the table to precing caucus. 445 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:03,080 Speaker 2: Alex Well, that was. 446 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 3: An excellent question by one of your listeners. So one 447 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 3: of the things that occurs that every caucus is that 448 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:16,679 Speaker 3: people from the community can come in and profer a resolution, 449 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 3: which is basically will end up in the Republican platform. 450 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 3: And so what happens is all these ideas and the 451 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 3: two that you just mentioned I think are outstanding ideas, frankly, 452 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 3: but these sorts of resolutions are presented by people all 453 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 3: around the state and that gets moved forward to the 454 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 3: congressional district level where they collect all these different resolutions 455 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,920 Speaker 3: and there's a committee that takes a look at them, 456 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 3: combines them if they're very similar or the same thing, 457 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,479 Speaker 3: and eventually it goes to the state Convention, which this 458 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:49,400 Speaker 3: year is going to be the last weekend in May. 459 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:52,720 Speaker 3: One of the things that's conducted at the state convention 460 00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 3: is a debate about which of these ideas should be 461 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 3: inserted into the Republican platform, and of course the platform 462 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 3: them becomes the foundation for all of our legislators to 463 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,480 Speaker 3: say we subscribe to these ideas. It can get complex, 464 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 3: but the first place where you can submit your idea 465 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 3: is right tonight at the caucus again. 466 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 1: Talking with the Republican Party Chair Alex Pleckish, and it's 467 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 1: a good. 468 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 2: Opportunity to to get. 469 00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 1: A real gauge on where, you know, where voters heads 470 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,679 Speaker 1: are at, you know, with your within your own party. 471 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 2: It's tough. 472 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: We've got a lot of misinformation, you know, that's being spread, 473 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: so much attention on the ice operations and the fraud 474 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 1: here in Minnesota. Everybody seems to have an opinion on 475 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: what kind of impact this is going to have on 476 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: this year's elections, and this these caucuses tonight, at least 477 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: in my opinion, Alex do provide a good opportunity to 478 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: go and talk with fellow Republicans and voters and get 479 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 1: sort of a real gauge on where individuals, you know, 480 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,679 Speaker 1: heads are at and you know the views of what 481 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,640 Speaker 1: may happen later this year, because often what we find 482 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 1: out is shocking. I know, what we end up reading 483 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: and what dominates the headlines and what we see online 484 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,679 Speaker 1: isn't always indicative of the political reality that we're faced 485 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:11,879 Speaker 1: with here in Minnesota. 486 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 3: Well, that's for sure. And again i'd like to reiterate 487 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,360 Speaker 3: that for all of your listeners who are in Minnesota, 488 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 3: all of them, I would encourage you to go to 489 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 3: your caucus tonight. You know, I'm sitting here as a chair now. 490 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 3: But never in my wildest imagination would I have thought 491 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,560 Speaker 3: i'd be the chairman of the Republican Party for the state. 492 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,399 Speaker 3: I was not even politically involved at all up until 493 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,520 Speaker 3: about twenty two years ago. When I had a little 494 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:42,320 Speaker 3: story that led me to the caucus. I thought, Okay, 495 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 3: I've had it with this. I've got to get involved. 496 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 3: How do you get involved? Will you go to a caucus? Well, 497 00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,600 Speaker 3: at that point I had no idea what a caucus was. 498 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 3: But I attended my first caucus right here in Wisetta, 499 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:55,479 Speaker 3: and the rest is history. 500 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: Republican Party Chair Alex pleckish, I'm going to talk a 501 00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 1: little bit more about this and get into the minutia. 502 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 2: But thank you so much for the time this morning. 503 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: Anything you would like to mention before I let you 504 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 1: go this morning about tonight's events. 505 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 3: Oh gosh, there's so many things I'd like to get into, 506 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 3: but I will just leave you with that one lingering 507 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 3: thought that if your listeners hearing this right now, look 508 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 3: up where the caucus is tonight, and if you can go, 509 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 3: please go. 510 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 7: Yeah. 511 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 1: We hear a lot from people, how can I get involved? 