Alex Preti, ICE, The Attack On 2A And The Trump Administration's Political Messaging

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Border Patrol officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics were on the scene immediately and attempted to deliver medical aid to the subject, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect also had two magazines with ammunition in them that held dozens of rounds.

He also had no ID. This looks like a situation where an individual arrived at this scene to inflict maximum damage on individuals and to kill law enforcement.

So, gosh, there's a lot to unpack here. And I gotta say, like, right off the gate. I had some issues with the wording, and I'm going to explain why it's not being picky. It's because it's important, and it's because certain things, language matters in instances like these. Welcome to the program right off the bat.

Dana Lash with you, and we're at the top. Of this first hour, and we're going to unpack all of this stuff.

Now, If you're watching. The uh We don't obviously, because Texas is iced down, we can't get the crew here. Because there's about an Inch and a half of ice over all the roads.

So we don't have the video simulcast today.

However, we are going to, I mean, we're able to have the audio for you.

So we're not going to be able to do the video simulcast because we can't get the people, we can't get the folks here. Anyway, So This whole story. over the weekend. Everybody's aware of it. Yeah.

And This whole story is it's tragic. It was entirely avoidable. And yet we're dealing with it. And there's some there's a lot of questions. that still exist.

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I'm going to start out by saying this. I am not going to take A single lecture. From anybody. At all. who, before this weekend, advocated for policies that would have made This Alex Predty, a felon, for the firearm that he was carrying.

So let's be crystal clear. There is an effort under way. in my opinion, to weaponize two A stuff for folks. And to really kind of get people to hammer on ice and really divide the right. And so This is, it's an issue.

And we're going to dive into this. We're going to get into firearm law. We're going to get into protests. We're going to get into what you can expect, et cetera, all of that. Uh we're going to dive into it.

And Get you to understand what your rights are and what they aren't. I didn't like Christy Num's remarks because I thought they were sloppy and poorly worded. And I feel like if anybody in the administration is going to go on and talk. Um about this. Uh that you need to you owe people The effort of using correct language.

Why do I say this? Why is this important? It's not petty. It's not nitpicking. It's because different language invokes different statues.

different statutes. It invokes different aspects of the law, and with that different penalties. That is why it's important.

So, when I hear, one of the things to establish as well is it's not illegal to carry a gun at a protest. I've carried guns. At numerous protests, I've open carried right in front of police. At a protest. But what I didn't do is impede a federal law enforcement operation.

That is a crime. The presence of a firearm in commission of a crime makes everything crazier. You can dislike this. But that is the way the law works. The video is.

Yeah. Mostly unhelpful. I've seen every single piece of video that has been made publicly available. I have seen it. At regular speed, I have seen it slowed down.

I have seen it stabilized, which really didn't help a whole hell of a lot. Because it's very blurry and grainy and etc. I've seen all of it. I think people are going into this with a lot of confirmation bias and they want to see what they want to see. With the video, in this case, with Alex Predi, the individual who was shot.

by border by ICE agents over the weekend, what it seems to show Is that He was armed. At one point, The v one of the videos, one of the angles Suggests that he may have been disarmed. before shots. Rang out. before shots were fired.

So then you have to take into consideration this happened within the span of what, a handful of seconds. It is a very chaotic scene. You have about six or seven agents. involved And chaotic. They're trying to figure out what's what.

Shots ring out and then One agent Fires at Preti. Killing him.

Now, the narratives that we have heard is that, well. You know, he went there with two magazines. That's irrelevant. Most people who carry, as I do, always have an extra spare mag. That's completely irrelevant.

Some were saying, well, you know, it's a crime that he didn't have his concealed carry ID. It's actually a petty misdemeanor in Minnesota for which the first time offense is a wrist slap of a $25 fee, which is only paid about 50% of the time. No one's getting shot because they don't have an ID. But I tell you what complicates things. And you don't have to forfeit.

Support For the Second Amendment, to say you can't impede a federal investigation. You can't do it armed or unarmed. And it's not the smartest thing to do it when armed. You don't seek confrontation and to purposefully put yourself. In a situation where things can escalate dramatically.

And maybe perhaps take a violent turn. To acknowledge this is not to forfeit support for Second Amendment rights. And you're not, this has nothing to do with the First Amendment either. I've seen video, too, leading up to. The moment of engagement.

Where You have Pretty, who is seen on camera. In the street blocking traffic, and then telling people where to drive. He wasn't appointed. by the Minnesota Department of Transportation. to direct traffic in that particular part of Minnesota.

He was not appointed. By ICE or Border Patrol. to direct traffic in that particular operation. He had been out there for the better part of the day, and this was not the first time that he has been out there either. As his parents have indicated, because they have told him to not put himself.

or involve himself in the operations.

So they know that he has done this before, and he's done this apparently a handful of times previously. And to be out in the middle of the street. blocking traffic and telling people where they can drive. with the sole purpose of disrupting a federal law enforcement operation is considered impeding. It's covered by a federal statute.

It is a crime. You can dislike that it is a crime, but that does not change the fact that it is a crime and it has been a crime for quite some time. These are all facts. The presence of a firearm in the mix. makes it a little tense.

Why would it make it tense?

Well, let's see. What has been happening in Minnesota for the past several weeks? Hell, what has been happening in Minnesota since George Floyd? What has been happening in Minnesota since Occupy Wall Street? And Tifa.

I mean, we can go on and on. Border agents have been targeted. They have been attacked, they have been doxed, they have been stalked, they have had hotels where they have stayed at overrun with rioters breaking windows and vandalizing private property. People have had their cars vandalized because they were suspected of being law enforcement or in some way associated with ICE. This has been happening the entire time.

You have had people like Tim Walls tell everyone to go out in the street and cause problems. Jacob Fry telling people to go out in the street and cause problems. The Attorney General of Arizona telling people to go and shoot ICE agents. That is a fact. That was one of the really fun little sound bites over the weekend.

Actually, I think I tweeted about it on Thursday of last week. That is not helpful. None of this is helpful. They're calling ICE agents Nazis. and tyrants and monsters and murderers They have been demonizing these people.

From the get-go, and this isn't just started this year, it's been ongoing. Let's not forget how you had the entire nation geared up to lynch. Border Patrol agents who simply rode horses and held horse reins. They were accused of whipping people at the southern border.

So it's not shocking. that people who are doing the job that they were hired to do To enforce a policy that was voted on by the majority of the country. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that they might feel a little bit as though their safety is threatened when you have someone who is impeding a federal investigation while simultaneously armed. He was lawfully armed, to be sure, up until the point he decided to impede in an investigation. and a law enforcement operation.

The moment you decide to participate in criminal activity is the moment, according to the law. You cease being, quote unquote, lawful.

Now these are all facts. It is also a fact. That someone was shot and killed on camera. It is also completely legitimate. and it is not to say that you hate ice.

To question what was it, That Triggered use of lethal force. There is nothing wrong with asking that question. There's nothing wrong with asking what the standard operating procedure is. There is nothing wrong with any of this. You're not declaring innocence or guilt.

You're not declaring a rejection of border patrol or enforcement. You have every right to ask that question. Free people are encouraged to freely ask questions. That is how a transparent society with a transparent government works. And it is completely Legitimate.

To criticize any language from any elected official, be it someone like Tim Walls. Who is telling people to go out and cause problems? Or the Attorney General of Arizona who is saying that it is stand your ground to shoot ICE agents. as it is to criticize maybe the head of DHS. for mischaracterizing the presence of two magazines as somehow indicative of ill intent.

These are all absolutely true and legitimate things to question. We need to stop with the idiot tribalism. And return to intellectual nuance when discussing these issues. It is one of the things that is sending this nation to hell in a handbasket faster than anything else.

