Trish Regan characterizes Minneapolis as a tinderbox, alleging local officials impede ICE operations while agitators attack journalists. She details the unlawful killing of Renee Nicole Good by an officer and a lawsuit challenging federal jurisdiction, citing Mayor Jacob Frey's "ICE, get the f out" slogan. Regan also claims $600 billion in Somali fraud with 87 charges filed and criticizes Attorney General Pam Bondi for failing to investigate the Biden family or Epstein files, suggesting President Trump plans her replacement to enhance nationwide fraud recovery efforts. [Automatically generated summary]
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Civil War in Minnesota00:08:17
Welcome to the big show.
We've got a situation at this moment that really does not bode well for the nation nor for Minnesota.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, setting us up for what appears to be a kind of a civil war.
Yeah, I'm going to use that term, a kind of civil war with local law enforcement completely against what DHS is trying to accomplish there, impeding, preventing DHS from being able to do its job.
Welcome to the program.
I am Trish Regan.
This is the Trish Regan Show.
Thank you for being here.
We've got a situation, as I said, on the ground that is increasingly tenuous.
It's like a tinderbox that's just about ready to explode.
Over the weekend, it was amazing.
Minneapolis was effectively burning, right?
You had all kinds of violence.
It reminded me of the days of 2020 with the BLM riots.
And yet, where was the local government?
The federal government was trying to contain this.
The local government was basically go for it.
If you look at some of the video that came to us, and I want to bring this to you, this is from a journalist named Nick Sortor.
And he was actually in his car trying to make his way through this.
And he had everyone on top of him, as you can see, beating on his car.
You can imagine how scary this is.
Right as, as an individual, this is the kind of chaos that the government is trying to prevent.
He eventually got away, but they surrounded him and this wasn't the worst of it, because we also saw they were beating down the doors of the ice hotels.
They were trying to get inside hotel locations where they believed that there were ice officers there.
They were trying to get in.
So let me show you another video Here, coming to us, this was over the weekend, and I want to cover some of the obscenities here, but this is just horrific, disgusting behavior.
People pushing through, trying to make their way in, trying to basically get out.
What are they going to do, law enforcement?
Right?
What is actually going to happen?
And then the police cannot even protect the ICE agents from this.
That's the kind of lawlessness that we're in right now, and that's the kind of lawlessness that government is supposed to be protecting against.
It effectively has become that tinderbox.
The Somali flags out on display as people tried to goad law enforcement, so they're trying to goad them into something again with the Somali flags and taunting them, and this was going on all night, all weekend.
It really speaks to the chaos, if you would, in the streets and the the sort of point that we have reached and yet legacy media not reporting on any of this.
I mean, look at this disgusting gusting guy and disgusting women.
By the way, earlier in the day we got a video coming into us of A woman who just seems to have lost it.
A journalist from Real America's News is trying to talk to her, and it just goes a little wacky.
Let's take a peek.
This is what we're dealing with on the ground.
All over.
That's right.
Actually, I'm very respectful.
And you're not respectful at all in any way.
I just want to ask do you believe in illegal immigration?
Housing for illegals and medical care.
He's a smart man.
He is so intelligent.
This man, he's got nothing to say.
He's got nothing to say.
I've got a lot to say.
He's a big man.
He's a big man.
What a big man.
What a big man.
Five big men.
I'm very respectful.
I'm very respectful.
This is the mentality.
This is the state of the United States right now.
This is what's going on.
Here in this country.
So you've got agitators attacking journalists, whether it be in the car at night, whether it be outside in the snow.
How is that ever okay?
Everything that we saw, and it's concerning because now our ICE agents, our DHS agents, are not safe on the ground because of all of this chaos.
Caroline Levitt speaking about this earlier this afternoon.
President Trump and I actually spoke about this last night and how Secretary Noam is doing a phenomenal job.
Not just securing the border, which she and the president did together in record time, but also in defense of the brave men and women of ICE who put on a law enforcement uniform every single day to protect our communities and to protect all of you and every American, regardless of they are Democrat or Republican.