512 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 2: What can I do? 513 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,720 Speaker 1: This is your starting point right now, and as you mentioned, Alex, 514 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: you know, not just for this year, but moving ahead 515 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: as well. 516 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:34,320 Speaker 2: Thank you for the time this morning. 517 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: I hope that all of the precincts have a fantastic 518 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 1: turnout this evening. And it's always great to speak with you. 519 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 3: Okay, take care, Joe bye. 520 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 9: Hey John. 521 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,240 Speaker 10: When you get into your caucus segment, there, can you 522 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 10: explain like you're trying to explain to a five year old, 523 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 10: what the process is, what it does, and what benefit 524 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 10: comes from it? Because I'm almost fifty and I have 525 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 10: no idea what this caucus is. They don't teach you 526 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 10: this in school. They don't tell you about it anywhere, 527 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:10,840 Speaker 10: but they keep saying caucus that, and I got no clue. 528 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,360 Speaker 1: Well, let's give you a clue. Let's get into it. 529 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: So in a nutshell, these are neighborhood gatherings. They're held 530 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 1: all around the state. They all begin at the same time, 531 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: seven o'clock this evening. There are thousands of individual caucuses. 532 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,479 Speaker 1: Some of these are held in school buildings, community centers, 533 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: or town halls. They're locations that play host to multiple 534 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 1: political parties all in the same building. And again, if 535 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: you follow me on x you can get the information 536 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 1: necessary on where to go and find where your caucus is. 537 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 1: If you go to the GOP website. There's a link 538 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: that's available there as well. So there are speeches, sometimes 539 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 1: party leaders or candidates show up. Participants at the caucus 540 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 1: vote in non binding strapholes listing candidates for governors, so 541 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,080 Speaker 1: you kind of get a gauge of where everybody's head 542 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: is at. They discuss party platform planks for consideration at 543 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,640 Speaker 1: the Spring state conventions, and I'll run through how the 544 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: whole process works all the way till election day here 545 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:08,000 Speaker 1: in just a moment. 546 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,600 Speaker 2: Delegates to future conventions. 547 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 1: In local and state conventions are drawn from a pool 548 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 1: of caucus attendees who seek to support the support of 549 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:22,400 Speaker 1: their neighbors to move on parties that parties operate the caucuses, 550 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:25,560 Speaker 1: major parties must hold them, although there are also state 551 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: laws that govern the minimum standards as well. Any voter 552 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,800 Speaker 1: can attend the caucus of the party that they align with. Politically, 553 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:40,400 Speaker 1: Minnesota doesn't have party registration, but attendance forms do require 554 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: people to attest that they generally share the principles of 555 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: the party. People can only participate in one party's caucus 556 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 1: each and every single year. Younger Minnesotans can also participate 557 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: in the DFL and Republican Party. Sixteen year olds can attend, 558 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,920 Speaker 1: so it's a good opportunity if you want to get 559 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 1: your you know, your kid who's too young to go 560 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,280 Speaker 1: and actually vote involved and kind of get them up 561 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,560 Speaker 1: to speed in the process. But to get elected party, 562 00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 1: but to get elected to the party officer positions, you 563 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,320 Speaker 1: have to be eighteen at the time of the general election. 564 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: Employers are required to offer time offer people who would 565 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 1: otherwise be scheduled to work during caucus time, as long 566 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: as sufficient notice is given by an employee. There's also 567 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,959 Speaker 1: an absentee option for voters in the Republican Party that 568 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 1: requires a person to fill out a form as well. 569 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 1: Party leaders have issued guidance that there will be constitutional 570 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: observers on hand in case of ICE activity. Come on, 571 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,960 Speaker 1: I'm working off the version here from Channel eleven. You 572 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: got to be kidding me anyway to perpetuate the propaganda 573 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: right unbelievable. 