So, we're going to explore all of these themes here coming up. And we also have the signal group. This individual was part of a very well-organized leftist effort to go out and disrupt these operations. We're going to discuss that. These are all true things.

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I appreciate you. And quit referring to these people as law enforcement. They are not law enforcement. We have law enforcement who do an incredible job. And to listen to Greg Bovino.

denigrate the work of our people who are out there cleaning up their mess. No, I don't have a lot of confidence that he himself will do it.

So Tim Walls. Minnesota governor is not helping with his rhetoric. And when he's talking about do not refer to them, he's specifically referencing. Ice. And he's had a number of sound bites over the weekend.

He's been pouring gasoline on this fire. And case in point, the reason why we are all here. talking about this in the first place. is because Tim Waltz and other Blue State and other Blue City leaders have refused to cooperate with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. on detainers and also on Arresting and deporting criminal, multiple offenses, multiple conviction, illegal aliens who are being apprehended in their states and cities.

This is indisputable fact. Welcome back to the program. In fact, last week, If you've missed any of this, you can go and find the archives of this on our podcast, on the Danish Show podcast. But I went through. What, like 50 or some odd names of these individuals that have been detained by ICE?

This has just been in the last few months. And it was shocking. How many of them? All of them, by the way, in case you were curious, every single one. Of the names, and I didn't just like go out and cherry-pick, or I just grabbed all the names I could see of the published lists that were made available.

Every single one of these individuals had a violent conviction.

Some of them were convicted of violent crimes in countries like El Salvador.

Some were convicted in Colombia, Guatemala, some were, you know, Mexico, doesn't matter. All of them had violent convictions.

Some of them had actually a lot. Most all of them had more than one. There were a number of them, an untold number of them, for instance, that had been convicted of rape.

Some of them brutalized multiple women in horrific ways. A whole bunch of them had child predation convictions.

Some of them were actually detained and had been previously charged with making child pornography. Making Why in the world? Would you risk your life? getting out in front of any of these people. If you want to talk about tyranny.

And that was something that came up this morning. I was on CBS, and I'm glad that they asked me to come on, and they were talking. They were open to talking about this aspect of the story. But when people talk about tyranny and the way that Tim Walls refers to these ICE agents, I don't consider enforcing the law that the people gave, through the consent of their vote, elected officials to implement, which, by the way, all of this is existing law and has been existing law for decades. It didn't just come into fruition when Trump was reelected.

But you're talking about laws and policies that the American people had voted to implement. Over a majority. A majority of the country. Over half of the country. They're implementing this, and these lawmakers are referring to ICE agents as tyrants, et cetera.

You know the the tyranny that I think of is the tyranny of allowing violent criminals to run freely throughout our streets and terrorize our communities. I think of people like Jocelyn Nungare. The tyranny of allowing people to come into the country illegally and continue to commit crimes, that is tyranny. Refusing to do your one job. of keeping people safe is tyranny.

Creating a society through unfettered deluge at the border and allowing every single criminal to come in and then telling everyone that they're mean for wanting the violent criminals to go. That's tyranny. That is the tyranny I think of. When you talked about when people talk about masked thugs, I think of the masked thugs that are going around smashing cars in the streets because they think one of the owners might be an ICE agent or related to law enforcement. I think of people who storm churches and terrify people, terrify the congregants, get in the faces of the children and the women, causing one woman in fear to flee, fall, and break her arm, by the way.

When I think of masked thugs, I think of Antifa. They go to Hot Topic, they get their little kerchiefs, and then they run out into the street. That's what I think of when I hear. discussion of tyranny. This this Alex Predi case, it's unfortunate.

Uh a couple of things. The Video First off. I think it's important to note, and this is all for context, this guy was a part of A very well-organized leftist effort to target ICE agents and disrupt federal operations. If you want to have a discussion of what tyranny is and isn't, I would say that encouraging people to disregard the law that has been voted. On, in support of, by over half of the country.

That's probably what we would call tyranny. But it was part of a very well-organized leftist effort. They had groups organized on the more anonymous leaning messaging app Signal. to coordinate They're uh riots and uh responses.

So, I think that's important to know. Not illegal, but if you're talking about targeting law enforcement and upending the rule of law, it could very well be. But this individual also, when looking at the video leading up to the moment of engagement of the other videos. He was out in the street. He was obstructing traffic and impeding the operation, which is why they apparently told him to stop.

So everyone thinks that the moment of engagement happened the second that the edited video started rolling, and I completely challenge that whole. that assertion. I think that there was a lot in the lead up. That's what I would like to be made public in this investigation. I would also like to see his video footage from his own phone that he was holding.

I realize that that's likely we haven't seen it yet likely because of the ongoing investigation, but I do think it's important that we see it, and I think it's important to be for it to be made public. There's nothing wrong with transparency, folks. But The whole point of this being a Second Amendment issue, I reject. I don't think that this is a Second Amendment issue. Why would this be a Second Amendment issue?

Because he was caring? I disregard the whole licensing thing as well, and I'm not going to entertain that anymore because, as I said in our first segment, people saying, Well, he didn't have his concealed carry license on him, he's in violation of the law. First off, I'm not going to sit here and use anti-gun narratives in order to argue any of this. Just like I'm not going to take lectures from people who, until last week, advocated for policies that would have made Alex Predty a felon. Not going to take lectures from those people on anything involving this case.

So, and I don't not paying attention to the whole, well, he didn't have his concealed carry license. It's a petty misdemeanor in Minnesota. First offense is $25 and 50% of the time it's not paid. That's irrelevant. And I'm also of the mindset that if you have to ask for something, that means your right to it is abridged.

That being said, He was caring. The moment that you impede a federal investigation or a federal operation, it is irrelevant whether or not you think you can. The point is that it is already codified by Federal statute. I think it's like USC, it's USC 1811. It's already a federal law.

You can't Impede. a federal law enforcement operation.

Now, You would say, Well, he was just recording. Was that all he was doing when he was in the streets blocking traffic? and telling cars where they could and couldn't drive. Come on now. Oh, well, he was helping a woman up.

A woman apparently that was also obstructing. Fine, whatever, who's helping a woman up. But the moment that he decided to involve himself. in that operation. That is the moment you can stop using the word lawful.

And that's not a forfeiture of your Second Amendment rights to correctly note what is existing federal law. You can dislike it all you want to, but that's just the way the law is on the books. That's why language matters, guys. The moment you're impeding a federal Operation is the moment then you're committing a felony, And then the fact that you're caring enhances all of that, and it makes all of it crazier. And it kickstarts.

A tragic domino effect that can have horrible consequences, as we have all seen. And the reason that we are here discussing any of this is because the first choice that was made was a poor choice, and it was made by Alex Predty to involve himself in a Federal operation. It is unfortunate, and I wish she hadn't done that. Because now we have this, you know, all of this awfulness. That is a nation we're dealing with.

Now I also think it is completely Relevant to mention the language and tone of all of these people out here that are continuing to pour gas on this fire. I mean, for instance, look at this. This is uh Where do we have? Golly, this is cut. This is, first off, this is what he said last week.

This was Tim Walls when he was talking about Civil War. Listen to this. This is insane. This is a flashback, but somewhat recent. When things looked really bleak, it was Minnesota first that held that line for the nation on that July 3rd, 1863.

And I think now we may be in that moment that the nation's looking to us to hold the line on democracy. Why are we using language like this? Then you have Jacob Fry. Who, this is cut 13 when he was talking about what happened over the weekend. His language also, listen.

I just saw a video. Uh More than six masked agents Humbly. one of our constituents. I'm shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt?

So, the way that he's like, how many more, what he's doing is he's setting that's a straw man argument. I mean, he's begging the question by assuming that ICE agents are just going around randomly going after people. The reason that ICE agents and Predi even had engagement in the first place is because the latter involved himself in this operation, unfortunately.

