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Jan. 16, 2026 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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Time for the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis?
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All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
It's January 16, 2026.
We're here in studio.
Myself, Andrew Colvet, executive producer of this fine show, joined by Blake Neff, another one of our producers here.
And we've got a jam-packed first hour.
First up, though, we have David Hoke, who you will know from the Nick Shirley investigations in Minneapolis that have gone massively viral.
Exposing Minneapolis Fraud Behind Scenes 00:08:22
David has been instrumental working behind the scenes for years trying to expose this fraud.
And then, kaboom, like a tidal wave, Nick Shirley's investigative reporting with David's help has taken over the country and really setting the news agenda right now.
All the headlines are about Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A lot of that was sparked because of this investigation.
So without further ado, David Hoke, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
Thank you.
Very nice to be here.
Yeah.
And for those who can't see it, he's wearing that sweatshirt you're wearing is Quality Learing Center.
1-800 fraud.
You have a lot to be proud of.
You guys probably gave us the best conservative meme of the entire year.
Does that number actually work?
By the way, I should ask.
We just put it on there.
But we should.
This should be a government hop.
Yeah.
I mean, imagine, like, I know this exists, but like, we should really emphasize if you can uncover a fraudulent program such that it gets stopped and maybe someone gets convicted of it, you get 25, 30% of what was saved.
I actually love those kind of ideas.
Yeah, these exist.
We got to really drive.
There's a lot of incentives in the market, David, for fraudsters.
There are not as many for people like yourself that want to do good and want to protect taxpayer funds.
So you had this first video with Nick that went absolutely, I mean, I don't think anybody's ever seen anything like it, especially on X.
And you've come out with a part two now exposing transportation companies.
I was reviewing some of the clips just before the show today, and truly remarkable stuff.
I want to start with just an overall question.
Did you know this was happening?
Did you learn something?
In this investigation, what are the big takeaways here?
So this all began several years, well, many years ago, and really got jump-started when I began noticing all these child care facilities here in Minneapolis.
And they were pretty concentrated in one area.
And I said, well, I think we have more child care centers in Minneapolis than we do children.
So I started to look and say, well, you know, the snow would fall and there'd be no footprints around the center the whole day.
And I'd say, well, what, I mean, what's going on here?
And so I started to look at who owned these child care centers and I started to see all these vans driving around the Twin Cities with these names, but there was no phone number, no address on them, just a name with a number on the back.
But they never had a passenger in them ever, ever, ever.
And so I started to kind of say, well, what's going on here?
And that led into Feeding Our Future, the autism centers, all of that.
And I realized that this was going to be like wrestling a grease hippo.
I just, I couldn't get my arms around it.
So, and this is advice for anyone else out there who's going to do this sort of thing in your state.
You can't try and tackle the whole thing all at once.
You have to pick a pressure point to start with.
And in my case, I chose the child care because I knew that that would resonate with people, especially when they're paying $2,000 a month per kid to send their kid to childcare.
And then they find out this whole fraudulent network has been set up.
And then I knew I was going to move into the non-emergency medical transportation side of things.
And I realized that that was the hub of the wheel.
Like I said in the video, all these other things, childcare, the adult daycare, the autism centers, they're all spokes on the wheel.
It all revolves around transportation.
So when I had all this data finally put together, I said, well, look, I'm a nobody.
I need to find someone who has an internet presence who can deliver this.
And I started to look at all these different influences.
When I saw Nick Shirley, I said, that's my guy right there.
I just pested the hell out of him until he called me Friday night about 9:30 my time and said, Okay, I'm coming to Minneapolis.
And then we made the first video.
I said, Well, get your return ticket because you're going to be back.
He goes, Well, I don't know.
And then as soon as that one went, just exploded on the internet.
He called me to go, I'm coming back.
Yeah, I mean, and it's really, I mean, listen, and this is, you've got this whole ICE story, which we're going to be hitting in part two of this hour with Cam Higbee and Nick Sortor, who have been on the streets doing more independent journalism.
They've been infiltrating some of these Antifa groups, these paid protest groups, these Communist Front groups that are reacting to the Surgeon ICE, which are reacting to the video that you and Nick Shirley did.
I have so many questions, but let's start there.
What is it like to be enveloped in this national story?
Arguably the cause of the big cause.
You are the spark that lit the fuse.
