Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - Weekend Edition - January 31, 2026

Episode Date: January 31, 2026

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Welcome to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Christy Noam, Homeland Security Director. You got to restrain yourself, madam. You can't be doing what you're doing. You're inciting as well. Wait till the facts come out. So Ms. Noam says that 10,000 criminal illegal aliens have been arrested or detained in Minneapolis. I believe that is an exaggeration. Federal Government has to get its facts straight.

Has to. Because more credibility the feds lose, the more of this kind of violence you're going to see. All right, we've got a good guest. I've known them for a long time. His name is Art Adele Queto. Comes to us from Tucson, Arizona this evening. Unbelievable resumes would be the former spokesperson for the National Border Patrol Council. He's now the security advisor for the Federation,

for immigration reform. And as I said, he's in Tucson. All right. Americans don't know the difference between Border Patrol, which shot the man on Saturday and ICE. What's the difference? You know, honestly,

there's people in the media that don't know the difference that they continue to put pictures out of Border Patrol when ICE does something or pictures of ICE when Border Patrol does something. Border Patrol patrols in between the ports of entry. That's what they've done for many, many years. But they also get detailed to other agencies.

I myself have been detailed to other agencies all the time when they need assistance, especially within DHS. So you'll have agents that, you know, they'll be detailed out to the OFO, which is the individuals that work at the ports of entry themselves, that's customs and the immigration side. And then you have ICE that deal with the interior. A lot of what they've worked throughout the years

is working transport and working in the prisons where these individuals are detained before they're deported. So you're dealing with a bunch of different factors, but because of the mess that the last administration created, you're having to have an all-hands-on-deck approach, and a lot of it is moving border patrol agents out there in these areas and these urban areas as well and the cities to be able to assist ICE

with their operations. All right, so they're basically, they have the power, as we just said, legally, to execute warrants by their superiors, but they're assisting ICE. So they're working together to find criminal aliens and other people shouldn't be here. That's what they're. doing. Okay. All right, that's very important for understanding. Now, you yourself, Art, because

you are on a factor, we go back, you respond to scores of violent conflicts. All right. When a videotape is taken with the woman in a car, now with the man with the cell phone who had a gun inside, all right, his jacket, fully loaded. All right. Now we have, well, let's make the voice. We're verdict on television. Right. And that's the problem, Bill. Look, there's been so many people that have talked about these different incidents. I responded to well over 90% of all the use of force incidents in Tucson sector. I've responded to shootings, to, you know, numerous amounts of use of force. I was next to agents numerous times when they would get indicted and they were tried for crimes within the state, even though they were cleared by the federal government.

That's very important. They were cleared of any wrongdoing, but the state came after him anyways. And I sat in those courtrooms and listened to all the back and forth from the attorneys. I assisted some of the attorneys that were defending some of the agents. And that's going to be the biggest problem. At this point, where do you find a jury that hasn't heard about these cases? And that's just one point. I'm not worried about that.

What I'm worried about is clearly in Minnesota, ICE and the Border Patrol have not de-escalated it. Absolutely. But it's because they haven't had any assistant, Bill. You have to have assistance from the local authorities. We know who the bad guys are. But when you're on the ground and you have this volatile situation and you draw your weapon, there has got to be some kind of guidance.

you just can't be shooting all over the place, Art. No, no, and I agree with you. Look, I worked that field many times. I was out in the desert. When I was tracking drug smugglers, my gun was never holstered. My gun was always outside. Now, obviously, you have to have trigger discipline and you keep your fingers off the trigger

and everything like that, but there's things that can come out and spook you. Luckily, you know, I wasn't put in that situation where I pulled the trigger, but we need to go through the investigation. No, absolutely. Just wait and see what the investigation draws out. But they're also – And now they're not doing that.

But there's a defiance on the part of Homeland Security, Gnome. They're acting defiant, which is polarizing the whole country. Now, you've got to stick up for your guys. You have to because you're not going to have any guys. Well, I'm retired now, Bill, so I'm just telling you the way it is. No, I know. But that's why I'm calling for the FBI to have a special elite unit to go in and look at this. And again, I know walls and fry, no matter what the FBI said.