Now, I think it's perfectly acceptable to say why did they feel like there was a need to use lethal force? What happened in the chaotic scene? Because the video, as shaky and garbagey as it is, seems to suggest that he had been disarmed at one point. And after that point, then shots rang out. At what point did agents feel as though they needed to use lethal force?

It's not, you're not, there's literally nothing wrong with asking this question. I don't know why people get so bent out of shape on it. You either believe in a transparent government or you don't. Which is it? It's completely fine to ask this question.

What is the standard operating procedure here? Did they think that he was, did they know he was disarmed? There was at one point people were saying gun, gun, gun, which is kind of hard to make out because the insane whistles that are blowing in the background because of the rioters. Did they think that that meant he had like another weapon on him? Did they believe that he had another weapon on him?

I don't know. At some point though, One of the agents felt that their lives or safety were under threat and they felt it necessary to use lethal force. And I just want to know what was that thought, what happened in order. to invoke that. And I feel that's completely fine for people to ask that question.

But as I said, I don't believe that this is a Second Amendment issue. I don't think it's a Second Amendment issue just because he was caring. It's an issue of law enforcement, it's an issue of federal law, and it's an issue of a very well-organized left. that is telling its citizens to go out and recklessly disregard their own safety and the safety of others. by impeding Federal operations that are targeting violent repeat criminals who are here illegally.

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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of the United States. Coffee donuts hot chocolate. What are you guys giving out? Coffee donuts hot chocolate. And you're with the Minnesota National Guard?

Yeah, we are. Yes, we are. Why was this important for you guys to do today? This is a demonstration of safety and security. We're here to help them.

So they were giving Donuts and coffee. I think there are protesters and there are rioters. And I think that the people that are out in the middle of the street, they're not protesting. These people are rioters. But, you know, the National Guard, they're trying to de-escalate the situation, which, unfortunately, is not being done by any of the state or local leaders.

It's just simply not. They're they're choosing to pour gas on this fire and make it just as dicey And as violent as possible. One of the reasons that. They are doing this is because, honestly, they want to distract from probably one of the biggest fraud stories in our nation's history. where Taxpayers have paid hundreds of billions of our hard-earned dollars.

To members of the Somali Diaspora in Minnesota, so that they could buy Porsche's And luxury homes, designer items, go on luxury vacations, all of this. And all of the people that are pouring gasoline on this situation, every single one of them are implicated in the fraud. Every single one of them have taken money your probably your tax our taxpayer dollars from all of these fraudsters. Everybody from Tim Walls? to the A G Keith Ellison, to the Mayor Jacob Fry, every single one of them.

And they would love to have this go on for as long as possible because they need the distraction. They want to be they want everyone to turn away from that story and focus on something different.

So they've created This Perfect storm. This chaos in Minnesota. Trump posted that Wals called him. This is very recent within the last hour. With the request to, as Trump says, work together with respect to Minnesota.

He said it was a very good call. We seem to be on a similar wavelength. He said he told the governor he would have Tom Homan call him and that we are looking, all we are looking for are any and all criminals that they have in their possession. He said the Governor very respectfully understood that, and I'll be speaking to him in the near future. He was happy that Tom Holman was going to Minnesota, and so am I.

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Peaceful protesters don't have nine millimeter weapons with two extra magazines. Peaceful protesters, I don't know about you, but I'm sure the same as me. I don't go in my closet and I don't have professional gray gas masks ready to go in case tear gas is thrown. A normal neighborhood, what happens in a normal situation is they cooperate. I get this is Congressman Jeff Andrew.

He's uh natively a New Yorker, but he represents New Jersey. Republican. We don't need Republicans using the anti-gun language of the left, y'all. We don't need that. Welcome back to the program, Top of the Second Hour, Dana Lash, with you.

And you're listening to.

Well, we're not having the video simulcast today because Texas is iced down, can't get the guys to the studio.

So we're just audio today. But The claim that Normal peaceful protesters don't carry nine millimeters and have two. Magazines is nonsense. I always carry a spare mag. I don't know anybody who doesn't.

That's not indicative of ill intent. Merely carrying a spare mag is not indicative of ill intent. Let's stop this nonsense right now. It doesn't mean anything of that nature. We're not doing the thought police stuff, and we're not going to undermine the Second Amendment or try to make this issue, which isn't about the Second Amendment, about the Second Amendment.

And I'm the more I learn about this, the more adamant I think I am about it. This isn't a Second Amendment issue. This is a guy who's part of the organized left who decided to impede a federal operation, and it's unfortunate that he did so. And it helped contribute to a super chaotic scene at which, at one point, enforcement became aware of the presence of a firearm, and then somehow. I don't know.

Hopefully the investigation sheds some light on this. We'll find out why they felt the need to use lethal force if what the video suggests is true, that he was disarmed. We'll see. Totally fine to ask these questions. But we're not going to sit here and try to say that, oh, well, merely the presence of a firearm at a protest means somehow ill intent.

We're not doing that. I've carried it numerous protests over the years. I am not we're not getting into that.

Now, I Know that the, I mean, obviously, the investigation is ongoing. I just saw something from Bill Melugin where. Apparently, which I figured, DHS spokesperson confirmed to him that the agents all had their body cameras on. during the interaction.

So, and that it's currently, they're all currently being reviewed by investigators, which is probably why it hasn't been released yet. All for it being released. As they analyze it, all for it being released after. And that's totally fine. And I think you should be able to request something like that.

There's nothing wrong with transparency. Nothing wrong with that at all. But we're not going to sit here and demonize people. And while you're caring, you have an extra mag that might be indicative of ill intent. That's not what that means.

We're not doing that. It's also to just dispel this myth. not illegal to carry a firearm at a protest in Minnesota.

Now I know Gavin Newsom pushed legislation. to criminalize that. I know that Tim Walsh wanted to if Tim Walsh had his way, Alex Predty would have already been a felon for that that sidearm that he was carrying. In fact, if any of these people trying to lecture you about the Second Amendment had their way, he would have already been a felon simply for the firearm that he was carrying. They wanted to make anything with a detachable magazine, anything with a threaded barrel, all of this stuff.

They wanted to basically make everything NFA items. It's insane.

So let's not take lectures from any of these people who would have made this guy a felon for what he was carrying before this weekend. You can carry at a protest in Minnesota. It's perfectly legal to do so. But what you can't do anywhere is, again, impede a federal law enforcement operation. and that's what ended up happening.

So I don't know. I'm hearing, you know, the administration, you had people like Noam that came out. We talked about what she had said. Van Drew is not helping anything with his remarks here. And of course you've got Cut.

25. Go ahead and play. This is Scott Besson, which I don't even know why Treasury is weighing in on this. Listen, you brought a gun. Have you ever gone to a protest, Jonathan?

I mean, we do have a Second Amendment in this country that. Jonathan, have you ever gone to a protest? I mean, have you gone to a protest? I mean, I've no, actually, as a reporter covering it.

Okay, I've been to a protest. Guess what? I didn't bring a gun, I brought a billboard.

Okay. Okay, you can go ahead and bring a gun billboard. That's fine, he can do that. But again, it doesn't indicate anything if you do carry at a protest. Like I said, I have as well.

Here's something I've seen a lot of people also try to compare this to the Rittenhouse thing, and by a lot of people I mean the previously apparently anti-gun people. This isn't even remotely comparable to the Kyle Britton house. situation. Kyle Rittenhouse was attacked by actual, no exaggeration, literal predators. Like There was an actual pedophile that attacked him, like a guy who had been convicted and was literally like out.

on like had just completed a prison sentence.