So I was born and raised in South Minneapolis, lived here my whole life, nunciation grade school, had that terrible shooting last year, Washburn High School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
And I said, well, look, when I all started to really realize what was going on here, I said, there's something, it just doesn't fit right into a normal society.
And I said, well, nobody's doing anything about this.
And so when I started to look into it, I saw these tentacles going everywhere.
And I said, oh my God, I can't do this.
It's too enormous.
So that's why, you know, I'd say, you know, God, I can't do this.
But there's something inside me that just pushes me forward.
And I said, okay, well, nobody else is doing anything.
I'm going to be the guy.
I had no idea that this would be the spark, not only nationally, but internationally.
We have people wearing these t-shirts and sweatshirts.
I'm getting videos from photos from Japan and Russia and Sweden and Australia and New Zealand.
It's everywhere because of one misspelled word.
And what I didn't point out in the video is that not only did they have the word learning misspelled, they had the address misspelled on their door because Nicholas is spelled with two L's and they only had one L in it.
And so they were wrong, two out of the four words on their building.
But I didn't want to point it out because I wanted the focus to be learning versus learning.
So I said, look, I'm not going to sit by and let this happen.
I'm not going to hand this situation off to my kids and let them deal with it.
I'm the guy who's going to stop it and I'm going to tear this whole thing down.
Well, you've lit a fuse, I think, you know, for Blake and I even.
And we were sort of aware of this story.
We saw it in the City Journal.
We had Ryan on, Ryan Thorpe on, who had done that story.
So we were seeing this percolate.
And then, boom, this all happened.
By the way, Walter Kern and the County Highway, which is not digital, it's only a print publication.
They had done a story before that, which led to the City Journal investigation, which then kind of snowballed with the Nick Shirley.
So it's amazing to see that we can blow stories wide open.
First question: Are you staying safe, David?
I do have a concern about that for you.
Well, this is something that I would not recommend that anybody do in the fashion that I did it because my head is on a swivel 24 hours a day.
I have to have the lights on all the time.
I have to carry a firearm, a baseball bat, and what's called a whippet, a metal whippet to protect myself because now people are starting to recognize me.
And it's a frightening place to live in my world, but I just, I have to do it.
And I believe that at some point, somebody's going to take me out.
I mean, that's not movie type stuff.
This is real life.
And if that happens, at least I can go knowing that I did what I could do to try and make a difference.
And now today, I get a text that there's a DFL state representative here in Minnesota who's live streaming the location of federal agents.
Yep.
Yeah.
So like it's all coming out of Minneapolis.
This is the epicenter of all the fraud in the United States, and it's even spread out among the world.
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The genesis of it is right here in Minneapolis.
I didn't mean to, you know, awkwardly pause there.
I'm just, we've been through a lot over here on this show, too, David.
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More with David Hoke here.
So we have some clips here from part two of your investigation.
And I don't know if this is the key portion of it, but something I took note of, David, and that is all of this money that has been basically bilk from the taxpayers and then smuggled through the MSP, Minnesota St. Paul International Airport, back to Somalia.
And we're talking bags full of $750,000, $1 million, $6 million, according to this gentleman.
Play cut 500.
The smallest amount in a suitcase that I heard was like $750,000.
But generally, it was anywhere from a million to $6 million in a suitcase.
Millions Stolen in Suitcases by FBI 00:16:02
And there usually was, as far as I can remember, there was always two individuals traveling.
So you would have maybe one guy with 2.2 million and another guy with 3 million.
And at airports, you're able to take $10,000 without declaring it.
How are these guys able to take millions of dollars?
Because as far as I know, as long as they declared it, they were fine.
And then we found out, David, later in this clip that they actually reported this to HSI, which has all the investigative authority and power that the FBI does via Department of Homeland Security.
How is this legal?
How did nothing happen?
What did you guys find?
It goes back to what I said earlier that Minneapolis is the epicenter of all of this fraud and all this corruption.
For someone to be, I mean, if I walk through the airport with 10 cents, I have to source it.
These guys are walking through with millions of dollars in cash at a time.
And had I known it, I would have insisted that TSA was running drug-sniffing dogs around the money because you know there's going to be a scent of cocaine or something.
When you have that much cash, there's going to be a trace of drugs on it.
Of course.
And they could see the money.
And they didn't do that.
And so this fraud is so gigantic that again, people are so frustrated and overwhelmed by it.
