Breaking News from Pod Save America - BREAKING: JD Vance And MAGA Say New Video Justifies ICE Killing of American Mother. It Doesn't.

Episode Date: January 9, 2026

Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor react to new footage of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right, Tommy, we got a new video released of the killing of Renee Good. This is the footage from the officer who killed her. You can see in some of the other videos. He was holding his phone and filming. And this video was leaked to someplace called Alpha News, which is some right-wing outlet. So presumably this came from the government, the Trump administration, and they thought this makes, they think this makes the officer look good and supports their side of the story. J.D. Vance told us to watch this. He said everyone should watch it. Trisha McLaughlin said,

we'll CNN and MS now even dare play this. So here's the footage. Let's watch. Every morning, just so you know, it'll be the same plate when you come talk to us later. That's fine. U.S. citizen. You want to come at us? I say, go get yourself some lunch, big boy.

Go ahead. Out of the car. Get out of the fucking car. Get out of the car. That's okay. That's okay. I'm not mad at you. you were Renee Good's last words and a fucking bitch. Yeah. Is what the officer who murdered her said at the end.

So J.D. Vance tweets, quote tweets this video and says, watch this as hard as it is. Many of you have been told this law enforcement officer wasn't hit by a car, wasn't being harassed and murdered an innocent woman. The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self-defense. Like you said, she says, that's fine, dude. I'm not mad at you. I'm not mad at you. That is what J.D. Vance thinks was harassment. That's who the government has called a domestic terrorist. You think that woman is a domestic terrorist. And a deranged leftist.

Now, her friend later does talk some shit. I think that's her wife. Yeah, go get some food, big boy or something like that. Maybe that hurt his feelings. Yeah. Does that justify a homicide? No. And then you can see her in that video as clearly as anywhere else,

turning the wheel to avoid hitting the ICE officer, who then shoots her in the face three times and calls her a fucking bitch. And again, his life was, if his life was in danger and he thought his life was in danger, the way he protected himself was to merely step out of the way, which he did. And you can see in all the other videos that she didn't run over his foot. If anything, like, did it nick his leg or something? He walks away unharmed, calls her a fucking bitch. Also, he's able to hold both the phone where he's filming and his gun that he's shooting her. But somehow we're supposed to believe that he was hit by the car, even though he was able to hold.

both things stand up and walk away? This is the big question. Fucking ridiculous. Why is this man walking around her car? Filming. You don't like, look, we're not experts on law enforcement procedure, right? I don't want to be like that idiot who sees a bunch of tweets. But it would seem like it would be common sense not to walk in front of a car if you're

treating someone like they are a suspect or about to detain or arrest them. Yeah, you can't like drive away from police and graze them with your car. but the idea that that is like a death penalty offense that allows for an extraditional killing on the scene is so crazy. And I like I feel like I'm losing my mind because I don't understand. J.D. Vance tweeted this out thinking that this makes his case. How do like how do you watch this and come away thinking this woman who says I'm not mad at you and then is murdered 30 seconds later that there was that shooting was justified? Let's just pretend that it was a clad from head. to toe in black, masked,

Antifa soldier in the car, okay? From the officer training standpoint, what about that officer's training made him think that if someone is to drive and might be near you, that first of all, shooting them does not help anything, because if anything,

when you shoot someone like that, they're going to slump over the steering wheel as she did and accelerate the car. The car could have hit, the car could have killed more officers. It could have killed more people who were standing there. So he wasn't protecting anyone by doing that. He wasn't protecting himself. He wasn't protecting his colleagues and he wasn't protecting civilians by shooting her. Discriminately in a community. And he proved that all he had to do to protect himself was to step out of the way. There was no

fucking need to shoot her. No matter what angle you look at the video, no matter what fucking new footage you have out there, there was no reason to shoot her. Let's run the video again. Let's just maybe start from their interaction. This woman, this is the Antifa Super Soldier. She's a dog in the back. Her dog is in the back. Her wife is there. This woman. There's stuffed animals in the back from when she was just dropping off her kid. This woman is a domestic terrorist, Kristy Knoen. This woman is a deranged leftist who deserve to die. J.D. Vance. I mean, this is a middle-aged mother of three whose kids are now orphaned because an ice officer executed her. And just, I don't, like the fucking, talking about deranged.

The people on the right who were like, oh, Democrats don't want you to see this video. This should be case closed. This is, J.D. Vance tweeted this video three separate times telling people to watch it. What do they think? They think it proves that he was hit. First of all, it doesn't prove that he was hit at all. It, he, when you hear all that sound there, he was shooting her three times. Yeah, I mean, what it shows is he dropped his phone.

It doesn't show that he dropped his phone because the car hit him. He was reaching for his gun. Fortunately, we have another angle where he's just walking away and you don't say, see his, and you see his feet away from the car. So, like, I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. It's just, yeah, keep going. Let's watch a little more. It's okay.

We don't change our plates every morning, just so you know. There'll be the same plate when you come talk to us later. What is an ICE officer going to do with her plates? I guess maybe they could try to charge them later for impeding a law enforcement procedure. Yeah. We still don't know what she's doing in the road necessarily. Like, is she trying to turn around there? She's trying to turn left, but she can't.