ICE is doing a very important job to remove illegal alien criminals from our communities.
And I think it's very striking that all weekend long you had agitators and violent American citizens out in the streets of Minneapolis.
Protesting.
Protesting what exactly?
Apparently they are protesting the removal of criminals from a city that I can guarantee you when you look at the list of the illegal criminals that ICE is removing from our communities every day, not a single person in those protests and not a single person standing here that works in the mainstream media in Washington, D.C. would want those individuals in your neighborhood, in your community, around your children, and around your families.
ICE is doing an incredibly important job that's not just important to our homeland security.
But our national security.
And this administration will continue to stand wholeheartedly by the brave men and women of ICE, including that officer in Minneapolis who was absolutely justified in using self-defense against a lunatic who was part of a group, an organized group, to interject and to impede on law enforcement operations.
And it's disgusting what we have seen from the left.
I'll second that.
It is disgusting.
It's absolutely atrocious.
And what concerns me is where they're trying to take this.
In other words, are they trying to send us in the direction of some kind of civil war?
Now they are suing.
We just got word tonight. that Minneapolis and Minnesota, they are suing the federal government because of the presence of ICE agents and DHS.
And let me just back up for a second, because last I checked, guess what?
Guess who had jurisdiction over who was in the country and who was not?
Oh, that would be the federal government.
Yeah.
They're actually in charge of that.
In fact, do you remember when conservatives were so upset because in Texas, you couldn't actually rebuild the border wall, even though the Texas team was trying to do it?
So you had the Texas governor saying, hey, I want the border wall back.
I can't have all these people coming in.
And Biden's team say, no, no, no, you can't.
Why?
Because the federal government controls the border and they control who is in the country.
And they have been charged with the right to make sure that anybody who's in the country and in the country illegally is taken out.
And so now they're not able to do their job.
I mean, I don't remember this Barack Obama, right?
Barack Obama was the king of sending people out.
In fact, he deported more than any other president up until one Donald J. Trump.
And yet you've got these.
Local politicians like this Jacob Frey, who's the Minneapolis mayor with their F ICE.
You wonder where all those women had the F ICE sign coming from.
Well, he's the guy that coined the phrase, Mr. Jacob Frey.
To ICE, get the f out of Minneapolis.
Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.
Somebody is dead.
That's on you.
This was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying.
To the family, I'm so deeply sorry.
We're going to be working towards justice as quickly as we possibly can right now.
Justice is what we've all got to get.
We're going to make sure that in this very difficult moment, we do not take the bait that these ICE agents are trying to create and that the federal government, to be clear, wants.
People are going to want to exercise their First Amendment rights, but please do so safely.
Please do so safely.
You know what they were trying to do?
They were trying, as we went into the weekend, to get everybody all excited and everybody all agitated.
And you had professional protesters, of course, there as well.
Defining Terrorism and Justice00:09:52
And things went crazy.
Of course, not as crazy as they had just a short time before.
I want to show you the video, the new video of a different angle of the Renee Good attack.
Forgive me, we didn't actually show this earlier, but you need to see it.
Okay, so you've got the wife of Renee Good out there agitating and trying to, I guess, intimidate or just irritate the ICE officers that are there.
So this is weird.
She actually, the wife tries to get into the car.
After insulting the officer.
Now, if you recall, this particular officer who was there, who thought he was going to get run over by this 4,000 pound vehicle, had already had a pretty near death experience where he had gotten dragged by a car when trying to apprehend somebody once before.
So he may have had some fear going into this situation when she points the car at him, which we're going to get to.
And it's worth understanding that.
It's also worth understanding that you never aim your car.
At an officer, you also never let me be really clear, okay?
You never say, I'm going to defy your orders, I'm not going to get out of the car, I'm not going to get out of the car, and I'm going to speed off.
These are things that you just don't do.
I mean, the police officer says, you know, pull over, you pull over, period.
End of story.
I mean, that is this is what happens, you know, and it's happened before, right?
They say, Well, why did that person get shot?
They were running away.
You do not run away from police.
I can't say that enough.
Let's continue on.
