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Transcript:
We are starting with something that should make everybody nervous, including the people enforcing Donald Trump’s policies.
ICE agents believe that they have total impunity right now. People have been killed, no serious consequences, and a system that is mostly protecting them. But authoritarian systems don’t protect people out of loyalty. They protect people until the optics flip, and we’re seeing Trump quietly backpedal and throw people under the bus.
We’re seeing Tom Homan say, if the ICE agents or CBP break the law, they will be held accountable, and so ICE agents do need to be careful.
Then, Jerome Powell says no to Donald Trump, drops bad jobs news, and insists the Fed won’t be bullied. They did not change the federal funds rate.
And then we see the real Trump derangement syndrome. Her name is Nicki Minaj, and she was on stage with Donald Trump in a particularly incoherent moment.
We’re also going to cover Republican infighting, Fox hosts quietly realizing they are getting screwed, and Kristi Noem is trying the Nuremberg defense, just following orders. I don’t believe it will work, and I will tell you why. All of that today.
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