I'm not going to believe them. But I want it as an American citizen. Look, on these types of shootings, the people that will take over the investigation is the Office of Inspector General. So the Office of Inspector General are the ones that are going to get involved, and they're the people who are the ones that are going to see the shooting itself. Okay. But the actual facts on the ground have to be accumulated before the Inspector General And how do you accumulate those facts when you got rioters that completely disturbed the scene? Undercover FBI people. You got to send in a lead FBI investigators. I agree. But the scene where it occurred

has already been damaged because people were all over the place. So that scene was already damaged. They do the best they can do. Right. So they should have deployed state and local authorities immediately. Once I saw these individuals that were protesting and they started moving the trash cans and block the streets, I knew right away, it's lost. So before I went to the border patrol, I worked for the state prison for a long time. And when I was in the state prison, they teach you even more tactics on how to be able to handle these types of crowds and this hostility and riot situations. And that's part of the problem. If they would have had more local authorities on scene, they would have been able to avoid some of this. Now, we can Monday morning quarterback now,

Look, that's the primary The primary point I made was Walls by telling his authorities not to cooperate with ICE, not to protect ice, not even to protect him. That's almost insurrection. And the FBI should be looking at him. And you know what, Bill?

From talking to agents, do you know where else it happened? It happened in Los Angeles when they were out there and it happened in Chicago when they were out there. Absolutely. Nobody wanted to talk about it. And it's being fueled by this far, left agitators. You imagine a guy in Shanghai, China, orchestrating this whole thing? And it's going to happen in Arizona next when they start doing any type of tactical enforcement

here because you've heard Senator Kelly already pushing those buttons because they want that to happen. Yeah, what's up with him? You know him. What's up with this guy? Last time I talked to him, he refused to shake my hand several years ago. But look, that's part of the problem that we're seeing across the country is that we have these individuals in leadership positions. that are perfectly comfortable doing their press conferences and telling people do not obey that we will not comply. I have videos on my social media where I have leadership from Tucson, the city of Tucson, where they've said,

we will not obey, we will not comply. Those were their specific words. And I want to give you a plug for that. It's five strands with Art del Coquito. That's D-E-L-C-U-E-T-O on YouTube. People can see those. I have it on Instagram. I have it everywhere.

They need to see that. All right, all right. I may have to come out there and get one of your hats. And I appreciate it. I just hope, well. Bill, let me just add. Look, I know Christy Knoem personally. And she has done what many others have not done.

And we'll hear back and forth on it. And I think we need to start looking into who are these leaks within the agency that have badmouthed her. We need to start looking into. looking and seeing, you know, who has been giving her information that perhaps not be correct in order to put her in a spot to look bad. She has accomplished, along with President Trump, to secure the border like nobody else has security. That is absolutely true. And they all need to get a board with this instead of pointing the finger. But I was an agent for many years, and I can tell you, when egos get in the way, there may be some people still within the agency that instead of

agreeing that she's doing a good job, they may be a little upset because they're not the ones that are in that position of leadership, or maybe when they were in those positions, they weren't able to get the job done. Christy Noam, President Trump, and Tom Holman, and Chief Mike Banks is doing a fantastic job. All right, all right. Thanks very much. We appreciate it. We'll talk again soon, I hope. You're listening to the No Spin News Weekend Edition. Let's get back to this guy, Neville Roy Singham, the communist living in Shanghai, China, doing a lot of damage this country. And we went over this pretty stringently yesterday with how he gets the money in, who gets it, and they hire professional people to go to Minnesota to cause mayhem and violence.

That's what happens. All right, joining us now is a reporter who's investigated this. He's way ahead of the story. His name is Jerry Dunleavy, works for, just for the day. that's John Solomon's organization, and he has been on this case a lot. So what I'm interested in is why the federal government hasn't exposed this character, Neville Roy Singham. Why isn't this guy known by everybody? It's a great mystery. I think that you have a very good foreign agents registration act case against Neville Roy Singham, just given his

close connections to the Chinese Communist Party and his political activities here in the United States, which are universally pro-communist. And that might sound a little bit out there, a little bit extreme, but that is in the words of Neville Roycingham himself and the words of the groups that he is helping fund. And that's everything from the People's Forum, which is based in Manhattan, but really has a national reach. The Party for Socialism and Liberation, which is excellent at organizing protests and demonstrations nationwide.