So he had been attacked. He responded. accordingly, and then when law enforcement showed up, he put his rifle down and his hands in the air. He didn't reach for anything, he didn't do anything. Rittenhouse was well within his right of self-defense against repeat offenders, one of them being a violent felon who tried attacking him, and then he fired his rifle, and everything that happened happened.

This is an instance of a guy who involved himself in a federal operation. And then It's the series of unfortunate events kicked off. They're not even remotely. remotely comparable. But we need people in the administration to kind of slow their role.

I don't want to see people who have no idea about firearms going out there. I don't want to see Secretary of the Treasury talking about guns. I don't even want to see DHS sitting here going, well, they had an extra magazine. All of these things are irrelevant. That's not helping your effort, it's not helping your whole effort.

It's not. Because you're dragging the Second Amendment into it and you're trying to make it seem as though the presence of a firearm by anyone at any protest is somehow suspect. And that is exactly not what we want to have happen. There's nothing wrong with that. Just don't engage in felonious criminal activity while you're carrying.

And guess what? Impeding a federal law enforcement operation is classified as it's under a federal statute that is looked at as a felony. Don't engage in criminal behavior while carrying. Very simple. And it looks like this guy.

Well, he had already gone to a number of these different events. It looks like that's what he purposefully sought out to do, that he was looking to do. I mean, it's all just unfortunate. You know, I mean, I wrote about this in my sub stack. I said, Pretty made the choice to disrupt a federal operation made necessary because blue state leaders refused to honor ICE detainers and violent repeat offenders, so they had to go there themselves to enforce the law.

And that set off a chain of reaction of tragic events. That's it. And I think it's safe to say that you can disregard a lot of these CSI Minnesota LARPers that are out there. You know, these images are shaky. When they're zoomed in, they're shaky and grainy, and then there's a lot of confirmation bias that comes into play here.

And what little the images do suggest. Is that at one point it looks like Predi was disarmed, and after he was disarmed, shots are fired.

So, was he disarmed? Were the agents aware? If so, were the agents aware that he was disarmed? Did they reasonably believe that he may have had another that had concealed another weapon? What was the impetus for use of lethal force?

You don't forfeit your support of the Second Amendment to ask any of this stuff. It's completely fair. But I'm going to caution people, the Second Amendment isn't an exemption for making stupid choices. You also should not want to make stupid choices while exercising your Second Amendment rights. But don't forget why we are in this position in the first place.

We're not in this position because of the Second Amendment. We're not in this position because of any confusion on guns. We're not in this position because of any confusion on firearm law. We are in this exact position because blue state governors and blue state city leaders have outright refused to enforce established. immigration law.

They have refused To share information on repeat illegal offenders with the Department of Homeland Security. They have refused repeatedly ICE detainer requests on some of these most violent offenders imaginable. This is why we are in this position. They want to dodge accountability. They want a reprieve on all of these issues, and they will use 2A advocacy as cover to do it.

Do not take the bait. This is not a Second Amendment issue. There is no reason why it needs to even be remotely characterized as such by anybody in this administration or anyone calling themselves a conservative. The issue here isn't that he was caring. The issue is impeding a federal operation and an organized leftist effort to do so.

That is the issue. It doesn't matter if you're carrying a foam finger, a firearm, or whatever. It is always illegal to impede a federal law enforcement operation. This is what the current federal law states. I think it's like the statutes 18 U.S.C.

111. If you dislike the law, then change the law, but you don't fight it out with cops in the streets. You had this Attorney General. Billa Sale, who had said If you approach law enforcement with a gun, there's a high likelihood they will be legally justified in shooting you. I think he got a little upset that I had criticized him because I had said, What do you mean, approach?

What does that mean? Mere legal possession within the vicinity of law enforcement is not a criminal offense and does not merit the use of force as response. Language is important. It matters. I don't want to see all of this become B-roll in gun control ads in the next election cycle.

So please be smart.

Someone referred to me as Antifa 2A, hardly. And I take issue with the judgment of any elected official who would dodge accountability of criticism and or clarity on their remarks by accusing people who know more about it apparently than they do of being Antifa because they correct them on bad gun control language. Let's stop. These statements don't help. What the guy had or didn't have isn't the issue.

It's what he was doing that is the issue. And as I said, being armed is different. from being armed in commission of obstructing a Federal law enforcement operation. Bottom line.

Now I'm sure all of this video, and I hope it is, will be released. Trump had said earlier within the last hour he had posted on his platform. that he had talked to Governor Tim Walls, And that Walls had reached out to him.

So it looks like Walls might finally, maybe, I don't know. I don't want to jinx it. He might finally be looking to try to kind of calm tensions a little bit. Get everything under control. And he needs to.

Because you have people out in the streets. I mean, did you have you seen some of these stories recently? You have these riders now targeting random hotels because they think ICE agents are staying there. These are pretty wild scenes. There's a lot of photos and video of it.

They're trashing. There's video of them busting the windows of a home suites by Hilton in Minneapolis. This was Sunday night. They were busting up into the hotel because they thought Ice was staying there. They've been targeting restaurants that they think serve people who are part of ICE.

And in the meantime it came out that there was this huge signal group, of which Predty was part of, by the way, where they were organizing and instructing people on how to obstruct these arrests and these operations.

So They were telling, I mean, the crazy thing is, is that even in the signal group, And there's screenshots because there have been independent reporters that have embedded themselves with it. They literally tell them at one point. uh do not uh obstruct an arrest. under any circumstances. don't telling them don't run out in the street and don't run or resist.

And You know, the video shows something quite different.

So these are all fair questions to ask. Right. They're all incredibly fair questions to ask. And I don't think it's fair. to determine someone's Second Amendment rights by whether or not they were engaged in by by the by judging ICE's response to someone who's involved in felonious criminal activity of obstruction.

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Somebody's going to write that children's story about Minnesota. What? What? Golly, so now Tim Walls is thinking that somehow it's like The Ann Frank, this is getting ridiculous. This guy seriously needs to just watch his language and stop trying to incite.

Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. An iced-out day here in Texas. You know, I will say, um The it was very interesting to me when The admin first came out and talking about this because some people were saying, and I think they got it from Noam, because I think it was Christine Noam who had first said that. This guy was brandishing.

Alex Predi was ban brandishing. I didn't see that in any of the video.

Now, there's obviously a difference between Uh Defensive carry and brandishing. And I really feel like the people who are weighing in on this don't know that. They don't know the difference between it or the legal implications of low-ready and full-on, you're presenting.

So those people need to shh, because that doesn't, it's not helpful. And it's not helpful for Part of the reason why this is such a big argument is because the administration came out and made it so with the way they were describing it. The guy was called a domestic terrorist. I don't think he's a terrorist. I think he's a I think the guy was a moron who made some stupid choices and was obstructing a Federal operation and stupidly decided to carry in the middle of it.

You know, you can't be doing that kind of stuff. With the federal statute the way it is, and especially after ICE agents have been repeatedly violently attacked by these people. I mean, for crying out loud, just the other week we were talking about the woman who hit the guy and he fired a shot, fired several shots in defense of his life after she hit him with her vehicle. That was on camera.

So, you don't go out there and be like, well, he brandished. I didn't see that. Nothing in the video supported that claim. And it was sloppy that it was made. And Christy Noam did not do herself any favors at all whatsoever.

In fact, it made it. It partly contributed to one of the reasons why we're all having this discussion right now. It was un entirely unhelpful. The guy wasn't brandishing. And I think to imply that Predty was intending to kill law enforcement.

I think that that's That also doesn't, that seems kooky, and I don't know why they would present that as part of this story before the investigation is concluded. Look. I think that if we're going to sit here and act like this story is as serious as it is, then you need to give that seriousness the respect of allowing the fact gathering to continue. and allowing the investigation to proceed. It's incredibly important that that happens.