574 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 2: And get believable. 575 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:57,520 Speaker 1: So, because they are party run functions, the major parties 576 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,720 Speaker 1: will usually list the information on their pages. So you 577 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 1: have the DFL, the GOP, Grassroots Legalized Cannabis Party, the 578 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:08,440 Speaker 1: Forward Independence Party, the Libertarian Party, and the Legalized Marijuana 579 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:12,760 Speaker 1: Now exclamation Point Party. The Secretary of State's Office also 580 00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:17,440 Speaker 1: maintains the location where an address search is available, although 581 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,720 Speaker 1: I saw that some people were having a hard time 582 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: accessing that website. This is me sitting here, not shocked 583 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,360 Speaker 1: as I talk to you. Only the race for governor 584 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: will be on the party preference of ballots. That's because 585 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 1: it's required by law to be listed. Neither Republicans nor 586 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,360 Speaker 1: the DFL decided to add their internal US contests to 587 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:37,959 Speaker 1: the ballot. 588 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:39,440 Speaker 2: The results are not binding. 589 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 1: People who express a preference for one candidate or another 590 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 1: can go on to back others later. In practice, though, 591 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: the outcome can do more to winnow down. 592 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:50,160 Speaker 2: The field than anything. 593 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 1: Candidates who can't muster much support to tend to see 594 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,320 Speaker 1: fundraising dry up and sometimes leave the race soon after. 595 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 1: It can also provide momentum for candidates see in the 596 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,840 Speaker 1: top tier or breaking away from the pack. And this 597 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,080 Speaker 1: is why it's good to have a robust turnout at 598 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:10,759 Speaker 1: these caucuses, because you need a good sample size of 599 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,319 Speaker 1: individuals because people take this seriously. And I know there's 600 00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:17,960 Speaker 1: individuals that find frustration with that, and I understand it. 601 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,680 Speaker 1: But if you have a good caucus turnout, then you 602 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:24,360 Speaker 1: have a better gauge to determine the appetite that people 603 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,080 Speaker 1: have for a particular candidate. So one more item of note, 604 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,800 Speaker 1: just looking at the entire process from starting this evening 605 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,400 Speaker 1: all the way to the end, it goes like this. 606 00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: So in your precinct caucus, eight delegates and precinct officers 607 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:42,279 Speaker 1: submit resolutions and conduct drap holes for state white candidates. 608 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 2: Then you move into later in the year. 609 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:51,360 Speaker 1: To the BPOU con convention precinct to delegates right elected 610 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,399 Speaker 1: at the caucus attend the convention to endorse the state 611 00:34:55,440 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 1: candidates elect to CD six and other state delegate to 612 00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:03,919 Speaker 1: vote on resolutions and review the party platform. And hat 613 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,280 Speaker 1: tip to Michael Holstrom who shared this online that I'm 614 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,240 Speaker 1: pulling the information from. Then you get to the district convention, 615 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,319 Speaker 1: delegates attend to endorse a congressional candidate, vote on resolutions, 616 00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 1: and review the party platform. 617 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:18,400 Speaker 2: Then there's the state convention. 618 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,160 Speaker 1: State delegates attend to endorse the government you a governor, 619 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 1: US Senate candidate, vote on resolutions, and review the party platform. 620 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:27,880 Speaker 2: And then you get to the national convention. 621 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:33,040 Speaker 1: National delegates attend endorse a presidential candidate every four years. 622 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:33,719 Speaker 2: So there you go. 623 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 1: That is your caucus in a nutshell here on Twin 624 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:39,759 Speaker 1: Cities News Talk. 625 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,719 Speaker 2: All right, let's go here. 626 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:51,799 Speaker 1: With federal immigration operations still dominating international headlines, DFL state 627 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:57,000 Speaker 1: lawmakers are planning to introduce legislation later this month that 628 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,160 Speaker 1: would make it easier for Minnesota residents to sue the 629 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:07,520 Speaker 1: federal government over alleged to constitutional violations. DFL House floor 630 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: leader Jamie Longs had in an interview yesterday that his 631 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 1: caucus will unveil the bills shortly after the start of 632 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,880 Speaker 1: the legislative session on February seventeenth, in direct response to 633 00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,800 Speaker 1: the actions of ICE in the federal agents in Minnesota. 