They said, look, you've got to just, you got to chip away if you're going to do this.
You've got to focus.
You got to spread yourself.
So two years ago, I knew what these videos were going to be about, but I didn't have all the data to put together.
I didn't know what sites we were going to visit.
But when Nick hit town, I had it all laid out where we were going, how much money they'd gotten, why we were doing it the way we did it.
And I said, this first video is going to be the most viewed video on the internet.
I told him that talking on the phone, and indeed it was.
I don't know how much 400 million views or whatever the number is.
And then I said, we have to go directly into transportation because that all comes back to transportation.
I said, we can't do 10 videos on autism.
It's just, it's not worth it.
Childcare and then moving into the transportation.
And it was the right thing.
Well, let's get a clip of that.
So you went to a location of one of these supposed transport companies.
And to set it up, the state will fund money for people, will give money to companies that are supposedly to transport disabled people, elderly, stuff like that.
It's a very popular business.
There are a lot of these.
I spoke with someone who's a realtor in Minneapolis.
And she said over and over they would run into people, Somalis buying homes.
And there was always like, it's another daycare center.
It was another transport company.
I think someone had all three, those two, and then a Medicaid company.
It was unreal.
But let's play the clip here.
This is Nick Shirley finding another fraud spot and getting kicked out 518.
Do you guys know where Advanced Mobility is?
Do you guys know where Advanced Mobility is?
Advanced Mobility.
Yeah.
We're looking for it.
Never heard of it?
What is this?
What is it?
Oh, my name is Nick Shirley.
We're looking for advanced mobility.
Where's advanced mobility at?
We don't care about advanced mobility.
That's what we're asking for.
All right, we're looking for advanced mobility.
Nobody can help us right now.
We got a whole group of people trying to get us out of here.
We're looking for advanced mobility.
I don't care how much mobility.
Advanced mobility doesn't exist.
No, no, hit the logo.
And so it's not in that clip, but I believe it was saying it was at suite 224, and you couldn't find a single suite even labeled two in that building.
No, so it's interesting you picked that portion of the video because it's the most significant because that advanced mobility has been registered with the state of Minnesota since 1999 at that address.
And it's a one-story building, so all of the suites are 101, 102, 102.
You have to have a second, there is no second story, so you can't have a 200 suite.
So it's never existed.
It's only on paper.
And nobody ever checked this, David.
Nobody ever did.
So this complicity goes back before Tim Waltz then.
I mean, it's been going on years.
Yeah.
So Devil's Advocate, did you look anywhere out?
Did you maybe try to find other evidence the company may have ever existed or maybe that it had been there?
It had been somewhere and moved.
I don't know.
I'm just trying to find defenses that the state might make.
That's why we asked the people, have you ever heard of advanced mobility?
Because some of those companies have been there for eight or nine or 10 years.
So if you've never heard of it, how can it be registered at this address?
But that was only one example.
I've been to probably 70 of these and none of them, I can't find an office.
I can't find anybody there.
I mean, they're apartment buildings, they're vacant buildings, they're liquor stores.
You saw it, they're grocery stores.
I said, well, what one, several of them are money wire transfer services.
And you saw that one gentleman liquor store.
He said, yes, Safari Wire Service.
Yes, Safari gets the money and they send it out.
I said, well, where's the transportation company?
It doesn't know what we're talking about.
And what we didn't include in that video was there was a guy who stormed into that liquor store and he started shouting at the older guy in Somali to get him to stop talking.
And so that guy turned around and he walked out the back towards the back door.
Yeah.
I mean, so you grew up in Minneapolis.
Just for the sake of our audience, how much have you seen the city demographics transform as you see the Somali communities come in?
So what's been most shocking is their failure to assimilate in the slightest bit.
They are in my way or the highway, and they have these DFL legislators who stand behind them because they didn't create all this fraud.
They had help from politicians to construct all these companies.
They didn't know how to do it.
The politicians helped them do it, and they saw them as a solid voting block.
And so they brought more of men and more of them in.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
And these videos light a fuse in a lot of Americans because we're the ones getting ripped off and you could just see it.
And you're not getting ripped off for other Americans.
You're not getting ripped off for a good cause.
You are just getting straight ripped off and the money's going overseas to a bunch of Somali people.
They're stealing from the blind, the disabled, the elderly, the kids with cancer.