It's clear. So that's her, that's her wife. And her wife put out a statement this morning. and said that we were there to help our neighbors. We came across something to help our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns. So clearly they, I think what had happened,

according to some reports, is that Renee had dropped the six-year-old off, and then her wife said, hey, I think there's ice here. Right. And so then she came, met, and then this is what happened. So there was some kind of an ice presence,

and I think they were potentially part of a group that is like when ice is around, you alert your neighbors. I just like, maybe it was naive, but when all those Republicans had like, don't tread on me flags and their like Twitter advertisers, I really thought that they did want limited government. They wanted the government not to intrude in their lives. They didn't want to live in a police state. But really, there's just like this pretty vocal group of like MAGA supporters who really think it's acceptable for the, for the federal official just to execute you on the street. Yeah.

And they're fine with that because you disagree with him politically. And some of them are more honest than others. I saw you tweet about like Matt Walsh today was like, it doesn't matter. He said Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire. It doesn't matter if she wanted to hit him or not. She, you know, the fact that she was there is. Let me read. Yeah, yeah, please.

Doing justice. Mr. This is Matt Walsh. It's totally irrelevant whether she was trying to hit the ICE agent or not. Either she wanted to hit him or she wanted to evade arrest and escape and didn't care if she hit him in the process. There is zero moral or legal difference between those two scenarios. In either case, she is 100% to blame and her death is her own fault. Honestly, thank you for your honesty. Yeah, yeah, right.

Now that's the, you know, talk about mask off. But again, like, the ICE is not, they're not, the organization doesn't exist to arrest and detain U.S. citizens. Anyway, it's a crazy thing. And again, like, if you, if it ever went to court, which who know, it probably won't, but any investigation will show like the use of force policies, they just completely violated those in that, in that instance. Let's keep, let's keep rolling it. I just can't get over how clear you can see her turning the wheel to avoid this man and that his reaction to murdering a woman is to call her a fucking bitch. And then a bunch of people in the government saw that footage and decided that would be a good thing for them to leak.

Yeah, trouble giving the medal of freedom soon. And then, you know, the man runs over like, oh, he went to the hospital, he had to get you. He runs over to the car. With a delay, first of all, because he didn't care. Then they say, let's call 911. Then they tell a doctor on the scene that he's not allowed to provide treatment or see if she has a pulse. In fact, there's one part where the doctor just tries to go and provide assistance. Six ice thugs with guns, like run at him and threaten him at gunpoint.

And then when she's dead, they just drive away. They just drive away. From a crime scene, which is not. I think they might have spirited this guy out of the state. And now I think his name is Jonathan Ross. It's now been reported. I think they got the guy out of the state and now like any federal officials like the FBI is refusing to coordinate with Minnesota state law enforcement in case there is some sort of effort to prosecute him there. And because this guy had been dragged by a driver like a couple months earlier.

Yeah. Now that is because that is part of the policy too that if you're an ICE agent and you're trying to detain someone and they injure you, then you can keep that feeling of anger inside. So then later you can violate your use of force policies and murder someone. That's sort of the, that's the deal. And this is a fair point, right? On a human level, J.D. Vance and others have said that six months ago, this guy was dragged by a car for several hundred feet, needed 30 stitches someone. That's awful.

I can understand that that is awful. That should never happen. I feel for him. I could understand how that would impact how you feel or your sense of fear in this situation. Should you then not be put in this situation by your superiors? Right? Because like, what if I said to you that that driver had to have the shape? kicked out of her by a nice officer six months ago, right? And so she had a, I think,

rational and understandable fear of being detained again. Does that justify her driving away, fleeing the scene? I don't think anyone would argue that. And in fact, this woman clearly seems like she and her partner had been paying close attention to a lot of these iced attentions. And so to your point, like, you know, I talked to George Redis about this. This is exactly what happened to him. One officer said, get out of the car. The other said, get the fuck out of here. it's confusing. You heard all the sirens there. It's like everyone's yelling. It's a very confusing situation. One guy pulling on your door. There's one guy walking around your car in front of you.

Like the idea that she could sort of clock where everyone is at all times. Her partner is trying to get into the car. There's a dog in the back. She doesn't have she doesn't have guns. They have guns. They're supposed to be the responsible ones. This is stunning. I think I've just really been like blown away by the total lack of humanity in the wake of the this tragedy. And like, we know Donald Trump's a bad guy and immoral and a piece of shit. We all, you know, he seemed like like singularly able to lie, you know, and tell, but like J.D. Vance is one of the most depraved, disgusting, dishonest people in public life. He's just a demagogue and a horrible person. And like their case here is basically, do not believe what your

eyes are telling you. Believe what my bullshit tweets says. I don't know if you listen to the daily episode of the New York Times reporters in the office with Trump, in the Oval Office with Trump. And at one point they watch the video because Trump is spewing the bullshit line and then they have them watch it and it's interesting because you just hear him kind of stop and be like well you know it's horrible it's horrible and there's this moment where like they're all watching it together and he realizes you can tell that he realizes that the initial uh his initial truth is maybe a little bullshit maybe got it over his skis and so he like pulls back jd vance is like doubling tripling quadrupling down he's more mad about the media coverage yes he took to the podium this is a whiny little bit

Ranting and raving, yelling at reporters. How dare you cover press? I mean, in a different, in a pre-Trump political world, the fact that Christy Noem went out straight out of the gate and was like, oh, they were pushing cars out of a snowbank and they were tacked and rammed. Like a misstatement like that would be a career-ending comment, but now it's just sort of like washed away by the lies by J.D. Vance.

Anyway, they want you to see that video, so yeah, go watch the video. Go watch the video. I agree with J.D. Vance on that part. I hope everyone watches the video. Yeah, please watch it. video and thank you for watching this video and supporting independent progressive media so subscribe yeah this is the worst thanks