And I just encourage viewers next time you see one of these demonstrations, whether it's pro-Palestine a few months ago or whether it's anti-ice now, keep an eye out for the signs in those protests. Undoubtedly, you're going to see that huge number of the those signs are put together by the party for socialism and liberation. They're very organized. These groups are. Code Pink, which we've all heard of, is also roped into this Singham network. Neville Roy's Singham is actually married to the co-founder of Code Pink Jody Evans. And Answer,

which is a two-decade-old organization, Act now to Stop War and end race. The Answer Coalition is also very closely linked. These groups share money, they share resources, they share personnel, and Neville Royce singham has also helped to fund. It's called Breakthrough News. You've probably never heard of it, but if you go in search for it, you're going to see that the videos by this group

get hundreds of thousands, millions of views, and pretty much this group's purpose seems to be promoting the work of all the other groups that I just mentioned promoting the actions they take in the protests that they do. So Singham has put together a very sophisticated network here. They're able to spin up protests and demonstrations and actions pretty much anywhere in the U.S. that they want pretty quickly. Jerry, do they pay people to show up and cause mayhem? It's an excellent question. And that's the sort of thing that you would hope. The FBI's

is looking into. What I can say is that these groups have a professional demonstrator side. Absolutely. So they do have people that are getting paid. Obviously, the executives and leaders of these groups who are often out there leading the protests and demonstrations, and they have their members themselves. And then wherever they go, whatever the city they're descending on, they link up with the local groups, the local Democratic Socialists of America group, the local communist groups. Right. And they have the databases and they share the information and emails of these people who are interested in overthrowing the government. Is Beijing, in your opinion, is there any evidence to back it, in bed with this Singham guy? And is this an attempt by a foreign nation to undermine, undermine,

the United States. It does appear that Singham, his office in Shanghai is co-located with a Chinese state media operation. So just right there, you have not just a sort of ideological link or a financial link, but a physical link between Singham and... And that's very circumstantial, but it's very powerful. What about the Trump administration not getting out? You would assume because the FBI has investigated the Singham. Our Justice Department knows about him. He's on the radar to use a cliche.

But there is no attempt that I can see from the president on down to get the story out. Congress has been pushing for the Justice Department and the FBI to investigate Singham and his network for years now, first during the Biden administration and continuing now. If there's an investigation happening, it is an invisible one at the moment, which investigations often are, but no investigation is also invisible.

So we don't know for sure. Congress. I don't understand it. I don't. Because this is a huge part of this, not only in Minnesota, because these people, as you pointed out, they go everywhere.

They're organizing now in New York City, 4,000 they have signed up to go disrupt ICE when they come in here looking for criminal migrants. And it's an enormous story. We understand why the left-wing press ignores it. You understand that. They don't want any part of this. What they want to do is blame and harm the Trump administration. That's it. That's what they're in business to do. But the right-wing media, they haven't graphs the story either. I haven't seen it. Last word. I will say that I've done probably a couple dozen stories now on the Singham Network. And the more that I look into it, the more connections you see to other groups, the more sophisticated you see the operation is. A shutdown effort, a strike effort in Minneapolis that happened on Friday seems to have been at least part, in large part, organized by the Singham Network.

They're trying to have that be sort of a nationwide effort this Friday. Of course, this is all aimed at anti-ice operations now. But months ago, this network was focused on anti-Israel and pro-Palestine protest. They just want to disrupt and create as much chaos as possible. You can reach Jerry Reader's stuff at just the news.com. We appreciate Jerry. we check in with you regularly now because I'm not letting this story go. Thank you very much.

This is the No Spin News Weekend Edition. All right. Now yesterday and Monday, we gave you a pretty solid informational flow on a guy who is funding a lot of this professional demonstration, violent demonstration. His name is Neville Roy Singham. He is a billionaire tech guy lives in Shanghai, China. He works with the Chinese government. And he has a 501-3C in the United States called Breakthrough News,

where he funnels money to places like the People's Forum in New York City and Minnesota radical left organizations. He's deeply involved with the insurgency and the sedition against the federal government, this guy. We gave you all the information. He's a communist guy. Now, I didn't know this, and I don't think many other people do, but the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,

Congressman Jason Smith of Missouri, has been looking at this whole situation for a while. All right? And he certainly knows about the guy and everything else that's going on. He joins us now from Washington, D.C. I didn't even know about this story, Congressman, and I'm pretty on it here.