So, as I said from the video, I don't see any indication of anybody brandishing anything. I didn't see that. I didn't see, I mean, it's you can't, but I will say, you can't tell. In the video, whether or not his hand goes back to where his holster was, or where we can't tell. I don't know how anybody can say confidently, I think they're BSing you.

Because the video, it shows some things, but it doesn't show enough to where you can make a 100% confident assessment. I think that we are owed an explanation, though. But getting out there saying somebody was brandishing or that he was intending to kill, I just, he hadn't yet. I don't know where that just what because he had a presence of a spare mag. That's not enough for it to indicate any kind of ill intent.

There's t thousands of people they carry every single day and carry a spare mag with them. Probably over thousands, I'd say. Maybe according to gun ownership in the United States, probably more like millions. But language matters. Why does it matter?

We're not being petty and we're not nitpicking. It matters because different statutes are invoked depending on the language that is used. Different penalties are applied, specifically predicated upon the language that is used. That is why it's important.

That is why it's important.

And I don't think anybody in the administration needs to be getting out ahead of any of this now. They don't have a great track record on it anyway. Of two-way stuff.

So don't make that the thing that you focus on. All the administration needs to do is say, look. You can't obstruct federal. Enforcement And you can't have Democrats up there encouraging. And encouraging this violence, encouraging this chaos.

I mean, think about this. This came out in the New York Post and others wrote about it. The well organized network. That is encouraging people. to go and get involved in these Operations.

You've had a couple of independent journalists somehow get a part of these. These are all very Marxist-Leninist networks. These are these little commie cells. And they have signal chats, they're organizing. It talks about where they're meeting.

It talks about rapid responders. They have a database where they have been inputting in license plates of suspected ICE agents. They are monitoring where vehicles are going.

So it's all very well organized. There's tons of screenshots, very, very well organized. And It's very I I I really wish that these Democrat officials Would say you know? We need to slow the roll. They have a responsibility.

They have a responsibility. to help restore law and order. And I think it's insane. that these leftist groups are encouraging people to go out there. and risk their safety.

By impeding these operations. It's insane that they're making lists. of people's vehicles. Before they even confirm that they're ICE agents, if they just suspect that they are. They've been attacking regular everyday citizens.

Demanding that citizens prove that they're citizens. How unbelievably ironic. They're like, prove that you're not an ICE agent. What? Going up to random people.

This is weird. These people are nuts. But this is, these are Marxists. This is how Marxists fight. This is exactly the stuff that they do.

Looking at this. This I mean, it's just, um Well, you got this. This is a citizens. They said that they were followed. by multiple vehicles.

for over an hour. because they were suspected of being ICE agents. Listen to this. They're being followed by these people. Apparently they are in ICE databases.

We are not ICE. We're not ICE. We're not ice! I'm showing my face. I'm not ice.

We clung to you. We're not ice. What is that about tyranny? Yeah, they've been following us for over an hour. We we were not nice.

We're just letting them know in that and they're not ice! Not in an ice vehicle, right? No. Right. Right, get in your truck and get the f out.

Why? Because you need to go. Confirmed ice. Get the word out. Confirmed ice through who?

We're American citizens. We're not ice. Please go.

So these people They claim to object to ICE arresting criminals in their area. But now what they've done is they've taken to starting, now they're harassing average everyday people. If they so much as even suspect that you don't agree with them, They take pictures of your license plates. They add it to a database. and they start following you around town.

These people are looking for confrontation. They are looking for violence. They are trying to cultivate violence.

so that they then Can go to the press and say, look at how mean ICE is being to us. They were destroying a hotel the other day. Because they thought ICE agents were there. They're attacking vehicles because they think an ICE agent might drive it or have been in it at some point. This is insane.

And Chris Murphy, Democrat Chris Murphy, here's another example. This does not help. Listen. Minneapolis is fundamentally less safe because ICE and CVP are there. And that's the point.

They are there to cause a conflict. They are there to create mayhem. And it isn't gonna be just isolated to Minneapolis. As they continue to staff up, With officers who are not trained for this kind of work. This is going to be in Philadelphia.

This is going to be in Phoenix. This is coming to your city as well. Hmm. I mean Inciting violence. This is just none of this may it's they're looking they're looking to create the issue.

They're looking to create the issue. It's just unfortunate. Incredibly unfortunate. And then you got this Minneapolis Police Chief. This is cut nine.

Now this is what he's saying about ICE agents specifically. The ones in the video with Alex Predi. Listen. It's very untrained. It looks unprofessional.

It looks very chaotic. It doesn't look like there is clear teamwork tactically to achieve the same objective. And it's just, it is absolutely not how we train law enforcement in Minnesota. And I think the greater issue, the greater concern is, you know. People should be able to have an expectation that the federal government can enforce federal immigration law without these, you know.

Poor tactics and really unconstitutional. You know the reason why you have to have the poor tactics what he's calling for poor tactics? You know the reason why they're there? is because him and the other officials refused to work with them. That's what they're not telling you.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, they've refused. ICE detainer requests. They've refused ice detainer requests. meaning they're ignoring the people The violent offenders that they're looking to detain, they've been ignoring it. In fact, This is uh Hennepin County.

They have an established policy. This was invoked in twenty twenty one. where they refuse ice detainer requests And they also do not notify ICE about the release of those illegal aliens back into the community. That is a fact. This is an absolute fact.

So the reason this police chief is full of excrement. He's one of the reasons why I we don't say back the b blue universally. He's lying to you because he's refusing to tell you, by the way. Our offices, we have an established policy in Minneapolis where we refuse ICE detainer requests, and we also don't notify anybody in DHS or ICE whenever we release any of these violent criminal aliens. That is why they're there.

Everyone seems to be ignoring this fact. The whole reason they are there in the streets doing this is because of that. They do not in Hennepin County at all notify ice. whenever any illegal aliens are released from the county jail. They do not at all acknowledge ICE detainer requests, and they have not since they adopted their policy in 2021.

This is why Ice had to go there. Because these lawmakers and these people, this politically appointed police chief. appointed by the lefty mayor, not elected by the people, this police chief, goes along with it. They don't do their job. They don't work with ice, so ice has to go there.

All of these people that you're hearing have all contributed into creating this problem. This is ridiculous. I'm so tired of hearing it.

Well, I can't believe they're here.

Now, do you know that this is not every Democrat city? There are some Democrat cities. where they have been working with ice.

So, not every Democrat leader or every Democrat city has been ignoring these ICE requests? But all of the cities where ICE has to go in order to enforce this are Democrat-run cities that have ignored ICE requests. That's why they're there. I mean, hell, you don't even have this in Dallas. Do you know why you don't have this in Dallas?

Because at least the elected officials in Dallas have been acknowledging. and have been uh working with ICE. Dallas is lefty.

So, they can't say this. They don't tell you this because they want you to think that these people are jack-booted thugs. No, they had to go there because they weren't getting any answers. You would have people, you have crimes against American citizens. That these Democrat-elected officials actually worked to help cover up because they refused to work with DHS and ICE on this.

You have people here, and in fact, that's one of these cases. One of these individuals who has been repeatedly convicted of sexual assault. Yeah, one brutal rape. There's another case charged with rape here. They were ignoring the ICE detainer request.

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It's time for Florida Man. I am never ever at all surprised at all of the creative ways that.

Some of these people that come up in these headlines, the things that they use as weapons. A teenager was arrested for battery because she struck her mother with a pork chop. It's a true story. Jensen Beach, Florida. Teenage girl was arrested, this is local channel 12, for battery after she struck her mother with a pork chop during an argument.

Eighteen year old Farah Kernan slapped her mother across her face with her right hand, and apparently it was recorded by one of her mother's friends. I don't know what in the world. And then she threw a pork chop at her. The responding deputy said he observed food residue. on her shoulder that was consistent with the story.