634 00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:25,279 Speaker 1: So concerns about losing elections in the future, now bring 635 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:32,719 Speaker 1: about attempts and attempts to legitimize illegal alien voting. You know, 636 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 1: ICE isn't abusing in what they're doing. They're not abusing 637 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,240 Speaker 1: their authority as. 638 00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:44,960 Speaker 2: The left claims. So what are they going to do because. 639 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:48,759 Speaker 1: They're concerned about losing elections and their attempts to legitimize 640 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: illegal alien voting, and this is causing individuals to self deport, 641 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,920 Speaker 1: people get arrested off the street, which puts a wrench 642 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 1: into those plans. So instead they're going to try to 643 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,080 Speaker 1: go and lower the stand of abuse of ICE agents 644 00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:06,960 Speaker 1: in order to bring about claims of what they say 645 00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:11,000 Speaker 1: that ICE is doing that they're not doing. Under current 646 00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:13,839 Speaker 1: federal law, first passed in the aftermath of the Civil War, 647 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,440 Speaker 1: US citizens have brought authority to file civil lawsuits against 648 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,439 Speaker 1: state or local governments when they feel their unconstitutional rights 649 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:24,319 Speaker 1: have been violated. Now, Congress has never expanded that law 650 00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,000 Speaker 1: to include federal agents. In a series of US Supreme 651 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,759 Speaker 1: Court rulings since nineteen seventy one, had largely shielded the 652 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,719 Speaker 1: federal government from civil lawsuits for good reason. Representative Long, though, 653 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,360 Speaker 1: said he's confident the Minnesota law would stand up in court, 654 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,560 Speaker 1: even though it hasn't going back to nineteen seventy one. 655 00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 1: If the legislature passed the measured as approved, with the 656 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,359 Speaker 1: Minnesota House, of course evenly split sixty seven sixty seven. 657 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:51,200 Speaker 1: Any bill in the legislature needs bipartisan support to pass. 658 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,759 Speaker 1: Although there has been no organized opposition to the proposal 659 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,880 Speaker 1: to widen the authority for civil lawsuits, a House Republicans 660 00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,960 Speaker 1: person said their members wouldn't need to see specific language 661 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:08,080 Speaker 1: of the bill before going and deciding Listen, this is 662 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,279 Speaker 1: just virtue signaling, or a better way to put it, 663 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,920 Speaker 1: is just something to go and continue to blame Republicans for. 664 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:18,719 Speaker 2: Hack. 665 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:24,680 Speaker 1: Leader Jamie Long is going to introduce this bill to 666 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,759 Speaker 1: try to give citizens the ability to go and file 667 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:31,040 Speaker 1: these civil lawsuits against the federal agents because they can't 668 00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:34,200 Speaker 1: get the claims that they say of what they're doing. 669 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:36,600 Speaker 1: And all this is going to do is create a 670 00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:39,400 Speaker 1: bipartisan situation that the DFL can go and look at 671 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 1: Republicans and go. 672 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,760 Speaker 2: Loof, they don't want to see ice enforced. They're benging 673 00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:51,719 Speaker 2: to need to trump. It's also easy to just it's 674 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 2: so transparent. 675 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,680 Speaker 1: I mean, it's so obvious to the it's to the 676 00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:58,840 Speaker 1: point of it's to the point of parody at this 677 00:38:58,920 --> 00:38:59,480 Speaker 1: point in time. 678 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,080 Speaker 2: All right to the street blockade we go. 679 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,959 Speaker 1: Anti ice agitators set up a blockade on a Minneapolis 680 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:16,000 Speaker 1: street to check the driver's licenses of individuals as they 681 00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,360 Speaker 1: traverse through Minneapolis. Let's go to the iHeartRadio app a 682 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,320 Speaker 1: comment about this very issue taking place. 683 00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:26,319 Speaker 9: Hey, good, So I'm driving down in the ampless and 684 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,960 Speaker 9: there's a honk if you're not racist side, So I 685 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,200 Speaker 9: don't play those games. I drive past it, stopped at 686 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,640 Speaker 9: the next intersection by some guy stepping in front of me. 687 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,319 Speaker 9: I'm wearing a camel coat because it's blow zero. It's 688 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:39,120 Speaker 9: the warmest thing I got. Don't normally wear it, but it. 689 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:39,600 Speaker 3: Worked for me. 690 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:44,600 Speaker 9: Anyway, They checked my license. They somebody knew who I 691 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:48,080 Speaker 9: was by looking at my license instantaneously. Who's on the 692 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:49,920 Speaker 9: inside doing this? This is insane. 