Tell us a little bit about what you found out so far. You know, Bill, it's great to be with you, but it's very disturbing. We have been investigating 501Cs and nonprofits since I've become chairman, and both in the Biden administration and now in the Trump administration, we have called for the tax-exempt status

of 11 different 501Cs to be revoked because of how they've been funding terrorism, how they've been funding civil unrest. And the People's Forum that you mentioned is one of those that we called both administrations to revoke because of the money trail. The money that's coming in from the CCP that's helping with creating chaos,

and discourse in the United States is absolutely unacceptable bill. It's illegal. If for foreign money to come into elections, it should be illegal with this foreign money coming in and creating chaos and disruptions. They're killing people. People are dying. Tell me about when you say CCP, that's the communist government. So everybody knows what you're talking about.

So Neville Roy Singham seems to be the king pin here. he's the face, works with the Xi government, works, I don't think he can come to the United States. I think they'd arrest him if he did. But he's married to the founder of Code Pink, who is another radical organization. Tell me about him. No, like Roy Singham is as close to the CCP, the Chinese Communist Party, as any American possibly can. And his wife, as you mentioned, was one of the main funders of Code Pink to continue with creating chaos throughout the United States. This is something that apparently is their mission, their drive.

It's what we're looking into. But it's unacceptable that they're able to transfer money into tax-exempt entities and basically be subsidized to create. this chaos. Now who would stop that? The Justice Department? It would be both. The IRS and Treasury can revoke their tax exempt status and also the Justice Department. Have you talked to Besson? Have you talked to Besson? We have. Does he know? Does he know what's going on? He absolutely does know. We actually sent him an official letter on October 7th of last year calling for these 11 entities to lose our tax-exempt status, including the people's forum. And we laid out tons of evidence.

But he didn't move on it. He didn't move on it. He hasn't yet. But I'm going to be meeting with the CEO of the IRS in the next 10 days on this very topic. Because I think it's super important. And I think the evidence is very clear right before our eyes. Will you come back after that meeting on this program? And if I can make a call or two on your behalf, be happy to.

because, look, I'm not, nobody is doubting the information that you have assembled. Nobody is doubting that Neville Roy Singham and the Chinese government of pumping money into the United States to destabilize the federal government and violence is occurring because of it. Nobody is challenging. It's not a he said, she said. Now, the media blacks it out. Is the New York Times, Washington Post, the L.A. Times called you for anything? No, very few people are paying attention.

Right. They're not interested. Democratic Party interested? Anybody on your committee? They haven't been helpful so far. We have been trying to go after foreign influence of the communist Chinese party in putting dollars into 501 Cs, and they have not been cooperative yet. I'm hoping that they will see the light, because this is anti-American. There's no reason why we should be subsidizing terrorism. Congressman, once that people know what's happening, then you're going to see a startling change. But they am bearing it. The Democratic Party, they better cooperate because the Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee

of a responsibility to act on information that you've assembled, that shows, and you correct me if I'm wrong, but the only reason that Beijing would do this is to weaken the U.S. government. That's it. That's what they want to do, correct? It's exactly their whole purpose is to create chaos, make the United States weaker. We are going to continue to use every tool in the toolbox to go after these 501c3s, especially the People's Forum. And if they don't provide the documentations that we've asked, we'll use subpoena. We'll do it all.

But what I'm worried about, Congressman, is no one knows about the story. Because the left-wing media blacks it out. Right-wing media isn't even picking it up. They will now. After your interview with me now, it'll get out. So Besson sits on it. IRS Commissioner sits on. Everybody's got to start to mobilize because we have two dead people now.

We have an insurgency in a state, all right, not seen since the Civil War. So now this story becomes urgent. You have to get the information to the American people. Once you do that, the American people will put the pressure on the politicians, and they'll have to do something. That's how it works. You know that. Bill, I appreciate your hard work in helping get this message out and the information out because I totally, totally agree with you. The American people, they deserve to know, they need to know.

We have to stop this in the United States. All right. You're doing good work, Congressman. Once you meet with the IRS guy, I hope you come back, let us know. And Besson, we're going to contact him ourselves. All right, so we'll put a call into him today about this issue. and we'll light a fire at the Treasury, and hopefully within two or three weeks, we'll get this whole thing out to everybody understands what it is, okay? Thank you, sir.

Appreciate it. Thank you, Congressman. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Boston. This is unbelievable. My second home up there. Michael Cox is a police commissioner, okay, appointed by radical left mayor Michelle Wu. And he's proud that Boston last year did not cooperate on one federal warrant.