And they took the teenager into custody, so now she'll have an assault and battery charge. with a pork chop of all things. Why you're gonna be doing perfectly good meat that way? I don't know, but that's what happened. This is crazy.

Also, this tun tun tun. We've got this Florida man. who was accused of driving a car on fire. He was arrested on DUI charges. This is WESH Channel 2.

His car was literally on fire. Oh, he's got a sweet mullet. The guy's got off a sweet mullet. Brevard County Sheriff's Office. He was arrested on charges of DUI on Friday.

Patrick Rinaldi, 60, was driving under the influence. He refused to submit to DUI testing. Apparently, witnesses said that he had stopped the car in the middle of the road, then got back in the vehicle, began driving. There was smoke coming out of the car. Flames started taking over the vehicle.

Brevard County Fire Rescues had to respond. They thought they were apparently they had to put out a brush fire that kicked off after the burning vehicle ignited that as well.

So there, he smelled like alcohol. He said he had one beer and just one beer. But they found apparently lots of bottles of liquor on the floorboard of the car.

So that was kind of a clue that it was maybe more than one beer.

So he was taken into custody. Good heavens. I mean, I can't believe he was driving it while flames were consuming it. That's like some planes, trains, and automobile stuff. We have more on the way.

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Welcome back to the program top of this third hour in an iced down Texas.

So audio today, no video simulcast, because I wasn't going to have the guys risk their lives to come through and And uh, get video up because it's there's an inch and a half of ice on the ground everywhere.

So, welcome back. Uh, you know, I gotta tell you, I saw a video, pull this up, of um. Caroline Levitt just had press avail. and had made mention of the Alex Predty case in Minnesota. And this is the only messaging that the White House should have on this, Steve, if we're able to play this.

This is the only messaging. That the White House should have on this right now. Listen. Let's be clear about the circumstances which led to that moment on Saturday. This tragedy occurred as a result of a deliberate and hostile resistance by Democrat leaders in Minnesota.

For weeks, Governor Waltz and the Mayor Jacob Fry and other elected Democrats were spreading lies about federal law enforcement officers who are risking their lives daily to remove the worst criminal, illegal aliens from our streets. Murderers, rapists, pedophiles, human traffickers, and gang members. Governor Waltz and Mayor Fry have shamefully blocked local and state police from cooperating with ICE, actively inhibiting efforts to arrest violent criminals. They have also used their platforms to encourage left-wing agitators to stalk, record, confront, and obstruct federal officers who are just trying to lawfully perform their duties, which has created dangerous situations threatening both these officers and the general public and Minnesotans alike. This is precisely what unfolded in Minneapolis on Saturday morning.

And that's really, that is the only messaging that the White House needs to have on this. I don't want to see Cash Patel. I don't want to see Scott Besson. I don't want to see Christine Noam or anybody else go out with any other, any messaging other than just that. What she just said.

Because that's the truth of it. That's why this whole situation has unfolded. Is because you have law enforcement, you have elected officials in Minnesota. Not only have they given stand-on orders, but they're also, they've been ignoring. I mean, it's been their policy since 2021 to ignore ICE detainer requests.

So these violent criminals. The ones that they're going after? That's one of the reasons why there's so many in Minnesota. It's a safe space for them. It's a sanctuary state where since 2021 it has been established policy to ignore detainer requests.

They do not at all whatsoever communicate with ICE. They do not. They don't even notify ICE when a dangerous illegal alien has been released from their county jail. That's also part of their policy.

So yeah, that's why I just went there. That is what happened. This is what Tim Walls and Jacob Fry and all of these people have created. They created a place where violent criminals who are in the country illegally go to hide out. Because they know that local law enforcement isn't going to do anything.

They know that elected officials aren't going to do anything.

So ice shows up. And then the left decides to get these street activists. And use them as human fodder, much like Hamas does. Use them as human fodder. to try to obstruct the federal op on this.

That's what happened. That's not a Second Amendment issue. They're trying to make it one. Because they want to divide the right and make it think, make you, these people, who, by the way, would have had Alex Predi. be a felon for what he carries, up until Saturday.

These people want to weaponize it. And they want to further divide the right by making it seem like the 2A community isn't even all on the same page. This is nonsense. Do not take overtures on narratives from these people. Do not.

There's no point.

So We'll see. But I will say one of the things Democrats are now looking to do is they want to make this about shutdown. They want to try to tie up. immigration funding into this. And I don't know.

I the whole point that just is is this crazy. You've had p particularly Adam Schiff. This is Cut 15. He says that they're not they want to defund ICE. They're talking about getting defunding all of this, not having any kind of operation where we go after violent, criminal, illegal aliens.

Listen to this, Cut 15. If Democrats vote against this DHS funding measure, My question for you, Senator, are you prepared to vote against DHS funding if it means partially shutting down the government, again, coming on the heels of an incredibly long shutdown?

Well, I'm not giving ICE or Border Patrol another dime. Yeah. Of course he's not. Of course he's not, but they they never they just they're looking for an excuse. They're looking for an excuse to not pass any kind of legislation.

They don't want to give the administration any kind of a win at all whatsoever. They don't want any kind of a win.

So they're using this as an excuse. That's all this is. They don't care about any of this stuff. They're using it as an excuse.

So we're going to end up, we're going to be probably, I mean, even Trump said over the weekend that we're probably going to have another shutdown. That's what probably will end up happening. And then all of this still? Is continuing? Completely in Minneapolis, completely in Minnesota, and they're just going to keep it going.

Just craziness. This is lawlessness and disorder. You know, I was on CBS earlier today. I've been going since very early this morning. And I was amazed at what.

you know, the host was thinking was tyrannical. He was classifying the enforcement of immigration law as somehow being tyrannical. You know, these masked ICE agents.

Well, why do you think that they're masked for?

Well, probably because they've had the public doxing them. following them. endangering the safety of their own families. But is it tyrannical to enforce immigration law, existing immigration law? Is it tyrannical?

two allow people who are violent, dangerous repeat offenders. To run around on the streets and continue to offend, especially when the offenses are things like Assault Murder Rape. Child predation. That's kind of a big question. Is that tyranny?

to allow those people to run. loose on the streets. terrorizing their communities. Because that's that's what's being described here. I can't believe that people are defending would actually like jeopardize their own lives to defend violent criminal illegal aliens.

And I wasn't joking. I didn't. No, when I was reading the names off of all of these last week, I wasn't cherry-picking. I wasn't going in there and and only looking at the worst. I mean, the it would have been far more difficult.

should try to pick out The least the the criminals with the least uh offences. and the maybe perhaps most minor offences. That would have been difficult. But this is goofy. I mean this um It's just they really want to make this a flashpoint.

And I think the administration is moving to Sour that. to at least stop that should be. But what's more, and this is something that I think they're going to be looking into, is the depth of organization for this stuff. Right? You know When I was looking at the videos of this Alex, the Alex Predi, one of the videos, there's a video that was released.

I think it was late last night. It's him in the street. Directing traffic. This is apparently a little bit before the videos showing the engagement that we've all seen. He was filming Border Patrol Agents.

who are trying to set up a perimeter for their operation. And they were trying to get people who kept impeding them out of the way. And That when Predty chose to insert himself into this Federal operation. By telling traffic to drive into the ice perimeter. that these agents were trying to establish.

That makes everything far more dangerous. And then And you can say that he didn't get rough or do anything, but there literally is, the video suggests. That As one federal agent is trying to arrest a female rioter. Alex Predi is seen at least in one still, I mean, as suggested by the shaky garbage video. of putting his hands on a federal agent.

Now You do that and that changes things dramatically. Changes stuff very quickly. Makes it Far more dangerous. Especially when you choose to carry.