So, if we go back again, what you see is that she was coming straight for him.
All right, let's watch that again.
Out of the door!
And then that happens.
So now the left is looking at that video along with the other video, the original video that they had that didn't actually show the vehicle coming straight at him, such as that did.
And they are immediately blaming, of course, law enforcement, including now calling on Christy Nome to be impeached.
You have to look no further than the view to get that point of view out there today.
There will be oversight.
And I think that right now, There are people in Congress that are interested in impeaching Christy Noam.
And I think she will be held to account one day.
But let me say this about this killing.
This was an unlawful killing.
It was against DOJ policy to shoot at a vehicle that's leaving the scene.
It's against the Supreme Court ruling in 1985, that sort of deadly use of force in shooting at a vehicle.
So we all know that it's unlawful, regardless of whether or not.
You believe she was an agitator, regardless of whether or not you believe she was in the way.
The bottom line is the officer's actions were unlawful.
That was an unlawful killing.
It was illegal from a legal perspective.
That's very black and white for me.
What's interesting to me is the way that this administration is saying that they are being transparent when, in fact, there is a shadow investigation going on by the federal.
I'm going to jump in because she's saying that that was unlawful what he did.
And I would just ask the question, is it unlawful?
To have some kind of self-defense if you think that you're about to be run over and you're trying to stop the car from running you over?
Is it unlawful to react?
Because I think in that particular case, you know, and people have talked about this if you were to change this around and this had been say, Biden's DHS, and you had a MAGA person there, a Maga guy with all kinds of Maga paraphernalia, and he had taken aim at the officer, then you know that they absolutely would have backed him.
So this, don't forget, is all colored by this tds effect.
Not that that changes anything.
I mean, the bottom line remains you do not point your vehicle at an officer, an armed officer, because they are going to act in their self interest and in their self defense.
And for that to be illegal is really troubling.
It's not.
Government, without the state law enforcement being involved, they whisked this officer away out of state without being interviewed by state and local authorities.
They denied state and local authorities the ability to review the crime scene.
They impounded the car.
So, why we're seeing so many different vantage points is because the state law enforcement had to ask the public for video.
And the public's coming through, right?
I don't think we would have seen that without the public actually contributing to this.
And that actually changed the story even more, by the way, benefiting the actual ICE officer that fired those shots.
Don't tell Ilhan Omar that.
She's trying to divert the story away from.
The microscope being on her for these allegations that she was involved in the fraud to something else, and so we see her all over the airwaves doing this.
See, from the recordings that we see, is there anything that you believe was being done that should not have been done by Macklin Good?
Uh, the administration says she was blocking the road, they are claiming this is an act of terrorism.
Yeah, Renee Nicole Good, um, as you hear her say, she's not mad, she's sitting in her car.
Peacefully waving cars to get by.
This agent, as you see, gets out of his car, automatically starts running towards her, trying to open her door.
She feels scared.
She tries to turn the wheel away.
And then you see the other officer, who can clearly see the cars moving, move towards the front of the car, which, if they are saying that he has 10 years on service and is trained, he should know that you shouldn't be trying to get in front of a moving car.
And so it is not acceptable.
So that's her side.
I want to go to Tom Homan, who's part of the investigation, but has not seen everything yet, has not seen as much as Christy Noam has said.
He was on the weekend shows, including NBC, and this was his response.
I want to stay on this question, which is about the way in which the woman who was shot and killed is being labeled as a domestic terrorist, just to be clear.
ICE, a domestic terrorist in the eyes of the administration?
I can't say that.
You know, it's a case by case basis.
But, you know, if you look up the definition of terrorism, is there violence?
Is there a threat of violence based on ideology that wants to change the way the government does what we do?
Look on the definition of terrorism.
But was Secretary Noam correct to label her a domestic terrorist, Mr. Homan?
Look, we don't know what.
I don't know if Secretary Noam knows what I know.
I can tell you is what they did is illegal.
And if you look up the definition of terrorism, it certainly could fall within that definition.
If you look at the definition of terrorism.
But you don't have evidence.