57 requests were made by U.S. Immigration and Customs. All were rejected. Almost all of them were criminals. Please hand over the criminals you have in your prisons to the federal authorities, 57 times more than once a week. All of them declares. And police commissioner Cox is proud of it. Proud of it.

You see what's happening here? Joining us now from Washington, D.C. and we're very pleased to have her, Tricia McLaughlin, who is the Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs, the Department of Homeland Security. So you're pretty busy these days, huh? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, sir. You know what we're doing here, right?

doing here, right? I'm sorry. I think the audio is cutting out. All right, you know what we're doing on this program. We are reporting on the insurrection out of Minneapolis and Minnesota, and then we are extending it to places like Philadelphia and Boston to show the American people that this is not an organic protest. This is a very well organized and funded protest to undermine American security. That's what our goal is. the reason what I want to talk to you about is specifics. All right? I want to walk through what's happening right now. So the Border Patrol agents that were involved in the Preti shooting have been reassigned. Is that correct? They have not been reassigned. They're on administrative leave. They have

been since Saturday. That's just standard protocol, Bill. I know the media is really blowing this up to be something that it's not, but that's just standard protocol after any use of force. Right. And every police agency does that, not just Homeland Security, every police agency. Who is investigating the shooting right now? Is the FBI involved? The FBI is involved, Bill. Homeland Security investigators are taking lead on this. FBI's support, as well as ATF and other agencies are playing supporting roles. And then there is a separate investigation by CBP internally. Okay. So the FBI is not the lead agency under the Justice Department guidelines. It is ICE, and they are assisting. The FBI is assisting. That's where we are now. That could change, right? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, this is an active investigation. People are actively being interviewed as we speak. We know that there's body camera footage from at least four of the officers who are on the ground. I know that's actively being reviewed, but these are ongoing and things could change.

every day. All right. What is your impression, because you are as close to this case as any human being in the world, what is your impression of what happened last Saturday with Mr. Preddy? Well, I do want to let the investigation play out, and I will say at the beginning when initial statements were made, it was from a very chaotic scene on the ground, and that's where we were getting our information from was CBP officers on the ground. But what I can say and what I think all Americans who watch the footage can see is that there is an individual.

He is armed and he had a physical altercation with law enforcement. He was also obstructing the course of a federal investigation, which is a federal crime. I've heard, of course, people on the right and on the left saying, you know, this individual, he had the right to conceal carry. And of course, he does. That's not what anyone is contesting. What people we are contesting is the fact that this individual, while armed, was in a federal crime obstructing our law enforcement officers. That's a felony. And unfortunately, when that's happening, if you're breaking federal law, especially when armed, that's not only dangerous, but it become deadly.

Okay. That's a rational explanation. There's no doubt about it. What isn't rational, though, is the jump point where your boss, Christy Noam, came out. and call the guy a terrorist. Now, I assume that's never going to happen again, because that just exacerbates everything. And as you said, you don't want to insert yourself in the investigation,

but the same standard has to be held for Ms. Noem, correct? Well, of course, Bill, we want to give the American people accurate information in a swift manner. I'll reiterate the fact that we're getting information from on the ground at a very chaotic scene. from our CBP officers. And so, of course, our first and foremost, we want to give accurate information. And that's what we're going to do going forward. That's precisely why an investigation is so imperative. Tricia, I'm looking out for you. It'd help your life if the brass wouldn't come out and say the guys are terrorists 10 minutes after the shooting. So I hope, and I know what's going to happen, you guys are just going to bring that down a little bit. because that's what the media grabs.

The media hates you. You know that. I mean, of course, they hate us. They hate you. I do think one thing that's very important to note here is that we have seen a highly coordinated campaign of violence against our law enforcement on the ground there in Minneapolis.

You've made note of it in your earlier comments. We've seen 1,000% increase in assaults against our officers. They're having cars being used as deadly weapons against them. Absolutely. They're being shot at with fireworks. they're being spit on, where they're staying at night is being targeted, these hotels. I mean, you've seen the footage of the destruction at these hotels. And just until now, we weren't getting any backup from local law enforcement on the ground.