Now I think it's just as important to assess what happened. in those brief seconds that he was being detained by law enforcement before the shot that took his life. just as much as it is to analyze what was happening in the lead up to this. And it's all very fair to ask. Those are very fair questions.

And I hopefully will get some answers from this. But the bottom line is that This guy Chose He chose something very differently than what other than I have done ever at a protest. when I was carrying, I never involved myself in a Federal operation. He chose even very differently, I would say, than Kyle Rittenhouse. I've seen a lot of those comparisons.

six years ago. Rittenhouse was attacked. He defended himself and then later went law enforce and then turned turned himself into law enforcement. But there was a lot of chaos in this video, and at one point, like one of the agents yelled gun, I heard gun gun. And I'm assuming that that's when they saw that he had a holstered sidearm?

And then I don't know what happened and this is where the investigation needs to play out. Did they think that he had gotten it? Do they know that he had been disarmed, essentially? And If they saw one second that he had a gun holstered, And then they saw that the gun was unholstered. and that the gun was not in the holster.

and they had no idea that maybe another agent had taken it. Would they assume that maybe Predty in that scrum that they were having where he was covered by like five other guys? Did they assume that he had a hold of it? I mean, that's the big question. And that they have to do they do they believe That There was threat that they were that's what the investigation has to will out.

I mean, there's a lot of things. I don't know. I've heard people, some say, oh, well, maybe did it, you know, it was a stig, did it accidentally discharge? I'm not even going to entertain that narrative without knowing anything that we do. I just feel like it's fruitless and silly.

It's fruitless and silly. But I don't know. It's um The the people who have And in an emergency, every second counts. When you have ADT home security, you can count on peace of mind. With 24-7 monitoring, the most company-operated monitoring centers in the industry and technology that helps first responders verify your alarm, help is there the moment you need it.

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We have a a lot more to touch on. And now, all of the news you would probably miss, it's time for Dana's Quick Five.

I read that something like 20,000 flights have been canceled since the weekend because of the storm. And something like On Sunday alone, it was like over, like there were like 11,000 flights canceled on Sunday alone. That is a lot. And the Transportation Secretary was saying it was going to be probably around the end of the week. Before everything is kind of normalized at that point.

So, my heavens, yeah, it's over 20,000. That's some of the latest numbers for this. Good night. Let's see a couple of others. Oof.

This um Oof, Alaska student arrested for eating an AI art exhibit. This is interesting. I don't even know what this is about. How do you eat an AI art exhibit? I don't even understand what that just apparently a guy.

I mean, apparently, there were an art exhibit where there were. About 160 images on the wall, and this guy literally physically ate these AI generated images. And the I have no, okay.

Well, that's that's something I haven't heard of before. Oh, let's see. Also, a couple of other things to touch on. They're saying that colon cancer specifically, colon cancer is now the top killer for Americans under the age of 50. According to the latest data, you knew that it was going to be an explosive epidemic.

It is by far number one, and it's claimed the spot. seven years earlier than it was previously anticipated. Which I think indicates quite a lot about how quickly this is growing and spreading, and good heavens. uh also a couple of other things we're gonna make sure that we hit Uh we also oh goodness. Kanye West took out a full-page ad in Wall Street Journal apologizing for apparently being anti-Semitic.

He literally has a song called Heil Hitler. I don't I don't understand what that means, but oh okay, yeah. But he's apologized the full-page ad, which didn't come cheap, in the Wall Street Journal, where he attributes the. I don't know. His la I don't know lack of reason from a 2002 car crash.

He said, apparently that's it's from that. I don't know. Uh a couple of other things. Uh let's see. We've also China's top general accused of giving nuclear secrets.

giving away nuclear secrets. But to the US bribery allegations against one palace intrigue. Very interesting. Stick with us. In an emergency, every second counts.

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Brighten up your timely news consumption with a Dana Show Podcast, where every update comes with a little dash of not so serious, on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. In one city, we have this outrage and this powder cake happening, and it's not right, and it doesn't happen anywhere else. And it's simply because of one reason, and that's leadership in that state. When there was all the focus on the billions and billions of dollars in fraud happening in Minneapolis, suddenly, suddenly, Minneapolis becomes a powder cake. And the people that caused that to happen were the governor, the mayor, the attorney general, Omar.

They're the ones that incited rhetoric, encouraged these rioters to go with their cell phones, not to peacefully protest, not to peacefully protest, but to go out and do exactly what was happening on Saturday morning. And so there was a powder cake, and it was absolutely lit by that. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch, who said that. It's very weird that all of this decided to kick off. Right.

as everyone was looking at this massive fraud. in Minnesota. that it all kicked off, everything else kicked off right there like that. That is very interesting, I think. Very telling.

Welcome back to the program, Dana Lash. With you. No, it's all very telling, I think. And that's exactly true what happened. You had all of this fraud and then you had these individuals.

Now they started to kick all this off.

So there really is a way to It's a g they're trying to in any way possible. They're trying to distract from the massive multi-hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer fraud. That's it. Few other things. The I told you that POTUS apparently has been talking to Tim Walls.

He's sending Tom Homan. 2 Minnesota Who's going and Tom Holman's going to report directly to the President, not Noam? Very interesting, Vilmalugin first reported this yesterday evening. where apparently a lot of immigration agents had expressed frustration with the way the DHS handled. a lot of this stuff.

Now, I'll have you know, if you don't think that it's merited, no one was the one who went out and said first and put the. Idea out there that it was somehow illegal to ever carry, even at a protest. and also said the word brandishing. Was saying that the individual that Alex Preddy was brandishing, which the video doesn't suggest that. That undermines all of the good things that you're doing when you get out ahead of your skis like this.

When you use bad language, you are undermining all of the good work that you've done. You're taking attention away from the violent repeat offenders that are here in the country illegally. You're not shining light on their crimes. You're having to clean up a mess that was made because of rhetoric.

So, I don't know if that's why he's sending home and who's going to directly report to him. Not quite sure if that's why he's sending him or not. as opposed to Gnome, but he's sending Holmen.

So mister and Holman's going to report directly to POTUS.

Now, I've seen a couple of things, and where they've been trying to. get around the very real Fact. of the ice detainer ignoring ice detainers. Tim Walls they put out there that he had a productive call with POTUS. And was discussing that, you know, talking about reducing the number of agents.

and you know helping to apprehend these illegal aliens, but he was also giving the suggestion that somehow his prisons And Bill Melugin made this note, Honor ICE detainers. By transferring the criminal repeat illegal aliens, After they convicted. criminal aliens after they serve their sentence. But the problem is that his city and county jails do not. Ice does not want these people to be just released into the streets.

And the crazy thing is that Minnesota is worse than California in acknowledging these detainer requests. That's what's crazy.

So They're having this brawl over the city jails and the county jails. They're not having this brawl over state. prisons. And Wals is trying to. conflate all of that.

So he doesn't have to answer for why his city and county jails have been ignoring ICE detainer requests since they established it first in 2021.

So, don't be misled on that stuff. I feel like they're really trying to gaslight people on this. Just and be careful of some of these other Just some of the other videos, I've already seen AI slop going around where there's supposed to be an image of Predi being shot, and the agent that's right behind him doesn't have a head. And he's got like seven fingers on one hand. Oh my gosh, let's not.

Let's not start sharing A It doesn't help when you have official accounts that share it. But let's not share the AI slop. Because that's just the worst of the let's just let's just not do that. Goodness. We have a million other things to deal with.

Adding that on, and again, all that stuff undermines the work that they're doing. You know they have a training manual, by the way, for all these people that have been chasing ICE agents in Minneapolis? And they have a whole training manual of Kim Higby. was able to get his hands on all of it. They walk people through how to obstruct.