They're stealing from all of those.
Amen.
Thank you, David.
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Now it's your turn to help protect yours.
So one of the big news stories of the day is coming to us from Axios.
And it's disturbing because it indicates that a lot of squishes are surrounding President Trump and trying to tell him to go halfway, half measures in this push to remove illegals from our streets.
Now, here's what's happening.
The polling is indicating that Americans are turning on President Trump's immigration enforcement measures.
This is the polling.
Now, there's, I don't believe it, first of all.
And this stuff is so transitory that you have to look past it.
This is our one chance, I believe, to set right what has been a decades-long wrong, right?
Yeah, so the headline was from Axios.
Axios is a very funny one to read because they write like no other publication.
It's all bullet points.
Bullet points.
Yeah, I have to imagine.
Yeah, so it's all like bullet pointed very to the point, and you don't always know what's behind the scenes.
But the claim is Trump's immigration erosion worries his team.
And what they're claiming is eroding is they have polling that says independent and undecided voters think President Trump is too focused on deporting illegal immigrants.
And also that ICE has taken a reputational hit.
Now, what I would first observe about that is that's such an obviously like media-driven sense of things.
Why would they think President Trump is too focused on deportations?
Because the news media is perpetually covering ICE in Minneapolis in this hostile way.
That's what drives it.
And that's also what's driving any sense of damage to ICE is there's hostile coverage of one incident that happened in Minneapolis.
And I think you and I both agree that a headline like this is partly designed to engineer what we warned yesterday cannot be allowed to happen.
They're trying to attack the moral resolve of the administration and get them to wuss out.
They're trying to get them to back down and say, the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
Get out of Minneapolis.
Let them do their thing.
And I think what you and I both agree is once that happens, the jig is kind of up that they won't be able to enforce their immigration will anywhere else.
And it's not going to help their numbers because to be sort of straightforward, success succeeds and failure continues to fail.
Well, here's the thing.
Things get, here's what's happened with the media complex in the country.
You have Renee Goode get shot.
The apparatchics on MS Now and CNN and the Washington Post and New York Times, they see an opening just like the protesters do.
So they flood in the zone.
They do sob story after sob story.
They show complete propaganda of protesters infuriated.
One begets the other.
They all believe the lie.
And then they just regurgitate it and parrot it.
And they think Gestapo, Nazi, Trump, tyrant, all of this.
That was a distraction, unfortunately, Renee Good getting shot from the fraud story that was pushing up the positives in the polling to do this mass deportation.
So this is a moment in time where we have to be showing, to Blake's point, resolve.
We cannot give in to this sob story, weak need Republicanism that doesn't work and we lose our country.
This is the opportunity where you double down, triple down.
And we now have, sounds like we now have Nick Sortor and Cam Higbee, who've been on the ground in Minneapolis, who can give us an insider scoop of what they've been seeing.
I mean, these guys are absolute maniacs and heroes.
They are in middle of the night, freezing temperatures.
You guys are out there.
Welcome to the show, guys.
We were having a little tech issue, so I'm glad we got you on.
Nick, Cam, I don't know who wants to take this first, but what are you seeing on the ground?
Describe it in detail.
How violent is it?
How organized is it?
And then we're going to get to a conversation about is it time to invoke the Insurrection Act?
So maybe you're on the left here, Nick.
You start and then over to you, Cam.
Don't be saying I'm on the left here, man.
I don't want the audience to get the screen.
On the screen.
On the screen.
I know better.
I'll tell you, it's just, it's not getting any better, right?
If anything, it's getting worse.
We just saw the other day.
And I was able to announce this yesterday that that FBI rifle that I captured being stolen out of an FBI vehicle that was a select fire rifle, by the way.
It was a machine gun.
And it ended up in the hands of a Latin Kings gang member out here, the same gang that has a $10,000 hit out on Bovino.
So, you know, and these are the Democrats are siding with out here.
These are the people that they're supporting.
I've gotten a bunch of hate messages in my DMs from people after I had this guy arrested yesterday.
You know, I've been in direct contact with General Pam Bondi several times a day at this point, you know, tracking these people down.
The FBI is on the ground doing a really good job with that.
I'm hoping there's going to be another announcement on that today.
But the fact of the matter is, you know, I told Minneapolis police immediately as this happened because they were just a block away.