693 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:54,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the that's a big question right now. 694 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,600 Speaker 1: Who's giving them the ability to go and check these 695 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,840 Speaker 1: licenses out? And it's a story that continues to unfold. 696 00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:07,279 Speaker 1: Alpha News has really great coverage on this. An unsettling 697 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:11,120 Speaker 1: scene unfolding in Minneapolis streets over the weekend, anti ice 698 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:15,520 Speaker 1: activists turned public roadways into impromptu checkpoints and blockades, while 699 00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:18,560 Speaker 1: Minneapolis police at one point looked on and walked away. 700 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:20,400 Speaker 2: Social media videos show. 701 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:25,000 Speaker 1: Agitators blocking streets with furniture and stopping cars in Minneapolis, 702 00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:30,000 Speaker 1: apparently cross referencing plates against a database of ICE vehicles 703 00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:34,200 Speaker 1: before letting the drivers pass through. And the question the 704 00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:38,239 Speaker 1: first question that arises among many for me, and I've 705 00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:41,440 Speaker 1: mentioned this before, but if they come across a vehicle 706 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,640 Speaker 1: that they think is ICE, what are they going to do? 707 00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:50,240 Speaker 1: Not let them through, yell at them, blow a whistle 708 00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:50,880 Speaker 1: in their face. 709 00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:56,640 Speaker 2: So here's some more audio to share with you. 710 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:03,439 Speaker 1: Ice protesters confirm that Minneapolis law enforcement is allowing them 711 00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,920 Speaker 1: to stop the vehicles and run their plates. The Daily 712 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:11,319 Speaker 1: Caller was able to confirm the blockades in Minneapolis that 713 00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:13,920 Speaker 1: they're being used for licensed plate checks. I watched a 714 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:18,000 Speaker 1: video yesterday of Minneapolis police walking up on one of 715 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:22,239 Speaker 1: these blockades asking them to leave, and they just said no. 716 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:27,479 Speaker 1: When they said, well, we're concerned about emergency vehicles moving 717 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,520 Speaker 1: through the area. They said, you're doing more to block 718 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,279 Speaker 1: the street right now than we are because the law 719 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,279 Speaker 1: enforcement had their vehicles there. We'll move out of the 720 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,439 Speaker 1: way if they come by. We've had no problems letting 721 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:41,879 Speaker 1: people through. I mean, just completely ignoring the rule of law. 722 00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,560 Speaker 1: And yet the Minneapolis police officers are stuck because if 723 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:45,960 Speaker 1: they go and do something about. 724 00:41:45,719 --> 00:41:49,360 Speaker 2: It, you risk an altercation with this group. You also risk. 725 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,279 Speaker 1: Getting punished by the very government that you work for, 726 00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,520 Speaker 1: because this would be contrary to what Minneapolis mambybe Mey 727 00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:01,759 Speaker 1: or Mom Jean's Jacob Fry has been saying. Here's some 728 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:05,719 Speaker 1: more audio of the journalists on the streets at one 729 00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:11,799 Speaker 1: of these blockades being confronted by these anti ICE insurrectionists. 730 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:12,480 Speaker 2: In South Minneapolis. 731 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,200 Speaker 11: We just actually spoke to some of the individuals that 732 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:15,799 Speaker 11: going to just. 733 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:18,280 Speaker 4: Check out here wearing the kind of black block covering 734 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:18,880 Speaker 4: their faces. 735 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:19,200 Speaker 6: They have. 736 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:20,680 Speaker 2: It's kind of blockade here. 737 00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:21,920 Speaker 3: Where they're stopping some vehicles. 738 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,440 Speaker 11: Actually, Derek, if you could point down, they're actually stopping. 739 00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:27,200 Speaker 2: This vehicle and they checked the out of state places. 740 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:28,280 Speaker 4: To see if they're ICE. 741 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,600 Speaker 11: And what's interesting is this moment to go down there 742 00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:35,160 Speaker 11: we have an Uber driveries from Somali. It's clearly not ICE, 743 00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,840 Speaker 11: and they say that in their database that that vehicle 744 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,439 Speaker 11: was popping up as an ICE vehicle. So we were 745 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,239 Speaker 11: questioning them about this database that they're using. 746 00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:46,279 Speaker 2: Obviously there's some type of networking communication. 747 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,440 Speaker 11: According to them, local law enforcement hasn't even came in 748 00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:49,719 Speaker 11: to stop. 749 00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:51,560 Speaker 2: So Eric just kind of shoot. 