Pardon?
You don't have evidence that she's a domestic terrorist.
I don't know what the secretary has that I don't.
I'm not going to judge what the secretary says, but if you look up the definition of terrorism, it certainly can fall within that.
But I think we all got to agree there was no reason for this lady to do what she did.
There's no reason to be there.
If you want to protest, protest.
But don't actively impede and interfere.
And certainly don't drive a 4,000 pound vehicle toward an officer.
Boom.
Okay.
So don't drive a 4,000 pound vehicle towards an officer.
Period.
End of story.
Like, you know, you had me at that.
Don't get me wrong.
I mean, it's a tragedy.
But I think we need to be somewhat thoughtful about how they're trying to make this into suddenly like what we're supposed to be able to drive all our vehicles straight towards officers and they're not able to do anything.
I don't think so.
But as we look at the lawsuit that was just filed right now, it's clear.
You do have a state, a city that is literally, well, I guess metaphorically on fire.
And yet they're using this as a way to try to kick the federal government out.
We have federal versus state for a reason.
We're set up constitutionally with the idea that the federal government is in control over who ultimately is in the country.
And so if you are illegally in the country, then the federal government has the right to kick you out.
So this is probably going to go all the way up to the Supreme Court.
Federal Versus State Conflict00:08:31
And then what happens when they lose?
Then do they take to the streets again?
I mean, how is any of that justified?
Ilhan wants to know how are the investigations into all of the illicit activity and the fraud that was going down, how is that justified?
Well, I think we know, but she's panicking.
She was on the airwaves this weekend saying this.
I'm so exhausted in trying to ask what any of this, you know, information has led to you finding any criminals that you have indicted that explains why you are wasting so much of our taxpayer resources and also terrorizing our communities in the amount of federal law enforcement agents that you have in the streets of our city and our state.
There needs to be some sort of justification.
Well, there is.
Is there not?
I mean, I think this is it.
Of the 87 people charged, all but eight are of Somali descent.
And that has added to the spotlight being put specifically on your community.
Exactly.
In other words, they're not choosing to go to Iowa right now, they're in Minnesota for a reason because that's where all the fraud was.
And they're finding more and more every day.
In fact, Besant's talking about $600 billion.
This is just astronomical in fraud that they. believe is originating from all over the country, not just Minneapolis.
So when they say it's just the tip of the iceberg, he said, they're not kidding because this is bigger than you might have ever thought.
Not only is it bigger, but it's so much bigger that I think they figured out they need a better head of the DOJ running this, or at least somebody separate from one Pam Bondi to be able to run all this because, well, you know, we're still waiting on pretty much everything with Pam.
New story out tonight that I'm going to get to momentarily.
On the president getting about as fed up with her as I am.
But first, let's go to Besson.
I think that this may just be, it's a cold day outside, so this could be the tip of the iceberg here in Minnesota, but it's probably may not be as prevalent, but the dollars may be bigger and larger in other states.
And just to put this in perspective for American taxpayers, for American families, the GAO, the General Accounting Office, believes that there is somewhere between.
Three and six hundred billion of annual fraud, roughly 10% of government spending that disappears due to fraud.
If we can recapture that, that is 1% to 2% of GDP.
Wow.
1% to 2% of GDP.
That would be a really, really big, big deal.
But you need somebody good to be able to do it.
You need somebody that can really fight this fraud head on because, you know, look, they think it's nothing.
Heck, you have Ilhan Omar as recently as last week trying to add another million bucks to a quote unquote addiction group that was operating out of a Minneapolis Somali restaurant.
Kid you not.
Okay.
Like, fortunately, this one.
Just ended.
But it tells you that you know they think they can get away with a fair amount and that's why you've got to get some change.
And in fact, you know what we may be looking at it, because right now, what have I told you for weeks now?
They got to do something about Bondy, mm-hmm.
Trump has complained about Pam Bondy repeatedly to allies.
This is the new story from the WALL Street Journal.
Trump has complained about Pam Bondy repeatedly to allies.
The president has privately criticized his attorney general as weak and ineffective.