And I told them that somebody, I didn't know what kind of gang he was in at the time, but the face tats kind of gave it away, had just stolen an FBI rifle.
Here's the video.
Here's the license plate of the vehicle that he just got into and ran away.
And they didn't do anything.
They just let him go.
I showed them the video of it happening.
They let the guy go.
They could have taken this rifle off the streets right then, right there.
Instead, they risked the lives of, you know, countless innocent people by just letting him run away because they didn't want to offend the anti-ice rioters.
I mean, this isn't getting any better, guys.
So go ahead.
Just to give a scope, how many, I guess, straightforward numbers, I feel like I'm not seeing.
How many people do you sense are out on the streets?
How many are really violent agitators versus how many people are maybe spectators, passerby?
It varies and they become way more emboldened after the sun sets.
So it's, I mean, outside the federal building, it's pretty consistently upwards of 200 people, but it's really, I mean, it's a lot of the same people during the day, but as soon as the sun sets, they get that mob mentality.
More of the agitators comes out, come out, and it gets really violent.
I mean, it's gotten to the point where Nick and I can't even show up anymore.
They run us out as soon as they realize we're there.
They call us agitators.
I was out there embedded for nine hours yesterday, and it wasn't until right before I was forced to leave for the night because they chased me out that they realized I was even there.
It's like I'm obviously a pretty poor agitator.
Minneapolis Police Department, local law enforcement in general, don't do anything.
They don't enforce the law.
I always say that if you don't enforce the law, you don't have laws.
Laws are only as good as their enforcement mechanism.
And right now, Minneapolis has no laws because they're not enforcing any laws.
I definitely think it's time for the Insurrection Act, and I've been calling for it a lot.
So let's probe at that when you say they don't enforce laws.
So are they present?
And if so, how many?
And what do they do?
Do they passively watch?
Do they ever move about?
Do they ever try to order people, even if they're not making arrests?
Kind of just paint out the situation for us.
I mean, for the most part, you'd think there's no police in this city.
When they do show up, they get chased out.
They retreat immediately.
The protesters win every single time.
That happened the night they were breaking into the hotels.
The police showed up a couple times.
At one point, they did form a really terrible kettle where state police basically just let people leave the kettle whenever they wanted.
So they arrested nobody.
But other than that, Minneapolis Police Department drove by or showed up a couple times and they were chased out every single time.
Like the almost the terrorist attack that Nick stopped on the hotel, they showed up for that and then they got chased out.
I got stocked in downtown Minneapolis after an indivisible rally the other day.
The guy looked me in the face, told me that he thinks it would be okay if somebody killed me for my beliefs.
I never vocalized my beliefs, by the way.
He just knew me because another guy told people to follow and harass me and make my security earn their paycheck.
He told me that he thinks it would be self-defense if somebody killed me because of my beliefs.
And then he ran around town following me, telling everybody that I think Renee Nicole good deserved it.
So obviously that incited a mob against me.
Police Chase Activists from Hotels 00:05:21
I called 911.
They never showed up.
Jeez, Louise.
So the question is: it's going to be zero degrees this weekend.
I mean, this is like daytime highs.
Isn't it going to be a little bit more?
I think it's the low, the low.
The low.
Okay.
So, but that's overnight.
I've been of the mind here, Nick, because you've covered this stuff when it's, you know, summertime, riot season.
That's riot season, right?
Summertime, spring.
I'm convinced that this would be just a thousand times worse if there, you know, if it was summer.
Do you think that you're still going to see the groups coming out this weekend?
And do you know the names of the group?
You mentioned Indivisible.
What other groups are there?
Well, in terms of names of it, Indivisible is the one that I know of at the time.
I mean, it's not a hugely organized group out here that's going from place to place to place.
In terms of the weather, I mean, it's going to be anybody's guess, really.
I mean, it's obviously probably not going to be nearly as bad as it could be given the cold temperatures, but that hasn't really stopped a lot of these people.
Anybody that is from any states in this area, if they come from Chicago, if they come from Iowa, places like that, they're used to the cold already.
And when it was, keep in mind, last week, right after this happened, we saw similar temperatures out here, and it was still pretty violent.
So I don't necessarily think it's going to quell everything.
I just think, you know, the Soros folks will send out a lot more goods to support them with out there.
And you should see the, what was that?
No, I was about to play this Pritzker clip because we're hearing this from a bunch of Dems because we're talking about the Insurrection Act.