And so that's why they surged our federal resources in the first place. I think that it's really important for viewers and listeners to know that that's what the environment is for our CBP and ICE officers. Everybody watching this program, Ms. Boklin knows that. will it change? Are you going to get protection from the Minneapolis Police Department going forward as the law states you should have? Is that, you believe that will change now? Well, I will say it looked like Governor Walls and President Trump had a productive conversation. Yeah, but we don't know what that was. And Fryer is back and off all over the place today, as you probably have heard, we're not going to do this, we're not going to do that.

Do you expect this next time that your agents are in danger, the Minneapolis police, to come and help? Well, what Mayor Fry said this morning certainly was not a step in the right direction. I will say one right spot bill is what we saw the other night when our hotel that our ICE and CBP officers were saying that, that was being targeted by these anarchists. And they started destroying the property and trespassing into that hotel, incredibly violent. violent individuals and behavior and state and local law enforcement did step in in that single occasion and start making arrests. That wasn't that wasn't Minneapolis. That was Maplewood. Totally different police department outside of that exact jurisdiction. You're correct on that start. But what I'm saying is we want to see more of that state and local cooperation.

That's why we're there in the first place. Final question. I don't know whether you know. But if you do, I hope you will tell my audience, numbers in the tens of millions now because of you two. Subpoenas have been issued for walls and fry. They're going to have to come in and testify. They, in my opinion, are very close to, they could be indicted for subversion, for rebellion, many laws, and you know the laws we've cited them here. Do you know how that investigation is progressing against those two men?

I cannot speak for the Department of Justice. I can only speak for Homeland Security investigators on the ground. Okay. All right. I'll take you to word. We're working with the FBI to get some clarity on that because this will never stop unless the federal government holds these insurrectionists responsible.

Can't hold the press responsible, but they're a huge part of the problem. Do you understand you've been in this job, what, less than a year now? over a year since January 20th. Right. So do you understand why the media is so irresponsible in this country? I'm just as somebody who's been in it for 51 years,

I just staggered every day about what's happening. Do you have an opinion on that? Well, I think that they have an agenda, and I think that part of that agenda, they want illegal aliens to be in this country. I mean, for example, Bill, just a couple of, for your audience, I think that this is important because you will never hear this from the mainstream media. Who did DHS law enforcement arrest yesterday in Minneapolis?

A criminal alien from Laos convicted of homicide. Another one from Laos convicted of rape and sexual assault. A man from Vietnam convicted for sexual assault and failure to register as a sex offender. Those are just three individuals that we arrested yesterday in Minneapolis. And yet you are not going to hear that anywhere in the mainstream media. If you go to CNN, you go to NBC, you go to CBS, you won't read it. But the more important story is that Fry was protecting him, those people. Fry was protecting him.

Yes, and these are the individuals we're trying to get out of the country, and yet you have rioters, you have agitators who are emboldened by walls. They're emboldened by Fry, and that's why we have to be on the ground and have a presence that we do there in Minneapolis. All right. Is the president going to stay at the 3,000 level? I can't get out of the present. Tom Homan's on the ground now there, and he'll make those operational decisions.

All right. We'll talk to Tom. Tricia, thanks very much here coming on the program. Very important, and I hope we'll talk to you again soon. All right. Thank you for having me. So wrapping all this up, you know, it's a serious, serious attack on the federal government of the United States both in and out. And Donald Trump's got to solve it.

It's right up there now. You've got to solve. This is the No Spin News Weekend Edition. Now, Minnesota used to be a fairly close state. Again, five and a half million residents, very small. I remember covering the Al Franken, the despicable human being that he is, running for Senate against a guy named Republican named Norm Coleman. It was close, really close.

And we spent a lot of time on the O'Reilly Factor because we despise. Frank and understand what kind of a destructive person he is. So we spent a lot time on this. And Franklin ultimately prevailed and had to resign later on. But what happened to a state that was close and now is the state's crazy left? Joining us now from Marshall, Minnesota, is a former House Minority Leader for Minnesota, Marty Seiford. So Marty, very simple question. What happened, man? What are we looking at here? Well, Bill, I think one, one One thing that people don't understand about Minnesota is close. The Minnesota House representatives has 134 people.

There's 67 Democrats and 67 Republicans. The Senate has 67 members. They have 34 Democrats and 33 Republicans. It couldn't be any closer. We have eight members of Congress, four are Democrats, four are Republicans. With Tim Walls as her running mate, Kamala Harris got a little over 51%. So if you look at the real statistics in Minnesota, we are a tied state with a tiny bit of lean to the Democrats.