They, and this is the far left, like Marxist kind of group of it. They have a whole they have plans, they have a database where they've been putting in every license plate that they think even kind of remotely might be ICE. they've been saving or amenable to ICE, I think. They've been saving their license plate numbers. This is crazy.

This is what they're doing there. Where are Democrats saying you guys need to stop? You guys need to comply with these violent illegal aliens being detained. Just stop. Why is it that people like Josh Shapiro can go along with it, but people like Tim Walsh can't?

Million dollar question. They need the distraction. They're going to let this go on for as long as possible, so long as they can dodge accountability from that multi-hundreds of billions of dollars fraud story. That's the whole purpose of this, is they want to dodge accountability, and they will literally get people killed in the process. They will get them killed in the process, absolutely.

No accountability for these people. You know, they've established, remember Chess Chop? Chess Chop had um I don't know, like they were trying to say that it was an autonomous zone. And do you remember that they had a portion, actually it was like a big intersection. Completely cordoned off with like plywood and the traffic barrels and they weren't allowing anybody in.

Well, now they're apparently they're doing it in Minneapolis. They've established a new autonomous zone where they've said law enforcement is not allowed. And it's all very, very well funded. they did the perimeter in the same way. And they have all these other things, they have tons of supplies that fall through.

That goes through there. Dustin Grage had actually taken some video. They had free winter gear, hand warmers, food, coffee, all of that. Like tons of it brought in. How is that being funded?

It's like several blocks.

Now, the people who live in their so-called autonomous zone. The rioters there in Minneapolis have been barring them from getting back into their homes.

So if they come back from work and they're trying to just get home and they happen to live within that multi-block radius, Where these people, these violent rioters, have set up this autonomous zone in Minneapolis, they don't let them back into their houses. they will not let them back through. That's insane. So you're being detained you're being arrested, which basically is like kidnapping. By people who are trying to claim that they're the victims.

This is a well-funded. Insurrection. If you want to call it what it is, here's an actual insurrection. Organizing and having a well-funded operation to go and obstruct. impede law enforcement action.

That's what it's all about.

So, yeah, this is some people were saying that the autonomous zone that they've established. in Minneapolis looks identical to the chas chop. Remember chas stood for Um Uh Capitol Hill. autonomous zone. Chairs It was chop and they changed it to chas, and I can't remember what chop stood for.

So Remember, Chaz had murders and all kinds of stuff. They had a SoundCloud warlord who was giving everybody guns out of his trunk, and these people had no idea how to use them. Everybody had their trigger fingers on the trigger, and it was just a disaster waiting to happen. It's a well-organized, and they're going to do this. I wouldn't doubt Democrats are probably using some of our taxpayer dollars in the Somali front to pay this stuff.

How much do you want to bet? I wouldn't doubt it for one second. Feels like that's exactly what they're doing with this.

So, they have this autonomous zone.

So, not only have they been doxing citizens and stopping people to ask for their papers. They have it cordoned off. And there's already graffiti everywhere. trash like how is it It's been a day, and already it looks like a hell hole. Why?

These people destroy things so fast. It's they're like the plague. It's like one of the plagues of Egypt. That's how fast they destroy the stuff. Yeah, there's already graffiti, and of course, the graffiti vandalizing private property, things like that.

They also have armed guards at the at the uh new chas. They're in Minneapolis. Apparently they have new armed guards. They said that they're guarding the uh autonomous zone. One of them identified as Comrade Loon, which is the Minnesota State bird.

Oh, and hey, guess whose faces are covered and all that stuff? Yeah, those guys are. Yeah, their faces are covered. They kind of had one. In Atlanta, when Rayshar Brooks was killed, they had uh kind of a chaz thing, but it wasn't anything like what was in Like I think Portland.

So they're having They're going to have their own little autonomous zone here. It's well organized, it's well funded, and it's all about. obstruction. It's all about impeding. This has nothing to do with the Second Amendment.

This has everything to do with people's reckless disregards for human life. and their willingness to coddle violent criminals at the expense of the innocent. That's the truly sad thing.

So I don't know. I mean, I don't know how how long they think they're going to be able to keep this going. Because at some point they think they're going to take this all away. The battle over the budget so that they can get a shutdown because now they want to have a reason for not voting and giving the administration any kind of perception of a win.

So they'll use this as the agitator to get support for it. Instead of making the case themselves, they're just going to use this stuff as a way to get support, to pass as support. I mean, hey, if it's zealous, if it's zealotry around a particular variable, I mean, you could use that energy to advocate for your control. I mean, that's. That's the whole purpose of this.

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So Kanye West comes out. And he has A like full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal where he says he's sorry for his anti-Semitic comments. And I'm I still have questions. Um I think it's obvious that he has mental issues. And he also did major damage in trying to mainstream some of this stuff.

And he kept doing it while people were telling him that it was wrong and he shouldn't do it. Um I don't know. I feel like because he has said he came out with a good gospel album. It was a really good album. And then he like turned his like did a 180 on that.

Now he's doing a 180 again. I just don't know, like is this all like a PR stunt? And he just does this. 'Cause he's got like another album coming out. I mean he literally has a song called The Heil Hiller.

He actually has a song. It says this in the chorus, like repeatedly. I I mean I just feel like people he says he says it's because he's bipolar and he was like in an accident in 20 in 2002 or something like that. I don't know. It it just seems like he's always pivoted on a dime on a lot of this stuff.

Like after he did the Christian album, and he just then he pivoted and then it was just crazy and then he pivoted again. I don't know. I mean who's to say he's not going to go right back to doing this in another week? And I don't know if it's because he's reacting to. Those Nazi twinks that were playing his song in the club.

I don't know, like over and over again. I don't know if it's that or what, but I don't know. It's just so weird. I don't know if I just believe it. I don't know.

I'm not quite sure. But Regardless. Ooh. Still.

Now, Trump and Walls have been talking. Wals says that. The police are going to be that they're gonna they're gonna be investigating the uh shooting that took place on Saturday. They're I think Walls is trying to get ahead of POTUS. on what the call was about and what to expect.

Because the media came out like, Oh, Trump's wanting to get You know, a head on this, etc. Eh, I don't think so. It looks like it's Waltz that's trying to because he apparently reached out. to POTUS. And Maybe, I don't know, it sounds like they had a nice discussion.

The bottom line is that Democrats need to stop encouraging their citizens to go out in the street and do this stuff. It's insane.

They have got to stop and the media has to stop helping them. Remember they came out with this whole entire fake story about a five-year-old kid. that ended up, as it was discovered, was abandoned by both his parents, apparently. not just his illegal alien dad, but also his illegal alien mother. There's a you know, there's a big Big thing here.

So All of the misrepresentations. That they have been a part of, this all has to stop. All of this stuff has to stop. It just has to stop. Because this is going to keep getting worse and worse.

And they want it to. as they get closer to fighting over government shutdown. Which we'll talk more about tomorrow. I'll be on Fox Business for the evening edit. I think that's like in the 4 p.m.

hour later on today. Uh so you can go and check that out. And also don't forget to sign up over at Substack. And I think on my social media, I think on X, there's a video of CBS this morning in case you wanted to see what that was like. All right, today in Stupidity.

All right. Steve. Stepping in. Can't give me the studio today because of the weather. But Minnesota Timberwolves, NBA team, before any facts, any investigation, nothing, they did this.

Here we go. We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of Alex Purdy that occurred yesterday in Minneapolis. We extend our love, support, and heartfelt sympathies to Alex's family, friends, and our community during this difficult time. Please join us in honoring the life and memory of Alex Purdy with a moment of silence. Mm no boy.

You know, let's try to let's just stop and have people just stop. Just Stop obstructing. Stop impeding. Don't get out into it. Folks, that does it for us today.

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