I'm completely on with you guys.
I think if Minnesota, what I'm hearing from you, if the Minneapolis police are unwilling to engage and drive back these agitators, then we have a serious issue.
I mean, they're confronting ICE.
They're harassing ICE.
They're trying to set traps of ice in front of ICE, right?
We've seen them putting water out on the streets.
But this is what Governor Pritzker is saying from a state over.
Let's go ahead and play it.
489.
The feds are supposed to be fighting to protect your civil rights, not to take them away.
And the Insurrection Act is designed only for circumstances where your rights can't be protected by local authorities or by whatever federal authorities are already there.
And then, only then, can federal troops be brought in to protect your civil rights.
This is exactly the opposite.
It's like they've turned it on their head on its head.
Cam, what's your reaction to that?
Well, I think it's in the name.
The Insurrection Act is intended for insurrections.
And when you have people trying to pull down the fences of federal facilities, attempting to kill federal officers, breaking into their vehicles, stealing their documents that is allegedly controlled, unclassified information, I think that that probably constitutes the beginning of an insurrection.
Governor Tim Wall said that he would deploy the National Guard if things got too bad.
And here he is continuing to encourage these people, despite the fact that they broke into vehicles the other night.
And honestly, I'm a little bit disappointed in the federal response.
FPS came out last night and they were very easy on these guys as they tried to pull that fence down.
Very few munitions deployed.
I would have expected a much larger response from these guys.
Something really bad could have happened the other night when they broke into those cars and stole the rifles.
Well, you're absolutely right.
And listen, if you come in with a show of force and you put the hammer down, a lot of these people have glass jaws.
They're going to run.
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We have Cam Higby and Nick Sortor, two guys that have put their bodies on the line to document the chaos and the insurrection, really, that's happening in Minneapolis.
I think almost more insulting and appalling is the fact that the elected officials, whether that's Tim Walsh, Jacob Frye, you've got this guy in Florida, by the way.
It's worth reminding our audience about this guy.
This guy in Florida is actively promoting doxing ICE agents.
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We'll just play this clip just so everybody knows what I'm talking about.
490.
Hello, everybody.
We've received multiple reports of heavy ICE activity in different parts of Central Florida, including the University of Central Florida, Winter Garden, Altamont Springs, and other surrounding areas.
We've also received reports of heavy ICE activity at certain hotels in the area as well.
I'm making this video to confirm both of those things, that ICE is in the community and that they have made pretty large hotel reservations and surrounding hotels as well.
I play that clip for you guys because you're seeing it up close and personal.
If we do not stop this insurrection in Minneapolis, it spreads.
These guys are all going to get emboldened to do even more.
And then you guys are going to be flying all over the country covering the next chaotic eruption somewhere else.
Is that your read on this?
That this can, if we stop this, that the message will be clear?
Or do you think this is just going to keep spreading?
Yeah, they're going to have to make an example out of this place, especially, you know, this is, obviously, the Minneapolis-St. Paul area is a Democrat stronghold.
And right now, these people firmly believe that they're going to get away with all of this and that ICE is going to back down.
You know, they're talking about these poll numbers, which I don't even believe are real poll numbers, because if you talk to actual people on the street, they don't want to live next to Venezuelan rapists.
I mean, that seems like a no-brainer, right?
I will tell you, I would much rather cover this in somewhere like Florida.
But I'll give you an example.
When they tried all these rallies and these big protests, like Indivisible was doing stuff down when I was in New Orleans as well, they didn't put up with it.
The Louisiana government didn't put up with it.
They shut down all of the potential riots right away.
And up here, you see videos of anti-ICE activists running red lights, following ICE, going around busted on blind corners, 12 of them at a time, just total lawlessness.
And the police don't do anything about it.
They can literally see it happen and they don't pay any attention to the person that just blew a red light at 80 miles an hour to catch up with ICE vehicles.
Down in Louisiana, I did that just because I was covering ICE.
I like rolled a red light and turned right behind them without stopping at the red light on that right turn.
And they pulled me over for that.
And so it's like you didn't have the same issues down there.
You didn't have the constant clashes with ice in the middle of the street.
The truth is, is like cities that have had to deal with really severe violent crime for a long time or where they have a history of really bad, well, I shouldn't say that about Minneapolis because they do.