But because 59% of our population lives in the seven county metro, it does tilt our statewide races more towards the liberal side. And we hold no statewide office. We haven't won a statewide election since 2006, 20 years ago, Tim Pawlenty got elected by a plurality. When I was in the legislature, elected 96. We had a moderate Republican governor, Arnie Carlson, for eight years. We had Jesse Ventura, you might remember him, an independent for four years, and then Tim Pawlenty, a moderate to

conservative Republican for eight years. So I never served with the Democrat in Minnesota as the governor. I had two Republicans and an independent for the 14 years I was in the legislature. Now, you said what's happened? Minnesota has, like a lot of states, it's become more polarized. We used to have a lot of split tickets. I won my house seat the first year, the same year that Bill Clinton carried my seat, and I had a Democrat congressman carry my seat. But people split their ticket for me as a Republican. So I have Southwest Minnesota in my area.

So if you look at Minnesota just from an analytical point of view, the loud have gotten a lot of attention, but I would say the silent majority that the butcher baker and candlestick maker, that mine their own business, that work hard, raise their kids. They don't have time to go out and blow whistles and scream at people, but we do have a lot of concerns in Minnesota. We have a deep humanity here. The death of that young man in Minneapolis is disturbing to anyone who watched it. And I'm Republican, but I'm not dumb. And I know there's a fine line between those two sometimes. But at the end of the day,

we do have to have some humanity, and this has to be toned down. I watched Tom Holman's press conference this morning. Yeah. And I think Tom Holman is not leaving the state, he said, until I have this figured out. And his talks with Governor Walls and Attorney General Ellison and our public safety commissioner were very, I think, very, what I want to say, constructive. Yeah, and I'm going to get to the specifics. ICE is changing a lot of the things. But here's my analysis.

And I've been in Minnesota many times up in Rainy Lake, up north. But what you're saying is right, that the rural part of Minnesota is traditional conservative and the big city dominance in Minneapolis, St. Paul, is very liberal. But when you have a stranglehold on the messaging, which walls and Fry and your crazy attorney general and the Minneapolis media, which is all left wing, all right, when you have that kind of a stranglehold, that is the impression that gets out. And you mentioned Mr. Preddy, the Minnesota who was shot down and killed. Well, he was the victim of agitation by the far left, in my opinion. Would you disagree with that? Well, I look at it from this perspective, and I haven't studied that deeply, but at the end of the day, we have a young man who's dead was shot multiple times. Was he radicalized by people?

I don't know. I think a lot of people in Minneapolis got caught up in feeling constitutional rights were being abused. and it's not all paid agitators. I have people that I know personally who went out because they felt that it was just getting over the top on how things were happening. Now, ICE operations, in my opinion, happened here and in all other 49 states under Barack Obama,

as you just outlined here a few minutes ago, and it was done professionally and quietly. And I think announcing the Calvary is coming with uniforms and press conferences and all this, there's better ways of executing the laws of what's been doing on the last month. Everybody knows that the footprint of the federal government might have been lessened. But if you're going to tell me that a 37-year-old guy who kicks the backlight out of an

ice truck eight days ago and breaks his rib in a process, and then goes, seeks out a confrontation with ICE agents while carrying a loaded gun, if you're going to tell me that's rational Minnesota conduct? It is not, Marty. It's not. And I'm not rationalizing that, Bill. I'm just saying that. Just so you know, he was a victim. There's no end of any, Mark, no end of any days, okay? There's no end of any days. That man and the woman before him is good. are the victims of this far, far left demonization of the federal government. That's what they're victims of. And anybody who disputes that doesn't want to know the truth.

Well, I think your point is well taken, Bill, that if you want to avoid conflict, you don't walk into conflict with a load of gun. I think people all understand that. I think this will all get litigated as time goes on on motivation. and timeframes and so forth. But anyone who watch the film is disturbed by it, whether they're conservative, whether they're independent,

whether the Democrat, whatever. When Al-Cal is here, and we have called a month ago for a lighter approach by the federal government. Marty, thanks very much. Good to see you. Stay well. Appreciate it. Thank you for listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. To watch the full episodes of the NoSpin News, visit bill o'reilly.com and sign up to become a premium or concierge member that's bill o'reilly.com

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