750 00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:52,359 Speaker 11: Some of this to check it out. 751 00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,239 Speaker 2: They're on the phone. I guess they were checking the 752 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:55,600 Speaker 2: license plate. 753 00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:57,640 Speaker 11: We're in their walkie talkie that the license plate that 754 00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,279 Speaker 11: they ran is not ICE. 755 00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,600 Speaker 1: But you see they're on the walk you talk, just 756 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,040 Speaker 1: talk to me a little bit about this database. Because 757 00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:08,279 Speaker 1: so he ends up having a conversation with an individual 758 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,120 Speaker 1: who ended up running their plate and. 759 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:13,239 Speaker 2: Our our Comley Uber Drivers slices plate. 760 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,839 Speaker 11: I mean, you guys did run his plice to play 761 00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:17,719 Speaker 11: with his permission. 762 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,280 Speaker 2: He's talking about the database. 763 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:21,360 Speaker 3: A little bit, you know. 764 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,200 Speaker 11: So this is a scene right now in South Mini 765 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:29,279 Speaker 11: asolute thirty second Street here on a theater avenue. 766 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,480 Speaker 2: You can't sell me, dude, cart. 767 00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:34,319 Speaker 3: Him. 768 00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:37,839 Speaker 1: The guy's telling him to get out of the car, 769 00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,839 Speaker 1: says he ran his plate, so his plate came up 770 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,040 Speaker 1: his eyes and then he's telling him to get out. 771 00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:43,160 Speaker 2: Of the car. 772 00:43:43,360 --> 00:43:46,520 Speaker 1: This is just some random dude on the street talking 773 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:48,560 Speaker 1: to another guy who's just there in public. 774 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:58,719 Speaker 11: Well, noa, so their assaulting me and my photo journalist. 775 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:02,799 Speaker 2: Get it all on video. They actually try to steal 776 00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,959 Speaker 2: my phone, but unsuccessful. 777 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,760 Speaker 1: And you're gonna be get blessed all over the internet, buddy, 778 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:13,040 Speaker 1: this is going to turn out bad. This is a 779 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:19,480 Speaker 1: disaster waiting to happen. These lunatics blocking the streets. They're 780 00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,600 Speaker 1: gonna end up stopping somebody that's just not going to 781 00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,520 Speaker 1: put up with it. How would you respond? I've thought 782 00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:29,360 Speaker 1: about this a lot, like how would I respond somebody random? 783 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,640 Speaker 1: Like the audio we played earlier, this was This was 784 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:36,560 Speaker 1: video taken inside of a vehicle at a light. 785 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:38,880 Speaker 2: They were trying to go to a burger joint. 786 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:43,040 Speaker 1: They got stopped and they were directed through by just 787 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,840 Speaker 1: this group of random people in one of these blockades. 788 00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:50,520 Speaker 2: Oh on that I don't know. Can I drive? I 789 00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,759 Speaker 2: got a red light? So now we need permission to 790 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:57,600 Speaker 2: drive from these people. Can you back up slightly and 791 00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:58,080 Speaker 2: go right? 792 00:44:58,760 --> 00:44:58,960 Speaker 3: Yeah? 793 00:44:58,960 --> 00:44:59,279 Speaker 9: I could. 794 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,920 Speaker 2: If you'll leave, we'll go all right, thank you. I 795 00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,879 Speaker 2: don't know if I would be able to keep my cool. 796 00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,720 Speaker 2: I really really don't. 797 00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,520 Speaker 1: I'd like to know where all these are located, if 798 00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:14,239 Speaker 1: they're still there, where are these exact intersections right now? 799 00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:16,280 Speaker 2: This is an accident waiting to happen. 800 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,440 Speaker 1: I have more to share regarding this story, the anti 801 00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,799 Speaker 1: Ice insurrectionist of blockades. We will get to this coming 802 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,760 Speaker 1: up in the third hour of the show. On the way, however, 803 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,560 Speaker 1: we're going to be talking with a General Counsel to 804 00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:35,000 Speaker 1: the Department of Health and Human Services, Mike Stewart. Matt's 805 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:39,480 Speaker 1: resignations leave questions about the government's ability to prosecute fraud 806 00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:41,720 Speaker 1: in Minnesota. So we'll find out from our federal government 807 00:45:41,719 --> 00:45:44,520 Speaker 1: in General Council Mike Stewart, just exactly what is being 808 00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:48,239 Speaker 1: done at the federal level to tackle this issue of 809 00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:52,319 Speaker 1: fraud here in Minnesota and when can we expect some 810 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:54,839 Speaker 1: results of these investigations. It's coming up next on Twin 811 00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:56,200 Speaker 1: City's News Talk Don't Go Anywhere.