Cities that have had to deal with a lot of violent crime for a long time just don't have quite as much.
Like they just don't have the patience for this.
They realize what the cost to a city is.
Or they get normalized.
And so it can be a good idea.
You see it.
It's like it's Portland.
It's Minneapolis.
It's Seattle.
It's cities that historically were safer usually.
And it's cities also, and it just has to be said, demographically, they're more of what you'd think of as, well, let's just say stereotypical white liberals run these cities still, as opposed to in, if you're in New Orleans, if you're in Atlanta, if you're in Detroit, those are heavily black cities that are run by other black Americans.
And they just don't, they don't fall for this nonsense nearly as much.
They don't get suckered.
They're not marks.
Cam, do you have that same impression that you could squelch this in Minneapolis if you brought enough force?
If we just basically said enough of this garbage, we're putting our foot down now, that the rats would scurry.
The rats would flee the ship.
I mean, I think the record just speaks for itself.
Why is this happening in Minneapolis and not Florida?
It's because they know that if they did this in Florida, the Florida State Police or local police would have a field day with them.
Why aren't they doing this in Texas?
Because they know Texas State Police isn't going to take it.
They know DeSantis isn't going to take it.
That's why they're doing it in Minneapolis because they know the government here supports them and they can get away with it.
I think an overwhelming show of force would absolutely squelch this.
They're like children.
It's just learned behavior.
If your child touches the stove and burns themselves, they're probably not going to do it again.
If your child does something wrong and you punish them, you give them a spanking, they're probably not going to do it again, or they're going to do it to a lesser degree.
And like Nick said, I hope that message the administration, please do mass raids in Hawaii.
We'd much rather cover.
Yeah, fair enough.
Yeah, I mean, that's an interesting point, right?
I mean, it does seem to be the sort of white enclave, white traditional liberal like softies that let their cities devolve into chaos right now.
And, you know, you guys are talking about this, Nick.
This is the Axios article that came up this morning.
We have the graphic here.
Two public surveys released this week, one from CNN, another from YouGov, found that most Americans said the agency was making U.S. cities less safe, referring to ICE.
Another poll done for the Associated Press after Goods' death found that just 38% of Americans now approve of Trump's immigration policy.
I don't believe that for a second.
But what I do agree with is that when you, to your guys' point, when you allow this kind of chaos, whether it's 200 or 300 agitators, when they get tackled, when you see these purple-haired jihadists getting face-planted in the snow, there's a group of us that love it.
But when it keeps going on too long, that's when you're going to see the negative impact on the polling, as opposed to you just snuff this out like on day one.
You don't let it get out of control.
Then people move on.
The news, everybody's memory is so short.
You go back to Somali fraud.
Boom, you're problem solved.
I mean, just look at what happened in Portland.
I mean, Portland was terrible for like a year.
I mean, they were out there every single night doing violence.
And then finally, the Portland Police Department decided to come in and tear their camp down.
And immediately it was not totally done, but pretty fizzled out.
And now, you know, just before this shooting, it was, I mean, people were going out there and there was nobody on the street.
So now they've had a bit of a revamp after Renee Nicole Good was shot.
But I mean, they went in one time and just took the whole thing down and had a constant presence.
And it really stopped a lot of the violence that was happening.
And that's all it took.
Yeah, I agree with you.
And, you know, last question, we got to go.
We got one minute left here.
But gentlemen, are you taking care of your safety?
Please tell me that you guys are taking care of your safety.
Nick, you guys have had some close calls.
You drove that car out.
The, you know, the graffiti on your car, the broken windows.
Like, is there a place where we can donate to your security?
Let us know.
Yeah, we just got added to Blackline Guardian Fund, which is something that Brandon Tatum started.
Right.
It's a nonprofit.
So I believe all the donations are tax deductible.
It's basically, you can find it pinned on my Twitter under any of my tweets about the protests.
Click the link.
Me, Nick, Sorter, and Nick Shirley are on there.
You just find us, whoever you want to donate to.
You just donate to our individual fund.
Yeah.
I encourage everybody watching, please donate to these guys.
They're doing heroes' work in there.
And I know that you guys are doing even more that we can't discuss here, just kind of help them reduce the chaos.
So God bless you both.
Stay safe.
We'll have you on again.
I'm sure there'll be more of these stories, sadly.
Take care, guys.
Appreciate you guys.
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