Effective in recent weeks.
Gosh darn it, maybe he's listening to the Trish Regan show because we've been all over this.
I've been so frustrated with what we have seen.
Here we see the quick summary of that article.
Again, the Wall Street Journal reporting this exclusively.
I have told you repeatedly that she wasn't getting the job done.
President Trump has repeatedly criticized Attorney General Pambondi for perceived ineffectiveness in pursuing his agenda, including prosecuting former investigators.
Trump's frustrations include how she handled the Epstein files and the slow progress on election-related investigations, despite public Praise from Trump and his allies.
Bondi is reportedly losing support among some of Trump's loyal voters because of the lack of perceived action.
I would say it's not even perceived.
I would say there's a total lack of action from Pam Bondi, and it's the reason why they actually displaced her on this one.
They're not trusting her with the investigation into the fraud.
This is why you have JD Vance announcing this on Friday.
As we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction. over the issue of fraud.
Yes.
Okay.
Because you can't count on Pam to get it done.
And I think the president is now coming to that realization himself.
Again, the article just appearing in the Wall Street Journal, a big headline coming out tonight that he's kind of over it.
And so now the question becomes, who's going to take her place?
Can we get ahead of ourselves a little bit?
Who should take her place?
I say you need somebody who's run a big, big litigation team who knows how to manage.
Okay.
I don't want a politician.
I'm sick of politicians.
And I love Jeanine Pirro.
But I'm not even ready for like a television personality.
I want somebody who's run a big litigation firm because you've got to have U.S. attorneys out all over the place investigating this fraud.
Whoever's going to run that investigation nationwide to recover $600 billion has got to be really good.
But you got the rest of the stuff that's still ongoing, okay?
You've got a ton of stuff.
And let me change the lower third on this because what we're now looking at is Pam Bondi on thin ice.
thin, thin ice with White House.
Well, with the president.
Why don't we change it to that with the president?
Because President Trump isn't going to put up with nothing.
I mean, and we've got nothing.
We've been waiting and waiting and waiting.
And, you know, Comey should drop the ball on that one.
Leticia should drop the ball.
Let's see, three times.
What's the old saying?
Three times and you're out on that one.
And we're nowhere in terms of what they called the Biden crime family.
We're nowhere in terms of Fauci.
We're we're nowhere in terms of like everything.
Epstein as well.
I mean, so what exactly is going on?
I think she's overwhelmed.
She's a lovely person.
She's very, very nice and she's great on camera, but I think she's overwhelmed.
And this is why I say you need somebody who's worked at a big litigation firm so that they know how to manage all this.
I mean, even Comer's like, yeah, sorry, Pam isn't doing the job.
At the end of the day, I've been disappointed in some of the criminal referrals that are collecting dust on Attorney General Bondi's desk.
I've made that very clear with the White House.
I'm hopeful that we'll see some action soon on, you know, the criminal referrals that range everywhere from Dr. Fauci to the Biden family influence peddling scheme.
So we've got that.
But now with respect to Minnesota, I'm very confident the Department of Justice is going to make several more requests.
They've already made several arrests, dozens of arrests down there.
That's fair to say.
And again, when you're talking about $600 billion of fraud, yes, we have made some arrests.
They have had some convictions.
but there's much, much more to come.
And so this is a bigger operation than Pam Bondi at the DOJ can handle.
But that leaves you questioning, what is it that she can handle overall?
Is there anything that she can handle?
Because everything that she's been put in charge of, let's be perfectly honest.
And I have to call them out when I call them out.
And she's getting nowhere.
And you know what?
This wouldn't happen with the other side.
So we need a smart person who's run a big law firm and can manage all this and isn't going to screw up.
Unfortunately, we've given her a lot of rope.
You know, trust but verify, right?
We can't verify anything.
She can't get to first base on any of this.
Just remember, you know, the files are on my desk.
Yeah, right.
So we can't take these kinds of risks anymore, America.
And I think the president is coming to that realization.
And so that's where we are right now.
And it's probably for the best.
Thank you for tuning in for this premiere.
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